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When it comes to dogs, there are a thousand reasons and one as to why they've earned their status as man's best friend.
They can be loyal guardians and protectors, they can be ideal companions and pace setters in life. Perhaps their most valiant post, however, comes in their capacity as service dogs for men and women who need them.
Laura Joos knows this only too well. She has a service dog named Polly who helps let her know when she might lose consciousness. The dog goes everywhere with Joos, outfitted in a harness that clearly explains her duty.
Back in June, Joos posted about an incident at Walmart involving a mom and her kids who didn't know or care about what is and is not okay concerning a service dog.
"With people behind me, shelves on both sides," Joos wrote in recollection. "I had no choice but to pass you.
Joos now wants to raise awareness for her dog and all the service dogs around the world.
"She's a service dog, please teach your kids not to pet them.
Now, it may seem that Joos is overreacting; that perhaps she's leaping to make a big deal out of nothing. When you dig deeper into her post, however, the truth is made clear.
From the outside, it may have looked like Joos was being overprotective, but that was far from the truth.
"5 minutes before I saw you I got an alert from my dog, my heart rate was steadily climbing, my chest was becoming tight, my vision was going fuzzy, I felt like I was under water," Joos wrote.
"I'm sorry that my 'tip' to help you help your kids, and help the service dog Community, pissed you off, and you felt the need to snap at me "EXCUSE YOU" in a snotty holier than thou tone, but yes, excuse me, excuse me for expecting YOU as an adult to teach the children you are raising to be respectful of disabled individuals. I'm sure you wouldn't allow them to grab someone's cane, or yank on their nasal cannula that supplies their oxygen.
We want to help spread Laura Joos spread her message worldwide.
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We Fly High
Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product Of My Environment)
Certified Gangsta
On My Way To Church
We Fly High (Remix)
Dipset X-Mas
Wasted Talent
Headin' Home
Race With the Wind
We Own The Night Pt. 2: Memoirs Of A Hustler
Instant Cult Classic
Mama I Made It (feat. Cam'ron)
Reppin My Rag 2
Mixtape Exclusives 5
Definition of Fuck Shit, Pt. 2
Alley Boy
Library of a Rockstar: Chapter 18 - Christmas...
About Jim Jones
As self-proclaimed Capo of Harlem's Dipset clique -- think The Warriors meets The Wu Tang Clan -- Jim Jones has more street cred than almost any NYC artist. And while his somewhat stilted flow and simplistic rhyme scheme won't be drawing any comparisons to Nas or Rakim, Jones' sadistic braggadocio and coke kingpin rhymes project a certain menace that has made him a favorite in the Big Apple. Jones came into the game in the mid-1990s on the coattails of fellow Harlem emcee Cam'ron. He initially focused more on the business side of things, preferring to think of himself as more of a hip-hop entrepreneur than a hip-hop artist, though the distinction between the two is continually blurred and forsaken. In the first half of this decade, he helped form Diplomat Records -- home to Juelz Santana and one of hip-hop's most successful and recognized indies. Jones would make numerous cameo appearances on Diplomat records and numerous mix tapes; he didn't release an album until 2004's In Da Church. Though that album and 2005's Harlem: Diary of a Summer explored religious themes, songs such as "Shotgun Fire" and "Crunk Music" ensured that Jones was regarded as more of a Don Corleone than a Jerry Fallwell. And while he occasionally enshrines himself in political rhetoric during interviews -- labeling Dipset "the new Black Panthers" and himself "Harlem's Che Guevara" -- there is very little evidence of a specific political agenda.
in 2006, Jones years of grinding in the underground finally paid off in a big way. His single "Fly High" was one of the biggest club hits of the year, and established Jones as a commercial force. The subsequent album Hustler's P.O.M.E. sold well and was generally well received by critics. Jim Jones continues to be one of the most celebrated hardcore street emcees. Sam Chennault
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in 2006, Jones years of grinding in the underground finally paid off in a big way. His single "Fly High" was one of the biggest club hits of the year, and established Jones as a commercial force. The subsequent album Hustler's P.O.M.E. sold well and was generally well received by critics. Jim Jones continues to be one of the most celebrated hardcore street emcees.
G-Funk/ Gangsta
4/20 (feat. Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y)
Dope Boi Greezy
Ball Greezy
Soy Boys from Mars
Boom Bap & Beyond
Library of a Rockstar: Chapter 17 - M.O.B. Pt. 2 | {
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Q: How do I create a post to my Opportunity feed via REST API How can I create post to an Opportunity's feed via the REST API?
A: You could use this endpoint url
/services/data/v36.0/sobjects/FeedItem
And use POST method and pass the body
{
"ParentId": "0069000000K8YjL",
"Body" : "hello there",
"type" : "TextPost",
"Title" : "New Post"
}
Result
A: You can also use the Chatter REST API. (You'll need to use it if you want to include @mentions, which aren't supported when inserting FeedItem sObjects. Here's the example from the docs.)
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A clearly exasperated BBC journalist, Frank Gardner issued a bitter tweet last weekend due to the fact that he was left sitting on a plane at Heathrow whilst officials located his wheelchair. It seems that it took staff at the airport well over 70 minutes (that was when Gardner tweeted) to locate it. Some estimates say it was long as 100 minutes before it was found.
Gardner said that it was not the first time his wheelchair had got "lost" at Heathrow. Readers with long memories might remember that Just about Travel has written before about how the airport can treat disabled people. This is despite the fact that Heathrow – and a number of other UK airports – signed up to a CAA sponsored programme on how those with disabilities should be treated.
A little later over the weekend, Gardner met Heathrow CEO, John Holland Kaye, and talked about disability and problems getting through airports and onto planes. He said afterwards that he had just spent "one of the most constructive hours of my life." But how many of us would be able to have the clout that Gardner obviously has and be able to speak to an airport CEO within 24 hours?
After the meeting, Holland Kaye said Heathrow would aim to help disabled passengers off the plane within 20 minutes of landing. An "aim" is not the same as a guarantee and until another high-profile flyer with disabilities has a problem it is unlikely that we will know if that "aim" is being realised.
