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- "I fear it would be of little interest to you, my lord, a ponderous tome..."
- ―Grand Maester Pycelle to Eddard Stark
The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms is a book detailing the history of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, including the lineage and appearance of all heirs, with illustrations of each house's individual sigil. It was written by Grand Maester Malleon.
The book not only lists the lineages of the "Great Houses" which rule each of the Seven Kingdoms (such as House Baratheon and House Targaryen), but also other major noble Houses such as House Umber and House Blackfyre.
It is quite a ponderous tome; arranged as a chronicle instead of a narrative, it is primarily concerned with dates, marriages, and lines of descent. Persons mentioned in the book are also given brief physical descriptions (from surviving sources), along with important general facts about their lives and the manner of their deaths.[1]
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Lord Jon Arryn asked Grand Maester Pycelle for the book shortly before his death. When hearing of his old mentor's interest in the tome, Eddard Stark borrows it from Pycelle as well.[1]
Some time later, Varys mentions to Illyrio Mopatis that Lord Stark "has the book" and that events will unfold as expected, leading to war.[2]
After his daughters note that Joffrey Baratheon has blonde hair, Lord Stark checks the Lineage and Histories, and discovers that all members of House Baratheon are described as "black of hair", except for the "golden headed" Joffrey. This discovery, coupled with Robert's bastard son, the black-haired Gendry, claiming that his mother was blonde, leads Ned to realize that Joffrey and his siblings may not be Robert's biological children, and thus not rightful heirs.[3]
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Behind the scenes
Because the book first appears in "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things", the information in it was created by Bryan Cogman, who wrote that episode (though it later reappears in "A Golden Crown"). That is, the contents were not an invention of the art department: Cogman created all of the information in the prop book, then Jim Stanes physically copied what Cogman wrote into the prop itself, in medieval handwriting.
As Cogman explained, he created entries for four noble Houses, two pages each, for a total of eight pages of content (the rest is just repeats of this or blank pages). The families were House Umber, House Royce, House Targaryen, and House Baratheon. Ned Stark reads aloud from the Umber entry in episode 104, and from the Baratheon entry in 106. Bits of the Targaryen entry can be seen as Ned leafs through the book. Cogman explained that in the original draft of the episode there was "a bit from House Royce" as well, but it was cut, as was another scene with the Targaryen entry (by "a bit", he might have meant a point when Ned actually reads part of an entry aloud).
Cogman stated that he used as many reference sources as possible, searching through both the books and researching Westeros.org's A Wiki of Ice and Fire. There are large gaps in the history of the story, however, for which Cogman simply had to make names up - i.e. it's possible that even George R.R. Martin has not currently planned out the entire lineage of House Umber from the Targaryen Conquest to the present, though the royal Targaryen lineage is better detailed in the books. For the minor names he had to make up, Cogman said he snuck in a few in-jokes using names derived from fan messageboards. He also said it was fun coming up with various diverse ways that minor characters had died.[4]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children is an old book written by Grand Maester Malleon. It doesn't mention the current Baratheons or Lannisters, but it mentions that throughout written history all Baratheons have been black-haired and that, likewise, every recorded union between Baratheon and Lannister has produced black-haired children.

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The whole "What is Black Theatre" with a side Mixed Race Stuff. The mixed race stuff comes from a link to a Facebook discussion mentioned in the links.
The whole issue is a bit of a tricky one and I think I would like to take a stab at the whole debate in my next post.


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So many times in my career I have gotten upset because someone didn't give me the opportunity to show them what I or my business could do for them. I would so badly want to flat out say, "Just give me a frigging chance!"
When my business partner and I started our business we were hitting the pavement running. Our first year we wrote over $1 Million in proposals and were so excited to see what would come of it. We followed up on a regular basis and finally the some of the contracts started rolling in, but there was one big contract that we really wanted. We were told by the decision maker that he didn't feel comfortable going with a new company. However after pestering him he finally agreed to meet with us. We got our presentation together and went into the meeting with the attitude that we will land this deal. We went through our presentation and at the end I spoke up and said, "Mike, I understand your fear of hiring a young company. It's scary. There are a lot of fly by nights in this industry, but I think you can see our passion, dedication and education in this industry. I promise you will not regret hiring our business. All I ask if that you give us a chance to show you what we can do."
We left the meeting unsure of what would happen. On our way back to our office my phone rang and it was Mike, the customer, on the other end of the line congratulating us on winning the contract. Not only did we complete the contract but we received more money in enhancements and extras than what the contract was worth.
I recall when I decided to leave the landscape industry with the goal of starting my career in property management. I put out application after application with no luck. Then I found a post on Craigslist looking for a building manager. So, I emailed about the position. In the email I pretty much stated that I knew I wasn't the typical applicant, but if you just give me a chance I can show you what I can do. And today I work as their Business Development Manager.
Whether you are looking for a new job or trying close that big sale – be confident in yourself and your business and don't be afraid to ask for the job. After all, Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. Then came back and changed Apple as we know it.


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• A ghost arises in Carefree
• Carefree's secret meeting
• Black Mountain Plaza approved
The note below was sent to a Carefree woman who organized a business rally for all who say nice things about the Carefree administration. Obviously Sonoran News was left out of the advertising bonanza because we have a fatal flaw; we write the truth. Never mind we have a magnetic advertising draw not shared by competition.
Is it any surprise to hear from Petty Fast Eddie Morgan? After all he is the current dean of past mayors like Wayne Fulcher who appeared at a secret meeting where everyone's memory of why they were there was lost. Wayne was there with three members of council and two others who were walk aways in the last election when voters forced the three into a run off. Noblemen don't do run offs. How embarrassing!
At the last council meeting Councilman Bob Coady mentioned Morgan was once investigated by the attorney general's office and charges were miraculously dropped after he introduced Attorney General Terry Goddard at Kiwanis. How convenient! Friends help friends don't they?
The charges were about polling and after interviewing Morgan there was no doubt he polled.
You might want to remember Goddard's actions in the voting booth less than two weeks from now. He is a crook.
Anyway, maybe the recipient should frame Morgan's endorsement shown below:
Great move Holly and all involved. This is needed and should get the endorsement of all who truly care about Carefree.
Ed Morgan.
Exactly who cares about what Morgan thinks?
Coady didn't bring up Morgan's new life after his reign as mayor. In a possible conflict of interest Morgan became a consultant for developer Ed Lewis who planned to devastate downtown Carefree. Morgan was a big cheerleader for the project while mayor.
I love it when the detritus of the town write for the Hitchon woman. They, like her, misuse terms such as, TRUTH, a word the meaning of which none have a clue.
"Peeper Don and Looney John
"In the September 29th edition of the Sonoran News readers were treated to what is strange even for this tabloid.
Don "The Peeper" Sorchych bragged about another of his voyeuristic achievements in supposedly getting a picture of past Carefree council members talking to current Carefree council members. Nasty stuff this! Right up the alley of "Peeper Don.
