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Amy Leichtenberg and Hary Johson of the Children's Home and Aid organization are teaming up to raise money to support a local visitation center for parental visitations and child exchanges in high conflict situations. (Photo/Laughlin WJBC)
A local mother who is trying to get laws changed to protect children tells Scott Laughlin and Colleen Reynolds about an event on Sunday to raise awareness and money for the Children's Foundation. Learn more abut the event by clicking HERE. Listen to the full interview with Leichtenberg and Harry Johnson of the Children's foundation below.
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Dear Friend,
We are only a few days away from the best day of the year – Election Day! Please make sure you have made your plan to vote. Here's information about the last 3 days of voting:
TODAY (11/4) at the Franklin County Board of Elections, 1pm – 5pm
TOMORROW (11/5) at the Franklin County Board of Elections, 8am – 2pm
TUESDAY (11/6) Election Day, at your polling location, from 6:30am – 7:30pm
Remember, YOUR VOTE MATTERS! Races are tight in Franklin County, and your voice could make all the difference. Go vote and bring your friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers.
Be sure to vote all the way down your ballot. Click here to find information on all the endorsed Democrats running this year.
And finally, before we hit Tuesday, I want to say THANK YOU. Thank you for your continued support throughout this election. Thank you for knocking doors, attending events, walking in parades, and taking a yard sign. This campaign would not have made it this far without you – thank you.
I'm looking forward to continuing to work with you as Franklin County Auditor. Together, we will create an office that is accessible, transparent, and always working for you.
Best wishes and GO VOTE,
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Win tickets with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Win a pair of tickets with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich:
Thursday, 27. September 2012, 7pm – International Film music competition
Friday, 28. September 2012, 10pm – tonhalleLATE – classic meets electronic
Describe in one sentence why you should win these tickets to the film competition concert or to tonhalleLATE.
The 6 coolest and most original reasons will be chosen by Maestro Zinman and will each win a pair of tickets!
(3 for the film music competition concert and 3 for tonhalleLATE).
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Popular tourist city of Lithuania
Located in a beautiful setting between the shores of five lakes Trakai is the most visited tourist attraction in Lithuania. There are a number of architectural, natural and cultural sites, therefore it is not possible to describe in words how beautiful this city is in reality. Every visitor from different countries around the world always find something amazing and incredible in this small city. It may be a unique Karaite culture and cuisine or interesting museums or beautiful nature. But most of tourists visit Trakai just because of its famous castle called the crown jewel of Lithuania.
Legends of the Trakai Castle
Of course the most famous castles originate from a variety of fairy tales and legends. There are a lot of well known examples in Europe, and one of this is magic Trakai full of myths and secrets. According to one story, one day Gediminas, grand duke of Lithuania and one of the strongest medieval rulers of eastern Europe, decided to hunt near Kernave, a medieval capital of Lithuania. During this hunting party he saw a beautiful landscape with lakes and islands, and decided to build a castle in the middle of one of lakes.
Another legend is based on women's whims. Trakai people are telling a lot of romantic stories about beautiful Birute, a wife of a local duke. She was born in Palanga near the Baltic Sea and missed her hometown. Birute was so unhappy in Old Trakai compared to her birthplace that her husband decided to make an unusual gift for he. He begun to build a castle surrounded by lakes.
As history has shown Trakai castle has been conquered, destroyed, and rebuilt. Construction of the stone castle on one of the larger islands of Galvė Lake began in the second half of the 14th century. The Grand Duke Kestutis decided to build an unassailable fortress, and as he wanted his fortress was never conquered by any raiders. In the beginning of 15th century, Vytautas the Great continued to strengthen castle´ security and as a result Trakai island castle was well fortified and sprawling for medieval time. Moreover according to the stories, Vytautas the Great brought the mysterious Karaite community from the Black sea. Even at present, walking on the streets of Trakai it is possible to see wooden Karaites houses with three windows facing the main street. The legend says that one window is for God, another one for Vytautas the Great, and the third one is for the people who live in that house. The kenese – original wooden Karaitian church built in the 18th century also reached our days. The only Karaite Museum in the world was established in Trakai in the first part of 20th century.
After death of Vytautas the Great, Trakai started loosing its significance. The castle was redecorated in a new style, and firstly served as the royal summer residence for a short period of time. Later the castle served as a prison and finally in the 17th century it was almost completely destroyed. In the 20th century Trakai castle was restored in an original medieval style.
Now it is known as a major tourist attraction in Lithuania. Trakai castle is the home to the history museum, often hosting Trakai medieval festivals, various concerts and craft days. Every season has an amazing events: there are a lot of colourful and exciting tournaments, scrumptious feasts, festivals with artists, musicians, buskers, artisans, archers and merchants. During these Trakai medieval festivals it is so easy to close the eyes and return to the past: tourists can visit workshops set by local craftsmen, get a boat, yachts or steam boat trip, swim, walk in the city or just sit near Galve lake.
So even if you are indifferent to history, a castle with a 300 m wooden bridge leading to the fortress, long channel connecting the halls and galleries of indescribable beauty, stained glass, frescoes, secret passageways will absolutely fascinate you. If you are tired from the daily routine, book a romantic and unforgettably impressive tour to Trakai.


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Editorial: Settlement with Zehms would let healing start
Sun., Feb. 12, 2012
Mediation may be the beginning of the end to claims the family of Otto Zehm has made against the city of Spokane for his death at the hands of Spokane police officers.
Perhaps it can also be a start to reconciliation between the Police Department and citizens aggrieved by the incident, the conviction of Officer Karl Thompson Jr. for his role and the Police Guild's coolness toward more citizen oversight.
Although the civil case brought by the family was overshadowed by the criminal proceedings against Thompson, it could potentially have a much greater effect on the city, to the good, and not.
The "not" is the financial impact, which at least is probably capped at $1 million. Anything above that amount (up to $10 million more) would be the burden of the city's insurer. Because of the cost of providing an attorney for Thompson in the civil case and associated expenses that will be deducted from the $1 million, how much might be left to contribute to funding the family's claim is unknown.
Before the lawsuit was filed three years ago, the family had sought $2.9 million from the city.
The insurer, AIG, will be at the table, too. As will be the case with the city, AIG will be weighing the cost of a settlement against what a jury might award in damages and the cost of litigating the case. Thompson's conviction in the criminal trial suggests that a determination of city culpability in the civil case, where the standards of proof are lower, may be a foregone conclusion. If so, the amount of the money judgments would be the only contested issue.
However, the mediation will likely be about more than money. The Zehm family and its attorneys developed a plan for reforming the Police Department that has circulated for some time. How much implementation of some plan elements might weigh in reaching a settlement is one of the unknowns: The city and family have agreed to keep the mediation private until there is a resolution.
But in his State of the City address Friday, Mayor David Condon said his new administration is already taking several of the actions included in the Zehm proposal. For example, within 100 days officers will receive more training in the handling of individuals who, like Zehm, have mental disabilities. A commission to study officer use of force has been named. Purchase of body cameras for officers is also on the agenda.
Condon has the immense advantage of a clean slate in the Zehm case, certainly an advantage that contributed to his election victory. A speedy, successful mediation would be an important first step for his administration. Failure would return the matter to the courts, there to linger while the city and citizens try to move on.
A settlement will not entirely wrap up the Zehm matter. A federal investigation into other aspects of the case continues. But resolution of the family's claim will close one chapter and begin the healing.
