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Taking Care of Customers
Businesses can tailor auto responders to fit their own needs. Your prospects might send an e-mail to one e-mail address, while customers send customer service requests to another. An auto responder will send the prewritten reply, which you choose in each case.
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Pastoral Emergencies
If you are having a pastoral emergency and need immediate attention for yourself or a loved one, please call the parish office during office hours at 520.299.6421 or, outside of office hours, our emergency care line at 520.971.3551.
Caring Ministries
Among the core Christian obligations are for Christians to care for one another when in sorrow, sickness, or any other adversity and to be a source of comfort and hope in times when people think they are alone with their grief or troubles. Below are a number of ways that we care for one another and for those in our community who find themselves suffering or in need of care — as we all will at various times in our lives.
Health Cabinet
Our Health Cabinet is a parish ministry organized by our Faith Community Nurse, Carol Jones. It organizes a range of health-focused activities that encourage the whole health of our members. From mental health and senior exercise to diabetes control to the spirituality of aging and more, this cabinet works to help people integrate and coordinate care for the mind, body, and soul. To learn more about the variety of Health Cabinet ministries and programs and to volunteer please contact our parish nurse by calling the parish office at 520.299.6421 or by clicking the "Health Cabinet" button below.
Bereavement Assistance Team for Receptions ("Church Mice")
This ministry group provides receptions for funerals and memorial services. To learn more or to volunteer please click the "Church Mice" button below.
Community of Hope
The Community of Hope Ministry team offers pastoral care through prayer and service, grounded in Benedictine Spirituality. The team has been commissioned and is now serving in pastoral ways. Our ongoing Circle of Care meets on the second Tuesday of every month and is facilitated by Bob Stanton. To learn more please click the "Community of Hope" button below.
Condolence Writers
These volunteers write letters and send grief materials on behalf of the Saint Philip's community to those dealing with the loss of a loved one. To learn more or to volunteer please click on the "Condolence Writers" button below.
Daughters of the King
Daughters of the King is a 130-year-old Episcopal/Anglican lay women's religious order. There are 26,000 members worldwide, all of whom take vows of service and of daily prayer. New members and visitors are always welcome at meetings! We meet at 10:15 on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month in the Bride's Room. The Saint Philip's chapter is known as the Faith Chapter. To learn more please click the "Daughters of the King" button below.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
This ministry knits prayer shawls for people who are ill or grieving. To make shawls or to learn more please click the "Prayer Shawls" button below.
Visitation Ministries
Many of our parishioners take responsibility for visiting members who are ill or homebound. The work of giving comfort is shared among many at Saint Philip's.
Hospital Visitors
Our hospital visitors spend time with hospitalized parishioners Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. To learn more or to volunteer please click the "Hospital Visitors" button below.
Lay Eucharistic Visitors
Our Lay Eucharistic Visitors take Communion on the second and fourth Sundays to people who are homebound. To volunteer or to learn more please click the "Eucharistic Visitors" button below.
Good Shepherd Visitors
The Good Shepherd Visitors are parishioners who go out and spend time with homebound parishioners who are 87 years old or older. It is a wonderful way to help people feel connected to their church home even when they are unable to make it to services. To volunteer or to learn more please contact the Rev'd Jean Rogers at 520.299.6421 or by clicking the "Good Shepherd Visitors" button below.
Support Groups
Family Caregiver Support Groups
Give caregivers support, the opportunity to learn new skills and techniques, and information about helpful community resources.
Walking the Mourner's Path
Are you seeking comfort and healing after the death of a loved one? Walking The Mourner's Path program supports people who are in grief through a series of eight weekly workshops. Together in the small group, the individuals acknowledge the pain and brokenness, recognize that each journey through grief is unique, share stories, experience both tears and laughter, and find healing and joy. To learn more please click on the "Mourner's Path" button below.

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All Catholic Churches in the United States require from Catholics serving as a Godparent for Baptism or a Sponsor for Confirmation a Certificate of Eligibility.
This document certifies that the Godparent/Sponsor is a registered member of the parish, attends Holy Mass, approaches the Sacrament regularly and contributes to the support of the Church via the Sunday offering envelope program.
ONLY Eligible Registered & Practicing Parishioners will be given certification to be a sponsor for Baptism & Confirmation.
Certificate Request
If you are requesting a Certificate of Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, the request needs to be made from the parents of the child or the adult person getting married. Please call one (1) week in advance.
7:00 pm each First Friday, October through June, followed by Novena prayers in honor of the Sacred Heart and Benediction
Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 pm or by request at anytime.
During Lent: Every Monday, 7pm to 8:30pm
Celebrated the Second and Fourth Sunday of each month AFTER the 10:15am Mass on Sundays
*Parents should contact the Rectory either before or soon after the birth of the baby to register for the reception of the Sacrament.
*Instruction for the parents is held on the first Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Religious Education Center located at 31 St. James Place.
*Godparents must be practicing Catholics and have received the Sacrament of Confirmation.


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From the moment the Seahawks trounced the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, the comparisons to past defensive juggernauts began.
And one of the best defenses in the NFL has been largely overlooked in the process: The 2002 Buccaneers.
The latest example came as ESPN's The Sports Reporters went to break, with host John Saunders saying, "Seattle's defense put on a devastating show in Super Bowl XLVIII, right up there with the Steel Curtain, the Super Bowl Shuffle Bears, and Ray Lewis' Ravens. Can they keep it up next year?"
While it may have been merely an oversight, it's become a common one. As pundits compare the Seahawks to great defenses of the past, they overlook the one that Tony Dungy built and Jon Gruden rode to the only recent blowout win in the Super Bowl before last Sunday. Like Super Bowl XLVIII, Super Bowl XXXVII which also featured the No. 1 defense taking apart the No. 1 offense.
The Buccaneeers defense was likely better than the 2000 Ravens and comparable to the 1985 Bears, with two Hall of Famers (Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks), more coming (John Lynch and Ronde Barber), and another who has a good case for eventual enshrinement (Simeon Rice).
So as we look back through the annals of the Super Bowl, let's not forget the team that joined the NFL with the Seahawks way back in 1976. By the time all the bronze busts are sculpted, the 2002 Bucs could be the only team that can stack up with the Steelers of the '70s.


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Saudi Arabia foils attempt by Israeli firms to penetrate local market
The Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry said attempts have been made by 12 Israeli companies to break boycott and market their products in Kingdom.
Saudi authorities claimed they have foiled attempts by Israeli firms to market their products in the Kingdom and from there to other Gulf states. The Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry said the attempts were made by 12 Israeli companies to break the boycott. The council sent warning messages to local chambers of commerce and industry asking them to be cautious about dealing with suspicious firms, according to reports. The companies listed were said to be active in the production of bullet proof jackets, paints, water purification equipment, electronics, telephones, old cars, reinforced doors, textiles, fuel and other goods. Saudi authorities have blacklisted about 190 foreign companies, including Arab and Western firms, in the last 12 months for seeking to import Israeli goods into the Saudi market. The companies, including 72 from Jordan, and 70 from Cyprus, figured in the list after being accused by the authorities of importing and selling Israeli products in the Saudi market. The other companies were based in Egypt, 23, Turkey, 11, Germany, 6, the United States, three, and the rest from Britain, Singapore, Taiwan, Poland and Portugal. The Ministry of Commerce has also warned foreign companies against importing Israeli products into the Kingdom, either directly or through a third country.


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Since going on CPAP about 15 years ago, I have been plagued with blocked sinuses that cause indomnia due to the CPAP not being able to provide breathing air. I have tried Flonase and Nasacort, and Nasanex with minimal effectiveness. Afrin works OK, but should not be used over a long period of time because it becomes ineffective.
