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Many of you, like me, are software developers. No matter how many marketing services offer to take over the marketing from you and once you finish coding, in the end you are the one that must push your software forward and do the marketing. No doubt you have read many articles on how to market your software. With this article, my hope is to give you an understanding of how to market your software from a software developer’s point of view. Creating the software product was the first challenge. Getting real beta testers and sales was the second. My efforts to get people to test JobFish by offering them free copies were an abject failure. I had many people who did nothing at all. I learnt that my best beta testers are my customers; those who pay cold hard cash. I do not think that I will ever forget the one customer who sent me a relatively angry email from abroad saying that my product had a myriad of problems. I answered him politely and apologized for the problems. Trough subsequent emails and revisions, he became a happy paying customer and a friend. I realized that if somebody takes the time to complain, they actually really do like the product. This person’s comments were well taken, so I implemented them. I figured that if he was upset, then there are many other people that would also be upset by the same thing. The trick is to know which suggestions to implement and which to ignore. I remember my first efforts trying to sell JobFish. I uploaded my first product (not JobFish) to download.com and several other download sites and kind of expected cash to start flowing in. It did not. That led me to discussions on ASP’s marketing newsgroup and several other places. Everybody told me the same thing. Download sites account the smallest portion of sales with conversion rates of 2 to 5 percent. Search engine traffic account for the next major share, and affiliate sales for the rest. I was told that all the big shareware companies have strong affiliate sales. My thought was what is an affiliate? Even after I had people explain it to me, I still was asking myself the same question. The film Sleepless in Seattle comes to mind here. Basically, an affiliate is a reseller, somebody that resells your software and receives a commission. Of the limited sales that I had, most came from search engines. That at least was true. My download site conversion rate was 0.01%. I guess that explains the lack of sales there. I then moved on to try emails, for which even the air molecules were against me. I did try one email campaign and that did not do to well. What I did not know at the time was that email campaigns are complicated. You have to track the open rate, test the subject line, and do a whole host of other things. You can not just track the number of people clicking on the link, downloading the product, and then making the purchase. Email campaigns can work, but you should be prepared. I would not go into this topic now, as I want to focus on search engine optimization. As people kept avoiding JobFish and my other two products like the bubonic plague, I started to treat my sales problem like I would any other engineering problem. After all, I am an engineer accustomed to solving problems. The more that I treated sales and marketing like an engineering problem, the more that I got interested in the subject and realized that the two are not that much different. Before I continue, let me say that the first thing you have to do is to be stubborn. They will be people telling you to quit. If you believe that you software is great and that it can work, then it can. Listen to your inner voice, and do not avoid tackling the marketing. It is fun, if you really think of it. It is all mathematics. If somebody would have told me how difficult it would be to write a website, I would not have believed them. I clearly remember my first website that I wrote using Microsoft FrontPage. The thought of keywords, alternate domain names, Meta Tags, titles, alt tags, frames, Macromedia Flash, and all the other marketing related stuff did not even cross my mind. When a search engine looks at your site, they use a piece of software called a spider. Personally, I think the analogy of an ant is more appropriate, but the principle is still the same. The spider will crawl all over your website, page by page, capturing the text, keywords, and other information in the process. Needless to say that if the search engine spider cannot find your page, it would not catalogue your page. Spiders are as important as real visitors. Based on the combination of your page title, Meta Tags, Meta Descriptions, body text, alt tags, and other web page related items (i.e. headers) search engines using a proprietary algorithm create what the industry calls, keyword weights, for each of the pages they catalogue. Spiders, unlike their arachnid brethren, are quite multi-dimensional, able to decipher whether or not you are really using a keyword or just trying to fool the search engine. Therefore your first task is to choose keywords that are appropriate for you. That does not mean which keywords have generally the highest number of clicks in a month, but rather which keywords have the highest number of clicks and will likely interest search engine customers. Do not forget that they will only see a few sentences. Search engines do not magically know about your website. You have to submit your site to each of them, preferably on a regular basis. Using a service like Promaxum.com comes in handy here. I would recommend doing one on your own, then farming out the work. Before that can happen, your website must be search engine friendly. Search engines do not like frames, Macromedia Flash, inline frames, and many other cutie things. When you create your website, think like an ant. Spiders cannot navigate pull down menus. A high page ranking (PR) does not just happen. It comes from hard work. To get around many of the limitations imposed by spiders, Macromedia Dreamweaver offers library items. They have got to be the web programmer’s best friend. The most important thing that you will do is to choose the right keywords. Use a service like WordTracker.com as a start, but not as the bible. You will find out that coming up with the proper keywords can be a bit time consuming task, but it is not as bad as you might think. Pay per Click services, such as those on Overture.com, offer you instant keyword feedback. I would hold off on Google AdWords until you are somewhat seasoned. Google has a minimum click through rate and will charge you a fee, when you drop below that level for 3-consecutive times. I would use Overture.com first and then take your winning keywords that you have gleamed from Overture.com to Google. I cannot emphasize enough that the words that you think will interest people may not be what will really interest people in the end. Once you come up with a keyword set, use these keywords in your title, page description, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, and regular body text. Most search engines look at comments too. That is a little trick of the trade. Determine which pages you want as a landing page and which you do not. For those pages that you do not want a search engine to see as a landing page, make sure to de-optimize those pages. I once got shocked, when typing in a keyword and seeing that Google picked my download page for a term rather than the product home page or any of the other terms. Having a user see the wrong page first is just as bad as having the user not come to the site at all. I will leave you with a couple of tips. Do not forget to create an error page. If the user goes to an invalid page for whatever reason, control what they see. My second tip for you guys is if you do a promotional mailing, you do not have to create a custom landing page to track those clicks. It is enough to create a dummy page, say Campaign_1.htm, which merely redirects to your home page or anywhere else. That way you do not have to spend enormous amounts of time creating a custom page specifically for one mailing, but you can still get the same result. Think smart! Published originally in October 2004 in the Association of Shareware Professionals publication. Sarah M. Weinberger is the CEO at Butterflyvista Corporation and is the creator of Jobfish, the professional tool for the serious job seeker. She spends her day performing software development and marketing related tasks. She is also politically active and is the founder of Progressives Leading.

Trump is not really the end of an era, as this Politico article mentions, as for years for a variety of reasons, some of our own doing and some not, our influence and leader status diminishes. Every time we show ourselves as a spectacle, we get laughed at and diminished. If we do not have our own affairs in order, the same happens. Ping ponging does that too. The U.S. is like any family. If a family is at war with itself, the focus is on destruction, and not leading. What makes it worse is if people put power, greed, hang-ups (intolerance of any kind), ignorance of any kind, then the family starts to fall apart. One issue is fine, but not repeatedly. If the U.S. is to not be an embarrassment, we need to change. - Education for all inclusive of university. We are as strong as our weakest link. - Healthcare for all. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege of the rich. - Gun control, or should I say gun eradication. The constitution indicates the right of militias, now known as state national guards, such as the California National Guards. Seriously, the founders did not have machine guns in mind. We have a different time now. - Acceptance of all. We are a nation of immigrants. - The right needs to get rid of its selective idea of big brother when it suits them and states rights when it does not. They are full of it on this point. - Improve our infrastructure. Trump quietly acknowledges that their is no “credits” and other gimmicks. The federal government will have to pay, not $1 trillion but probably a heck of a lot more. California alone can eat up $1 trillion for damn, sewage, electricity and more. - What is with the right to pump endless amounts of money to the military and then fuck each and every army person, when they get discharged. Also, the money is better spent. - Do not get me started no nukes and the right’s position on it. - Russia: They are the enemy people. Unbelievable on the uptick by mindless sheep and the ignorant, just because Trump says so. One cannot make this up. - The right’s “Party of No” and “ABC” (anything but Clinton) and “Our strategy is to make Obama a one term president” and all the other low down things done have got to stop. The right needs to grow up and actually be constructive. We are not past the point of no return, but we are close. Wake up America. The list is endless. Hit me up on Facebook and Twitter. Let me know what you think. As always, resist!

In case you missed the memo, just shy of 4 months ago I upped and left Melbourne. While my ASOS delivery details have changed, I haven’t updated my drivers licence yet so I’m still calling myself a Victorian – I just live somewhere much warmer now. The whole ‘Beautiful one day, perfect the next’ Queensland catchphrase is pretty much true. In four months it’s rained twice and the sun has shone EVERY OTHER DAY. I’m actually kinda over it. Magnetic Island from The Strand All the Vitamin D has made me a much happier person (and even with litres of sunscreen, my skin has naturally darkened), plus I’ve been able to use all the bathers I’ve bought over the years and never wore in Melbourne. Four months in Townsville has shown me that there are wonderful, friendly, amazing people all over our country. My biggest fears upon leaving Melbourne were A) where would I work, B) who would I have a glass of wine with, and C) I’d miss my family and friends too much. In no particular order of course. I don’t actually work by the pool (you can’t see the screen!!) but this is enough to make anyone in Melbourne jealous And you know what? My amazing team and clients in Melbourne said I could keep working with them. My family and friends booked plane tickets to come and visit. I’ve met a whole bunch of gorgeous, generous people here who are more than happy to drink wine with me. (They are also scarily enthusiastic about exercise dates, but that can’t be a bad thing!) I joined a yoga studio, and started French lessons. I’ve tried a bunch of different restaurants, and discovered Melbourne-esque cafes and lanes that are a stones throw from delightful beaches and tropical islands. My husband and I have taken road trips three hours up the coast, and three hours down, exploring just a smidge of our gorgeous country. There really isn’t much to complain about! Paronella Park, three hours north of Townsville I still miss everyone at home, and it makes me sad to think of the occasions, birthdays, baby showers and general wonderfulness of Melbourne we are missing. But in the long run, it’s a pretty exciting (and scary!) thing to move states and start afresh, and more so when you are going to be doing a fair bit of it on your own. *One day* when I’m old and grey, I’ll be able to look back on this experience and be grateful that I had the opportunity. And so to the more exciting happenings – the who, what, where, when and why of Townsville. The epic smashed pea, feta and poached eggs at Betty Blue Fave spots include Betty Blue, MJ Espresso, Seasoned, The Yacht Club and IMC Steakhouse. Clever little businesses I like include Wahboo, The Secret Garden, Gluten Free Love and Rambutan. Fabulous girls I’ve met include Bianca, Carly, Jess, Amanda, Pip, Kayla, Mich, Ellen, Caitlyn and Jocelyn, AND all their gorgeous families. Thank you for being wonderful! Sunset on Hamilton Island, three hours south of Townsville POSTSCRIPT: A special mention must be made to Rachel, whom I’ve known for 25 years (yes, eek!) and was pivotal in helping me settle in to Townsville. Without her to ease my anxieties and introduce us to the ‘cool’ places in Townsville, I’d certainly not be in as good a position as I am now. She can not, however, tell me where to buy weed.

Hitman HD Trilogy releasing January 31st in Aus/NZ It’s as they say – everything old is new again – and the Hitman games are the latest series to receive a full HD overhaul. Square Enix and IO Interactive have announced the Hitman HD Trilogy will be available for the PS3 and Xbox360 in Australia and New Zealand on January 31st. The trilogy collects Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money and presents them all in HD. The collection includes over 40 missions across the three games and is the first time all three games have been available in one sveldt package. Oh yes – Agent 47 has definitely been working out. Whether you are an established fan of the series or wanting to check it out for the first time, the collection provides you with the opportunity to play through the contracts that defined the series and made Agent 47 the icon that he is. So write it into you calendars – the Hitman HD Trilogy release January 31st in Australia and New Zealand. North American gamers will get their hands on the trilogy a touch earlier when it releases there on January 29th. European gamers will have to wait until February 1st.

Goodbye and Thank You Dear Guests and friends, After 10 amazing years in Nuweiba and 4 exciting years in Ibiza we closed or sold our diving centres. It was a great experience to be with all of you, if you were a guest, staff member or a friend visiting us. We well never forget the times beeing with you in or out of the water. It could happen that Diving Camp Nuweiba will open again in some years. We hope, the business situation in Nuweiba is changing, you never know. If you like to continue diving and discover the unknown side of Ibiza you may contact Mike by email . We wish you all the best for the future, always enough water above your head and see you again soon. Petra & Mike

- This event has passed. Pemberton Family Storytime (1-4 yrs) February 21 @ 11:00 am - 11:30 am This group is for children ages 12 months to 4 years. Enjoy singing songs, puppetry, rhymes and stories. We are now doing Storytime in person outside the library rain or shine! On dry days we will meet on the story time blanket outside near the water park. On rainy days we will adapt story time so grab your rainboots and umbrellas for a moving story walk. We will meet in the same spot near the water park. Dress accordingly.

George Michael Dies at Age 53 George Michael has died at age 53. The singer and songwriter passed away at his home on Sunday due to heart failure, according to his manager. His publicist gave the following statement to the BBC: “It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period. The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage.” The Thames Valley Police have also given a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, calling the death “unexplained but not suspicious.” The English singer rose to fame in the ’80s with the band Wham! before starting a solo career in 1987. Known for hits that included “Faith” and “Freedom! ’90,” Michael sold more than 100 million records worldwide. We will continue to update this story as more details are known.

Daniel R. Adamo is a recognized authority in human space flight trajectory design and operations with extensive experience in associated operations concept formulation, training, documentation, and software development. Since retiring in 2008 from 29 years of employment as a NASA-Johnson Space Center (JSC) contractor, Dan has been engaged in full-time astrodynamics research, consulting, and outreach. Clients include NASA, the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS). Prior to his retirement as a JSC contractor employee, Dan developed real time Shuttle Mission Simulator dynamics software, managed the Shuttle Portable Computer’s post-Challenger return to flight operations, and supported 60 Space Shuttle missions from the Flight Dynamics Officer (FDO) console at Mission Control. During his FDO career, Dan served as Flight Lead for 10 Shuttle missions, as primary U.S. trajectory point-of-contact with Russian counterparts during Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station joint operations, and as editor and a major contributing author of the 1000-page Orbit FDO Console Handbook for 18 years. Dan has conducted numerous technical presentations on space mission design, trajectory modeling/reconstruction, and architecture development before and after his JSC retirement. His work has been extensively published in white papers, editorials, newsletters, conference proceedings, and refereed journals.

Paper Doll, Picture,Illust Group, Inside & Outside,Season then Jesus came to them and said ” All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holySprit, and teaching them to obey everything I ahve commanded you. and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age — Mattew 28:18~20 We collect various Sunday school sources from all over the world. and We hope our efforts will be of little help to you and your children.

A colorful collage with colored paper These ideas can be used at home, Sunday School, or in your preschool or kindergarten class. Crafts, games, and fun activities are a great way of reinforcing Bible Stories in a creative way. We hope you and your kids enjoy! Disclosure : Most of the links below lead to products on pinterest.com Bible Story : The six and seventh days day of Creation from Genesis Earning Objectives: After this lesson, the children will demonstrate an understanding of what God created on the first-seventh days of creation We are so sorry. We are solving the problem. Click the link below to see more resources. You can see more various activities.

Issue Four: In Full Flesh (Digital Download) This digital download includes all three covers by Camilla Sverdrup-Thygeson and Eugene Shishkin. This is a digital downloadable PDF. Please be advised that one payment equals one download. Featuring global artistic tastemakers and musical trailblazers from London to Los Angeles, Taichung to Tokyo, this issue presents a visually and audibly impactful amalgamation of crisp colour tones, dramatic shadows, lo-fi lighting, raw textures, silky-smooth productions, and a provocative, minimalist aesthetic. As each piece unfolds, the reader navigates through a rich, thematic compilation of film-only photography and physical matter that pioneers a fresh perspective on today’s print media landscape. Size: 297 x 230mm Pagination: 200 pages Includes works by: Sean Alexander Geraghty Ken Xun Cao Tseng Yen Lan

Have No Fear by John Lennox – A Review Imagine getting the opportunity to go for a coffee with a seasoned Christian apologist and hearing them share their wisdom from a lifetime of communicating the gospel. And then imagine that as you chatted with them you discovered that not only were they adept at defending and commending the good news in their public ministry, but that they also had countless stories of getting into everyday conversations with all sorts of people and warmly talking about the claims of the Christian faith. Well, if that doesn’t seem a scenario likely to happen to you any time soon, fear not, because that’s pretty much the experience of reading John Lennox’s new bitesize little book from 10ofthose, Have No Fear. Aside from the coffee and literally hearing Lennox’s dulcet Armagh tones, you’re not really missing much from the real thing. And that makes this book a helpful little tonic to persuade normal everyday Christians to persevere with sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Genius and Normal Geezer Though a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Oxford who has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in his field, Lennox is perhaps best known for writing extensively on the relationship between science and religion and publicly debating prominent atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Peter Singer and Michael Shermer. In recent years he has become an Adjunct Lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and is much in demand as a teacher and preacher on the subject of communicating the Christian faith and answering sceptics. Pretty impressive for seventy-five years old. And yet as well as having all the intellectual and communicative capabilities that you’d expect from someone who can hold their own against the likes of Dawkins, Lennox also comes across as a delightfully engaging character, as winsome and affable as he is erudite. That’s just as well, because I assume that most of us aren’t academy-level experts in mathematics or science. Sadly too often the language of apologetics puts most of us off, but the surprise with Lennox is that despite his academic credentials he comes across as a ‘normal person’ (no offence intended!), and so you know his advice and experience on ‘being salt and light even when it’s costly’ (as the subtitle of this book puts it) comes from a relatable perspective. 0 to 60 in No Time At All Seven brief chapters take us from a general overview of the times we live in and the New Testament’s expectation that Christians will be ready to share something of the hope we have, through to some of the practicalities of how we might seek to do that in our secular, post-Christendom age. For me it was the second and third chapters on ‘Making a Defence’ and ‘Conversing about Jesus’ that were particularly helpful, despite their brevity still full of wisdom and perceptive insight on practically having conversations that ‘acknowledge’ Jesus. Another chapter focuses in on reading the Bible with people in a one-to-one context, with Lennox advocating The Word One-to-One resource, as developed by William Taylor and Richard Borgonon. Another addresses the importance of our lifestyle backing up the message we speak, whilst the final two chapters see Lennox share how he often explains the difference between Christianity and other religions, i.e. between grace and works. It’s pretty impressive how much ‘essentials’ Lennox manages to cover in so little space. This makes it a very useful resource, particularly for people who don’t read many Christian books. And all the way through, Have No Fear is littered with stories and examples from encounters Lennox has had. Crucially, rather than portray Lennox as some evangelistic-superman, they exude an infectious desire to speak of Christ. Inspired & Enthused To be honest, there’s not much to lose with a book like this. Coming in 10ofthose’s little pocket-size range, Have No Fear will only take you a couple of hours to read, and yet I’d put good money on you coming out the other side with a fresh desire to want to share the gospel. Lennox’s own aim is that the book would: “…demonstrate that you – yes, you – can actually be a faithful witness to Jesus. Furthermore, this is not some grim task that you do because you feel guilty. Instead, it will bring you a great sense of joy and strengthen your Christian life and experience immeasurably.” Even if all of Lennox’s advice and tips aren’t news to you, then at least you’ll be encouraged by his enthusiasm and intentional perspective on talking about Jesus, not to mention the infectious example of all the conversations Lennox recounts. The man evidently lives with a conscious trust in the providential hand of God and seeks to be available and open to using everyday moments to help others discover something of the Christian faith. That is stirring in itself. Looking for a punchy and brief book to spark off someone to begin thinking about sharing their faith, or to encourage someone who has the desire but feels clueless (most of us?). Look no further… You can pick up a copy of Have No Fear from the publisher here for just £2.99, with reductions available for bulk buys. Order 100 and they’ll cost just £1 each. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, but I hope this is still a fair and honest review.

