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In most businesses insight, analytics and optimisation are separate from technology development or IT. Most commonly, these functions are housed within a marketing team which sits, both physically and organizationally, apart from the development team. Getting anything done by IT is traditionally very hard to do. What I am aiming to show is how the Agile endeavour can itself become truly data-driven, analytical and experimental.
Measuring Engagement & The Dangers of Dwell-Time
I was driven to write this post after chatting to the online marketing manager of a large international company, who told me that 'dwell-time' was now one of their most important KPIs; and that they had issued instructions to all local marketing teams that the primary focus for the coming year was to 'increase dwell-time', … Continue reading Measuring Engagement & The Dangers of Dwell-Time
The Problem with Average Conversion Rate Benchmarks
I am often asked what an 'average' conversion rate is, especially for e-commerce websites, which people find useful when they want to compare their own sites against others, or as a way to set themselves targets for increasing their own conversion rates. The truth of the matter is that this approach is extremely problematic on … Continue reading The Problem with Average Conversion Rate Benchmarks
How to create a Conversion Profile for your website
This describes a technique which I use in order to understand the drivers behind conversion on a website in a deeper way than web analytics tools offer out of the box. Adobe Analytics recently launched their Segment Comparison tool in Workspace, which ostensibly does this, however for me it just doesn't give me enough information … Continue reading How to create a Conversion Profile for your website
How to Build a Digital Measurement & Optimisation Framework
Drowning in Data The concept of 'drowning in data' cannot be understated when it comes to digital analytics. Apart from the sheer quantity of information available, the situation is worsened because the tools we use are so terribly fast and effective; it has never been easier to slice, dice and peel your way through such … Continue reading How to Build a Digital Measurement & Optimisation Framework


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I developed a love of fine paper during high school art classes in New York. After learning about different types of paper and a college course in paper making, I really developed an affinity toward beautiful paper and design. After decades in the hospitality industry and some time in a graphic design role, I stepped back to raise my children, Rachel and Ethan. When the kids were both in school full day, I landed a part time job at Leap Frog Paper. When Leap Frog's owner moved on to a new career path, I decided to take the leap and open an invitation studio creating custom wedding invitations and bat and bar mitzvah invitations in Skippack Village; thus, Stone Hill Paperie was born.
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Jim Meyers, Alameda Health Care District Board
Jim Meyers, Alameda Health Care District Board
Why do you want to be on the Alameda Health Care District Board?
As a doctor of public health and throughout my health leadership career, I have an underlying driving force in my professional and volunteer work: I see health as much more than the absence of illness – I see it as community well-being. I believe in health equity for all - no matter one's circumstances in life.
More than ever in recent history, our health care district board must be aware and attentive to all of the health needs of our community. Why? The current Alameda Health Care District Board of Directors recently relinquished fiduciary control of Alameda Hospital over to the Alameda Health System (AHS). This new system – centered out of Oakland's Highland Hospital – now has oversight responsibility for day-to-day operations issues at the hospital.
So what does that mean for the role of the health care district board? Our board must insist on and defend funding to support our direct care needs through the hospital and funding necessary for our health and well-being priorities throughout the City of Alameda.
Our board must have the experienced officers who can represent all of our community's health needs – insuring we control funds collected from our property taxes and we receive the community benefit from the tax-exempt status of our community hospital.
We need board officers that have significant experience in these new board priorities. I believe the board needs a much different set of credentials and experiences than it has among current officers to successfully accomplish its new mission.
I am the only person running against the incumbents. I want to be on the board because I have the experience for our new community-focused priorities - and the leadership commitment to help the board focus on those priorities.
What do you bring to the position?
I have spent a lifetime in health care leadership – both in hospitals and health systems – and in public health leadership helping communities build resilient well-being. I'd like to give back to my community through leadership on this important community health care district board. My family lives right here in Alameda. My kids go to preschool and public school here. Our health care providers are here. This is our community. This is our home.
The following highlights my experience and credentials supporting the new mission of our health care district board:
Current Occupation and Profession
• Alameda County Public Health Commissioner – I currently represent the City of Alameda and Alameda County District 3; chair, Veterans Health Committee.
• Doctor of Public Health – Professional consulting practice with clients such as the California HealthCare Foundation and the Safety Net Institute. Consultation areas include: public hospitals and systems, chronic care, health IT and strategic planning.
Other Experience and Credentials
• Board-certified healthcare executive (Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives) – Over 25 years experience in virtually all health administration departments including COO and CEO-equivalent positions with the U.S. military – including four years consulting with the Army Corps of Engineers leading hospital infrastructure projects. Additionally, credentialed in managed care as a professional in the Academy of Healthcare Management.
• Senior federal representative on the Northern California Healthcare Executives Regional Advisory Council – Senior CEO and leader council providing professional policy and issue sharing platform for health care executives in Northern California (five-year appointment).
• Professor/university faculty – U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health's doctor of public health program, Baylor University health administration masters program, Trinity University. Taught courses on community health, business-case analysis, disaster preparedness, health IT, leadership, organizational behavior, and managerial epidemiology.
• Retired Air Force medical commanding officer – Executive director of the U.S. Military's Northern California 269,000 member TRICARE Region; colonel and Senior Medical Services Corps Council member in the United States Air Force Medical Service. Subject-matter expert in population health including local and national military community well-being program leadership. Commanding officer of international disaster relief and country assistance missions. Senior Northern California Veterans Administration/Department of Defense joint healthcare planning group member.
• Vice-chair, local YMCA Board of Managers – Led board strategic management activities and community health improvement programming. Oversaw largest provider of public assistance programs outside of the city's public health department.
• Board member, Ronald McDonald House – Including volunteer weekend manager.
