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New Tourism Director Setting Priorities
New tourism director Veronica Bosley and Mayor Richard Alcombright wait to be introduced by Eric Rudd at the Beaver Mill.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Veronica Bosley, former program coordinator for the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, was introduced as the city's new tourism director on Thursday night at an artist's discussion group at the Beaver Mill.
The town of Florida native is stepping into a post that's become a flashpoint as the city struggles to overcome a $1 million deficit after an override went down in defeat last month. A number of citizens, including a couple of city councilors, have advocated slashing the $51,000 tourism budget — or at least holding off on filling the post for another year.
But Bosley found a warm welcome at Eric Rudd's Beaver Mill as some 40 or so artists and residents lobbed ideas at her for expanding the city's marketing stance and luring more tourists and their dollars to the area.
Bosley has roots in the arts community here.
"We made our decision and we're sticking by it," joked Mayor Richard Alcombright, who with BCRC head Jonathan Secor and Develop North Adams Chairman Brian Miksic selected Bosley from a pool of about 30 candidates. "I think you're going to find her helpful to all of you, helpful in many ways; [she] will continue to drive events in this community and will really involve herself in the arts and culture community and also many other sectors of the community ... I think we need to grow in all sectors."
Bosley said she was flattered to be selected. "It has been really exciting to see the challenges and changes that have happened over the years," said the 2006 Mount Holyoke College graduate. "I'm really hoping to harness that great energy and all of those good vibes and market North Adams for what it really is, which is a great place to live, a great place to own a business and a great place to come and visit."
She worked at Williams College's Sawyer Library for several years and writes a monthly column for the Berkshire Visitors Bureau. Her experience includes organizing and coordinating a number of performances, conferences and dance festivals at Williams; marketing for the Berkshire Museum; managing and marketing the Berkshire Hill Internship Program, part of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts BCRC; and overseeing related websites and social media. She's also appeared in some local plays.
Bosley won't be on the payroll until after July 17 but the group had plenty of ideas to throw at her during the 90-minute discussion that covered topics ranging from passenger rail to artists housing to revamping the website.
Peter May, a local chiropractor, said he could name two dozen things the city could boast about but couldn't understand why it hasn't been "discovered."
"Any town in our economic situation would die for one of them never mind 24," he said. "It's completely dysfunctional that it hasn't happened."
The new tourism director's task will include cultural development and marketing, and building connections locally and statewide to find ways to let the wider world — and the towns next door — know what North Adams has to offer in terms of culture, recreation and natural beauty.
Bosley said the website is one of her priorities, but it's a project limited by the lack of funding. She and the mayor said it should reflect usable information for people visiting, or looking for jobs or to relocate. Attendees said it should have a list of events and suggested using it as a vehicle for "bragging" stories about some the interesting things going on and a place for photographers to display their images of city.
Along with the summer and fall event planning, she'll be working on setting benchmarks to measure progress.
"I imagine it would have to be some sort of combination of people and money spent here. ... which I'm hoping will indicate satisfaction," she said. "I think it's important for us to start keeping track of those things."
Alcombright said it's been difficult to measure the actual impact of tourism or events such as the Solid Sound Festival. "I think the information is there," said local potter Gail Sellers, who suggested retail operations begin tracking traffic and sales as she's been doing to provide Bosley with data. "It's just a matter of putting it in one place."
"Right now we have no baseline ... and we need to be able to measure this," said Miksic. "We need to be able to measure this, economically speaking, to the City Council next year."
Benchmarks may be critical to proving to the council — and skeptical residents — that the position should continue to be funded.
"I fought very hard to keep this in the budget, I think it's one of those positions that can help the community grow, bring revenue to the community and it's what we're shooting for," said Alcombright. Still, he cautioned that Bosley was working without clerical or other support and with a very low budget.
"I'm hoping, really hoping that people don't try dumping stuff that's already being taken care of because we have so many new things we have to do," said Rudd, turning to Bosley to say, "I think you're going to have to say no to some people."
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Tourism Director Being Introduced This Week
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is expected to have a new tourism director named by Thursday.
Mayor Richard Alcombright confirmed on Tuesday that a selection had been made but some details were still being worked out before he felt comfortable in making a public announcement.
"I think everybody will be excited," he said. "I think we made a good choice."
The new director of tourism and community events will be introduced at a "First Thursday" discussion group with artists at the Beaver Mill. The monthly evening sessions have been held by Eric Rudd and other artists at the Beaver Mill for some time.
Alcombright said the timing for the session dovetailed with the expectation that a new director would be hired and resulted with Rudd's invitation to attend.
Area artists and the general public are invited as well. The talk will be held on the first floor of Frog Lotus Yoga Studio from 6:30 to 8; use the center front entrance. Light refreshments will be served.
Rudd's press release on the evening stated "This discussion will give the artist-community a chance to not only hear ideas from the new director, but also to hear ideas and concerns from the community."
The director's job has been vacant since the departure of Rod Bunt this past March. Some 30 or so applications were submitted and the finalists narrowed down to a handful.
The post itself has become controversial as the city struggled with a $1 million deficit. Last month, the City Council debated tossing out the entire tourism department (the director and some cash for events) before approving the budget in its entirety.
Some may have expected the job to be back on the chopping block after the defeat of a controversial $1.2 million override to fund the deficit but the mayor says he'll fight to keep the post.
"This will be in Plan B," he said. "I'm going to leave that in the budget ... I am standing by this."
The mayor sees the director's post as a revenue generator, one that will agressively market the city and seek out grants. The goal is for the new director to raise his or her own salary through grants or increases in revenue by luring tourists and new business to the city.
A salary of $34,186 has been budgeted but the total line item for the tourism department has been cut $10,000 from this year.