There once was a farmer in 1796 named Farmer John. He had apple seedlings in that farm in Ontario, Canada. He noticed that those seedlings were not ones he had noticed before. There were 20 of those seedlings. He noticed them while clearing out the farm, which he had just bought. He transplanted the seedlings, cultivated them, and one survived. From that tree came a new breed of apples. Now, Farmer Johns last name was McIntosh. So what do you think whoever named this apple (presumably Farmer John himself) named this new breed? The McIntosh of course! Zoom up many years later to 1976. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak (Woz), and Ronald Wayne had just created Apple Computer. The apple, at that time, was Steve Jobs’ favorite fruit. He liked the name more than other considered choices and it also put them ahead of Atari (and IBM for that matter) in the phonebook. Zoom up 8 years and Apple is a very profitable company. The very exciting computer was about to be released. The Macintosh, or Mac, was Apple’s newest, biggest thing. Trying to continue the success of the Apple II, the Macintosh was Apple’s dream. Judging from the name of the company, why do you think they chose that name? Thats right, from Farmer John’s McIntosh apple. The Mac(intosh) comes from the name of the apple which is named after Farmer John McIntosh. (By the way, the reason they didn’t use any other type of apple (gala, fuji etc.) is because the McIntosh was Steve Jobs’ favorite apple.) Unfortunately, the Macintosh didn’t work to Apple’s expectations and to make matters worse, Steve Jobs got thrown out of the company. After that it was a continuous stream of computers that hardly nobody bought. Microsoft and IBM were about as close to taking over the world as anyone had ever been without actually being a politician, and at Apple, everyone was exhausted, tired and broken down. Apple was at one point 90 days from bankruptcy (imagine if Steve Jobs didn’t return?!). But we know what happened. Steve Jobs came back and saved it from the rubble. He (actually Sir Jony Ive) came up with the iMac, the reintroduction to the Mac(intosh) and profitability. So you see now the kind of impact that Farmer John has had on Apple? In a series of coincidences, he gave his name to both kinds of apples, the fruit and to a computer. Thank you Farmer John for your unbeknownst contribution to Apple. Now, next time when you see a Mac, you might think a bit more about all the little bits of history that makes Apple, Apple. Thanks for reading,

The Effect of Acidic pH on Water Transport in Plectranthus scutellarioides by Kelsey Nocilla Pollution within the environment has become a popular topic of discussion in contemporary society, but the environmental effects of byproducts created by various types of pollution can be easily overlooked. For example, acid rain is produced when water vapor reacts with air pollution and harmful emissions within the atmosphere. Limited research has been done on the subject, but acid rain has the potential to affect a plant’s water transport system, which in turn hinders the plant’s growth and development. The goal of this study was to examine the effects of different pH levels on the water transport system of Plectranthus scutellarioides, a plant possessing medicinal properties. In two trials, plant stems from P. scutellarioides were placed in solutions of varying pH levels containing dye for ten minutes, after which the distance traveled by the dye through each plant stem was measured and recorded. The results from this study show that there is a specific, optimal pH level for the plant’s water transport system and for the plant’s growth. At a pH level of 4.6, the dye was able to travel the farthest average distance through the stems which allowed for the water transport system to function most efficiently. In addition, the results also indicate that the water transport system is negatively affected by water with pH levels that range higher or lower than this optimal level. Keywords: Coleus plant, acid rain, water transport, pH, cross section Though pollution is not a new problem, the past few decades of rapid technological and socioeconomic changes have caused a dramatic increase in the production of pollution and the negative affects it has on the environment (Lal 2016). Pollution can appear in many forms, but one of the most common forms is air pollution. Air pollution includes emissions such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide. While these gases can be harmful to the environment directly, they can also affect the environment indirectly through the formation of acid rain. Acid rain typically has a pH level of 5.6 and forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide react with water vapor in the atmosphere. The hydrogen ion concentration associated with this pH has the potential to affect biological membranes, electron transport systems, and pH specific biochemical reactions (Lal 2016). Acid rain can affect terrestrial environments in a number of other ways, including acidification of soil and the alteration of nutrient supply (Lal 2016). When acid rain alters the composition of soil, it changes the main source of nutrients for the varying plant species in that particular ecosystem. Though there is limited research on the relationship between acid rain and the growth and development of plants (Evans 1982), it has been seen that abnormalities in the metabolisms of plants (photosynthesis, transpiration, etc.) can result from exposure to these acidic conditions (Lal 2016). Acid rain has the potential to dramatically affect a plant’s growth because of one important component: the plant’s water transport system. A properly functioning water transport system is essential for a plant to survive. Water movement is a shared feature of almost all plant development processes, such as transpiration, photosynthesis, and the distribution of organic or inorganic molecules throughout the plant’s xylem, the vascular tissue that conducts water upward from the root (Kim et al. 2014). When acid rain falls, the water transport system of the plant is responsible for moving this water to each part of the organism in order to perform all of the functions and processes previously mentioned. If the acidity of the rain negatively affects this system, the plant will not be able to grow or function properly. Different species of plants respond uniquely to varying levels of pH in their environment. For example, Odiyi and Eniola (2015) found that exposing V. unguiculate to different low pH levels caused the plants to exhibit a lower growth rate, chlorophyll content, and harvest index. By contrast, Zhang and Zwiazek (2016) found that a red-osier dogwood had greater growth, gas exchange, and root hydraulic conductivity at a higher pH level than a paper birch, which appeared to be more sensitive to high pH levels than to low pH levels. It was concluded that a high rate of water transport at the higher pH level for the red-osier dogwood was responsible for the increased growth rates. Sen et al. (1993) found in a study of factors affecting growth and forskolin production in root culture systems of Coleus forskohlii, now recognized in the scientific community as Plectranthus barbatus, that pH affected the growth of the plant. The plants were exposed to pH levels of 5, 5.3, and 5.6 for forty days and the resulting data showed that P. barbatus had the most growth in a pH of 5.6 and that its growth decreased in lower pH levels (Sen et al. 1993). The species, P. barbatus, was of particular interest as it is the only source of forskolin, a compound that has medicinal benefits and is effective against glaucoma, congestive cardiomyopathy, and asthma (Sen et al. 1993). Based on the conclusions drawn by Sen et al. (1993), where P. barbatus had reduced growth in lower pH levels, it is possible that the water transport system of the related species used in this paper’s study, P. scutellarioides, will also demonstrate changes in fitness from exposure to acidic pH levels. The purpose and objective of this experiment is to determine the optimal pH level for the water transport system and overall growth of P. scutellarioides. In this experiment, P. scutellarioides stems of equal size will be exposed to a water and eosin dye mixture with varying pH levels. The distance traveled by the dye in the stems of P. scutellarioides during a given period of time will help determine the pH levels at which the plant most easily transports water. To construct a hypothesis for this experiment, the results of previous related studies were considered. Sen et al. (1993) concluded that P. barbatus grew the most at a pH level of 5.6; however, pH levels above this value were not tested. Goulding (2016) determined that the optimal pH level of soil for most plants was 6.0 to 6.5. After examining the data collected by Sen et al. (1993) and Goulding (2016), it was hypothesized that a pH level greater than 5.6 would allow for optimal water transport. This hypothesis would be supported by the greatest distance traveled by the dye occurring in a solution with the pH level greater than 5.6. Determining the optimal pH level for water transport will allow for conclusions to also be drawn for the optimal pH for P. scutellarioides growth, considering the two are directly related. There are two important real-world applications and benefits to determining optimal pH level. First, the research could be applied to understanding the water transport system of related species, such as P. barbatus. Knowing its optimal pH will allow for a greater yield of the plant to be made available for medical research in addition to increasing the available supply of forskolin. Second, examining the effects of different pH levels on P. scutellarioides could allow for a greater understanding of how pollution and acid rain could affect other plant species, and by association the environment, on a more global scale. The optimal pH for P. scutellarioides to transport water was determined by placing stems from the plant in test tubes containing dyed water with varying pH levels. The independent variable tested was the pH level of the water/dye solution and the dependent variable measured was the distance traveled by the dye in the stems. The pH levels were measured by a pH meter, rather than litmus paper, for a more precise reading. In preparation for the experiment, six test tubes were filled with 35 milliliters of water. The initial pH of the water was tested and hydrochloric acid was added to each of the test tubes until the desired pH levels of 7, 6.4, 5.8, 5.2, 4.6, and 4.0 were reached. Only the effects of acidic pH levels on P. scutellarioides were examined, so the neutral control group with a pH of 7 had the highest pH tested. Including a control with a neutral pH was necessary for observations to be made as to whether any amount of acid could affect the plant’s water transport system. After adjusting the pH to the desired levels, 10 milliliters of eosin dye was added to each test tube to ensure a visual representation of the distance traveled by the solutions through the plant stems. The dye was added after adjusting the pH of the water in order to avoid damage to the pH meter, but any minor pH changes related to the addition of the dye were negligible. Next, the P. scutellarioides stems were each cut to an equal length of 8 centimeters measuring from the leaves at the end. A total of 12 stems were cut and two were placed in each test tube to provide two trials of data for each pH level. The stems were placed in the test tubes within 30 seconds of being cut to minimize the impact of the exposure to air. The stems remained in the test tubes for 10 minutes before being removed and rinsed off to eliminate any excess external dye. Lengthwise cross sections were taken of each of the stems and examined. The distance traveled by the dye was measured for both halves of the cross sections for each stem, resulting in four measurements taken for each pH level. These four distances were recorded and an average distance was calculated. The pH level that allowed the dye to travel the farthest was considered the optimal pH level for the water transport system of P. scutellarioides, and in turn, the optimal level for the plant’s growth. Photo 1: Coleus stems are cut and ready to be placed in the test tubes containing water with varying pH levels. Photo 2: Two stems are placed in each test tube to account for two trials of data. All of the data collected from this experiment has been compiled into the table in Figure 1. Averaging the values measured from each cross section allowed a clear pattern to emerge within the data. At a pH level of 4.6, the dye traveled the greatest distance of 2.875 cm. The pH levels above and below this value resulted in shorter distances traveled by the dye. As the pH became more acidic, the distances traveled shortened. The dye associated with pH levels of 6.4 and 7 traveled the same average distance of 1.325 cm, the shortest distance recorded A graphical representation of the data is shown in Figure 2. The data trend visualized by the graph shows a normal distribution. Interestingly, upon measurement, two halves of the same cross sections sometimes demonstrated significant variation in the distance traveled by the dye, even though the stems may have been in the same solution. The data was important to record as this could be a common natural phenomenon in the vascular tissue of plants. Cross-Section Distances Measured for P. scutellarioides Stems Table 1: Data collected for each cross-section Figure 2: The graph shows the relationship between the distance traveled by the dye through the P. scutellarioides stems based on the pH of the solution. If P. scutellarioides was easily able to transport the solution, the distance traveled by the dye was greater. By contrast, if the plant was not able to transport a solution well, the dye traveled a shorter distance. Comparing the data from the acidic solutions to the data from the control allowed comparisons of whether acid within the water available to P. scutellarioides was beneficial or harmful to the plant and at what point the acidity could become harmful to the function of the water transport system. The initial prediction for this experiment was that the optimal pH level for P. scutellarioides would be greater than 5.6, considering the findings of Sen et al. (1993) and Goulding (2016). However, due to the limits of previous studies, it was unknown how the effect of higher pH levels would manifest. Though the effects of pH levels greater than 5.6 were unknown before this experiment, it was predicted that the distance traveled by the dye would be greater in these levels than the distance traveled in levels lower than 5.6. It was predicted that a more acidic solution with a lower pH level would be harmful to the plant and its water transport system. The results of this experiment differed from the expectation and hypothesis. The dye from the solution with a pH of 4.6 traveled the farthest average distance through the P. scutellarioides stems, so it was determined that a pH of 4.6 allowed for the most successful water transport through the xylem. The second farthest distance traveled by the dye occurred at a pH of 5.2, and the third farthest distance traveled by the dye occurred in a pH of 4.0. These findings are represented in Figure 2, which illustrates a clear bell curve trend between the pH level and the distance traveled by the dye. According to Sen et al. (1993), P. barbatus experienced better water transport in a pH of 5.6 rather than pH values of 5.3 or 5.0, which suggests that the plant’s water transport system functioned more efficiently in higher, more alkaline pH levels. Goulding (2016) described the ideal soil pH level for plants to be between 6.0 and 6.5. The information and findings of these two studies do not support the results of this experiment. The trend of the data in Figure 2 underscore that the distances traveled by the dye at higher pH levels are some of the shortest distances traveled. However, the results from Zhang and Zwiazek (2016) may help explain why more acidic values facilitated more efficient water transport than less acidic, more alkaline values. In the study conducted by Zhang and Zwiazek (2016), the plants sensitive to high pH levels did not experience successful water transport when exposed to high pH levels compared to other plant species better suited for higher pH levels. Comparing those results to the data collected in this experiment, it is likely that P. scutellarioides is a species better suited for an environment that is slightly acidic rather than neutral or alkaline. With that being said, the data in the graph also demonstrates a decrease in the distance traveled by the dye at pH values lower than 4.6. Though P. scutellarioides cannot perform effective water transport in highly acidic environments, there appears to be a small range in which the acidity is beneficial before it becomes harmful to the plant. Therefore, at a pH level of 4.6, the water transport system of P. scutellarioides performs most efficiently and allows the plant to undergo the greatest growth over time. By determining the optimal pH level for the water transport system and growth of P. scutellarioides, the data and procedure of this experiment will be beneficial to those who grow this and other related species, such as P. barbatus, for medicinal use. More research could be conducted to further verify the optimal pH for P. scutellarioides and P. barbatus. Considering that P. barbatus is the only source of forskolin (Sen et al., 1993), it would be ideal for the preferred pH of the plant to be established to facilitate more efficient growth. By having a greater abundance of P. barbatus and the unique compound it contains, more forskolin can be made readily available for the treatment of different diseases and additional, more extensive research can be conducted on the benefits of the compound. The data from this experiment can also serve as a small example for future studies on the effects of acidic conditions on plant species and the environment, such as those caused by acid rain. Though P. scutellarioides can sustain exposure to slightly acidic environments, there comes a point where the acidity becomes harmful to the plant and its water transport system. The negative effect that the excess acidity had on P. scutellarioides is a prime example of what phenomena such as acid rain can do to species of plants within the environment. The typical pH for acid rain is 5.6 (Lal, 2016), which may be too acidic, or too basic in the case of P. scutellarioides, for plants within their natural environments to grow, survive, and reproduce successfully. Not only would ecosystems suffer bottom-up trophic cascades from these effects, but there would also be economic consequences associated with imperiled plant life; for example, the scarcity of sought-after plants and crops would lead to increased prices of these goods. At first glance, the optimal pH level for the water transport and growth of Plectranthus scutellarioides may seem to be a minuscule or unimportant issue. However, in reality, the findings of this study can create a basis for further research on the effect of acidic pH on other plant species and the environment. Evans L.S. (1982). Biological effects of acidity in precipitation on vegetation: a review. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 22, pp. 155-169. Goulding K. W. (2016). Soil acidification and the importance of liming agricultural soils with particular reference to the United Kingdom. Soil Use and Mgmt, 32(3), 390-399. Hae Koo Kim, Joonghyuk Park, Ildoo Hwang, Investigating water transport through the xylem network in vascular plants, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issue 7, April 2014, Pages 1895–1904 Lal, N. (2016). Effects of Acid Rain on Plant Growth and Development. e-Jour of Sci and Techn, 11, 85-101. Odiyi, B.O., & Eniola, A.O. (2015). The Effect of Simulated Acid Rain on Plant Growth Component of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) L. Walps. Jordan J Biol Sci, 8(1), 51-54. Sen, J., Sharma, A., Sahu, N., & Mahato, S. (1993). Forskolin production in untransformed root culture of Coleus forskohlii. Phytochem, 34(5), 1309-1312. Zhang, W., & Zwiazek, J. J. (2016). Effects of root medium pH on root water transport and apoplastic pH in red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) seedlings. Plant Biol, 18(6), 1001–1007. The information gathered from this study and the investigation itself would not have been possible without help and support from a few different people. I’d first like to thank my group members who each contributed to designing and conducting the experiment: Sydney Sileno, Acacia Worley, and Micayla Civetta. I would also like to sincerely thank our GLA, Austin Heil. His constant encouragement and passion for biology enabled my group members and I to overcome the many challenges and setbacks that we experienced throughout this project.

Quentin Grimes’ Co-Player of the Year headlines UH conference awards The Houston men’s basketball team had four different players win an American Athletic Conference award for the regular season, the league announced on Wednesday. Here is the list of accolades: – Quentin Grimes (Co-Player of the Year, All-Conference First Team) – DeJon Jarreau (Defensive Player of the Year, All-Conference Second Team) – Justin Gorham (Most Improved Player, All-Conference Second Team) – Marcus Sasser (All-Conference Second Team) “I’m so happy I was able to win the award,” Grimes told reporters on Wednesday afternoon during a Zoom meeting. “All credit goes to coach Sampson, my teammates, (just) pushing us every day, coming to work, and just putting me in the best position possible.” Grimes is the first UH player to win conference player of the year honors since Bo Outlaw in 1993. These players are two of just seven that have won this honor in program history. The other five are Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Michael Young, Rob Williams and Otis Birdsong. Grimes was also one of only three players in the AAC to get a unanimous vote in the All-Conference First team. The four All-Conference selections were the most for the Cougars since five UH players – Derrick Daniels, David Diaz, Sam Mack, Outlaw and Craig Upchurch – were named to the 1992 All-Southwest Conference Second Team. “I’m proud of them,” UH head coach Kelvin Sampson said. “It is always an honor every time you’re voted on by your peers, in this case, the (AAC) coaches.”

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Of course, it isn’t. You know it isn’t. So why do so many hosts complain and/or comment on their guests’ personalities and little foibles? One of the most frequent is that ‘guests are so entitled these days’. Er, well, for me the fact that so many hosts require guests who fit in perfectly to the host’s idea of the exemplary guest are themselves being entitled. But it’s not one-sided. You’ll sometimes see reviews from guests that criticise the host and remember, that’s not the way things are supposed to work. Guests are meant to write about their stay not “the host was not very friendly” or “the host had poor personal hygiene” and so on. Guests must review their stay, not the host’s personality or little eccentricities. Likewise, the host must review what her guests were like as guests and not criticise the guests in other ways. This is a business transaction. Neither host nor guest needs to ‘like’ each other. Don’t be misled by those images from early Airbnb adverts that show the guests and the hosts together gleefully enjoying croissants and coffee with the view of the Eifel Tower seen through the window. There are no rules that say that hosts and guests need to hang out together – in fact, in the days of Covid, it’s undesirable. So personalities don’t matter. If I stay in a hotel, then I don’t have to like the manager. If I eat in a restaurant, the same applies. I don’t even see the pilot who flies the plane I’m travelling on so I definitely don’t need to like him and my life, sort of, is in his hands. Same with the surgeon removing my appendix. I’ve known hosts say that if they are hosting guests in their home it’s important for them to be a good fit. Why? I’ve hosted in separate apartments and in my own home. The longest guest I had in my own home stayed for six weeks. Of course, we were civil to each other but we didn’t have to make pancakes together either. Business is business. JJ is originally from the UK and has lived in South Florida since 1994. She is the founder and editor of JAQUO Magazine. You can connect with her using the social media icons below.