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Kerplunk! That was the sound of the Commerce Department reporting that the U.S. economy almost came to a dead stop in the first three months of the year. Between January and March, G.D.P. grew at a rate of just 0.1 per cent. And that's an annualized figure. From January to March, the economy expanded by just 0.025 per cent, or thereabouts. That's virtually no growth at all.
Given the unusually bitter weather, Wall Street had been expecting a slowdown from the previous quarter, when the economy expanded at an annualized rate of 2.6 per cent. But the 0.1-per-cent figure was pretty shocking, and it raises two immediate questions: Why was it so low? And why, five years into an economic recovery, are American firms investing so little money in new capacity, new equipment, and new buildings?
One possibility is that the disappointing G.D.P. figure was a statistical aberration. In keeping track of the economy, the Commerce Department produces three sets of G.D.P. numbers: an "advance estimate," which comes out thirty days after the end of the quarter; a "preliminary estimate," which is published about a month later; and a "final estimate," which takes another month or so to compile. Each estimate is based on the latest data that the government's statisticians have available to them, and, in the case of the advance estimate, there are some big gaps. As more data becomes available, the numbers often get revised substantially.
Indeed, according to the Commerce Department, the average revision of G.D.P. growth between the advance estimate and the final estimate is 0.7 percentage points. And that's not the end of it. The final estimate isn't really final. The figures get revised again on an annual basis and, yet again, in periodic "comprehensive revisions," the latest of which was published last July. If you take account of all this fiddling with the numbers, the average discrepancy between the advance estimate of quarterly G.D.P. growth and the Commerce Department's latest estimate is 1.3 percentage points.
So, beware advance estimates. It's quite conceivable that the official growth rate will end up somewhere between one per cent and 1.5 per cent, which is what Wall Street analysts were expecting to see. Of course, it's also conceivable that the growth rate will end up being negative, which would mean that the economy contracted, but that seems unlikely.
Earlier this month, the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose sharply in March. The G.D.P. report confirmed that American shoppers are still buying lots of stuff. Total consumer spending, which makes up about two-thirds of G.D.P., increased at an annualized rate of three per cent in the first quarter of the year: this was barely different from the 3.3 per cent increase seen in the final three months of 2013.
That helps explain why the stock market has so far shrugged off the G.D.P. shocker. Investors look ahead, and most analysts, myself included, are expecting the growth rate to rebound to a more normal level between April and June. But that doesn't mean we can simply ignore the G.D.P. report. Although the headline figure was probably misleading, the report confirmed something alarming that we've know for a while now: American businesses aren't making enough capital investments to secure the economy's future. And, unless that changes, we'll never see the sort of recovery that we've all been hoping for.
In the first three months of the year, gross private domestic investment—the broadest measure of capital spending by the private sector—declined at an annual rate of 6.1 per cent. That was enough to knock a full percentage point off the economy's growth rate. You can afford to forget the exact figures: they are sure to be revised. But the trend can't be ignored. The way a balanced recovery is supposed to work is this: Stage One, the government slashes interest rates and introduces a fiscal stimulus to support demand; Stage Two, consumers and homebuyers take advantage of cheap money and tax cuts to start spending again; Stage Three, as businesses see the economy picking up, they go out and spend large sums of money on rebuilding their inventories, purchasing new gear, constructing new buildings, and developing new products.
In this recovery, we've seen Stages One and Two, but Stage Three remains stalled. Investment spending was weak in 2013, and it was weak in 2012. It's been weak since the recovery started. How weak? According to an illuminating new analysis by John H. Makin, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, investment spending since 2009 has been running "a full standard deviation below the typical … pattern." That's wonk-speak for a big shortfall.
Of course, it leaves unresolved the seventeen-trillion-dollar question (that's how much the U.S. G.D.P. is now): Why is investment so weak? Keynesians tend to blame weak demand, but capital spending is running even below the levels predicted by Keynesian "accelerator models." Some people blame the housing market and the aftermath of the real-estate bubble, but the weakness extends well beyond residential investment. (In the latest quarter, according to the G.D.P. report, spending on "equipment," such as computers and machine tools, fell at an annualized rate of 5.5 per cent.) Another fashionable explanation is "policy uncertainty," but that doesn't make much sense, either. The policy outlook has been clear for ages: fiscal deadlock and low interest rates.
As might be expected from an A.E.I. economist, Makin blames uncertainties attached to overregulation and high taxes, saying, "Producers are simply not willing to add substantially to capacity, given the uncertainties attached to the prospective after-tax returns to such investment." Really? Corporate profits have never been higher. Last year, they reached eleven per cent of G.D.P., a level not seen since the government started collecting the data. The prospective rate of return on new investments doesn't appear to be at the root of the problem.
So what is? I don't know, but I've got a couple of pet theories.
The first is a failure of animal spirits, which proves self-fulfilling. For whatever reason, business leaders don't have much optimism and excitement about the future of the U.S. economy, so they keep a tight limit on capital expenditures. In the aggregate, their parsimony holds back the economy's growth rate and the rate of productivity growth, which leads to more headlines about "secular stagnation" and more pessimism among business people. If this is true, we are currently in a low growth equilibrium, but there's no innate reason why we couldn't have higher growth and more optimism.
The other theory relates to corporate governance and globalization. In today's economy, large companies have the option to invest their profits anywhere in the world, or to return some of them to stockholders. In recent years, the senior executives of these companies have been recompensed very generously for directing investments to cheaper locales overseas and using any surplus cash to fund stock buybacks and higher dividend payments. If you were a C.E.O., what incentive would you have to ditch this strategy and engage in a big new investment program in the United States?
In the toy world inhabited by some free-market economists, this doesn't matter. The money distributed to investors through buybacks and dividend payments is redirected to more productive investment opportunities. If U.S. firms decide not to exploit these opportunities, foreign rivals or domestic startups step in and fill the gap. The economy fulfills its productive potential.
But, of course, it doesn't happen like that. Instead, we get low rates of investment, unbalanced growth that is ultimately dependent on debt-financed consumer spending, and more G.D.P. reports like the one we saw on Wednesday.
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I love writing at Strange Brew Coffee House. There are distractions here but sometimes the distractions and conversations overheard are fuel for the writing. A young woman sat down across from me and we talked about her purse. We agreed that women who carry a clutch make no sense. Why would you carry a purse that ties up one hand all the time? What if you need to answer your cell while holding your coffee? What do you do with a clutch? I guess a purse can tell a lot about a woman.
I carry a small rectangular purse with a zip down outside flap. I keep all my crucial I.D., credit card, and money in that flap for easy access. All the junk goes in the zip top on the inside. I recently put a little bag in the glove compartment of my car for extras like dental floss and Tylenol so I could free up space in my purse. My purse says, "I like to keep it simple."
My sister-in-law carries a huge bag. It is stylish, floppy and spacious. She usually has a full-sized can of hairspray, a hairbrush, a bag of nuts, large bottled water, an apple, an orange or banana, her camera, a book and an entire make-up kit in there. When we are out having lunch, she will periodically dig through her bag and come up with various gems. Her purse says, "I am prepared for anything."
I met a woman in Vegas who carried a bag like that and she had a habit of digging through hers every few minutes for something. She was a smoker so most of the searching was for her lighter but I kind of felt like it was a nervous thing. She took comfort in digging through that big purse. What does your purse (or wallet, guys) say about you?