"John "Looney" Traynor became unhinged in the Guest Editorial trying to defend the Sonoran News with strange references to literature racks at the airport, and the Tower of Babel.
Traynor goes on to hammer away on his favorite topic, the financial mismanagement of the town. Of course he does not mention the fact that the town finished the year $300K+ ahead of budget. Any wonder Sorchych gives "Looney John" all the "ink" he wants?
"Dennis F.
I wonder if Dennis knows I have exposed an abuse of the open meeting statutes, in fact a violation. I don't expect Dennis to know or care what his buddies do. And I certainly don't expect a dim bulb like him to understand the educated writings of John Traynor.
Here is the appropriate paragraph from ARS statutes:
7.5.2 Circumvention of the Open Meeting Law. Discussions and deliberations between less than a majority of the members of a governing body, or other devices, when used to circumvent the purposes of the Open Meeting Law violate that law. See Ariz. Att'y Gen. Op. 75-8; Town of Palm Beach v. Gradison, 296 So. 2d 473 (Fla. 1974). Public officials may not circumvent public discussion by splintering the quorum and having separate or serial discussions with a majority of the public body members. Splintering the quorum can be done by meeting in person, by telephone, electronically, or through other means to discuss a topic that is or may be presented to the public body for a decision. Public officials should refrain from any activities that may undermine public confidence in the public decision making process established in the Open Meeting Law, including actions that may appear to remove discussions and decisions from public view.
We will see how much memories of the six improve when they are questioned under oath. Right now neither Mayor David Schwan nor Vice Mayor Glenn Miller remember anything that happened in the water building while Stan Francom was absent.
The actions of this group on one hand remind me of the Taliban and on the other they are like the president.
Their Taliban behavior is their threats to local businesses about advertising with Sonoran News. One restaurant owner told me, after Morgan left town, that Morgan was one of the good old boys who made a threat he and his buddies wouldn't eat there if he advertised with us.
The concerns of poor business in Carefree would largely be eliminated if they advertised in Sonoran News.
As far as the likeness with Obama, he too is silent about most of his background and in fact pays millions to keep his past hidden.
Obviously, if the secret meeting didn't have significant meaning they would have already disclosed what happened there. But we will find out, so keep the faith.
Black Mountain Plaza approved
With Walmart ready to break ground, their neighbor Black Mountain Plaza received unanimous approval of their site plan at Cave Creek's council meeting on Oct. 4.
The Black Mountain Plaza property is owned by the Bullington family and their eliminating the previously planned traffic light and the elimination of a seven year request to begin construction hastened council action to approve the development.
Both developments require infrastructure development and the town is on an aggressive schedule to provide water and sewage services to them.
Bullington's Attorney Paul Gilbert tried to make it clear rumors that they were trying to hold Walmart up were untrue and they planned to be good neighbors. He did admit negotiations continue about a cross access agreement and they hoped for success, but there was nothing to hold up Walmart's development.


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Bounded by Pitt, George and Park streets and sitting below the Sydney Hilton on George Street, The Galleries Victoria (TGV) is home to over 25 modern and urban brands including Industrie, Carhartt, Paper Scissors, MNG, Mooks and Superdry. TGV is also home to a large selection of restaurants, bars and eateries including Wagamama, Ichiban Boshi, Chat Thai, Subway and Valeries at the Galeries.
Trading hours across the four floors are Monday to Friday 10:00am to 6:00pm with late night shopping on Thursdays until 9:00pm; Saturdays 10:00am to 6:00pm and Sundays 11:00am to 5:00pm. Some stores open longer than these hours.
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Cooking for Colorado
Victor Shephard grills a hotdog for Lisa Lawrence during his seventh annual Colorado Day celebration Aug. 1 at Thorndale Park. Shephard hosts the event to share his pleasure in being a Coloradan. Elsewhere on the Westside, two other public picnics were held over the weekend by neighborhood groups. See STORY, PHOTOS.
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Greve JMD, Santos-Silva PR, Speciali DS. Walking economy and aerobic power in Parkinson's disease after endurance exercise training: A pilot study. MEDICALEXPRESS 2017;4(6):M170605 http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5935/MedicalExpress.2017.06.05
Walking economy and aerobic power in Parkinson's disease after endurance exercise training: A pilot study
Júlia Maria D´Andrea Greve1; Paulo Roberto Santos-Silva1; Danielli S Speciali1,2
1. Laboratório de Estudos do Movimento, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, BR
2. Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Laboratório de Estudos do Movimento Einstein (LEME), São Paulo, Brazil
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First Review in November 5 2017.
Accepted in November 20 2017.
OBJECTIVE: To verify the effect of an endurance exercise program in middle stages of Parkinson's disease.
METHODS: The patients were two women and seven men with Parkinson's disease, aged 56 to 74 years, classified at Hoehn and Yahr stages 2 to 2.5. The study was designed as an open long-term pilot trial over three months of supervised treadmill exercise training. Cardiopulmonary exercise test evaluations were performed before the start of the study (test 1) and after three months (test 2). The main outcome measure was walking economy (i.e., the rate of oxygen consumption during gait) measured between VT1 and VT2 speeds and Oxygen consumption (VO2).
RESULTS: No changes (p=0.551) were observed for maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max, 24.6 vs 23.6 mL.kg-1.min-1) between tests. The walking economy was 20% better (p<0.001) after three months of aerobic endurance training (266.7 vs 212.6 mL.kg-1.km-1, pre- vs. post-training); the Cohen's "d" effect size (ES) was 0.99, a very large effect.
CONCLUSION: Evidence from this pilot study in individuals with Parkinson's disease suggests that gains in walking economy occurs with a treadmill-training program without gain in aerobic power, but which may positively reduce the energy expenditure of activities of daily living in these patients.
Keywords: physical functioning, ventilatory threshold, maximal oxygen uptake.
OBJETIVO: Verificar o efeito de um programa de treinamento físico aeróbio em estágios intermediários da doença de Parkinson (PD).
MÉTODOS: Os pacientes eram duas mulheres e sete homens com PD, com idade entre 56 e 74 anos, classificados como estágios Hoehn e Yahr 2 a 2,5. O estudo foi concebido como um ensaio piloto aberto de longo prazo durante três meses de treinamento supervisionado e realizado em esteira ergométrica. As avaliações da troca gasosa pelo teste de exercício cardiopulmonar foram realizadas antes do início do estudo (teste 1) e após três meses (teste 2). A determinação da economia de caminhada (taxa de consumo de oxigênio durante a marcha) foi medida entre as velocidades do primeiro e do segundo limiar (LV1 e LV2) e do consumo de oxigênio (VO2) entre as duas velocidades por interpolação.