Personal wheelchairs, I am told, become integral to the user. The familiarity of your own space and knowing what you can and cannot do brings comfort. The thought that a wheelchair might be personally lost is an unpleasant thought as I found out a few years ago when a colleague flew out of Heathrow and her wheelchair couldn't be found for loading.
After the event, the BBC reported that Holland Kaye said that disabled passengers stranded on planes at Heathrow would not receive compensation for the delay. Perhaps if there were compensation, Heathrow and other airports might be a little more efficient! | {
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Drew Peterson Found Guilty Of Killing Third Wife
Filed Under:Bolingbrook Police Sergeant, Drew Peterson, Kathleen Savio, Murder, Murder Trial, Third Wife, verdict
Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., Friday, May 8, 2009, for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. (M. Spender Green/AP)
JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) — Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson on Thursday was found guilty of murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
A jury of seven men and five women had deliberated since 9:37 a.m. Wednesday morning before reaching a verdict around 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Peterson, who has been jailed since May 2009, was stoic as the guilty verdict was read, but audible gasps could be heard in the courtroom. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 26 and faces a range of 20 years to 60 years in prison.
LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Brandis Friedman reports
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Peterson was charged with killing Savio in her bathtub on March 1, 2004, as they were going through a divorce. Initially, the Will County Coroner's office ruled Savio's death an accidental drowning. But her death was reclassified as a homicide after an exhumation and a new autopsy, following the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, in October 2007.
"Game over, Drew," Cassandra Cales, sister of Stacy Peterson, told reporters after the verdict. "He can wipe the smirk off his face. It's time to pay."
Peterson's defense team vowed to appeal. They had long criticized the prosecution's use of hearsay evidence, which effectively allowed Stacy Peterson to speak from beyond the grave and incriminate her husband in Savio's death. State lawmakers passed legislation that allowed the hearsay evidence at trial.
LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser Reports
"You know what they say: A conviction is a first step in a successful appeal," Joel Brodsky, Peterson's lead defense attorney, said.
Brodsky said Peterson was philosophical when he talked with his client earlier Thursday. "Drew said to me, 'Whatever the verdict, we did the greatest job we could,'" the attorney said.
Peterson's attorneys conceded the former police sergeant is an unpopular figure.
JUROR: HEARSAY TESTIMONY SEALED CASE
Jurors said they would not talk with the media, but released a collective statement through a Will County sheriff's spokesman.
"We would like to thank Judge Burmila, the bailiffs and the Will County Sheriff's Department for the duration of this trial," the statement said. "We have taken the responsibility bestowed upon us by the court with a great deal of solemnity and diligence. After much deliberation, we have reached a decision we believe is just."
Family members of Savio were emotional but elated at the verdict.
"I'll never have my sister again — I still have to visit her at the cemetery — but at least I know she got justice," Nick Savio, Kathleen Savio's half-brother, told reporters outside the Will County Courthouse.
Investigators believe Stacy Peterson is dead, and have named Drew Peterson as a person of interest in her disappearance. He has not been charged with a crime in that case.
Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family, said a second prosecution is coming.
"Stacy's case is right around the corner — I truly believe that," said Bosco, who thanked the jury members for their decision.
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow agreed prosecutors are reviewing the disappearance of Stacy Peterson "with an eye to charging it."
He called Thursday's guilty verdict "transcendental."
"It transcends the criminal justice system," Glasgow said. "It makes a statement about violence against women that is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country — and that it won't be tolerated."
He called Drew Peterson a "coward and a bully."
Earlier Thursday, jury members sent trial judge Edward Burmila a note, asking, "Just to be clear judge, what does unanimous mean?"
The judge replied to them: "The word unanimous has its common meaning. It indicates the agreement of all on the matter at hand, and your verdict must be unanimous and signed by all."
The atmosphere at the courthouse was circus-like. A group of regular Peterson trial spectators even prepared a song about Drew Peterson's conviction, sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon."
It went, in part:
Drew the lady killer, won't be getting out of jail
Who'd of thought a few weeks ago that justice would prevail?
Once a respected police man, sworn to protect and serve,
He'll be in jail for 20-plus. He got what he deserved. | {
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Artículos en prensa Cost-effectiveness analysis of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy
Análisis de coste-utilidad de un programa de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral
Laura Vallejo-Torresa,b,c,
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Corresponding author.
, Amado Rivero-Santanaa,c,d, Carlos Martin-Saboridof, David Epsteing, Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérezc,d,h, Carmen Luisa Castellano-Fuentesa, Antonio Escobar-Martínezc,i, Pedro Serrano-Aguilarc,d,h
a Fundación Canaria de Investigación Sanitaria (FUNCANIS), Islas Canarias, España
b Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos en Economía y Gestión, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, España
c Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Madrid, España
d Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Canarias (CIBICAN), Islas Canarias, España
f Unidad de Evaluación de Tecnologías, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, España
g Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España
h Servicio de Evaluación del Servicio Canario de la Salud (SESCS), Islas Canarias, España
i Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Basurto, Bilbao, España
Table 1. Data inputs.
Table 2. Results for the base case analysis.
Material adicional (1)
In this study we conducted an economic evaluation of a surveillance programme to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy.
We developed a model that compared costs and health outcomes of children with cerebral palsy with and without a surveillance programme. Information from a number of sources was combined into a decision analytical model, primarily based on data from a comparative study with a 20-year follow-up. Effectiveness was measured using Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). The analysis took the perspective of the Spanish National Health Service. We undertook extensive sensitivity analyses including a probabilistic sensitivity analysis.
The surveillance programme led to higher QALYs and higher health care costs, with an estimated incremental cost per QALY gained of 12,282€. The results were robust to model assumptions. The probability that the programme was cost-effective was estimated to be over 80% at the threshold of 25.000€/QALY recommended in Spain.
This study indicates that surveillance programmes to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy are likely to be cost-effective.
En este estudio se realiza una evaluación económica de un programa de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral.
Se desarrolló un modelo que comparó los costes y los resultados en salud de niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral incluidas y no incluidas en un programa de vigilancia. Se combinó la información proveniente de diversas fuentes en un modelo analítico de decisión, principalmente basado en datos de un estudio comparativo con 20 años de seguimiento. La efectividad se midió empleando los años de vida ajustados por calidad (AVAC). El análisis tomó la perspectiva del Sistema Nacional de Salud de España. Se realizó un extenso análisis de sensibilidad, incluyendo un análisis de sensibilidad probabilístico.