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Experienced PointsWhy I'm Cynical About System Shock 3Experienced Points - RSS 2.0
About three months ago I wrote about what made the original System Shock game a big deal. Then last month, it was announced that a new System Shock game is in the works, despite the fact that the franchise has been dormant for 17(!) years. Multiple people have asked me what I thought about it, and if I'm excited. After all, I'm such a fanboy that one time I wrote a fanfiction novel (warning: fanfiction!) about the first game. I must be going crazy with excitement, right?
Well, no.
It's not that I think the game is going to be a disaster. System Shock 3 is being made by Otherside Entertainment, a studio created specifically to revive old classics like this. They even have parts of the original team involved. They haven't shipped a game yet, but they have talent and their heart is clearly in the right place. If I was appointed King of All Video Games and got to decide who made what game, I can't think of another team that would be better for this project. The problem isn't that I think Otherside couldn't do it, the problem is that I don't think it's possible for the AAA games industry of 2016 to make something like System Shock.
After 17 years, we usually stop talking about a series being "dormant" and instead talk about it in terms of being "dead". The last game was three long console generations ago and pre-dates the original Xbox. The first game pre-dates the Nintendo 64. These games come from a completely different time, and were designed around limitations that no longer exist. Their design sensibilities are going to be totally alien to the way games are created today. Even if Otherside is eager to make those kind of games, I can't imagine how they would get funding for such a project. And if they got funding, I'm not sure they could prevent it from being ruined by a hypothetical marketing team making well-intentioned suggestions to "modernize" the gameplay and make it "more mainstream".
System Shock 2 was a slow-paced game of exploration, isolation, and resource management, with some survival horror elements thrown in. It was metroidvania in its approach to player direction and minimalist in its approach to storytelling. These concepts run counter to everything the industry is doing.
The inventory and item management isn't going to go over well for anyone trying to design the game to be compatible with a thumbstick controller. "Do we really need the player to fuss around dragging items in and out of their inventory? Couldn't we just have a button to do that? Better yet, can't we just get rid of this grid and keep things in a list? Let the player carry as much as they want. It's more fun that way."
The atmosphere was always about the paranoia of being alone and watched by a malevolent, omnipresent computer. It was a world where everything was trying to kill you and nobody was left to help you. We already know how marketing responds to this. "Aren't audiologs out-of-date? I remember reviewers griping about them in BioShock. How about we give the player some friends? We can have other people talk to the player on a regular basis and remind them of their current tasks. We can make one of them a sexy girl for the player to rescue. Wouldn't it be better to have some slick cutscenes with character beats and one-liners? We can put those in the trailers."
The original games were all about immersion. It was first person with a silent protagonist. That's a major aspect of the flavor of these games, and it's considered archaic today. I'm not just talking about marketing or executives, either. A big portion of the gaming audience hates silent protagonists and wants the game to create their character for them. That's fine. Everyone has different tastes. But a game where you're playing a stock, detached badass voiced by Nolan North is not going to feel anything like a System Shock game.
Exploration-based gameplay doesn't really go well with modern AAA production values. They require huge game worlds, and you can easily go broke trying to create a System Shock 2-sized game with modern production values. Instead the push is to have smaller, more linear locations.
Instead of allowing players to go through the content at their own pace, they're funneled from one action set-piece to the next. This makes for nice trailer-friendly cutscenes of explosions and destruction, as well as making it easier on the game designer / aspiring moviemaker who is trying to force the player through a pre-set story. But it also kills the sense of autonomy and agency the player can feel when they're allowed to make decisions for themselves. Even in games where you are given a little freedom, it's usually heavily telegraphed and mildly patronizing.
To put it another way: The Thief franchise is of a similar lineage to System Shock, coming from the same original studio and featuring many of the same creative people. Thief also is easier to translate to modern games simply by virtue of it being far simpler. And yet the recent Thief reboot was a narrative and mechanical mess that failed both as a Thief game and as a modernized AAA stealth game.
Even when old franchises are successfully revived, the realities of modern development mean that they often lack some of the magic that made the originals great. I really liked Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but it can't hold a candle to the scope of 2001's Deus Ex. The X-Com reboot went well, but it wasn't nearly as deep or complex as the original. It's not that I think a proper sequel to System Shock is impossible, it's that so many trends are running against this particular style of game that the developers are going to have to spend the entire development cycle swimming against the tide.
I hope they pull it off. But I've also witnessed a lot of games get lost in translation, even when they have the talent and money to make it happen. I'll be there on launch day to see how it turns out, but I'm going to try very hard to temper my expectations until then. The odds are long, the trends are all pointing the wrong way, and the historical precedent is not encouraging.
(Have a question for the column? Ask me!)
Shamus Young is a programmer, critic, comic, and survivor of the dot-com bubble.


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The markets were mixed this week as the initial risk off sentiment led by the failed Doha talks last Sunday saw the markets open weaker on Monday. But it was only a matter of time before the markets recovered as oil prices managed to reverse and turn strongly higher. The risk on rally sent the US equity markets higher as the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly traded near the 18,000 handle.Economic data was also mixed, especially in the US. Housing starts and building permits fell 8.80% and 7.70% respectively. However, existing home sales managed to rise 5.10%, beating estimates of an increase of only 3.90%. The US dollar was trading weaker in the first part of the week before managing to trim its losses by Thursday.
Oil Gains for Third Consecutive Week – Despite Weak Fundamentals
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Last episode, the Embedded Insiders explored how voice recognition will impact privacy and security in the smart home. This episode, Todd Mozer, CEO of audio and voice processing company Sensory, joins the pair. Mozer gives an insider's perspective of the DSP and machine learning technologies powering voice rec platforms, and what they mean for developers (and users) of virtual assistants.
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Alsace-Moselle Memorial
Transmedia and collaborative device. The visitor has at its disposal an interactive mobile guide during the whole visit.
He is placed within an Agora, in the middle of a big video mapping projection. All visitors present are questioned on their vision of Europe. The projected immersive pictures adapt to the visitors' answers, establishing an immersive and collective interactivity.


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Kia ora and welcome everyone to another edition of the tales and adventures aboard the R. Tucker Thompson. The bad weather eased a little this morning and our daily swim took place with patches of blue skies and light breezes, which made the cool dip a bit more bearable. The trainees are now well accustomed to the routine of the ship so the swims and chores are completed in record times. It just maybe, however, the smells of a hearty breakfast cooking is encouraging them to work faster.
After breakfast dishes were cleaned away our morning lessons involved fishing regulations and route planning, in which, our new sailors navigated their way around the Bay of Islands. Our plan was to make our way to Urupukapuka Island and explore the walking tracks around the island. We weighed anchor and set off with Kahurangi, Royce and Daniel taking turns steering the ship to our destination. Once there we boarded the inflatable and went ashore to explore the island. We followed the DOC tracks and walked along the cliff tops to get a magnificent view of the Bay of Islands. On our return to the ship the heavens opened once again and thoroughly drenched us, so as we were all ready wet, we decided a swim was a good idea.
The aroma of hot chicken soup and freshly baked bread soon enticed everyone below deck and we spent most of the afternoon in the warm comfort of our ships belly, playing games, laughing and joking. As the afternoon wore on the weather gradually got worse, so a decision was made to run for cover and anchor in Waipiro Bay. The sound of laughter continually rings throughout ship even though the weather is not the best above deck.