RESULTADOS: Não foram observadas alterações (P = 0,153) para o consumo máximo de oxigênio (VO2max: 26,7 vs. 24,2 mL.kg-1.min-1) após o período de intervenção. A economia de caminhada foi 23% maior (P <0,001) após três meses de treinamento físico aeróbio (273,4 vs. 209,4 mL.kg-1.km-1, ES = 0.99, muito alto).
CONCLUSÃO: Evidências deste estudo piloto em indivíduos com DP sugerem que os ganhos na economia de caminhada podem ocorrer com um programa de treinamento de "endurance" aeróbica na esteira sem ganho na potência aeróbia, mas que positivamente pode reduzir o gasto de energia das atividades da vida diária nesses pacientes.
Palavras-chave: Condicionamento físico, limiar ventilatório, Consumo máximo de oxigênio
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative movement disorder that is often accompanied by impaired balance and walking, as well as a reduced quality of life (QoL). Walking economy (WE), defined as the steady-state aerobic demand for a given submaximal speed of walking,1 is abnormal in some vascular, neurological and orthopedic disorders.2 Increased energy expenditure during walking (i.e, poor economy) has been linked to such conditions as peripheral arterial disease,3 stroke,4 spinal cord injury,5 amputation,6 and cerebral palsy.7 In men with Parkinson's disease (PD), there was a trend for energy to be increased relative to healthy age and sex-matched controls.8 In PD, although neuromuscular, metabolic and cardiopulmonary limitations with low aerobic power can compromise functional capacity, little is known about the WE in this population. The finding that energy expenditure was increased during the displacement of the body led us to the hypothesis that WE may also be impaired for patients with PD. If true, interventions targeted to improve economy would be indicated to limit patient fatigue during daily activity. However, few studies have paid attention to this particular aspect, namely whether the energy cost of walking is increased in patients with PD. The findings observed in the literature suggest that the physiologic stress of daily physical activities is increased in patients with early to mid-stage PD, and this may contribute to the elevated level of fatigue that is characteristic of PD.9 Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess WE in patients with PD before and after endurance aerobic training on the treadmill.
Study design and participants
This was a longitudinal study. In the present pilot study, seven patients (2 women and 7 men; mean age ± SD, 66.3 ± 6.4 years [range: 56-74yrs]) with PD participated in our study. Volunteers underwent screening through a neurological examination, blood testing, and a submaximal graded cardiopulmonary exercise stress test. Diagnosis of PD was verified by a neurologist using the UK Brain Bank criteria.10 Volunteers in stages 1.5 to 3 using the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale11 were enrolled. Patients were excluded if they had uncontrolled hypertension, or limited exercise capacity based on musculoskeletal, neuromuscular (other than PD), or cardiovascular disorders. This protocol was approved (under the number cappesq 11623/15) by the institutional review board at the University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, Hospital das Clinicas. Informed consent was obtained from each participant.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, to assess cardiovascular capacity and indirect calorimetry to assess metabolic responses, were carried out at the Laboratory of Movement Studies of the HC-FMUSP Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology utilizing a metabolic cart (CPX/Ultima, MedGraphicTM, St. Paul, MN, USA). The Heart rate was monitored continuously using a 12-lead electrocardiogram (HeartWareTM, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil). The usual ECG parameters (heart rate, PR interval, QRS duration, QT and QTc intervals, and P, QRS and T axes) were analyzed in rest, during exercise, and cooldown period.
The stress test was conducted on a medical-grade treadmill (h/p/cosmosTM, pulsar, Nussdorf-Traunstein, Germany) with variable speed (km.h-1) and slope (%). A modified version of the Heck stress test protocol was used with fixed speed and increasing slope increments at the rate of 2% per minute.12 The speed was selected from those available (2.4, 3.6, 4.8, 6.0, and 6.5 km.h-1) based on the limit of individual conditions after two pilot tests with different speeds.13 Once a speed had been selected, individuals remained for a one-minute period at rest and shortly thereafter began the protocol at the previously chosen and tested speed. Perceived exertion was evaluated by the patient at each stage of the exercise test on a 15-point linear scale (6-20) as described by Borg.14 The test was discontinued at the request of the participant or when signs of tiredness were perceived. During the 3-minute recovery phase, beginning immediately after the end of the test proper, speed was decreased and maintained for one minute at every step of decrement. The entire test lasted on average for 10 minutes.
Walking economy determination
Walking economy (WE) was determined by measuring rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) by indirect calorimetry. The oxygen uptake (VO2) and walking speed at the ventilatory thresholds 1 and 2 (VT1 and VT2) were determined. Based on these walking speeds, VO2 at VT1 and VT2 were averaged between these two intensities. For the determination of WE, VO2 and walking speeds were expressed as a function of ventilatory thresholds 1 and 2 (VT1 and VT2).
Training sessions
Figure 1 displays the non-weight-bearing harness used in this project: it is projected to eliminate the risk of falls. PD patients received a 12-week aerobic training program. Each session lasted 50 minutes, with a frequency of twice a week. All patients underwent treadmill training. The initial speed was 0.5 km.h-1, which corresponds to ventilatory threshold 1; workload was by increased by 0.5 km.h-1 as tolerated. Vital signs were measured before, during, and after the assigned exercise. The PD patients had an attendance rate of 100% at the end of the program. All sessions were performed at the Laboratory of Movement Studies under direct supervision of exercise physiotherapist with study physicians available.
The Gaussian distribution (normality) for the data was verified by the Kolmogorov–Smirnov goodness-of-fit test (Z value < 1.0). Descriptive statistics are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD). A paired Student t-test was used for pre- and post-training comparison. Cohen's "d" effect size (ES) descriptors (trivial 0.0–0.1, small 0.1–0.3, moderate 0.3–0.5, large 0.5–0.7, very large 0.7–0.9, nearly perfect 0.9–1, and perfect > 1) were used to compare the variables after intervention.15 The level of significance was established as p<0.05 for all the statistical analyzes. Analyses were performed using Sigma Stat (version 3.5, Systat Software, Inc, Point Richmond, CA).
The main outcome measure was WE (rate of oxygen consumption during gait at the speed in mL.kg-1.Km-1) measured at treadmill. Nine subjects (7 men and 2 woman) completed this pilot study. The subjects had a range of disease severity from mild to moderately severe PD. The level of medical comorbidity in the sample was low, and only one was a current user of beta-blocker therapy to attenuate other forms of tremor (atenolol, 50mg/day).
Table 1 displays the walking economy, which was 20% better (p <0.001) after three months of aerobic endurance training, with a very large Cohen's "d" effect size ES=0.99. No changes were observed for maximal oxygen uptake, oxygen pulse, age-predicted maximal heart rate, percentage of age-predicted maximal heart rate, respiratory exchange ratio, and time test. Effect Size ES for all other measured parameters were small to moderate after training.
