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- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons dried lavender
- 4 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
- ½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- ½ cup buttermilk or milk
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk or milk
- 1 lemon
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°. Butter an 8½x4½" loaf pan and line with parchment paper, leaving a generous overhang on long sides. Whisk flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl; set aside.
Place granulated sugar, lavender, and lemon zest in a food processor. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; save pod for another use. Pulse until lavender is finely chopped; set 1 Tbsp. lavender sugar aside for topping.
Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat remaining lavender sugar and ½ cup butter in a large bowl until very light and fluffy, 5–7 minutes (don't shortchange yourself here; the long beating time aerates the cake and yields the finest texture). Add eggs one at a time, beating to blend after each addition and scraping down sides and bottom of bowl as needed.
Combine buttermilk and lemon juice in a small bowl. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients to lavender sugar mixture in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Stop mixer just before all dry ingredients are incorporated and finish mixing by hand, a guarantee against overmixing the batter, which can cause the cake to be tough. Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top with a spatula.
Bake cake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 55–65 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack; let cake cool in pan 20 minutes before turning out and peeling off parchment. Let cool completely.
Do Ahead: Lavender sugar can be made 1 month ahead; store airtight at room temperature. Cake can be baked 2 days ahead; store tightly wrapped at room temperature.
Whisk powdered sugar and buttermilk in a medium bowl. Pour over cooled cake, letting excess drip over sides. Using a lemon zester, zest lemon into strips into a small bowl; add 1 Tbsp. reserved lavender sugar and toss to coat. Top cake with sugared lemon zest. Let sit until glaze is set, about 30 minutes.
Do Ahead: Glazed cake (without zest) can be made 1 day ahead; store under a cake dome (or an overturned bowl) at room temperature. Top with sugared lemon zest just before serving.


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We've covered plenty of flying DOs on Supercall—DO bring a DIY cocktail kit in your carry-on, DO pack bottles in your checked bag correctly, DO hit the airport bar—but now it's time for a few flying no-nos. Some beloved cocktails just don't fly well. While you might think an open bar cart is an opportunity to exercise your wildest boozy desires, be wary of these drinks. We're officially putting them on the no-fly list.
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Irish Coffee
You may have noticed that all of the water you get on a plane comes from disposable bottles. While this certainly produces a lot of plastic waste, this practice also keeps you safe from the most unhygienic food product on the whole aircraft: the water that's been sitting in tanks for no-one-knows-how long. The EPA recently discovered water in about 13% of planes failed contamination testing, with tanks infested with Salmonella and insect eggs thanks to infrequent cleaning.
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While your bottled drinking water might be safe, your coffee (and coffee-based beverages) are not. Instead of blaming your sneezing seatmate for your post-flight flu, maybe rethink the impact your Irish Coffee had.
Tap Water
For the same reason, you'll want to make sure you bring a bottle of water with you on the plane. Yes, we know post-security shops upsell you on that most basic of human needs, but when the plane runs out of bottles and turns to the dreaded tanks, you'll be glad to have a back-up bottle for pacing your drinks (and at cruising altitude, you'll need a pacer).
A Double of Anything
Not only does it make you look bad in front of the flight crew, but a double shot of anything can hit you harder in the air than it does on the ground. You may think you're hacking the drink service by avoiding the wait for a refill later on, but the dehydration that sets in because of poor air quality can accelerate intoxication and leave you feeling a bit lightheaded. The FAA has proven that pressurized cabins do their best to match ground conditions, so it's unlikely that low air pressure will lead to thinned blood (and high intoxication as a result)—but you shouldn't take the risk that they're wrong.
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Jack and Diet Coke (or Rum and Diet Coke, or anything with Diet Coke)
Diet Coke lovers may have plenty of grounded detractors who talk smack about the fake sugar, but that won't dissuade you from your favorite mixer—but maybe skip it if you're up at 30,000 feet. Plenty of sodas fizz up in the pressurized cabin, but the particular alchemy of CO2 in Diet Coke makes it an infamous offender. It's so bad that it can take three times as long to pour a can. Don't be that guy or gal that holds up the already glacial pace of the drink cart.
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Anything Sweet
Bloody Marys taste better on a plane. That's not an opinion; it's straight up flavor science. A Cornell study proved that savory, umami flavors are heightened by the loud environment on a plane, while sweet sensors on your palate are dulled. Those dampened tastes are why airplane food loads on the flavor in order to even register in your mouth. It's also the reason you should skip the sugary, fruit juice-laden cocktails and opt for our beloved sky-high Bloody.

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Many cities can legitimately claim to represent the meeting point of Europe's East and West – the fact that very few vie for the nomination is only partly relevant. On first glance, Prague is one of those cities. The Czech Republic, as it now is, Czechoslovakia as it once was, and Bohemia, as I suspect it shall always be, is exuberant in its liberation from the Soviet yoke, but conscious of its eastern heritage and its history of unfreedom at the hands of those now amongst its current western allies.
Amongst the many foolish and insensitive words spoken in the name of British foreign policy, Neville Chamberlain's description of Czechoslovakia as "a faraway country, about which we know nothing about" ranks highly. The truth, had he been half-interested, is that this valley in Central Europe has often mattered very much.
Although given far less time to develop political and social institutions than Poland, the riotous culture of Prague has produced many of the intellectual trends that have led Europe and played host to many others – including the premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and in Charles University, a seat of learning just a little younger than the Jagellonian University in Krakow.
No event put Prague closer to the cross-roads of mankind than my new-favourite historical moment, the second defenestration of Prague. Protestantism developed quickly in Prague thanks to the martyrdom of Jan Hus, a later follower of John Wycliffe, and naescent-Protestantism catalysed by the ambitions of those burghers who hoped for a state independent from the Holy Roman Empire culminated in the early seventeenth century with the townspeople throwing two Catholic emissaries out of the windows of one of the castle buildings onto a pile of horse shit. The emissaries survived, chastened, but Europe was plunged into the Thirty-Years War as a result. No wonder, perhaps, that so many churches are adorned with memento mori, and none more so than the Ossuary at Kotna Hura; its grotesque chandelier containing every bone in the human body.
Prague's Jewish history is another notable part of its religious nonconformity. The emancipatory reforms of Emperor Josef II spurred two centuries of pedagogical and literary advances, creating the milieu from which Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka emerged. Regrettably, the Prague Ghetto's Golem is, much like the reincarnation of King Wenceslas (who is supposed to save the Czech people in their moment of greatest peril), a famous no-show. Empty synagogues now stand to the north of the Old Square as a contradictory monument to Hitler's zeal for extermination.
Czechoslovakia between the two wars owed its existence to the personal friendship of Thomas G. Masaryk and Woodrow Wilson (for whom the main station was once named). After the Allied betrayal at Munich came a second, and worse betrayal from Moscow. The Czechoslovakian leadership, although socialist in inclination, attempted to take part in the Marshall Conference. The summons of its leader to Stalin's Kremlin indicated that this was not the done thing. Uncle Joe made up for this loss by bequeathing a thirty-metre statue of himself to Letna Hill, overlooking the town. Later, the Prague Spring became the first serious attempt by a Soviet satellite to exploit Khrushchev's thaw, but Dubcčék's 'socialism with a human face,' remained a pipe dream, now bitterly denounced in the city's snarky, and entertaining Museum of Communism (which nonetheless has no time for laughs about North Korea).