Alcombright said he planned to submit a revised 2012 budget on July 26. "We cut from the city and the school side $900,000 out of the initial document we came up with in March and April," he said. "The deficit is now about $477,000 ... We're working to get it down."
One bright spot is the recently passed state budget that holds out hope of restoring some $65 million in local aid cuts. That's dependent on how the state's books look; it could be October before municipalities get firm numbers.
"We could pick up a quarter of a million ... This could be a real shot in an arm," said the mayor.
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Morocco Retiring to Ease Budget Crunch
Finance Committee members Alan Marden, Chairman Michael Bloom and David Bond reviewed the fiscal 2012 budget with Mayor Richard Alcombright and department heads. Also in attendance were Councilors Marie Harpin, David Lamarre, Michael Boland, Lisa Blackmer and President Ronald Boucher.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Public Safety Commissioner E. John Morocco will retire at the end of the fiscal year to "take pressure of the budget" it was announced at Wednesday's Finance Committee meeting.
The disclosure came during discussion of the Public Safety Department's budget in which the commissioner's salary was slashed to $21,000.
"He knows the plight we're in ... he will be retiring at the end of the fiscal year," said Mayor Richard Alcombright, who added that the commissioner had approached him about retiring within the last week or so. "I want to keep the commissioner on for at least six months to work on the transition, then he can offload the things he does to other people."
Public Safety Commissioner E. John Morocco will stay on for six months to help the department transition. He said it would be difficult for the fire and police directors to take over his duties.
The Department of Public Works union is also cognizant of the tough times, said Alcombright. "They voted as a body to forgo their fiscal 2012 raise."
Union members were slated to get 1 percent (they received a 1 percent retroactive raise for this year), which the mayor figured would be a savings of around $7,500.
"These are people who unfortunately do not make a lot of money," Alcombright said. "They do a lot for the city. It makes a difference if the average guy made $300 a year [with the raise]; if the 2 1/2 override passes, they're probably going to get hit with $250."
The mayor halted contract negotiations with some of the other unions; he said the teachers, who have settled, have indicated they may reconsider their contract as well.
The City Council submitted a home-rule petition to the Legislature last year to extend Morocco's tenure two years past his mandated retirement age. At the time, city officials were considering whether to dispense with a commissioner. Keeping Morocco on was to give them a two-year buffer to research the matter, although little progress has been made in that direction.
Alcombright said the Morocco's leaving did not indicate a change in the public safety structure and the commissioner's position would remain active until the city determined what to do. The mayor said he didn't think the savings of eliminating the position would be significant.
"You're going to go away from the commissioner but nobody knows what I do," said Morocco. "I've brought in $5 million in grants; someone has to maintain those."
The police and fire director jobs would have to change, he said. "Call them what you want, they still have a job to do so to say they're going to their job and do what I'd do managing grants and budgets and stuff ... ."
Morocco's partial departure reduces Public Safety's administrative budget by $63,000. The rest of the departments are for the most part level-funded and there are no increases for department heads with the expectation of the assessor, whose salary reflects the position's change from four days a week to five.
The mayor defended hiring a new tourism director, saying it would be a source of revenue.
The administrative officer position is funded for a half-year, with hopes it can be filled by next January. An assistant information systems director has been added at $50,000 but an assistant inspector of buildings will be left vacant as will two posts in the library — the assistant director and an office clerk.
The Finance Committee recommended slashing stipends from city boards, including the City Council, on Wednesday but voted 2-1 to keep the tourism director position after nearly a half-hour of discussion.
Committee member Alan Marden called for all volunteer boards to have their stipends slashed and the City Council to accept $1 each this year, a $27,000 cut, "just for one year to send a message."
Alcombright said some of the stipends may be required by state law. "They may be mandated but there's no reason they have to accept it," said Marden.
The mayor vigorously defended keeping the tourism director position and department, a cost of about $51,000 total, in the budget.
"I think this is a vital position for the city of North Adams," he said, comparing it to the Megan Wilden's work in Pittsfield's Cultural Office. "I think that this position has the ability to generate revenue, I think this position with the right person has the ability to generate grants, that it has the ability to reach out and in a sense be the face of the city.
"I really think this is a very, very important part of us moving forward."
Councilor David lamarre wondered if it would be better to wait a year to offer a higher salary and attract better candidates for the vacant post; Alcombright said the eight people to be interviewed, including "five who are spectacular," had been told the $34,000 salary and indicated it was acceptable.
Councilor Marie Harpin asked if the Develop North Adams and the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, or staff at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art could coordinate city events. The mayor and Finance Committee members Chairman Michael Bloom and David Bond said it would be difficult and unlikely.
"If they were to bring in a half-million, the $34,000 would be money well-spent," said Bloom.
Bloom and Bond voted to recommend the position; Marden voted against, adding "this is the hardest vote for me."
A public hearing on the $15.6 million school budget will be held Tuesday, June 7, and presented to the Finance Committee the next day. The city budget will be presented at next week's City Council meeting.
The draft budget is below and can be found on the sidebar. The document was created horizontally but, unfortunately, appears vertically on Scribd. We will try to find a way to post it so it's easier to read.
North Adams Draft Budget FY2012
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City Advertising for Tourism Director
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is looking for a new face — someone who will promote North Adams' cultural and recreational assets and partner with regional organizations with similar goals.
The position for a director of tourism and community events was posted on BerkshireJobs.com last week. The job appears to expand on what had been the director of the Mayor's Office of Tourism and Cultural Development.
According to the job posting, "This position will create an atmosphere that attracts, welcomes and supports existing and new cultural institutions and creative businesses, as well as artists and creative individuals of all disciplines into the city of North Adams."