This small pilot study showed that aerobic exercise provides an important contribution to Parkinson's disease patients. Improving oxygen delivery by reducing energy expenditure in this population is a giant step towards improving quality of life. Studies have shown that aerobic exercise increases factors that potentially have a protective effect on the brain, which can slow the progression of the disease.16 Aerobic exercise liberates trophic factors - small proteins in the brain that behave as fertilizers. Exercise helps maintain brain connections and counters brain shrinkage from PD as well as from aging. The current study shows that a training program conducted on a low-volume, low-intensity treadmill protocol induces significant improvement in the WE of PD patients. In the present study, the results showed a 20% lower energy expenditure after the training period. The patients were more economical when moving on the treadmill. Therefore, the improvement in submaximal aerobic capacity suggests that PD patients may benefit from exercise just as much as a normal population. In addition, the treadmill allows a more rigorous control of the metabolic and cardiorespiratory demand. These findings are of clinical importance when prescribing exercise in PD patients, in order to reduce the fatigue of these patients. However, the VO2max and all other parameters related to cardiovascular performance as O2 pulse, HRmax, and percentage of HRmax did not change significantly after 12 weeks of aerobic training. It is probable that bradykinesia of the respiratory movement associated with degeneration of the cardiac sympathetic nerve that begins in the early phases of PD was a limiting factor to increase the cardiac output in these patients and consequently culminating with a low level of aerobic power.17
Previous studies have observed that cardiac uptake of metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is frequently decreased even in the early stages of PD (Hoehn-Yahr stage 1 or 2), which suggests an early involvement of the cardiac sympathetic nerve in these patients.18 Although the maximal respiratory exchange rate (RERmax) of the Parkinson's diseased patients amounted to a large ventilatory effort (RER = 1.15) at the exercise peak, it was not enough to improve aerobic power or exercise tolerance at maximal effort performed in treadmill exercise test.
In conclusion, we suggest that in PD the gain in WE may occur with a treadmill-training program, which may actually reduce the energy expenditure of activities of daily living. Low exercise intensity has the merit for improving WE motor manifestations of PD without increased in aerobic power.
Authors report no conflict of interest regarding this paper
JMDAG, PRSS and DSS: Lead author, wrote the manuscript, analyzed the data; Corrected the manuscript; Corrected the manuscript, analyzed the data, supervisor.
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2. Waters RL, Mulroy S. The energy expenditure of normal and pathologic gait. Gait Posture.1999;9(3):207-31.
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Today I had a challange at work, after modifying an Angular application that uses the Search API and included some wildcards on the query then Sharepoint become unresponsive.
The first thing I though its I broke it with my modification, becase the results before were about 50, and after my change the results returned 2000 items, that was my initial thoughts.
However after digging deeper into the situation we found that one of the Out of the Box Stored Procedures was taking about 200 seconds to execute, the stored procedure is called: proc_getwebnavstruct
Before finding this we checked CPU and Memory in all servers, including Database servers, we did IISResets everywhere, restarted SQL Instances and nothing seemed to work.
There were no deadlocks in the database.
After several google searched we came to this link:
Talking with our DBAs we also noticed that the stats are updated daily, but according to this KB Article, some things might not execute at all on the maintenance plan.
Our last effort was the recompile:
USE SP2013_Content_DB
sp_recompile proc_getwebnavstruct
After that was executed everything went back to normal.
So there are probably hundreds of solution to Sharepoint being slow, this is another one that tooks us a while to figure out and you guys should be aware of.


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Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016—The opening ceremony for the world championships will feature performers Magic Morgan and Liliana, Wild Zappers, and Michelle Banks. Jon Kovacs will emcee the ceremony, which will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6. Here is the one-sheet flyer.
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Resilience in Positive Psychology: Bouncing Back & Going Strong
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The subject of resilience in positive psychology deals with the ability to cope with whatever life throws at you. Some people can be knocked down by life and return as a stronger person than ever before. These people are called resilient.
A resilient person works through challenges by using personal resources, strengths and other positive capacities of psychological capital such as hope, optimism, and self-efficacy. Overcoming a crisis by resiliency is often described as "bouncing back" to a normal state of functioning. Being resilient is also positively associated with happiness.
"If you can't change it, change the way you think about it"
This article contains:
- Let's Start at the Beginning: Resilience
- Environments for Growth
- How do I Become More Resilient?
- Developing a Mindset That Fosters Success
- Identify and Leverage Your Strengths
- Learn to Perceive Obstacles as Challenges Rather Than Hindrances
- Focus on Progress, not Goals
- Practice Your ABC's
- References
Let's Start at the Beginning: Resilience
Relationships play a vital role in building the resilience of an individual. This starts at a young age when we are heavily influenced by our parents. The most resilient children are those who have been raised with an authoritative parenting style, rather than authoritarian or passive parenting styles.
The authoritative parenting style displays the qualities of warmth and affection that also provide structure and support to the child. Baumrinds' (1971, 2013) theory of parenting styles has shown that authoritative parenting is the ideal approach to raising a well rounded, independent, self-reliant, and self-controlled individual.
Opposing this is the authoritarian parenting style, that often results in rebellious or dependent children who experience more distrust and tend to be withdrawn.
Lopez and Snyder (2009) present the protective factors for psychological resilience, concluding that parenting style is just one of many factors affecting resilience. They also consider parental educational level, socio-economic status and home environment (organized vs. disorganized) as strong influences in the development of a child's psychological resilience.
Many researchers have developed similar conclusions using Baumrinds' categorization of parenting styles. The type of relationship, as well as the type of person in the relationship, play big roles in the development of resilience.
These positive relationships, where well-adjusted and rule-abiding behaviors are valued, have strong positive effects on the resilience levels of those involved.
The most salient individual characteristics include cognitive skills and personality differences related to effective problem solving, self-regulation, and adaptability to stress.
Through early relationships and supportive environments, children can learn a variety of personal resources which directly contribute to the development of their psychological resilience over time. Lopez and Snyder mention these key protective individual factors as:
- Positive self-image
- Problem-solving skills
- Self-regulation
- Adaptability
- Faith / understanding the meaning and one's purpose
- Positive outlook
- Skills and talents that are valued by self and community
- General acceptance by others
Environments for Growth
Environments which provide structure and safety have effects on the development of individual psychological resiliency.
Factors such as good public safety and availability to health care impact the development of a community's resilience. Namely, the greater the social care, the more positive is each individual's perceived value of their place in the world.
Education is another major factor to consider when building resilience as it provides structure and opportunities for individuals to learn and develop skills and talents. This can also be encouraged through prosocial organizations such as sports teams or clubs. These environments enable individuals to develop a positive self-image and feel the purpose by contributing to the world.
A core part of the positive education movement is creating prosocial organizations and effective schools but, additionally, there is a focus on specific school programs, teaching methods, and engaging family relationships in order to develop resilience directly and in a supportive environment. An example of such a program is the Penn Resiliency Program.
How do I Become More Resilient?
Even if the environment you grew up wasn't ideal for the development of resilience: it's never too late. Being resilient is not a personality trait, but more a dynamic learning process. The individual doesn't perceive moments of crisis as an unsolvable state, but rather as a learning experience and a chance for personal development and growth.