El programa de vigilancia estuvo asociado a más AVAC y mayores costes sanitarios, con un coste incremental por AVAC ganado estimado en 12.282 €. Los resultados fueron robustos a los supuestos del modelo. La probabilidad de que el programa fuera coste-efectivo se estimó en un valor por encima del 80% para el umbral de 25.000 € por AVAC recomendado en España.
Este estudio indica que es probable que los programas de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral sean coste-efectivos.
Análisis coste-beneficio
Luxación de cadera
Cerebral palsy has an incidence of approximately two per 1000 live births and it is considered the most common cause of physical disability in children in developed countries.1 A common but often preventable complication in children with cerebral palsy is the dislocation of the hip, usually attributed to spasticity and contracture of the hip adductors and flexors as well as the medial hamstrings.2 Between 15-20% of children with cerebral palsy develop this condition.3
At first, children with cerebral palsy might experience asymptomatic subluxation or displacement of the hip that can progress into painful dislocation, contributing to difficulties with sitting, standing, walking, dressing, and perineal hygiene.4 In most cases children with identified displacement will need surgery to prevent dislocation.5 Treatments for hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy are less invasive and more successful in hips with less hip degenerative change and less displacement.6 Due to the silent nature of early stages of the development of hip displacement, screening or surveillance programs may permit early detection and treatment.
Surveillance programs involve the monitoring of children with cerebral palsy until they reach skeletal maturity based on standardized clinical evaluations and radiological examinations. Hip displacement is often evaluated using the Reimer index or migration percentage (MP)7, with most authors classifying hips with a MP>30% as displaced, and hips with an MP>90% to 100% as dislocated.2 The potential of surveillance to reduce hip dislocation depends on the appropriate planning of early treatment once displacement is detected. Surgical treatments to prevent dislocation include adductor–psoas tenotomy and varus osteotomy of the proximal femur. Salvage surgery (e.g. femoral head resection) is usually performed, if the child is fit to undergo surgery, when the hip has reached dislocation.8
Some countries and regions have established surveillance programs, achieving a reduction in the rate of hip dislocation.3,9–14 Well-applied surveillance programs have therefore been considered effective and practical.6 However, no previous study has provided evidence on the cost-effectiveness of this intervention.
The aim of this study is to determine the cost-effectiveness of a surveillance program to prevent dislocation of the hip in children with cerebral palsy in Spain.
MethodModel overview
In this analysis we compared the costs and Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) of children with cerebral palsy with and without a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation. The perspective was of the Spanish National Health System,15 with a time horizon of 18 years, coinciding approximately with the follow-up duration of available data. We applied a 3% discount rate to future costs and QALYs.15,16 The paper follows the CHEERS Statement for economic evaluations.17
This is, to our knowledge, the first cost-effectiveness evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. The analysis was thus based on a de novo decision analytical model. Similar to previous cost-effectiveness analyses of related interventions, such as screening of developmental dysplasia of the hip,18–20 the model took the form of a decision tree (Fig. 1). A decision tree is appropriate in this case because the data did not indicate a complex pattern of recurring-remitting health conditions. However, to account for the timing of preventive surgery, dislocation or salvage surgery, costs and QALYs associated with each pathway were computed on a yearly basis and summed up for the duration of the time horizon with appropriate discounting.
Decision tree. Decision node represented by squares and chance node by circles.
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Based on this model, mean cost and mean QALYs and the incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR) under both strategies were computed. The ICUR represents the additional cost required to achieve one additional QALY,16 which is then compared with the decision makers' willingness to pay threshold in order to draw conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. In Spain a cost-effectiveness threshold of 20,000-25,000€ per QALY has been recommended.21
Effectiveness of the surveillance program
A systematic review was performed to identify studies that estimated the effectiveness of a screening program to prevent hip dislocation in children/adolescents (0 to 18 years old) with cerebral palsy. Methodological quality of the included studies was assessed with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) criteria22 (see online supplementary Appendix I). The methods and results of the systematic review are described in detail in online supplementary Appendix II.
Three articles (reporting on two studies) were included in the final analysis. These two studies were retrospective analyses of the effectiveness of the same program: the Cerebral Palsy Follow-Up Program (CPUP), initiated in southern Sweden in 1994. Hägglund et al.,3,9 in 2005 and 2014, reported results at 10 and 20 years, respectively, comparing a cohort of children born between 1992-1997 (study group 1) and between 1998-2007 (study group 2) included in the CPUP, to a historical control group of children born in 1990-1991 not included in the program. Elkamil et al.,10 in 2011, compared a subsample of the CPUP to a sample of children recruited over the same period and with the same GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System) levels in Norwegian regions who were not in a surveillance program. None of the studies reported data on pain or health-related quality of life.
The overlap of the intervention samples in the included studies precluded a meta-analysis of their results. The cost-utility model was populated based on data from Hägglund et al.,9 which provided the longest follow-up and compared two groups of children from the same region. The methodological quality of this study was evaluated as acceptable, the highest possible quality for retrospective studies according to the SIGN criteria (see online supplementary Appendix I).
In this study, children included in the control and intervention groups were not born in the same period. As a result, at the end of follow-up children in the control group (aged 22-23 years by then) have been at risk of developing dislocation (defined in the study as MP=100%) for far longer than children included in the intervention group 2 (aged 6-15 years at follow-up). Therefore, we compared information only from children included in intervention group 1 (aged 16 to 21 at follow-up) with those included in the control group, since they had a similar follow-up duration that was long enough to detect most cases of hip dislocation. Nine of 103 children developed dislocation of the hip in the control group (8 of them between 3 and 6 years of age, and one at age 16), while two out of 210 children from study group 1 included in the CPUP program suffered from a dislocated hip (relative risk=0.1090; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.2-0.49). Information on the probabilities of undergoing preventive primary, revision and salvage surgery were also computed by comparing children from study group 1 with the historical control cohort. These are presented in Table 1.