Adding a humidifier helps some, and using excessive abounts of saline nasal spray to flush out my sinuses during the day seems to help some. If I sit up in bed for about 20 minutes to let my sinuses drain will result in them opening up and I can get back to sleep.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? What did you do to control this ?
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Let me share a simple technique for controlling and eliminating sinus problems, even the most chronic ones. Practice the Neti technique. It is done using a Neti Pot, a simple vessel available in Walmart, drug stores or on-line. Follow the directions that come with the vessel. For more information please see this page http://countingbreaths.com/fob/level2/complementary-practices/neti-.... I hope this helps you.
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Automate your home, control products by voice, stream to your heart's content … routers that will maximize your home's Wi-Fi network.
Every time you add a new smart device to your home's Wi-Fi network, it becomes an increasingly bigger challenge for your router to perform optimally. Sometimes, the router can handle the new additions just fine; other times it struggles, leaving you with dead zones, connection difficulties, and slow downloads. In a smart home, the issues might result in a Wi-Fi thermostat failing to catch a command you sent it to set back, a Wi-Fi light switch totally missing its cue to activate, and music and video might stream at a snails pace.
Plain and simple: If your home's Wi-Fi is spotty, the performance of your Wi-Fi-enabled smart home products is bound to suffer. Often, the problem boils down to the router, and thankfully, there are many options on the market today that can turn a finicky Wi-Fi network into a fine-tuned machine. If you're experiencing problems, or want to prepare your house to handle a network of smart home products, it might be time to upgrade to a better router. Here are six ways manufacturers are making Wi-Fi routers more accommodating of smart home products:
1 Better Control: Intuitive Apps and Voice
Want to deny your kids access to the Internet at bedtime? The Luma router will configure itself based on voice commands you issue to the Amazon Echo.
Many of today's routers come with companion apps that enable you to monitor and manage your home's Wi-Fi network via a smartphone or tablet. You can administer rules and limitations for your kids (like blocking access to the network from certain devices after 9 p.m.); provide easy access for guests; and manage and monitor Internet usage of everyone in your family.
The Luma system and Securifi's Almond 3 Smart Home Wi-Fi System even let you supervise the network with simple voice commands through integration with Amazon Alexa. For example, you could say, "Alexa, Tell Luma WiFi to Prioritize Me" to make sure your Apple TV is prioritized to ensure Game of Thrones won't buffer. The router listens and makes the adjustment.
2 Lag-Free Multimedia Streaming
Video eats up a good chunk of bandwidth, and even the best router might not be able to stream video perfectly when other products are on the Wi-Fi network at the same time. However, when a router offers the ability to prioritize which devices should get the most bandwidth, you'll have a much better viewing experience. The OnHub router from Google, for example, lets your prioritize with the press of a button or the wave of a hand.
The Linksys Smart Wi-Fi app that works with all of the company's Smart Wi-Fi routers even lets you select which three devices get priority, like the smart TV , the home office PC and family tablet one day, and then another day its Mom's smartphone, Dad's tablet, and the X-Box.
The Nighthawk X10 from Netgear is engineered to handle heavy household media streaming.
The ability for a router automatically switch channels to maintain the best Wi-Fi signal strength is another helpful feature to look for. If your household does heavy streaming, Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) supports simultaneous streams to multiple devices, a feature integrated into Netgear's Nighthawk X10 router, which also has a Plex Media Server built in so that it can organize your movies, TV shows, music, video and photo collections.
3 Home Automation Features
Because so many smart home devices are control via signals dispatch via Wi-Fi, it makes sense that a Wi-Fi router also function as a hub for automating devices on the network. A router like the OnHub from Google and Almond 3 can sync with Philips Hue light bulbs and Nest thermostats. These hubs also support IFTTT, enabling you to create simple commands, or recipes, for the smart home devices in your home to follow. Rules like this are most commonly triggered by going to the router's companion app, but expect companies to create even simpler ways to communicate with your router. Securifi, for example, offers the Almond Click, a button that pairs up with the Almond 3 router. It's compact and portable that can be either stuck to a wall or even used as a keychain. With three actions — press, double press, long press — you can launch a variety of different commands.
4 Mesh Networking
Three devices are better than one when it comes to Wi-Fi coverage in the home. Many manufacturers like eero are selling complete "mesh networking" kits including a main router and additional satellites.
In many homes, one router simply won't cut the mustard, requiring you to add access points and range extenders. This arrangement can be a tough set-up to configure, which is why many router manufacturers have started to offer "wireless mesh networking" solutions. eero, for example, is a system that comes with a main hub and two satellite devices that can be placed anywhere in the home (one needs to plug into your modem). The Orbi Kit from Netgear is employs mesh networking, too, and comes with one hub and one satellite. Both systems eliminate any guesswork with the setup and the need to place the satellite within line of sight of the hub.
5 Proactive Troubleshooting
When a smart home device seems to be malfunctioning, it can be hard to pinpoint the problem. Usually, the issue boils down to the network. A helpful feature that better routers include is the ability to notify you the second the router is offline. Sent to your mobile device, you'll know immediately why your smart door locks, IP cameras, and thermostats might not be working.
6 Great Cosmetics
The OnHub router from Google can be covered in decorative shells.
Last but not least, there's the potential cosmetic benefit of buying a new router. Incorporating modern shapes, textures and colors, many new routers are so aesthetically attractive that you'll want to leave them out (where they also work better) instead of stuffing them in a corner in a utility room.
Home technology is always moving, always improving, always promising to provide ease and convenience to our lives. Can you benefit from new smart home technology?
router and additional satellites.
In many homes, one router simply won't cut the mustard, requiring you to add access points and range extenders. This arrangement can be a tough set-up to configure, which is why many router manufacturers have started to offer "wireless mesh networking" solutions. eero, for example, is a system that comes with a main hub and two satellite devices that can be placed anywhere in the home (one needs to plug into your modem). The Orbi Kit from Netgear is employs mesh networking, too, and comes with one hub and one satellite. Both systems eliminate any guesswork with the setup and the need to place the satellite within line of sight of the hub.


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After the excesses and stresses of Christmas, a relaxing January spa break might be just the perfect tonic.
Jordan may not immediately spring to mind when considering a wellness destination, but as Clare from our India and Arabia team recently discovered the healing waters of the Dead Sea and its spa resorts put up there with some of the best.
After a hectic week in Jordan taking in history, culture and experiencing a night's camping in the breathtaking Wadi Rum, all I wanted to do was relax and there is no better place to do that than at the Dead Sea.
The lowest place on dry land is rich in minerals, with the sea itself containing ten times the amount of salt as normal seawater – so the legend is true and you can actually float in it! It is almost quite oily-feeling, definitely not like normal seawater. The thick mud is also mineral-rich, perfect for slathering on for 20 minutes (as we were instructed to do) and then rinsing off whilst having a float. Just don't put your face under water or you will end up with extremely painful eyes!
No wonder that Jordan is packed full of spas using the country's very own products. We were staying at the Kempinski Ishtar, which boasts the largest spa in the Middle East and is run by Anantara.
We had a Dead Sea salt scrub and aromatic massage, an hour and forty-five minutes of pure bliss!
Another hotel spa well worth a visit is the Six Senses spa at the Evason Ma'in. The spa uses the Six Senses S.L.O.W. philosophy – standing for Sustainable, Local, Organic and Wholesome – using Jordanian olive oil and crushed olive stones in addition to Dead Sea products.