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April 3 2019 Edition
The Morrin Centre holds its 195th AGM
The 195th annual general meeting of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec was held in College Hall at the Morrin Centre on March 27.
Founded in 1824 by George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, governor of British North America, and recognized as Canada's first learned society, the LHSQ has come a long way over the past two centuries.
VEQ Spring Fling enjoyed at Les 3 Brasseurs
Every spring, Voice of English-speaking Québec invites anglophones to gather at a local drinking establishment to welcome the warmer weather and just get out and see a familiar face after a long, cold winter.
North Shore leaders plead for a road to stop process of "extinction"
Want to have some fun with Google Maps? Punch in Vieux-Fort and Kégaska in the directions window and see what comes up.
Through a local lens
When you think of Africa, what images come to mind?
Go on, be honest. Lions? Endless desert dunes? Beaming kids, joyfully mobbing a few fresh-faced Western students on break from a well-digging project? The colourful, leaping grace of a dance ensemble? Or that breathtaking but terrifying photo of a starving child crawling toward a feeding centre in Sudan, pursued stealthily by a vulture?
The story behind Rue Charles-M.-Monsarrat
This short street off Boulevard des Hôtels near the Quebec Bridge was named in honour of Charles Nicholas Monsarrat (1871-1940). The middle initial "M" in the street name is the result of a transcription error that has simply been perpetuated over the years.
April 2, 1819 – The Quebec Gazette
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St. Lawrence College's 2019 Fashion Show was a hit
Special guests and ticket holders rushed into the Musée de la Civilisation for the annual CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Fashion Show on March 30. In contrast to the icy streets and sidewalks outside, indoors they found tasty warm hors d'oeuvres, cocktails and non-slip floors. The music was booming, the stage was lit, and the chairs were lined up.
Sugar and spice and everything nice at Foodcamp
The Château Frontenac ballroom was filled to capacity on March 30 and 31 as some 1,000 "foodies" (500 each day) came to sample the delicacies whipped up by a dozen renowned chefs. This was the eighth Foodcamp in Quebec City, presented at the Château Frontenac for the seventh consecutive year.
POWE: Join the field of engineering!
Female engineering students of McGill University in Montreal were all smiles when high school and CEGEP students from across the province of Quebec joined them for the 2019 edition of the POWE Conference for Future Women in Engineering on Feb. 8.
Isang Enders performs Schumann's Cello Concerto brilliantly
Cellist Isang Enders was the guest performer with the OSQ on March 20, when he played Robert Schumann's Concerto for Cello. The QCT had the opportunity to meet with Enders after a rehearsal the previous day.


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Sinaia named Romania's Best Ski Resort for 2019
It is the third consecutive year when the Pearl of the Carpathians wins the award
- December 05, 2019 21:30
- Monika Dimitrova
Sinaia is a Romanian mountain resort, located in Prahova County in Bucegi Mountains, 140 kilometres north of the capital Bucharest. At the World Ski Awards this year Sinaia was named Romania's Best Ski Resort for 2019. The event was held in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
It is the third consecutive year when Sinaia wins the award. Sinaia is known as the Pearl of the Carpathians. It is both a touristic and a balneo-thermal resort. Having the Peles Castle near by adds to the natural beauty of the area.
The winter season in Sinaia starts in December and continues until April. The ski slopes cover 22 km in several valleys: Dorului Valley, Fir-tree Valley, Carp Valley and Sun Valley.
Historically, the Bucegi Mountains and Prahova Valley form the first touristic region in Romania. This attractiveness is due to the spectacular sights and easy access by roads and railways. Sinaia became a touristic attraction in 1875, when the Peleș Palace, Pelisor Palace and also the construction of the Ploiesti – Brasov railway started. Later, in 1922, mountain chalets were built in the Bucegi mountains.
Rewarding excellence in the ski hospitality industry
The other nominees from Romania for the Best Ski Resort 2019 title were Arena Platos Paltinis, Azuga, Poiana Brașov, Predeal, Ranca, Straja, Vatra Dornei, and Vidra Transalpina.
World Ski Awards is a global initiative which aims to recognize, reward and celebrate excellence in the ski hospitality industry. It is the sister organisation of World Travel Awards, currently celebrating its 26th anniversary.
The initiative World Ski Awards has been launched in 2013 to drive up standards within the ski tourism industry by rewarding the organisations that are leaders in their field. Votes are cast by professionals working within the ski industry and by the public online at the website of World Ski Awards.
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From everyone on the committee – good luck to those of you racing this weekend – and there are many of us. Be proud out there, wear your Dragons kit, as there will undoubtedly be friendly competition between us and the other Tri Clubs.
We are currently talking with the organizers to see if we are allowed to put up our Dragons tent (which many of you would have seen at the weekend) so keep an eye out for this as we will have water, fruits, coffee etc – and its nice to congregate afterwards for a post race chat. (NB: at time of writing this we have not yet received confirmation re our tent)
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Cole v Paterson : B.C. REVIEW COVENANT ruled unenforceable for alleged "ambiguity"
2019/01/28 23:25
( The properties are not BC strata nor is this legal advice )
A January 2019 recent B.C judgment strikes down a 35 year old Design Review covenant between two adjacent lots ( "plots" ) fronting Lake Okanagan. This however may be only the first round.
Some may see this as "merely housekeeping", but it could also be seen as what arguably fueled the enactments of condo or strata legislation across Canada a half century ago.
Lawfully imposed onto titles for decades & relied on by adjacent owners
AND their lenders
as value protection,
just how vulnerable should non-condo/non-strata restrictive covenants be
Should judges purport to overwrite what owners covenanted in ways that do NOT offend the public interest, howsoever that may be ? ( This ain't the Beach O'Pines POA's "White Gentiles Only" covenant killed in 1950 )
Even if theoretically a potential judicial power, isn't that re-allocating rights between owners ?
COLE v PATERSON Jan 2019
The adversaries' lakefront lots had been part of a 1978
Statutory Building Scheme whose wider covenants are not in action here.
Unlike Ontario's 40 year expiry (MRT)and 90 year old Middleton dictum protecting covenantees from substantial harm, B.C.'s Property Law Act actually legislates FIVE alternative scopes for judicial modification or total overthrow of restrictive covenants. ( Marketable record title expiries do not kill these. Compensation can be paid as under England & Wales' Upper Lands Tribunal, but it didn't even get considered here. )
One such judicial platform is a finding of "ambiguity" ( a principle so far argued unsuccessfully in Ottawa's Kings Landing roofdeck dispute. See
) .
Although the respective adjacent (p)lot / split lot in contest were part of 1978 Building Scheme, a 1984 private one- way DESIGN REVIEW covenant later between only two adjacent plots - one later lot also split in 1994 - gets struck down as AMBIGUOUS.
Arguably the objected portion is neither fatal to enforceability nor - with respect - maybe more than marginally "ambiguous" at worse .
Representing a power withheld from the winning challengers' purchased rights & obligations, the losing neighbours Design Review covenanted protection is arguably anything but ambiguous.
But the judge arguably manages - with respect - to mis-construct the 35 year old registered document. . .
An exempted outlined area lacks dimensions but is scalable from actual survey dimensions. Its important to the challenger Coles all right, but
arguably a minor component whose ambiguity IF such is the case at all - is neither fatal nor central to the protection even if genuinely were ambiguous .
Running with titles relied on by the protected & their lender, the covenant is about Design Review NOT necessarily controversial "lake view" issues.