Despite being one of the later revolutions that caused communism to fall in Europe, Czechoslovakia's has remained a memorable one, partly because of its description as a 'Velvet Revolution' and because of the subsequent 'Velvet Divorce' of the Czech and Slovak constituents, but also because of the unique legacy of one Vačlav Hável. Hável, who counted western correspondents and academics amongst his allies even before 1989, was in many ways remarkable in his ordinariness. Prague must have as many garrets as Paris, yet its writers, artists and musicians less of a platform for celebration – which is probably what makes them generally better. Hável made his name writing petitions in support of banned psychedelic rock-groups and essays about the power of slogans. After his group of intellectuals joined the bandwagon of the student movement in 1989, he was elected to the Presidency, where he spent much time castigating Czechs for their small mindedness, wondering aloud what twist of fate had made him a politician, and riding through the halls of Prague Castle on a scooter. Unlike John Lennon, he has no monument yet, but his influence is pervasive, and his ability to unite Czechs and Slovaks unique.
Though locals must decry the summer influx of tourists and stag groups, there is little that Prague has not seen in its history. Back in 1623, a census revealed that one in seven houses contained a tavern. That number may even have decreased a little over time. Today, Prague is an exhibition – a way to put right misconceptions about grey Eastern Europe – the scientists and inventors whose work was interrupted by the political instability inflicted by the Austrians, the Germans and the Russians, and now that Alfons Mucha's magnus opus, The Slav Epic, has gone on display, the possibility of a pan-Slavism that downplays Muscovy and Orthodoxy and highlights the commitment to erudition (the Slavs had a Bible in their vernacular four hundred yeas before England), and passivity. No longer part of this Empire, or tha Bloc, Prague and the Czech Republic are at the centre of their own universe. The ease with which they have joined the Visegrad group of four, welcome the US President for a speech on missile defence and comfortably admit thousands of Russian tourists tells a story worth listening to.


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Deirdre Brennan Appointed VP of Content, Corus Kids
Corus Entertainment has appointed Deirdre Brennan as Vice President of Content for Corus Kids. A globally respected leader in children's content, Brennan will oversee all content aspects of the Corus Kids portfolio, which includes YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon, TELETOON, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD in Canada.
Based at the Toronto headquarters at Corus Quay, Brennan will lead Corus Kids' original programming, acquisitions and scheduling teams, and will be responsible for the development, management and execution of the entire Corus Kids slate of programming. She will also play a key role in expanding Corus Kids' global partnerships with children broadcasters, creators and talent. She will report to Colin Bohm, Executive Vice President, Corus Kids.
Brennan was most recently at ABC TV as Head of Children's overseeing ABC KIDS, ABC3, ABC Children's iview and online. Her previous roles include General Manager, BBC Worldwide where she managed the BBC Worldwide portfolio of channels in Australia/New Zealand, and Director of Programming for Nickelodeon Australia. Deirdre is a member of the International Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences.


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Deloitte showcases how it uses social media through the eclectic and authentic voices of our people. In this visual Social Media Report 2012 they show how social media is used internally to share, seek advice, problem solve, socialise, and post ideas.
Externally our recruiters have changed the game through Facebook and YouTube. And we use Linkedin and Twitter for business. This report captures our collective sense of excitement as well as the hard business value social media offers. It covers game changers, governance, collaboration, business and what's next.
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Maui waterman David Kalama is on fire. A quick look at Imagine Surf's website shows his handsome face is plastered all over it as their new brand ambassador and Vice President of Design and Innovation. Over at Men's Journal, he's hailed as a waterman guru and doles out expert advice in a column teaching gym heads how to do their workout outside.
There are plenty of pics of him at the Men's Journal website doing curls and lunges on Kanaha's gorgeous white sand during the 6-step workout with quotes from him like "[sprinting in the sand] targets your toes, your feet, your ankles, calves and shins. It gets all of that really strong and that equates to board control." A look at his blog "A Waterman's Journal" find that he also makes time for writing, giving shootouts to Kai Lenny for his recent waterman accomplishments and updating us all on his own races around the world.
He's also extremely eloquent. Here's Kalama on his affinity for stand-up paddling (SUP):
"I first became involved in SUP simply because I loved paddling," Kalama says. "I have a strong passion and familiarity with canoe paddling, so my experience lent itself to being a quick starter, and the transition between canoeing and stand up was natural, almost seamless; the perfect combination of my two favorite sports! I give a lot of credit to the equipment becoming easier to learn on. The accessibility to that equipment is also key. Noticeably, the natural sex appeal and health benefits of stand up paddle boarding are so apparent that it caught on and become wildly popular. Nowadays, the sport has become a multigenerational family bonding activity, with women being a key participant."
So it's no surprise that Imagine Surf hired him on this summer. The company, acquired by the Pryde Group (a Hong Kong-based firm specializing in a portfolio of high performance adventure and marine sports brands) in January, is now part of a world that includes Neil Pryde (their original brand) and Cabrinha, amongh others. Now Imagine Surf wants to stake its claim in the stand-up paddle industry.
"It has always been our mission to be a leader in stand-up paddling," said Gregg Chisolm, Imagine Surf's president. "Dave popularized stand up paddling and made it possible for all of us to enjoy this great sport. He is an innovator in the true sense, and it will be an honor to work with him toward our goal of achieving innovation in our products and growing the sport of stand up paddling globally."
Kalama's career has spanned decades in the water. He says he began surfing at seven, and has since become recognized as a world champion windsurfer and big wave surfer. He's also helped pioneer tow-in surfing as well as assisted (with Laird Hamilton) in the reintroduction of the ancient Hawaiian sport of stand up paddling in the mid 1990s.
"I'm sure the Polynesians and other formidable cultures in and around water were doing a form of stand-up long before I/we knew of it as 'stand up paddle boarding,'" Kalama says. "But modern stand-up paddle board started in Waikiki with Duke Kahanamoku, who shared it with John Zapotocky. In the 1930s, Duke was stand-up paddle boarding only occasionally, whereas Jon was doing it exclusively. But it didn't really take off until Laird and I re-discovered it 1995. We were at a photo shoot and there were no waves so Laird and I decided to try something new to squelch the boredom, so we took out the outrigger canoe paddles I had in the back of my truck and started to experiment. Even then, it took a few years to ignite and take off."
Kalama says the decision to join Imagine Surf was fairly easy. He says their company shares his philosophy, ethics and authenticity. He had been designing and shaping his own boards for the past few years, but was ready to expand that to a full-time venture.
"My goal is to create boards for the highest end of performance, all the way through making entry level equipment that will guarantee success—so that ultimately, people that choose Imagine boards will maximize the enjoyment of SUP," says Kalama. "With support from Imagine, I will have access to resources that I can use to develop and experiment with new designs, construction methods and all of the elements that go into designing innovative boards that are performance driven, easy to ride and fun."
Imagine Surf is excited about his 2013 line debut. They plan for a long board design and a progressive short board. Both will be available in two sizes. Stand up paddle surfing enthusiasts got a sneak preview of the boards at the Outdoor Retailer Expo in Salt Lake City. In the meantime, Imagine Surf continues to create prototypes utilizing computer technology in shaping for even better boards.