• Content at-home parent – With my wife, Kate, parenting our 6- and 4-year-old children – splitting our work week so that one of us can care for our kids when they are not in school, and volunteering at our preschool and elementary school.
• Cancer survivor – just passed nine years cancer-free – with lots of patient experience along the way!
What do you think is the role of the board post-affiliation?
The overarching mission of the health care district needs to shift to a broader set of oversight areas:
1. Partnering with the Alameda Health System to provide equitable and sustainable direct care health services. Central to this partnership is our board advocating for the continued existence of the hospital as a central part of the fabric of our healthy community.
2. Leading successful partnerships between our city government, local businesses, and community residents to seek not just the absence of illness but true pursuit of community well-being.
If elected, what are your top three priorities as a board member?
I see the board needing to focus great effort over the next four years on four key areas:
• Building stronger ties to the local community – including the development of coordinated hospital, community, business and city/county government strategies for improving community health and well-being – our health care district provides stewardship for OUR parcel tax and hospital community benefit dollars – let's make sure those dollars provide the most impact for OUR community.
• Building a sustainable business model with our new system partners – taking full advantage of the Accountable Care Act – while always being available to our most vulnerable Alamedans – and keeping our hospital an integral part of our community.
• Building partnerships across medical staff, support staff, and IT infrastructures with the new system partners.
• Building permanent solutions to infrastructure and preparedness deficits – our community hospital needs to be there for us when disaster hits.
In the wake of the affiliation deal with AHS, what role does Alameda Hospital play in meeting the health care needs of Alamedans and others, both as part of the community and AHS?
Our community hospital has the opportunity to become a leader in a vibrant and healthy Island community.
If our health care district board provides proper oversight and proactive coordination, our relationship with the new AHS can bring a more coordinated system of care for patients who use our hospital and use other AHS health services around the Bay Area. That should include connected electronic record systems across the new system of hospitals and clinics and much better coordination of the continuum of care – from birth to lab services to referral services to hospice care.
Alameda Hospital maintains a credentialed and high quality direct care "home" for many in our community. The care includes basic emergency services, inpatient care and outpatient surgical and medical treatment services and many specialty services, as most community hospitals of this size do.
However, our community's hospital does not and should not provide ALL levels of care. The trick is knowing what is best for our multicultural and ever-changing community. It is the job of this health care district board to lead our community in making sure we are providing the services needed here – and coordinating, as needed, other services as part of or outside the new AHS.
What kind of services should the hospital, and the district, be providing to Alamedans?
The health care district board should provide an annual assessment of the health and well-being needs of our community. The assessment should include all health issues – not just direct care medical needs. It should include public forum for feedback, with special attention to health equity across all of our multicultural neighbors.
The board should then use that assessment to steward the provision of our community's direct care needs with the entire Alameda Health System – most of the direct care to be provided in Alameda and some through the other larger hospitals and specialty clinics. If the assessment shows we need the services here in Alameda, the board should advocate and coordinate provision of those services here in Alameda.
Importantly, the board MUST move from the current medical care focus to a community well-being focus – a focus that does not ignore direct medical care needs but seeks opportunities to encourage Alameda's leaders and community members to support health and well-being efforts – and that should drive the services provided by our hospital AND the health opportunities in our district.
What challenges and opportunities do the hospital and health care district face today?
The biggest challenge our board will face this next four years will be to move from a primary focus of hospital operations oversight to stewardship of the broader health and well-being needs of our community. Our board should take a leadership role in Alameda in defining our priorities, empowering our community to address them and building capacity throughout Alameda to support a more happy and healthy community.
The opportunities are really the most exciting part of the next four years. With a significant increase in insured patients through the Affordable Care Act, there is an opportunity to improve financial stability, cultural competency, and overall service at our hospital.
In partnership with Alameda County's new public health planning process – of which I am a part – our community has a much better chance over the coming years to define our public health and well-being priorities and get increased county program support.
In partnership with the state, our government leaders have the opportunity to participate in Health in All Policies - a successful program for governing in a more health-focused way. I have been working with our state's former health director and the Alameda Public Health Department on this new approach to government policies during this past year. It's exciting – and worth participating in.
And finally, with the new development happening in the West End, there is an opportunity to influence a healthy built environment with our new Veterans Administration facility and grounds and the development of new parks, bike trails, neighborhoods, and merchant areas.


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Didn't want to win the cup anyway!
Long trip south for Glengad to St Mick's
Didn't want to win the cup anyway!
Wow. Interesting draw for Bohs, should be a decent crowd for the Dublin city derby.
Unless there is the odd shock somewhere most of the other games look pretty meh 😁
I spent a long weekend in Culdaff, and my friend lived about 8km out of Culdaff up the mountains (unsuprisingly the surname was McGonigle). I have never heard pure silence like it in my life. 'Twas off the bus at Carndonagh which I thought was the final destination ...
Very quite on here for the weekend ahead.
Lots of big games on for the some smaller teams
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
No sense of cup fever among Saints fans just yet. I expect a low key victory in front of a paltry crowd. I'd say premier league will have a big affect on attendances tonight.
**** sake me dream final is looking iffy,,, no its still a possibility
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Cabo beating Cork into extra time. It just gets worse and worse for them. Where's it going to end?
Made a banquet out of that tonight. I was surprised by Bray that had a few impressive young players. I was not surprised by us, we were dreadful in the first half but showed more urgency in the second. It was a good finish by McAuley who was very lively off the bench and took his goal well , looks a player. In the hat for the next round for what it's worth.
I have no words for this.