Its arguably dubious central grounds are lack of dimensions on a saving exemption & peripheral reference to view protection.
Will this be appealed ?
Cole v Paterson 2019 BCSC 45 issued Jan 15/19
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My name is Daniele Cesarini and I am a freelancer IT Consultant. I wrote my first lines of code at 6 years old when I received as a gift the "powerful" Commodore VIC 20.
I stumbled upon Linux in 1999 and I started working for an Internet Service Provider as system administrator. I am a RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer (# 110-981-842).
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Fishing boat to be raised from Loch Fyne to give families 'closure'
Families of two dead fishermen have been given hope that they will be able to bury their loved ones after ministers announced they will look at salvaging the wreck.,,, The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) had been surveying the site to decide if the wreck could be raised but said it could not. But the Scottish Government has said it will now work with salvage specialists and the families of the crewmen to support efforts to retrieve the bodies of the missing fishermen. >click to read< 13:54
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Huntington Branch Library: Toddler Movement, 'Stories' and more
Toddler Movement Program — Wednesdays, April 30 and May 7, 11 a.m. Kids 2-4 years get to march, dance and play musical instruments. Songs and action poems included in this weekly program geared to young children who are ready to participate in group activities, and a caregiver.
Stories with Danielle — Thursdays, May 1 and 8, 11 a.m. Three and four year-olds hear stories.
Spanish with Sandra — Friday, May 2 and 9, 2:45 p.m. Immersion Spanish for those 3-5 and their parents in this program using songs, games, story time and other activities. Taught by Sandra Alvarado, a Spanish teacher from Shelton; registration required and space limited.
First Friday Book Discussion — Friday, May 2, 1 p.m. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff; books are available at the Huntington Branch Library, new members welcome.
As I See It — Wednesday, May 14, 1 p.m. Join the Friends of the Shelton Libraries to watch a movie, followed by discussion and dessert; adults only.


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Mary Jo Foley has been tipped of to a new Microsoft service in the offing. Ventura is a set of services being developed by Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices (E&D) unit which are focused on music and video discovery and consumption and is also described as a scalable services to enable interactive entertainment.
The service is expected to include recommendations, ratings and comments that according to a Microsoft job posting will involve Microsoft's Azure cloud and the famous 3 screens, which would of course include Windows Phone 7.
The job post reads as below:
The Ventura Media Services team is looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer to help drive some great new service innovation.
Who are we? We are Ventura Media Services – an agile team working on the beginning of some very large scale projects. We incubate, innovate and iterate. We are all about building services the right way. The team is a tight group of music and video lovers that create services and experiences revolving around music\video discovery and consumption. We are not afraid to try new things in the name of pushing the bleeding edge of technology.
As a member of the team, you will work closely with all of our partners to release features on a rapidly iterative development cycle. You will get the chance to work with other IEB product teams to help deliver epic end-to-end scenarios across all 3 screens.
In this position you will have the chance to help choose direction and drive innovation on some of the most cutting edge media services. Think large scale. Think Azure. Being a web and services group, our goal is to release early and often while maintaining high quality. If you are a proven developer that likes to drive innovation, then this is the place for you!
Microsoft is not commenting, but a few scenarios present themselves. One is replacing Zune with a web client with emphasis on streaming and the other is integrating with Bing search results in some way.
Does Microsoft has something interesting up their sleeve? Let us know your ideas below.
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Half of adults in the UK believe dementia to be a condition plagued by stigma, new research suggests.
A survey by the Alzheimer's Society found that many people with dementia had lost friends as a result of their diagnosis, while others had experienced neighbours crossing the street to avoid them.
The charity has launched a new campaign - backed by author Terry Pratchett - to halve the level of stigma within five years.
Chief executive Neil Hunt commented: 'Today's report exposes the desperate need to increase awareness among the public and professionals.
'Dementia is caused by physical diseases of the brain and one in three people over 65 will die with the condition. It's absolutely disgraceful that people with dementia are still plagued by a stigma that affects their friends, families and the professionals they rely on.'
Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, described the situation as a 'national scandal'.
He also noted that patients should be able to expect a quick diagnosis and a high level of support from health professionals.
Approximately 700,000 people in the UK have a form of dementia, and more than half of these have Alzheimer's disease.
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On The Party of No
In what is merely the latest vindication of the movement to liberate him, Ross Douthat offers a sharp post on The Conservative Mind, Circa 2010 (emphasis added):
Even if you don't venture into the wilder parts of the blogosphere and just stick with National Review, The Weekly Standard, National Affairs (which has made a big difference on this front) and a few other outlets, you'll find a pretty lively debate about everything from financial reform to health care to taxes, with plenty of room for diversity and disagreement and heterodoxy. I'm not going to argue that this is a golden age of conservative domestic policy, exactly, but I do think that the end of the Bush administration has opened up space for a lot of interesting conversations, and allowed some impressive younger thinkers come to fore. Jim Manzi, Yuval Levin, James Capretta, Nicole Gelinas, Brad Wilcox, Luigi Zingales, Ramesh Ponnuru, my former co-author … maybe it isn't the lost early-1970s world of Commentary and The Public Interest, but it certainly isn't an intellectual wasteland.
The problem, as I've argued before, is that with rare exceptions (a Mitch Daniels, a Paul Ryan), there aren't many Republican politicians who seem interested in taking up the best right-of-center policy ideas and fighting for them. This was true during the stimulus debate, it was true during the health care debate, it's been largely true during the financial-reform debate, and I'm worried that it will be true once we start debating the deficit in earnest as well…
What you don't hear enough from the pundits and intellectuals, I think, are complaints about this state of affairs. Conservative domestic policy would be in better shape if conservative magazines and conservative columnists were more willing to call out Republican politicians (and, to a lesser extent, conservative entertainers) for offering bromides instead of substance, and for pandering instead of grappling with real policy questions.
In National Review, Jonah Goldberg says that Mr. Douthat is "basically right" in his take (though he reserves the right to revise and extend his remarks). I hope he'll weigh in again, because I'm a bit confused. In another recent post on epistemic closure in conservatism, Mr. Goldberg wrote, "It seems to me that when liberals control all of the policy-making apparatus, being the party of no is a perfectly rational stance that has less to do with a poverty of good ideas than an empirical appreciation for political reality. Lord knows the Democrats did not ride back to power on the backs of nimble and novel public policy prescriptions."
This seems somewhat contradictory.
In his post, Mr. Douthat asserts that conservative magazines and columnists should call out GOP politicians for offering bromides instead of substance. If that is basically right, then isn't Mr. Goldberg's writing in defense of "The Party of No" a small example of the way conservative intellectuals are complicit in the dearth of "nuanced right-of-center discussion"?
Some of Mr. Goldberg's critics assume that he is never critical of the right, a charge that I find unfair, but whereas Mr. Douthat thinks, for example, that "there aren't many Republican politicians who seem interested in taking up the best right-of-center policy ideas and fighting for them" during the health care debate, Mr. Goldberg believes the GOP "did succeed in undermining the Democrats' central talking point: that the Republican party has no ideas on health care. It may have been dull enough to force Osama bin Laden from his cave, but the Republicans patiently telegraphed an inconvenient truth: They do care about health-care reform; they just loathe Democrats' version of it (and, yes, have much to gain by blocking it)."