"We are researching and developing both materials and techniques that will allow for construction of the strongest, lightest, fastest boards possible," says Kalama."Simply old-school trial and error combined with new school technology and advancing materials. The 2013 line is modeled after what I ride, designed for higher-end performance."
Does all of this keep him indoors these days? Not a chance, he says. Kalama founded a stand-up paddle board camp in 2005 that just completed a trip to Turks and Caicos. The Kalama Kamps is a way to experience the waterman lifestyle from sun up to sun down with Dave Kalama guiding the way.
"Of course Laird Hamilton is one person who has influenced my passion for SUP," says Kalama. "Laird and I basically re-discovered it together, so our shared experience lessened the learning curve. More recently, paddling with Jamie Mitchell, working with Kai Lenny, and the Kalama Kampers who have such boundless enthusiasm, sustain my passion and interest in the sport. I'm motivated by all of them, and that motivation serves as a fantastic training impetus and teaching tool; I need to analyze what I'm teaching, not just for my clients, but for my own training successes. This holds true on every level, from the elite to the everyman."
You can join his next camp to Fiji Nov. 1-10 by going to KalamaKamps.com.
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Comments on: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Coupe - First Ride
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Mr. Oppenheiser's high-performance diet plan.
So for $65K Chev can build a Camaro that outruns a $43K Boss 302. Wonder how the Ford would run with a 427 version of the Coyote V8 (or, about11 pounds of boost in the 302)? Wonder if it would make any difference in the track times if the Ford were also sprung so stiffly as to be unusable on the street. And I'm sure part of that $22K price delta could pay for a set of ceramic brakes. Apples and oranges. Not to mention my doubt that Chevy Guy tries quite as hard around Milford in the Boss as he does in the Z28. Check the Lightning Lap times.
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You mad bro? This thing is better than the 302, now Ford has the floor to up its game. Its a win win
Yes, it's better than the Boss. My point was, with an extra $23K of sticker price and 40% more displacement, it darn well ought to be. Ford is obviously not going to respond with an S197 model, but we'll see what comes in the way of hi-po S550 Mustangs after next April.
I really hope that Ford will finally put a decent suspension under the new Mustang. The price advantage afforded to the current Boss does not offset its poor behavior on real-life roads.
Ford couldn't build a 427 out of the Coyote if they wanted. The block maxes out at 5.6L seen on the GT500 Trinity motor. Problem is bore spacing. Ford pushed it to the limit w/ the Trinity regarding bore & stroke. You think the comparison is Apples to Oranges? Z/28 = best track car GM can produce & Boss 302 LS = best track car Ford could produce, at the time. Besides, SS 1LE is also quicker around a track than Boss 302 LS, according to more than one source. Until Ford goes IRS, that live-axle is holding them back.
Scroll half way down, my friend.
I hope Oppenheiser follows his driving principle and provides an answer to the Focus ST. I've been hoping for a Cruze SS to follow up on the Cobalt SS turbo for years.
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If they're going to challenge the Focus ST they should start by shipping us the Cruze 5-door from Germany they've been holding back. I doubt they would be able to match the dynamic/power combo of the Focus ST without pricing it out of the competition but it would be nice to have another SS on the road anyway. To your second point though, a dune-hopping Silverado and maybe a Power Wagon-like Sierra sure would be sweet.
Amen! How many more of these "halo" models does GM need? They need something that the enthusiast customer can actually afford and utilize as a daily driver. Cobalt SS, G8 GT, Solstice GXP, TrailBlazer SS, HHR SS, Saturn Vue Red Line, etc... all are long gone and nothing has filled the gap. Were many of these vehicles "flawed"? Sure they were, they weren't perfect, but many were fun vehicles to own/drive.
All you have to do to understand why GM is so out of touch with the average car enthusiast is read Bob Lutz's biography. He's a knuckle dragging, rich man who has no idea what the average man or woman likes, wants or can afford.
But to add one other point... Far more Americans have asperations for cars that they really have no idea how to drive. I have been fortunate enough to be able to attend performance driving schools and to race and auto-X. The majority of people who apsire to these performance cars wouldn't know what to do with them even if they had them.
I just don't understand what the purpose of this car is, and I'm a GM fan. I mean you have a 60k Camaro that's too heavy, we never heard of this"track car" verbage until the release of the 2013 Shelby. I live in America, I don't give a damn about running a GTA race, red light to red light is how we do it, GM get back in the game.1 Reply
Got to agree there. I would think the market for cars that can actually be endured on the street would be larger, even if this is what it takes to "beat the s**t our of everything Ford makes."
Reminds me of the 60's and the Ford Thundebolts, ZL1 Corvettes, Hemi Darts and such that were built for similar reasons.
The silver version of this car is much more attractive than the flat white press mule I have seen roaming the streets of Los Angeles.
I'm not in love with this generation of Camaro but it's great to see a Z28 worthy of the badge back on the street (or track). I love those wheels too.
Backfires folks: it's quite a frustration to be typing a comment here and then the auto-play photos come to the end, and then the flash animation - while you're not paying attention (since you're typing!) automatically refreshes the page and goes to the next car featured, meaning you lose what you've typed. Argh. Not cool.
I've always appreciated the muscular, wide and modern stance and profile of this generation Camaro. I am amazed, however, at the retro interior for being so disconnected. It's as if the two design teams never once sat in each other's meetings... then along comes this Z-28, and showcases smaller wheels/tires surrounded by cheesy looking fender extensions which look like they were designed by a kid right out of his first CAD class... and those bumpers - what is going on here?? They look to be molded from thin plastic such that they have lots of warps and bumps, and the edges where they meet the sheet metal look off, not so smooth and to be painted in an off color. Was this a pre-production rush to print? Poor execution Chevy. What a disappointment. I'd take a C-7 - Chevy's best Corvette ever - for the money.
Best C6 Z06 time at the Ring was Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Z07 Package 7:22.68.
Who said that this Camaro was faster??
Improved exterior styling for sure. Why..Oh Why not replace the plastic gauge clusters???huh?


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The Customer Success Newsletter
The Customer Success Newsletter
The Customer Success Newsletter is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the world of Customer Success.
This week we optimize the customer journey, get advice on our CS career, learn about personas, and calculate LTV
7 Steps to Optimize the Customer Journey (First, Nail the Scope)
Now that you've gone through the painful (but rewarding) process of creating a customer journey map, now what do you do to improve it? Fabiana Pereira of BrainPulse goes over 7 steps to help you optimize your customer's lifecycle stages.
10 Leaders' Advice on Getting Started in Customer Success
Mathilde Augustin of Amity asked 10 Customer Success Leaders with proven track records of building and growing thriving Customer Success Organizations "what's one piece of advice you wish you'd been given when you started?"
How to Drive Product Growth with Behavioral Personas
Cohorting customers by date is common, but do you cohort by persona? Spenser Skates of Conversion XL teaches how to reveal the patterns that lead to a user habitually interacting with your product. Your retention rate will thank you.
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In Other News: Ever have a terrible roommate that never cleaned up? This guy decided to turn his experience into passive aggressive art.
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Those who confess beginning on Friday, April 19 and any time during Holy Week may partake of Divine Communion during any of the Holy Week & Bright Week Divine Liturgies if they have read their pre-Communion rule. Please plan to come to Confession early in the week so that your Confession will not be rushed due to long lines of others waiting for Confession. ONCE YOU HAVE CONFESSED YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS AGAIN UNLESS YOU FALL INTO A VERY SERIOUS SIN. There are MANY who need to confess this week - literally hundreds. Please be merciful to your priests and only confess one time unless there is a very serious need to confess a second time.