Resource use and unit costs
Data inputs.
Relative risk
Prob. distrib.
Dislocation under surveillance program 0.10899 (0.02-0.49) Lognormal 9
Mean (SD)
Non-surveillance program
Primary preventive surgery 0.1165 (0.0315) Beta 9
Revision surgery after preventive surgery 0.5833 (0.1367) Beta
Dislocation 0.0874 (0.0277) Beta
Salvage surgery after dislocation 0.4444 (0.1571) Beta
Surveillance program
Proportion of type of preventive surgery
Tenotomy (vs. osteotomy) in primary preventive surgery 0.6117 (0.0478) Beta 9
Tenotomy (vs. osteotomy) in revision preventive surgery 0.0652 (0.0360) Beta
Proportion of children in each group of the GMFCS
GMFCS I 0.4312 (0.01791) Dirichlet 9
GMFCS II 0.1665 (0.01347) Dirichlet
GMFCS III 0.1048 (0.01108) Dirichlet
GMFCS IV 0.1442 (0.01270) Dirichlet
GMFCS V 0.1533 (0.01303) Dirichlet
Unit costs
X-ray 21.12 €(11.38 €) Gamma See online supplementary Appendix III
Physiotherapist visit 25.84 € (18.17 €) Gamma
Occupational therapy visit 20.17 € (7.29 €) Gamma
Orthopedic specialist doctor visit 91.19 € (28.58 €) Gamma
Adductor–psoas tenotomy 1,912.1 € (1,405.93 €) Gamma
Femoral osteotomy 2,185.4 € (1,018.68 €) Gamma
Femoral resection 3,253.4 € (948.07 €) Gamma
QALY weights
Cerebral palsy without hip dislocation(Mild cerebral palsy) 0.8700 (0.2000) Beta 32
Cerebral palsy with hip dislocation(Moderate cerebral palsy) 0.7600 (0.2300) Beta
Disutility due to surgery (1-year) 0.1000 (0.1000) Beta Assumption
Mean [min; max]
Age at primary preventive surgery 5 [3;8] Uniform 9
Age at revision surgery 8 [4; 12] Uniform
Age at salvage surgery 13 [7;20] Uniform
Age at dislocation 5 [3;8] Uniform
CI: confidence interval; GMFCS: Gross Motor Function Classification System; Prob. distrib.: probability distribution; QALY: quality adjusted life years; SD: standard deviation.
Note: A more detailed description of the parameters summarized in Table 1 is provided in online supplementary Appendix V.
The intervention under analysis is the CPUP surveillance program,3,9 which included a standardized physiotherapist and occupational therapist visit twice a year until the age of six years, and once a year thereafter. Inclusion in the program was from identification of a possible cerebral palsy diagnosis, i.e., from birth on most patients, until they reached skeletal maturity. Radiological examinations in the CPUP program are based, since 2007, on the GMFCS, with children in level I not examined radiologically (if they have normal pain-free range of movement), children in level II examined at two and six years of age, and children in level III-V examined annually.9 GMFCS is currently the most widely applied scale for motor function classification in patients with cerebral palsy.23 We assume that each radiological examination involves a visit with an orthopeadic specialist doctor. In order to compute the mean cost of the program we considered the percentage of children in each GMFCS category as reported in Hägglund et al.,9 and shown in Table 1. This distribution by GMFCS was very similar to that reported in a previous study conducted in a Spanish region.24
In the CPUP, decisions regarding preventive surgery were made locally, and the most common types of preventive surgeries performed consisted of adductor–psoas tenotomy25 and varus femoral osteotomy.26 The proportions of surgery types are presented in Table 1, alongside with the mean age of children when undergoing preventive, revision and salvage surgery.
Information on the use of non-surgical treatments to prevent hip dislocation, such as appropriate lying, sitting and standing positions and the use of orthoses, is not provided in Hägglund et al.9 We assume there are not differences across groups in the provision of this usual care, and therefore these costs are not included in the analysis. Furthermore, no information was provided in this study on the follow-up required for children after surgery or who developed dislocation but could not undergo a surgical procedure. In our analysis we assumed, based on clinical expertise, an additional annual visit to the physiotherapist and an additional radiological examination involving an orthopaedic surgeon visit in these children. The impact of this assumption was tested in sensitivity analyses.
Unit costs data (Table 1) were taken from the mean values of the most up-to-date (2013 to 2018) Spanish regional tariffs (see online supplementary Appendix III for references).
Life expectancy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
In order to calculate the QALYs associated to each strategy, we combined information on life-expectancy as well as on HRQoL, the latter expressed in terms of QALY weights.
We estimated mortality rates for patients with cerebral palsy until 18 years of age based on data from Hägglund et al.9 There is no evidence of differences in mortality for children under and not under a surveillance program, and neither there is evidence that hip dislocation has an impact on life expectancy in patients with cerebral palsy. Therefore, we applied the same mortality rates (represented as survival curves in online supplementary Appendix IV) for all children in our analysis.
Several studies have shown that hip displacement/dislocation is significantly associated with a lower HRQoL in children with cerebral palsy.27–30 However, these studies have used a measure of HRQoL not suitable for the computation of QALYs weights (e.g. the Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities). QALY measurement in paediatric populations is very challenging.31 One study by Carroll and Downs32 calculated QALY weights for a wide range of health problems in the paediatric population. They considered mild, moderate and severe symptoms for each health problem, including cerebral palsy. In our base case analysis, we applied the reported utilities for children with mild cerebral palsy to children with cerebral palsy not suffering from hip dislocation, and that estimated for children with moderate cerebral palsy to children with cerebral palsy with hip dislocation (Table 1). We explored the impact of this assumption in sensitivity analyses, and estimated the change in utility required for the program to be cost-effective. We assumed that the mean age of children developing dislocation was 5 years of age.3,9 Furthermore, to allow for the fact that undergoing a surgical procedure might have a short-term detrimental impact on HRQoL, we applied a disutility associated to any surgical procedure equivalent to 0.1 QALYs for one-year after surgery. The impact of this assumption is also analyzed in sensitivity analyses.