THE ADORATION OF THE LAMB Van Eyck’s masterpiece is a meditation on the mystery of the Holy Eucharist (the feast of Corpus Christi also originates from Flanders). The artist uses various techniques to involve the spectator in the painting. The altarpiece, now displayed under one of the western towers, was painted for a chapel in the chevet of St Bravo’s Cathedral, Ghent. In a jewel in the morse of the cope of one of the attendant angels is a meticulously painted reflection of the stained glass window behind the viewer in the chapel. The observer stands in real space, directly related to painted, divine space. On an altar, whose elaborate frontal is painted in similar detail, stands a very real fleecy lamb. From its pierced side gushes a geometrically precise arch of blood, falling into a chalice. A few drops of blood have fallen onto the cloth. They spread through it, in a virtuoso representation of spilled wine on fine linen. Van Eyck, it seems, is giving us a painterly variation on St Thomas’s doctrine expressed in the propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi – symbol and tangible reality are here one and the same. Could the carefully painted altar frontal have been a copy of the one usually placed before the altar below the painting? Did van Eyck want the viewer to make a direct connection between the Mass being celebrated and the heavenly adoration he depicts? I like to think so; but in the absence of the relevant needlework we will never know. Return to Home Page of This Issue Return to Trushare Home Page

Unai Urrecho is valued for his artistic commitment and the human devotion he dedicates to each concert and opera. “Unai Urrecho’s portrayal of Dvorak was to be framed. He is an elegant and precise maestro, a conductor who knows and conceives the sound and who knows very well what he wants to extract from the orchestra, which worked dedicated and aware of being in very good hands. Dvorak took flight and opened up everything that this great music could have of extraordinary” – El Mundo Clásico (2021) “Unai Urrecho, in a meticulously prepared version of great musical intelligence, knew how to get the best out of the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, moving it away from the role of mere accompanist to lead its members with elegance and subtlety, but also power and verve -always respecting the work of the singers in La Tabernera del Puerto of the Quincena Musical” Ópera Actual (2022). A successful career as a conductor of symphonic concerts and operas has been achieved by Unai Urrecho both in Asia and Europe. Currently, he combines this activity with his work as a conductor in the Korean Soliall Philharmonic Orchestra and the Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra in Vietnam. As a teacher, he is a professor of conducting at Suwon University. Before embarking on a conducting career, Maestro Urrecho developed an extensive career as an orchestral musician. During this period he has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, among many others, where he has worked under the baton of maestros such as Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, James Conlon, Sir Colin Davis, Gilbert Varga, Juanjo Mena and Hans Graff, among others. He began his musical studies at a very early age at the academy of his hometown, playing in the Arrasate Musical Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Juan Arzamendi. After finishing his studies at the Superior Conservatory of Music in San Sebastián with an honors degree, he continued his academic and professional training in the United States with a scholarship from the Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa (Guipúzcoa’s Regional Government). At Boston University, he was awarded a full scholarship, appointed as a teaching assistant, and finished his studies by winning the University’s soloist competition. He has been a founding member of the Youth Orchestra of Euskal Herria, a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, Spoleto Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival working with great maestros and soloists of the international scene. Finally, he completed his conducting studies with an artistic postgraduate and doctorate in opera and orchestra conducting at the prestigious Frédéric Chopin University in Warsaw, under the mentorship of Maestro Sygmon Kawalla. Unai Urrecho’s active career has led to conducting many of the major orchestras in South Korea, Romania, and Russia: KBS Symphony Orchestra (the most important orchestra in Korea) performing L.v. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Lotte Hall concert hall in Seoul, the Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra performing G. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, National Radio Orchestra of Romania with works by Beethoven and Mozart and the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in Russia where he premiered the works Basque works and enhanced the works of M. Ravel. In the operatic field, Unai Urrecho is one of the most prestigious and knowledgeable conductors in Korea. Maestro Urrecho has conducted operas such as: “Madame Butterfly” “Tosca” and “La Boheme” by G. Puccini, “Cosi fan Tutte”, “Don Giovanni”, “The Marriage of Figaro” y “The Magic Flute” by W.A. Mozart, “Rigoletto”, “La Traviatta” and “Aida” by G. Verdi, “Haensel and Gretel” by E. Humperdinck, “Hoffman’s Tale” by J. Offenbach, “Carmen” by G. Bizet, “Faust” by G. Gounod, “La Cederentola” by G. Rossini, “Die Fledermaus” by J. Strsuss among many others. For the 2022-23 season, Unai Urrecho will conduct the operas Rigoletto, Carmen, La Tarbenera del Puerto, La Cederentola, Don Giovanni, as well as Symphony Orchestras such as Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Primer Philharmonic Orchestra and Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa among others. With the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra he will make his debut in the famous Quincena Musical de San Sebastián and will record a CD of the opera Mirentxu by the composer J. Guridi.

I wanted to talk about our little bright light Sebastian, he has spent the last six months being slightly under shadowed to his sister. With his first trip being to register his birth and his second back to hospital for his sister, in the months since frequenting the hospital as a main event. Despite this he is the most happy, wonderful little guy ever; he genuinely is a joy to be around and parent. He is the very easiest companion, fitting that he spends so much time in my sling so my hands can be free for his sister. This month he learnt to sit independently, cut his first tooth, say what I think sounds like “Mama” and started to wean his first foods. It’s been absolutely wonderful watching both children together, I remember being quite worried about expanding into a family of four and in the early weeks trying to imagine where he would fit in. Now I cannot imagine him not being part of our family and his sister has really flourished around him. After realising that he doesn’t feature as much as I’d like on the blog, I wanted to share his last six months here with you in mostly photo’s that I love. Marking that behind the scenes there is a little guy that has been chugging away, developing and growing into a little person too. This photo isn’t the best photo I have but I love it, in June Sebastian was being rather social! We had lots of smiles, lots of laughter and practice at sitting although still very wobbly. Sebastian rolled for the first time too.

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The 100th anniversary of the birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium 2010 - Chicago October 19, 2010 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. This symposium was an occasion for those who knew Chandra to commemorate his life and work, and for those who did not know him to experience firsthand some of the impact he had on 20th century science. International Planning Committee: Abhay Ashtekar, Naresh Dadhich, Valeria Ferrari, John Friedman, Giuseppe Mussardo, Jayant Narlikar, Roger Penrose, Saul Teukolsky, Robert Wald (co-chair) and Kameshwar C. Wali (co-chair). Funding for the Symposium was provided by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the Department of Physics of the University of Chicago. Find out more at the events home page http://physics.uchicago.edu/events/chandra100/. Disclaimer: VideoLectures.NET emphasizes we are not the authors of these recordings. Write your own review or comment:

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So this was a chance for me to get back into it. Luckily things worked out well for me to come here and race. I was already in Italy, so it wasn’t as hard as if I had been in South Africa.” “It was nice to race my first Gold Cup. I was very lucky to meet up with Paul McKenzie, who also coached me and I leaned a lot from him over the week we had before. So now I need to talk to South African Sailing to put me forwards to our Olympic Committee and then they will decide whether I can go.” Going to the Olympics has always been his dream. “My dad, Greg Davis, coached Ian Ainslie in 1996. So from when I was four years old I had his Olympic kit, and it’s always been a dream of mine to go. I thought I was going to go with rowing but it never worked out, so I am just as hungry as I was then, but now for sailing. “I think if I do qualify, there is a lot that I need to learn, but I have got a bit of time now and I have a plan to get a lot of training in and bridge the gap to the top guys.” The 2021 Finn Gold Cup in Porto has been an exceptional event – with exceptional hospitality and organization in quite difficult circumstances, not to mention the unusual weather patterns – for a group of exceptional world-class athletes at the top of their game. In 10-20 years times, many of these sailors will be household names through successes at America’s Cups, ocean races and major sailing events, just like their predecessors have been, and are, over the past 60 years. That these young sailors will be the last generation to benefit from the universal school of life and sailing that the Finn class has always been, is unthinkable, untenable and plainly unimaginable. If this is the last Finn Gold Cup as an Olympic discipline, then it is not just a shame, but it brings shame. There has to be a solution to maintain this pathway and legacy for the sport and look after this unique brand of young sailors. Long live the Finn. 1 NZL 61 Andy Maloney 44 2 ESP 26 Joan Cardona 51 3 NZL 24 Josh Junior 54 4 HUN 40 Zsombor Berecz 61 5 CRO 10 NENAD Bugarin 66 6 USA 91 Luke Muller 76 7 AUS 1 Jake Lilley 82 8 NED 89 Nicholas Heiner 88 9 GBR 41 Giles Scott 89 10 ESP 17 Pablo Guitián sarria 91 Full results here: https://proregatta.com/events/162/

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Contrary to the idea that a saint is someone who has died and is now in Heaven praying with us and for us, the Bible shows us that saints are simply believers, ordinary people that have placed their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Paul often began his letters by addressing them “to the Saints” in whichever city that they lived, such as Rome, Ephesis, Phillipi or Colossi. The Bible tells us in Ephesians 1:13+14 that the moment one hears and believes the Gospel, it is at that point that the Holy Spirit seals us as Heaven bound. Believing the Gospel, that Jesus Christ saves us by what He did, not by how holy we lived or any “works of righteousness” of ours, is the underlying difference behind a Biblical saint as opposed to the view of a saint as a title given to person based upon an outstanding life of holiness and good works. Scriptures also reveal that besides God, there is no other. He has certain characteristics as God that enable Him to hear and answer prayer. The Bible speaks of God’s omnipresence, defined in Nelson’s Bible Dictionary as a theological term that refers to the unlimited nature of God or His ability to be everywhere at all times. (Psalm 139:7-12) The Bible also shows His omniscience, described in the Nelson Bible Dictionary as a theological term that refers to God’s superior knowledge and wisdom, His power to know all things. (Psalm 139:1-6, 13-16) But these are characteristics of God, humans do not possess these capabilities to hear and answer the many prayers that are said each day. We have a loving God, who needs to consult no one for knowledge or understanding (Isaiah 40:13-14.) He loved us so much that He provided the only solution for sin by sending Jesus to the cross and thus making Himself the answer, the only answer as Acts 2:38 states, by which men must be saved . This is what the Scripture writers meant by Jesus being the only mediator in 1 Timothy 2:5+6 -[b:2dtkz257]”For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men…..” S[/b:2dtkz257]o glorious was God’s plan to provide the solution for men’s sin, and now so complete was His love for us, that we now can boldly approach God (Hebrews 4:15) with our prayers. There is a stark reality as told by Proverbs 14:12 – [b:2dtkz257]”There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”[/b:2dtkz257] Prayers to anyone else but God is not a sign of humbleness, but rather of unbelief. All of the Bible speaks of Jesus (Luke 24:27) and our Salvation is determined, not by our good deeds, nor our popularity (which may work to our advantage here on Earth, but not before God.) but rather by our belief or lack of belief in God’s only solution. (John 3:16-18 and 3:36). We must be aware of the schemes of Satan, for Satan can indeed make Himself as an angel of light. (2 Cor. 11:14) Praying to others not only is pointless because of the inability for them to hear, or intercede for us, but also because it offends the one and only God in which the Bible repeatedly shows is a God, jealous for our love and desires to be our God. Jesus warned us of the great deceptions that would deceive so many (Matthew 24:24) and Paul repeatedly express his concerns about Satan’s cunning (2 Corinthians 11:3-4) and false messages (Galatians 1:7-. Regardless of how or why one prays to another, apparitions included, when we pray to anyone, for any reason, other than to God, it is a form of worship, as John tells us in Revelation 19:10 and 22:8-9, to which the Angel reminded him (and us) that they are just fellow servants, that we should go to God alone. Surely John’s “worship” wasn’t a worship of the angel as God, but rather what he did is much like the faulty rational that many have today, thinking that he was simply honoring and showing the angel respect. Thankfully, in hindsight, when John wrote, the Holy Spirit correctly termed his actions as a form of worship. In other words, in closing, I remind you of what Isaiah 8:19 says: [b:2dtkz257]”…..should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?” [/b:2dtkz257]Indeed then, in regards to praying to the dead, we should heed and apply the same type of sound advice as given in Acts 14:15 – [b:2dtkz257]”Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you…. telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.”[/b:2dtkz257] Thus we find, that according to the Bible, we are to pray to God alone.

!standard 4.9(17.3/5) 22-06-16 AI22-0046-1/01 !class binding interpretation 22-03-25 !status work item 22-03-25 !status received 22-03-25 !subject Statically names misses some cases For a name N that statically names an object (but does not statically denote any object), AI12-0322-1 added text so that the target name symbol '@' can statically denote an entity if the target statically denotes an entity. However, we did not extend that to statically naming an entity. A := @ + 1; @ statically denotes the object A. However, in: A.B := @ + 1; @ does not statically name an object, even if A statically denotes an object, and B is a component of that object, so that A.B statically names an object. Why? A.B does not statically denote an object, so 4.9(16.1/5) does not apply, and thus @ does not statically denote an object (so 4.9(17.2/5) does not apply). @ is neither a selected_component nor an indexed_component, so 4.9(17.3-4/5) don't apply, either. We are talking about an object, so 4.9(17.5/5) doesn't apply. So none of the rules apply, and we must conclude that @ in the above does not statically name anything (even though the underlying name A.B does statically name an object). This seems inconsistent. Rewrite the definition of statically names to eliminate these bizarre cases. Add an AARM Note after 4.9(17.4/5): AARM To Be Honest: For a renaming or target_name whose name statically denotes an object, there are multiple ways to determine that the renaming or target_name statically names an object. The wording seemed clearer written this way; refactoring would have required the introduction of yet another term. A similar problem occurs for renames. So, for instance, if we have: C : renames A.B; C does not statically name an object. While if we had: D : renames A; then D.B does statically name an object. The target name symbol case matters as "statically names" is used in the anti-order dependence checks of 6.4. That means, as written, using '@' could be used to evade a bad order check. That is the sort of perverse incentive (or disincentive, depending on your feelings) that we try to avoid in Ada. The renames case can come up in any rule that uses "statically names". Fully refactored wording would require the introduction of another term. This would look something like: A name directly statically denotes an entity if it denotes the entity and it: A name statically denotes an entity if it denotes the entity and it: A name statically names an object if it: (See Issue and Discussion.) An ACATS B-Test could be constructed using the target name symbol and an illegal order dependence. Probably some other rules could be tested using renames of statically named objects. This AI in partially in response to ARG Github Issue #6 (https://github.com/Ada-Rapporteur-Group/User-Community-Input/issues/6).

Short tips on all aspects of writing. Share with your friends. Frequently Asked Questions Here are some of the most frequent questions I receive from Korean and International graduate students in my workshops and classes. Q. I am worried about criticizing the research of well-known professors in my field. How can I do this politely? A. First, consider your audience. There is a tendency for direct criticism of previous research in articles written in North America in particular, but a tendency toward reluctance to directly criticize in many Asian countries. See the guide to science and engineering writing Chap. 6 on introduction writing for specific grammar and style advice on this important topic. Q. How can I use a source that I did not read and found in another source in my own writing? In science writing, you should always go back to the original source. In social sciences, it can be difficult to get access to online articles and especially books. I have this problem every week. Try to minimize the number of references you use without consulting the original book. Perhaps only once per paper. However, if you have no choice, then if you are using APA style you can cite the original like this: Q. Do I need a second comma in a list of three items or not in research writing? You don’t need one in general writing, but it is always a good idea as in some cases there may be confusion. However, you must be consistent throughout the paper, a basic rule of any style. In addition, most academic styleguides require it.

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“To encourage direct investment and trade with key markets in Africa and promote sustainable job creation opportunities, growth and long-term prosperity for Africa and UK businesses.” Africa House London’s aims are fully embedded in the UK Government’s agenda of The African Free Trade initiative (AFTi) aimed at providing technical experts to unblock issues that continue to hold back economic growth. Against the backdrop of the government agenda, Africa House London plays an integral role in substantially increasing trade with Africa by leveraging the extensive links and expertise London can provide to Africa and through bilateral trade. During the past couple of decades, there has been steady growth in Foreign Direct Investment in Africa and returns in economic activities have quadrupled in some countries despite the global economic crisis. Africa House London identifies this as an opportunity to build investor confidence in the African market and support UK businesses to take advantage of the lucrative business and trade opportunities within the continent. We aim to provide high-end professional business solutions to our clients and partners to add value to new and existing trade and business relationships. The founding directors and the executive management board members have extensive experience in socio-economic activities in both the UK and Africa with particular expertise in providing comprehensive management, project, events and business finance services to both small and large corporations across Africa and the UK including government agencies. Africa House London will provide a platform for commercial brokering of trade advice and facilitation, through leadership and support services to UK entrepreneurs, SME’s and businesses wanting to trade with the private sector and government agencies across Africa. We will also provide and facilitate support to African led businesses in the UK and particularly in London to access trade opportunities within the continent of Africa and vice versa. In addition, Africa House will provide resources for community projects in London. We aim to work with Strategic Partners, Governments and Government Agencies, to deliver a range of services to facilitate greater trading opportunities and stakeholder collaboration. Our Vision & Core Values These core values will underpin our overall modus operandi, as we strive to promote sustainable trade activities that aim to create long term wealth and opportunities within communities. To maintain the professional standards of business conduct by using only legal and ethical means in all business activity To maintain fair, equitable and respectful relationships with our partners, colleagues and other business associates To observe the highest level of integrity when conducting business on behalf of Africa House London, representing the interest of the group over our own personal interest To serve the public with selflessness, honesty, integrity and be accountable for how we carry out our responsibilities

08-10-2009, 09:30 AM Aikido is a path (Do) that is truly transformational in nature. Learning how to connect with others, particularly in times of conflict, so that you do not engage in a fight, cannot help but change who you are as a person (which changes how you view and interact with the world around you). We learn to genuinely listen to ourselves and listen to those around us so that we know how to stay connected with others in a way that breaks down barriers, prevents or stops conflicts, builds new relationships and strengthen existing relationships. We find ourselves becoming more understanding of others and more aware of the violence in the world around us. Hopefully, this study is like a ripple in a pond. As we become more centered and peaceful people, we impact those around us and help to make our world a better world to live in. Aikido is not the only path towards helping to heal a planet that is “ill” with ignorance, intolerance, violence and a host of other evils. I would like to share with you another path. This path is a very, very special path that my family has had the fortune of experiencing for some time now. I have had the fortune of being allowed to share the path of Aikido with this other path for several magical days during the summer for the last couple of years. I will call this path “Windsor Mountain Do.” This path was created by Richard Herman in 1961 as an experiment in international experiential learning for children in the form of a camp. This experiment has grown into a truly wonderful place that is now under the caring leadership of Richard’s daughter, Sarah Herman. This place of wonderment is called Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp. Please take a moment and look at their website before reading further: http://www.windsormountain.org/ Windsor Mountain brings together a dedicated group of men and women from all over the world to serve as counselors and staff to a group of campers from all over the world, from different cultures and economic strata. The children are empowered to become caring, empathic citizens of the world. The staff achieves this task by taking ordinary activities and turning them into the most creative, imaginative adventures that utilize the input of campers to make those activities come alive. This camp allows people to truly understand that we all are of the same flesh and blood despite differences in looks, cultures, language, gender, ….. The children and the staff develop life-long friendships that bridge differences that others might view as barriers. Campers grow up to become counselors, who grow up to become parents of campers…. creating a growing ripple of empathy, caring, understanding in a world that desperately needs such things. I have gone to this camp for the last four years to spend several days sharing the peaceful path that is Aikido with the campers and staff. They have openly shared their peaceful path with me. I returned from that camp experience last night renewed again. It never ceases to amaze me how powerful an experience that this camp can be. I see the next several generations of world citizens and I am left more hopeful about the world that my children and grandchild will live in. I have developed very special friendships with the campers, counselors and staff. They have become true, life-long friends and inspirations for me to do more to live up the the ideals that are embodied in Aikido and in the philosophy at Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp. This week, I would hope that we all can look at Aikido and Windsor Mountain Do as more as more than just a martial art and a summer camp. I hope that we all can look at using our time together in Aikido training (if that is what you do) to make a real difference at becoming better world citizens. I also hope that people who would like their own children, grandchildren,…. to experience a magical transformational summer experience in becoming more better caring world citizens, consider sending children to this camp (while having the most fun anyone can imagine having!). If not, then please consider contributing to their educational fund that helps children from disadvantaged situations to be allowed to benefit from one of the best gifts that I can think of to give to a child. To the staff and children of this camp, THANK YOU! The gift of the time that you have spent with me has a value beyond my words and deeply touches my heart. To my Aikido students and other people reading this blog, I hope that you can look inside yourselves and seek to take what you do in your lives and use it in a manner that enacts ideals that helps to heal our world. There are many paths (Do) in which this can happen. All that is required is a dose of caring, understanding and love. I am glad that I have the opportunity to share these two paths with you: 1) Aikido at Aikido Arts of Shin-Budo Kai and 2) Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp in Windsor, New Hampshire. Marc Abrams Sensei

Welcome to the wards: Pilot study on microbial contamination of medical students during initial clinical rotations Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 Background: Pathogenic bacteria can colonise the hands, medical equipment, and personal belongings of healthcare workers (HCW) exposed to clinical environments. Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) arising from the transmission of these pathogens to patients causes morbidity, mortality, and an economic burden. Despite widespread healthcare worker education and policy change, the incidence of HAI remains high in Australia. Aim: To identify potentially pathogenic bacterial contamination of clinically unexposed medical students’ hands and items upon entry into the clinical environment and subsequent design of a definitive study. Materials and methods: A pilot prospective cohort study was performed at a large tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. Eight medical students had two- to six-week samples taken from their dominant hand, mobile phones, and stethoscopes in the first six months of entering the clinical environment. Results: Pathogenic bacteria were detected throughout the six-month testing period on five of the eight students’ hands, mobile phones, or stethoscopes. Pathogenic bacteria grown included methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, and Gram-negative pathogens, such as Serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter baumanii. No multi-resistant organisms were detected. Low decontamination rates of items, universal use of phones while on the toilet, and recent hand hygiene credentialing were reported by participants. Conclusion: Colonisation by nosocomial pathogens on medical students’ hands, mobile phones, and stethoscopes was identified during the first six months of clinical study. Further research to characterise bacterial contamination of new HCW, risk factors, and strategies to improve infection control practices has the potential to reduce HAI.