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Social Security is our nation's premiere social insurance program promoting security for roughly 60 million workers, their families and their children. At a time of escalating inequality, wage stagnation and declining retirement savings, SocialSecuritySpotlight.org is a new interactive online tool that illustrates the financial impact of Social Security benefits on everyone. It shows how Social Security benefits us all.
The impact of Social Security benefits goes way beyond individual recipients because 39 million retirees, 9 million people with disabilities, 6.7 million widows, widowers and spouses and 4.4 million children spend their benefit dollars on goods and services. This generates additional economic activity and stimulates the economy in every state.
Across the country this multiplier effect contributes $1.6 trillion dollars to our economy, providing financial security and strengthening every community. Crucial information categorized by state, county, congressional district, age, race/ethnicity, and gender is easily accessible on Social Security Spotlight.
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The rise came after a New York Times story citing people familiar with the matter as saying that Twitter was exploring the potential of an application for the Apple TV device that allows streaming of online content to television screens.
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The Court of Appeal recently had to decide whether it had been an act of disability discrimination for an employer to dismiss an employee for misconduct which it did not know at the time, was related to the employee's disability?
Facts of the case
In City of York Council v Grosset, Mr Grosset was Head of English at a York secondary school and had cystic fibrosis. He had a reasonable adjustment agreement with his employer that allowed him to juggle the commitments of work while carefully managing his condition. After a new head teacher joined the school, Mr Grosset's workload increased dramatically. He became stressed, increasingly unwell and was signed off from work.
Before being signed off, Mr Grosset had shown a class of 15 year old students an 18-rated horror film as part of a class discussion. The head teacher discovered this after Mr Grosset had gone off sick, and launched a disciplinary investigation.
Mr Grosset claimed his error of judgement in showing the film was caused by stress, and that his disability and deteriorating health added to that stress. His claim was rejected and he was dismissed.
Legal background
The claim of discrimination arising from disability is set out in section 15 of the Equality Act 2010. It provides that: a person (A) discriminates against a disabled person (B) if A treats B unfavourably because of something arising in consequence of B's disability, and A cannot show that the treatment is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
However, an employer has a defence to a section 15 claim if it can show that it did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the person had the disability.
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Mr Grosset brought claims for both unfair dismissal and disability discrimination.
An employment tribunal ruled that the employer had failed to make reasonable adjustments, and agreed there was a causal link between Mr Grosset's disability and his error of judgement. The dismissal was ruled a disproportionate response and therefore unlawful disability discrimination.
Separately, the tribunal, by a majority, dismissed his claim of unfair dismissal on the basis that the findings made by the school during the disciplinary investigation and the sanction imposed fell within the range of reasonable responses open to it as an employer.
The decision was later confirmed at Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT).
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The Court of Appeal's decision shows how disability discrimination can arise even if an employer isn't aware of a link between an employee's actions and their disability. This puts employers in a difficult position as they could act properly – as in this case, by carrying out a fair disciplinary process but, still incur liability for discrimination because they haven't made the link between a disabled person's actions and their condition. Employers therefore need to proceed with extreme caution when disciplining a disabled employee and think very carefully about whether their actions could be related to their disability. If this is a possibility then employers need to make sure their proposed course of action is proportionate.
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The South American Union of Nations (UNASUR) has been the most important institutional framework for political dialogue on security matters in the subcontinent for the 20th Century. Ever since their creation in 2008, UNASUR and it's Defense Council (SADC) quickly prompted several analyses regarding its promises and positive results within their first years. Nonetheless, since 2014 both institutions are quickly becoming obsolescent. The purpose of the article UNASUR, Brazil, and the South American defence cooperation: A decade later penned by Vaz, Fuccille and Rezende and published in the special issue International Security and Defense – Taking stock of Brazil's changes of the Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais (Volume 60 – N. 2) is to explain why such new and promising institutions quickly changed their relevance within the South American political scenario.
The fact that the SADC embraced consensus as a primary criterion for decision making and being destituted of binding decision-making powers were perceived as important potential constraints if regional stability were severely undermined and regional action were deemed an imperative. If, on the one hand, those choices reflect a pragmatic assessment of the political conditions that should be acknowledged and met to allow the very existence of the SADC, on the other, they introduce a very restricted view of potential situations and forms through which it is entitled to act, which confirms its vocation for a dialogue forum and not for a decision-making and operative body.
The article suggests the changes on the political landscape South America has experienced since 2014 have directly affected the SADC and its potential dialogue and operative functions. Our hypothesis is that this is a result of both the change on the regional balance of power and the lack of domestic political willingness from local governments, especially from the Brazilian government, to advance the SADC institutional operations.
Our article suggests the change of the relevance countries put on UNASUR and the SADC might be the result of the change on the regional balance of power constraints after the beginning of the Brazilian economic and political crises from 2014 on. Regional structural changes were followed by domestic political turnarounds on the regional security and defense cooperation prospects, as both political and ideological cleavages between new governments in key countries like Argentina, Brazil, Peru and their respective predecessors plus the predominantly inward looking perspectives of others like Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador contribute directly to deepen conceptual cleavages and political gaps regarding a regional security and defense agenda.
The key argument to explain such changes rely on the analysis of the Brazilian role towards UNASUR and the SADC. As a former regional hegemon candidate, from 2008 to 2013, Brazil's role was quintessential for the creation and positive results of such regional institutionalizations. Nevertheless, the emergence of the Brazilian economic and political crises in 2014 led to a quick political retrenchment, inducing UNASUR and the SADC to institutional and political weaknesses.
This argument takes into account not only the degree of political willingness of national governments in fostering regional security and defense cooperation; it also envisages the political and economic conditions in which policy priorities in those realms – and the importance to be granted to regional cooperation in them- are defined at national levels. The worsening of economic conditions in most of South America's countries has had not only a great impact on security and defense budgets but on the willingness of governments, especially the Brazilian one, to foster collective initiatives thus favouring the focus on bilateral efforts on specific and more prominent security issues at that level.
To test these hypotheses, the first section of the article presents the theoretical tools to explain regional defense and security cooperation from an offensive realist approach. This section also suggests how structural constraints lead to domestic political responses as from the neoclassical realist approach. The second section presents a brief review of the assessments of the performance of the SADC, as the third section focuses on the agenda of the SADC and the fourth provides an analysis of the factors arising from national political contexts, focusing on Brazil, that restrict the incentives for stronger regional defense cooperation in South America.
Up to the final writing of the article and of this text, UNASUR has been without the appointment of a Secretary General for nearly eight months. Although the institution remains headless, the SADC keeps operative. Nonetheless, without political guidance, the Council is becoming more and more militarised, raising a yellow alert on civil and military relationships in a region where the interference of the military in political affairs if far from a matter from the past. That is why it's imperative to deepen our studies on how the most important security arrangements of the 21st century in South America have changed their identity so quickly, before their 10th anniversary.