Good last 15 minutes for Harps, but pretty much all Rovers before that. Really made them sweat for the win though. Bit sh!te for us in a financial sense, but at least we can put all focus on the league now and the fight to catch this Cork side in freefall.


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Whether you are a marketing maven or a complete noob, there is always something to learn. From content creation strategy to market positioning to branding secrets, there is enough knowledge out there about marketing that none of us will ever be done learning about it. Here are some of the best books about marketing that have helped us here at FMG Suite. Join Kirk Faulkner and Brandon brown as they share what is on their library shelves and what should be on yours if you are interested in learning more about this important and fascinating subject.
Book Recommendations:
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries
All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi


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There was a lot of buzz around Rise when it was first advertised and we were keen to see whether it lived up to the hype. The demo (see below) is really visually impressive and, as if you could want a higher accolade, it has been used by Dynamo on television.
So, what's the effect? Very simple – the performer stamps on a crushed Red Bull can and it is instantly restored to a new condition. Oh yes, and you can hand it out for examination or drinking – it is the real deal. And there's nothing on your foot.
And it really is that clean. With just a few caveats.
What do you get?
I can't really tell you much detail for fear of exposure. But suffice to say a very clever and well-made gimmick which will never be seen by the audience and by my reckoning ought to last a long time. Also a few extra bits for a second gimmick which is needed. Some construction is needed for this and whilst it isn't complicated, it will take you a while to do, and minors may need some help/supervision. Once you've made this it should last for a long time. Oh and it all comes in a really nicely presented packing tube.
You are also provided with a link to the online instructions. These are very comprehensive – lasting over an hour. It is here that you see how well this whole effect has been thought out – according to Sean it has been 8 years in the making – and the constant use and refining of the effect becomes clear in the detailed instructions.
They really do cover every aspect of the effect. In addition to the set-up and preparation, handling tips are covered and thoughts on suitable clothing and the psychology of the effect. Even ideas for performing it more effectively for video. He has clearly thought about this a lot. There is a little bit of background noise on some parts of explanation – but this is not a problem – it never affects the clarity of the explanation.
Pros and cons
To be honest, it is mainly pros. Rise is relatively easy to do since the mechanism does most of the work for you. And it is certainly extremely visual. To achieve that level of visual effect it is a little bit angle-sensitive – but the whole routine has been carefully 'blocked out' to provide all the cover you need – you can tell this has been performed and worked on for years.
One of the things that gives Rise its wow factor is that the hands come nowhere near the can when the magic happens. If the original isn't strong enough, there is also a 'signed can' version. Although there's a nice little subtlety here in the choice of the colour pen to sign with, I'm not sure that signing really adds much to what is already such a clean looking effect.
There is a possible sound issue – the magic 'talks' (!) – but in the street context where this would sit most comfortably there is likely to be plenty of background noise.
Reset? Well there's a little bit, and it definitely needs to be done out of sight of spectators. You're not going to be repeating this straight away. But then why would you? The can is restored – so you'd need a new crushed one to start again! Sean suggests saving it as an attention getter or as a special item for a significant person at a gig.
All in all we think this is a fantastic effect – the phrase reputation-making is banded about too much these days, but there's no doubt people will be remembering a good performance of this for a long time to come.
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So the first day of school is around the corner for many of you. Here are a few tips to help your family navigate the academic year. Keep in mind these suggestions are for parents whose children do not attend Afrikan-centred schools.
1) Be an active PTA/PTSA member. Speak up and encourage parents/staff
to be inclusive/embrace diversity. Set the example.
2) Identify other families with a similar worldview and/or lifestyle
(at your children's schools). Connect with them. Try to devise a
"non-threatening game plan" for the year.
3) Correspond with your children's principals/teachers about your
family's "special needs" at the beginning of the academic year ie.
eating habits, exemption from activities related to Halloween,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter etc. Present simple
solutions for challenging situations related to these. Give an
overview of your beliefs if necessary. P.S.- It's preferable to meet with school staff and specify your requests in letters. ARCHIVE THE LETTERS.
4) Volunteer at your children's schools often.
5) Remain in contact with your children's teachers/principals
throughout the academic year.
P.S.- Consider doing the same for extra-curricular activities.
http://www.embracediverseschools.com/ Offers tips on helping schools embrace diversity in all its forms.
http://www.soundvision.com/Info/education/pubschool/pub.parent.asp Written for Muslim parents. Others may find them helpful too though.


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Monday, May 9, 2011
How Do Kids Become Readers?
I know the reasons. The first reason prompted my reading program and this blog: the schools quit caring in the 60s. Spelling only counts now on spelling tests. To correct a student's spelling or grammar on an essay would stifle his creativity. At least that's what my son's fourth-grade teacher told me.
The second reason I learned from Mortimer Adler. In his book called How to Read a Book (imagine your own Monty Python routine here), Adler points out that students can't write because students don't read. My university touts a commitment to teaching "writing across the curriculum." Every field must require prose writing. Every Gen-Ed course must require prose writing. Every instructor should teach writing. But, as Adler points out, it doesn't do any good to teach writing to people who don't read. And most university students don't read.
I was thinking of posting ideas for great books that kids could read, maybe the skeleton of a curriculum for homeschoolers (by which I mean parents who want to teach their kids, no matter where the kids go to school). But it occurred to me that a list like that would mislead if not offered in the context of suggestions for how to turn kids into readers.
We all know the way not to do it: assign reading. The schools all assign books (The Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, whatever we can think of using to tell a teen-ager that life is pointless) and make students write reports or fill out worksheets. As a result, we have a nation of people who don't and can't read. So clearly we must give up that idea. And yet we won't get kids to read if we never suggest books, either.
