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VeloNews Interviews podcast: Jeremy Powers on fatherhood
Jeremy Powers talks about fatherhood, his former protegé Stephen Hyde, and the little Belgium that is Western Massachusetts cyclocross.
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Welcome to the VeloNews podcast. If this episode sounds a little different, that's because it is. We've launched a new series that is devoted to interviews with cycling's most interesting people. From riders to directors to other influential people, this is your place to learn about the sport from the insiders.
For the second episode of our new interview series, Caley Fretz sits down with cyclocross star Jeremy Powers."There's no question there's static there," Powers says of his relationship with former protegé Stephen Hyde. So how does it feel when the apprentice becomes the master? Caley Fretz sits down with cyclocross star Powers to talk about fatherhood, his relationship with Hyde, and the little Belgium that is Western Massachusetts cyclocross.
If you like what you hear, subscribe to the VeloNews podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play. Also, check out the VeloNews Fast Talk training podcast with Trevor Connor and Fretz.

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From Thursday the 2nd of August til Saturday the 4th I had the opportunity for a bikepack. I couldn't go far so it ended up being a sort of backyard bikepack in my local area. Here's the ride on Strava.
Day One took me from Hoogland to Loenen. The first half was through farmlands, with a lot of asfalt then some dusty unpaved roads and the second half was mainly forest roads. It was hot. 35 degrees C which is exceptional here in The Netherlands, even more exceptional is the fact that it has been this warm for almost 3 entire weeks now. Something that has never happened before in recorded history. Everything here is dying and it looks like it is autumn already.
I had to soak my head and shirt in water several times just to keep my core and head cool enough. I drank enough but I still got a light head-ache. I really need to use those isotone powders next time…
I left out some sandy roads and replaced them with the cycling lane close-by to it just to prevent overheating. This way it all went fine and I reached the campsite Zegenoord at around 18:00. The trip was about 80 kilometers long. I had a good dinner with stuff I got from the local supermarket.
Day Two took me from Loenen to Renkum. A short leg of about 35km. Long enough because it was warm again. The first part of the trek went through the Loenermark which has awesome riding on gravel roads. Then I went over the highest part of the ride at Signaal Imbosch which is one of the few remaining lookouts for forest fires. It may even be the only one left, I am not sure. It's not that high at 108 meters but it's the highest we got over here.
After that it went back down again to Renkum. I again had to stop several times to cool down, scared off two huge boars, saw butterflies taking shelter in a tunnel under the motorway I was also taking shelter in. Also present there some bats. I passed the site where the Allies landed their gliders during Operation Market Garden. I passed 5,000 yo burial mounds. I rode centuries old roads. Awesome. At the end of all this was campsite Quadenoord near the small town of Renkum, near the Molenbeek (a little stream through an also little but historically important valley). I brought my 10×50 bino for a tour of the heavens after which I hit the sack.
Day Three took me back home again to Hoogland. I got up quite early, had a left-over breakfast and bought two small apple pies and a blueberry pie and left the campsite. This last leg was about 60km's and took me up and over the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, which is a 80 meter high sandy ridge left by the ice in the last Ice Age. But first I drove right past the Rhine river and up to the Grebbeberg, the site of four days of pretty fierce fighting in WWII by the Dutch troops that didn't have proper weapons to boot.
The last 20 kilometers were a straight line following an old railroad track which I often use as an offroad speedway to get from the Utrechtse Heuvelrug back home again. Unfortunately some landowners are real d*cks and let hikers over their land but for reasons that no one has yet properly been able to understand bikers are not allowed. Sad, but hey… I had a good ride so whatev's 🙂
All in al the trip was 178 kilometers long with a little under a 1000 meters of climbing. Next up is a 6 day trip late September or early October.


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jmg721 wrote:First off is their backline. I really don't know if or how injured Diana is, but he NEEDS to be their RB. I saw them try to move him to LMF and Colombo to RB, and it was a disaster. Currently, Diana is out of the line-up and instead of having RB-Diana, CB-Di Loreto, CB-Natali, LB-Pisano like they were playing earlier in the season. Now I feel they are playing just about everyone out of position. RB-Di Loreto, CB-Natali, CB-Pisano, LB-Ogbonna. I thought Ogbonna was a natural(yet unseasoned) CB, and pisano is a natural attacking LB. Di Loreto looks really poor in space, and he is a decent CB. The most surprising thing to me is that Pisano has not looked bad at CB. His positional sense and quickness seem to make up for his lack of stature. I think it was a good idea to stop playing Pratali though. I don't think Dellafiore is the answer either.
lo zio wrote:3-5-2 display (napoli-like), with amoruso and bianchi upfront, and about a 3-4-3 display (udinese-like) with amoruso upfront, rosina and abate moving around him.... and of course dzemaili-barone at midfield (with no zanetti)
lo zio wrote:and that's why i think it might be good for novellino to try a 3-5-2, like napoli's one. a 3 cbs set up (pisano-natali-ogbonna, maybe) with diana on the right and rubin on the left, both lined up 10 about meters ahead of the defensive line.
with this set up torino might get a better coverage of the box (with the 3-5-2 the cbs are much closer each others than with the classic 4-4-2). one of the cbs could (sometimes) detach himself from the line, pushing foward, pressing the ball carrier, with the others 2 staying deep on coverage.