The spa's warm pool (reaching around 40 degrees Celsius in summer and 36 in winter) is fed by natural springs, flowing from the dramatic rocks above the spa.
One of the highlights of this spa is the natural cave sauna, where you can just sit back in the water, relax and have an utterly unique experience.
Relaxing below sea level is a great way to have a moment of respite following an action packed itinerary in Jordan, or as a wellness break destination in itself. Even if you go during months when the weather is a little cooler elsewhere, the temperature at the Dead Sea tends to be about 10 degrees celsius warmer than elsewhere in Jordan – perfect for escaping the winter gloom in the UK.


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|I made all of the favors & decorations... a huge pain but worth it in the end
|My Mom made the awesome topiary centerpiece!
|El Bounce House de Mouse
|Ava's Grandmas
|I made those little menu cards, too!
|The Birthday Girl
|My Mom, Sis & I
|The cake was outta control!
|One of her super cool presents from our friends
|Her absolute favorite gift- a neighing, tail wagging rocking horse from her Grandma Carol
|Taking a test ride
|Opening some of her loot
|Lunch break
|Too much partying= 1 exhausted little girl (and Momma!)


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Yes, we skipped one. I forgot to photograph the layer just before this one when I added dark brown to the yellow rocks and light blue to the middle part of the water. You'll have to use your imagination to fill in the gap.
This layer is all about drama - the dark blue at the top grabs attention and solidifies the composition by tying into the dark browns.
I love the seaweed on the left-hand rocks, if I do say so myself. Nice shapes with plenty of life in them.
At least three things need to happen now - a little something to all that pink at the bottom*, a darker green to the middle water, and another layer at the top too.
Too much time past between the last layer and this one. I tweaked the ink formula slightly and the ink dried faster. I think I will be able to work on it again as early as next week!
* Don't doubt my pinks here - when you get to stand on the granite coast of NH, you will see how pink it really is.


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A Hemet native was praised this week by President Obama for her actions that saved her best friend's life during the chaotic scene inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., early Friday morning.
As a masked gunman burst into a midnight showing of the new Batman movie and began a rampage that would leave 12 dead and 58 others wounded, best friends Stephanie Davies, 21, and Allie Young, 19, were seated on the left side of the theater.
Young was struck by bullets in her neck and liver. Her carotid artery was punctured by the bullet that pierced her neck. As she fell to the floor, Davies, a Hemet native, likely saved her life when she applied pressure to the wound, minimizing the bleeding and keeping her friend calm as more bullets sailed over their heads.
Davies' mother, Erin Christen, said by phone on Tuesday that her daughter was born in Redlands and lived in Hemet until she was about five years old, when the family moved to Colorado.
Davies still lists Hemet as her hometown on her Facebook page.
Through both her mother and a representative at the University of Colorado hospital, Davies declined to comment.
"There are no words," Erin Christen said. "I can't believe what she did. It's amazing. I think she's the bravest person I have ever known."
Christen said that Davies has always been calm under pressure and her protective instincts may have come from having a young sister with Down's Syndrome and always feeling the need to protect her.
Christen said that while others fled the theater while bullets were flying, Davies and Young were there the entire time. And while Davies did not suffer any physical injuries, the emotional ones have already shown.
In the days following the shooting, Christen said Davies walked around with a zombie-like, emotionless expression. Now, she randomly breaks into deep, heavy sobbing as the emotions of that night come back to her.
"This was extremely traumatic and even though she did keep a cool head under outrageous conditions, it doesn't mean it didn't affect her, because it really has," Christen said.
On Monday, Davies and Young granted an interview to the LA Times, which served as the pool reporter for the group of media who were requesting interviews with them after Obama praised Davies for her heroism during a Sunday news conference.
Davies and Young described a chaotic scene in which James Holmes — the alleged gunman who had graduated from UC Riverside — threw a smoke grenade into the theater and then began shooting.
"He would shout, 'What are you doing? I said stand up!' And he would pick people up," Davies told the Times. "I saw him stand over someone. I just see hair and him holding the shirt, and boom.
"We were laying there in the mouth of hell — there's smoke and explosions and guns, bats flying across the screen because the movie's still playing, it's dark — it's every child's worst nightmare."
Young was struck and immediately Davies dived on the floor to help her friends while others fled the theater. Young urged Davies to leave her but she would not. Davies carried her out of the theater, covered in blood, and across a parking lot and into an ambulance, unsure what would happen.
"And she was shot in the neck, and it punctured a vein, and immediately she started spurting blood," Obama said.
"And apparently, as she dropped down on the floor, Stephanie – 21 years old – had the presence of mind to drop down on the ground with her, pull her out of the aisle, place her fingers over where Allie had been wounded, and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting.
"As tragic as the circumstances of what we've seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it's worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young Americans like Allie and Stephanie. They represent what's best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come."
Davies and Young met while working together at a Victoria's Secret in Colorado and had been friends for less than a year but both told The Times they immediately bonded and that this moment cemented that friendship.
"She's a great friend for staying by my side," Young told the Times. "But that's not something I just recently found out. She just proved it."


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Queensbury school district issues bear warning
QUEENSBURY — School officials are taking precautions after bears were seen near the Northway and school property, the district's Facebook page said.
The Queensbury Union Free School District's announcement said the town's animal control office told the district about the bears, and officials kept students inside during the day and provided additional supervision during dismissal.
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by Angie Hodge
The same cannot be said of my students this summer. I've taught graduate courses to secondary mathematics teachers before, and my summer students were teachers, too. They were mostly elementary teachers, though, elementary teachers who had enrolled in a two-year master's program focused on learning middle school math deeply. They recognized weakness in their mathematical preparation and wanted to learn math better for the benefit of their students.
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I spent five days (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) in the last couple of weeks with 29 teachers who were taking their first math course in a math master's program for teachers. During these five days, I witnessed the teachers undergo amazing transformations in both attitude toward math and knowledge of it. And I learned a lot, too.
Here are some reflections on the lessons learned over the five-day period. The course was taught in partnership with two middle school math teachers, one elementary school teacher, and two grading assistants. When I say "we" or "the instructional team" that is who I am referring to.
Day 1: Be firm and friendly
We all tried to be firm, but friendly on Day 1. Setting the tone for an entire master's program is a big task, and our instructional team didn't take this lightly. We spent lots of time discussing the importance of working together, having a positive attitude, knowing the importance of productive failure, taking chances, thinking outside the box, and learning to communicate in a mathematically correct manner. We dug right into the mathematics and the mathematical habits of mind. On Day 1, the teachers were "good students," but they were still very timid. They made lots of negative comments about math and moaned when asked to justify the "whys" rather than just memorizing rules. Despite the moans, we kept pushing: friendly but firm.
Day 2: Persevere (pep talks are a must!)
"Ugh" is all I have to say about the first hour of this day! Imagine being swarmed as you walk into your classroom by 15-20 upset people, all of them near tears. "Tough it out," I told myself. "Things will get better for you as an instructor if you persevere as you want the teachers to persevere."
Teachers wanted to quit. Teachers were really not happy about math or the amount of time it took to think about the homework problems. They did not understand why an answer wasn't good enough and why they had to "show us" their thinking process.
For all the tears and griping we somehow pulled together and even bonded as a team/class on Day 2. How? There was a lot of pep talking. We talked about productive failure. We talked about the importance of struggling. We cheered for progress. We gave praise for positive attitudes. We rallied and threw energy around like it was going out of style.