Data parameters were increased to double and reduced by half the base-case value in one-way deterministic sensitivity analyses. Wider ranges were applied to the assumptions included in the analyses: the number of follow-up visits after surgery was varied from no follow-up to monthly (base-case: annual visits); the disutility associated to any surgical procedure for a one-year after surgery was varied from 0.05 to 0.5 (base-case: 0.1); the time horizon of the study was varied from 10 to 100 years (base-case: 18 years) and discount rate varied from 1% to 5% (base-case: 3%). In addition, we undertook a threshold analysis that computed the value required on the change in QALY weights after dislocation for the intervention to be considered cost-effective.
We also conducted a probabilistic sensitivity analysis to characterize the joint uncertainty in the model using 1,000 simulations in a Monte Carlo simulation. The results of the probabilistic sensitivity analysis are presented in terms of a cost-effectiveness plane and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves, which indicate the probability that an intervention is cost-effective for different values of the willingness to pay for a QALY. Probability distributions for each parameter are shown in Table 1.
The cost-utility results of the base case analysis are presented in Table 2. The mean cost per child included in the program is 1569€ (95% CI: 917-2470€) and the mean cost per child not included in the program is 613€ (95% CI: 258-1151€). The mean QALYs for children included and not included in the program are 11.99 (95% CI: 3.83-13.85) and 11.92 (95% CI: 3.73-13.78) QALYs, respectively, for an 18-year time horizon. The ICUR of the program is estimated as 12,282€/QALY (95% CI: 3014-60,708€), and therefore considerably lower than the threshold of up to 25,000/QALY recommended in Spain.21
Results for the base case analysis.
Surveillance programMean (95% CI)
Non-surveillance programMean (95% CI)
Incremental differenceMean (95% CI)
ICURMean (95% CI)
Costs 1569 €(917-2470 €) 613 €(258-1151 €) 956 €(394-1708 €) 12,282 €/QALY(3013-60,707€)
QALYs 11.994(3.832-13.8450) 11.916(3726-13.780) 0.0778(0.028-0.131)
ICUR: incremental cost-utility ratio; QALY: quality-adjusted life years.
The results were robust to one-way sensitivity analyses (Fig. 2). The ICUR values estimated under the sensitivity analyses were in every instance under 25,000€/QALY, with the exception of when the time horizon is reduced to 10 years and when the underlying risk of dislocation without a program is assumed to be half the value of the base-case. Other variables found to have a large impact on the ICUR were the cost of the program, the probability of undergoing preventive surgery, and the disutility associated with dislocation. With regards to the latter, our analysis suggested that the screening program would be cost-effective when the difference in the utility weight between children with cerebral palsy with and without hip dislocation is 0.06 or greater (the base-case difference in the model is 0.11).
One-way sensitivity analyses.
Figures 3 and 4 shows the cost-effectiveness plane and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curves. At a threshold value of €25,000/QALY, the probability that the surveillance strategy is the most cost-effective option approaches 90% in the base case analysis.
Cost-effectiveness plane.
Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.
This study provides the first cost-utility evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy.
The analysis was based on the best available evidence, which is limited to a population-based retrospective observational study implemented in southern Sweden. This study showed acceptable internal validity (see online supplementary Appendix I). External validity might be compromised due to potential differences between countries in the organizational requirements to implement the program and the quality of services provided in usual care. Therefore, both the underlying dislocation rate under non-surveillance and the effectiveness of a surveillance program might be different in other contexts. Unfortunately, there are no data on the underlying dislocation rate in children with cerebral palsy in Spain, but similarly to the control group included in Hägglund et al.,9 current clinical guidelines for children with cerebral palsy in Spain do not include routine surveillance for hip dislocation, but only recommend considering annual radiological examinations in severe cases.33 Therefore, the rate of dislocation in Spain is unlikely to be lower than that reported in Hägglund et al.9 In fact, studies from other countries, such as in a Norwegian non-surveillance cohort with a 15 years of follow up,10 have reported a dislocation rate larger than that in the control group in Hägglund et al.9 (8.7% vs. 15.1%). Dislocation rates under surveillance programs in other countries have also being found to be larger to that observed in the intervention group of Hägglund et al.9 We identified three non-comparative studies of surveillance programs in Norway34 and Australia.14,35 The results of Connelly et al.14 and Terjesen et al.34 are not directly comparable to those of Hägglund et al.,9 since they defined dislocation as MP>90% instead of 100%, and indeed they reported much higher dislocation rates with shorter follow up (6.8% and 4%, respectively, vs. 1.0%). Wynter et al.35 published an abstract reporting ten years of follow up of the largest cohort studied to date (n=2278); they did not define dislocation, although in a previous 5-year report it was defined as 100% of MP.13 The observed dislocation rate in Wynter et al.35 (1.8%) was similar but slightly larger than that of Hägglund et al.9 (1.0%); although more than half of cases of dislocation were observed at the initial entry to the program. Another threat to external validity could be the technical evolution of therapeutic preventive and reconstructive procedures, since the CPUP program in Sweden started more than 20 years ago. However, treatment modalities have not fundamentally changed, as suggested by recent published systematic reviews about treatments options.8
The cost-utility analysis has a series of limitations. First, and related to the previous point, the analysis is based on data from the study implemented in Sweden and, therefore, some input parameters might not correspond to the epidemiological context and clinical practice in Spain. Nevertheless, the extensive sensitivity analyses conducted around these model parameters showed the results were generally robust to variations in these values. The validity of any model depends on a series of assumptions. In our model, these assumptions include the intensity of follow-up after surgery or when dislocation is not surgically manageable, as well as the disutility associated with surgical interventions. In every case results were found not to be sensitive to these assumptions. Finally, possibly the main methodological challenge in undertaking cost-utility analyses in paediatric populations pertains to the estimation of QALY weights. We explored the change required in the QALY weight of children with cerebral palsy with a dislocated hip for the intervention to be considered cost-effective, which was estimated in 0.06. This value is significantly lower than the baseline assumption. The results of previous papers that have shown a significant association of hip dislocation with a lower HRQoL in children with cerebral palsy,27–30 indicate that the program is cost-effective even when using conservative assumptions about HRQoL.