and moreover this way, diana and rubin would be freed from the tipycal coverage duties of a proper fullback and could help the midfield keeping the possession line higher....
the thing is novellino (wich is a good coach i respect a lot) is very, very faithful to his 4-4-2 interpretation.
and that's a shame to me, as i believe that with this line up diana and rubin could create a great partnership with abate and rosina (their overlaps could be damn effective as both rosina and abate like to cut on the centre).
and novellino also has the midfield to support such a system. barone and zanetti providing some hard work just behind the midfield line, and dzemaili (i've been impressed by this guy too, Jmg) lined up between those 2 guys, just a couple of meters ahead. and they would also have 1 good backup for each of them (samuel, vailatti and corini).
then there's the offensive set up. that's where torino has more options.
having amoruso and bianchi, novellino could choose every possible set up. bianchi and amoruso formed an amazing partnership in reggina... they just complete each others.... but unfortunately, since bianchi came back from his english experience, he doesn't seem the same (great) striker anymore....i'm still confident in his qualities though.
novellino could choose a 2 fowards system as those 2 guys could easily take care of the offensive phase just by themselves. this set up would be perfect for his 4-4-2. but that should imply a less mobile and pushing defensive line, especially on the flanks (wich would mean another rb instead of diana who is too offensive for this system, and that would be a shame). moreover this offensive set up would be "hungry of crosses", so no room for rosina (diana playing as right midfielder would be a better option as, unlike rosina, diana wouldn't cut on the centre and would provide all those crosses amoruso and bianchi need). no problem for abate, who would suit every possible formation imo (abate has a bright future!).
or maybe (and that would be my favourite option), novellino could display amoruso (or bianchi) as a lone foward with abate and rosina rambling around him. this offensive set up would suit perfectly the 3-5-2 system i was talking about before.... it could be like this.
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So you want to build a band and all you got is your trusty rusty old harmonica? Afraid you can't afford to spend thousands of dollars setting up the right gear, but don't fret, just work with what you got, until you get what you want. Start small and build up your kit, and here's a handy list of 10 indispensable pieces of equipment you can get for under $150 each.
Wah-Wah Pedal: Run your vocals through it, run your drum machine through it, run one playback track on the left and run the same track through the Wah-Wah Pedal panned to the right. Modulate with ferocity. $120 or $50 used.
Used Cheap Bass Guitar: Adds tons of smooth bass to any track. Even if you can't play, just play the root key in time, or just pluck it once and let it fill up the bottom. Hit it staccato with the kick drum. Face it, sampled basses sound really thin. You'll be glad you got it.
Pawn-shop Short Wave Radio: You can find them cheap, and when you run through the frequency band it makes a sound like an old Sequential Circuits Pro-One from the early 70's. Plus you are able to pick up people speaking Chinese or Brazilian.
Shakers, Maracas, Tamborines, other Small Percussion Instruments: I've gotten endless use out of these when you just need to fill up that last bit of space on a track, plus it adds a live feel to your beats and you don't need a whole drum kit to do that. Get a pair of sticks for about $10, and just hit stuff at random.
Noise Gate: If you don't have one, get one! You can get a pedal version for under $150, and once you listen to the difference of eight tracks with line level noise versus eight gated tracks, you'll use it for every track afterwards.
Envelope Filter: Again, pedal versions go for less than $150 but these things modulate automatically with the amount of amplitude run through them. Drum machines sound incredible through them, as do bass guitars.
Radio Shack Audio Raid: Take $100 down there and spend a day playing with the stuff. They've usually got crystal radio kits for around $15, sirens, alarms, cop scanners, oscillators, and a catalog of all the stuff that makes weird noise and has cool flashing lights.
Power Conditioner: Clean power is really a major noise reducer and good for eliminating that 60hz power hum. One of those things you might not notice until it's gone.
Metasynth Software: Actually this might be more than $150 (I don't know, I have a beta version) but I'll bet it's pretty close and it's software that interprets visual information as sound. Time and pitch are on an X/Y axis and colors are interpreted as timbre – you can scan in your favorite photos and hear how they sound as tones. Or, you can paint with the mouse – with a little practice I was painting bizarre landscape symphonies. Very unique sounds, fun to play with. www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php
Concert Tickets: Spend a few crowns on tickets for a band with a style of music that you write. Whenever I see a band that really blows me away, I run right home to the studio and whatever money I spent on the tickets is minuscule to the amount of inspiration I get from just being at a show.


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Last Saturday night, I celebrated an early Thanksgiving dinner with my son, daughter-in-law, and their six-year old son. As food preparations were being made in the kitchen, I peeked into the dining room. Without being asked, my grandson was busy "decorating the table." This is what he did: he wrote large place cards (like the one pictured) to place under our glass plates--the message read "thank you for everyone who ever exists" (some had "s", some didn't). Then he drew flowers to put in front of his mother's and my plates and in front of his and his father's he put a paper on which he had written their favorite football team-my son's the PATS-his the Jets (the start of a friendly competition, I surmised). Then he got out his piggy bank and found four gift bags and into each he put some change and placed those on our seats. He did all of this without being asked or coached. I will never forget his inspired generosity and creativity. We sat as a family around the table and each of us said a grace of Thanksgiving.