Vol. 87, Iss. 8, November 2014 Differences in predictors for return to work following musculoskeletal injury between workers with and without somatic comorbidities Purpose In workers with musculoskeletal injuries, comorbidity is associated with worse return to work (RTW) outcomes. In the context of RTW, it is unclear whether associations between predictors and RTW are similar or different for workers with and without comorbidity. This study aims to investigate differences and similarities between workers with and without comorbidity in 12-month predictors for RTW in workers who are absent from work due to a musculoskeletal injury. Methods All workers with lost-time claims who were off work at baseline were selected from the Early Claimant Cohort (Canada) (n = 1,566). Follow-up data on RTW were available of 810 workers after 12 months. Predictors included demographic, health-related, and work-related factors. Differences between coefficients of the groups with and without comorbidity were tested. Results Low household income was a predictor for RTW in workers without comorbidity only. Better mental health was a predictor for RTW in workers with comorbidity only. Higher education, less pain intensity, better general health, less bodily pain, better physical health, and a positive supervisor response were predictors for RTW in the total group. Conclusions Injured workers with and without comorbidity should be considered as two distinct groups when focusing on mental health or household income. KeywordsChronic disease, cohort studies, Comorbidity, Work disability Articoli correlati che potrebbero interessarti Association Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Pooled Occupational Cohorts Journal of Occupational and Environmetal Medicine. Vol. 58, Iss. 1, January 2016 Cancer incidence among 41 000 offshore oil industry workers Occupational Medicine (Oxford Journals). Vol. 63, Iss. 7, October 2013 Mesothelioma in Occupational Cohort Studies: Methodological Considerations Journal of Occupational and Environmetal Medicine. Vol. 56, Iss. 1, January 2014

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Vol. 12, Iss. 3, March 2015 Is Sitting Worse Than Static Standing? How a Gender Analysis Can Move Us Toward Understanding Determinants and Effects of Occupational Standing and Walking The Yant Award was established in 1964 to honor the contributions of William P. Yant, the first president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. It is presented annually for outstanding contributions in industrial hygiene or allied fields to an individual residing outside the United States. The 2014 award recipient is Dr. Karen Messing, Professor emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal and Researcher, CINBIOSE Research Centre. Gender (socially determined) differences in occupations, employment, and working conditions, task assignments, and work methods that affect exposure to health risks are increasingly documented. Interactions of (biologically influenced) sex differences with workplace parameters may also influence exposure levels. During field studies, ergonomists learn a lot about gender and sex that can be important when generating and testing hypotheses about the mechanisms that link workplace exposures to health outcomes. Prolonged standing is common in North America; almost half (45%) of Québec workers spend more than three-quarters of their working time on their feet and 40% of these cannot sit at will. This posture has been linked to chronic back pain and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the lower limbs, but many health professionals suggest workers should stand rather than sit at work. We ask: (1) Given the fact that roughly the same proportion of men and women stand at work, what does a gender-sensitive analysis add to our ability to detect and thus prevent work-related MSDs?; (2) How does ergonomics research inform gender-sensitive analysis of occupational health data?; and (3) What do researchers need to know to orient interventions to improve general working postures? We have sought answers to these questions through collaborative research with specialists in epidemiology, occupational medicine, biomechanics, and physiology, carried out in partnership with public health organisations, community groups, and unions. We conclude that failure to characterize prolonged static standing and to apply gender-sensitive analysis can confuse assessment of musculoskeletal and circulatory effects of working postures. We suggest that prolonged static sitting and standing postures can and should be avoided by changes to workplace organization and environments. Research is needed to define optimal walking speeds and arrive at optimal ratios of sitting, standing, and walking in the workplace. KeywordsOccupational Standing, occupational Walking, workplace Articoli correlati che potrebbero interessarti Neuromuscular training in construction workers: a longitudinal controlled pilot study Office workers with high effort–reward imbalance and overcommitment have greater decreases in heart rate variability over a 2-h working period Preventive occupational health interventions in the meat processing industry in upper-middle and high-income countries: a systematic review on their effectiveness

No.1 Astrologer, Psychic & Pandit in India When we talk about a tantrik lots of bizarre thinking come to our mind. Of course this all started with the name tantra. But there is even a lot behind it which is still hidden from this realistic world. This is the reason behind the existence of Tantrik baba Ji in Ahmedabad now. You know people might have been aware of it. Though it is now necessary to let them know what it is all about. Actually if we talk about this study it has never been possible for us to understand it. Due to this reason people do not use to show any interest. If you are one of them then we can say that you did not have met him yet. You must have heard that God has sent specialists to help us. Well he not only believes in it he serves people in the same manner. They even now prefer him more than anybody else. Either it comes to advices or more the suggestions. It is the other thing that the rest depends on how people will keep up. When it comes to vashikaran people prefer taking the help of a specialist. We are not saying that they cannot help you with it. The thing is if you come in the asylum of Tantrik baba Ji in Ahmedabad. You are sure to get a well defined knowledge than you can ever imagine. Listening that he is the best vashikaran of our country is easy. But if you know how this journey has been you are sure to get goose bumps. In short if you better focus on what you want to know from him. You can save a lot of time and in fact get advantages too. One of them is getting to know about its aspects. Of course it does not matter enough now-a-days. This is why if you have come to him. Take something by which you can lead a prosperous life forever. Rest is on you what you love the most in life. Love marriage which is the relationship of lovers. It does not need the help of a specialist. Well it is not the truth. So nobody needs to take it in a serious way. There are actually some couples who feel like it. Later most of them wander for solutions. This is why even if you are in unnecessary issues right now. It does not matter. Once you will get in touch with Tantrik baba Ji in Ahmedabad. You will get to know where it will lead you. In fact the sooner you let him take a look at your horoscope. You can avoid a bunch of problems with which you can get encountered in the coming future. He will even suggest you such tantrik practices. By which your love life will seem as it is a new life. There is no doubt about Aghori being so creepy. Their existence in this universe has been as is right from the beginning. You know being one of the Shaiva Sadhus. When they get into it their aim starts to please the Shiva. Aghori Baba ji in Ahmedabad who is one of such kind is on this path to seek salvation. Due to this reason he is not making himself as a person who can go with the flow. He is in fact quite determined when it comes to serve people. You know some of them today believe that they can be dangerous. But he is in fact quite a humanitarian type. In short whether there comes a rich or a poor to him. He remains available for both of them when they need any advice or suggestion. There is no doubt that severe situation makes us panic. Well this is why he has also come up with the specific set of services. Lots of people have got benefitted now is your turn. It is not new boys talking about flirting with a girl. In recent times some of them even feel unrest. When their eyesight gets stick on any girl. You must have heard that if you like or get in love with someone. It is necessary to express your feelings. Else he/she will never be able to know about your feelings. Of course there are some people who do not have the guts to do it. This is why girl vashikaran marked its existence. No one can deny that astrological aspects have always been hard for us to explore. Why is Aghori Baba ji in Ahmedabad here? You did not have to worry. The only thing is if you even have chosen any girl. You need to let the specialist about her. He will not only make her feel for you. You can marry her without his approval. But he even makes sure that is she even compatible for you. Else you have to go for a different one. There Are Many Ways To Contact Pandit Ji Pandit Ayush Sharma ji is renowned astrologer who knows really well that how astrology really works. He works here to help every person. He always wants that every person should solve their problems using astrology. His learn astrology from famous school and completed its education from the best university of astrology. © Copyright 2019 | All rights reserved.

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I swiped this from Kim’s blog, even if I didn’t follow the rules of how this works. It made me think of some really random things about me that most people here probably didn’t know. - My mom had me when she was 40 years old - I took Ritalin as a child - My first car was a 1974 Honda Civic - The first computer I owned was an Atari 800 - I was called “McFly” when the Back To The Future movie first came out - The first CD I bought was U2’s “The Unforgettable Fire” - Several of my randoms here are “firsts” - My first short film I did was shown at a film festival - I grew up a couple of miles from Disneyland - My favorite vegetable is brussel sprouts - I went to Gambler’s Anonymous for playing video games – my family would know this, but even for the times I’ve talked about my mom here, I don’t believe I’ve shared this here on the blog. There were some complications (breach), but for the medical advances that were around in 1963, I’m sure this one was common. – for some reason when I was about 9, my teacher thought I was hyperactive. This was reported to my mom, who as a single parent, took it to an extreme level and put me into counseling. At the time (early 70’s), Ritalin was a common thing for psychologists to prescribe for activities they were not all that familiar with. This lasted for a good three years before I finally got tired of taking it. The above photo is not of the actual car I owned. Mine was a creme color. I didn’t have it very long – maybe about 6 months or so. My memories of driving this car are fading as the year’s pass. Unlike my memories of my second car, which was a 1972 Toyota Corolla wagon that had a huge dent on the side [I wish I had taken more photos in my early 20’s]. – Yes, with two cartridge slots and 48k of RAM, this was the top of the line back in the day [I won’t tell you what year this was, but I’ll let you guess]. I owned it for a good five years, even after I got my first PC. I wrote BASIC programs and played several games on it. – I was proud to have this nickname. Even if people would use it often, to be associated with someone like Michael J. Fox was pretty cool in 1985. – the year was 1988. I had just bought my first CD player. There was a local record store in Orem, UT called Crandall Records. Albums and cassettes will still big, but CDs were starting to make huge inroads into the hands of music fans. As a fan of the band, I thought it was appropriate to get my favorite album of theirs on CD. I still have this CD today and will never part with it. – no particular reason other than they are random facts about me. See how I did that there? I now only have to worry about coming up with 10 of these. – the film is only 1 minute long, which was a requirement for the 2007 Treo Film Festival. But it was based off something that actually happened to me. The film festival was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood in October of that year. A good 500 people were at this event and for 60 seconds, I saw something my daughter and I created on a big screen. To this day, it’s one of the things I am most proud to have done, even though my skills in filming and editing have improved greatly. – Until I moved from California to Utah in late 1987, I never lived more than 2 miles away from Disneyland. My mom use to take me often when I was little. As a teen, I would go with my friends. And my first wife worked there when we first started dating. I would hear the train sound most days and fireworks at 9:30pm each night provided long lasting memories of growing up near The Happiest Place On Earth. Original image found at The Daily Green – Believe it or not, I really do love these. steamed and cooked for 30 mins, then served with butter, they are so, so good. Original image found at AtariAge – At the age of 17, along with my mom in tow, I stood up along side some people with serious gambling problems to announce that it had been 12 days since I last played Pac-man. I shit you not, this really did happen. The meetings were held at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA and I was the lone person who wasn’t dropping $100 bills on the blackjack table or other card and casino games. My addiction to the quater-eating mavens wasn’t really an addiction at all, as after 10 or so meetings, it was suggested that we find another option for saving me the $10 a week I spent at the arcade. To say that I was embarrassed at being forced to do this, is an understatement. I look back now and glad I didn’t do this with my daughter over her Pokemon “addiction”. 11 Questions From Kim Ok.. ok… I’ll at least answer Kim’s questions she posed over on her blog post. Go to her site to see the questions. - To be a writer/published author and filmmaker/screenwriter - Maine in 1999. I toyed with going all the way up to Nova Scotia, but ran out of time. - Shrimp scampi and pan-seared scallops. And Fettucine Alfredo if it’s made right. - Depends on the news, but normally my wife. - Computer problems. See this blog post and why I loathe it. - Lately, MySQL questions. I try to keep them down to just a few times a month. - Because I like to read other people’s writings and the curious nature of why others blog like me. - Probably my wife. Maybe a few others. Mostly though, myself. - The conspiracy that surrounds the JFK assassination. I did a history report on it many years ago in college and I was highly fascinated by how many different versions of the story are out there. Ok, now comment away. Or steal this meme for your own blog. I say make up your own rules as you see fit.

Friday Photo- BCU Conservatoire This week’s Friday Photo is of another new building- The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as it’s now been renamed. It was founded as the Birmingham School of Music in 1886, but this building dates from 2017! I watched it being built for over a year while I worked at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, and when I ventured back to Millennium Point a few weeks back, I was greeted with this stunning sight. The new building houses 500 seats, and replaces the former Conservatoire which was situated in Chamberlain Square, which was recently demolished as part of the Paradise Redevelopment. It’s the first, purpose-built music college to be constructed in the UK since 1987, and its Principal is Julian Lloyd-Webber! This part of the city is slowly being transformed and it’s wonderful to see it being given a new lease of life!

Event Phone: 253-845-6711 We're sorry, but all tickets sales have ended because the event is expired. October 25, 2022 - November 24, 2022 7:00 am - 2:00 pm The 1-day “Train Your Trainer” course can be taken in our monthly open enrollment classes in Tacoma, Washington, or done on your site. The student will be involved in 4-hours of actual presentation time, which is fundamental to confidence in presenting to forklift operators. The trainers must come with the experience of the equipment they will be training on. The following Training Materials are included in your tuition: - Instructor Manual - Classroom Video (in DVD) - ALL Instructor Forms(ability to customize!) - 14 Full-Color Teaching Posters - 10 Full-Color Operator Manuals with Wallet Cards and Laminates - Stability Stainless Steel Model - Miniature Pallets for demonstration - Combined Center of Gravity Model - Load Center Model - Linde teaching model - Teaching Ball Set - Freakin’ Forklift Freddie - Stay back four feet-sticker The tuition is $1,295 with the Training Materials Kit.

As Craft Distilleries Boom, a Californian with Whiskey in His Blood Takes It Slow and Steady By HUDSON LINDENBERGERColorado Editor / BourbonStory.com SANTA BARBARA, CAL. – Ian Cutler’s family has history with hooch. His great-grandfather Duke Cutler moonshined in California during Prohibition. His grandfather created his own brand of blended spirits during the 1940s, and the family stayed in the spirits business for another four decades, until Ian’s boyhood in the 1980s. Fair to say: The whiskey business runs in Ian’s blood. Last year, he took his family heritage, his own restless always-learning curiosity and a chance opportunity at a lease in a busy strip in Santa Barbara’s trendy Funk Zone and put it all on the line with a new distillery. Cutler’s Artisan Spirits makes all manner of booze – most of it from scratch — from bourbon to vodka and gin to liqueurs. The Biggest Week in Bourbontown When the editors of the brand new Sports Illustrated cobbled together the money to pay William Faulkner to come to Louisville to write about the mad scene leading up to the 1955 Kentucky Derby, they had but one real concern: How to keep the famously thirsty Southern writer away from the city’s equally well known, and forgiving, attitude toward bourbon drinking long enough to keep him writing. They needn’t have worried. Faulkner was on a roll. On the day he arrived, Tuesday of Derby Week, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and by the end of the week had produced, in daily chunks of 300 words each, one of the most famous pieces of sports journalism of the last century. Every Tumbler Tells a Story: Bourbon and Basketball in the Bluegrass LOUISVILLE — I was speaking to January in late March in Kentucky, and that meant basketball was on in her bar as she built me… Bourbon Story Exclusive: Bill Samuels, Jr. Explains How His Parents Created Markers Mark Bourbon Story editor Michael Lindenberger interviews Bill Samuels, Jr., chairman emeritus and son of the founder of Maker’s Mark, in the family company’s Bardstown board room. Once upon a time, Hunter S. Thompson walked into a bar in Kent … Ralph Steadman has been a good friend Bourbon Story Magazine, sharing his memories of Hunter Thompson, of Louisville, and much else over the years. He…

Showing a remarkable degree of optimism as evidenced by the boarding card he held in his hand, a 73 year-old Asian-American man approached a gate agent today expecting to be allowed to fly to his destination. Despite wearing yoga pants for comfort and carrying a boxed cheesecake, the man amazingly believed he would be both allowed to board the plane, and stay on board for the duration of the flight. He reportedly claimed to be confident he could fly because he had researched all the rules beforehand, according to onlookers who were already regarding him with pity. The man even appeared to give a victory cheer when he was allowed onto the jetway, seemingly unaware that was the first step in his violent ejection. Be the first to comment on "Cake-Carrying Elderly Asian Man Wearing Yoga Pants Somehow Thinks He’s Going To Fly"

The triumph of Bradley Wiggans at the Tour de France and the anticipated success in the velodrome at the Olympics are expected to increase the number of people taking to two wheels. But cycling is already booming in the UK. British Cycling said it had “never been in better health” after the publication of the latest statistics on the number of people taking to two-wheeled exercise. But how good is cycling for our health, especially if we’ve not done that much exercise in a while? Or would we be fitter and indeed safer pumping some iron in the gym or splashing around in the pool? Take the number of calories burned: on the face of it, cycling is not off to a winning start. “If you compare intense running with intense cycling, you will burn more calories running, as you are shifting your body mass,” said Prof Jamie Timmons, from Loughborough University. “However, it is like comparing apples and oranges.” The problem with simply comparing calories is that it assumes anyone can just get up and decide to exercise without any consequence. Running may be better at shifting your body mass, but that body mass is also being thrust into the ground with every step, pounding your joints. Prof Timmons says this is where cycling, as a low-impact sport, comes into its own, particularly when people are starting out. Around 70% of body weight goes through the saddle and handlebars instead of through your ankles. And to put it politely, the bigger you are, the more important that will be. “You will be able to do more intense cycling and avoid injuries, as you’re not pounding into the ground,” said Prof Timmons. Dr Simon Kemp, from the Faculty for Sport and Exercise Medicine, is the type of cyclist who does legs of the Tour de France and readily clocks up 100-mile rides. He says one of the advantages of cycling is that it offers more scope for improvement than other forms of exercise, such as swimming, which is “technically demanding to do it well”. “You can commute to work at 60% of your maximum heart rate, which is a relatively low-intensity activity, or at the top end you can do legs of the Tour de France.” Of course, any form of exercise has health benefits. But several studies have shown that cycling specifically does the trick. A study of 30,640 people living in Copenhagen showed that people who did not cycle to work were 39% more likely to die during the 15-year study. Dr Kemp said: “There’s very strong evidence for people with very low initial physical fitness that it can result in significant reductions in cardiovascular-disease mortality.” There have also been studies around reducing body fat, better sleep and lowering the risk of Type 2 diabetes. Cycling is also one of the easiest forms of exercise to fit into daily life. If you swim, you have to head to the pool; a bit of weight-training probably needs a visit to the gym; but cycling to work can become part of a daily routine. As a report by the now defunct Cycling England concluded: “Cycling is one of the most appropriate types of physical activity for the majority of the population as it can be easily incorporated into daily life, can be carried out at different intensities and has few side-effects.” Cycling is not without risks, but Dr Kemp cautions that these tend to be for the elite athletes. Spending so much time in the saddle can lead to a loss of sensation in the genitals and there have been suggestions of lower sperm counts in elite male cyclists. Being on the road, however, clearly runs the risk of an accident. This graphic of every death on every road in the UK between 1999 and 2010 showed cyclists had a higher casualty rate than pedestrians. There is also a “twin peaks effect” with most being killed during the morning and evening rush hours. Dr Kemp said the benefits outweighed the risks and that “from a public health perspective as a way to make the whole population more healthy, it is a very easy sell”. Prof Timmons said: “There’s not a magic exercise out there. Do the exercise you enjoy the most and the exercise most likely to fit into your life.” But he warned: “You might look a bit silly in lycra.”