The results of this study suggest that a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy is likely to be a cost-effective use of health care resources of the Spanish National Health System. However, there is a need for further research, in particular about epidemiological data on the incidence of dislocation in children with cerebral palsy, the impact of dislocation on quality of life, as well as on the comparative effectiveness of surveillance and other preventative treatments options.
Miguel Ángel Negrín Hernández.
The corresponding author on behalf of the other authors guarantee the accuracy, transparency and honesty of the data and information contained in the study, that no relevant information has been omitted and that all discrepancies between authors have been adequately resolved and described.
What is known about the topic?
Dislocation of the hip is a common but often preventable complication in children with cerebral palsy. Surveillance programs for early detection have been shown to be effective and practical, but no previous study has provided evidence on the cost-effectiveness of this intervention.
What does this study add to the literature?
We provide the first cost-effectiveness evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. Our study indicates that these programs are likely to be cost-effective. This information aims to support decision making in the Spanish National Health Service, but these results might be of relevance in other settings.
L. Vallejo-Torres, A. Rivero-Santana and L. Perestelo-Pérez conceived the study, and P. Serrano-Aguilar oversaw its conduct. A. Rivero-Santana, L. Perestelo-Pérez and P. Serrano-Aguilar conducted the systematic review of effectiveness. C. Martin-Saborido, C.L. Castellano-Fuentes and A. Escobar-Martínez contributed to the design of the model and to the data collection of the parameters required to populate the cost-effectiveness model, including epidemiological data, resource use, unit costs and utilities. L. Vallejo-Torres, A. Rivero-Santana and D. Epstein led the model design, analyzed the data and interpreted the results. L. Vallejo-Torres drafted the manuscript, and all authors edited and revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript.
This work was undertaken in the framework of activities run by the Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies, funded by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality in Spain.
The authors would like to thank Carlos González Rodríguez for his support in the literature review.
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This includes a small image with each of your RSS postings. Typical use is to add the logo of your site for branding purposes, but this suited me better. I made the change and didn't think about it again until this morning when I happened to see my post from yesterday on Bitacle. Click the below screenshot to enlarge and see why I think it is so damned funny.
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Excellent work! That is great!
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Jessica & Jonathan: Well, it amuses me, so I guess that's somthing!
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import org.apereo.cas.authentication.principal.Service;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.mfa.InweboMultifactorAuthenticationProperties;
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From there on, I went back to daily routines, to earn a living for my family and to enjoy the pleasures of the world. I knew God would forgive, so I would go back to him when I needed, I had no reason to depend on him, I had all that I wanted.
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Room 13 is a Gothic-horror children's novel written by the acclaimed award-winning children's author Robert Swindells. Published in 1989, it was awarded the Red House Children's Book Award. The novel centres around a group of friends on a school trip, who stay in a creepy guest house on Whitby's West Cliff.
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Fliss Morgan has a nightmare on the night before her school trip, to Whitby. Every night Ellie-May Sunderland is drawn to the landing outside the mysterious Room 13, which does not seem to exist during the day. Fliss and her friends attempt to unravel the mystery of the room, and determine the identity of its sinister inhabitant.
Characters
Felicity "Fliss" Morgan: The main character. Fliss begins observing strange events in the hotel at night, and becomes determined to get to the bottom of what is going on.
Lisa Watmoug: she is a very naughty girl
Ellie-May Sunderland :''she is a very naughty girlDavid "Trot" Trotter: A loudmouthed boyGary Bazzard: One of Trot's friendsMr. Hepworth: A teacherMrs. Marriott: A loud military style teacher.Sall Haggerlythe:''' An elderly woman who sits in the bus shelter near the children's hotel, and is widely believed to be insane.
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1989 British novels
English Gothic novels
British horror novels
Novels set in Whitby
Dracula novels
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Bridewell Theatre
Treatments of the Faust story abound in many languages, musical and literary formats. It is a bold and brave endeavour on the part of composer Simone Spagnolo and librettist Gordano Trischitta to add to the number; but this new work, the culmination of this year's 'Opera in the City' Festival, is a notable success that will repay repeated listening and deserve further outings.
This take on the legend is an introversion of it – a monologue in nine scenes performed by the baritone Benjamin Bevan accompanied by a chamber quartet conducted by the composer. Instead of Faust's customary exotic travels alongside Mephistopheles and in search of Marguerite we find ourselves in the company of a disorientated man, inhabiting a bleak hut in the Canadian snowfields, who has lost any clear sense of who he is. Fragments of his identity and life history return as the action proceeds, and events are relived and re-enacted, but this is very much the perspective of a broken man looking back, not an arrogant intellectual receiving condign punishment by conventional moral forces for defying God with a transgressive pact.
There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach. We don't feel the force of temptation and the elation of kicking over the traces as you do in the versions by – say – Marlowe or Berlioz, and you miss the other characters; but you do get a much more human and richly three-dimensional portrayal of the man himself. It is a rare moment of insight to take the point of departure from where most accounts leave off and represent Faust in broken retrospect. This stance is somehow richer than simply offering an adventure story narrative where we already all know the ending. Trischitta's libretto is wordy, but also dryly witty and pithy in formulation, fitting the music with ease.
We have here a performance of rare power and stamina by baritone Benjamin Bevan, who sings more or less continuously for the length of the piece, barring some few instrumental interludes. He is a more than plausible actor well capable of the extremes of mood, ranging from anguish to elation, that the role requires; and very much on top of the harsh vocal demands and the large amount of separately spoken text that breaks up the scenes. At times the role seems reminiscent in theme and vocal writing of Peter Grimes – the individual pitted against an uncomprehending world to which he is tragically unsuited – but with more mordant self-consciousness than that Suffolk fisherman knew.
Musically we experience a journey of many and varied moods, timbres and textures. It represents a large leap forward by composer Simone Spagnolo from his impressive but more modestly construed two-hander from last year's festival. He has chosen an intriguing instrumental palette – violin, cello, clarinet/saxophone and xylophone with assorted percussion. These are deployed in different combinations, sometimes as a meditative underscore for Faust's voyage of self-rediscovery, but also in independent interludes of commentary that at times remind you of Aaron Copland's wide-spaced instrumental vistas. Occasionally the rhythmic devices and elaborate syncopations become a bit repetitive, but it could be argued in justification that this is only a reflection of Faust's obsessive search to reassemble his identity.