The next day, we went to church. I don't know what it is about organ music, but I crumble and tear at the sound. As I sat there next to my son and daughter-in-law, I tried to compose myself, but then I saw two elderly women, bent over, but very dignified walking down the center aisle--each with a helping hand-but each very proud that they could still walk. At their sight, I wilted and wept gently; I was a 67 year old child who missed her mother. I got out of my pew, tried to reassure my son that I was all right and walked to the back of the church to gather my wits. He followed-I said "I miss Grammie", he got it, we stood there for a moment and went back to our pew--my daughter-in-law handed me a package of tissues and later said "I knew exactly what happened".
Emotions run deep for me around the holidays. Eleven years ago, I didn't know if I would ever be able to honor them with the ways to which I had become accustomed. Thanksgiving was my husband's high holy holiday; he was a man of great gratitude and he loved to share the bounty of the blessings that he cared most about--his family and his friends. My parents and grandparents instilled the memories of their own holiday pageantry--my grandfather sharpening the carving knife with a steel, my granny carrying into the dining room a turkey that seemed almost larger than she. My mother's pecan pie, my father's eloquent graces.
Eleven years later, my children and grandchildren have taught me that life goes on, love endures and sadness falls away, making room for creating new traditions.
This Thursday, I will share my second Thanksgiving family gathering--this time with my daughter and her family. We talked this morning about how to fit our family and friends around the table--a table that will be covered with my grandmother's linen table cloth. We will light the candles, say a prayer of thanks and feel the presence of those who "live" vividly in our memories.


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Crazy Dog's Audio Theatre's Invasion From Planet Vampire performed and broadcast live on RTE Radio 1 from Octocon 2000 is now available on CD.
The low, low price is just £10.00, and it can currently be found in Forbidden Planet, Dublin.
Copies will be for sale at Octocon on the 13th and 14th of October in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.
Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre has written a follow-up series, Big Big Space, the first two episodes of which will be recorded at this years Octocon and broadcast subsequently.
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At Accenture, how we achieve success is as important as success itself.
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The past year has been full of tributes to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson. From stars proudly wearing their MJ gear on the red carpet and onstage to celebrity DJs tossing in that extra taste of "Billie Jean" to get a late-night crowd hyped, the iconic singer's face and music seemed to be everywhere.
But, as Friday's one-year anniversary of Jackson's death approaches, we decided to take a look at the many public tributes to the musical icon, who died June 25, 2009, at age 50 on the cusp of what was expected to be a triumphant series of comeback shows at London's O2 arena.
In the days following Jackson's death, spontaneous expressions of grief and celebration sprung up across the globe, from fans gathering on the streets of Tokyo and New York to pilgrimages to Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Indiana, and his abandoned adult playground, California's Neverland Valley Ranch.
The first and one of the most poignant was the July 7 public memorial for Jackson held at Los Angeles' Staples Center. With stirring performances and tributes from Stevie Wonder, Brooke Shields, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Lionel Richie, Usher, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hudson, the event reached an emotional apex when the singer's then-11-year-old daughter, Paris, said a final, tearful farewell to her "daddy."
And from President Obama and former wife Lisa Marie Presley to Slash, sister Janet and Kanye West, it seemed no one was immune from feeling the loss of Jackson's immeasurable pop-culture influence. The day after the singer's death, Obama said he was glad to see that MJ was being "remembered primarily for the great joy that he brought to a lot of people through his extraordinary gifts as an entertainer." Also weighing in with fond remembrances were Usher and Beyoncé, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown, Mariah Carey and Juelz Santana, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, collaborators Diana Ross and Paul McCartney, 50 Cent and tons of fans.
Some banded together to record songs commemorating Jackson, such as the Game and Chris Brown, LL Cool J, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Cookin' Soul's Tribute to the King mixtape with 50 Cent and Biggie Smalls. We also remembered all the folks — from Jay-Z, Rihanna and Tupac to Moby and Jennifer Lopez — who had sampled and covered MJ's classic songs in the past.
Time magazine did its part with a special commemorative issue just four days after Jackson's death, marking the first time the weekly had published off-cycle since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The night before, Janet Jackson spoke publicly for the first time about her brother's death at the BET Awards, telling the crowd, "To you, Michael is an icon. To us, Michael is family. He will forever live in all of our hearts." Her appearance at the event, which was full of nods to Jackson's legacy by the likes of New Edition, was followed by a cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" by show host Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo.
In early July, Beyoncé and Ne-Yo nodded to Jackson again, dedicating their sets to the King of Pop at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, while B's husband, Jay-Z, opened his July 9 show in Chicago with a montage of Jackson's photos and a plea to remember the love as part of a series of big-ups to his idol, which also took place during shows by noted acolyte R. Kelly.
Fans continued to play tribute to Jackson's legacy by streaming into stores to buy his albums by the millions, smashing sales records in the process and minting hundreds of millions for his beleaguered estate in the process. They also lined up in record numbers for his "This Is It" documentary.
The singer's family and friends gathered on September 3 for a private funeral, which featured his children laying a golden crown on the singer's casket, while a planned all-star concert organized by brother Jermaine Jackson fell apart at the final hour.