What's the solution? I don't have test studies and statistics. I only have anecdotal evidence from four people: the four people in my immediate family, all of whom are readers and all of whom can write a clear, organized, well-spelled, correctly punctuated paragraph. It's only anecdotal evidence, but it all points consistently the same way. Here are the rules:
(1) Parents have to teach reading by modeling it. They have to read, their children have to know they read, and the children have to see their parents enjoying it.
(2) Parents and their kids need to read together. My dad read to me and had me read to him. I read to my kids, and they read to me. Comic books. Kids' books. Tom Sawyer. Whatever you think is appropriate. Even if it's of poor quality, it will work because of no. 3.
(3) Parents have to talk about books. They have to show the kids that books aren't something to go through and get information out of. A good reader interacts with the book, questions it, experiments with it, learns from it, doubts it, quotes it, acts it out, tries to think of better ways to say the same thing, tries to think of worse ways to say the same thing, judges it, and uses it to judge himself. This goes for fiction and nonfiction. As a matter of fact, it goes for TV and movies, too. Just talk about it. Any reaction can start a good conversation. "She shouldn't have done that!" "What a great word!" "This could end up either very good or very bad." "That character reminds me of my uncle." And a common one from me: "I'm completely lost. Would someone please explain what's going on?"
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We are a not-for-profit educational organization, founded by Mortimer Adler and we have recently made an exciting discovery--three years after writing the wonderfully expanded third edition of How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren made a series of thirteen 14-minute videos--lively discussing the art of reading. The videos were produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica. For reasons unknown, sometime after their original publication, these videos were lost.ReplyDelete
Three hours with Mortimer Adler on one DVD. A must for libraries and classroom teaching the art of reading.
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Those rules worked in my family too. I'm amazed at how frequently my parents still go to the library. But Chloe is sitting beside me right now with a stack of books and a list she can't wait to get!!ReplyDelete


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After 200 years of expansion, democracy's growth in the world has stalled. A handful of democracies like Venezuela and Hungary are backsliding into authoritarianism. And even in established Western democracies, voters are losing faith in democratic institutions and norms.
That has left us and scholars who study democracy obsessed with a set of questions. Is this all just a blip, or is democracy in real trouble? Are the oldest and sturdiest democracies, like those of Europe and the United States, really as safe as they seem? And why would people voluntarily dismantle their own democracy from within?
No one knows the answers for sure. But we're starting to figure them out and it's not all good news. Here, in the first of what will become a regular series of videos exploring big questions and ideas about the world, we explain what we know about democracy's troubles, what's causing them and where it leads.
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We made it through another week!
I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday so far. Just wanted to let you know that the Virtual Baby Shower will resume on Monday with MORE great giveaways!*a Baby Lovie from Swaddle Designs
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Irish warrior-turned-farmer Aodh Dunne was a legendary sportsman. He held the honor of being the only Irishman ever to swim the River Swilley fully-clothed and while drinking a stout. Each summer, when he held what he called A Tournament of Physical Prowess, his property was overrun with participants from all over the island, eager to prove themselves worthy of the top prize, the Golden Potato. Dunne chose the finest examples from his annual potato crop and gave them as awards to the winners of each event at the Tournament. Along with the lovely potato, the winners would also win the right to call themselves "Master of the Tournament" until the next year's competition. Events such as the pike toss, heavy-booted foot race, jumping over the sheep and downhill bark sliding proved to be crowd favorites and the winners of these events became instant celebrities.
As word of his Tournament spread to England and then throughout mainland Europe, Dunne began to receive inquiries from foreigners, wishing to pit their strength and ability against the native Irishmen. For several years, Englishmen, Scots, Welshmen, Frenchmen and Italians participated in the Tournament and its popularity continued to grow. Until one year, Greek pike tosser Cleon Toppappatous came to compete. After losing the preliminary round of pike tossing to Scotsman Donlevy MacTavish, Toppappatous returned to Greece bitter and bent on revenge. Rather than train harder to compete again the following year, Cleon went to Greek nobleman and financier Eutychos Grappelotomous and hatched a plan to create a Greek version of the Irish Tournament.
Their scheme involved stealing all of Dunne's competitors by prohibiting them from participating in both tournaments on the grounds that Dunne was hiring professionals to compete and therefore his competition was unfair. Since the potato, at that time, was a form of Irish currency, they felt it was a just point of order. The Greeks would promise a fair and accurate measure of physical prowess in their tournament by offering simple crowns of laurel to the victors rather than payment. They decided to call their tournament the Olympic Games, after the famous Mt. Olympus – one of the most recognizable landmarks in Greece.
As is evidenced by history's credit for the creation of the first Olympic Games to Greece, the diabolical plan of two petty Greeks clearly succeeded. And thus passes yet another missed opportunity of historical importance and glory for Ireland.


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Promising New Drug And Other Trends To Double Smoking Cessation By 2010
Global sales of smoking cessation and addiction treatments are expected to rise from revenues of little over $1.1 billion in 2005 to more than $2.3 billion in 2010.
Nicotine is clearly the most abused drug worldwide, with over 1.4 billion incidences, including 50 million users in the U.S. alone. Smoking cessation has continually become a particular focus of global health agencies, and the increasing high awareness of effective smoking cessation products have helped to drive market growth.
The market now dominated by GlaxoSmithKline with its Zyban smoking cessation treatment, and Schering-Plough / Reckitt Benckiser with their Suboxone/Subetex substance abuse treatment, is primed for a dramatic change as Pfizer moves into smoking cessation.
"We believe Pfizer's Chantix will acquire the largest share of the market, overtaking GlaxoSmithKline in smoking cessation, and leading all addiction treatments based on the superior effectiveness of Pfizer's product in clinical studies," notes Melissa Elder, the report's author. "To a more limited extent, new drugs in alcohol and substance abuse treatments will also change those markets."
Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments: A World Market Analysis includes world incidence and data for nicotine addiction, drug addiction, and alcohol abuse; current and forecasted revenues through 2010; current and forecasted market share with consideration of new players in the market; reviews of current products and new products in the pipeline; and key trends driving pharmaceutical treatments for smoking cessation and drug/alcohol addiction.


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Colburn Earth Science Museum will host a hard-hat tour and unveil its first new exhibit for the Asheville Museum of Science. In conjunction with the North Carolina Science Festival, taking place through April 24, 2016, the Colburn will present their newly purchased dinosaur – a Terataphoneus curriei. Similar to a sub-adult Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Terataphoneus curriei was discovered by paleontologist John Hankla, who will be at the museum for the unveiling.
The event will be held at the Colburn Earth Science Museum in Pack Place from 4 pm to 6 pm on April 20th. The program will include a dinosaur presentation at the Colburn and will conclude with a walking tour to the future Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) and the Collider in the Wells Fargo Building, adjacent to Pritchard Park downtown.
Colburn Earth Science Museum is an official partner host of the 2016 North Carolina Science Festival presented by the Biogen Foundation. The Colburn will host five more events during this year's festival:
April 15—Grove Stone Quarry tour @ 2pm
April 16—Moth Math citizen science teacher training @ 2pm
April 17—Geology & architecture guided walking tour downtown @ 3pm
April 20—Hard hat sneak preview tour of AMOS and Collider @ 4pm
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The ladies at the Mt. Tabor Christian Church will be hosting the dinner. Everyone is encouraged to come share a meal with friends and neighbors.
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Sioux City Journal – September 1, 1954
Verne Gagne again defended his United States wrestling title successfully Tuesday night when his opponent, Roy McClarity, was unable to continue because of a shoulder injury.
The title match was staged as a George Parnassus promotion at Soos baseball park. A crowd said to exceed 6,500 watched the action.
The decision came after each man had won a fall. McClarity, in being flung out of the ring by Gagne for the second fall, struck his shoulder on the edge of the ring. He did not make it into the ring during the three-minute intermission, nor in a five-minute extension generously offered by Gagne.
The two popular clean-type grapplers made a hit with the crowd with a fast and furious exhibition of legitimate holds and breaks. It took 24 minutes, 46 seconds of action before the first fall went to the Canadian flash. McClarity, who was able to slip out of Gagne's sleeper hold, applied his own version to the champ and took the fall.
A body block and shoulder toss by Gagne threw Roy out of the ring after 42:01 total elapsed time. Gagne won that fall, and when McClarity was not able to continue, the bout went to Verne.
In the semiwindup the brutish Hans Hermann of Boston was shcoked into a one-minute, 33-second defeat at the hands of Ronnie Etchison of St. Joseph, Mo. After using illegal tactics on Ronnie, Hans found himself slammed so hard the ringposts shook.
Joe Dusek and Larry Hamilton grunted to a 20-minute draw in another bout and Mike DiBiase finished Gentleman Jim Dobie with a body block and a shoulder toss in 17:20 of the opener.


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ST. CHARLES – The space that until recently housed Gordy's Grill and Mart will not remain vacant for long.
"We are working [on] a new exciting concept that will fill that space and expect to be open late October," said building owner Curt Hurst, of Frontier Development, LLC, in an email.
Hurst said he was not at liberty right now to talk about what would fill the space.
Gordy's opened its doors in October 2018 at 101 E. Main St. in downtown St. Charles. A Starbucks cafe had previously been in the space.
Gordy's operated as a convenience store and also sold freshly made sandwiches. The space is in the building that also houses the Arcada Theatre and Club Arcada.
Frontier Development recently purchased the Arcada building. The historic building first opened its doors in 1926 and attracted such performers as George Burns and Gracie Allen.
Frontier also recently purchased the former Chord on Blues building and has plans to build a two-story restaurant and office building at the northeast corner of Second Street and Illinois Street as part of the First Street redevelopment project in downtown St. Charles.
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One of the things that I love about social media is that it puts me in touch with new people and new music. I've lost count of the albums that have been recommended to me by folk that I only know through groups of Facebook, and I've been delighted to make new acquaintances and friends through these channels.
One such new friend is Howard Sinclair who has, coincidentally, just released a new CD of original music which I took a chance on and bought. And I must say that it is quite a little gem of an album!
It opens with 'Autocorrect', a jaunty, jangly folk tune which explores the ways in which people and things try to interfere with your life when you don't want them to, and don't when perhaps you do, and features the robotic tones of Kim Seviour at the start and end of the song. 'My Drunken Guitar' begins with slightly stuttering, stumbling guitar picking (in keeping with the title), and has a certain melancholy despite being quite up-beat musically, building to a surprising and splendid electric guitar solo towards the end. 'Last Out of the Valleys' is a song about spreading your wings, exploring new horizons and leaving the disappointments of the past behind you, and has a delightful bluesy feel to it. 'Bid The Dark So Long' opens a capella, in a brooding kind of way that reminded me of Tracy Chapman's 'Behind The Wall'. This is a surprising little song in that the melody of the verses doesn't quite go where you expect it to, though the chorus has more of a conventional feel to it. 'Let It All Go' is another up-beat song to end the first half of the disc, with the added delight of a mandolin solo (or more of a duet with the guitar).