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Vaz, Alcides Costa, Fuccille, Alexandre, & Rezende, Lucas Pereira. (2017). UNASUR, Brazil, and the South American defence cooperation: A decade later. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 60(2), e012. Epub January 18, 2018.https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201700212
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There is a lot of interest in risk-based monitoring (RBM) of clinical trials, and it's easy to understand why. Monitoring activities can account for 25-30% of the cost of a clinical trial, so any efficiencies to be gained can come at substantial savings for the trial sponsor. ICH Guideline E6 states that the "sponsor should ensure trials are adequately monitored."
But why are clinical trials monitored in the first place? There are several reasons: to ensure that clinicians are carrying out the trial according to the protocol, that the data has limited errors and is of high-quality for analysis, and above all else, to protect the well-being of the clinical trial participants.
Traditional interpretation of the ICH Guidance has often led to 100% source data verification (SDV) of respective case report forms through onsite monitoring. Such monitoring activities can also identify deficiencies in site training and uncover fraudulent behavior. However, such extensive onsite review has several drawbacks:
In contrast, RBM makes use of central computerized review of clinical trial data and site metrics to determine if sites should receive more extensive quality review through on-site monitoring visits.
How important is this topic? There are numerous regulatory guidance documents addressing this issue: the US Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of Great Britain. Further, there are recent publications on the topic from TransCelerate Biopharma, a consortium of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, a public-private partnership comprised of more than 60 organizations.
We have heard the call. Recently-released JMP Clinical 4.1 has incorporated several tools to help identify potentially fraudulent activities within a clinical trial, and we are currently in the active development of an RBM platform to monitor ongoing studies for Version 5.0 (Figure 1). These tools will be extremely flexible, allowing users to take advantage of their CDISC-formatted data and other available site-metrics, and define and vary risk thresholds that are appropriate to the current trial. All of this power and flexibility is contained within the visually striking and interactive framework expected from JMP Clinical.
Figure 1. Risk-Based Monitoring Views of JMP Clinical
Over the next several weeks, we'll highlight the features that will help your organization work more efficiently, and show how integration with past JMP Clinical features such as Patient Profiles and Adverse Event Narratives, and recent features for Fraud Detection and Snapshot Comparisons will accelerate trial reviews and manage safety and quality risks.
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I agree fully here. Use of RBM is similar to using Bayesian statistics to find the submarine USS Scorpion (also used for other means frequently as part of the creatively-named "Bayesian Search Theory"). The Air France flight data recorder was similarly found in 2009. A 100% review of the raw data isn't needed, just - as the title suggests - a smarter review of the data, and 100% in the cases where it is necessary. With RBM, we're essentially pre-specifying the priors based on each site's relative risk.
I have provided oversight for many clinical trials, and issues such as these really do drain an incredible amount of resource and energy.
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Is the plan for JMP Clinical 5.0 to only use data in CDISC format? This would be an extremely useful tool-but restrictive if that is the case. Thanks
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Yes, JMP Clinical will take advantage of data that is part of the CDISC study database. It will also be possible to enter data that does not conform to CDISC and incorporate these variables into risk calculations. Stay tuned.
Can the non CDISC variables be incorporated into risk calculations now ? Please let me know - it will benefit me immensely. Thanks.
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It has been over a century since DNA was discovered and yet scientists still have not understood the true roles of DNA and its relationship to our health. One of the main reasons for this is because most scientists are only studying the surface of DNA which consists of nucleotides, sugars, phosphate, and amino acids.
If scientists dig deeper into the structure of DNA, they may one day realize that DNA is the digital data imprints of the other living portions of our identities and is not bound to linear time and local space. If scientists start to understand how DNA truly works, they may even one day discover that DNA is one of the key elements that create our illusionary external reality.
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Yemen – Reception of Yemeni scholarship students at the Quai d'Orsay (Paris, 14 November 2017)
In partnership with Campus France, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs will receive, on November 14, 58 Yemeni students who received scholarships from the Hadhramout Establishment for Human Development to study in France.
The Hadhramout Establishment for Human Development is a philanthropic foundation that aims to support the development of Yemen, notably through the training of young people. Since its creation in 2006, it has funded 4,000 scholarships throughout the world. It decided for the first time in 2017 to extend its scholarship funding program to France and to that end concluded an agreement with Campus France, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs agency responsible for the promotion of education in France to foreign students.
This agreement provides for one year of language training in France that will allow entrance to a degree level university course. As such, 58 Yemeni students who completed the first year of the program will be received this evening. A second class of 50 students is expected in September in preparation for entering a master's program in France.
France, which is committed to young Yemeni people, also reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate restoration of humanitarian access and the unconditional resumption of negotiations on a political solution.
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6:00 pm: Speeches by program stakeholders
- André Parant, Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs;
- Dr. Saleh Aram, Director General of the Hadhramout Establishment for Human Development;
- Béatrice Khaiat, Director General of Campus France.
6:45 pm: Signing of the agreement between the Hadhramout Establishment for Human Development and Campus France;
Presentation of the Hadhramout Establishment for Human Development, then screening of a film following the scholarship students in France;
Speeches by Awad Bin Shalman, Ahmed Alamri, Asma Bin Shamlan and Noor Altaweel, Yemeni students in France since the beginning of the school year;
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C++17 was supposed to be a major update of the C++ ISO standard. After the Jacksonville meeting (29.02 – 05.03) it looks like it's rather going to be a major disappointment. I'm not trying to downplay the things that have been voted into the C++17 standard so far, but all major features we hoped for this new version were moved out: modules, concepts, ranges, coroutines, uniform function call syntax.
Here is a brief report of the meetings, Trip report: C++ meeting at Jacksonville, and a quote of what was moved out for the next version:
Let me start enumerating the things we are not going to have in C++17:
- Modules: They will not be in C++17, but in a separate technical specification. That is really a pity, as we will be for more years without having what I was expecting to let me get rid of the text substitution paradigm of the include directive as well as improve compilation times.
- Concepts: They will not be integrated in C++17, but stay for now in their own technical specification. There were concerns about some issues in the TS, which I do not consider essential. Despite that there is implementation experience and even other TS depends on it, it was rejected to move concepts to the IS.
- Ranges: This is a library solution highly depending on concepts. So, no way.
- Coroutines: There was a very sound proposal with implementation experience. However, again this was targeted to another technical specification.
Besides that, we also will not have the half of uniform function call syntax that I thought was not controversial. To be clear, I really wanted both halves.
You can discuss on the report on reddit. The general feeling is disappointment though.
It looks like C++17 will be a big disappointment. Jacksonville committee could not agree on any major features. Oh, well — back to Haskell.
— Bartosz Milewski (@BartoszMilewski) March 5, 2016
On a side note, standard C++ library in Visual Studio 2015 update 2 is C++17 feature complete (on what has been voted so far prior to the Jacksonville meeting).


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Lego for grown-ups! A charity exhibit that features World Heritage Sites built with Lego blocks… we're curious.
Most of us probably grew up playing with the colourful little bricks: after all, they've been manufactured since 1949, and assembling the pieces to create all kinds of shapes never got old.
Some of us put our Lego bucket away upon graduating from primary school, but others kept constructing and turned it into a career.
Kazuyoshi Naoe definitely never stored away his Lego blocks and has become one of the company's certified builders (apparently, he is the last certified builder as they may have stopped the certification). He has supervised the construction of replicas of 40 World Heritage Sites from 27 different countries: the Pyramids, the ruins at Angkor Wat, Mont St. Michel, cultural heritage sites in Kyoto, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, historical Vienna, the Sydney Opera House, Toshogu Shrine in Nikko and many more.