Madonna said goodbye to her old friend at September's MTV Video Music Awards, which also featured a musical tribute from Janet. "Dancing With the Stars" paid tribute the next month, when the show's dancers boogied to MJ songs.
In December, MTV News named Jackson its Man of the Year in honor of his indelible imprint on popular music and culture and the global impact of his death. The National Film Registry added Jackson's iconic "Thriller" video to its list of important films.
At January's Grammy Awards, an all-star cast of singers, including Smokey Robinson, Usher, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood, performed a cover of Jackson's "Earth Song" in a 3-D tribute that brought tears to the eyes of such superstar attendees as Rihanna and Beyoncé. That weekend, stars also gathered for a remake of "We Are the World" for Haiti earthquake relief that paid homage to the song's co-writer and lead influence.
Earlier this month, the mayor of Gary, Indiana, announced that the city plans to erect a $300 million museum and performance complex in Jackson's name.
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The Charleston Museum continued it's restoration efforts, rebuilding the chimneys and outbuildings. However, attendance began to dwindle and the museum was forced to close the house for tours in 1993.
The house remained closed until Historic Charleston Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the architecture and cultural character of Charleston, took over ownership in 1995.
The HCF reopened the house for tours and soon after developed an integrated plan of conservation and restoration. Exterior components such as the shutters, windows and doors were restored to protect the interior historic fabric in it's original condition.
The most striking change has been to the exterior. In 2006, the weathered masonry walls were given an application of deep yellow lime wash and stenciled white lines were applied to simulate stone blocks, returning the house to it's 1858 appearance when the Aikens did their last alterations. The lime wash is not only decorative, it adds a protective and breathable coating to the masonry.
The Aiken-Rhett house is located at 48 Elizabeth Steet in Charleston, SC and is open 7 days a week. A self-guided audio tour takes visitors through each room, from basement to parlors and into the carriage house and servant's quarters. One of the most unique house tours you'll ever see and highly recommended.


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The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers has been bringing together the geoscientific professional and academic communities for almost 70 years with ground-breaking events, top-level publications and much more. Being a member of EAGE connects you with 19,000 active professionals in the field, the latest scientific content, and a platform for advancing scientific progress.
What you need to know about EAGE Membership in 2020
Membership of the EAGE comes with a range of benefits which include:
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EAGE Member Benefits include access to our EarthDoc Platform, the world's most significant database of geoscience and engineering papers. EarthDoc was founded over ten years ago, and since then it has grown beyond all expectation, now with over 70,000 papers stored in its archive. This is much more than our current system is capable of managing. To facilitate this massive capacity increase, EarthDoc will move to a much improved new platform, allowing for faster more effective research and a variety of other important upgrades and making sure EarthDoc remains available as a knowledge centre for the geoscience and engineering community.
All members of EAGE will continue to enjoy the use of EarthDoc, with first time members being able to immediately make use of the most recent two years of publications on the platform. As you grow as an EAGE Member in the EAGE Membership Recognition Programme, you will have greater access to the full backlog of content on the archive. However if you need to gain quick access to earlier years than can be accessed at your recognition level, EAGE asks a small contribution that will go a little way in helping us maintain and develop this important knowledge platform.
Here you can learn all about this important change to the EarthDoc Platform.
The EAGE Membership Recognition Programme was launched to recognize the loyalty of our members and the value they bring to the Association. The Programme offers a number of extra benefits to those renewing their membership based on the number of years they have been with the Association. Even after one year the benefits begin to kick in!
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2020 will see the relaunch of EAGE's important EarthDoc platform, a new home for the over 70,000 papers arising from EAGE's events, journals and associated societies. The new platform will help EAGE manage the massive increase in papers we have experienced since the platform's inception, along with offering other key updates that you can read about here.
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We've had a couple of very quiet days on the Emini – so expect a little more volatility Monday. Plus we've still got to "complete" the downside move with a "Pull Back" to "End of Trend" sequence on the 45 minute (and 40,500 tick) chart. So we'll need to "test" the 2,030 to 2,050 zone.
I'll be watching to see if 2,030 holds. Then to make things interesting we've also got:
- Stock market crash warning signal has gone off
- Tax Time seasonal trade will start to play in during the next few days, and
- Easter weekend (no trading Friday) coming up and markets tend to be bullish into holidays
Bit of a mix there. Should be fun trading – I'll be trading my signals and not trying to predict which way the market will break.
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Little builders are invited to LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre on Wednesday 11 September for a fun and inspiring morning with Playgroup Victoria to celebrate 50 years of DUPLO® fun!
The Ultimate DUPLO Playgroup will take place from 8:30am-10am, giving families with kids aged 0-4 the opportunity to enjoy building activities, storytelling, a visit from Emmett from The LEGO Movie, arts and crafts in the centre's new DUPLO Farm Adventure zone at a discounted rate.
Playgroup Victoria and LEGOLAND Discovery Centre are hosting the special event to mark 50 years since LEGO created DUPLO, the big bricks for small hands.
DUPLO was designed to inspire toddlers to unlock their full potential through interactive, creative and playful experiences. According to the LEGO Play Well Report, 95% of parents believe play is essential for children's well-being and is a vital educational tool.