Mr. Douthat made the same complaint about the way the GOP handled the stimulus debate, whereas Mr. Goldberg seems to have endorsed the approach. In another column on the same subject, he wrote:
If the stimulus bill is good policy, let Democrats take the credit for it and Republicans the blame for opposing it. If it's a disaster, let all praise and honor go to the GOP and let Democrats pay the price.
Democracy is about disagreement; let the parties have their disagreement.
I'm not saying Mr. Goldberg is wrong on the merits here — I am skeptical of the stimulus myself — but I just don't think that his approach to the issue, or his writing on the health care debate, or his approach to punditry generally, is compatible with believing that Mr. Douthat has things basically right. Or again, in his post, Mr. Douthat says this about the unwillingness of conservative intellectuals to call out Republican politicians:
This is part of why David Frum attracts so much attention, positive and negative: Not because his policy preferences are so far outside the conservative mainstream, but because he's made it his business to hold various prominent right-wingers and Republicans accountable for being vacuous or inflammatory, instead of just training all his fire on liberals. I don't always agree with the targets he picks and way he goes about it, but conservatism needs more of that kind of internal criticism, not less.
Here is Mr. Goldberg on David Frum. Suffice it to say that his analysis is much different. I'm left wondering what exactly Mr. Douthat and Mr. Goldberg agree on, beyond the fact that the right's foreign policy debate is largely closed to anyone who disagrees with the aggressively hawkish consensus.
If I might pivot to a related point, Mr. Douthat says the right would be better off if its intellectuals would "call out Republican politicians (and, to a lesser extent, conservative entertainers) for offering bromides instead of substance, and for pandering instead of grappling with real policy questions." I agree, but I'd go a step farther: National Review and The Weekly Standard should rethink the kinds of politicians they get behind, whether its the former throwing its support behind a dubiously qualified Texas governor during the 1999 GOP primaries, or the latter leading the charge to imbue former Governor Sarah Palin with a coherent political philosophy that she most certainly doesn't possess. What incentives can there be for rising politicians on the right to embrace substance when smart young writers like Matthew Continetti at publications like The Weekly Standard join talk radio and Fox News in lavishing their attention on perhaps the least substantive GOP politician in America today?
I am curious to see whether these problems persist or abate as the GOP field shapes up in advance of the 2012 primaries — and if going forward Mr. Goldberg endeavors "to call out Republican politicians (and, to a lesser extent, conservative entertainers) for offering bromides instead of substance, and for pandering instead of grappling with real policy questions."


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Krusell, a case manufactuer based out of Sweden is well-known for its high quality cases for various hardware including everything from PDAs to iPods. So it is quite fitting that our first case review would be one from Krusell. Today we look at the Handit Multidapt Blackberry 7510 model which has extra pockets for credit cards and business cards.
The case that we got directly from Krusell is built with high quality black Napa leather with matching stitching. The only branding by Krusell is a tasteful small metal badge on the front of the case. The quality is very apparent in the case, the leather is soft, the stitching is tight with no loose strays, and the fighting is almost perfect.
The Handit Multidapt is a flip-style case which means that you never take out your Blackberry. This helps fully protect your Blackberry but you do lose your "cradle†functions like automatically ending a call or standby mode when inserting your Blackberry into the OEM holster. For that sole reason some users maybe reluctant to switch over but with a flip-style case it is actually easier to check who's calling and for any new emails.
The case opens and closes with a strap and snap function, although very secure we would have liked to see a magnet system which makes life easier. A quirk we did notice is when opening the case the back of the case hits the 7510's antenna thus you need to open the case on an angle to bypass the antenna.
The main feature of the case are the extra pockets inside the flip part where you can hold your credit, debit, or business cards. It is quite tight when you first start using the spaces for your cards but after time the leather gives and becomes much easier. Another optional feature is the ability for a belt clip. We highly recommend the Krusell clip because it does not add much depth to the case, it is actually slimmer than the OEM holster.
All the port openings are very well engineered, the only complaint we had was that the case covers the very top part of the escape button. It's not a big hassle but we can see people with fatter fingers getting annoyed. The other openings are placed right including the USB port, mic port, internal mic, direct connect button, and speaker phone.
Overall we were very impressed with the case from Krusell. We were actually surprise on how easy it was to ditch the Blackberry holster. The flip style actually makes sense especially for us who check email every 5 minutes. For a retail price of $29.99 the case is a great value considering the high quality Napa leather.


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Time to move into months! Progress definitely starts to slow down a few months after surgery. Your body is slowly getting used to a new normal. The huge drop in cortisol and therefore withdrawal has become less and it's easy to fool yourself into thinking this is it, you're winning! For me, 4 months was … Continue reading Post Cushing's surgery – month 4
Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 9 – 14
I've extended the range on this one as that takes us neatly to the end of 2019 and only a week past the official 3 month mark of my surgery. Week 9 I'm still really struggling with waking up and sleeping until midday. The aches haven't gone at all but I haven't gotten any worse … Continue reading Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 9 – 14
Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 4 – 8
I'm approaching my 7 month anniversary so figured I'd better get on with writing this blog up! Sorry guys! Week 4 was the week Mum went home. I still hurt everywhere, was sleeping lots and didn't really have an appetite but it was all the same each day and as my parents live in a … Continue reading Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 4 – 8
Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 2 – 3
I was going to stay splitting the recovery up into weeks but to be honest things take so long to change there's not much point! Week 2 was the first week out of hospital really and it was quite a scary thought for me. I was convinced I would go into adrenal crisis at any … Continue reading Post Cushing's surgery – weeks 2 – 3
Post Cushing's surgery – Week 1
Recovery from surgery is meant to be ok, recovery from Cushing's... not so much. So I'll continue to document my journey as I can and hopefully it will help give hope to others suffering and help me on low days to look back and realise how much better things have become. The first week for … Continue reading Post Cushing's surgery – Week 1
Cushing's Surgery
I didn't expect to take this long to update on my surgery but recovery is no joke. So here we are, 9.5 weeks on. I'll update in a series of posts including the day of the surgery and installments on the aftermath. I ended up being a bit rushed into the surgery so my pre-op … Continue reading Cushing's Surgery
Cushing's resources
I wanted to get a little list together of some of the good resources I've found on my Cushing's journey so others can easily find the info (and so can I instead of trawling through dozens of bookmarks) Videos: Update on the Management of Cushing's Disease - from August 2019, a presentation from a medical … Continue reading Cushing's resources
Surgery date
Well so much for August surgery! Unfortunately my surgeon got an influx of much higher priority patients and all surgeries got pushed back. Luckily however he's putting on extra slots so I am going in this Sunday, 22nd September, to finally have the little beast evicted! I go in on Thursday for my pre-op assessments … Continue reading Surgery date
Treatment is getting closer
Once again time has slipped by and it's been 2 months since I posted an update! There hasn't been a huge amount to update though really until now. I've been on the metyrapone for nearly 9 weeks now and it has definitely made a difference, both good and bad. The thing with high cortisol is … Continue reading Treatment is getting closer
IPSS results and next steps
The results are in! 5 weeks after I had my IPSS (to check out what that is look up the leaflet here or have a read of my personal experience of it). Finally it feels like I'm making some progress with Cushing's. I went for my follow up appointment yesterday, 5 weeks after my IPSS … Continue reading IPSS results and next steps


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I'm a sucker for a cute love story . Occupational hazard I guess. But Justine's, Justine's got me right in the feels…
A Disneyland visit, a teacup ride proposal, a fun romantic country wedding – it was a happy ending fit for a fairytale! But a Disney heroine needs a suitably wonderful dress. That's were I come in.