Officials on Tuesday confiscated more than 300kg of elephant tusks from Malawi at Suvarnabhumi airport and arrested a Gambian national on charges of ivory smuggling and violating customs laws. The seizure was announced Tuesday by the Customs Department, the Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation, and police. The tusks, 422 individual pieces worth about 17 million baht, were seized at the airport on Sunday after customs officials became suspicious of two shipments arriving via Ethiopian Airlines. Officials became suspicious because the flights originated at Lilongwe airport in Malawi, a southern African country that has previously been identified as a key transit route and distribution hub for illegal ivory. Smugglers usually hide contraband items among other goods. The shipments were scanned and officials found what looked like elephant tusks hidden among stones. When a Gambian national showed up at the airport on Sunday to claim the cargo, the authorities asked him to open the containers. They found stones and the tusks weighing 330kg. The man was charged with smuggling wildlife under the wildlife protection law and importing prohibited products under the customs law. The suspect has lived in Thailand for 15 years and he has a Thai wife and three children. The Customs Department said onTuesday that Thailand remains a hub for illegal African ivory smuggling despite concerted efforts to combat the trade. Smugglers are willing to take the risk of shipping the ivory to Thailand to be carved which will increase the product value significantly. Thailand is known for its ivory craftsmanship. The department has been working with authorities to stop the illegal ivory trade — a commitment the government has made to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. According to the department’s records, from 2015 to the present, 24 people have been arrested and 3,027 elephant tusks weighing over 7 tonnes seized. These are worrying statistics as who knows how much ivory has got through without being detected. The numbers of African elephants are decreasing rapidly and authorities in several African countries are waging a losing war against poachers. The potential financial gains are huge and at the end of the day, it is not the poachers who are the real enemy. They have families to feed and they cannot earn anywhere near as much money doing “regular” jobs. The real guilty ones are the consumers. If everyone simply stopped buying and collecting ivory products, the trade would cease to exist. It is illegal to possess ivory items that have been carved after 1947 but sadly that is not deterring thousands of collectors.

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You are Invited to the Ashes to Art Auction Fundraiser Monday, June 24, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Garden of the Gods Club 3320 Mesa Road Colorado Springs, CO 80904 The Art and The Auction The striking "Ashes to Art" collection by Steve Weed incorporates actual charcoal and ashes left by the Waldo Canyon Fire of June, 2012. Two days before the one-year anniversary of the devastation caused by the Waldo Canyon Fire, twenty pieces from this powerful and emotive body of work will be auctioned. Very generously, Steve is donating the artwork to Colorado Springs Together so that all the proceeds from the auction can be used for the Mountain Shadows Waldo Canyon Fire Memorial to be unveiled in 2014. Please join us and participate in this significant auction fundraiser. If not for your own personal collection, please consider bidding on a piece from this historic collection to give as a legacy gift, in your name, to hang in a local fire station. Click here to RSVP. In preparation for the auction, you can: - View the Collection List for details about each piece. - Visit www.SteveWeed.com for the background story. - Read the Artist's Statement about the collection. Colorado Springs Together is an independent 501(c)(3) Non-Profit: Colorado Springs Together is a community-driven volunteer effort, and is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The team members are distinguished citizens, business professionals and dedicated public servants in the community, facilitating and coordinating a quick and effective rebuilding process for the neighborhoods devastated on June 26, 2012, by the Waldo Canyon Fire.

For the second time in my life I was able to let Chris Cornell’s rich voice wash over me. He sang to us, he sang to the trees and he sang to the heavens. He can’t help but belt out hit after hit which have carried me with emotion for so long, and I even discovered some great songs I had no idea existed from his 20+ year career span! From Sound Garden to Temple of the Dog to Audioslave and everything in between he was able to overwhelm me with those vocals and six guitars (yes, I got teary-eyed about 3 times)! He opened his set with Redemption Song and did a couple other covers throughout the show (Led Zep & Lennon). Highlights for me were definitely Like a Stone, Can’t Change Me, Call me a Dog, Sunshower, Say Hello to Heaven and Fell on Black Days. I was left wanting more since he didn’t play What You Are… but understandable, that would be one of the songs that need a badass band to truly rock the fuck out. The Ford Amphitheater is just intimate enough to let you lose yourself in those lyrics and beautiful melodies. You can gaze up at the starry night as you sway along or just close your eyes and let the sound engulf you as I did. This venue is nestled in the Hollywood Hills, just northeast of the Hollywood Bowl on Cahuenga Blvd. It doesn’t fit a whole lot of people (perhaps 1500?) but it was absolutely fitting for Cornell’s acoustic, one-man-act. He will FOREVER be one of my favorites and I’m sure in time, one of the greats (if not already)!! Unfortunately, they are SUPER STRICT about cameras, so no footage (Lauren would have gave them a piece of her mind!!) but honestly, it was more of a personal thing for me anyway- it’s that good. Try to catch the next show, May 5th, 2011- 8pm. $40 bucks is SO worth it! Signing off for Lauren, her roommate Stephanie ;) Post a Comment

Fiesta Des Ursulines is a renegade community event that takes place at Square Des Ursulines in the middle of the city of Bruxelles each year. Conceived by the Brusk collectif who also organized and built the skatepark, the Fiesta des Ursulines is not only a skateboarding event, but also focuses on culture, food, beer, silkscreening, photo exhibitions and social events such as dressing up in animal costumes or face paintings and going across the street to entertain the old people living in the retirement home. Since BRUSK IS DEAD, and the guys who founded event are now building skateparks around europe or focusing on their other artist talents, the festival is now run by some Bruxelles locals like Syzmon Stachon and Damien Delsaux. Earlier in the day there were some BMX events but I timed it right by first hitting up ELZO’s artshow on the way from my seedy hotel by the train station to the festival and arrived right as the best trick contest was going down on the newly built Volcano, a well needed addition to the street course. Mike of Concrete Flow, (formerly Brusk) built the man-sized volcano a few days before and the concrete cured just in time for a quick painting before the session was on. All different styles of bands were playing throughout the day but I was focusing on the skateboarding so didn’t really get to enjoy the music until the bowl session in the Punisher bowl (which is much harder to skate than it looks) where the bands OTISS (crust/punk) and LEPER HOUSE (punk/hardcore) were playing “pool side”. The Fiesta des Ursulines is crazy congregation of anarchistic rebels and all walks of life… I’ve been to many cities around the world, and I must say that Bruxelles takes the cake for having the most oddball eccentric rebellious creatures on this planet. If you live in United States or another heavily policed state, there is no way anything like this event could ever go down. It would be crawling with pigs handcuffing and arresting suspicious characters and carting them off to jail. They would bring trouble where there was none. But you know what, nothing bad happened, no one got hurt (except for a few hippers and bruises), and everyone had a blast. Hope to see you there next year, if you dare… Words + photos + video: Jonathan Hay Fiesta des Ursulines – 2014 (Featuring: Ian Dykmans, Kwentin, Szymon Stachon, Yoeri Vromans, Donald Poolboy…. Music by Fugazi.) Filmed / edited by J. Hay Links to previous Confusion coverage of: Fiesta des Ursulines – 2013 Fiesta des Ursulines – 2012 Fiesta des Ursulines – 2011 Fiesta des Ursulines – 2010 Fiesta Des Uruslines is a renegade community skate, food, silkscreening, drinking and music fest that takes place every May in Bruxelles, Belgium. The concept originally conceived and brought into fruition by the Brusk collectif, has been taken over by some other Bruxelles locals, Szymon Stachon and Damien since Brusk is dead, and have moved onto other things like building skateparks, photography, etc. This year had a similar vibe as past years: rebellion, anarchy, skateboarding, and other bacchanalian rituals, along with socially benefiting side shows like dressing up in costumes and dancing with old people at the retirement home across the street. The threatening weather perhaps scared a few people away, although the clouds refused to burst at the Square des Ursulines and the party raged on from noon until midnight. Earlier in the day there was some BMX action, but I chose to check out Elzo’s artshow and check into a seedy hotel near the train station and arrived just as the best trick over the volcano was getting underway. Mike (formerly of Brusk) built the decent sized volcano, and much needed additive obstacle to the street course, a couple days before the Fiesta! I missed most of the bands, although most of them sounded good, because I was checking out the skateboarding action, but “pool side” a few bands were playing during the bowl session: OTISS (crust/punk ), LEPER HOUSE ( punk/hardcore), TAT2NOISACT ( punk/noisexperimentatoo.) There’s not much more to say, the Fiesta Des Uruslines is something you should experience for yourself…. it’s nothing like anything you’ve ever been to before… The Bruxhells locals are crazy people, all of them, every last one of them, but in a damn good way! Hopefully the Fiesta will continue in the years to come! See you there, if you dare… Photos + words: Jonathan Hay

On Tuesday, I wrote a piece on what the team is and isn’t. A key component of that had to do with the offense being a “precision unit”. The unit was uniquely assembled, starting with an elite set of All Pro’s on the offensive line. Throw in an All Pro, high flying WR named Dez & there’s future HOF TE, Jason Witten. Add in a the spitfire slot receiver, who led the squad in receptions last year and then, the last option, Mr. Toe Drag himself, Terrance Williams. Don’t forget the leading rusher in the NFL in 2016, Ezekiel Elliott. He’s a rare player, a home run hitting RB, great hands and a rare pass blocker. To round out the unit, the NFL rookie of the year for 2016, QB, Dak Prescott. Two players didn’t return and the loss of Ron Leary, to me, was the most painful to this day, though the retirement of Doug Free lent to the pain & suffering. What were they looking to accomplish with the composition of the unit? It was designed to be the ultimate unit to control the ball, dominate the time of possession (keep a marginal defense on the sideline), score TD’s and force teams to chase the scoreboard because of the efficiency of this group. But what made this unit so dynamic, so special and so hard to defend? You know the answer is Zeke Elliott as the centerpiece. What is it about him that made this specific unit so stinking special. Where do I begin? Let’s start with, he’s an incredibly strong, powerful runner, that can cut on a dime and take the ball the distance. Not many with his ability come around very often. We, in Dallas, have been blessed through the years with HOF’ers, Dorsett & Emmitt at the position. Zeke has the rare ability of turning nothing into 3-4 yards or put him in space and it’s a TD. His 16 TD’s in 2016 tell a huge tale. Zeke led the league last year in how many of his runs resulted in first downs. Move the chains, eat up clock and score TD’s, what a combo. That made it a game of pick your poison as it related to the passing game. Because of the success / fear of the running game, it made the passing game highly efficient. If teams stacked the box, then the QB could find an assortment of receivers with the LB’s in no mans land in coverage. Teams had to play the run first and kept them from being very aggressive. Play action was a bread and butter staple. The fear of Zeke controlling the game and Dez being left one on one would keep coordinators up at night. The field was stretched from sideline to sideline although rarely did it stretch vertically. The lack of elite speed doesn’t stretch defenses vertical and that’s the point, I’ll be looking to elaborate on here. Dallas is at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to speed on offense, they have none and defenses today are built on fast players. Now, after 11 games, three without the Zeke Factor, the field has shrunk dramatically. Without the same level of play from the offensive line, the problem has only been compounded. The line hasn’t been able to get into sync as a group, who hasn’t noticed that? Injury to Tyrun proved to be a disaster in the Atlanta game and wasn’t a whole lot better against Philly. In the 3 games of the Zeke suspension, the running game has been serviceable, but they’ve not reaped any benefit for an adequate running game. Morris & Rod Smith have struggled on at least half of their runs, particularly early in a game. There have been some nice runs by Morris and steady banging away by Smith at times, but neither bring that home run threat. The consistency just isn’t there. Opponents focus now on controlling the run, but taking away the quick open routes that typically moved the chains. For the most part they’ve done that particularly in the first two games when Tyrun was out. It not only exposed the LT position but Cooper had his troubles at LG. What has resulted is that there is less time to get the ball out. What was already a predominantly short passing game, has become, three yards and a cloud of dust. There isn’t time for Dak to wait on the routes in their “normal” offense. Dak has not had time to survey his receivers, like he did last year. The middle of the pocket was outstanding with Leary, Travis & Martin & few ever get the better of Smith at LT. If there’s a fault with Dak thus far in his early career, is that he’s so cautious that he’s looking for his receiver to be wide “open’ before throwing to that player. In the NFL, if you have a leverage advantage, you’re open. Many don’t realize that typically the CB’s have more speed than do the receivers. Getting real separation from DB’s doesn’t really exist often in man coverage, especially with all the hand checking down the field. That’s what created the back shoulder throws that are so common in todays game! There just isn’t that wide open guy very often. Getting back to the point, Dak’s looking for a fairly wide open player to throw to, if he’s not, he’s comes off that guy and goes to his 2nd option and so on. Well this year and particularly these three games the pressure isn’t allowing him to do much more than go to the primary receiver, check it down or scramble to buy time. I’ve seen plays on the All 22, where a guy is ready to come open & does, but Dak is high tailing it out of the pocket and can’t let it go at the moment necessary to execute the play. Its simple to see on tape, that a WR got the DB to take a wrong step or lean his weight the wrong way which enables the WR to break free in 3 or 4 strides. QB gets a fraction of a second to see it, so tap the brakes with the blame game. Those are things that come with time, trust and experience. Dak last year rarely was willing to go down field about 20 yards and yes, I scratched my head watching open receivers bypassed for shorter completions. Players know, coordinators know, that Dak rarely goes downfield or taking deeper vertical shots. When he does it’s throwing it up to Dez for a 50/50 shot, but his accuracy hasn’t been solid with that this year. There just isn’t that time, especially without Zeke in there, to make teams respect or fear the run. They don’t fear the big play either on the ground or through the air. Because the Cowboys lack speed & know that Dak won’t challenge them deep with their wide outs, the safeties play 2-3 yards closer to the LOS. Let’s analyze our WR corp, starting with Dez Bryant. He’s an electric WR, who’s specialty is high pointing a ball and with his size and strength DB’s are at a disadvantage, unless the stripes level the playing field for them. Too many times, Dak’s only giving the initial look and comes off Dez quickly. The same goes for each receiver. Dez doesn’t possess elite breakaway speed, so the DB’s are playing him tight those first few steps so that Dak goes elsewhere. Its how’d I’d game plan against him. Frankly, the stripes appear to be allowing the DB’s to grab Dez on nearly every play. It serves many purposes as teams know that he gets frustrated easily and quickly. He was pushed squarely in the numbers in the Atlanta game on an end zone play, which even Pereira called as PI! Have you noticed how his slants are much shorter in depth, they used to be 10 to 18 yards in the past? The safeties being closer is a major factor. This happens because there’s no one to speak of, that makes safeties respect the deep middle. Frankly, I’d have Dez in the slot, with Terrance & Butler on the outside. Give your best player a greater opportunity to use the whole field and it would only occupy the safeties in the middle of the field. Opens things up for everyone, yet I’d still want more speed out there going forward. One of the most important things to notice, in hindsight is that defenses are attacking the Cowboys offense. not the other way around in the absence of Zeke and the missing element of speed. Terrance Williams returned this year in FA and while we like him and love that loyalty, he isn’t and wasn’t a special #2 WR. He’ll make some outstanding receptions along the sidelines, as he has great body control and awareness in those situations. His speed isn’t special and without that he’s not the greatest compliment to Dez. He may be the #2 WR, but he’s almost always the 4th option or less. I was hoping for an upgrade through the draft, to be honest, but the team elected to resign him. Beasely had an outstanding year in 2016 and much more was expected in 2017. Watching him in camp, was laughable as no one could cover him. But his effectiveness has been limited to routes that range from about 6 to 8 yards typically. This year they’ve bracketed him to control his two way routes. In the last few games, his routes depth wise are 5 yards or less. He rarely runs a vertical route and the one time he did in Atlanta, he caught the DB off guard. The All 22 showed that Dak was getting pressured and unable to deliver a pass. He’s a receiver that is quick and shifty but there’s virtually no concern about his getting vertical. Getting him the ball for 5 yards, when 3rd and 10, is of little use. Once again the lack of speed at the skill positions is hurting. At the TE position, we have a HOF player and the ultimate warrior, but he’s another player lacking speed and his routes are getting shorter too. The last few weeks he’s had to stay in to block or chip and his routes aren’t yielding much yardage. Getting six yards on third and ten, helps with field position but its not helping keep drives alive. Brice Butler appears to be the closest thing we have to a deep threat and has been productive in that role. But his snaps are limited behind the starters and Beasely is ahead of him on the pecking order. In camp, Dak found Swaim down the field every day I was there. Yet, they never try to get him the ball in that role, which is a bit baffling to me. We’re probably the only team that doesn’t challenge defenses down the seam with the TE’s. Again remember how the offense was built and how the parts were designed to function. Can Rico provide a source for getting down the seam next year? Dak’s certainly has had a hard time the last three games, I just don’t put it on him, without analyzing the unit as a whole. Through the first half of the season he had a huge hand in getting them their first five victories. Would have been six, but the coach snatched that Packer game from the win column. The last three weeks he’s been under siege, like I’ve not seen since the playoff game against the Vikings when Columbo was getting whipped for 4 sacks and Romo was being blasted. Against Atlanta & Philly, Dak was sacked 12 times and while only dropped twice by the Chargers, he was harassed and hit all day long. We as fans, have high expectations for our players and none more than Dak after his incredible first season. If you weren’t happy with his performance, tell me who could have done better, given the pressure he’s faced? Or tell me who would have survived the beating he’s been taking? The offensive unit isn’t set up right now for success the way it was designed, without Zeke, most of all. You see it and this is how I see it. I won’t pretend to have an answer on who to sign or draft that can turn on the jets, but they have to occupy safeties and stretch the field vertically next year. Dez in the slot will help regardless, but add the missing ingredient of speed and all receivers will benefit. The games a track meet in the NFL these days and we’re stuck in the mud! We have a monumental, Need For Speed! Keep pace, or get out of the race!!!!

In some instances, it can even be seen in the mild of care and love. But if you accept their recommendation and start to live your life based on it, you will be crossing a biblical line. The Bible doesn’t explicitly handle the subject of relationship. In the Christian group, however, relationship is among the most discussed and debated subjects. Kissing before marriage ought to be averted if it results in other sin But it might additionally raise the question of whether or not the opposite individual is certainly being led to Christ by your efforts within the process of relationship. Can you date somebody from a unique religion? We have all been asked this query at one point in our dating lives. However, the means in which we answer this straightforward query might have a major influence on our lives. Although the Bible does not specifically point out dating, it does give us many stories of courtship, marriage, and love. What about making out? is french kissing or is making out a sin? All of the evidence that we can construct on Old Testament history indicates that Moses’ spouse was black. We additionally learn that his sister, Miriam, became very distressed by the truth that her brother married a Cushite. Because of Miriam’s response, God judged Miriam and gave her leprosy. So if something, it might appear to me that God frowns upon those that are racists. Friendship is the foundation of any good relationship. Whether you want to make associates or maintain those you could have, friendship is necessary in any Christian teen’s life. Making out before marriage is a sin? I’d say that’s a step in the proper course in phrases of relationship well. But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and particularly for members of his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, pleasure, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; towards such issues there isn’t any legislation. Wives, submit to your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord. Dating is not severe for everyone and can be just for enjoyable, however this has penalties. This viewpoint is not centered around the concept that believers are higher than non-believers. It’s centered around the fact that this is a command given to us by God’s living world. However, letting what they imagine into our lives will convey uncleanliness into our life. Though courting can appear harmless and as one thing to cross your time, this is a view of the world. The #1 physical boundary when dating – don’t make out People began organized marriages, usually marrying family members. When the courting relationship ends, the “break up” is like a miniature divorce, as a end result of the couple has “acted” like a married couple during the course of their dating relationship. Before you begin throwing things at your laptop, let’s go to Scripture. The argument turns into clearer once we take a glance at a few of what the Bible has to say about 1) sex, 2) our relationships with different believers and 3) sexual immorality itself. Lastly, if individuals are really shocked by your pairing with this person, it could be a red flag that you just wish to look at. Many occasions dating someone a lot older or youthful may be rooted in unhealthy habits our wounds from our previous.