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Keeping the brushes clean is super important if you want to avoid acne breakouts and any infections. Plus your skin can look dull as your brushes will add older product. You can do this yourself, or you can also get electronic cleaners that will do this for you such as this one:
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But just how do you clean makeup brushes without losing their shape or softness? There are a couple of ways that this can be done. Both are effective but the first one is the quickest and easiest.
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With this product you simply spray the bristles and then with a clean towel (I prefer towels to paper towels because I find paper tends to leave fibers behind, but that is just me!) you blot the moisture out and lay them flat to complete air dry.
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Dry them quickly in a towel, and then reshape them. If you can hang them upside down (bristles downward) that will help to make sure the water does not run back down to the base of the bristles and affect the shape or remove the glue. Otherwise make sure you have patted out as much water out as you can, reshape and lay flat to dry on a towel for overnight.
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You should do this about once every two weeks. Make a schedule to maybe do this quickly on a Sunday night for example. The commercial cleaner does not tend to leave the bristles as damp as the shampoo procedure therefore they dry much quicker.
Keep a small hand towel that you can wash and keep nearby just for when you clean your makeup brushes.
By doing this on a regular basis, you will not only prolong the life of your brushes but you will not be getting the oil and buildup on the bristles that can transfer back to your skin and leave your skin irritated.
You will not get the polished look you are going for if things are dirty. Just like an artist you need your tools in optimum shape. You wouldn't use dirty brushes to paint right? So, why let your makeup brushes build up?


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REPORTS TO CONGRESSEvaluation & Updates
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Petitions to NHTSAPetitions for Rulemaking and for Exemptions During this Administration
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If you are an executive who's invested in a CRM solution, chances are you've done so because the idea of having all of the information about a customer or prospect easily accessible in one place is absolutely compelling. The value proposition is a no-brainer. But here's the catch. The two most common ways your sales people and customer service agents interact with prospects and customers are likely the telephone and email. How natural or compulsory is it to get those interactions documented into the CRM? In most cases, not at all. These conversations happen very often without any record. It's not because your representatives are lazy or don't care, it is because transferring emails out of Outlook into CRM or manually creating an activity every time the phone is dialed, is time consuming, easily forgotten and error prone. We have teamed up with Linkpoint360 to solve this problem.
LinkPoint360 bridges the formidable gap between Microsoft Outlook, the world's most popular email management interface, and Salesforce.com, Microsoft CRM or SalesLogix, the system of record for many enterprises. Mitel SKY for LinkPoint360 adds the ability to control your Mitel SKY phone.


text: Bible study: The power of water Christian PerspectiveWater and sanitation RESOURCESPUBLICATIONSFOOTSTEPSFOOTSTEPS 1BIBLE STUDY: THE POWER OF WATER In this issue we have been looking at water. In the Bible, water is used as a symbol to show several different aspects of God's power. It can be used as a symbol of cleansing as in the ceremonial washings of the Old Testament sacrificial system (eg Exodus 30:18-21, Leviticus 16:4 and 24, 17:15). It can also be used as a symbol of destruction. Floods are very destructive. (eg The great flood in the time of Noah; Genesis 6-9:17). But the most common symbol of water is as a symbol of blessing. One of the many passages in the Bible which uses water to symbolise blessing is Isaiah 35. Much of the book of Isaiah concerns Isaiah's prophecies of God's judgement on the sins of his people. But this chapter looks ahead to God's glorious promises to those who trust if him. Read Isaiah 35:1-7 Why did the desert suddenly burst for joy? What were the signs of this joy – both in the desert, and in the lives of those who believe? Read Isaiah 35:8-10. The highway is God's path for us – the path which leads to eternal life. What signs are there in your life of the joy of trusting in God? Remember that Isaiah wrote this prophecy hundreds of years before the coming of Christ. Just as the desert brought forth streams and springs of water because of God's presence, let us also be filled and overflowing with the joy of believing and trusting in God. FOOTSTEPS ISSUES Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email Print Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email Print


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What to Do in an Active-Shooter Situation
In light of the recent Las Vegas shooting, investment expert Jim Woods shares, from his personal experience, what one can do in an active-shooter situation.
Most of the time, this publication is devoted to how to protect and grow your wealth. Yet given we are just a few days removed from the worst mass shooting in American history, I thought another type of protection message might be in order.
The fact is that acts of violent crime, terrorism and mass shootings are a reality that can happen to any of us at virtually any time, any place.
Yes, the odds of you being in some kind of violent situation, and particularly an active shooter situation, are infinitesimal. However, that doesn�??t mean it can�??t happen to anyone at any time.
Reality is what it is, regardless of how we might want it to be. That means we must be aware of how to deal with reality when it turns violent�?� especially given the potentially catastrophic consequences.
So, what must you do to maximize your chances of survival?
Well, there are many specific recommendations given by law enforcement officials on what to do, and many of them are certainly good. For example, officials will tell you to have an escape plan mapped out whenever you go to a public place. They�??ll also tell you to be aware of your surroundings, and to report anything strange or seemingly out of the ordinary.