The goal is to increase the number of visitors (and the amount of their spending) in the city by coordinating events with other entities and towns and promoting marketing intiatives. The director will also coordinate all city-sponsored activities, such as the Mayor's Downtown Celebration, the Northern Berkshire Food Festival, and sporting events among others. The person selected will also be expected to grow a volunteer corps and work with existing organizations.
The post requires a bachelor's degree in marketing or communications and several years experience in related marketing. The new director will also have to be able to handle the website, email marketing, social media and online strategies.
The tourism position had been filled for the past decade by Rod Bunt, a former WNAW radio host hired by the former administration. Bunt quit March 3 saying he was looking for opportunities in the private sector, but there had been speculation for months that he and Mayor Richard Alcombright weren't seeing eye to eye on the position's responsibilities. "I've been canned, sacked, terminated, booted, ...," he wrote on his "The Unemployment Diary," but later told the Transcript that it was a writing exercise for an obscure literary magazine.
Alcombright said the city would take the opportunity to expand and "carefully craft" the director's job description to incorporate more marketing skills. Within a couple weeks of Bunt's departure and before any job vacancy was posted, the city had received nearly three dozen resumes.
The director's post is currently an S-35, with a starting pay of $33,009. The advertisement does not give a wage estimate nor is it clear the position will be the same classification. Alcombright last year raised eyebrows when he pushed for a new classification for an administrative assistant that jumped the job's starting wage up several steps from the secretarial classification.
The city's also looking for a seasonal park security officer for Windsor Lake and the campground. The Parks & Recreation Commission discussed the post at its last meeting.
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Bunt Resigns as Tourism Director
Rod Bunt, right, leads the Fall Foliage Children's Parade in 2009. The director of the city's office of tourism for the last decade resigned Thursday.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Rod Bunt quit abruptly Thursday as the city's director of tourism and cultural development.
Mayor Richard Alcombright said he and Bunt had spoken Wednesday and the parting was amicable. Bunt submitted his resignation effective today.
"I wasn't shocked, he wasn't shocked," said the mayor, who added that Bunt was planning to pursue opportunities in the private sector. "I'll miss him, he's a great guy."
Bunt told the North Adams Transcript, which broke the story earlier this afternoon, that his annual salary of $34,160 hasn't moved much since he was hired in 2001 and he "had some irons in the fire."
The former WNAW morning show host was named director for the newly created office in 2001 by former Mayor John Barrett III. He oversaw events and promotions in the city including the annual farmers' market, Winterfest and the Fall Foliage Festival.
He told the Transcript it wouldn't be fair to the city to hold the post while looking elsewhere. Bunt said he would be available to help the new director transition into the job.
"Rod's been the events guy for the city for 10-plus years," said Alcombright. "He's done a lot of things and grown a lot of events. He's been kind of the feet on the street for us."
Bunt reportedly also resigned as director of the annual Fall Foliage Parade, according to an e-mail sent from parade sponsor Berkshire Chamber of Commerce to the Parade Committee.
His name was removed from the city's website by Thursday afternoon. The mayor's administrative assistant Lisa Loomis is listed as the contact and will be the liasion to the chamber.
A call to Bunt on Thursday has not yet been returned.
With a summer season filled with the Food Festival, the return of Wilco and a giant Zumba dance fundraiser on Main Street for the annual Relay for Life, the position won't go vacant long. Bunt's departure, however, will give the city an opportunity to re-envision the job's responsibilities and write a "carefully crafted" job description, said the mayor.
That will mean searching for someone with a marketing and branding background, and possibly experience in business and the arts, to coordinate with the city's cultural and business groups. The mayor expected to post the position within the next week or so.
"I fully intend to fill the position," said Alcombright. "There are a lot of events that are in a sense city events that you can't bump off onto the private sectors."
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And while the Obama administration is looking to this crackdown on existing coal plants as the highest achievement of its climate-change legacy, never fear, greenies: Administration officials are going to keep eagerly occupying themselves with churning out more of those little economically damaging yet, global-warming-wise, ineffectual show maneuvers until the clock runs out, oh joy:
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The activity is evidence that Obama's push to combat global warming with regulation has entered a critical phase, with officials hammering out the details of rules that carry major implications for the environment and the economy. …
The power plants rule has attracted more attention that perhaps any other Obama administration regulation. Industry and green groups have flocked to the White House in hopes of shaping the proposal, slated to be unveiled early next month.
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Hillsborough: Result of lazy 1980s prejudices
Mark Easton
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If Wednesday was about truth, today is about justice. The report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel opens up a new path down which the campaigners are set to march.
There is now a very real possibility of prosecutions of police officers or others found to have been involved in the systematic amendment of key statements to the original Taylor inquiry in 1989. A case could be made that this was an attempt to pervert the course of justice, trying to airbrush out the evidence of potentially criminal negligence.
It seems likely that the attorney general will apply for the original inquest into the tragedy to be quashed and a new one opened. Were that fresh hearing to come to a different conclusion to the accidental death verdict recorded at the time, that might also open the way to criminal prosecutions.
There have been suggestions that Sheffield Wednesday FC and the city's council might face allegations of corporate manslaughter, were it to be demonstrated that they were criminally negligent in failing to protect the fans that fateful Saturday.
The former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday it was "a matter of great regret" that he did not do more during his time in office to investigate the claims of the Hillsborough campaigners, while arguing that it was the Conservative Thatcher government which had created a "culture of impunity" within the police.
Interestingly, a letter from Mr Straw among the 450,000 pages scrutinised by the independent panel suggests he was not immune to that culture. He wrote to the then Attorney General John Morris in early 1998, just as Lord Justice Stuart-Smith's report was due to recommend no new inquiry into Hillsborough. Below is an excerpt.