The second half kicks off with the hauntingly beautiful 'Bedsheets and Bad Luck', a cut-down song of simply Howard on piano and a little cello, and Kim Seviour on vocals, delving into the depths of insomnia, guilt and possibly the contemplation of suicide (?). As a counter to this, the title track follows with its up-beat tale of a woman's life transformed by the light of love - a touching piece of work. 'Lazy Sunday Morning' is a wonderful slice of lazy blues - certainly more bluesy that 'Last Out of the Valleys' - with screaming organ and wailing guitars. 'See You on the Brightside' is a dark, moody song about coping with depression. It has a Johnny Cash kind of feel to me, a blackness like the dog itself, enhanced by the droning double bass in the background. The album closer lifts the mood again: 'What Comes Next' puts its travelling hat on and presses on to a new beginning with confidence and a smile.
Howard is supported throughout not only by Kim, but also by a talented bunch of musicians: Becky Baldwin on basses, Paul 'Gibbo' Gibbons on drums & percussion, Patrick 'Patch' Sanders on guitars, Jonathan Edwards on keyboards & Si Wright on trumpets & backing vocals.
These are songs of change and transition, covering a range of emotions and situations, light and dark. I have to say that, for me, it gets better with every listen. Give it a listen yourself here - I believe you won't be disappointed.
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Howard Sinclair - The Light Broke In
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Labels: 2014, acoustic, bandcamp, Howard Sinclair, Kim Seviour, Rock
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Thanks for this informative review John. I will listen to the album the coming week with your scribblings in my hands.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 November 2014 at 12:35
not really my cup of tea. Good musician but his voice is quite weakReplyDelete
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My role has evolved quite significantly since I started at Peppermint. I began as a tester and have developed into a Product Consultancy role. Peppermint is a small enough company for you to be able to know everybody at all levels. The positive energy trickles down from the top. Everybody has got the same kind of optimism about what we do and everybody's got a common goal – customer success.
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Save the males? Too late for Mycocepurus smithii (pictured).
This leaf-cutter ant species is all female and thrives without sex of any kind—ever—according to a new study. The ants have evolved to reproduce only when queens clone themselves.
"They appear to have evolved a new mode of reproduction, and the genetic mechanisms have yet to be worked out," said lead study author Anna Himler, a research associate at the University of Arizona.
In M. smithii the typical muscular reproductive organ of female ants has evolved into a "sort of a ghost of an organ at this point," Himler added.
No male of the species has ever been found, and "even if a male were theoretically to appear somewhere, we're not sure they could mate any more," she said.
M. smithii also has an idiosyncratic arrangement for that other apparent necessity: food. The ants, which range from northern Mexico to Argentina, are in a codependent relationship with a specific fungus.
"The fungus garden is quite wimpy," Himler said. "If you remove the ants, the gardens will quickly die."
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Just moved out to the back end of nowhere, otherwise known as Eatonton, GA. Looking for a gaming group to join. Not really caring what game, though anything other then White Wolf and I'll have to learn the system; but I'm just dying to get into a game.
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Also looking for game. Available almost anytime for 5E or Pathfinder.
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I'm new to Albany, GA .. also looking for a game .. I'd prefer SFB, but a nice rpg would do fine too.
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I'm roughly an hour and a half away from you in Thomaston. Seems everything happening is right there an hour or more away from me
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Hey FattusMaxumus, I have the same problem. I live near Butler, about an hour south of you. Like you, I had to go an hour to get any where. Are you still looking for a group? I can't promise anything, but at least we can commiserate :-)
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Mom (M): Hey daughter, I attented my very bestfriend's daughter wedding party. Surprisingly, my friend had already got her doctoral degree!!
Daughter (D): Wow! thats cool, mom!
M: Yup,, and me? no such title ya? even for Bachelor.. hahaha
D: Hehe.. That is fine mommy.. Though you have none of it, You've already had a bachelor daughter and another bachelor daughter to be, and InsyaAllah you'll also have a master titled daughter.. you are the best! and I profoundly belive that Allah SWT will give you more precious title directly.. heaven hopefully 🙂
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Just like Flipkart, Amazon is also back with another Diwali sale. During the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale, you will see offers and discounts on phones, laptops, cameras, TVs, and more. The special Diwali sale starts from October 21 and will be live until 11:59PM on October 25. Prime members will get exclusive early access starting October 20 (12:00PM). Also Read - Netflix and Amazon Prime Video could face censorship as number of court cases growAlso Read - Flipkart Video Originals launched in India to take on Amazon Prime
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Chalet Trois Ours
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Chalet Trois Ours is one of the best located ski chalets in Meribel – on the exclusive Route des Chalets, it is immediately on the Doron piste giving true ski-in ski-out access. This beautiful traditional chalet exudes charm and elegance and was completely renovated in 2011 to be the perfect choice for those looking for a true luxury chalet skiing holiday in Meribel. Enjoy the great views from the large balcony off the spacious living area, have a soak in the outside jacuzzi or enjoy a Blu-Ray film in the cinema room. For those that haven't tired themselves out yet, there's the gym downstairs with a steam room to relax aching muscles afterwards. There is also a dedicated massage/treatment room where you can enjoy a couple of hours of pampered bliss.
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This prestigious chalet is laid out over four floors. The top floor is home to four of the gorgeous bedrooms. The bedrooms are all beautifully designed using local wood and Alpine style providing a warm and cosy haven off the slopes. The rooms are all en-suite, with Villeroy & Boch bath tubs, under floor heating, large luxurious towels and a full range of indulgent luxury bath products. All bedrooms can be made up as twins or doubles to suit the requirements of your party and all have great storage space. Three of the bedrooms have balconies with lovely views of the slopes.
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Almost the entire ground floor is given over to the large open plan dining area and living room with its beautiful stone fire place and luxurious sofas which are just made for sinking into after a fabulous day on the slopes. The surround sound music system, guest fridge stocked with cool drinks and treats and choice of books, newspapers, magazines and games make this a fabulous place to relax and unwind.