According to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, or ALERRT, in an active-shooter situation you should employ three rules�?� �??avoid, deny and defend.�?�
The first rule is to avoid the attacker by creating that aforementioned escape plan, which also means moving away from the threat as quickly as possible. Next, you need to deny the shooter access to your location. That means taking measures such as putting up barriers to block doors, turning off the lights in a venue or taking hardened cover.
As for the third rule, defend, that�??s where the real action and preparation need to take place.
According to Dr. Peter Blair, the executive director of ALERRT and a criminal justice professor at Texas State University, when it comes to defending against an attacker,
�??Do not fight fairly. This is about survival.�?�
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Alternatively if the interest accumulates as a credit to be paid after the loan is repaid and the interest does not itself attract interest then as long as some of the capital can be paid off each year then the system will stabilise.
Perhaps the simplest way to understand it is to stop calling interest on money interest and to call it rent on money. If rent is used to purchase another place then rent can be charged on the new place but there is no justification for charging rent on rent if the rent is not reinvested.
We will use the name envesting instead of investing to distinguish between investments where where capital is returned first and rent is not paid on rent and the case where interest is paid first and interest accumulates on interest.


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Learn about Torture and Trauma
Traumatic experiences of refugees
Refugees and people from refugee-like backgrounds may have been through many traumatic experiences, including torture, as a result of the actions of other human beings in the context of war and persecution that could have a long-term traumatic impact.
Some of these experiences include Systematic State Terrorism, torture, bombings, killings, kidnappings, sexual assault, detention, disappearances, harassment, being forced to flee; deprivation of food, shelter, health care; loss of family, friends, community, safety, home, possessions, routine, schooling, employment, and control over their lives.
Some refugees can spend prolonged periods in difficult conditions in refugee camps or living in the community without status in countries of asylum.
Systematic State Terrorism
Systematic State Terrorism involves terrorising the whole population through systematic actions carried out by the state such as the military and security forces.
The state systematically harasses, pressures, labels and morally discredits certain groups, while randomly carrying out events such as mass executions, disappearances, spectacular raids and torture.
This is to keep the population in a state of fear, disconnected from each other, unable to organise any opposition to the regime, with no alternative but to comply with the imposed political options (Martin Baro, 1989).
The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) is an international treaty that mandates an absolute prohibition of torture worldwide. Article 1 of this convention states that:
… 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."
Anyone can be a victim of torture and those most likely to be perpetrators of torture include: Prison officers/ detention staff, the police, the military, paramilitary forces and state controlled anti guerilla forces. Perpetrators may also include health professionals, legal professionals, co-detainees acting with the approval or on the orders of public officials, death squads, opposition forces and the general population in a civil war situation.
Torture aims to break down the humanity, dignity and self-respect of the individual. Fear is an essential element of torture. When torture is used, a whole society, not just the individual who is being tortured, lives in fear. Other members of society are afraid that it will also happen to them.
In this way, torture is a tool of social control used by a system that rules individuals and societies through fear.
Common forms of torture used include:
- Sensory and sleep deprivation
- Electric shocks and burns
- Psychological abuse; beatings
- Sham executions
- Sexual violence and rape
- Near fatal immersion or suffocation
- Being forced to watch loved ones being raped, killed or brutalised
Read more about torture on the websites of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.
A trauma reaction is a common response to an abnormal event where a person experiences fear, horror or helplessness due to witnessing or being the target of actual or threatened death or injury.
Every person will have an individual trauma response based on the type and severity of the experience, their age, gender, resilience and other psychosocial factors. Trauma can disrupt a person's health and everyday living.
Trauma affects individuals on the biological, psychological and social levels. Some of these impacts include:
- Changes in brain structure, function and physiology; Hyper-arousal
- Injuries, illnesses, chronic pain, psychosomatic issues
- Anxiety, sadness, fear, anger, irritability, guilt, shame
- Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, trouble sleeping, memory and concentration problems
- Post-traumatic symptoms including PTSD
- Changed sense of self, beliefs, loss of trust, disempowerment, loss of self-esteem
- Difficulties with personal relationships; social withdrawal
Trauma not only impacts on individuals; it also impacts on families, social support networks, refugee communities, and Australian society and institutions.
Families may be affected in many ways such as:
- Loss of family members
- Breakup of nuclear and extended families, and support systems
- Changes in relationships and roles
- Attachment relationships altered
- Intergenerational and gender conflict
- Social isolation and marginalisation
- Unhealthy coping mechanisms, e.g. domestic violence, alcohol
Community structures and institutions and the fabric of society in the home country may have broken down as a result of organised violence.
Communities can be destroyed by creating a state of chronic terror and alarm, disrupting core attachments to families and friends, and religious and cultural systems. Renewed conflict in the country of origin can affect the whole community.
Problems can be brought with refugee communities, such as internal conflict and fragmentation, polarisation and distrust amongst each other and of the authorities.
Refugee communities have an important role in supporting their own community members and in helping each other settle into their new environment.


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My Assessment
The Assessment Landscape in 2019
Those of us who pay close attention to the education landscape have witnessed quite a bit of change in recent months, much of it fueled by political transitions.
The 2018 elections produced a significant shift in the governing makeup of the states, and the changes are likely to have important consequences in state education policies across the country.
- Democrats gained seven gubernatorial seats among the 36 states that had governor's races on the ballot (Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wisconsin).