A major point in learning resilience is to be able to take a perspective on things. In moments of stress, it might be useful to place your individual situation into a bigger context to get a grasp on its real severity, or the lack thereof.
People that are resilient often show a positive attitude. They don't label failure as something negative, instead, they see it as helpful feedback and motivation to work more and get better. Getting in touch with other people, helping them, and overall establishing positivity in life are important steps in the process of learning resilience. In Harvard's Positive Psychology 1504 course, professor Tal Ben-Shahar goes in-depth on the subject of resilience in positive psychology.
Developing a Mindset That Fosters Success
Having experienced an explosion in personal development, success coaching, and lifestyle engineering, today's world has never been hungrier for the glory of goal achievement.
Whether these goals stem from desires for fitness, entrepreneurship or some other domain, they all have one thing in common: a road paved with uncertainty, sacrifice, and setbacks. As such, it is key that you learn to foster a sense of resilience within yourself to ensure you overcome these setbacks to aid your rise to greatness.
Fortunately, given the abundance of empirical evidence, the methods for doing so have never been clearer.
Detailed below are a series of tools designed to help you cultivate resilience and in doing so prepare you for the road ahead.
Identify and Leverage Your Strengths
Using your character strengths is a good way for yourself to experience your competence. However, a lot of people don't know what their strengths are. Something that you are good at comes easily to you, which is why you often take it for granted and don't recognize it as a major strength.
Learn more about character strengths and take the VIA test for instance to find your strengths. It can also be helpful to ask people who know you well what they think you are good at. While you are at it, ask yourself as well!
Several strengths are associated with happiness, which in turn is a helpful state of mind to become more resilient. Science shows that consciously embracing moments of daily life and being fully present (mindfulness) leads to increased happiness.
"The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification."
– Martin Seligman
When times are tough, it's easy to lose hope and optimism. But by staying acutely aware of your strengths, you are ensuring you have the best possible chance for survival. Research demonstrates the value in doing so, including greater vitality and motivation, a clearer sense of direction, higher self-confidence, productivity and even probability of goal attainment (Clifton & Anderson, 2001-2; Hodges & Clifton, 2004; Peterson & Seligman, 2004).
However, many of you might not be aware of what your strengths actually are. To find them, you could ask a close friend or family member to observe you closely for a day or two to determine exactly when you are most engaged and energized. Why?
Because when you engage in an activity that you're truly exceptional at, your excitement is clearly visible to those around you. And it, therefore, becomes very clear to others that you feel alive and motivated whenever you perform that particular activity. You might also like to try noticing what you do differently from other people.
Catching yourself in a random situation where your behavior might stand out will highlight your strengths. So once you find your strengths, make a conscious effort to remember them. They will serve you well in times of darkness.
Learn to Perceive Obstacles as Challenges Rather Than Hindrances
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
– Joshua J. Marine
According to the challenge-hindrance stressor framework formed by Cavenaugh et al. (2000), you'd be better served to employ this type of approach. When confronted with a problem, most people look at it as an attack on them. As something that prevents them from moving forward. Something that has happened to them rather than for them.
This victim mentality hinders their progress, and thus weakens their sense of resilience. For example, upon receiving criticism by their boss, a victim may talk back to their boss in anger, attempt to deny or excuse the outcome of their work or perhaps even complain about it to their colleagues.
Embodying this type of mindset simply sets you up for failure. You continue to receive curveballs like this and rather than face them head-on, you crumble. Instead, you should learn to perceive such obstacles as challenges.
People with a challenge perspective strive to view the problem as an opportunity for growth; as a chance to better themselves. In contrast to a hindrance perspective, a challenge perspective allows you to see your problem as something that has happened for you rather than to you.
This victor mentality encourages growth, thereby boosting your resilience. Referring to the above example once again, a victor may attempt to understand why the quality of work was not acceptable, request further feedback on how to improve or maybe even seek advice from colleagues. By acknowledging the obstacles and identifying the areas for improvement, you are positioning yourself for success.
Focus on Progress, not Goals
"Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it."
– Michael Bloomberg
Most people do the reverse. But according to research published by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2015, monitoring goal progress is crucial in ensuring that your goals are translated into action.
It further states that you're more likely to reach success if you report your progress publicly or even physically record it. You see, the digital advancements of our age have provided us with the ability to share our journeys at scale. But that ability has simply fostered a dangerous mentality of comparing our current state to that of those we idolize.
By focusing on your goals and the gap between your current circumstances and your preferred circumstances, you'll quickly become discouraged and doubtful. At that point, all it takes is a minor setback to send you plummeting back to square one.
However, by consistently acknowledging your progress, no matter how small, you are sending dollops of dopamine to your brain and thus rewarding yourself for your actions. This simply reinforces further action and if any setbacks arise, you are much more likely to move past them. Your sense of resilience thrives on progress and by reminding yourself of the strides you've made, you are setting yourself up for success.
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
– George S. Patton Jr.
Practice Your ABC's
Briefly described by Seligman and addressed in detail in Reivich and Shatté, the ABCDE model is often used in different resilience programs and is particularly useful in breaking down a given adversity and seeing how it's our beliefs about what happened that is causing us to feel a certain way, not the event itself.
This allows for a greater level of awareness about our own reactions and subsequently a more adjusted and healthy response to adversity. The model is composed of 5 steps:
- Adversity
- Beliefs
- Consequences
- Disputation
- Energization
These steps offer the keys to building resilience which involves recognizing any unfavorable thought patterns, finding the true reason behind the emotions, recognizing the negative impact of these emotions, learning to challenge them with varied ideas and thus begin choosing new more effective courses of action.
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
– Dr. Steve Maraboli
About the Authors
Yezen Nwiran is a positive psychology researcher, writer, and aspiring practitioner. Having graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Psychological Science, Yezen now conducts academic research in the field, currently exploring the cultivation of resilience. He is also the founder and host of The Yez To Life Podcast, a podcast dedicated to improving the lives of others through applications of positive psychology. Find out more at www.yeztolife.com.
Seph Fontane Pennock is always attempting the absurd through his writings, thoughts and impulsive acts that appear to lack any kind of motive. He comes armed to the teeth with an optimistic and pragmatic attitude. Get to know our whole team!
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6 Comments
October 23, 2018 at 9:27 pm
The article is amazing; so many good ideas and inspiring quotes that I am thinking of using either as brainstorming or for reflection when training teachers on how to become resilient.
March 21, 2017 at 8:12 am
Some great advice here, thanks!
Any talk about resilience always reminds me of this quote from Joe De Sena:
""Spartan up!" The title of this book is a phrase I bark at people every day in one situation or another. Those two words have a simple meaning: stop complaining and get it done! "Spartan up!" is an attitude, an X factor, a way of life that I would sum up like this: Challenges make me stronger. Failure makes me work harder. Knock me down, and, sure as a shit, I'm getting right back up."