Day 3: The calm before the storm
Day 3 was one of our best days and one of the days when we saw the teachers grow the most. Teachers who were barely talking earlier were taking risks to present (but only if they knew they were correct) and were talking more to the instructional team and to their group members. Although it worried us (the instructional team) that some groups weren't talking as much as we had hoped, some were working really well. We debated switching up the groups and decided to try it for Day 4. We didn't have to do much on Day 3 other than teach and continue to compliment progress, positive attitudes, and good work ethic.
Day 4: Beware of your first "hit" of hard material
We switched up the groups. Maybe not the best idea on the hardest day of class. Fractions!!! Need I say more? :) Wow. At the end of this day I truly wanted to cry. Our evaluations were lower than usual (still pretty decent, but we all strive for perfection). The teachers were frustrated. We were frustrated. How could we use this as a teachable moment to help them persevere?
Day 5: Make every moment a teachable moment
We started Day 5 as we started every day, talking about the evaluations. We discussed evaluations daily to make sure the teachers knew that we heard their voices. We commented on why we were or were not changing things based upon the feedback they gave us. We used negative comments about confusion as a teachable moment. We talked about what it meant to be confused and how it was part of the learning process. We also discussed the importance of speaking up if you are confused or stuck. We stressed the team aspect of the course again and emphasized that even though it was hard we were here to learn together. Since these were teachers, we were able to do this in an IBL manner, asking the teachers how they would respond to students who were confused but did not tell them this until after the fact. This discussion set the stage for a new tone. No matter how clear you think you are with your expectations and no matter how approachable you think you are, you need to remember that your students come pre-programmed to try to get the correct answer quickly. "Unprogramming" this takes time. Be a broken record about this and praise your students when they finally believe you!
Boom! (as Dana Ernst would say) On Day 5 I saw remarkable growth in nearly every single teacher. They made it over many mental hurdles and they realized they made it. Somehow making it past that tough hurdle on Day 4, they had become a team. We let the teachers sit anywhere they wanted to on Day 5. Some sat with their original groups and some paired up with new people they met from switching. Some sat in pairs, some sat in triples. Honestly, I didn't care how big the groups were. What was important was that everyone had found someone whose learning style complemented his or her own. The day could not have gone better. The teachers did some really tough problems really well (even showing multiple solution paths). They were even asking each other to "prove it" and asking why things worked. Teachers wanted to know when they would get to see the team again. Right then it was clear that the connections made were ones that would extend beyond the one course.
Somehow, 29 individual teachers (and the instructional team) went from strangers to a team in five days. We all problem solved together and bonded—IBL Style. Boom.


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The United states lotteries such as Powerball as well as MegaMillions tend to be huge, and offer a few of the greatest awards on the planet. However, there exists a scarcity of choices for Americans, they need to play both or choose possibly of the 2 large games. However, it is now feasible for US citizens to try out European lotteries. European countries offers a number of options to the diehard followers of lottery.
Some of the lotteries that a US citizen can play are
UNITED KINGDOM National Lottery
This lottery states that you have to be a citizen from the UNITED KINGDOM or Isle of Man to be able to purchase the ticket from the official website. There is a way out for American citizens, they can purchase the tickets through the recognized retailers. Nevertheless the odds are pretty stunning at One in THIRTEEN million.
UK Thunderball
Here the odds are somewhat much better than the united kingdom National Lottery at 1 in 8 million. The actual prize offered is not really in millions, however 500,000 pounds. However, there are 3 draws each week so essentially you can earn 1.5 million pounds in case you are lucky.
This is an additional lottery you can play as an American resident. The best part of the lottery is that the jackpot size grows if nobody is victorious in the earlier draws, however, the odds are shocking in 1 in 116 million.
This is not an extremely big lottery, but the odds are much better than EuroMillions. You have a One in 59 million possibility of winning if you are fortunate. The actual jackpot could well be TWENTY FIVE million pounds.
This is a Italian lottery with quite steep odds of One in 662 million. The overall game can be quite tough also, you need to match 6 number from the range of One � 90, one reason the odds are extremely high.
German Lotto
This is among the earliest lotteries in European countries and you have to match 6 number from One to FORTY-NINE. The odds that you might win are One in 140 million.
French Lotto
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As an entrepreneur, all your time will be strictly dedicated to your business. Basically, all the time that you have will be spent on things, related with your startup. Most likely even all of your personal meetings with people will be somehow related to your business. So, if you don't have good quality of business life, you are most likely to feel unhappy about your life in general and this can lead to lack of motivation and even to the failure of your startup, caused by emotional exhaustion. Continue reading
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Nick Tommarello Will Be at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October
Nick Tommarello, Founder & CEO of Wefunder, will be one of the speakers at Startup Istanbul 2015 Conference, which will take place on 03-05 October. Nick has MBA from Babson College and holds Series 65, he is also Alumni of Y Combinator and Techstars. He has designed and coded applications with hundreds of thousands of users.
Wefunder is a crowdfunding service, which connects startups and investors online. Founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneurs Nick Tommarello, Mike Norman, and Greg Belote, the platform, which offers capital raising services, was backed by YCombinator during its launch and later development.
Three Simple Ways to Get You Out of Your Comfort Zone
Entrepreneurs often fall into the routine they have in their comfort zone. It is understandable: it is nearly surprise and anxiety free place where they feel almost all the time at ease. But the magic of innovation doesn't happen in someone's comfort zone. It requires hard work, thinking out of the box, problem solving and experimenting through failure. If you feel that you are getting too comfortable in your startup venture, you have probably fallen into the trap of the comfort zone. Here you can find three very simple things that will help you start thinking out of the box and reach new and exciting places in your startup venture. Continue reading
Prof. Hans Wissema Will Be at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October
Prof. Hans Wissema, who is academic, consultant, mentor and writer, will be one of the speakers at Startup Istanbul 2015 Conference. Prof. Hans Wissema is Professor at the Technology University in Delft, the Netherlands, a Managing Director of Wissema Consulting Ltd and Chair of DIWA Foundation. Prof. Hans Wissema, entrepreneur himself, has successfully combined throughout his whole professional life his academic work with a consultancy career in the field of management, innovation and entrepreneurship. Continue reading
Business tasks entrepreneurs should find time for
Entrepreneurs are busy running a business but often they forget that simply running it is not enough – their startup must grow in order to survive and become profitable. There are some things which are not priority for many of the startup owners, but it would make observable impact on their businesses. Here you will find four business tasks entrepreneurs should find time for. Continue reading
Vera Shokina Will Be at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October
Vera Shokina is a Managing Director with Silicon Valley Banks's Global Gateway group. In this role she assists international venture capital funds and innovation companies in the emerging markets with their US and international market expansion.Prior to joining SVB, she was CFO and COO of Runa Capital, where she brought more than 20 years of finance and investment experience both in the US and Russia and a passion to build a Russian VC industry to the Runa team. Continue reading
Techstars MENA Community Summit Will Be Held at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October
It is very exciting to announce that Techstars MENA Community Summit will be held at Startup Istanbul Conference on 3-5th of October.
The world's prominent mentorship-driven startup accelerator and seed fund Techstars became one of the business partners of Startup Istanbul Conference, which is held by Etohum for the 3rd time this year. As part of this cooperation, US-based investment company Techstars will make its MENA meeting at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October. Continue reading
The Simple Change That Will Help You Sound Like a Leader
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How to Generate Great Ideas
All successful companies once have been just ideas, more specifically said: great ideas with impeccable execution. The execution of great ideas requires the development of other, smaller ideas, plans and action maps. If you struggle to reach your Eureka! moment and you often feel stuck, there is no need to worry. Here you can find seven great tips, which will help you to awaken your creative genius. Continue reading


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MediaDefender DOS's Revision3
Revision3, an "Internet television" company was attacked over the weekend in the form of a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack. It turns out that the attack came from MediaDefender, a name many will recognize as an outfit doing a lot of dirty work for the RIAA, MPAA and various "Big Content" providers.