Things get so silly and absurd at City Hall at times that if the procedures weren’t recorded and televised people wouldn’t believe some of the stuff that takes place. The Tuesday, February 3 session is an example. First, some background: Bill Flynn and his dedicated and hard working group of volunteers — Friends of the Library (FOL) — spent an inordinate amount of time and effort raising $400,000 that they gave to the city of Fernandina Beach toward building the new library extension. Folks, that’s a $400,000 gift to the residents of Fernandina Beach. Free money! As a proud library card-carrying citizen, I am more than appreciative. However, for their efforts and generosity Mr. Flynn and the FOL received a verbal shakedown from Commissioner Pat Gass and her imaginary friends — the ones that don’t vote and don’t show up for commission meetings — who collectively would like to pin a “Kick Me” sign on the backs of Mr. Flynn and his munificent literary pals, a group Ms. Gass thinks is a bunch of pikers. Instead of a verbal reprimand by Commissioner Gass what the city should be doing is booting the statue of grifter David Yulee from its downtown train station bench perch and replacing it with a likeness of Mr. Flynn Here’s what happened instead. The new library needs an additional $73,000 to complete the ceiling and overhead lighting and the FOL has agreed to pay for half, but that’s not good enough for the greedy voices that reside in the head of Commissioner Gass. Taking a page out of thuggish Public Utility Director John Mandrick’s “You have to pay to play” book, Ms. Gass verbally strong-armed Mr. Flynn at the February 3 session saying: “… you said you would pay for this. How much money have you got? You said you would have more than enough to do it. Not half of it—all of it.” Based on her comments I’m convinced that Ms. Gass would team up with Mr. Mandrick to kneecap the Welcome Wagon lady if they weren’t satisfied with her offerings. And to add a humorous element to the proceedings City Manager Joe Gerrity, who acted as project manager during the new library construction, and who was feeling extraneous, confused or bored at this point, chimed in spouting incomprehensible doubletalk about respecting the city staff while performing a clever imitation of the Mad Tea-Party’s dormouse, even admitting his comments were irrelevant. Maybe Commissioner Gass can convince City Attorney Tammi Back, who the odds favor to eventually win at least one legal action, to sue the FOL to try and wring another $36,500 out of these benevolent folks. Many in the audience praised the FOL including local activist Tony Crawford who said: “These people go out and raise about $400,000. I am not sure, but I would guess that is the largest amount ever raised to fund such a project by private citizens. These guys beat on doors, held events, begged, borrowed…” If she even has a library card Ms. Gass needs to go down to the new facility with her imaginary friends and check out a couple of books: “The Lost Art of Gratitude” and “Good Manners for Every Occasion.” Mayor Ed Boner and Commissioners Robin Lentz and Tim Poynter were the calm voices of reason during this session, which had to be as embarrassing for them as it was for all of the others who witnessed it. Ms. Lentz advocated that the city pay half and all but Ms. Gass agreed. A news article by Suanne Z. Thamm detailing the session can be found in the online Fernandina Observer News’ February 5 edition. Happy Days? Based on my drives down Fletcher the past few months the local economy appears to be doing very well as home construction and remodeling taking place along this pricey stretch of Atlantic-facing real estate appears to be booming. I’m not sure how much of a barometer all this activity is, but these are not inexpensive projects and “for sale” signs along that pricey route are falling like bowling pins. In addition the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors reports that 41 Nassau County homes sold in January this year for a medium price of $210,000 compared to 33 last January with a medium price of $132,317. I’ve also been told by restaurateurs and inn keepers that this is one of the best off-season seasons they’ve experienced in a long time. On the other hand Mary Maguire, editor of the online Nassau County Independent (ncflindependent.com) reports that Nassau County Human Resources Coordinator Tina Keiter said that some 100 people applied for work as a county library assistant. She called it an entry-level job with a starting salary of $11.44 per hour. According to the Independent Keiter said that entry-level job postings typically attract 75 to 100 applicants and that it is common for the county to receive resumes listing college degrees.”We get degrees for custodial workers,” said Keiter. “It’s difficult out there.” It’s also a signal that folks out there want to live here and are willing to take entry-level or low-paying jobs to do so. Taxpayers Getting Hosed: A December 2014 Cato Institute Report on federal and private sector worker pay finds, “In 2013 federal civilian workers had an average wage of $81,076, according to data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. By comparison, the average wage of the nation’s 107 million private-sector workers was $55,424.” When benefits like health care and pensions are included, “federal worker compensation averaged $115,524, or 74 percent more than the private-sector average of $66,357.” When the fed workers overtake the private sector, who will pay their salaries? Do you still wonder why President Obama wants to raise your taxes? A GOP Rx For The Presidency? Ben Carson, 63, defends the role of doctors in politics and I think he makes a strong case. Carson, a black Republican who is considered a long-shot for the GOP nomination in 2016, was a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics, and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. At 33, he became the youngest major division director in Johns Hopkins history, as director of pediatric neurosurgery. He was a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center and performed ground-breaking surgery that successfully separated German twins joined at their heads, a medical first. Carson reminds us that five doctors signed the Declaration of Independence and that doctors are the “most highly educated group in the nation, trained to make decisions on fact rather than emotion” and “they are excellent with numbers, very concerned with the welfare of others and accustomed to hard work.” I’d be thrilled to just meet this guy. Fore! Remember when, without notice, a pair of US Army captains, Ed Mallue and Natalie Heimel, were kicked off the picturesque 16th hole of a Hawaiian golf course where they had scheduled their wedding, because then President George W. Bush wanted to play that course? Oh never mind. If it had been President Bush you would have remembered, because the story would have been in all the papers and on TV. Actually it was President Obama and the incident was ignored by the national media. Oh well! And speaking of President Obama why is it that he refuses to call out Islamic terrorists but doesn’t have a problem saying that Christians committed terrible atrocities in the name of Christ? Shining A Light: California’s massive Ivanpah solar plant – the one that scorches birds by the thousands – isn’t producing anywhere near what proponents predicted. In fact, it produced about half of its expected annual output for 2014, according to calculations by the California Energy Commission. There’s No Bill Of Housing, Jobs or Medical Rights: “The Bill of Rights, which became part of the Constitution, emphasized free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion and assembly. They were freedoms from government interference. The right to speak freely imposes no obligation on anyone else to provide the means of communication. Moreover, others can listen or leave as they see fit. But a right to a job, a house, or medical care imposes an obligation on others to pay for those things.”– Burton Folsom Expert Says GPS Makes Driving Safer: In just a few short years, the rise in mobile navigation technology has transformed transportation, says Henry Grabar who writes for CityLab.com. In 2011, 35 percent of Americans had smart phones; by 2013, that had grown to 61 percent. Three-quarters of those people now use their phones for directions and location-based services. Tens of millions more rely on car-based modules hitched to the satellites of the Global Positioning System. “The overall effect is that people are more calm when they’re using navigation,” says TomTom traffic expert Nick Cohn. And, by extension, they drive safer. Source: Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Government Hot Air Blows Our Tax Dollars Away: The 2.3-cent tax credit for each kilowatt-hour of wind-power electricity produced is sometimes worth more than the energy it subsidizes, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee wrote in The Wall Street Journal. “Sometimes in some markets, for example in Texas and Illinois, the subsidy is so large that wind producers have paid utilities to take their electricity and still make a profit.” The “Most Transparent Government In History?” In spite of President of Obama’s promise, Edwin J. Feulner writes, “Some 47 of the federal government’s 73 watchdogs filed a formal complaint about the ‘serious limitations the Obama administration places on their ability to uncover waste, fraud and abuse.” Inspectors General from the National Security Agency, and the departments of Homeland Security and Justice are among those claiming the administration is imposing “serious limitations on access to records,” hindering their work. Source: Patriot Post via Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Drinking, Dining & Dancing: Several folks have told me that the Courtyard Pub & Eats has changed hands and that the new owners are a couple from Georgia and longtime piano man John Springer fans which may mean that John will be back to three days a week instead of just Thursday evenings. Anyway, if true then I can assume that I’ll be granted entry once again after being unceremoniously tossed out on my ear a week or so ago because the current owner didn’t care for an item I wrote in this space criticizing the place for a variety of shortcomings. No matter what happens, stop by next Thursday, the 19th for a fun evening with John. I have no idea what goes on there other days of the week. The February 27 Wine’s by Steve function is sold out but Steve tells me there are still a half dozen or so seats left for their first sit-down wine dinner in their 4924 First Coast Highway location to be catered by neighbor Bar Zin and Sardinian Winery, Wednesday, March 4 so call ‘em at 904/557-1506. And don’t forget tonight from 5-7 is their weekly wine tasting. Dan Voll is becoming a mainstay at GG’s Bistro from 6-9 pm on Thursday evenings where his performances have been huge hits playing to packed houses of toe tapping diners says proprietor Bill Mertens. You can also catch Dan on Friday evenings beginning at 6:30 at the Green Turtle and Sundays starting at 4:30 at the Salty Pelican. This should go under the heading of “Friends of David Yulee” . We love your blog but have grown weary of your constant comments about the statue of “grifter” David Yulee. The statue is there and it ain’t going anywhere. So why don’t you just get over it and remember that if it wasn’t for him we might not be living where we are today. When Dr. Carson “surfaced” on the political scene several years back the IRS came calling. Several interviews on TV discussed this and how he blamed the current administration for the hassle. The IRS didn’t find any significant errors. It would be nice if “resident” author Grisham gave the library a donation to cover the added costs. Oh wait…he’s rarely here! Hi Dave! Happy Friday! Just a bit of a correction I know of the story of the young couple whose wedding was interrupted by the President’s golf game. I know it because I saw it on the Today Show and on GMA. Just as a further point, the young couple, both Military personnel, were advised by the facility that their wedding could be impacted by the President’s visit and they were not deterred. When they received a phone call from the President after he was made aware of the situation, he apologized for the inconvenience. Usually you provide great detail in your writings but in this case, you may have missed a little or perhaps you should broaden your news outlets. Hope you see you soon!

Winner of the 2015-2016 Good Design Award View Good Design Award Winner! Foresight Sports is at the forefront of golf knowledge and launch monitor engineering technology. Their passion for the sport directly translates to the development of products only conceivable by actual golfers, marking the swinging nuance needed to improve the drive of anyone who wants to step on the course. Foresight was looking to build upon and improve the previous GC2, a successful launch-monitoring device used by many pros, and found design specialists at DDSTUDIO to help conceptualize and capture the next generation of data driven golf swing analytics that would lead to the GCQuad™. Foresight Sports teamed up with DDSTUDIO to design their next generation professional-grade portable golf launch monitor system, the GCQuad™. To improve on a successful product, GC2, Foresight wanted to push the boundaries of innovation by designing a four camera system that captures the ball and the club at the point of impact delivering unprecedented ball and club performance data. DDSTUDIO embraced the opportunity to refine the previous design enclosure with integral features and functionality into an iconic product presence. The design needed to be compact and well protected while remaining ergonomic and easily portable. For a day out on the course with friends or coaching lessons, the product must provide instant results to efficiently fine-tune skills. Project Opportunities and Objectives Foresight Sports and DDSTUDIO GCQuad objectives: – Portability, stability that fits in a golf travel bag. – Aesthetics progression from the established GC2. – Ruggedized to withstand strikes from a ball or club. – Absolute stability on the ground during use. – Visualization of information display from above. – Accessibility for both right and left-handed golfers. Process and Insight We always use a human centered approach to link the product to an overall experience. This is combined with technology required to provide peak functionality. Considering the golf expertise of Foresight members, we had the necessary insight to construct a user-friendly device. Like any skill-based activity, we knew the golfers wanted fast performance feedback. The momentary swing of a club must be thoroughly captured for a chain reaction of analytics and results. They also wanted the product to be easily maneuverable and able to stand close to clubs and ricocheted balls without possible destruction. The GCQuad was to have an enhanced four-camera system for increased shot visibility and maximum feedback. We worked our way through over a dozen full-scale foam mockups to evaluate the potential size and core stability on any terrain. We conducted CAD studies of minimum angles for the camera lens and LEDs and fired virtual golf balls from all angles to study lens projection and pinpoint the proper location for the LCDs and buttons within the protective covers. We developed the appropriate viewing angle from the swinging stance perspective and worked out the angles of potential ball ricochets that could cause damage. The integration of an angled screen with a rear overhang area made the device easier to move out of arms way with improved portability to lift off the ground with one hand. We also developed a swing-out stand for stability (secured with a golf tee). The data analytics collected all lead to the cloud. Golfers can hit the range and collect an array of information uploaded to the cloud and then review the results instantly. The Solution and Results While our Design team was refining the usability, appearance and brand identity, the Engineering team was evaluating the integration of rugged materials, internal sub structures and component assembly. We seamlessly packaged the new GCQuad™ 4 camera system with top of the line optic transmission, with solid LCD display, indicator LEDs, 6 buttons, I/O panel, and a detachable and rechargeable battery in an elegant enclosure. Iconic, Functional, Durable, Dependable and Mobile, the GCQuad™ combines advanced technology with a beautiful design resolution. Golfers find delight in upping their game. The product instills confidence through refined but robust imagery, coupled with advanced sensor and image capturing systems. The entire research, design and engineering development teams (DDSTUDIO and Foresight) are proud of this exciting new offering.

Learning Words by Drawing Images In this post I will introduce and motivate our recent CVPR’19 paper Learning Words by Drawing Images. The idea of the project is to train an audio-visual model that learns the correspondence between spoken words and visual concepts. You can imagine it as babies learning language, where they have to learn new words, and their mapping to the “real” (visual) world. The only available supervision is just pairs of matching images and spoken descriptions of these images, as babies learn language by associating the world they perceive with the language they hear describing that world. A basic approach with very good results is the one presented in our previous ECCV’18 paper, where a triplet loss was used to generate embeddings both for the speech and for the images such that corresponding concepts —both in the visual and spoken domain— are close in the embedding space. While this method proved to be very effective, it has a main drawback: it does not learn complex concepts such as attributes, relationships, adverbs or even verbs. It mainly relies on learning nouns. Why is that? The reason is that it is a discriminative model, and as such its goal is to learn a border between correct and incorrect associations of images and text. It does not need to learn all possible borders, just one. And thus it learns the easy one, which is created by nouns (instead of more complex parts of speech). In contrast, generative models, like the generators learned by a generative adversarial network (GAN) model all the distribution, all the details. And what can we do to improve the model so that it learns more interesting concepts? Just take a look at the previous paragraph, and you will see that the main problem was that a regular discriminative model is not able to (because it does not need to) discriminate complex concepts. Someone could say “well, let’s force it to learn them”. How can we directly train the discriminative model in a more demanding and complex setting? Someone else would answer “let’s just change the framework and work with generative —instead of discriminative— models”. And we say: “let’s do both”. In this project we rely on the powerful representations learned by a generative model, a GAN in this case, to learn a better discriminative model. A trained generator of a GAN already has a very good representation of the world: it has learned to model attributes and objects, as well the relationship between them. However, it does not know anything about language, those concepts are probably mixed together in a non-interpretable way, and this is why we need to train the discriminative model on top, which implies learning the cross-modal relation between vision and language, given a good vision model, but nothing else. The idea of having discriminative and generative models helping each other is not new: among other works, GANs consist precisely on that. However, we propose a new approach in which the main focus is the discriminative —not the generative— model, and more important, the generative model helps learning something outside of its domain, we use it to learn models for other modalities. More specifically, what we do is generate very hard negatives for the discriminative model to learn from. The harder the negatives (with changes wrt the positive being more specific), the more complex details the discriminative model will learn. We use the generative model to generate these harder negatives. Some examples can be seen in the following figure, where the top row shows positive examples, and the bottom row shows the generated negative examples. All of this is without any supervision, just image-speech pairs. Then, a more practical way of viewing this project is the following: we are using a contrastive loss that uses negatives that the model has to learn to move far away from the positive (anchor). To get a finer border for the discriminative model, we need hard negatives (this is a very known idea in machine learning): let’s CREATE these hard negatives instead of just retrieving them from the training set. And how do we create them? With a GAN, of course. I hope you got the main ideas of the project. For the technical details please go to the paper. Feel free to message me for more information or suggestions. Let me finish with a couple of pictures of Adrià and me presenting this work at CVPR’19. Leave a Comment

The Twisted Hunt is on again, and I have joined once more! the current theme is Victorian Goth, and since I am still not completely clothing savvy yet, I have created a little decor piece for you! This Homeopathic Medicines box makes a nice addition to anyone's curiosities collection. The door opens and closes, for those of you who would like to use it as a functional RP piece. Also new, are a few mainstore releases. Some decorative mannequins, with the best holiday in the world nor far ahead... And some little gacha machines that I made. These do not come with scripts, but I highly recommend using the MD Labs scripts! Post a Comment

Video: A Bugatti Veyron vs. a custom 700hp Nissan Juke-R, who do you think will win in the standing mile? Who do you think will win? A bone-stock Bugatti Veyron, which is one of the world’s fastest production cars to date complete with a 16-cylinder 1,001hp engine? Or a Nissan Juke-R modified to put out around 700hp? It is a tough call to guesstimate since the Juke-R does weigh quite a bit less than the Veyron. But at the same time, the Veyron’s power reserves are quite vast. Comparatively speaking, a stock Nissan Juke-R puts out an already impressive 545hp from its GT-R sourced engine. Though it must be noted that this is not an official Nissan Juke-R, but rather one custom made by Shpilli Villi Engineering, who offers four-stages of tuning for the engine. Ok, enough of me rambling, time to place your bets! Check out the result after the jump. – By: Chris Chin Source: DragTimesInfo’s YouTube via WCF

The issue of the Parthenon Sculptures has been relatively static for many years, despite progress made on many other restitution cases during the same time. What was needed is a catalyst to start the reunification process – something that represents a step forward in the situation. That catalyst has now been created in the form of the New Acropolis Museum . Agence France Presse New museum for Acropolis Article By: Helene Colliopoulou Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:57 Greece’s Acropolis Museum was finally unveiled this week, an ultra-modern glass building at the foot of the ancient citadel originally intended to be open in time for the 2004 Olympics. Designed by celebrated Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, it offers panoramic views of the stone citadel and showcases sculptures from the golden age of Athenian democracy in the fifth century BCE. The three-level building set out over a total area of 25 000m² will display more than 350 artifacts and sculptures that were previously held in a small museum atop the Acropolis. “After several adventures, obstructions and criticism, the new Acropolis Museum is ready: a symbol of modern Greece that pays homage to its ancestors, the duty of a nation to its cultural heritage,” Greek Culture Minister Antonis Samaras told journalists. The first floor of the museum holds a series of objects including antique ceramics, bas reliefs and sculptures. The Caryatids, columns sculpted as females holding up the roof of a porch on the southern side of the Erectheum temple, dominate the top of a glass ramp leading up the second floor, on which sculptures from the Temple of Athena and the Propylaea entrance to the Acropolis will be displayed. The third floor, with natural light streaming in, contains a reconstruction of the Parthenon Marbles. It is based upon several elements that remain in Athens as well as copies of the marbles still housed in the British Museum in London, which are differentiated by their white colour. Greece has long pursued a campaign for the return of the priceless friezes, removed in 1806 by Lord Elgin when Greece was occupied by the Ottoman Empire and which the British Museum refuses to repatriate. “For the first time visitors can see all of the friezes together and understand the problem of the dispersion of the pieces between London and Athens,” said museum president Dimitris Pantermalis. British Museum officials were nevertheless invited to the opening of the new museum, although they insisted there was no change of position on the return of the priceless artefacts. “The museum is a catalyst for the repatriation of the friezes that were taken away and looted,” said Samaras. Since 1974 successive Greek governments have tried to get a new museum built, but it was only after Tschumi’s design won a fourth competition in 2001 that construction got under way. The new museum was intended to open in time for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, but that target date fell by the wayside due to technical and bureaucratic hurdles. Not the least of them was the discovery of the remains of ancient buildings under the proposed site of the museum on the southern slope of the Acropolis. The problem was resolved by incorporating the ruins into part of the museum’s display. The museum, built on a budget of €130-million, can welcome up to 10 000 visitors per day.