In a monologue it is always important to have plenty of dynamic movement and a set that only gradually reveals its layers, so as to sustain visual interest. Director Pamela Schermann keeps things moving around deftly, and Cindy Lin's set makes clever use of the steps deployed in the festival's other main production to create a mysterious structure whose meaning is only gradually revealed as Faust searches for his version of 'the eternal feminine'. Petr Vocka's lighting scheme provides apt punctuation, both reflecting Faust's mood changes and also shadowing the events of his life as they are recalled.
There is a lot to respond to here both in the music and text, and in their delivery. Certainly this reviewer can only give a set of first impressions and it is to be hoped that further acquaintance with this work's rich resources will reveal the lineaments of these variations on an old theme with greater clarity. All in all this work is a vindication of the vitality both of contemporary opera but also the rich rewards that still remain to be found in exploration of familiar cultural tropes, traditions and mythologies.
By Simone Spagnolo
Directed by Pamela Schermann
Libretto by Giordano Trischitta
Cast includes: Benjamin Bevan
Until 8th September 2018
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Have you heard already? Sizzix has released new wonderful version of TH Tattered Florals. In Europe they will be sold only from January, but I am one of the few lucky ones to receive them as a Christmas present from Sizzix itself. You can see many amazing tutorials and previews of these new dies all over the blogland and Tim's page as well.
So I wanted to show you something different - a comparison to the first Tattered Florals and the branch die also included in this set.
These are the largest flowers of both sets. You can see how very bigger are the new dies - they're on the left side.
This is a comparison of branch dies. The bigger one on the left side is from Garden Greens Bigz Die, the on in the middle is from Spring Greenery Decorative strip die, and the last one is from retired Sizzlits die.
This is also a comparison between Bigz Die and Decorative Strip Die.
And these are all other shapes you can get from the Jumbo Set.
I also would like to wish you merry, bright and peaceful Christmas and prosperous, lucky and healthy New Year!
There's plenty of time to get some Christmas crafting done and here are 8 FREE paper downloads that are perfect for the occasion! With a range of designs on offer, they are ideal for cards, tags, gift wrapping embellishments and more! Head over to Sizzix and sign up for their newsletter and voila - you will have access to wonderful Christmas papers. | {
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Given I've just recently sold off all of my non-essential belongings my Christmas list this year is a little different than it has been in years past. In place of shoes and nail polish this year's list is full of exciting things we still need for the boat. Santa is always very generous with our stockings, so I am curious to see just how many tubes of sunscreen and aloe I get.
First up on my list is The Boat Galley Cookbook. I was skeptical of this book at first. I gave it a shot, downloaded the free sample of the book, but I wasn't convinced this would be an essential item to keep on board. I consider myself pretty creative in the kitchen, I can look in the fridge and pretty easily concoct something from whatever I have lying around. So at first glance I didn't find the recipes that creative or think they would really be very helpful. It wasn't until I read this opinion of why the book is a "Must Have" that it moved from "Eh" to "Maybe I should definitely get me a copy." Apparently when you're sailing you can get pretty bored with all the cans of SPAM and rice you have in your lockers. Sometimes you just need someone else to tell you to add some magical ingredient to your meal to keep the crew satisfied. And, if Santa is bringing it for me its not like I have to buy it myself.
Next up on my list is a Lock&Lock plastic egg carton. I know in the States eggs come in a fancy carton all of their own. But it seems that in foreign countries eggs aren't even refrigerated (don't worry, they are perfectly safe and actually stay fresh much longer), much less come packaged to help avoid crushing. This bad boy will keep us eating fresh eggs as much as possible.
Next up on my list is really exciting. Go ahead, take a minute to prepare yourself. I'll wait.
It's Method laundry detergent AND the refill packs!! I knew it would knock your socks off. This stuff is biodegradable so it won't harm any animals if I happen to dump my used water into the ocean. It's also 4x concentrated so it takes up a quarter of the space normal detergent would. It's pretty much a win win situation. For me, and the fishes.
I find it both exciting and depressing that I have detergent on my Christmas list this year. It's exciting that I've cut out all the crap and a lot of materialistic items in my life, but also depressing that I'm asking Santa for detergent. If you want to play Santa this year or help me to get all those embarrassing items off my list, check out our sailing registry.
I just caved and purchased the Boat Galley cookbook. Like you, wasn't sure if I needed it because I do a pretty good job cooking in my galley. I've read through the book, and I do like some of the ideas and recipes (Thermos slow cooking, never knew that existed!). I think it's worthwhile, and curious to see if you got the book. Will have to look around your blog for any updates.
I did get the book. There are some things I think are great in it, and some that any experienced cook would know to do already. I made us the sweet and sour chicken (p279) today and it was really good! I used thighs instead, and brocoli instead of peppers because that is what we had on board. Keep me posted if you try any really good recipes. Also, thanks for the tip on that beer bread – it was incredible. | {
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In August of 1994, President Clinton's Crime Bill destroyed the monies designated on a nation-wide basis for all Prison Education programs. The Federal or Pell Grants were for books; without books, like it or not, there are no programs. Those monies constituted less than one percent of all federal funds designated for higher education and were beginning to offer proof, at least in the program of which I was a part, that this form of rehabilitation might be the cheapest, most far reaching yet devised. For a man like Kenneth, these programs opened up a new world and offered a restoration of chances, not just for himself personally, but for ourselves. He literally devoured the readings offered to him, as if they were the nutrient he'd been waiting for, and began asking for compilations of myths, stories, and legends that would demand further study. He went to William Carlos Williams' Imaginations in hopes of finding direction. His collection of first poems based on his experience as a "grunt" in Vietnam offers little comfort. Instead, what is given is a transmission so deeply formed and composed that the reader becomes inextricably shadowed by the living arrangement of things which at once possess and bind us to their crisis:
resemble so much
nerve endings.
raw exposed
seems inevitable
they'll blow
This thing about honor, less clearly defined:
Honor is the
sight of red-gray matter
sickly falling
in small jellied
from the waist
of a mango tree
like opaque snot
sliding off
Honor is …
There is no ornamentation here, nothing unnecessary. The detail of parts, the breath-by-breath construction of the poet's awareness and how he directs this language toward an actual act of seeing and how this act attracts reality, offers us no escapable device. At the same time, through his rigor, he sounds out "This thing about honor" far more intimately than the policy arrangements of an "honor" that brought him to stand inside the "sickly falling" clumps of his and our condition of shattered minds that can think up no more than an industrial future whose central jewel is prison. Kenneth also anticipates and answers Robert McNamara, who In Retrospect says, "… Obviously there are things you cannot quantify: honor and beauty, for example …" McNamara's precious order and distance become an even more realized distortion before the account of this poem and its beauty of first consequences that cannot be impeded, nor will it succumb to the lures of the obvious where a whole geography, to the men who had to slog through it, became know as the "slab."