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As you continue downstairs you will find the heated boot room which leads out to the rather special jacuzzi on the balcony. Indulge yourselves with a hot soak, a cold glass of wine and views of the slopes beside you. On this floor there is also another large bedroom with en-suite facilities. The room can be made up as a double or twin to suit your requirements and French windows take you onto the Jacuzzi terrace.
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Down one more floor to the cinema room with large comfortable sofas, high definition screen and surround sound. Choose a film from the extensive DVD library, watch a series or film on Netflix or catch up on the latest sports news on SKY.
For the more active, there is the gym room with exercise bike, running machine, free weights and stretching mats which is fitted with a TV and sound system. And for the perfect post-workout there is a beautiful steam room with adjacent jet power shower room leaving you feeling truly invigorated. For those needing a massage or just need pampering, there's a dedicated treatment room where we can arrange a range of treatments at times to suit you.
Chalet Trois Ours is an exceptional chalet. Its combination of supreme comfort and effortless ski access allow it to make claim as one of the best luxury chalets in Meribel and we believe our renowned service package is more than the icing on the cake.
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- Central Ski-In/Ski-Out location
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- Located on Méribel's exclusive Doron piste
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- Pre-dinner Champagne and canapés (6 nights)
- 4 course dinner with selection of fine wines (6 nights)
- Spacious living area, log fire and large balconies
- 5 bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms
- Outdoor Jacuzzi
- HD Cinema room with Apple TV, Sky and surround sound
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- Fridge with complimentary wine, beer, soft drinks and snacks
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- Film library, books and games
- Steam room with power shower
- Gym with running machine, bike and free weights
- Dedicated Massage and Beauty therapy room
- Wifi, iPad and printing facilities available
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This period is the coldest it has been since 2013, when the average daily mean temperature for April 1 through May 13 was 38.6 degrees. It is also the 17th coldest on record since 1881. Other springs with colder temperatures over this period in recent memory include 1996, 1979, 1967 and 1966. The coldest was 1907, with an average daily mean temperature of 34.3 degrees for this period.


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The Workshop takes place as part of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies.
Date: June 3, 2019
Time: 9.00-18.00
Place: Vienna University of Technology
The overall goal is to facilitate and further exchange between researchers, practitioners and activists in the fields of critical making, social and digital innovation, participatory design, and community management. We therefore invite the participation of researchers and practitioners!
Participant Submission Deadline: May 2, 2019
Critical making offers the chance to combine practices of making with critical thinking, to explore topics utilizing technologies and materials and thereby creating tangible artefacts which have a societal impact. Many of the growing number of makerspaces globally – though by far not the whole so-called "maker movement" – foster participatory design for and with their communities to solve local problems, explicitly or implicitly basing their practices on critical design. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners at the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies to discuss emerging and evolving issues of critical making, participatory design, and maker communities. It will offer an introduction to critical making based on a short history of the maker movement, current societal impacts achieved through practices of making, as well as criticism directed towards maker culture. Together with the participants, we will look at participatory practices of critical designing and making for and with communities, and the role which makerspaces play as facilitators and drivers of these practices. Participants will share examples, best practices, tools and methods, and explore how we can better work together towards collaboratively developing theories, methods and practices, and achieving more societal impact of critical making in makerspaces around the world.
We – as humans, as makers, and as researchers – live in systemically and globally challenging times which require social, environmental, technological and political innovations. The work of a growing number of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) researchers revolves around the role technology can play in adapting to different patterns than those based on the assumption of infinite economic growth [4, 14, 20, 27]. We argue that critical thinking and collaboration are prerequisites for these innovations; that in technology design, they have been implemented as concepts of critical making and participatory design; and that community makerspaces are ideally situated as spaces where such collaboration for innovation grounded in specific local conditions can have positive societal impacts.
Critical Making
Criticality in making is a relatively new concept, which so far has been practiced mostly in art and design studios and dedicated research projects conducted by academia [6, 11, 12]. Critical making is not only a critical practice of making, but also critical of the "maker culture" and all the implications the term evokes. The biggest matters of concern are the lack of reflection, economic impact of the practice, and also diversity: The so-called "maker movement" often is presented as open to everybody and thereby democratizing technology design [25], while in fact more often than not efforts are required to include makers who are not able-bodied, cis-gender, middle-class white men between the ages of 15 and 50 [1, 2, 13, 19]
Participatory Design
Participatory design originated in workers successfully calling for participation in the design of the systems that affect them [8]. Based on the same fundamental values of democratization and empowerment, and with technologies becoming both more ubiquitous and more accessible to more people, researchers within and beyond the field of HCI have developed frameworks and methodologies to support technology design for and with the affected communities [18, 21, 23, 24, 26, 30]. Participatory Design is at a "reflexive turn" [3, p.27] at this moment, and we hope to contribute to the debate about its future with this workshop. We believe that practitioners and researchers of critical making and participatory design can both gain much from mutual exchange, as well as from exchange with community makerspaces on the ground.
Making as a practice of Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) or Do-It-Together (DIT) instead of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) has become very popular around the world in recent years [17]. The diversity of makerspaces reflects the popularity of making as well as the diverse interpretations of the term: It is used to refer to a wide range of places, from the safe space of an activist community that utilizes practices of hacking and making, to a shared workshop where one pays for the use of machines [28, 29]. Particularly in the majority world, some makerspaces already realize their role as societal and political actors, as can be seen e.g. in the citizen-driven projects of LabCOCO at the Umbigada Cultural Center in Brazil \footnote; the Hack-a-Toy workshops offered by Engineering Good in Singapore; the ASKOtec mobile makerspace employed inter alia in refugee camps in Uganda; the i4Policy initiative which originated in Rwanda and brings together innovation communities to support governments in shaping policies; or Lifepatch, a citizen initiative exploring science and technology, experimenting with artistic forms of expression in Indonesia. While such global developments have received some attention [5, 7, 15, 16, 22, 24], mainstream debates on the societal roles of making and makerspaces can gain a lot more from them without exoticizing them.