That's resilience: Knock me down, and, sure as a shit, I'm getting right back up.
Anyway, thanks again. And keep up the good work 🙂
September 29, 2016 at 2:37 am
Please read about the Cambridge Somerville Youth Study and tell from whoom and where your info comes from, please.
December 30, 2014 at 5:50 pm
As someone who has some BPD tendencies I can completely relate with the things said this article. Growing up, you could literally divide me to two different "Betties", a very positive and open Jakyll-Betty, and an exiguous and down-hearted Hide-Betty, just according to how rough the past few weeks were. Having to deal with that as an adolescent was never easy and soon enough I found out that not only that the two Betties varied in their mood, but also in how the perceived the world. The happy Betty was less focused, less lively and did very poorly in academics. I just couldn't focus for to long. I went from being in the top of my class to an average student at best. I even had a name for it – I called it "my blurry phases", because that's how it feels- like everything is less clear. Being healthy and satisfied in a spiritual way has more to do with just your every-day well being, important how it may be. It has the option to lift barriers in your mind making yourself not a "better person, just a much better "you".


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A couple of weeks ago, one of my fantastic neighbors asked if I would go fabric shopping with her. Um, YES!
She had inherited a dining set from some neighbors that were moving and she wanted to refinish it and put some cloth on the seats. She read my blog and knew I loved decorating. She wanted my advice on what direction to go in. Her family all felt that it was time to brighten up their house with lighter finishes. The new dining set was off white with a wood top. My neighbor had been working very hard on stripping the top and repainting the legs and chairs. She did a great job!!!
So, before we went shopping I asked her some questions about colors. She said her favorite colors were magenta and indigo. My first thought was that we were headed down a purple path. Now, my neighbor has a husband and a son so I was guessing a "girly" purple wouldn't work for them. As we headed to the fabric store (her awesome daughter was with us too) I just figured we would be looking for a muted purple with some earthy brown or gold and cream just to keep it masculine AND feminine. I was WRONG!
When I am assisting someone with their décor choices, I don't like to run the show. It is their house, not mine. They have to live there and be happy. I'm just there to tell them if it is ugly and what would go well with their choices. I'm more of a color consultant, if you will.
As we strolled aisle after aisle of fabric I noticed that my neighbor and her daughter were leaning in the blue direction. And their pattern choices were very organic – natural pallette, free form pattern, etc. Nothing we came across was really knocking their socks off, until we found this:
Beautiful! That was the one! There was no hesitation and no question about it. This was the direction to go in.
The chairs started off like this:
Now they look like this:
( I will do a tutorial in another post so you can see how we did it!)
I also suggested this rug:
from Overstock.com
And these curtains:
from Etsy
I thought they would really complete the space. It is still a work in progress because all good things take time, but the hard part is done. A color scheme has been chosen and a beautiful refinish has been done. Don't you love a happy ending?
(Thank you, Marisa, for being a wonderful neighbor and seeking my advice. It made me feel wonderful!)


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After what felt like a sizable amount of time - but was probably only like 15 or 20 minutes - Loot, which opened last week at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, turns the dials up to an 11.
It was when Hal and Dennis - whom just robbed a bank the night before - need to move their money and resorted to Hal's mother's coffin. Needing more space, they take Hal's mother and try jamming her into the nearby wardrobe, resulting in a lot of banging and panicking and flailing limbs.
Try as you might to resist, but that visual is ridiculous.
The rest of Loot does not match that one laugh-out-loud moment minute, but it is refreshing to see that Joe Orton's British farce hold up so well. The remarks against religion and corrupt police officers have not lost their bluster, even though they were written almost five decades ago.
The quality of the original writing makes up for some uneven performances. Rocco Sisto's sketchy detective is appropriately menacing, but all of his scenery-chewing was not high-camp enough nor did it garner consistent laughter. Rebecca Brooksher, as the lone female of the ensemble, playing the hospice worker with a dubious, "is she or isn't she" past, gave probably the best performance of the lot, even though it was nothing to write home about.
Jesse Berger was right to let the book do the heavy-lifting, but his direction was faulty...a little too much time between laughs and the show can turn dull real fast. Plot and pacing was never Loot's strong points, but it is best when the show goes full-force ahead with its
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Restaurant magazine hails the hidden heroes of the UK's top kitchens
For the cover feature of its October issue Restaurant magazine sets out to answer that question by going in search of the hidden heroes of the kitchen, finding eight head chefs who are used to running their bosses' establishments while they are away and faithfully maintaining the high standards set.
"They don't own the restaurants, and these head chefs certainly don't want to take the credit for the risk and sacrifice put in by the owners in establishing their places. Yet, at Restaurant, we think it is important they gain some recognition for their work," say the magazine's William Drew and Stefan Chomka.
Find out what the head chefs for Blumenthal, Wareing, Atherton, Simon Rogan, Sat Bains, Tom Kerridge, Bruce Poole and Fergus Henderson think about their bosses, what they've learnt and what their responsibilities are in this exclusive feature.
For a closer look at the relationship between head chef and boss you can also see our exclusive video on site tomorrow.
Restaurant magazine, out tomorrow also includes:
- A focus on family-run restaurants
- A business profile of Dishoom
- Pearls of Wisdom from David Everitt Matthias, chef-patron of Le Champignon Sauvage
- An extract from Nicholas Lander's book The Art of the Restaurateur
- Anthony Demetre on the new-look Wild Honey
- How to make Lancashire Hotpot
- Guide to the Restaurant Show
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New drink and drug driving penalties
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New drink and drug driving penalties that will become effective as of 30 April 2018. Briefly, the new laws are as follows.
Caught Drink Driving Interstate?
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From 31 January 2018, if you hold a Victorian licence and get caught drink driving interstate, the same rules apply as if the offence occurred in Victoria.
Hangovers - Myths and Facts
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A horrible dry mouth, drowsy feeling the morning after heavy alcohol consumption. Hangover cures from "al ko hol", an arabic word, date back to ancient Romans, Greeks who believed that eating a Canary or Cabbage can cure Hangovers. Many people today still abide by such myths, spread by gossip and anecdotal experiences. Such myths include "salt in a strong cup of coffee (in France), "lifting the drinking arm and rubbing half a lemon under it (Puerto Rico) and even in Australia, some of us believe that eating greasy food, smoking or having lots of coffee can cure you from a hangover.
Is your offence on or after 01/10/2014?
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From 01.10.2014: ALL drink drivers offenders in Victoria will be subjected to the following:
What is the solution to the alcohol and other drug problem in Australia?
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At a time when alcohol is arguably the MOST concerning issue of our time, definitely bigger than the "war on terror", we ask, what is the solution to this increasing menace in Australia. Further, while you are at it, what is the solution to the drug problem in general? There are now more potent drugs, doing more harm, in minute doses that are no longer detectable by technology.
Conspiracy Theory or Fact?