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Don’t know how many time’s I’ve tried to explain this to my ex-girlfriends. The intro and outro are absolute bliss. Im not in love, so don’t forget it Just a silly phase I’m going through. And just because I call you up, Don’t get me wrong, don’t think you gotten me… I’d like to see you, but then again that doesn’t mean you mean that much to me. So if I call you, don’t make a fuss, Don’t go and tell your friends about the two of us…†Haha, you can’t take yourself too serious when you like someone ; ) One of the most authentic love songs I’ve ever come across. High quality. Dee Dee Sharp – I’m Not In Love

Annual Conference EMINENT 2022 European education leaders pledge for a responsible use of data in education In response to the increasing impact of datafication in the classroom, high-level experts on digital education convened this month in Dublin at the annual conference of European Schoolnet, Eminent 2022, to discuss how to foster a responsible and smart use of data in education. This year, Eminent took place on 6-7 December as an onsite event held in collaboration with the Department of Education of Ireland, and kicked off with a welcome message from Bernie McNally, Secretary General from the Ministry of Ireland, who presented the Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 in Ireland. With the aim of inspiring policy action and offering practical recommendations, organisations, such as UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission, the Digital Futures Commission (DFC), representatives from academia, European Ministries of education, the Ed-Tech industry and students presented at Eminent the latest international research publications, policies and practices on the topic of digitally processed data use for learning and other education purposes. "This topic is one of the key priorities of European Schoolnet, which is working in collaboration with its network to offer evidence and best practices in the use of data in education," explained Jan de Craemer, Chair of European Schoolnet. The key conclusion of the conference was that unlocking the potential of data use in education requires trust. Therefore, the adoption of a data governance framework, shaping the way people, organisations, and governments can legitimately collect, use, and share data equitably, is crucial What are the impacts of data use in teaching and learning? Education is one of the most noticeable sectors affected by datafication as, apart from transforming the ways in which teaching and learning are organised, it also impacts the ways in which future generations construct reality with and through data. Datafication implies the collection of data at all levels of educational systems (individual, classroom, school, international, national and regional), potentially about all processes of teaching, learning and school management. This proliferation of data changes decision-making and opinion-forming processes of educational stakeholders and impacts education policy, school supervision, school authorities, teachers, students and parents. According to the latest European Schoolnet Perspectives Paper, at individual level, adaptive learning technologies or digital personalised learning (DPL) can personalise content according to student or teacher needs. At group or system level, student data collected through these tools can be aggregated and analysed by researchers, policymakers and digital tool developers to make evidence-based decisions. However, international reports and the research literature highlight a range of challenges to making the use of data beneficial for students. Speaking at Eminent 2022, Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at University of Tartu, examined the multiple ways in which datafication, algorithms and artificial intelligence transform the contexts for children at home, school, and in peer and parent-child relationships. She also reminded people to be critical, outlining how the COVID-19 pandemic provided an important moment for reimagining how data are repurposed for the social good and the best interests of children. "Such increasingly prevalent dataveillance of the young – happening at home, in schools, workplaces and peer networks - involves more than a threat to young people's privacy. What is at stake is the future of human agency—and ultimately, of society and culture—in the context of the material practices and infrastructures of automation and algorithmic governance," mentioned Siibak. Looking at data from AI in education, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Division Director Computer Science Berlin School of Economics and Law, explained: "The future of AI in education could be bright if we pay careful attention to how, for what, by whom and for whom AI is used." Watch the Keynote speakers' session Prof Dr Dagmar Monett-Díaz: Is data-driven technological solutionism the answer to the future of education? |Prof. Andra Siibak: Datafied childhoods in every day's life| Fostering responsible use of data in education During the conference, experts from UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission and the Digital Futures Commission (DFC) stressed the importance of designing a global framework with clear guiding principles. Prof. Sonia Livingstone, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science working at DFC, said that such framework should provide guidance on how and why data should be collected and used in schools and should ensure that student rights prevail over commercial interests. Stephane Vincent Lancrin, Senior Analyst at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), outlined that having access to education data can offer endless opportunities if technology is used for the right purposes (e.g., reducing dropouts, helping school leaders and teachers improve decisions and pedagogies, helping students to be more autonomous, experimenting with new learning methods or getting personalised support). Juliette Norrmen-Smith, Digital Technology Specialist, Division of Education Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems, UNESCO, emphasised the importance of international collaboration in bringing the private sector and other stakeholders on board to support local innovation and facilitate trust. To endorse the use of data analytics, students need to understand and trust their institutions. Students very rarely have the opportunity to monitor or analyse their data. Maria Gkountouma, representing the European Commission, presented the EC Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and data in teaching and learning for educators as a good example of a common framework and a pioneer initiative of the European Union in promoting trust by taking ethical and legal considerations into account. Watch the recording of the roundtable 1 Roundtable 1: Fostering responsible use of data usage in education Policy initiatives and collaboration with the industry Ioannis Gaviotis, Policy Officer, European Commission, explained that at EU Level, there are several initiatives supporting the use of educational technology in Europe and helping governments upskill & reskill people in digital competencies. But how technology and data are used in education may differ across countries. According to the latest European Schoolnet Agile Collection of Information report, "Student data - what is collected and for which purpose", countries such as Belgium-NL, Finland, France, Slovenia and Spain are using the collected data for adaptation and personalisation of the learning process; teachers use it to adapt teaching; computer-supported personalisation or adaptation of learning paths, academic orientation. Meanwhile, teachers in ten out of the fourteen studied countries reported using the data to adapt their teaching methods. However, the use of data by students to monitor their progress (e.g., to monitor their own achievements and compare their results with averages) is still very rare across Europe. Using data for predictions (e.g., for the choice of next subject, next level of education, a different strand of education; achievement predictions; dropout predictions) is also relatively rare – it was mentioned by Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Ireland. Furthermore, only three countries, France, Ireland and Portugal, mentioned using the data for curriculum planning. In Europe, there are several national initiatives and examples of responsible education data management. In Finland, for example, the government funded several projects at municipality level related to education data. As Tero Huttunen, representative from the Finish Ministry of Education, explained at Eminent, some of these projects are focused on creating an open ecosystem where all actors working in the field of education can join together to build a national service platform for education. France is launching the "Education Data Hub", a data platform intended for researchers, edtech players and national education stakeholders. The ambition of the project is to enable researchers, the entire educational community and its partners to create a coherent ecosystem, one that is guided by common ethical standards around a shared data catalogue and an open algorithms library. According to Philippe Ajuelos, representative from Ministry of Education of France, this ecosystem aims to take shape within a strong legal framework that respects the protection of personal data. It also aims to support the national AI strategy with the creation of sovereign data warehouses on which to train AI. Governments also outlined the importance of collaborating with the private sector. Dr. Kevin Marshall, from Microsoft Ireland, explained the benefits of enabling co-creation, and involving teachers, schools and students in the process of technology development. Watch the recording of the roundtable 2 Roundtable 2: Policy & business collaboration across Europe Embracing education data literacy In his keynote speech, Prof. Demetrios Sampson discussed the benefits of educational data literacy as a core competence for all education professionals, including schoolteachers, instructional designers and tutors of online and blended learning courses, as well as educational institution leaders. Entering this new post Covid-19 era, school organisations, leaders and teachers are challenged with reinventing their teaching and learning environments to offer higher-quality, more accessible and inclusive teaching, learning and assessment beyond the periods of emergency education. Today, data-literate educators must interpret the education data in a meaningful manner and translate these data into actions that inform instruction, improve teaching and learning. Similarly, data-literate education leaders must adopt a data-driven evidence-analysis perspective to improve the overall school performance. "The proliferation of data in our daily lives and the use of data to empower our decision-making have positioned data literacy as an important life competence." Prof. Demetrios Sampson. Prof. Demetrios Sampson : Educational Data Analytics for School Teachers and Leaders A responsible data-driven assessment for all During the third roundtable of the conference, experts from different countries analysed what is the right approach to successfully implement assessment for learning and debated which information from data-driven assessments should be shared and where to put the limits, looking at well-being, students' privacy and equity. Niels Kerssens, Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University, highlighted the shift taking place in classrooms with the "platformisation" of primary education, and showed examples of trusted data analytics platforms which transform today's schools and open new opportunities for teachers and learners in the Netherlands. "The education sector needs to look beyond GDPR and privacy to contribute to the development of open data governance infrastructures based on transparency and autonomy" said Kerssens. Supporting this idea, Morten Søby, representing the Directorate for Education and Training from the Ministry of Education in Norway, highlighted the benefits of data usage in education for better policy and better practice. Some of the key missions of the national plan for digital education in Norway involve investing in infrastructure, fostering the collaboration of primary and secondary schools with national and regional administrations, municipalities and service providers to improve transparency and to better understand and monitor progress in the development of the digital ecosystem. Margus Püüa, Head of the field of learning pathways at the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, explained that the main goal of the education strategy in his country is to support personalised learning and self-assessment with formative assessment. According to Peep Küngas, Data Architect at Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia, one of the key means to obtain better learning results in Estonia is to offer teachers and students the possibility to choose different data platforms for formative assessment instead of being restrictive. Marthe Straatemeier, Senior Advisor on Education and ICT, Kennisnet Netherlands, mentioned the huge potential and value that data insights from adaptive learning platforms bring to students by helping them in their education, well-being and also their motivation to learn. Some key prerequisites for success were listed: understanding why we need these learning platforms, getting expertise (pedagogical and data literacy); putting in place quality standards and protecting users with good cybersecurity. Watch the recording of the roundtable 3 Roundtable 3: A responsible data-driven assessment for all Students voice on the use of data in the classroom Finally, students from various schools in Ireland shared their views on the challenges and opportunities of using data in schools, adding valuable insight to the conference. Don't miss the recording of this session Eminent 2022: Students' voice on the new global era of data at school Meet our speakers EMINENT 2022 WORKSHOPS ● The use of data in teacher training ● Towards a school data literacy approach EUN Agile collection of information: Student data - what is collected and for which purpose - Read The Report - Re-imagine school education beyond Covid-19 - Read The Report - EUN Perspective on Data Use for Personalized Learning - Read The Report -

The theme for the 2023 STEM Discovery Campaign is STEM Identities. STEM identity plays an important role in an individual's success in educational environments, their career goals and orientation. Developing a STEM identity increases the likelihood that learners will develop science literacy – some might even follow a STEM career path. We invite everyone to get involved in the 2023 STEM Discovery Campaign by organizing, conducting and taking part in various STEM activities and featuring them on the STEM Discovery Campaign map, becoming partners and participating in our competitions as well as other online events! Add your STEM activity on the Map! Are you participating in a STEM activity between February and April 2023? Include it on the map! Sign in to your (free) Scientix account and put your activity on a world map. You want to participate? Will you be organising, conducting and/or taking part in STEM activities during these three months? Are you interested in showcasing any projects? Are you a teacher or an organisation working in STEM? All STEM-related actions can be included on the STEM Discovery Campaign map and help spark learners' interest in STEM and shape their STEM identities! Are you interested in becoming a partner? Public and privately funded projects, non-governmental and governmental organizations, universities, libraries, youth clubs, companies and schools active in STEM education are welcome to join the 2023 STEM Discovery Campaign as partners. By committing to the SDC23, the partners agree to: - Organise and share information about (online) activities and actions in STEM education as part of the STEM Discovery Campaign. - Encourage third parties to support and join the initiative by organising STEM activities (online) or actions of their own and share information about them as part of the STEM Discovery Campaign, in particular by marking these activities on the campaign map. - Publish on their web page information in support of the STEM Discovery Campaign, hence facilitating an active exchange of information among projects, organisations and schools. For more information on the registration steps that potential partners need to follow, please download the guide for partners document and fill in the form. For general information and promotional materials, visit the official page of the 2023 STEM Discovery Campaign on the Scientix portal.

Duration : 4 Nights Destination Covered : Delhi - Shimla - Kufri - Manali - Rohtang Pass - Manali - Delhi Arrive in Delhi Airport or Railway Station and meet and greet our representative. After that drive to Shimla by Cab. Reach in Arrival transfer from Delhi to Shimla a drive of 7 to 8 hours and 380 kilometers.Shimla also called the "Queen of Hill Stations" . It is one of the mostwildflower popular and biggest hill stations surrounded by pine, deodar, oak and rhododendron forests. Evening time reach in Shimla. Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Shimla. Today after breakfast we will drive you for the sightseeing tour of Shimla and Kufri Valley. We will visit Green valley, Yak Point, Chini Bunglow, Indira Tourist Park with mini zoo famous for Himalayan Pheasants. You can also visit Mahasu Peak, in Kufri the highest point at Kufri and take a spectacular view of the Central Himalayas. You can walk up to the Mahasu Peak or even take a Himalayan Pony ride to the top of the peak. We will also visit the famous Jakhoo Temple of Shimla. In the evening explore Shimla city on foot as vehicle entry is prohibited. Later on evening is free to walk around the Mall road of Shimla where you can visit the Ridge, The Christ Church of Shimla, The Gaiety Theatre building, the scandal point of Shimla. Second night in the same hotel / home stay in Shimla. Today after breakfast we will check out from the hotel in Shimla and will drive you to Manali. It is a beautiful day of drive through the beautiful valleys of Sundernagar, Mandi, Pandoh Dam, Hanogi devi temple, Kullu. The valley in between Mandi to Manali, we drive along the beas river and the drive is full of scenic views and we will stop for various picture breaks, lunch break and comfort breaks on the way. If interested we will visit the Traditonal shawl weaving factories in Kullu. Later on continue our drive to Manali where we will arrive by evening. On arrival In Manali check in to your hotel and evening is free to explore the local market of Manali. Early Morning proceed for full day tour of Rohtang Pass after visiting Hadimba Devi temple first. En route we will visit Kothi Gorge, Gulaba, Marhi. Rohtang Pass (tourist spot in Himalaya having snow 09 – 10 months in a year) is the most visited tourist spot. The majesty of the mountains and the glaciers can be seen at their best on the way to Rohtang pass. After enjoying this snowy heaven, take a sledge ride down the slopes & try luck by climbing the little snow hills. On descending to Manali, halt at the Rahalla falls and Solang Valley. The Magnificent views and natural beauty are a never-ending source of delight. Also halt at Marhi, Ralha falls, Kothi Gorge, Gulaba, Marhi,Nehru Kund. Evening drive Back to Manali night stay in Manali. Checkout from Hotel and drive towards Chandigarh. Dropping at Chandigarh railway station / airport for onward journey. Call to Expert » +91 7340770333

Duration : 6 Nights Destination Covered : Delhi - Shimla - Kufri - Manali - Rohtang Pass - Manali - Delhi Arrive in Delhi Airport or Railway Station and meet and greet our representative. After that drive to Shimla by Cab. Reach in Arrival transfer from Delhi to Shimla a drive of 7 to 8 hours and 380 kilometers.Shimla also called the "Queen of Hill Stations" . It is one of the mostwildflower popular and biggest hill stations surrounded by pine, deodar, oak and rhododendron forests. Evening time reach in Shimla. Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Shimla. Today after breakfast we will drive you for the sightseeing tour of Indian Institute of advance Studies, Army Museum, Jakhoo temple, visit to the years old Tara Devi Temple, Sankat Mochan Temple. In the evening explore Shimla city on foot as vehicle entry is prohibited. You can see prime places of Shimla like , Lakkar Bazaar, Ridge, Church, Mall road, Scandal Point, Kali Bari temple etc. Ideal time for shopping and eating out at restaurants on the mall road. Overnight stay in shimla. Today after breakfast we will drive you for the sightseeing tour of Shimla Kufri Fagu Valley and Naldehra. We will visit Green valley, Yak Point, Chini Bunglow, Indira Tourist Park with mini zoo famous for Himalayan Pheasants. You can also visit Mahasu Peak, in Kufri the highest point at Kufri and take a spectacular view of the Central Himalayas. You can walk up to the Mahasu Peak or even take a Himalayan Pony ride to the top of the peak. We will also visit the famous Jakhoo Temple of Shimla. In the evening explore Shimla city on foot as vehicle entry is prohibited. Later on evening is free to walk around the Mall road of Shimla where you can visit the Ridge, The Christ Church of Shimla, The Gaiety Theatre building, the scandal point of Shimla. Second night in the same hotel / home stay in Shimla. Today after breakfast we will check out from the hotel in Shimla and will drive you to Manali. It is a beautiful day of drive through the beautiful valleys of Sundernagar, Mandi, Pandoh Dam, Hanogi devi temple, Kullu. The valley in between Mandi to Manali, we drive along the beas river and the drive is full of scenic views and we will stop for various picture breaks, lunch break and comfort breaks on the way. If interested we will visit the Traditonal shawl weaving factories in Kullu. Later on continue our drive to Manali where we will arrive by evening. On arrival In Manali check in to your hotel and evening is free to explore the local market of Manali. Today morning after breakfast we will drive you for the local sightseeing around Manali. We will visit the Hadimba Devi Temple, Manu Temple, Vashishth temple, Vashishth hot water sulphur springs, Club house, Buddhist Monasteries, Van Vihar. By afternoon we will drive you to Naggar. Naggar used to be the Capital of Kullu in The Olden times. Here we will visit the Naggar Castle and Roerich art gallery. The Naggar castle provides the views of the Himalayas with the apple orchards and village down in the valley. You can have your lunch / tea here. Later we will drive you back to Manali. Evening is free to visit the Tibetan Market, the Mall Road of Manali and the old Manali village. Second night stay in the same hotel in Manali. Early Morning proceed for full day tour of Rohtang Pass after visiting Hadimba Devi temple first. En route we will visit Kothi Gorge, Gulaba, Marhi. Rohtang Pass (tourist spot in Himalaya having snow 09 – 10 months in a year) is the most visited tourist spot. The majesty of the mountains and the glaciers can be seen at their best on the way to Rohtang pass. After enjoying this snowy heaven, take a sledge ride down the slopes & try luck by climbing the little snow hills. On descending to Manali, halt at the Rahalla falls and Solang Valley. The Magnificent views and natural beauty are a never-ending source of delight. Also halt at Marhi, Ralha falls, Kothi Gorge, Gulaba, Marhi,Nehru Kund. Evening drive Back to Manali night stay in Manali. Checkout from Hotel and drive towards Chandigarh. Check-in at hotel . Chandigarh Market Visit in the evening if time permits. Checkout from Hotel and drive towards Delhi. Dropping at Delhi railway station / airport for onward journey. ( 250 Kms 5-6 hours) Call to Expert » +91 7340770333

Singapore Grand Prix 2016 21 Sep 2016 Race 15 – 61 Laps – 5.065km per lap – 308.828km race distance – low tyre wear Singapore GP F1 Strategy Report Podcast – our host Michael Lamonato is joined by James Allen from JA on F1. Some will say the Singapore Grand Prix kicked off and ended in dramatic fashion, but the mid-part was a little dull. For those interested in strategy, that’s far from the case. The Marina Bay Street Circuit hosted a fascinating race, with Nico Rosberg just holding off Daniel Ricciardo to take the win and snatch back the top spot in the drivers’ standings. Lewis Hamilton rounded out the podium after beating Kimi Raikkonen. Singapore saw a whole host of great drives up and down the field, including Sebastian Vettel’s charge from last to fifth and Kevin Magnussen snatching a point with 10th. We saw a diverse range of strategies used during the race, here were the main headlines. Red Bull was the only team to do something different and take a risk in Q2, with both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen setting their best time on the super-soft tyre. They made it through to Q3, meaning they were the only drivers in the top 10 to start on the red-marked Pirelli tyre. It showed how confident Red Bull felt at the Marina Bay track, with the RB12 being well-suited to the layout. It’s hard to really tell just how much of an advantage it gave them, but the gap between the super-softs and ultra-softs wasn’t massive and it helped both drivers be in better shape at the end of the opening stints. Aggressive tyre stints Ferrari opted for quite an aggressive strategy with Vettel to help him move up the field from last on the grid after a problem in qualifying. The German driver started on the softs for a long first stint, helping him pick off the stragglers, before two shorter ultra-soft stints to aggressively weave up the order. It worked well and was one of the alternative strategies in the race. Red Bull went for a super-soft/super-soft to kick off the race, which helped him to eke out an advantage over the chasing Hamilton. The Mercedes driver felt the soft tyre was the wrong call and it caused him to lose touch of the RBR car. Perez goes long Once again we saw a Force India going for several long stints on the soft tyre. Sergio Perez opted for two long segments on the yellow-marked Pirelli compound, having ditched the ultra-soft for the early safety car (ironically caused by his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg). It saw him make steady progress up to eighth and was effectively a two-stop, as the safety car stop was pretty much free. Merc triggers a big strategy move Mercedes turned the race on its head when it pitted Hamilton on lap 45 to try and get back ahead of Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari. Stopping one lap earlier and with fresh super-softs helped him move ahead of the Iceman, with Ferrari reacting to put Raikkonen on the ultra-softs. This didn’t look like a particularly great call. He did close in on Hamilton towards the end of the race but struggled to close the gap early in the stint and this harmed his challenge. Red Bull then seemingly reacted by pitting Ricciardo, maybe feeling threatened by the pace of the Mercedes and Ferrari cars. It looks like that’s what happened, anyway. Ricciardo could’ve gone to the end on the softs but that would’ve put his second place under threat from the closing Hamilton and Raikkonen. In the end it saw him quickly cut the gap to Rosberg, who did stay out. But he just ran out of time on his super-softs. It proved to be an awesome finish to the race though. Toro Rosso too conservative? Daniil Kvyat looked in good form in Singapore and even said Toro Rosso was too conservative on their strategy, which saw him pit for ultra-softs on lap 15 and then go for two super-soft stints, switching tyres on lap 37. He felt possibly challenging Fernando Alonso for seventh was on the cards if they’d been a bit more aggressive, maybe following McLaren with an earlier second stint and move to the softs. The car looked quick so it could’ve been possible. The undercut works well As always in Singapore, the undercut worked well with the warm track conditions and gap between the tyre compounds, coupled with the step up in tyre nominations. We saw several times that pitting earlier worked a treat, particularly with Hamilton and Raikkonen. Ricciardo also stopped one lap before Rosberg and this put him closer to the Mercedes, but the Red Bull driver was on the medium-nominated tyre. He could’ve stayed out a few laps longer and then elongated his middle stint, to give him fresher softs for a final drive to the flag on the same compound as Rosberg – this could’ve worked better. But again, Red Bull had to react to those behind them in this case and it almost paid off. Jack Leslie @JackLeslieF1 Soft: Perez (36 laps) Supersoft: Kvyat (24 laps) Ultrasoft: Wherlein (24 laps) Ericsson, Massa, Verstappen, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Ricciardo, Ocon, Sainz (3) All the Data Thanks to Pirelli Motorsport for the detailed infographics Stints by Driver