The attack consisted of a flood of A TCP/IP request packets that request a new TCP/IP connections to be established. Known as a 'SYN' packet which is an abbreviation for Synchronize. MediaDefender's attack had over 8,000 SYN packets per second directed at port 20000 on their server, which is the port used by their BitTorrent tracker.
Why did MediaDefender launch this attack? Because they have an ongoing war, they're attacking BitTorrent trackers and P2P networks in an effort to stop the trading of copyrighted files. The problem with this is that Revision3 wasn't doing anything like that. They're weren't involved in trading copyrighted music, xbox 360 games, movies, software or anything else. They use BitTorrent to distribute THEIR OWN CONTENT.
They discovered that somebody (who turned out to be MediaDefender) was injecting a lot of torrents into their server. They took action to de-authorize torrents that were pointed to non-Revision3 files. When they did that, MediaDefender started sending in excess of 8,000 SYN packets per second. The flood was too many requests coming in too fast, which resulted in the server going down. (you can get the full details of the attack on Revision3's blog)
MediaDefender, and other RIAA / MPAA goons need to be held accountable for the damage caused by this kind of thing. Not only that, but Attacks like this are illegal twelve different ways from Sunday and they *SHOULD* be prosecuted for it.
Unfortunately, it's looking like nobody's going to see the inside of a courtroom, let alone a jail, for this and many other such attacks.
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The narrative on women's safety and security is not one that women have been at the helm of. Time and again, the narrative has been usurped for various other political agendas.
This time, it is a joint house committee on women and children welfare of the Karnataka legislature that has taken control of this narrative, and recommended in its 32nd report that information technology (IT) and biotechnology companies (BT) in Bengaluru must abstain from assigning work on night shifts to women.
Their rationale is that this measure will ensure that women are safe in private and public spaces: A bizarre line of thinking that constrains women for their own safety and protection.
The committee, headed by MLA N A Haris, stated that such a recommendation was made after interactions with IT and BT companies in 2016 wherein women employees approached them such a request.
MLA Haris stated — "We have recommended that companies must avoid having women working night shifts. A lot of women approached us and said working during the night is difficult for them and they are forced to work in the night."
The root of such a recommendation is the concept of procuring a 'safer environment'. "We have to understand that women working on night shifts have children and families to take care of. They also have a bigger moral responsibility of grooming the future generation. Men too have a greater responsibility: To protect women at large."
What the committee believes is that companies should assign men for night shifts and women should be assigned only for day shifts, and that 'prevention is better than cure', thus, automatically shifting the burden of prevention of violence on women, instead of the IT/BT companies and the government.
Moreover, the recommendation is a contravention of the Karnataka state's historic decision to remove restrictions on allowing women from all sectors to work on night shifts. This decision required an amendment to the Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 and the Factories Act 1948.
In December, 2016, Karnataka government issued an order under the provisions of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Karnataka Rules, 1974 and noted that women cannot be employed at night without their consent. This order also had a set of 15 guidelines to safeguard the interests of women workers.
Within the Committee, there were several members who believed that that obligation to prevent violence is the prerogative of the companies, and not of the women who work on night shifts. In their opinion, women themselves should have the freedom of choice to decide whether they would want to work night or day shifts.
Vinisha Nero, a Congress MLA, opined: "Personally, I am of the view that the onus is on companies to provide all the protection to enable women to work at night and then leave it to the women to decide what they want to do".
In the early 2000s, the Madras High Court, in Vasantha R. vs Union Of India (2001), adjudged that women were free to decide which shift they would work. The petitioner was an employee of textile mill that employed a substantial number of women. She claimed that the Section 66 (1) (b) of the Factories Act, 1948 was restricting women from carrying on lawful employment.
The petitioner challenged the constitutional validity of the provision, claiming that it was arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 15 as well as 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India. The high court agreed with the petitioner's argument and stated that "in the field of employment in a factory as in any other field, the third shift should be thrown open to women and it is for women to decide which shift they would work."
The recommendation, if taken up by the government, has some palpable repercussions on working women. Firstly, it overrides gender equality in private spaces and endorses the concept of double burden — women are to take up functional roles at the workplace during day shifts, and be present at home, during the "night shift" to undertake significant amounts of unpaid domestic labour.
Secondly, the discourse is shifting the onus of preventing violence, which is immensely problematic. Instead of pushing for the implementation of substantive positive obligations of the state and the private sector, the recommendations suggest oversimplified solutions.
At a time when we have collectives and movements such as Pinjra Tod, which are campaigning against the use of curfew for female students which curbs their movements in the name of safety, such a recommendation seems absurd and an anathema to the spirit of gender equality.
Lastly, such a recommendation, if implemented, will close more doors for women's employment in the IT and BT companies, a sector that already sees much gender discrimination.
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Govt docs to boycott outpatient services
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As the indefinite fast of Dr Govinda KC entered the 18th day on Thursday with no clear breakthrough in addressing his demands, government doctors have decided to boycott all hospital services except emergency care across the country.The Government Doctors' Association of Nepal, umbrella organisation of doctors working in state-run health facilities, decided to halt all the services to build pressure on the government to address Dr KC's demands.
GODAN President Dr Dipendra Pandey said in a statement on Thursday that the association has accused the government of lacking seriousness in the talks held so far.
Dr Pandey said an emergency meeting of GODAN decided to boycott the services "though we will attend emergency patients and those who are already admitted," said Dr Pandey. "We have also asked government doctors to refrain from private practices during the protest." The decision will impact patients across the country.
NMA issues 24-hour ultimatum
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Medical Association on Thursday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to correct decisions on the Health Profession Education Bill. Issuing a statement, the NMA said the taskforce formed to study the HPE Bill has made "controversial" decisions of granting affiliations to some medical colleges before enforcing a ten-year moratorium on opening new medical schools in the Kathmandu valley. The NMA has warned of stern protests "if the government fails to act in the next 24 hours to save Dr Govinda KC's life". (PR)
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Friday, February 24, 2012
#24 #29in29 Bridge deconstruction
#24 Fuzzy Galore's #29in29 photo blog challenge
8 comments:
- bobskoot said...
OH OH ! OH, NO . . . how are you going to get into town ? Lucky thing the next bridge is at Bay, but now double the traffic
Riding the Wet Coast
- February 24, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- SonjaM said...
Looks like the commute will be very cumbersome for a while. But I am glad that they do a reconstruction. I really like that bridge.
- February 24, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- SonjaM said...
Oh no, I just read it again. DE-costruction. Are they serious? That would be a pity.
- February 24, 2012 at 2:36 PM
- Dar said...
Bob - apparently it is going to take 2 years. The morning commute is going to be terrible over the Bay St.
Sonja - it was a beautiful state of the art bridge in its time, but now it is falling apart & ready to break into pieces.
- February 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM
- Trobairitz said...
I love the color contrast in your photos - green moss on the roof, red cranes, and the blue of the bridge. very cool.
- February 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
- bluekat said...
I agree. Sad to see the old bridge go, but also interesting to follow the process.
- February 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM
- kiwi_deb said...
You know something Dar - they could have kept a section of it and used it somewhere for a piece of usable art - like for a gazebo of sorts, turned it into a climbing frame or something. Fixed it up and kept it the original blue. Maybe even used it for a footpath somewhere. Oh well poor blue will be no more eventually.