Referring to the amendment of statements by South Yorkshire Police, Mr Straw said: "There are bound to be questions, however, about whether anything in this process might amount to misconduct of a criminal or disciplinary nature. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith considers it would not. It would in theory be possible to instigate a further police investigation to confirm this conclusively, but I think the outcome would be a foregone conclusion, and I do not consider that such an investigation should be instigated."
The disaster and its despicable aftermath were the consequences of lazy 1980s prejudice: that football was the preserve of yobs and drunks (this was an era when managing football crowds saw public order put before public safety) and that Liverpool was the city of rebels and chancers, with a reputation for harbouring a grievance.
It was useful for the authorities that there was a grain of truth in these simplistic portraits, caricatures that could be exploited by those engaged in official calumny.
Even 10 years on when New Labour was looking to challenge what they saw as the crusty old establishment, the home secretary dismissed Liverpool's desperate pleas for a judicial inquiry.
Today those frames of reference have completely altered. Football, for all its faults, has won its reputation as "the beautiful game" and Liverpool can proudly boast it is a city of European culture.
The Hillsborough disaster and the fight for justice is now a tale that will be woven into the folk history of our islands. But it is a narrative that will be adapted to fit two competing liturgies.
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There is always a tension between citizens with a grievance and an establishment safeguarding its authority. The question is, perhaps, whether official promises of openness, honesty and accountability from our public institutions are more credible today than they were back in 1989.
The families of Jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson and Mark Duggan will have their own views. The hope must be that in 2012 our systems are better at ensuring that truth will out and the path to justice will be short.


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Padres miss chance to pounce on Bumgarner
The San Diego Padres got off to a good start against All-Star lefty Madison Bumgarner, scoring two runs on three hits in the first inning.
The wouldn't score again all night.
"You never know when a key inning is going to happen," Padres manager Bud Black said after the Padres lost 4-2 to Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night. "As this game played out, and the way he pitched after the first, that was our best opportunity. We were one big hit away from stretching that lead.
"He settled in, he got stronger and shut us down."
Bumgarner allowed just four hits in seven innings, and Pablo Sandoval hit his first home run since May 21 as the Giants won in a matchup of the worst teams in the weak NL West.
The defending World Series champion Giants, who snapped a four-game losing streak, have been in a free-fall since June 15. They had lost 19 of 24 games coming in and were a season-high 10 games under .500. They started the night two percentage points behind the Padres and ended it by jumping past San Diego into fourth place.
Bumgarner (10-5) retired 15 in a row after his rough first inning before Carlos Quentin singled with two outs in the sixth. The lefty struck out six and walked one.
The Giants are 2-8 in July, with Bumgarner getting both wins. Sergio Romo pitched the ninth for his 21st save in 24 chances.
The Padres have lost 16 of 19.
Sandoval got San Francisco's weak offense going in the fourth with a leadoff homer to right-center off Jason Marquis, his ninth.
It was Sandoval's first homer in 101 at-bats. Sandoval, who was on the disabled list from June 9-24 with a strained left foot, was 6 of 55 (.109) before that at-bat.
The Giants had the bases loaded three times in the sixth and seventh innings but scored only one run.
Marquis took a 2-1 lead into the sixth and struck out Buster Posey leading off the inning before loading the bases and allowing Kensuke Tanaka's RBI single up the middle. Marquis made way for Joe Thatcher, who got Brandon Crawford to hit into a force at the plate. Dale Thayer came on and struck out Bumgarner to end the inning.
The Giants loaded the bases again in the seventh on two singles and a hit batsman, and Thayer again got out of trouble by striking out Belt to end it.
San Francisco finally broke through in the eighth with two runs and three hits off Luke Gregerson (4-5), including an RBI double by Blanco that bounced over the fence in left, and Posey's RBI single to left.
In the first, Quentin hit an RBI double and, after Jesus Guzman was intentionally walked to load the bases, Kyle Blanks drove in a run on a fielder's choice. Bumgarner got Logan Forsythe to line out to second to end the inning.
"He's got such good pitches and he makes you think about his cutter and he fools you with something else," said Everth Cabrera, San Diego's only All-Star. "He's really tough, probably as tough of a pitcher that we face."
Marquis failed for the fifth time to get his 10th victory. He allowed two runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings, struck out three and walked two.
NOTES: The Giants have won 10 of Bumgarner's last 11 starts against the Padres. ... The four-game series continues Friday night when right-hander Sean O'Sullivan makes his debut for his hometown Padres against San Francisco RHP Chad Gaudin (2-1, 2.44 ERA). O'Sullivan, who graduated from Valhalla High in suburban El Cajon in 2005, was signed by the Padres as a minor league free agent in December. It will be his first big league start since Sept. 27, 2011, with the Royals. ... Padres 1B Yonder Alonso is expected to be in the starting lineup for Friday's game He has been on the disabled list since May 31 with a broken right hand.


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March 30, 2011 — Stephen Wolfram
Over the past 25 years, we've been fortunate enough to make a mark in all sorts of areas of science and technology. Today I'm excited to announce that we're in a position to tackle another major area: large-scale systems modeling.
It's a huge and important area, long central to engineering, and increasingly central to fields like biomedicine. To do it right is also incredibly algorithmically demanding. But the exciting thing is that now we've finally assembled the technology stack that we need to do it—and we're able to begin the process of making large-scale systems modeling an integrated core feature of Mathematica, accessible to a very broad range of users.
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Well, with the technology we're building, they should be able to just type (or say) into an app: "Compare the frequency spectrum for the crankshaft in gears 1 and 5″. Back on the server, Wolfram|Alpha technology will convert the natural language into a definite symbolic query. Then in Mathematica the model will be simulated and analyzed, and the results—quantitative, visual or otherwise—will be sent back to the user. Like a much more elaborate and customized version of what Wolfram|Alpha would do today with a question about a satellite position or a tide.