And all this the playfulness is dedicated to a good cause which makes us want to go even more. Proceeds from sales at the exhibition (expect Lego and replicas and other fun artifacts) will go towards UNESCO to help with the preservation of the real sites.
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In a former life (before becoming a marketing writer), Dave Ellis spent over 20 years writing for and designing video games. His (tiny) claim to fame in the game industry is winning the 2008 Writers Guild of America award for video game writing for my work on "Dead Head Fred" –the first time an award was given in that category.
Dave has been a Star Trek geek since the age of 7 (DS9 is the best Trek…he's happy to debate you on that if you disagree). He went to my first con at the age of 14. He collect pinball machines and classic video games (coin-op and console). He's a huge fan of hockey.
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Welcome to Visit Finland's Christmas Calendar. Every day a new window can be opened. Behind each window is a question about Finland. Once answered correctly, you can participate in a contest to win a Finnish goodie bag! There is a new bag to be won every day for 23 days. On the 24th, you can participate to win the main prize: a Finnair voucher that you can use to fly to Finland! There will be two Finnair vouchers to be given as the main prize to two winners. The calendar image is designed by Kaisu Sandberg, Helsinki-based illustrator.
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Recent valuation puts Ferrari at 4.5 billion euros while Fiat as a whole is worth just 5.3 billion euros.
Every few months the rumors resurface that Fiat is considering an IPO for Ferrari to raise some cash.
An IPO would take Ferrari public as a separate entity from Fiat Group and would allow Fiat to sell-off part of the luxury automaker to raise money while still holding a controlling interest in the brand. But how much is Ferrari worth?
According to a report, Ferrari has been valued at €4.5 billion - about 1.8 times the combined yearly revenues of the Ferrari and Maserati brands (Maserati belongs to Ferrari) which is estimated to be €2.6 billion for 2011. Sounds reasonable enough, no?
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But some industry observers think that is a little high. Credit Suisse analyst David Arnold says that, using the same 1.8 figure, BMW shares should be selling at €230 instead of the €57 they are currently valued at on the stock market.
Fiat Group itself, which now also owns Chrysler, is only worth €5.3 billion as a whole.
But market or analyst valuations vs. yearly revenues often vary wildly. Just have a look at technology stocks to see how crazy that game can get. For example, as recently as last May, Twitter's market valuation (the sum of all it shares multiplied by the stock price) was over 50 times its yearly revenues.


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This article elaborates on the dilemma faced by modernist poets in seeking to define values in an intellectual context that was post-Romantic and post-epistemic. Pound and Stevens, for example, reacted strongly against the ways that Romantic writers had tried to tie the rhetorical elaboration of values to precise descriptions, as if description could still support values. Victorian writing tended to experience the effort to ground value in fact as a source of constant irony, given that the desired values refused to become manifest. Positivist philosophy and its literary allies asserted that values simply occupy a different and much more unstable realm than do facts. Having established these historical premises, the essay then concentrates on how Stevens and Pound, in challenging positivist assumptions, sought two different sources of value, each of which, however, placed value within the domain of experience. Pound's approach was Nietzschean, in that it was Nietzsche who had demonstrated how valuing precedes determinations about fact. Pound's capacity to make his early lyric poems seem to come out of nowhere and depend on linguistic invention alone for their power is shown to be a realization of Nietzschean strategies. Meanwhile, Stevens in his early work tried out a range of attitudes that seemed to him capable of defying fact, especially by approximating aphoristic self-assertion. Finally, Pound in his Cantos and Stevens from the late thirties onward developed self-reflexive versions of an analogical model of valuing that, as Dora Zhang has shown, shaped the response of novelists (James, Proust, and Woolf) to the same dilemma that modernist poets were facing. The essay closes with a reading of section XII of "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" as a demonstration of Stevens's analogical mode.
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Duff Goldman, the star of the Food Network's Ace of Cakes is offering a unique reward for the return of his stolen 1962 Corvette. Birthday cake for the rest of your life.
Goldman was in Canada judging a cake competition when the Corvette was stolen from his brother's driveway in Sherman Oaks, CA.
The 1962 Corvette is black with red leather interior. Duff has spent the last three years having the Corvette restored and there are only 150 miles on the rebuilt engine.
"I'm pretty sure I'll never get my car back," Goldman said, "so I hope whoever has it loves it as much as I do, drives it as fast as I did and plays the radio as loud as I did. I really do hope they are having a blast and that I never bump into them."
Duff is devastated about the loss of his Corvette and is offering a sweet bounty to whoever finds it: Birthday cakes for life!
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The south coast of Kenting national park
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?OK
Public access?Public access
Special accessDon't know
Alternative name Hou-pi-hu Fishing Harbor
Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperiencePros or kamikaze only...
FrequencySometimes break
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerHollow, Fast, Powerful
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good swell directionSouthWest, South
Good wind directionSouthWest, South
Swell sizeStarts working at and holds up to
Best tide position
Best tide movement
Week crowdEmpty
Week-end crowdEmpty
The wave is nice before and after Typhoon
Be careful with coral reef
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By Anonymous , 01-07-2006
On its day - Unless you're comfortable surfing hollow, heavy waves over sharp coral don't bother. Stick to Nanwan.
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Banks in the changing world of financial intermediation
When your team wants to learn a new skill, where do they turn first? Google? YouTube? Their corporate training programs? No. According to a study conducted by our company, Degreed, more workers first turn to their peers (55%)—second only to asking their bosses. Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful development tool that breaks through some common barriers to skill-building — and it has other benefits as well.
Yet many organizations have yet to create a formal structure for peer-to-peer learning. In a McKinsey survey, Learning & Development officers report that while classroom training, experiential learning, and on-the-job application of skills are now in regular use as learning mechanisms, less than half of organizations have instituted any kind of formal peer-to-peer learning. One in three respondents said their organizations don't even have any systems in place to share learning among employees.
In the research for our book The Expertise Economy, we found that managers are often reluctant to establish formal peer-to-peer learning primarily because of a perception that experts outside the company are more valuable as teachers than those inside it, and because peer-to-peer programs are spaced out over numerous sessions. In this context, sending employees to a single day of intense training from an outside expert is assumed to be more fruitful.
It isn't. First, peer-to-peer learning taps into the expertise that already exists in your organization. Think of all the smart people that you hire and surround yourself with every day, and how much could be gained if peers shared their expertise with each other to learn and build new skills.
Peer-to-peer learning is also uniquely well suited to the way we learn. People gain new skills best in any situation that includes all four stages of what we call the "Learning Loop": gain knowledge; practice by applying that knowledge; get feedback; and reflect on what has been learned. Peer-to-peer learning encompasses all of these.