- Republicans won the governorship in Alaska, while the previously Democratic-controlled House in the state is now deadlocked, without a governing majority.
- For the first time since 1995, Arizona has a Democratic superintendent of public instruction.
- Six state legislative chambers flipped from Republican control to Democratic control (Colorado Senate, Maine Senate, Minnesota House, New Hampshire House and Senate, New York Senate).
These transitions are likely to manifest themselves in changes to accountability systems mandated by ESSA, including significant changes in the way states employ assessments as a means of achieving policy objectives. While it's still early, we expect to see some states rewriting their ESSA plans to reflect revised priorities.
While approaches to accountability don't fall neatly along political lines, we see generally a growing trend to rethink test-based accountability. States nationally continue to reduce the use of assessments as a high school graduation requirement, expanding the use of alternative pathways by which students can demonstrate their readiness for post-secondary success. Numerous states since 2017 have begun reducing the weight of student achievement in teacher effectiveness ratings. And most recently, local superintendents in several states have pushed back strongly as states released their new school report cards based primarily on standardized tests.
Some interpret these signals as states backing away from high expectations for all students to graduate ready for college and career, or from their commitments to ensuring that all students regardless of zip code have access to quality teachers and courses.
I think not. I prefer to believe that our educational leaders are calling not for a roll-back of high expectations and accountability, but for new approaches to inspiring deeper learning that engages students and leads them toward their highest potential. Parents and educators are not calling for us to abandon high expectations, but to stop reducing students, teachers, and schools to a single number or grade, to recognize that the knowledge, skills, and abilities we want our children to develop (and our children's teachers to support) are diverse and multidimensional.
What this means for designers and users of assessments is not simply to stop assessing but to rethink how good assessments support good teaching and learning. That means engaging students in more-authentic tasks that are relevant and worthwhile, tied to what they're learning in school, and that model the kinds of complex and creative thinking and problem solving that students will need to thrive in an increasingly complex and ever-changing world.
One end-of-year, standardized assessment cannot provide all that. Which is why it's exciting to see states like New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Georgia piloting innovative assessment and accountability designs, and fourteen states participating in innovation networks to reimagine assessments and accountability that start with a commitment to promoting greater student ownership of their learning through richer performance tasks.
At New Meridian, we embrace this vision for a more authentic, student-centered assessment, and we're excited about the prospect of working with states to design innovative, next-generation assessment systems that support good teaching and learning. Our pool of over 20,000 high-quality performance tasks and test questions—all of which have been produced, reviewed, and approved by states—were designed to engage students in more authentic tasks, tasks that measure critical thinking, reasoning, research, and communication skills. These include tasks that can be embedded into the curriculum for instructional purposes and common tasks that can be administered statewide throughout the year. With these building blocks, states can finally build balanced systems of assessment that engage students, inform instruction, and provide a reliable measure of student learning more cost effectively.
Progress cannot happen without change. And helping states adapt to a changing landscape is what we do best.
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Examining how high-quality assessments, accountability, and data-informed decision making are improving outcomes for all students.
Decoding the Data: Part I
Innovative New Companies Makes Testing Data More Accessible – And More Valuable
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of The Prime's three-part Decoding the Data series, which examines organizations that package and present assessment data in new and creative ways.
Fourteen hours after her day began, Camila finally has a moment to herself. She cherishes the 9 p.m. hour, a precious window of time that allows her to clean, pay bills and catch up after her kids go to bed.
Tonight, one item on the catch-up list is watching a video she recently received in an email; the video describes her daughter Maria's results on California's statewide assessment. It depicts four animated children ascending a hill on bicycles, including her daughter Maria. She is pedaling at the center of the pack, with the test score 2457 above her. The two children behind her are marked "Mt. Diablo Unified 2432" and "California 2422." One in front is labeled "Sequoia Avenue Elementary 2477."
The video is one of about a quarter-million produced annually by Spotlight, a startup that is working with ETS, the state's summative test provider, to help parents better understand results of the annual California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). It shows Camila instantly how her daughter's performance tracks against the school, the district, and the state, and goes on to explain the challenges she faces and how she can improve.
Spotlight is part of a new wave of pioneering organizations that translate vast amounts of complex assessment data into information that can be easily understood by parents, teachers, educators and policy makers. Their efforts are turning this data from academic autopsies into actionable information that can be used to guide improvements throughout the education system.
Giving Parents Better Data
In recent years, there's been a dramatic rise in the number of schools using assessment data to make decisions about instruction and intervention. Last year, 75 percent of teachers identified data-informed instruction as the top trend in education, according to a survey conducted by Kahoot! That's more than double the percent who identified it as a top trend a year earlier.
But if assessment-generated data has quickly emerged as an invaluable aid for educators, the benefits to parents have come at a much slower pace.
"Historically, the assessment results sent to parents have not been created with parents in mind as the end user. In order for the value proposition of high-quality tests to be fully realized, we must see the parents as a primary stakeholder and design the accompanying reports accordingly," said Bibb Hubbard, founder and president of Learning Heroes, a non-profit focused on helping parents play an active role in their children's educational success. "So far, parents haven't been at the center of the equation."
Hubbard founded Learning Heroes four years ago, motivated by a desire to provide parents with a greater voice in shaping education policy and practices. Empowering parents to become effective change agents, she says, begins with ensuring they have accurate information.