Justine is a hilarious, energetic, no nonsense kind of gal. She wanted a wedding dress, but liked the idea of a high-low skirt that wouldn't get in the way of dancing, carousing or shenanigans . It had to suit her sassy personality and vintage fete wedding. . Most of all it had to be sexy; in a classy, classic kind of way.
With Justine's desires in mind I designed a bold yet timeless floral gown. A 1950's inspired dress with a full skirt and boned sash to define the waist. The fluttering satin train is removable, making her dress more versatile (both on the wedding day and after), while matching satin trim defines the sleeve hems and flattering boatneck. I love how the peacock blues made her red hair pop!
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Justine knew what she wanted from her wedding dress and it made me think: There can be a lot of pressure to please people on your wedding day. Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties, they all have their idea of what a bride should wear.
What really matters is what you want to wear. I've made coloured dresses, short dresses, enormous dresses, and yes – white dresses – and every bride has been beautiful, confident and most importantly… herself. No two women are the same, so don't feel like your dress should fit someone else's mold.


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Happy Friday! It's time for another Fleet Safety Tip of the Week from Automotive Fleet. This week is all about tire blowouts, which is important for any fleet that does a lot of highway or long-haul driving:
This week's advice, taken from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Motorists' Handbook, concerns what actions a driver should take right after a tire blowout. You may want to pass this along to your fleet drivers as a friendly reminder.
If a tire suddenly goes flat:
-Tightly hold the steering wheel and keep the vehicle going straight.
-Gradually slow down. Take your foot off the gas pedal but don't apply the brakes until the vehicle has almost stopped.
-Do not stop on the road if at all possible. Pull off the road in a safe place.
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« Are Teachers Underpaid? Around the World, People Say Yes | Main | Here's How to Help Teachers and Students Affected by the California Wildfires »
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Wants Teachers to Learn Brain Science
One of the most recognizable couples of Silicon Valley is on a new education-related mission: to help teachers learn about how students' brains work.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic organization led by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, is donating $1 million to support the development of teacher professional-learning in educational neuroscience.
The sum will contribute to the expansion of Neuroteach Global, an online PD platform created by the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, a mind, brain, and education research center based out of St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Md.
"There's a ton of human development research and learning science that gives great insights into how to better support student and educator learning," Bror Saxberg, the vice president of learning science at CZI, said during a call with reporters. "But we don't really widely reflect those results in how we educate students or even in how we train teachers."
Neuroteach Global offers 3- to 5-minute online mini-lessons that introduce research-backed teaching strategies. Users can pay for a 1-hour, 3-hour, or 12-hour course; the longest program, which results in a mind, brain, and education certification, costs $400. As part of the program, teachers apply the strategies the learn with their students and receive feedback from online coaches.
The goal is to help teachers understand and apply educational neuroscience—"the science behind how the brain learns, works, and thrives," said Glenn Whitman, CTTL's director.
CTTL is currently piloting the program with K-12 and higher education teachers across the country. In the first pilot, 91 percent of participants self-reported improved knowledge of applied educational neuroscience research, said Whitman. The research center plans to launch the first track of the program in January 2019, which they will cap at 1,500 participants, he said.
Part of the CZI grant will be used to subsidize some districts participating in the program's first track so that teachers can receive the training for free.
Supporting Neuroteach Global furthers CZI's goal of education serving the "whole child," Saxberg said. Last year, the organization announced plans to put hundreds of millions of dollars toward funding "whole-child personalized learning," with the aim of customizing students' education to their individual preferences and needs.
Tackling 'Neuromyths'
Experts in the mind, brain, and education field—a research discipline that combines neuroscience, psychology, and education—have called for teachers to receive more instruction in the way that students learn as part of preservice programs.
But only a few universities offer educational neuroscience for aspiring teachers. And while teachers are less likely to believe in "neuromyths" than the general public, many still ascribe to debunked theories: In a 2017 study in Frontiers in Psychology that surveyed nearly 600 educators, about 70 percent endorsed the idea that students have different learning "styles," like visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. Half of the teachers said that some people are "left-brained" while others are "right-brained," and that this distinction affects learning. (Research has shown that there isn't evidence to support learning styles or the theory that people favor different sides of their brains.)
Neuroteach Global lessons stick to learning strategies that have a strong evidence base, said Whitman—when evaluating research for inclusion, CTTL looks to metastudies and results that have been replicated at least once, he said.
But ultimately, it's up to teachers to evaluate the appropriateness of strategies for their own classroom, said Whitman. "It's still in the end the responsibility of the teacher ... to look at the research through the lens of their context, their kids, and their school."
Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, greet the media as they prepare for an event in San Francisco. —Jeff Chiu/AP-File


text: NSU Online Office of Extended Learning The Office of Extended Learning (OEL) provides services and support to faculty and students in support of online programs and learning tools. The OEL team partners with faculty to develop online degree and certificate programs and create master course templates. OEL also provides robust faculty online certification, is a member of Quality Matters (QM) to ensure compliance and quality assurance within online instructional courses, and is a member of NC-SARA to ensure students receive consistent distance learning support and offerings as other students across the nation. Additional support is provided with a suite of e-learning tools and services used by faculty and students to include the below. The Office of Extended Learning is also responsible for faculty and student training on e-learning tools and services. Below are the various online and distance learning resources available for students and faculty: Adobe Connect Enterprise Used for large-scale audience webinars with registration and event management features. Adobe Presenter Convert your boring PowerPoint presentations into engaging eLearning content. Add quizzes, scenarios, and out-of-the-box assets, and publish as HTML5 for access using desktop and mobile browsers. Create high-impact interactive training videos. Track learner performance using leading LMS's. Adobe Video Express Create, edit and publish rich, interactive HD videos in just 3 steps. Capture anything on your screen or your webcam feed, or bring in videos from your tablet, phone, or any external source. Mix them any way you want -include quizzes to better engage viewers. Blackboard Mobile Apps Blackboard Instructor and Blackboard app for students. Blackboard Ally Blackboard Ally is a tool that allows instructors to generate course content into alternative formats such as: OCR'd version (for scanned documents), Tagged PDF, Semantic HTML, Audio, ePub, Electronic Braille, and Translated Version. Blackboard Learn Online Tutorial Library Students and Faculty can access a range of online tutorials to assist in navigating Blackboard Learn. Dedicated Role-Play Rooms BMH 218 and BMH 305 are rooms capable of supporting live recording and streaming of role-play and other training/learning events focused on clinical experiences. Learning Management System (LMS) Norfolk State Univeristy offers a number of learning tools and systems to include Blackboard Learn, Blackboard Collaborate, Blackboard Content System, and third party tools. Live Stream Encoding Services Provides live event channels via Medial™ from the NSU BMH Studio and NGE Room 205. NSU Theater and Mobile Streaming (coming soon). My Career Access jobs, internships, and career tools from within Blackboard - powered by Internships.com. Medial™ Media Library Medial™ is the university video hosting platform used to house online program media. Online Text Books and Course Content Wiley Plus, McGraw Hill, Person, and Cengage are all accessible via Blackboard with Associated Publisher Texts. Pearson's MyLab & Mastering Products Available through Blackboard with selected courses, My Labs is the world's leading collections of online homework, tutorial, and assessment content. Respondus Lockdown Browser Respondus & Monitor Test integrity tools for proctoring exams, quizzes, and online assessments. ReadSpeaker This tool can be used by students to read aloud course content in both HTML and document format. SmartThinking 24/7 academic support program that provides you with online access to live, one-to-one assistance from over 1,500 trained and qualified tutors in math, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, accounting, statistics, Spanish, writing, and more. SoftChalk Create/ Cloud SoftChalk Cloud enables educators to create, manage, and share their own interactive online learning content, and deliver it anywhere, anytime, on any device. Create activities, quizzes and integrate media to engage the digital learner and improve learning outcomes. SoftChalk seamlessly integrates with Blackboard Learn. Video Collaboration Support OEL supports the operation of several room resources developed expressly for distance learning and remote collaboration. Rooms available are BMH 105, BMH 106, BMH 318, LBB 1040, LBB 1022. Additional rooms are planned for future renovations. Faculty can extend the reach of their on-premise courses to distance learners and leverage remote speakers and partner institutions. Virtual Computing Labs (VCL) Desktop virtualization server that provides specialized software in the form of Web accessible virtual machines. Various Windows 7 desktop builds can be customized for student's use. Currently specialized VM's running Windows 7 and software such as SPSS, Free CAD, Muse Scope, Avogadro, Adobe Pro, GMetrix, and QUCS Circuit Simulator are available for checkout. Virtual Study Rooms Virtual study rooms can be accessed via Bb Collaborate. 3Play Media Closed Captioning and translation services + OEL can transcribe or Closed Caption video and audio project of various formats. This service helps the institution address 508 C compliance and learners with certain disabilities.