OK. So what needs to happen to make all this stuff possible? To begin with, how can Mathematica even represent something like a car—with all its various physical components, moving and running and acting on each other?
We know that Mathematica is good at handling complexity in algorithmic systems: just look at the 20+ million lines of Mathematica code that make up Wolfram|Alpha. And we also know that among the functions in the Mathematica language are ones that powerfully handle all sorts of computations needed in studying physical and other processes.
But what about a car? The gears and belts don't work like functions that take input and give output. They connect, and interact, and act on one another. And in an ordinary computer language that's based on having data structures and variables that get fed to functions, there wouldn't be any good way to represent this.
But in Mathematica, building on the fact that it is a symbolic language, there is a way: equations. Because in addition to being a rich programming language, Mathematica—through its symbolic character—is also a rich mathematical language. And one element of it is a full representation of equations: algebraic, differential, differential-algebraic, discrete, whatever.
But, OK. So maybe there's an equation—based on physics—for how one component acts on another in a car. But in a whole car there are perhaps tens of thousands of components. So what kind of thing does one need to represent that whole system?
It's a little like a large program. But it's not a program in the traditional input-output sense. Rather, it's a different kind of thing: a system model.
The elements of the model are components. With certain equations—or algorithms—describing how the components behave, and how they interact with other components. And to set this up one needs not a programming language, but a modeling language.
We've talked for nearly 20 years about how Mathematica could be extended to handle modeling in a completely integrated way. And for years we've been adding more and more of the technology and capabilities that are needed. And now we've come to an exciting point: we're finally ready to make modeling an integrated part of Mathematica.
And to accelerate that process, we announced today that we've acquired MathCore Engineering AB—a long-time developer of large-scale engineering software systems based on Mathematica and Modelica, and a supplier of solutions to such companies as Rolls-Royce, Siemens and Scania.
And as of today, we're beginning the process of bringing together Mathematica and MathCore's technology—as well as Wolfram|Alpha and CDF—to create a system that we think will launch a whole new era in design, modeling and systems engineering.
So what will it be like?
The basic approach is to think about large systems—whether engineering, biological, social or otherwise—as collections of components.
Each component has certain properties and behaviors. But the main idealization—central for example to most existing engineering—is that the components interact with each other only in very definite ways.
It doesn't matter whether the components are electrical, hydraulic, thermodynamic, chemical or whatever. If one looks at models that are used, there are typically just two parameters: one representing some kind of effort, and another some kind of flow. These might be voltage and current for an electrical circuit. Or pressure and volume flow for a hydraulic system. Or temperature and entropy flow for a thermodynamic system. Or chemical potential and molar flow for a chemical system.
And then to represent how the components interact with each other, one ends up with equations relating the values of these parameters—much like a generalization of Kirchoff's laws for circuits from 1845. Typically, the individual components also satisfy equations—that may be algebraic (like Ohm's law or Bernoulli's principle), differential (like Newton's laws for a point object), differential-algebraic (like rigid-body kinematics with constraints), difference (like for sampled motion), or discrete (like in a finite-state machine).
When computers were first used for systems modeling back in the 1960s, all equations in effect had to be entered explicitly. But by the 1980s, block diagrams had become popular as graphical ways to represent systems, and to generate equations that correspond to them. But in their standard form, such diagrams were of necessity very restrictive: they were set up to work like flowcharts, with only one-way dependence of one component on another.
By restricting dependence in this way, one is forced to have only ordinary differential equations that can be solved with traditional numerical computation methods. Of course, in actual systems, there is two-way dependence. And so to be able to model systems correctly, one has to be able to handle that—and so one has to go beyond traditional "causal" block diagram methods.
For a long time, however, this just seemed too difficult. And it didn't even help much that computers were getting so much faster. The systems of equations that appeared—typically differential-algebraic ones—just seemed to be fundamentally too complicated to handle in any automatic way.
But gradually cleaner and cleaner formulations were developed—particularly in connection with the Modelica description language. And it became clear that really the issue was appropriate manipulation of the underlying symbolic equations.
Now, of course, in Mathematica we've spent nearly 25 years building up the best possible ways to handle symbolic equations. And starting about a decade ago we began to use our capabilities to attack differential-algebraic equations. And meanwhile, our friends at MathCore had been integrating Mathematica with Modelica, and creating a sequence of increasingly sophisticated modeling systems.
So now we're at an exciting point. Building on a whole tower of interlinked capabilities in Mathematica—symbolic, numerical, graph theoretic, etc.—together with technology that MathCore has been developing for a decade or so, we're finally at the point where we can start to create a complete environment for systems modeling, with no compromises.
It's a very high tech thing. Inside are many extremely sophisticated algorithms, spanning a wide range of fields and methodologies. And the good news is that over the course of many years, these algorithms have progressively been strengthened, to the point where they can now deal with very large-scale industrial problems. So even if one wants to use a million variables to accurately model a whole car, it'll actually be possible.
OK, but what's ultimately the point of doing something like this?
First and foremost, it's to be able to figure out what the car will do just by simulation—without actually building a physical version of the car. And that's a huge win, because it lets one do vastly more experiments, more easily, than one ever could in physical form.
But beyond that, it lets one take things to a whole different level, by effectively doing "meta-experiments". For example, one might want to optimize a design with respect to some set of parameters, effectively doing an infinite family of possible experiments. Or one might want to create a control system that one can guarantee will work robustly. Or one might want to identify a model from a whole family of possibilities by fitting its behavior to measured physical data.
And these are the kinds of places where things get really spectacular with Mathematica. Because these sorts of "meta" operations are already built in to Mathematica in a very coherent and integrated way. As once one has the model in Mathematica, one can immediately apply Mathematica's built-in capabilities for optimization, control theory, statistical analysis, or whatever.