After observing for years a troubling schism between the perception parents have of their children's academic proficiency and the reality as measured by high-quality assessments, Hubbard's group commissioned research into the apparent disconnect. What it revealed was astounding: 90 percent of K-8 parents believe their child is functioning at or above grade level in reading and math, but according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—a test broadly considered the gold standard among academic assessments—only about one-third of students are performing at grade level.
Those sobering initial findings became an impetus to uncover why the glaring disconnect exists.
Empowered to Advocate
Hubbard found that parents tend to put most of their faith in report cards as the key measure of student achievement; on the other hand, most teachers (nearly two-thirds) believe parents put far too much emphasis on report card grades alone.
"Our theory is that if every parent has an accurate picture of their child's academic performance, they will be empowered to more effectively advocate on behalf of their child, and that in turn will make schools more responsive," Hubbard said.
Hubbard's organization may not yet be a recognizable brand name, but it has quietly emerged as an important behind-the-scenes resource among educators, providing fresh market research into the psychology of parents vis-à-vis learning. That research, coupled with the hands-on guidance Learning Heroes provides, is helping states, districts, schools and teachers package and present student data to parents in a way that is not only more user-friendly, but also more actionable.
Such was the case with Spotlight's videos. In our California example, the animation helps Camila see instantly that her daughter's score exceeds the district and state averages but is slightly behind the average in her school. Importantly, it explains where her daughter is facing challenges.
"You can see that Maria is a little farther up the hill than the average student in her district, [and] on about the same place on the hill as the average student at her school," the video intones. "It looks like she has a steep section in her way, that's an area where she is experiencing a challenge relative to the other areas. Her steep section is problem solving and modeling … here is a sample problem solving and modeling question for her grade. If she can get past this steep section, she should see her grade improve."
Hubbard and other advocates say that making assessment data easily understood and actionable in ways like this can have a major impact. "When parents are presented with this data, they generally receive it well," she said. "Fundamentally, parents are problem solvers."
Next Month: How Washington D.C. public schools used data analytics to determine which actions had the largest impact on student success.
In Practice
A look at how educators are developing innovative strategies to use data to inform instruction in the classroom.
A Collaborative System to Harness All That Data
Consider the largest school districts in the country. Hundreds of schools. Thousands of faculty and staff. Hundreds of thousands of students. At some, the student population even exceeds one million.
The amount of data generated is massive, and so are the opportunities to learn from it.
Many districts who want to harness those lessons are reaching for the Data Wise Project, a program developed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston Public Schools that stresses the collaborative use of data to drive continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
"One of the real equalizers right now in education is that everybody is drowning in data," Kathryn Parker Boudett, Director of the Data Wise Project, said on the program's website. "This is happening at elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, small schools, big schools, urban schools—everyone is facing the same problem together."
As Richard Murnane, a Harvard professor and Data Wise editor, put it, "The problem is not a shortage of data. The problem is figuring out how to use that data constructively and to do so as a team."
'A Cultural Transformation'
Data Wise is an 8-step process that schools and districts can use to collaboratively analyze data. It begins with organizing for collaborative work and helping participants get fluent in assessments; moves on to analyzing student data and examining instruction; and then finishes by developing and executing a plan and a means to assess progress.
The result is additional support for teachers, who no longer face instructional challenges alone, and a process that is focused on the interaction between teachers and students. When educators adhere to the process, the result is a system of continuous, data-driven improvement.
"We're talking here about a cultural transformation of a school and a whole new way of doing business," Boudett said.
To aid that transformation, the Data Wise Project also created a guide known as the ACE Habits of Mind, which include embracing ideas like action, collaboration and making evidence-based decisions. "What is important about the ACE Habits of Mind is kind of naming the intangibles," added Boudett, "naming the things that are not specific things you can check off and say you got done."
'Deeper Shifts in Mindset'
Several case studies have been written about the journey Prince George's County Public Schools undertook as the district worked to implement Data Wise over several years beginning in 2014. The district's goal was implementation in 199 schools and the process uncovered many challenges along the way.
For starters, officials had to overcome skepticism in a district that had seen improvement projects start and stop over the years. A "compliance" mentality, in which educators are simply performing duties and checking boxes, had to be replaced by a true willingness to collaborate. The district found that schools adopted Data Wise at different rates; that they sometimes did not have the right educational expertise to address problems highlighted by the data; and that there were questions about where and how to direct resources. But ultimately, collaborative improvement took hold at many schools.
"Learning Data Wise requires deeper shifts in mindset," David Rease Jr., who played a major role implementing the program, said in a Harvard case study.
In the Boston Public Schools, which was involved in the creation of Data Wise, officials described dramatic changes over time.
"Once we began to zero in on what really matters, and that is the interaction between the teacher and the child in the classroom and making that as effective and as powerful as possible, then we began to see the changes," Mary Russo, former principal of the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, said on the Data Wise website. "We saw teachers feeling confident about the way they were teaching mathematics. We saw students excited about mathematics. We saw improvement in our performance."
As Russo described it, "The idea is to create a spiral that moves ever upward, so that you are continually solving problems of student learning based on data—but you are evolving to a higher and higher level."
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