- February 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM
- Dar said...
Trobairitz - cloudy days are excellent for photography & contrast. The people who live in the floathome beside he bridge are going to live with a tonne of noise for the next 4 years.
Bluekat - I am actually looking forward to seeing it all unfold, it should be interesting.
Kiwi_Deb - agreed they could cut it up & sold pieces of it. Maybe they will paint he new one blue too.
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As far as I am concerned, there are two very important rules of thumb for a perfect French Onion Soup. The first one is you to have a concentrated beef stock. Beef stock is readily available at the store but it is also easy to make at home. You will not regret giving this step the extra time it requires once you take your first spoonful of this delightful soup.
The second rule of thumb for a perfect French Onion Soup are perfectly caramelized onions. The deeper you caramelize them the bolder your flavor. This process takes love and patience. You can not speed it up so you need to make sure you have the proper time to make this. Properly caramelized onions will take a good 55 to 60 minutes before they are ready.
If you have these two critical components — a bold,concentrated beef stock and aromatic and deep caramelized onions you can not fail at this wonderfully comforting and delectable soup.
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6 large white onions – thinly sliced
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2 garlic cloves – minced
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1/2 cup red wine
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2 bay leaves
4 toasted pieces of baguette
1 cup shredded Gruyere cheese
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Melt the butter in a large pot. Add the onion and start caramelizing – stirring occasionally. Cook for 15 minutes and add the sugar. Mix well and continue cooking until onions are deep amber but not burned – about 40 minutes.
Add the garlic and cook for about 2 minutes until fragrant. Add the stock, wine, thyme and bay leaves. Season to with salt and pepper – to taste.
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As the International Hotel Investment Forum convenes in Berlin, STR data shows occupancy increased 2.4% to 71.9% in 2017, while ADR rose 3.1% to €110.51 ($136.02) and RevPAR jumped 5.6% to €79.46 ($97.80).
LONDON—Europe's hotel industry recorded all-time high performance levels in 2017 with additional growth expected in 2018, according to data and forecasts from STR.
Europe (Euro constant currency, 2017 vs. 2016)
- Occupancy: +2.4% to 71.9%
- Average daily rate (ADR): +3.1% to EUR110.51
- Revenue per available room (RevPAR): +5.6% to EUR79.46
Each of the three key performance metrics were the highest STR has ever benchmarked for Europe.
Ahead of his presentation at the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) on Monday, 5 March in Berlin, STR's managing director, Robin Rossmann, comments on the region's performance:
"Hotel markets across Europe have benefitted from a wide range of factors in recent years," Rossmann said. "While hotel performance was up for nearly every world region in 2017, Europe was the clear leader in terms of growth. The region has seen substantial growth in both tourism and corporate business, and has remained resilient in the face of several terror attacks, with increasingly shorter turnaround periods needed for performance recovery. Looking ahead, we expect 2018 to be another stellar year for Europe hotels, with RevPAR growth again exceeding 5% year over year."
Occupancy nearly 10% above previous peak
In addition to rising 2.4% over 2016, Europe's occupancy level in 2017 was nearly 10% higher than the previous peak in 2008, which came before the global financial crisis. Rossmann noted that Europe's performance has benefited from supply growth remaining relatively limited in most markets since 2011. This, coupled with steady demand growth, has allowed hotel operators to capitalize on heightened occupancy levels by driving rate growth. During the months of July, August and September 2017, Europe recorded double-digit ADR growth compared with those same months in 2008.
ADR premiums rise
Several key European cities have seen substantial uplifts in high compression nights between 2008 and 2017, meaning there have been more nights where occupancy levels have exceeded 90%, allowing for hotel operators to drive higher rates as the remaining rooms available become more valuable. In addition to an increased amount of high compression nights, there has been a substantial increase in rate premiums charged on those nights. London, for example, recorded roughly 75 nights with occupancy above 90% in both 2008 and 2017, but the market's ADR premium rose from 22% in 2008 to 33% in 2017. Dublin reported a dramatic increase in both the number of high compression nights, up from 14 in 2008 to 145 in 2017, and in its ADR premium, up from 25% in 2008 to 41% in 2017.
2018 Outlook
STR's Market Forecast Reports for 2018 project strong performance growth in a number of key European cities, with Moscow, Athens, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid and Prague all expected to see RevPAR growth above 6%, mainly as a result of ADR growth. Paris' performance will likely be driven by demand growth, as the market continues to see increased tourism from terror attacks in recent years. Berlin hotels are expected to record a RevPAR increase around 5%, again mainly driven by growth in ADR.
After benefitting from the 'Brexit boost' of a weakened pound sterling following the U.K.'s June 2016 EU Referendum, London's hotel performance has slowed in recent months as the sterling has recovered substantially against the dollar. Although London's demand (room nights sold) is expected to continue growing, it will likely be outweighed by supply growth, as the city's hotel inventory continues to expand. ADR growth should help the U.K. capital achieve year-end RevPAR growth around 2%.
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text: Centurion Restaurant Group expanded Coral Gables' notable restaurant Bulla Gastrobar to Doral. Based on the critical acclaim and success of the original Bulla Gastrobar in Coral Gables and the demand for refined cuisine in the area, the brand expands west to the newly developed Downtown Doral area. Bulla, which is slang for chatter and what people are talking about, is devoted to delight you by serving your favorite Spanish dishes such as Patatas Bravas, Huevos Bulla, Buñuelos de Bacalao, and other tapas, as well as tantalizing daily specials from our kitchen to be shared amongst friends. "Bulla Gastrobar has become a staple in Coral Gables and, with our new location, we're bringing the same energy, food quality, and bar program to the emerging Downtown Doral area. Chef Rebolledo is an important addition to our team and brings a wealth of culinary experience to the Bulla family. We're excited to continue building the brand throughout South Florida and the U.S.," says Juan Carlos Marchan, Vice President of Centurion Restaurant Group. Full Story


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I'm just going to throw it out there: Any wedding where the bride wants to set you up with one of her friends and you get to ride in a boat is bound to be a good time. Mark and Kaitlyn's wedding was at the beautiful Whispering Pines Conference Center as part of the University of Rhode Island and I got to ride in a boat. Enough said. Here are a few of my favorites from their wedding in which I was second shooting for the fabulous Molly.
Strong current in that little pond / lake. Lots of effort to get this pic:
Be sure to check out Mollys blog for the best of both our pictures with her amazing edits!


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Brad Pitt investigation ends, 'no proof' of child abuse found
Brad Pitt has been cleared of child abuse allegations by the Department of Child and Family Services, ET can confirm.
"It wasn't clearly founded that there was any abuse by Pitt," the source tells ET, emphasizing that there was no validation or proof of abuse and the investigation is now closed.
WATCH: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Everything We Know About the Status of Their Divorce
DCFS launched the investigation in September after they were alerted to an alleged incident between Pitt and his 15-year-old son, Maddox, while on a plane back to the U.S. from Europe. While it remains unclear what transpired between the two, a source at the time told ET that "there was no inappropriate physical contact."
"Nothing inappropriate happened," the source said. "[It was] totally a child-parent disagreement."
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In September, both 41-year-old Jolie and 52-year-old Pitt agreed to a DCFS safety plan -- a temporary custody agreement over their six children -- which is standard practice in any ongoing child welfare investigation. Jolie and Pitt each volunteered to participate in individual counseling, and Pitt also agreed to undergo drug and alcohol testing, though he was not required to, sources told ET.
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Although the safety plan was set to expire on Oct. 20, it was extended last month as the investigation continued.
EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie Spotted for the First Time Since Filing for Divorce From Brad Pitt -- See the Pics
Jolie and Pitt have also come to their own custody plan. On Monday, a representative for Jolie told ET that Jolie and Pitt's children -- 15-year-old Maddox, 12-year-old Pax, 11-year-old Zahara, 10-year-old Shiloh, and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne -- will remain in the actress' custody. "Childcare professionals have encouraged a legal agreement accepted and signed by both sides over a week ago," the rep said in a statement. "In accordance with this agreement, the six children will stay in their mother's custody, and the children will continue therapeutic visits with their father. This has been determined by childcare professionals to be in the children's best interest."
However, sources tell ET that the agreement is only temporary until the two are able to work out a more permanent child custody settlement. On Friday, Pitt filed his response to Jolie's divorce petition and requested joint custody. Jolie initially requested full custody in her filing in September.
WATCH: Brad Pitt Asks for Joint Custody of Children in Response to Angelina Jolie's Divorce Filing
Jolie and Pitt actually spoke directly to reach the new custody agreement, a source told ET.
"This is what Brad and Angelina have decided between each other for the children," one source said. "The agreement is also indefinite, so there is no time frame to it, it is in place until they decide to make a change."
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--Additional reporting by Whitney Wallace and Carolyn Greenspan
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Fourth Magee Donegal Bay Spring Sportive a great success
The 4th edition of the Magee Donegal Bay Spring Sportive, promoted by the Donegal Bay Cycling Club, proved to be the most successful to date drawing 300 cyclists from all over Ireland to Donegal Town.
This was an increase of almost 100 over previous years and shows that the event has really caught the imagination of many a cyclist and judging by the feeback of those who part this year, there is every likelihood that the Magee backed event will continue to increase in popularity.
Cyclists from as far away as Dublin, Clare and Belfast traveled to take part and the Keevan club from Portadown in Co.Armagh brought 25 members with them, possibly the single biggest representation from any club on the day. Of course there were also plenty of cyclists from Donegal and the neighbouring Counties.
The cyclists began to arrive early on Saturday morning at event HQ, the St.John Bosco centre in Donegal Town and there was a real buzz around the place with the music pumping in the background. At 9.45 whistles were sounded as Donegal Bay Chairman Ed Wiazewicz gave the safety speech and the cyclists rolled across to the official start at The Diamond, Donegal Town where the obligatory photos were taken.
Donegal Town Mayor Patricia Callaghan was present to wave all groups off on their adventure around South West Donegal, first off were the 140km group which included Lynn Temple of event sponsor Magee and his daughter Rosy, who travelled back from the UK to take part. They were followed by the 100k and 40k groups, all heading out west from town. Three new routes were on offer this year and this no doubt helped in drawing such a large crowd.
For most of the participants, it was all about completing their respective routes and enjoying their day in the hills of Donegal, though enjoying might not have been the right word for some. The most oft heard comment was just how absolutely stunning Donegal looked with many stopping along the way to take photos of the fantastic scenery en-route. Everyone arrived back at the finish at the Bosco Centre to a big cheer and a great spread of food that was greatly appreciated by everyone.
Like before, there was a great atmosphere at the finish with participants regaling each other with stories from their big day out. Many were already planning ahead for the next edition of the Donegal Bay Spring Sportive.
Once again, we are indebted to a large amount of people who helped make the event such a success. Special thanks to our main sponsors Magee of Donegal who really got behind the event and provided free tee-shirts for participants, Ted McCaffrey who again sponsored the back up vehicles and free water bottles; Jonathan McCann who provided the speakers and microphones; the Harbour restaurant who supplied the hot food at the finish of the 100/140km routes which so many loved; the Medical Support & Ambulance; the St.John Bosco Centre and Meenaneary Community Centre; the Mart for letting us use parking and Donegal Town Mayor, Patricia Callaghan.
Not forgetting out own volunteers who give so much of their own time to help out, all the marshals who stood out on a very chilly day, the support vehicle drivers, the registrars and of course our A1 catering team. Fantastic Hospitality was one of the most frequently heard phrases on the day which is a real tribute to the team.
We are already looking forward to welcoming everyone back for another edition of the Donegal Bay Spring Sportive in 2017


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Thursday, 18 February, 2016. 23:44
It's been a long day, but fun. This morning we allowed ourselves a sleep in until 08:00, since the first conference talks I wanted to attend didn't start until 09:10. We did the breakfast routine with Grape Nuts and milk and yoghurt from the hotel cafeteria. Then I went to my talks while M. hung around in the room a bit before leaving to drop off a bag of laundry at Pete's Cleaners, a place near the Stockton Tunnel which we'd used last time we were here. They charged $15 for a bag wash of everything we've worn so far this week. Then she walked down Market Street west towards Hayes Street to explore some of the shops along that street.
The morning sessions of the conference began with talks on 3D scanning. One was about fixing intermediate depth assignments for pixels on the edges of foreground objects in front of a more distant background. One was generating a deformable 3D model template from video of moving non-rigid objects, such as people or animals. And one was about integrating scans from multiple Microsoft Kinect 3D sensors into a single 3D colour model.
After the coffee break I attended another session of the Colour conference, this one about printing. There was a talk about choosing optimal compression algorithms for printing, followed by one about predicting how much toner a page would take to print (apparently not a straightforward problem). Then there was one about dithering of colours in 3D printing, which is much more complicated than in 2D printing, because surfaces can appear at any angle in three dimensions, and the dithering patterns can produce visible moiré effects if they're not optimised properly for all viewing angles. The last two talks were essentially two parts of one long talk about a project to construct and program a robot to take a given image, then convert the image to a set of brush strokes, then paint it using an actual paintbrush and paints. This was by the same woman who had talked about cadmium red yesterday. The system worked with oil paints and took account of the layering and the textures created by applying paint thickly. It was quite interesting, but I think it has a lot of unfulfilled potential yet, like mixing paint colours on the canvas.
Oil painting robot.
I returned to the hotel room to charge my laptop over lunch, and M. had just arrived back from her walk to Hayes Street. So we went out to get bagels for lunch, at Noah's Bagels on Bush Street, down near Market Street, which is a good walk to do during the lunch break. We both got pumpernickel bagels, M. with peanut butter, and me with cream cheese and smoked salmon. On the way back we stopped in at Crocker Galleria, where there was a small food market set up with stalls on the lower floor. There were baked goods, dried fruit, nuts, honey, cheese, flowers, and fresh fruit and vegetables. We bought three pink lady apples, one for me for an afternoon snack and two for us tomorrow. Then I left M. to browse the shops of the Galleria while I went bCk to the conference.
Farmer's market in Crocker Galleria.
The final afternoon I like to attend the Human Vision conference, because they have sessions on Art, Aesthetics, and Perception, about the crossover between art and the neuroscience of human vision, which is absolutely fascinating stuff. The first talk was a keynote by Barry Sandrew, who told us that he was the inventor of the process for digitally colourising black and white films (he is the founder of Legend Films and Legend3D). Before him, it had only ever been done in a painstaking analogue process using film masks. He was the first to do it on a computer, but the process was originally still very tedious, only becoming easier over time. He has also done a lot of 3D conversions of movies shot in 2D. His talk was on lessons learnt from these processes and how they could be applied to the emerging media of augmented reality and virtual reality as forms of entertainment.