It's also "free" in Mathematica to do very high-quality visualization, interface building, scripting and other things. And perhaps particularly important is Mathematica's ability to create interactive documents in its Computable Document Format (CDF).
So that one can have a "live" description of a model to distribute. In which one mixes narrative text, formulas, images and so on with the actual working model. Already in the Wolfram Demonstrations Project there are lots of examples of simulating small systems. But when we've finished our large-scale system modeling initiative, one will be able to use exactly the same technology for highly complex systems too.
Gone will be the distinction between "documentation" and "modeling software". There'll just be one integrated CDF that covers both.
So how does one actually set about creating a model? One has to build up from models of larger- and larger-scale components. And many of these components will have names. Perhaps generic ones—like springs or transformers—or perhaps specific ones, based on some standard, or the products of some manufacturer. The diversity of different objects, and different ways to refer to variants of them, might seem quite daunting.
But from Wolfram|Alpha, we have had the experience of curating all sorts of information like this—and linking underlying specific computable knowledge with the convenient free-form linguistics that get used by practitioners in any particular specialty. Of course it helps that we already have in Wolfram|Alpha huge amounts of computable knowledge about physical systems, material properties, thermodynamics and so on—as well as about environmental issues like climate history or electrical prices.
Today we are used to programmers who create sophisticated pieces of software. Increasingly, we will see modelers who create sophisticated models. Often they will start from free-form linguistic specifications of their components. Then gradually build up—using textual or graphical tools—precise representations of larger- and larger-scale models.
Once a model is constructed, then it's a question of running it, analyzing it, and so on. And here both the precise Mathematica language and free-form Wolfram|Alpha-style linguistics are relevant.
Most of the modeling that is done today is done as part of the design process. But the technology stack we're building will make it possible to deliver the results of models to users and consumers of devices as well. By using Wolfram|Alpha technology, we'll be able to have models running on cloud servers, accessed with free-form linguistics, on mobile devices, or whatever. So that all sorts of people who know nothing about the actual structure and design of systems can get a whole range of practical questions immediately answered.
This kind of methodology will be important not only across engineering, but also in areas like biomedicine. Where it'll become realistic to take complex models and make clinically relevant predictions from them in the field.
And when it comes to engineering, what's most important about the direction we're launching is that it promises to allow a significant increase in the complexity of systems that can cost-effectively be designed—a kind of higher-level form of engineering.
In addition, it will make it realistic to explore more broadly the space of possible engineering systems and components. It is remarkable that even today most engineering is still done with systems whose components were well known in the nineteenth century—or at least in the middle of the twentieth century. But the modeling technology we are building will make it straightforward to investigate the consequences of using quite different components or structures.
And for example it will become realistic to use elements found by the "artificial innovation" of A New Kind of Science methods—never constructed by human engineers, but just discovered by searching the computational universe of possibilities.
A great many of the engineering accomplishments of today have specifically been made possible by the level of systems modeling that can so far be done. So it will be exciting to see what qualitatively new accomplishments—and what new kinds of engineering systems—will become possible with the new kind of large-scale systems modeling that we have launched into building.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 03, 2014
Opting out of reporting non-financial performance is no longer a choice for organizations looking for investment, according to a new report, Tomorrow's investment rules, released today by EY.
The global survey of 163 institutional investors conducted by Institutional Investor magazine, on behalf of EY, identifies the key trends and drivers that influence the uptake and use of corporate disclosures of non-financial information. Eighty-nine percent of investors report that non-financial performance information played a pivotal role at least once in their decision-making over the last 12 months. Two-thirds of those investors are using some kind of technique to evaluate non-financial disclosure and of this group only half have a structured evaluation or have a process in place. The report highlights that many are relying on personal judgment of environmental and social data when determining the impact of such factors on value creation and risk.
Juan Costa Climent, EY's Global Leader of Climate Change and Sustainability Services comments: "The emergence of integrated reporting and a widening appreciation of the risks and opportunities posed by externalities; creates a significant opportunity for organizations that can better inform investors of the non-financial risks and opportunities that their business faces."
When looking at the sources of non-financial information, annual reports, integrated reports and company websites were ranked as the most important sources by investors, rather than third parties indexes; highlighting the crucial need for organizations to consider how they present their non-financial data to different financial stakeholders.
Many of the investors also pointed out the challenge of finding meaningfully ways to compare companies' performance, even among peers. A lack of information to understand what issues could materially impact returns for shareholders was a common frustration, with many unable to draw quantifiable links between non-financial and financial performance.
Dr Matthew Bell, EY Australia Climate Change and Sustainability Services Partner, comments: "What investors are telling us is that they're using non-financial information to inform their decision-making – whether or not the companies are providing it themselves. They've also identified weaknesses in current reporting, and so companies now need to consider a more structured approach. By using an integrated framework companies can report what is material to them, provide further information, and point to where an investor may find the raw or unabridged data that bigger investment teams will find useful."
The survey also identified geographical differences when it comes to the uptake of non-financial information. Over 70% of the respondents based in emerging markets frequently or occasionally use non-financial information, compared with only 49% of those in developed markets.
With investors looking to minimize risk, 43% of the respondents from emerging markets said that non-financial information was essential to minimize risk, compared with only 29% of those from developed markets; highlighting that the risks posed by environmental, social and governance issues are more prevalent in emerging markets. In markets, such as China and South East Asia, sustainability concepts are critical to the way companies operate, and how quickly they adapt to a shifting landscape, therefore non-financial information is essential to minimize the risk.
The report lists key recommendations for those compiling non-financial information, based on the survey results, including: investing in reporting to unlock the value created from being transparent on environmental, social and governance disclosures; reporting on and highlighting what's truly material to the organization's performance; keeping abreast of international developments in terms of reporting guidelines; and finally getting the organization's governance processes in place.