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Why! Have we lost the plot? Community health awareness on alcohol is negligible compared to tobacco despite the fact that tax revenue from alcohol significantly outweighs that of tobacco.
AHEV App Now Available
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We're pleased to announce that we've just launched our very own App for your iPhone that will test your reflexes in a series of tests and help you learn about Pupil sizes and its relationship to drugs.
Study on the long-term consequences of drunk driving
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Long-Term Consequences of Drunk Driving Accidents in Sweden: An Exploratory Study on the Lived Experiences of Survivors, Their Family Members and Friends.
Interlocks in Victoria
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On the 1st October 2014 changes to the drink driving legislation were introduced, and anyone found guilt or convicted of a drink-driving offence that results in driver license or learner permit cancellation will be required to install and use an alcohol interlock once relicensed.
Alcohol Use In Canada And UK Fall To American Beer Drinking, But We Still Have A Ways To Go
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Worldwide, Europe has been considered the region with the highest rate of alcohol consumption per capita. However, European countries including the UK and France failed to match the United States' affinity for beer as of 2010. Areport released by the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday has revealed that Americans' beer consumption at 4.28 liters per person is respectable but still pales in comparison to heavy beer drinking countries like Belgium and the Czech Republic.


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President and Managing Director of Etoile Group, Ingie Chalhoub has been a stalwart personality for the luxury retail sector within the Middle East for the last several decades. Leading the fashion powerhouse since she established it in 1983, Chalhoub has brought over 200 international ultra-luxury brands to the region including Chanel, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Tod's and John Galliano. In 2005, she established her own luxury fashion concept, Etoile La Boutique, which houses a variety of high-end fashion designers and boasts several locations throughout the GCC. In 2009, Chalhoub decided to make a foray into the creative realm and launch her own line, INGIE Paris.
Making the progression from store owner to designer hasn't been easy. INGIE Paris is the result of countless years of sitting front row at the fashion shows as well as Chalhoub's myriad of artistic and contemporary inspirations. "Everyone who walks into Etoile la Boutique should feel unique," she says. "We help clients pick out clothes to best suit their personality. It is about personality and glamour – each piece of clothing is an artistic piece. Each piece involves countless hours of care and craftsmanship – something I now know well."
Last season, INGIE Paris made its first foray into a multi-brand department store other than Chalhoub's own and now sits alongside other brands at Saks Fifth Avenue in Burjuman. Given the young age of the brand, her designs are under constant scrutiny by Saks' head buyers. Regardless, Chalhoub commits the same will power and determination into launching her own line that she has over the past decades with the Etoile Group. And success has already come. A big accomplishment for her this year was the opening of the designer's very first INGIE Paris boutique in Kuwait at The Avenues at the city's Prestige Mall. Moreover, she's doing this for herself. "As you grow older you think perhaps 'you've done it', but then you ask if this is what you'd like to do and if you're doing it for the glory of it," she says. "I've done it and now I want to please myself."
Modern and contemporary art are primary creative inspirations for Chalhoub. "When I was young I wanted to be a painter," she says. "My creativity has needed to come out." Entitled A Weekend in Paris at the Crillon Hotel, Chalhoub's latest collection is named after one of her favourite leisure spots and boasts elegant separates made in fine knitwear, intricately woven tweed and quilted silk. The collection refers to the idea of women as global citizens and incorporates stylistic references from Japan, Kenya, China and France, all countries which inspire her – cultural notes that signal Chalhoub's global vision for her brand. "My vision for INGIE Paris is to take the brand outside of the Middle East," she says. "I think now I am ready for the next step."


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Audiences in Market Weighton were treated to some quality entertainment when drama group The Market Weighton Community Players performed 'Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders'.
The play, written by Derek Webb, is a murder mystery in which a series of murders take place amongst members of the village hall committee in a quiet rural village.
A totally incompetent and pompous Detective Inspector Twigg arrives to solve the crimes assisted by village Bobby PC Lockett. Fortunately, crime fiction writer and old adversary Agatha Crusty happens to be visiting and eventually identifies the murderer.
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Director Helen Lawley chose her cast well and characters had been well understood and developed by the amateur actors. Even though it was evident that some members of the cast found the script demanding in some areas, they had the resourcefulness and discipline to persevere, resulting in an excellent production which obviously pleased and entertained the audience.
The venue at the Market Weighton Social Club is convenient and comfortable. It presents features which the Players exploited to good effect, bringing the action right amongst the audience which, of course is always most enjoyable. This audience participation was further enhanced by a 'Whodunnit' competition to identify the murderer before the reveal on stage.
The Market Weighton Community Players aim to bring the performing arts into their community. They achieve this in many ways including their open door policy to membership and lack of experience is no barrier to selection for stage parts. The Players also make their mark in their community by taking any surplus funds from each production and donating them to local groups. Indeed, £120 from the proceeds of a raffle held during one performance of Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders was donated to the Children in Need appeal.
The Players are launching a youth theatre initiative to involve young people from the area in performance and workshops especially written and designed for them. Earlier this year, The Market Weighton Community Players had great success and acclaim with their performance of Dad's Army. Following local demand, especially from those who could not get tickets, the show is being repeated on 3, 4 and 5 March 2016, again at The Market Weighton Social Club.
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Reviews of Microsoft's newest tablet, the Surface Pro, were published last night. They weren't too good for the most part.
Does that mean every single review was horrible?
Does that mean those who gave the Surface Pro a generally negative review had nothing nice to say about the tablet?
No review of anything will ever be entirely negative or positive. You can always pick out bits from reviews and skew those quotes however you want. What's important to look at is the conclusion each reviewer makes. Does he or she say you should buy the product? Does he or she say the product is a good value? Does he or she say the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
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If you look at the Surface Pro reviews in aggregate, the consensus seems to be that the Surface Pro compromises too much on battery life, weight, and price to be a viable alternative to a regular laptop.
It's pretty clear Microsoft fans don't like that, so here are some of the nice things reviewers (including me!) had to say about the Surface Pro:
The Surface Pro has some impressive hardware specs for such a unique form factor. It can go toe-to-toe with any other thin and light laptop. You won't have to worry about performance. In fact, it outperformed my 13-inch MacBook Air in many respects.
The Surface Pro boots up/shuts down a lot faster than my Air, and it wakes up from sleep mode before I can get to "two Mississippi." In that respect, it felt more like using a traditional tablet than a regular laptop. Very nice.
While the Surface Pro might not be the future, exactly as it is, it's absolutely full of ideas and functions that are just off the horizon, or just in from it. A pro-level stylus, touch-based everything, extreme portability, creative new ways to type. This is how you'd build a machine from the ground up if you wanted to make sure there was no chance of it falling behind the curve.
The 10.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 panel on the Pro is gorgeous, maybe the best laptop screen I've ever seen. Blacks are deep and whites are bright (my MacBook Air's display looks comparatively yellowish now), and colors are both accurate and vibrant. Since it's 1080p, it also holds up to closer pixel-level scrutiny when you're holding the device nearer to your face in tablet mode.