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Human Factors (HF), also known as Ergonomics, is a branch of engineering and human sciences that aims to optimise human performance in industrial systems. Human Factors applies data, knowledge and structured methodologies to help design human-machine systems right the first time, as well as robust Human Reliability Assessment tools to de-risk the system from the consequences of human error.
Every system has a level of human interaction, whether it is as an operator, maintainer or user; or as a designer, programmer or developer of a system. People are in systems because they are more intelligent, creative, flexible and resourceful than machines. But just as machines are susceptible to failure, humans are also fallible and make mistakes; accidental or intentional. Human Factors uses the combined knowledge of psychology, physiology and engineering knowledge to understand how humans interact with complex industrial systems, whether in normal, maintenance or emergency operations. Our aim is to improve safety and optimise total systems performance.
CRA is a 'People in Systems' champion. The human is at the core of all of our work. We focus on the human contribution to systems performance and specialise in the identification, quantification and reduction of error. Each of our consultants has trained in Human Factors, and we also have a specialist team of qualified Human Factors practitioners with extensive experience in Defence, Nuclear, Media and Transport sectors. We are also one of the leaders in the field of Human Reliability Assessment.
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Excellence Pump Industry Co., Ltd is a professional slurry pump manufacturer in China. With the accumulation and development of years, we have formed a complete system of slurry pump design, selection, application and maintenance. We are devoting on offering the solutions of slurry pump application in the world. Our products are widely used in mining, metallurgy, coal washing, power plant, sewage water treatment, dredging, and chemical and petroleum industries. Under the confidence of our clients home and abroad, we are becoming one of the most important slurry pump suppliers in China, and we have offered the professional pump solutions and service all over the world.
|Company Name:
|Excellence Pump Industry Co,Ltd.
|Business Type:
|Excellence & Xiangshi
|Employee Number:
|Year Established:
|Total Sales Annual:
|40% - 50%
|Company Location:
|No.78, East 4th Ring Middle Road, Beijing, China
|Factory Location:
|No. 368, Xinshi North Road, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
|OEM Overview:
We provide slurry pump and pump parts OEM service.
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|Our Team:
To the staff:
We offer the platform and give them free space to explore their personal value and improve themselves step by step with the company's development.
To the team:
The team members work with each other closely and efficiently to get the big wisdom, power and progress. They treat work strictly as military, and treat each other warmly as one family.
To clients:
They are our business partners and friends. We offer them the professional service as we could. Sincerity and honesty is our principles to the clients.
To the society:
We are aiming at promoting its harmony and development. We are active in positive society reformation and in wealth accumulation of both spirit and substance.
To the nature:
We respect and love the nature, the same with the life, which is our basic value view.
In 1980s, Shijiazhuang pump works had introduced the advanced slurry pump technology, which has built the base of the R&D institute.
In 1990s, slurry pump sales area spread in all over the country, the main industries, such as mining and minerals, power plant and metallurgy.
In 1995, we developed the pumps series EZJ, used for the light abrasive medium in power plant and tailings transportation.
In 1996, we developed the pump series EZG for heavy abrasive medium in ore dressing with high head and the dredgers.
In 1996, we built our first branch company, which specialize in the sales for the domestic market.
In 1998, we offered the slurry pumps for sewage water processing system with big quantity.
In 2000, we are successful in designing the professional dredging pump, series ED, which is specially for clearing the big rivers for vessel going and environment.
In 2004, we started to develop the new materials to replace the high Chrome for the wear parts.
In 2004, we start to export the products to the market overseas by trading agent.
In 2006, we establish the international business department, which do the exporting deal especially.
In 2007, we start to develop the new compound material for the corrosive application in chemical industry, instead of the polyethylene in this field.
In 2007, we built the branch company in Beijing, which provides the professional pipeline design, pump selection, redesigning the new pump model for the project.
Passionate staff and excellent team are honored to stand with the clients to provide the valued service.
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FDA OKs Prevnar for Patients 50 and Older
Vaccine cleared through accelerated approval pathway due to its ability to treat a life-threatening disease.
TUESDAY, Jan. 03, 2012 (MedPage Today) — The FDA has expanded the use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevnar 13 to include patients ages 50 and older.
The new indication was cleared through the accelerated approval pathway — a route that allows a drugmaker to use an immune marker that reasonably demonstrates clinical benefit in treatment of a serious and life-threatening condition, according to an FDA statement.
Manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals demonstrated this in a number of multicenter studies in the U.S. and Europe that compared Prevnar 13 against Pneumovax 23 — a pneumococcal vaccine indicated for the 50-and-older patient demographic.
The studies found that Prevnar 13 induced antibody levels comparable to or greater than those induced by Pneumovax 23 against 12 common Streptococcus pneumonia serotypes.
Safety was shown in trials involving nearly 6,000 patients ages 50 and older vaccinated with Prevnar 13 who had not previously been treated with Pneumovax 23. Patients showed a similar adverse event profile to Pneumovax 23, including pain, redness, and swelling of injection site; limited movement of treated arm; fatigue; headache; chills; decreased appetite; generalized muscle pain; and joint pain, the statement said.
As part of the accelerated approval process, Wyeth must complete post-approval trials to verify clinical benefit. An additional trial of 85,000 patients ages 65 and older without history of Pneumovax 23 treatment is under way to establish benefit against pneumococcal pneumonia, the FDA noted.
The vaccine already was approved to prevent disease caused by S. pneumonia and otitis media in patients 6 months to 5 years old.


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King Kooker 36″ Stainless Steel Paddle [mash paddle]
36″ Stainless Steel Paddle by King KookerMore Info
From the product description, check product page for current description, price and availability:
- 36 in. stainless steel cooking paddle
- 4.75 in. stirring end
You could use this as a mash tun or kettle paddle
King Kooker 3604 36-Inch Stainless Steel Paddle
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