Bell concludes: "It is no good saying that investors aren't asking for this sort of information. They're finding ways of getting this data and they are assessing companies on it, so organizations need to take back the initiative. Companies need to act now or be penalized."
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(Buccofacial Apraxia; Conceptual Apraxia; Constructional Apraxia; Gait Apraxia; Ideomotor Apraxia; Limb-Kinetic Apraxia; Movement Disorder; Orofacial Apraxia; Stroke Complications)
Pronounced: ah-PRAX-ee-ah
Apraxia is the inability to do learned movements or signals. You may have the desire and the physical ability to do the movements, but you cannot. There are many types of apraxia.
Apraxia is caused by diseases or damage in the brain, such as:
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Brain injury
- Infection
Brain disease, such as:
- Alzheimer disease
- Frontotemporal dementia—a syndrome associated with shrinking of the frontal and temporal anterior portions of the brain
- Huntington disease
- Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration (CBD)
Stroke can cause brain damage, which can lead to apraxia.
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Risk Factors
Apraxia may be due to stroke. Stroke is more common in older adults.
Factors that may increase your risk of stroke include:
- Prior stroke or cardiovascular disease
- Prior transient ischemic attack (TIA)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Smoking
- Dialysis treatment, which takes over the job of the kidneys when they fail
Some common forms of apraxia and their symptoms include:
- Buccofacial or orofacial apraxia—inability to make facial movements, such as winking, whistling, or sticking out the tongue
- Apraxia of speech—difficulty performing the movements needed to make speech
- Constructional apraxia—inability to copy or draw simple figures or to make 2- or 3-dimensional forms
- Gait apraxia—difficulty walking, which can lead to an increased risk of falls
- Conceptual apraxia—inability to select or use tools or objects properly, to make complex movements at the same time, and to do tasks in order
- Limb-kinetic apraxia—inability to make fine, exact movements with hands or fingers such as handling coins
- Ideomotor apraxia—inability to copy movements or make signals, or to do a function on command
- Dressing apraxia—inability to dress oneself
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
A neurological exam may be done. You may be asked to:
- Copy posture, movement, and sequences
- Draw shapes
- Put together designs
- Pick up or rotate coins
- Select a tool, such as a hammer, and demonstrate how to use it
- Arrange movements in sequence
Images may be taken of your brain. This can be done with:
Other tests may include:
- An exam of the muscles used in speech
- A speech assessment
- Evaluation of walking skills
If you are diagnosed with apraxia, you could also have aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder.
Your treatment depends on what kind of apraxia you have. Families should ask about individualized treatment programs such as:
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Cognitive rehabilitation
It is also important to treat the cause of the apraxia.
It may be difficult to prevent this condition. It is strongly linked to stroke. Following steps to prevent stroke may help. Some of these steps include:
- Exercise regularly.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit.
- Limit how much alcohol you drink.
- Check your blood pressure often.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Health Canada
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Apraxia of speech in adults. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association website. Available at: http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/ApraxiaAdults.htm. Accessed November 8, 2017.
Childhood apraxia of speech. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association website. Available at: http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/ChildhoodApraxia.htm. Accessed November 8, 2017.
Curioni C, André C, Veras R. Weight reduction for primary prevention of stroke in adults with overweight or obesity. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;(4):CD006062.
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NINDS apraxia information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Apraxia-Information-Page. Accessed November 8, 2017.
NINDS frontotemporal dementia information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Frontotemporal-Dementia-Information-Page. Accessed November 8, 2017.
Last reviewed November 2018 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Rimas Lukas, MD Last Updated: 12/20/2014


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|"Yałtsighudl Dit'anh" told by Hannah Maillelle, Feb. 12, 2004, Anchorage, Alaska.
|Translation and transcription by Beth Demeti Leonard and Jim Dementi, then by Alice Taff and Louise Winkelman 11/9/08, and Lucy Hamilton 11/10/08, and Edna Deacon and Donna Miller MacAlpine 3/18/10.
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|Swiftwater xido',
|Below Swiftwater,
|Callen Creek xidoł ts'in',
|the other side of Callen Creek,
|deloy k'idz dhi'onh.
|there is a little mountain.
|Iy, iy ghiq'odz
|Across (the creek) from it
|getiy qay xichux dixighela'
|there was a really big village
|dina getiy ghelongh.
|(and) lots of people were there.
|Xiłdi engodz deloy q'idz xiłdi,
|And so across there on the mountain,
|deloy ts'in' nonxididił ts'i xiłdi,
|they'd go across to the mountain,
|yałtsighudl dit'anh.
|to play ball.
|Yałtsighudl dit'anh ts'i.
|They'd be playing ball.
|Gan sre'
|I don't know
|łegg yiggiy vitselagh;
|what kind of fish that one was;
|tth'e yił idughtux axa
|sometimes with a (dog salmon) head
|yałtsighudl dit'anh.
|they'd play ball.
|Xingo che yixidets'an' che gitughin.
|Meanwhile, some of them would be hungry.
|Ałix q'idughitux che
|(Putting it ) together sometimes
|gidingidz ndlduq yił axa yałtsighudl dixił'anh.
|they'd roll up grass to make a ball.
|Xiłdi, xiviyił, nginedz, tr'ine, tr'eyh xiye tr'oqał.
|Suddenly one time, from upriver, it is said, somebody in a canoe was paddling.
|Nginedz {trighi}
|From upriver,
|yałtsighudl dit'anh yił nginedz, tr'ine, iqanh, tr'ine.
|as they were playing ball, from upriver, it is said, he's paddling, it is said.
|Nginedz viqał yił,
|As he was paddling from upriver,
|xiyits'i nonsriłdołdatl.
|they all hollered at him.
|Yiggindidhighuth luq, tr'ine; xiłdi tr'idilighith ts'i.