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text: Mattia Bianchi awarded the Corporate Partnership Program's Research Award for 2015 2015-12-18 Mattia Bianchi has been awarded the Corporate Partnership Program's Research Award for 2015 at the Stockholm School of Economics. The prize constitutes an award of SEK 100,000 from the Stockholm School of Economics' corporate partners and was presented during the Corporate Partners' Meeting. This year's prize winner, Mattia Bianchi, is distinguished by his top-quality research, which has a direct bearing on the business sector, and his strong commitment to both research and teaching. His research, which focuses on innovations of direct relevance for business, has been published in top-ranked international journals. Mattia Bianchi is heavily involved in the School's educational programme, where his efforts have been highly significant. The research award was established in 2003 to promote research at the Stockholm School of Economics. During the Corporate Partners' Annual Meeting, the prize is awarded to a promising researcher who is either successful in his/her field or who has produced a work that has contributed to the development of knowledge within his/her discipline. Mattia Bianchi's research deals with innovation processes. He analyses the underlying reasons why they often fail to meet time, cost and quality targets, but also what companies can do to avoid getting stuck in failed projects. "My research shows how companies can avoid the pitfalls and create innovation projects that are both creative and effective instead. The solution is to work in short iterative cycles where the focus is on capturing and reusing knowledge," says Mattia Bianchi. About the Corporate Partnership Program The SSE's Corporate Partnership Program currently involves more than 110 companies that contribute to and support the School's research. Each year, the Chairpersons and CEOs of these companies are invited to a meeting of partners. "The corporate partner companies contribute some SEK 28 million annually to the School's research. This corresponds to more than 44 percent of the direct research costs, meaning that the partners account for seven percent of the School's funding," says Henrik Björck, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Corporate Relations. See which companies are included in the Stockholm School of Economics' Corporate Partnership Program.


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About the Georgiou Lab
Since 2009 the Georgiou laboratory has been focused on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics and on the analysis of adaptive immune responses.
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- Engineering and preclinical/clinical development of human enzyme therapeutics for the treatment of solid tumors and leukemias.
- Development of methods for the molecular-level identification of the human antibody repertoire in blood and in secretions.
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- Engineering of antibody therapeutics displaying enhanced ability to recruit cytotoxic leukocytes and blood proteins (complement) for the effective clearance of pathogens.
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Study Finds Alternatively Certified Educators Falling Short
If you haven't seen it yet, check out my colleague Stephen Sawchuk's blog item on what may be the first study to attempt to gauge the effectiveness of teachers certified by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.
The ABCTE program is a national alternative route that allows would-be teachers to bypass traditional education school coursework.
In this Florida study by researchers from Mathematica Policy Research Inc., secondary-school students of the alternatively certified teachers performed about the same in reading, and worse in math, than those whose teachers were traditionally certified.
As Sawchuk dutifully point out, there's a big caveat here. The study was based on a very small, nonrandom sample of ABCTE teachers from a single state—about 30 teachers in all—state so it's too soon to draw any solid conclusions from the findings.


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I have spent virtually my entire working life trying to help people, to make them safe, to make sure they go home to their loved ones at night. All too often, though, I put the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few, or of the one, as Mr. Spock might say. My career in law enforcement and private-sector security cost me two marriages, a couple of intervening relationships, and almost cost me my life. It left me an alcoholic, vicious, mean, bigoted bastard; it took me almost twenty years to recover from that (I haven't done any drinking since 1989, and had it not been for the lovely yet talented Mrs618, I might never have recovered).
More recently, I've been engaged in firefighting and yet another round in EMS (my third). Because these are paid-on-call jobs, they weren't as time-consuming as police work, but I still tried my very best.
No more.
A couple of things happened yesterday, including hearing my alcoholic, psychologically-abusive father tell my drunk junkie brother that HE was the reliable one... after the lovely yet talented Mrs618 and I left a pair of $50,000-a-year jobs and moved to Maine to take care of my parents. After I've been fixing their house -- at MY expense -- for six years. After putting myself in the hospital a bunch of times with exhaustion, chest pains, bad knees, pneumonias, and a few things that looked like strokes or heart attacks.
Plus, I've been getting some really snotty emails from the local logistics person at the Red Cross, who seems to feel it is MY job to verify all the logistical issues for a class (if that is the case, why do we pay a full-time logistics person? And what does she do to earn her keep?).
I lay awake all night, thinking about things. About 4:00 AM, I felt a door close, then I got really cold, then everything just kind of mellowed out.
I had made my decisions:
- No more caring about anybody other than the lovely yet talented Mrs618, Emily (the Lab), Joey (the cat), and my son.
- I will continue to do the best job I can with the FD and EMS, but that's all it is now, a job. If you live, fine. If you don't, well, sucks to be you.
- Someone else can do the 14 or 15 different functions I'd been filling at the Red Cross for the last six years, including getting up in the middle of the night to go to house fires (I'll still go for the FD, cause they pay me).
- No feelings, no emotion, no empathy, no sympathy. Talk to the hand, dude.
- Ditto with their cultural norms, belief systems, languages, religions or other ethnic crap. You live in the United States, you adjust to OUR way of life. You don't like it? Go back to Trashcanistan.
- I'm not going to worry about watching my tongue anymore. Fat-Ass Paul LePage is a fat-assed teabagging douchbag. So is his fat-assed daughter. So is Rafael Eduardo Hijo de Puta Cruz, Canadian-born anchor baby spawn of cigar-sucking Cuban émigré, Castro supporter and Desi Arnaz wannabe Rafael Bienvenido Chinga tu Madre Cruz. So is Bible Spice and her oxygen-thief brood. And all the other cretinous yahoos who need to chlorinate their little corners of the gene pool, like the various Kardashians: Kleenex, Klepto, Klamato, and Klimax. Half of those fucks oughta be shot. Hell, most of 'em oughta be shot.
For those who have stopped by and commented in the past -- the folks like BadTux, Jurassic Pork, The Dark Wraith*, skippy the bush kangaroo, the gone-but-not-forgotten Firestarter5 -- thank you. You gave me the encouragement to continue, and you let me think that maybe I had something worthwhile to offer. For the newer folks, the medical and fire service folks like Michael Morse, Justin Schorr, and Curt Varone, we may not agree on everything, but we tried. By God, we tried. To the folks on the old Yahoo wildlife groups, DLP in particular, thank you for the encouragement (and the occasional ball-busting).
BTW, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Jurassic Pork and his missus are in pretty tough financial straits; if you can toss a few coins his way, please do. They really do deserve to have a roof over their heads.
* The Dark Wraith has been missing in action for a couple of years now, and Google is now showing his old site (and the companion site BigBrassBlog) as possibly infected with malware, so no links. DW, if you should happen to see this, you are missed. Same for Firestarter5.


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