1962 Born in Talcahuano Pesquera El Golfo Stengel y Cia. Ltd., founded by German immigrants and Mark Walter Stengel Hinztler. 1986 The company is purchased by its current directors, Mr Manuel and Jaime Santa Cruz, Hugo Yaconi, Mario Ernesto Vinegar and Noguera. El Golfo has two fleets of ships: Trawlers and Purse Seiners. Both have their base of operations at the Port of San Vicente (Talcahuano). In 2005 we give life to new crops Mussel, located in Chiloe, while the 2006 start farming salmon in the archipelago of Las Guaitecas, XI region. El Golfo has 4 processing plants where they are produced:

The Friends have a long history of providing education in the Geelong Botanic Gardens. We continue to proudly support education, contributing $10,000 annually for school and holiday programs offered by the City through staff employed by Geelong Botanic Gardens. Our own Guides provide further support with research, educational materials and other assistance to this Education Program. Meanwhile, our Guides are still hard at work and they have developed some extensive programs: These are all designed to discover more about the Geelong Botanic Gardens with the assistance of our Volunteer Guides. The Geelong Botanic Gardens also connects people with the amazing world of plants with the program Learn@GBG. - Schools can participate in a range of themed programs. - Families can join in the fun of school holiday programs. - Horticulture students may develop skills in hands-on-horticulture with work experience. For more information, visit Learn@GBG on the GBG website: The Development of Education at the Geelong Botanic Gardens In 1998, the Friends organised and funded the professional development of an Education Kit for Primary Schools. The program was delivered by our Volunteer Guides in consultation with Education Department teachers. In 2002, the Friends funded an Administrative Officer with educational and horticultural qualifications. The program was expanded, and the idea of the outdoor classroom was embraced by schools. In 2007, the role of Education Officer was supported by the Friends for 12 hours per week. Approximately 1,100 students were visiting the Gardens and using our programs each year. In 2012, a change was made to the delivery of schools education in the Gardens. The objective was to expand the programs and attract more students to learn about, and appreciate, plants. Clearly, the Friends could not continue to undertake a much larger program, and agreed with the GBG to support the City offering education to schools. To this end, and in accordance with our Purposes, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City, signalling our ongoing support.

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- Jacob Grovey - The Differenters (comic, Issue #1) pre-order -Special Edition The Differenters (comic, Issue #1) pre-order -Special Edition Ethan, Violet, Jess, Chase, Naomi, and Jaxon continue to learn more about who they are, and what's going on in the city around them. The Differenters novel was only the beginning! *This version of the comic will contain a special, limited edition version of the cover. Once they are sold out, they will not be reprinted. The comic will be released in 2023.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 If you've ever watched Star Trek: The Original Series you know it had a trope or a meme where an "away team" would beam down to the planet and suddenly one of them would be killed. Usually vapourized or dragged off by a yeti or somesuch. And as my four year old once said to me "Red people fall down. Not red people don't fall down." This is also known as the redshirt phenomenon. To this day, when I see three main characters (on any show) plus some guy we've never seen before, someone is sure to call that guy out as a red shirt just as the suspenseful music starts to rise. Well, Matt Bailey has run the math. Are red-shirted crewmen more likely to die than yellow or blue shirts? Indubitably. But - is it good news or bad news, redshirt-wise, if the episode also features what I've always referred to as Kirk putting his boots on, though strictly speaking he does that after the plot point Matt refers to as "meeting" alien women. See how some solid data analysis and well chosen visuals can truly illustrate the redshirt phenomenon on Star Trek, at least for TOS. The powerpoints alone are worth the click. Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Have you seen the Deep Zoom example with the Hard Rock Cafe artifacts? It's pretty darn cool. If you don't have Silverlight and would like to see why it's cool, there's a video on the Mix blog. But I love the zooming into Virtual Earth example I was just sent. It's a CodePlex project, so you can be part of it. It can take a while to load so be patient. I showed it to someone who said that Google Earth did that, but requires downloading and installing an application. If you already have Silverlight, you don't need anything else to use this. I like that. Monday, June 9, 2008 I've been carrying this link around for a while and it seems like a good time to share it. Rico Mariani knows a LOT about performance and why it's important. And he knows that many of us no longer care. We trust optimizers and runtimes and frameworks and auto-caches and such to take care of things for us. Sometimes, we're right to do that. Other times, we're not. Thinking about games will naturally make you think about performance. Sunday, June 8, 2008 One of the questions I got in the booth at Tech Ed was about First Chance Exceptions. The attendee was getting these messages in the output window in Visual C++ warning about "first chance exception" and was concerned about it. A long-long-neglected neuron fired. I think I ran an article in a journal I edited 10 or so years ago in which Mike Blaszczak covered this. And I think the bottom line was "don't worry." So I ran a quick search and found this knowledge base article that indeed says "don't worry." The debugger gets the exception first, before your code. It just writes to the screen that it got it. Then your code handles the exception and life goes on as before. If your code doesn't handle the exception, then the debugger gets it again, and then perhaps something interesting happens. But first chance exceptions are nothing. Having a long memory for tiny details is handy sometimes. Saturday, June 7, 2008 UAC prompts you whenever you do something that requires your administrator privileges, with a couple of exceptions I'll get to later. Part of not being driven crazy by UAC is coming to expect that prompt. When you choose particular menu items or click particular buttons, you are warned with the shield: What lots of people don't spot is that some executables are also marked with the shield. Compare these two: One of these will get you a UAC prompt if you run it, and one won't. Once you know to look for it, it's easy to see -- at least down in the properties area with the big thumbnail. Look closely at the little icon in the main part of the window (the icon you would double click) and you'll see it, too. What puts that icon there? What suppresses that icon? Well these two executables have manifests. One says the exection level is asInvoker and the other says requireAdministrator. So that's a pretty obvious distinction. There are other things that put the overlay there, but thery all boil down to this: if Vista plans to show you a UAC prompt (and there are reasons other than a manifest why it might) it will overlay the icon to warn you. Remember, though, that the icon on menus and buttons and such is not magically put there by the OS. It's put there by a thoughtful programmer who likes users to know what's going on. The same sort of programmer who puts ... on menu items that will bring up a dialog (take a look at File, Save in almost any program) and omits ... on menu items that will just act (such as File, Close.). If you're programming for Vista, you need to be that kind of programmer. Friday, June 6, 2008 In addition to the talks with C++ in the title (3 of them) and with C++ or a related word in the abstract (3 more) I listed in an earlier posting, I spotted this in a Tech Ed deck: Heh. That sure isn't C#. What talk is it? MBL302 Building Windows Mobile Applications That Work with Windows Vista Sync Center The new Sync Center in Windows Vista will become the hub for all data synchronization between the PC, Mobile Devices, and online services. Take a closer look at the development framework, as well as the end-user experience that Sync Center helps create. This session dives into the code you need to write in order to plug your application into the Sync Center user interface. If you're writing an application for Windows today that has any synchronization components, you should not miss this session. The speaker has a blog entry that states his pro-C++, pro-COM position unambiguously: This is easy, this is Windows software development like it has been for at least 10 years. It is well defined, well known and well supported...go and learn C++ and COM, it is how many of the Windows Vista features are exposed to developers and with good reason. If you are not prepared to learn how to program your computer then you should question why you are in the software development business. I think easy might be an overstatement, but I do certainly agree that "old style" programming techniques still have real value in the Vista universe. Keep your skills sharp! Thursday, June 5, 2008 How many C++ talks are there at Tech Ed this year? Well if you just run your eye down the titles, you'll see these: MBL202 Maximizing the Usability and Compatibility of Your Mobile Microsoft Visual C++ Application This session is targeted towards native (C++) developers. The next version of Windows Mobile will have a radical new look, with lots of new common controls and UI capabilities. This session helps you understand what you can do today to minimize backward compatibility issues. We also share many tips and best practices for improving the usability and overall quality of your mobile applications. TLA327 Parallelize Your Microsoft Visual C++ Applications with the Concurrency Runtime Introducing concurrency into native Visual C++ applications has long been the domain of true experts and gurus. Yet, as the hardware industry shifts toward multi-core and manycore processors, all developers will need to be able to write robust and scalable parallel applications. As part of its work on Visual C++ and Visual Studio, the Parallel Computing Platform team is building a key set of technologies that will enable the development of such applications. In this talk, we explore libraries for expressing concurrency, a set of messaging APIs that allow developers to consistently build parallel applications that are robust and resilient, and a shared user mode runtime for scheduling and for coordinating system resources. Come learn about these exciting new technologies that will help bring concurrency to the masses. TLA403 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 for Unrepentant C++ Developers Visual C++ 2008 is packed full of changes for those who prefer the C++ language syntax and power. This session covers STL/CLR, the new extensible marshalling library, and changes coming in the C++ standard, specifically TR1. If templates don’t scare you, Boost has intrigued you, and you’re the one everyone turns to for mixing managed and native code, this session is for you. But there are others, they just don't have C++ in the session title. TLA321 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Harness the power of the 2008 IDE using new tips and tricks used by top Microsoft MVP developers and Microsoft employees. We look at new keyboard shortcuts, new options, the powerful "Quick Command" system, macros, tweaking IDE performance, and more that will make any developer using Visual Studio instantly more productive. The entire session is hands-on inside the IDE and applicable to any language, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Visual C++. If you've been using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or have never touched Visual Studio, you're guaranteed to walk away a VS power user. WIN312 Windows Presentation Foundation and Legacy Code Yes, legacy (MFC/Win32) applications can interoperate with a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) user interface. Companies that have large Microsoft Visual C++ codebases can modernize their legacy applications by giving them a contemporary user interface. They can do this without having to rewrite the core of their codebase. This talk presents "best practices" for how to modify an application so that the native code operates correctly with a new WPF-based managed user interface. The talk covers such questions as "Can MFC applications move to use WPF," "Does it make more sense to rewrite or upgrade the UI," and "How do you design an interop solution between MFC/Win32 and WPF?” As the talk unfolds, it includes a number of "do's" as well as "don'ts." TLA326 MFC Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Beyond This session demonstrates the new features added to MFC in Visual Studio 2008, including support for Windows Vista Common Dialogs, Vista Common Controls, the 2007 Microsoft Office system look and feel (including support for an Office Ribbon-style interface), Office and Visual Studio-style Docking Toolbars and Tabbed Documents. If you're here and you missed one of these, grab the slides on CommNet and see if you can find the speakers on site. If you didn't come to Tech Ed this year, consider ordering the DVD of all the sessions. (note to self: add "C++" to abstract of any future MFC talk I deliver .) Wednesday, June 4, 2008 On Tuesday, Day 1 of TechEd, I was lucky enough to join a small group of people for lunch with Bill Gates. While spending an hour or two with Bill would be an honour at any time, to do so at his last Tech Ed was extra special. The invitees spanned a wide range of the developer spectrum, and what we had in common was our contributions to community. There were Regional Directors, MVPs, MCTs, INETA people, and so on. Bill arrived just in time for a group photo (I'll post it when I get it) and then sat down to answer questions for an hour or more. I was so impressed; more impressed than I planned to be. I found his answers really illuminating and inspiring. Our geeky minds and way of approaching problems can be turned to far more than just designing software. Why not, if you don't have to worry about covering your mortgage payment, try fixing the problems of disease, education, agriculture, and even the United Nations? We were given an enormous (and heavy) memento: It's going on the "bookshelf of showing off" for sure, but the inspiration and the practical information are more to me than the crystal . Update: Fellow attendees Andrew Brust, Matthew Roche, Daniel Egan, Scott Golightly, Stephen Forte, and Neil Roodyn have blogged their impressions also. So has Soma, who graciously welcomed us all to the lunch and is well known as a friend of developer community people. © Copyright 2023 Kate Gregory Theme design by Bryan Bell newtelligence dasBlog 2.3.9074.18820 | Page rendered at Sunday, May 28, 2023 12:02:50 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) On this page.... Pluralsight Free Trial

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network, has a long history of providing high quality health care to residents of Westchester, Putnam and Lower Dutchess Counties. A fully accredited general, not-for-profit 128-bed hospital, we offer a wide range of inpatient services and ambulatory care. NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital has been recognized by numerous regional and national accreditation organizations for the hard work that has led to our outstanding patient outcomes. Three consecutive Magnet achievements underscore the hospital's excellence in nursing leadership and innovation. The Ambulatory Surgery Department is a four-time recipient of the Press Ganey “Guardian of Excellence Award” for providing an exceptional patient experience. The hospital earned the Gold Plus Award which was elevated to Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital is also certified as Baby-Friendly by Baby-Friendly USA, a joint initiative of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. In addition to our dedication to promoting breastfeeding and mother-baby bonding, the Baby-Friendly designation, awarded every five years, recognizes the hospital for its research and best practices. The hospital was the first in the region to open a “No Wait” Emergency Department. Patients skip the waiting room and are immediately assessed. At the NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, we focus on the individual needs of the patient. Our exceptional team of physicians includes oncologists from ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Chemotherapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical Oncology and Support Services are centrally located in one building on our Cortlandt Manor campus. In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Hudson Valley and ColumbiaDoctors, the hospital offers easy access to highly skilled physicians. The growth of the medical team to 450 physicians in 62 specialties, has improved the lives of our patients by providing them with outstanding medical care in convenient locations, close to their homes. Additional locations in Cold Spring, Croton and Putnam Valley ensure community access to high quality medical care. Some of these locations offer diagnostic and rehabilitative services. The hospital is committed to educating the community about healthful eating as a way to positively influence health and prevent chronic disease. Our Harvest for Health initiative includes a variety of monthly cooking classes at the hospital’s Chef Peter X. Kelly Teaching Kitchen, an on-site organic garden, a bimonthly Farmers Market May through November, and locally-sourced foods for patients and employees. In addition, our physicians and therapists give free lectures at the hospital and throughout the community, and often attend local health fairs and other events. Commitment to Care “Putting Patients First” NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital physicians and staff are dedicated to providing patients and their families with the best experience and highest level of care available in the region. Our organization will continue to enhance our role in one of the most comprehensive academic health systems in the nation. Our Core Values guide how we serve others: patients, families and co-workers. Honoring Our Past, Ensuring Our Future Exceptional Quality and Service Listen, Understand and Respond Every Person Counts Creative Ideas, Cutting Edge Solutions

Good morning everyone. Things are heating up sighting-wise and also in temperature. We are into the forties already and the shady sausage tree we live under, just lost all its leaves and we had almost no shade for a while. Luckily the new leaves comes out quick, with the blooming of the red flowers. Elephants around our camp are getting a bit more friendly, they were a bit skittish at first. Last week our sausage tree were surrounded by nine elephants enjoying the fallen leaves and long grass around our tent. Magical. Wilddogs left a, what was left of an impala kill, in our ‘driveway’, so they killed it just after we left for a gamedrive earlier that morning. They did stay in the area the whole day just to be chased around by elephants when the sun was setting, around our camp, absolutely havoc. Dust,dogs & lots of trumpeting! We also fell in love with a very small leopard female in our area. Herewith a picture of her in the golden hours of the day, high up in a sausage tree. Enjoy.

Three Tips for Online Dating If you have been trying to meet people through online dating you have probably become frustrated at one point or another. Bad dates, no shows and some weird people can be part of the online dating scene. It doesn’t have to be this way though you can meet someone online, whether you are looking for friendships or a relationship. Here are three tips for online dating so you never have to go on a bad date again. Figure Out What You Really Want Before you even sign up for an Asian online dating site you need to figure out what you expect to get out of this. Do you want a long term relationship with marriage in the future, casual dating, or a one night stand? There is no wrong answer here but you need to know what you want. There is nothing wrong with wanting either a long term relationship or casual dating but you should be honest about it. There is no point in meeting someone who isn’t looking for the same things that you are. Creating Your Profile When you create your profile it is important to fill it out completely and to be honest. That doesn’t mean you can’t emphasize your good points but don’t lie or put pictures up that are 10 years old. Include what your interests are, what hobbies you participate in and more importantly what you are hoping to get from online dating. Getting your profile right is important it is what will attract the person that shares your interests and what you are looking for. Here are some tips on getting your profile right. Take your time and don’t rush into anything. Get to know someone a little bit before meeting up and always meet in a public place and tell someone where you are going and who you are going to meet. It may take a few dates before you discover that this person isn’t what you are looking for. Don’t set ridiculous expectations for yourself; you probably won’t meet the right person on the first date…no one does. Date a couple of people before you decide that this is “the one”. Don’t lower your expectations because you have met someone that you liked. Even if you are looking for a long term serious relationship don’t take the process too seriously a bad date isn’t the end of the world. Stick with it you will meet that special someone.

Hamburger Rieger has engaged Voith to supply the complete stock preparation unit for its new PM 2 in Spremberg, Germany. Voith will deliver three separate stock preparation lines with a total capacity of 2,450 metric tons per day. Meri Environmental Solutions is responsible for the complete reject and water treatment facility. The key to the stock preparation concept is the OnEfficiency.DIP (deinked pulp: recycled waste paper without color residues) system from Voith, which has already proven effective for the manufacture of graphic papers based on recovered paper. The efficiency concept is now being used for the first time in the production of packaging papers. In the stock preparation unit of the new PM 2, ultra-modern sensors and actuators ensure consistent raw material quality and low running costs. The system consists of two DIP yield control modules, two DIP bleach control modules and a DIP optimizer. The DIP yield control module uses online sensors to measure the ash content and whiteness of the DIP stock. Using actuators, the flotation technology automatically adjusts it as necessary to obtain the required degree of whiteness. The DIP bleach control module also measures the whiteness before and after a bleaching step. If necessary, actuators also regulate the flow of chemical additives here as well. The control modules are connected with the DIP optimizer, which defines optimum target values based on the optimization of running costs. The cost model takes account of relevant parameters such as energy, raw material and chemicals. This dynamic interaction between the individual components reduces quality fluctuations, which occur thanks to the heterogeneity of the raw material or production adjustments. This at the same time improves production costs. In the PM 2 in Spremberg, Voith is also testing a new prototype of a virtual sensor which uses the measurements in the stock storage tower and the process parameters to predict contamination areas. The DIP optimizer uses the model calculated in this process to optimally adjust the variables. The self-learning system allows for automated controls, which means that the full potential of the system can be reached sooner. At present, only the OnEfficiency.DIP from Voith offers this kind of comprehensive performance. According to Hamburger Rieger this was a decisive factor in awarding the order for the stock preparation unit. With a tailored service package, Voith ensures that the OnEfficiency system will continue to perform optimally in the long term. Following a groundbreaking ceremony on September 26, 2018, work began on Hamburger Rieger's new paper machine in Spremberg. From June 2020, the 7.8 m wide PM 2 will produce up to 500,000 metric tons a year of White Top Testliner with various basis weights. The two-loop DIP line produces the white top layer of the WTTL (White Top Test Liner). The paper manufacturer has opted for a particularly environmentally friendly de-inking system for stock preparation. Hamburger Rieger is investing around EUR 370 million to build the PM 2 and is creating more than 200 new jobs in the Lusatia region. Hamburger Rieger is part of the Hamburger Containerboard Division of the Austrian Prinzhorn Group, whose annual production of more than two million metric tons makes it one of the market leaders in the segment for white uncoated and coated