For example, when Kelly was in charge of learning at LinkedIn, her team created a peer-to-peer learning program designed around the company's key corporate values. One section of the program focused on difficult conversations; each participant was asked to identify a real-life difficult conversation they needed to have at work (especially one they might be avoiding). They were first taught about difficult conversations (stage 1); next they practiced with each other before holding the conversations in real life (stage 2). One of the participants, John, confronted his employee Mark about his missed deadlines, a pattern which had been negatively affecting the team. The conversation did not go well — John felt awkward, and Mark got defensive. When John shared this experience with his peers in the learning group, they openly shared their views and ideas, and their own experiences of similar situations (stage 3). As everyone in the group — not just John — reflected on what they had learned, they concluded that they had all become more confident and armed with ideas about how to better handle a similar situation in the future (stage 4). Later group members indicated that their real-world difficult conversations indeed had become more productive.You and Your Team Series Learning
A learner's development is dependent on a willingness to make mistakes, challenge ideas, and speak up about concerns — as John and his colleagues did in their group. Unlike some learning methods — like tests or exams, or high-pressure demonstrations of skills — peer-to-peer learning creates a space where the learner can feel safe taking these risks without a sense that their boss is evaluating their performance while they are learning. You're more likely to have candid conversations about areas you need to develop with a peer than with someone who has power over your career and income. In peer-to-peer learning, the dynamics of hierarchy disappear. And unlike other methods — like classroom lectures or online compliance training — peer-to-peer learning provides a structured opportunity to have these discussions to begin with.
A secondary benefit of peer-to-peer learning is that the format itself helps employees develop management and leadership skills. Group reflection conversations help employees master the difficult skills of giving and accepting honest, constructive feedback. Because feedback flows in both directions, participants in peer-to-peer learning tend to put more time and energy into making sure the feedback they provide is meaningful. They think from the perspective of their peer, consider where each is coming from, and try to get specific about what will be most helpful and constructive. This doesn't happen as often when a boss delivers one-way feedback to employees. Similarly, peer learning gives employees experience in leadership, handling different points of view, and developing skills such as empathy.
Setting Up a Peer Learning Program
Formal peer-to-peer learning programs can take many forms. As a manager, you can hold your program online or in person. Your program could pair participants in one-to-one sessions, create cohorts working together on real work problems over a few months, or involve weekly sessions in which individuals share the latest knowledge they've gained with their peers with plenty of time for discussion and reflection.
To make any peer-to-peer learning program successful for your team, we recommend a few best practices:
Appoint a facilitator. Although the structure of peer learning is horizontal rather than hierarchical, it's important to have a neutral party who is not the team's manager facilitate the program to keep in on track. This person — ideally a skilled facilitator — should organize sessions, keep everyone on topic, keep conversations moving forward, and maintain a positive atmosphere for participants to learn, experiment, and ask questions.
Build a safe environment. Peer learning only works when participants feel safe enough to share their thoughts, experiences, and questions. They need to be open and vulnerable enough to accept constructive input, and also have the courage to give honest feedback rather than telling people what they want to hear.
To build a safe environment, set ground rules. Some suggestions: confidentiality must be honored; feedback should be perceived as a generous gesture that should always be met with gratitude; participants should practice empathy, putting themselves in others' shoes; and participants should never be mocked or embarrassed for expressing themselves in front of their peers.
Focus on real-world situations. Whenever possible, these sessions should focus on genuine problems to solve. People are more likely to participate, learn, and remember new skills if they are learned in the course of addressing a real-life challenge.
Encourage networking. It helps to set up online social networks around learning, organize networking events for people to discuss their area of expertise, and establish learning groups that meet regularly to discuss ideas. Some organizations build company-wide campaigns in an effort to get everyone involved.
With a well-built peer-to-peer learning program in place as a complement to more traditional learning programs, your team will build lasting skills and relationships that will allow them to bring the skills they learn in those programs into their daily work.
Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians' evolving reality, Bain's biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners' attitudes, priorities and decision-making power. The findings are based on input from 1,156 physicians across nine specialties and 154 hospital procurement administrators in Germany, France, the UK, and Italy. Our research shows that a majority of doctors wouldn't recommend their hospital to family or friends as a place to work or receive care. Citing staffing shortages, budget cuts, aging equipment and inadequate facilities, physicians warn they are unprepared to cope with looming healthcare challenges. Provider organizations have attempted structural changes over the past few years to fix specific problems, but, on the whole, their efforts have fallen short.
When an entire system needs renewal, it's hard to know where to start. In our experience, providers can create powerful momentum for change and reengage doctors by focusing specifically on technologies that doctors feel improves their ability to deliver care. However, technology alone is insufficient. Getting physician buy-in by assuring that they experience the technology's benefits is essential.
We see a few leading provider networks in Europe that are starting down this path. They are reengaging physicians by setting out a clear vision to provide exceptional care, innovating at scale in a few core areas and making technology investments that will help them deliver substantial improvements in care delivery. These organizations are targeting technologies that have a proven impact on patient outcomes, efficiency of care delivery, workforce engagement, or population demand management.Insight Center
The UK Salford Royal NHS foundation trust is one provider network leading in both frontline engagement and technology deployment. With a reputation as one of the best performing hospital trusts in the UK, it is one of 16 hospitals the NHS has cited as a "global digital exemplar", a provider delivering superior care efficiently through the use of world-class digital technology.
The management team at the UK's Salford Royal NHS foundation trust has launched 50 digital projects aimed at improving patient experience and safety, increasing operational efficiency and improving reliability. Many of those investments already have produced positive outcomes for patients, including an electronic assessment tool for detecting delirium which has reduced the average length of a hospital stay for patients by half, IT infrastructure that enables patients to send their wearable data directly to clinicians for real-time monitoring, and an electronic assessment tool that has reduced patients' venous thromboembolism rate by 20%. Salford's strategy also has significantly reduced documentation time for staff. Ninety-three percent of clinicians said they were satisfied with the hospital's electronic patient record services according to a recent survey by KLAS research, compared with an average of 60% among clinicians generally.
Many provider organizations are still at the beginning of the journey. In Spain, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, a local provider outside Barcelona is deploying various technologies to develop a more integrated and effective care model for patients with complex chronic conditions. It has used advanced analytics to build a predictive model of patient populations by risk so that doctors can intervene proactively; it uses fully integrated electronic healthcare records to coordinate care across different care sites, including home, social care and health services; and it uses telemonitoring to keep a close watch on patients' status at home. To date, the effort has reduced the average length of stay in hospitals, average bed days and emergency visits. Overall, it has improved patient outcomes and reduced the operating costs of clinical services.
In France, four Paris hospitals are part of a trial using machine learning and Big Data to tackle the problem of staffing shortages by forecasting patient visits and admission rates. The project, run by Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, the largest hospital system in Europe, combines historical (anonymized) data with external datasets including weather, public holidays and flu patterns, to forecast visits and admission rates for the coming 15 days. The hospital group plans to use the data to ensure adequate staffing levels during peak periods, reduce waiting times and improve quality of care. Although still in development, the forecasting model has proven accurate within a 5% variance for the actual admission rate and management hopes to roll it out eventually across all 44 hospitals.
Europe's healthcare providers face broad systemic challenges, including rethinking care delivery for a rapidly aging population. Targeted investments in technology that improve patient care and provider efficiency can help enable that shift. The efforts by Salford, Badalona Serveis Assistencials and Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris highlight the way forward. Setting ambitious goals for improving care and using smart investments in technology can play a vital role in galvanizing broader change — and help address the discontent that so many doctors in Europe face.


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Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath expression "everything but..." ?