He first pointed out that when colourising first took off, quite a few people didn't like it, saying that it ruined the original black and white aesthetic, or that it made the movies "too realistic". Since then, similar comments have been made about 3D films, both ones shot in 3D and ones converted from 2D originals – that it changes something about the film, and for the worse. He then cited the more recent example of high frame rate used by Peter Jackson in The Hobbit trilogy, and how many people didn't like that, because it made the film look "too realistic". The common thread here is that there is a significant population of people who feel more comfortable when movies look "like movies", that is, obviously fake, just an image on a screen, rather than more like reality. This extends to 3D in the fact that many 3D movies deliberately impinge on the viewers' personal space, to get that flinch reaction when something pops out of the screen. He said many people simply don't like this, for psychological reasons. He said the best 3D movies don't do this, they are restrained enough that you can basically forget it's 3D and just enjoy it as a passive entertainment. The extension of this is that the new technologies of augmented and virtual reality, while being adopted eagerly by gamers for things like first person shooter games, and almost certainly not going to be media used effectively by passive narrative entertainment like movies. When people want to watch a movie, they actually don't want to be surrounded by the action or feel the visceral feeling of "being there" – they want the story to unfold in that detached manner you get when observing something from a distance.
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It was an interesting talk and made a lot of thought provoking points. It got even more interesting when during question time a man stood up and said that colourisation and 3D conversion were bad, because they messed with the original interpretation of a movie, that it changed the director's vision, that the director filmed it that way because they had control of the creative process. The speaker actually got angry, saying, "That's bullshit! Maybe if you're Spielberg or Scorsese you might have creative control, maybe. But anyone else, the studio says, 'You're filming this in 2D, or goodbye! We'll get someone else.' Directors don't have creative control over things like that!" It's always fun when there's a heated exchange between a speaker and questioner at a scientific conference.
After this talk was one about human visual motion processing, which included some demonstrations using faint patterns on the slide projector screen with the room lights turned off. The speaker demonstrated that we could sense motion in the peripheral vision region even when there is no luminance contrast, when there is only faint chrominance contrast. With a show of hands, he showed that most of the audience could see the effect, which he said proved that peripheral motion processing in the visual system relies on information from colour sensitive cone cells, rather than just the brightness-sensitive rod cells as has previously been widely believed.
The last talk of the session was about trying to quantify and measure the concept of "interestingness" in images. They did a large user study where they had observers rate and rank photos for how interesting they were, as well as what features of the images they found more or less interesting. The conclusions were that there does seem to be some level of universality to the concept of interestingness – i.e. there are photos which many people over a large sample rate as consistently more interesting than other photos, though with some individual variance. Interestingly (pun intended), there was a high correlation of interestingness with images that the observers also labelled as "unusual". So the conclusion was that unusualness is a major factor in what makes a photo interesting, and because what is unusual can vary a lot between cultures, that what photos people find interesting may also be highly culture dependent. This would be tested with future study.
The last session of the conference was more art stuff. There was a paper by one Jack Ox (who was a woman) that sounded interesting from the title: "Colour systems are categories that carry meaning in visualisations: a conceptual metaphor theory approach". But once she started talking, it was just a blur of dense psychology buzzwords that honestly sounded like pop psychology put into a blender rather than any sort of hard science. It was rather disappointing. And she was reading from her laptop in a monotone the whole time, without looking at the audience, and went severely over time. The chairperson stood up and tried to signal to her to wind it up, but went completely unnoticed.
A slide from "Colour systems are categories that carry meaning in visualisations: a conceptual metaphor theory approach".
The next talk was better, about using Bayesian inference as a prediction model across various art forms. The speaker began with music, which is sequential by its very nature, and so allows the listener to hear a progression of notes or chords over time, and form a mental prediction of the next note to come. When the prediction is fulfilled, the listener gets a sense of satisfaction and resolution, while if the prediction is defied it gives the music tension. Composers have known this for ages, of course, and use it all the time. The speaker wanted to extend the idea to visual art, using experiments in gaze tracking to give a temporal sequence to how people look at the various features of images and artworks, as well as extending the idea to concepts. For example, if an image contains a sad face, your brain might (subconsciously) predict the colour blue, since that has an association with sadness in our culture, then your visual system will seek out blue tones in the image, to see if they are present, thus reinforcing the theme, or absent, thus subverting it in a surprising way. He's only taken a few early steps towards researching this so far, so didn't have full results to present, but said his early work was promising.
By the time this talk was over, the session was running so far behind that I had to skip the next talk completely, which I'd wanted to attend before leaving to get ready and travel to our dinner appointment with our friends Lisa, Rick, Mary, Casey, and Andy. They had booked a table at Salang Pass Restaurant in Fremont, an Afghani place which sounded delicious to us. We had to take BART from Powell St to Fremont, and then walk about half an hour to get there. So we wanted to catch the 17:25 train to give ourselves plenty of time.
It was fortunate we allowed time, since there was a confusing sign and announcement for a train leaving around the right time, and we discovered when we reached Oakland that we were on the wrong train! We had to get off and walk downstairs to another platform and then catch a Richmond-Fremont train. But this manoeuvre only cost us a few minutes and we reached Fremont with plenty of time to walk. The sun had gone down however, and weren't sure exactly where the restaurant was as I left the free conference WiFi before checking on Google Maps, and the street number wasn't on my offline map. But we had a rough ides what block it was on, so walked down to Fremont Boulevard and then along it to the west until we started approaching nearby street numbers. I had the restaurant number memorised as 37642, and we were walking in the direction of decreasing numbers on the odd side of the street, so when we got close we crossed to the even side, and the first thing we saw was a church with number 37558. We concluded we'd walked a bit too far and backtracked, but passed 37642 with no sign of the restaurant. We had no way to double check the location without net access, but I looked at my notes and found the number was actually 37462, so it was back past the church. By this time we'd been walking in the cold darkness for quite a while, so we were happy to find the restaurant right where it should have been just a few doors past the church again.
We were the first to arrive and the restaurant staff set up a table of 12 for us, which seemed a bit high for the numbers I was expecting, even more-so with Shaenon and her husband not attending. Soon Lisa and Rick arrived, followed by Mary, then Casey and Audrey and young Owen. We chatted and ordered some appetisers to share: bread with hummus, yoghurt, yoghurt with cucumber and spices, vine leaves, fried potatoes, and some pumpkin cooked very soft with honey or something like that. We were wondering where Andy was, when Casey got a text message from him, saying that he'd forgotten about the dinner and was it too late to come?! Casey said he messaged back: "Get your ass to Mars".
Andy eventually showed up, as our main meal selection arrived. Rick and some of the others had just chosen a few dishes for everyone to share, including a lamb dish, a chicken one, a bigger serve of the pumpkin, a spinach dish, and M. had asked for one of the vegetarian platter dishes, which consisted of spinach, eggplant, and a side bowl of lentil soup. It was good to finally meet Andy after all these years – we've known each other for well over twenty years now. Of course we swapped a lot of stories about the success of his book, The Martian, and then I asked him if he'd write a foreword for my Irregular Webcomic book which I'll be Kickstarting soon. He said he'd love to.
Firni at Salang Pass Restaurant.
After the main course was done, we continued chatting for some time, then ordered some dessert. Most people had mango ice cream, but Mary recommended the firni, which was a milk pudding flavoured with rosewater and pistachio, so I had one of those for something different. It was creamy and delicious, like a soft pannacotta. We also shared around the packet of Fantales we'd brought from home, and everyone liked them.
When it was time to go, they juggled cars around until Audrey ended up giving us a lift to the Fremont BART station. From there we got a train back, having to change at Bayfair because of the restricted night schedule. We got back to the hotel a bit after 23:00. I had a shower while M. finished reading her novel, which she didn't want to have to take back on the plane. We finally went to sleep after midnight.