Workshop Goals and Activities
The goal of this workshop is to facilitate and further exchange between researchers, practitioners and activists in the fields of critical making, social and digital innovation, participatory design, and community management. We want to offer a forum to discuss criticality as a starting point for a taxonomy of makers and makerspaces within what has been described as an assemblage rather than a "movement" of makers [15].
Questions which the workshop will address include:
- What are the processes and societal impacts of critical making?
- What examples of explicitly and implicitly critical making are there? What are best practices for designing programs and projects?
- Is making not in and of itself a critical and subversive practice, as it enables everybody to make everything? [9] Are all makers thus prone to be critical makers? Why should makers feel obliged to be critical at all?
- What are the roles of researchers, makerspace managers, community members and makers in critical making? Why do they engage in critical making instead of "taking it all" [10]?
- How do affected communities participate in the design of critical making practices? How can critical making be implemented by makerspaces?
- Can a critical approach add to more openness in maker communities?
- Does the practice of critical making always include elements of participatory design?
- Can criticality lead to a more impactful understanding of makerspaces as societal and political actors?
We look forward to more questions being raised by the contributors to this workshop!
Pre-Workshop Plans
Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers, and accepted ones will be published on the workshop website. A maximum of 20 submissions will be accepted in order to enable meaningful interaction between all participants.
The workshop website will be disseminated through the organizers' networks and used as a platform to further global exchange and research around critical making for and with communities, also beyond the workshop. Participation in this exchange as well as the workshop itself is explicitly not restricted to authors of accepted submissions – on the contrary, we look forward to engaging with everybody who is interested in the topics.
Workshop Structure
We propose the following workshop structure with approximate timings, taking into account breaks:
- Welcome and Round of Introductions (30 min)
- Keynote by the Workshop Organizers as an introduction to the workshop topics and themes (30 min)
- Group session: Themes and directions emerging from submissions (30 min)
- Breakout sessions: Working Groups around different themes (120 min)
- Group session: Presentation of Working Groups (60 min)
- Breakout sessions: Plans for future activities and collaborative projects in academia and practice (60 min)
- Wrap-up and Conclusion (30 min)
We will tailor the workshop activities in more detail around the topics and themes addressed in the submissions.
Post-Workshop Plans
Through the workshop website and the organizers' and participants' networks, we want to foster exchange on and collaboration around the topics between researchers, practitioners and activists. We propose authoring a first joint contribution to an academic journal following the workshop, to further the debate on critical making with and for communities in academia. To foster collaboration and exchange between practitioners of critical making worldwide, we offer to establish a working group within the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) network and utilize its existing infrastructures. Networked activities can involve but are not limited to: co-creating, sharing and remixing open-source methodologies, e.g. in the form of project documentations, toolkits or card decks; organizing (virtual) events together where critical makers can meet; co-designing and collaboratively conducting projects; telling engaging stories of critical making and communities.
About the Organizers
Regina Sipos holds M.A. degrees in Communications, Dutch Philology and Education and is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Institute of Vocational Education and Work Studies, Technical University Berlin. Her research focuses on grassroots, community driven social innovation, appropriate and open source technology, critical making and connected communities. She is also the Founder and Director of the Social-Digital Innovation Initiative, focused on bringing together social entrepreneurs and free and open source software and hardware communities, and helping them create technology supported social innovation worldwide.
Victoria Wenzelmann holds M.A. degrees in Cultural Anthropology and African Studies and is a research associate at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen. Her research focuses on ecosystems for social and technological innovation, (mobile) labs and learnspaces, as well as participatory design. She is also a member of the executive board of GIG the Global Innovation Gathering, a network of social and technological innovators from around the world, many of whom practice critical making.
Inviting Participation
This one-day workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and activists to discuss and extend current concepts regarding critical making for and with communities. This will be used to inform the further development of critical making and participatory practices of making with affected communities.
We invite anyone interested in participating to submit via email a position paper of maximum four pages (ACM Extended Abstract format), or alternatively – for those with no academic background – a critical essay, piece of photo journalism, audio podcast, or video documentary. All submissions should reflect on how the authors' research, activities or interests address issues related to critical making for and with communities. Authors' prior experience does not have to be specifically concerned with critical making, makerspaces or participatory practices, but the submissions will be expected to demonstrate how their work is relevant to the workshop topic and can be applied within the workshop context. We will share the Call for Contributions to this workshop with our networks of researchers, practitioners and activists.
A maximum of 20 participants will be selected by the organizers to present and publish their work based on the contributions' relevance to the workshop themes, quality of submission and potential to stimulate discussion. The workshop papers will be published on the workshop website. We will discuss possible further publications, e.g. in a special issue of a relevant journal, during the workshop.
In order to ground the discussions in practice, we particularly encourage participation from non-academic practitioners, and therefore will contact relevant communities, ranging from global to local makerspaces in and near Vienna.
Important Dates
- Participant Submission Deadline: 2nd May, 2019
- Notification of Acceptance: 3rd May, 2019
- Workshop: 3rd June, 2019
Contact Us
To contact us, just write an Email to sipos [at] tu-berlin.de and/or victoria.wenzelmann [at] uni-siegen.de


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