From: "Michael Beddow" <mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:31:09 -0000
On Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:47 AM Fridiric SCHWEBEL wrote: > Is it possible to have an XPath expression that means "every child but one" > ? [..] > <xsl:template match="chapter"> >
<xsl:apply-templates select="title" />
 > <xsl:apply-templates select="* but not title" /> > </xsl:template> > Jiri and Francis have provided general solutions (which was what you asked for) But if the only reason you want to exclude the <title> element is that you want it, and it alone, to be in an html
 element, there's another way (which may just be less processor-intensive, I don't know) Simplify your template to <xsl:template match="chapter"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> Then provide a template matching on "title" (or maybe chapter/title, depends on your document structure) that does
<xsl:apply-templates/>
 Sometimes I think we get a bit carried away with all these clever brackety quotey thingies. Not everything that works in XSLT is visually terrifying... Michael ------------------------------------------ Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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Scarred | Melanie
The courage it took each of these women to have their picture taken and roar their stories and self love into the world is genuine, undiluted beauty.Angie Batis of Lucky Pony contacted me earlier this year to find out if I would be interested in linking arms with her and a long list of fierce females on a very special project. Angie, Adi Koen and Nicola Cooper joined forces to create and shoot a series made up of sixteen phenomenal women (one of them Nicola herself) who proudly wear scars that they have from traumatic or in some cases life-threatening events. They met with all sixteen women to spend the day with them, listen to their stories, spoil them a bit and photograph their true beauty – scars and all. Once this shoot was done, they contacted fourteen local illustrators and artists to create unique works of art over the photographs that would elevate the pieces even further. As some of you know from my projects, the female form, our scars and journeys mean a lot to me. It is something I have struggled with all of my life and I was truly honoured to create something special for this project. When Angie sent me the picture that I would be working with I was incredibly overwhelmed. I knew her! And I have actually followed a bit of her journey via social media. A very long time ago while I was in my second year of graphic design studies, I completed an internship at an advertising company in Port Elizabeth during my holiday. There were two people working there at the time that I can remember, one of them being Melanie. I was so incredibly nervous and intimidated, but they were both kind to me and I appreciated them both so much. I remember thinking what a pretty girl Melanie was and honestly did not notice straight away that she had scars. Sometimes I find that if you are looking into someone's eyes, you don't immediately see any supposed faults. She opened up about her cleft lip to me during a lunch one day and I was happy to learn a bit more about it seeing as it's not something I was familiar with at that time. Sometimes knowledge is key to understanding what something is and how it has affected someone's life both physically and more importantly emotionally. As women we are so hard on ourselves. We have to be achievers, but still soft and feminine. We have to be gorgeous, but not obsessed with our looks. We have to be social, intelligent, beautiful, active, healthy and successful. We compare our lives to thousands of others on a daily basis via social media and it leaves us all feeling a little envious and empty in the end. Projects like these brings meaning back into our lives. This is striking beauty, it is truth, it is art and it is as authentic and raw as you will ever get. The courage it took each of these women to have their picture taken and roar their stories and self love into the world is genuine beauty. It inspires me to rage against the voices in my head telling me I am not good enough, pretty enough and skinny enough. It gives me the courage to unfollow some social media accounts that displays women who are too skinny and airbrushed that is fueling my own self doubt on a daily basis. I am beyond proud to be a small part of this project and even more proud that I got to work with this precious woman, Melanie. I had goose bumps when I saw that it was her photograph for me to work on and I kept it a secret so that she could be wonderfully surprised that two good old PE girls that briefly worked together years ago could be brought back together in this truly meaningful way. For my illustration I decided to give her a headdress inspired by African royalty for power, grace and fierce beauty. I then cloaked Melanie in organic contour studies that speak to the many layers of her story, her beauty and her strength. These layers serves as a reminder to be kind to every person you meet. You never know what they have been through or what they might be suffering through right this very minute. Be kind to people. Learn about their journey, their history and their scars. Share your own journey with others. Being vulnerable is a sign of strength and might inspire someone else to open up about his or her own scars. Remind people every day how beautiful they are and never hold back a compliment. Melanie shared her thoughts with Angie on her blog, Lucky Pony:
"I was born in 1984 with a cleft lip, not palette. I have had seven facial and two jaw operations since birth and I am 34 this year. Whether it's physical, mental, or emotional trauma, everybody has, at some point in their life experienced something that is going to leave a scar. I think it's just how you use that to create your own story. Your scar isn't you, it doesn't define you, but it sort of creates your story. It's personal, it's yours. I was born this way so there is nothing that I could have done to change it but I can learn to accept it. I've spent so much time hating myself and wishing that I could look like everyone else. Even when I take a photo of myself, I struggle to look at it. I always look around it, the makeup, the eyes, the hair, everything else. I wear gold shiny shoes so people notice my shoes and not my face. So I think now there is nowhere to hide because this is a photo of my face. The shoot was terrifying at first, but it was also so empowering. I feel electric now."Thank you to everyone involved in this special project. It has been published in the November issue of ELLE magazine, get your copy in store to see all of the gorgeous photographs and artworks. You can also read about it straight off the lovely Angie's blog here. Photographer/art director: Angie Batis Durrant Stylists: Adi Koen and Nicola Cooper Make-up: Amy Rossouw Illustration: Maria Magdalena Atelier
artworks drawing illustrator, scarred - illustration and photographs for female empowerment


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Over the weekend I was at a play in the Gate Theatre. Under Alan Stanford's direction, The Constant Wife is already a resounding success. OK so Peter Crawley of the Irish Times thought it sucked and Ailbhe Jordan of The Mirror was perhaps less harsh in recognizing the thing for what it was – well produced, (perhaps a little overly) familiar and enjoyable. So the 'influencers' (God I hate that word, although it may have partly been my fault) have bestowed their less-than-gushing opinion – quite fairly and accurately.
And the social media coverage has been somewhat less than digitally deafening (two tweets that evening specifically).
And yet, the seats were full.
And will be so, I imagine, until the thing finished up August 20th.
The Constant Wife you see is the Instagram equivalent of avocado on toast.
Yes, you've seen it before. Yes, you probably will see its likes again and no, you don't really want to see other people going on about it.
But dammit – you like avocado on toast. Maybe you even love it. So do I.
And that's OK.
It sure sells avocados anyway.
And by the time I tell my flatmate, friends and everyone in the office who are also non-theatre experts, about the enjoyable evening, it will sells seats too.
Long live the avocado.
Which is why it baffles me how so many brands and businesses spend so much of their time deciding whether a campaign, event or even a product was a success based on how many of us decided we were either bored enough or felt self-important enough to talk about it on an online public forum. Particularly on Twitter.
Or for that matter, how many people saw what their 'influencer' of a day they're currently crushing on said.
I know we all like the easy way out.
But just because you can count something with a nice little dashboard and grab some nice images, doesn't mean it means anything.
It doesn't mean that platform is relevant to the audience. It doesn't mean your big night was a success. I mean – Jesus – some of the best nights I've had involved not being able to find my phone or even care where it was for at least two days.
And it certainly doesn't mean the bottom line of the brand has been effected in one exacting way or another.
Yes it's good to have.
And yes having people rave about your 'thing' is a good 'thing' in the grand scheme of 'things'.
But it's not the be all and end all.
Just because you can count it, doesn't mean its always a thing worth counting.
So whether it's a brand or even on a personal level, can we please stop automatically presuming 'X' (amount of likes, hashtags, RTs, snaps) equals'Y' (people like you more).
If we are going to count beans, lets please remember that not all of them turn into beanstalks.