|He tipped over, that poor guy, they say; he got so scared.
|Xiłdi, iłt'e yałtsighudl dit'anh.
|And still they kept playing ball.
|Xiłdi che yałtsighudl dontitht'an' che.
|They started playing again.
|Axiyił, tr'ine, ngidixi,
|Suddenly, it is said, up above,
|dits'in ginoyił teqa.
|geese were flying, two (of them).
|Teqa dits'in ginoyił xiyił.
|Two geese were flying above then.
|Xeyi nonsrildinołdatl, tr'ine, q'i,
|Across there, they were hollering (at the geese), it is said, like.
|Nighedatl, tr'ine, iy dits'in.
|They fell down, it is said, those geese.
|Xiłdi yuxudz niłto xiyałch'ił, tr'ine.
|Then, they tore them (the geese) all to pieces, to divide among themselves, it is said.
|Yuxudz xiyiłnonh; xiyixidiłno'.
|They were eating it; they ate it all.
|Teqa delanh ts'i.
|Both of them.
|Niłto xiyałch'ił ts'i.
|They tore it among themselves.
|Ne che,
|And she said, [The person who told Hannah about this.]
|diva, {gi-} little grandma?
|who (was that) little grandma? [Edna Deacon says maybe it was Elizabeth Layman.]
|Xiłdi yixodo',
|Then down there,
|yit xodo',
|right down there,
|dhido anh little grandma,
|that little grandma lived there,
|itse k'idz,
|little grandma,
|digidughidhidonh yił.
|with the one she stayed with (her husband).
|"Sanh tux, xałts'in tux
|"During the summer, in the evenings,
|{tthi is} tthanisdoyh ts'i ngi'o,
|I go outside,
|xidoy dhisdon, eh?
|and I sit by the door, eh?
|Xidoy dhisdo tux,
|While I'm sitting by the door,
|gidhatltth'onh; geghatl.
|I listen; it's so calm.
|Ngine' ts'i yuxudz
|Upriver like
|sriltr'idilughusr," ne.
|they're yelling," she says.
|"Dina qul ine' yuxudz,
|"Even though there are no people,
|sriltr'idilighusr ngine' xits'in'.
|they are hollering from upriver.
|Yit xiyix yuxudz xidonisdoyh xiy."
|Right away, I just come in the house."


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Grilli, Melancon representing busy Bucs bullpen
All-Star closer, setup man part of top-notch relief corps leading NL in innings
NEW YORK -- No National League bullpen has done more work this year than Pittsburgh's, and few if any have done better work. So it's fitting that the Bucs' bullpen is well-represented at the All-Star Game.
Closer Jason Grilli and setup man Mark Melancon both were chosen for the NL team. Pittsburgh is the only NL club, and one of only two in the Majors, to place two relievers in the Midsummer Classic (Toronto is the other).
"What they've done this year out of the bullpen, not just those two guys but everybody, it's been lights-out," said starter Jeff Locke, who was also selected to the NL squad. "They're a huge reason why we're where we're at right now. My cap always goes off to those guys. Some of the hardest workers on the team."
Grilli, Melancon and Locke join Pedro Alvarez and Andrew McCutchen to form the biggest Pirates All-Star contingent since 1972. It's appropriate for a team that has baseball's second-best record.
And the relief corps has been an enormous part of that success. Pirates relievers lead the NL in innings pitched. They're second in bullpen ERA, first in saves, second in bullpen strikeouts, and they have the second-fewest relief losses.
If ever a bullpen deserved multiple All-Stars, this is it.
"It's really cool," said Melancon, who learned he was added to the team on Sunday. "We have to give credit to the rest of the guys in the bullpen. If we don't have Justin Wilson and [Tony] Watson and [Vin] Mazzaro and [Jeanmar] Gomez, Bryan Morris, it's a complete game-changer for Grilli and I. We have to get to those points to be able to get holds and saves. We're very appreciative for those guys."
Both Grilli and Melancon traveled circuitous roads to get to this point. Grilli, 36, is on his sixth big league team. He's been released twice and traded twice.
Melancon's path has been a bit shorter, but still plenty complicated. He's with his fourth Major League team, and he's coming off a year in Boston where very little went right.
Making it even sweeter for Grilli is a hometown feel. He attended college at Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J.
"I'm still looking for the words," he said. "It's just been stellar. No short of a dream come true. I'm living it. I don't know if I can appreciate it until it's entirely over."
So while a bit of a breather might be welcome for these two hard-working pitchers, they simply couldn't be any more thrilled to be at Citi Field. They just wish they could have brought a few more guys with them.
"He and I are the only two representatives from our bullpen, and I definitely want to commend the guys that are doing the hard work with us," Grilli said. "That's a big reason why we're here. Each individually, collectively as a ballclub, our bullpen everybody knows has been awesome."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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Kacey Musgraves took the stage at the 2019 Grammy Awards and gave a colorful piano lead performance of "Rainbow." The piano and lights behind her were illuminated multi-colored to match the theme of the ballad.
While award performances can be stressful, Kacey approached the night with the mindset she was just going to have fun. "TV performances are a whole nother ballgame. They can be nerve-wracking, but they can also be very fun, and ultimately, I just try to find my center within all of that, find my calm. I'm getting to perform songs that I really, truly love and feel comfortable singing. So, I feel like I don't really have anything to feel nervous about. Mostly I'm just excited, and of course there's the glam and the wardrobe and the fact that my husband [Ruston Kelly] will get to be there sitting with me and hanging out with me. So, I'm just really going to try to find the fun of it all and not get too worried about the outcome and just ultimately just be myself and have a good time."
Earlier in the night she took home two awards during the pre-show for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Right as the telecast was getting kicked off Kacey released the official music video for "Rainbow."
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