Often have wondered
how NVA treat captured
beyond print, and the
was on
less than three days
found members
of an ambushed
staked to the ground,
left by
NVA regulars
who had neither time
nor-
with captured GI's:
admonished them
tucked them away
for safe keeping
fate's a bitch
ain't it?
the grunts laughed.
Kenneth wrote about these poems, "I am attempting to discover what LINE is, what SYLLABLE is supposed to be; the above is a reflection of the exploration. I think I do very much want to write, but my problem is separating ideas from things — and where does the medium lie, for the sake of poetic creativity, between those extremes?" Perhaps in hoping to "tuck" this man, and others like him, in a penal banishment, we can contrive relief, or failing that, the vague symptoms of reassurance that instruct us that Kenneth's presence and worth as a man doesn't matter. His poems tell us, however, about a vacuum off contrivances and dismissals that rule us in their despoil.
[This excerpt is from David Matlin's Prisons: Inside the New America from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib, Chapter IV: Nerve Endings. His masterful study is described by the publisher, North Atlantic Books, as follows: "This powerful exposè reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public trust. For ten years, David Matlin taught at a maximum-security prison, where he confronted daily the nature of society, crime, and violence. Based on his experiences, this book examines the history of prisons in the United States and shows the terrible price a lethal combination of degradation, abuse, and corruption inflicts on inmates and society as a whole. Matlin argues that privatization of the prison industry has led to irreversible tragedy both at home and abroad, weakening our national identity and shattering public trust in the American justice system. Engulfing and enraging, the book challenges readers to take a long look at the culture of crime and punishment."
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The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) presents a round-up of the latest developments in child and family policy in EU member states in October 2020. Each piece of news contains a link to the original source, which may be in a language other than English. In most cases, they are press releases from the relevant ministries.
Denmark: Strategy for working with private foundations supporting vulnerable children
The ministry with responsibility for social affairs (Social og Indenrigsminister) introduced a new funding strategy that sets out how the ministry will work with private foundations who support children through their work. The strategy aims to promote knowledge-sharing and cooperation between civil investors, civil society actors and other public sector organisations with the goal of making social funding more efficient.
Denmark: New bill on inclusion of disadvantaged children in care centres and primary schools
The ministry with responsibility for social affairs (Social og Indenrigsminister) introduced a bill that aims to improve the inclusion of children with disabilities into early childhood education and care (ECEC) and schools. The ministry intends to strengthen existing anti-discrimination rules.
France: Review of implementation of strategy for prevention and children protection
The ministry with responsibilities for children and families (Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé) released a report that provides an update on progress towards implementing the 2019 National Strategy for Prevention and Child Protection (La Stratégie nationale de prevention et de protection de l'enfance). The report provides information on the steps taken towards implementing the strategy over the past year: including measures aimed at improving partnership policies, harmonising and strengthening rights for all children, and reforming policies around adoption.
Germany: New law proposed to protect children online
On 14 October 2020, the federal government approved a revised law on the protection of minors. Proposed by the federal ministry with responsibility for family (Bundesfamilienministerium), the law aims to better protect children from risks found on the internet (including sexual harassment and cyberbullying) and to provide standardised age ratings for films and games. The bill now passes to the federal parliament (Bundestag) and, if approved, will enter into force in spring 2021.
Greece: New programme of free school meals for selected schools
The ministry with responsibility for education (Υπουργειο Παιδειασ Και Θρησκευματων) has introduced a free school meals programme in primary schools for the academic year 2020-2021. In order to qualify to offer these free school meals to their pupils, schools need to fulfil certain criteria, such as being in a deprived area, or having a large number of pupils at risk of poverty. All pupils in the selected schools will receive free meals.
Slovakia: New project against bullying in schools
The ministry with responsibility for education (Ministerstvo Školstva, Vedy, Výskumu A Športu) has become a partner in a new project that aims to tackle bullying. Called 'We will respond' (Odpíšeme ti), the project was launched on 5 October 2020 by the ministry and two national foundations: Markíza Foundation (Nadácia Markíza) and Child Safety Line (Linka detskej istoty). As part of providing direct support to victims and promoting public discussion about the issue, the project offers personalised help to children via a special helpline (116 111) and via a new website.
Spain: Report on remote educational activities implemented during COVID-19
The ministry with responsibility for education (Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional) published a report setting out the educational response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The report describes various policies and initiatives that were launched by the ministry between March and September 2020 in order to encourage and support remote learning. One example is the web portal 'Learn from Home' (Aprendo en Casa) which was developed to bring together educational resources, online training, and tools and apps for teachers, families and students.
European Union: Release of Gender Equality Index 2020
On 16 October 2020, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) released the fifth edition of the Gender Equality Index. The thematic focus of the 2020 edition investigates the effect of digitalisation in the lives of men and women and considers the impact of intersecting inequalities. The Gender Equality Index also examines gender equality in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power and health.
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Q: How to transport a function and an object to a functional component in react I'm still have problems with typescript and react so please be condescending. Thank you in advance guys.
I'm trying to transport a function and an object to a component
So here is my component named WordItem
import React, {FC, useContext} from "react"
import { IWord } from "../../../models/IWord"
import {Context} from "../../../index";
const WordItem: FC<IWord> = (word) => {
const {store} = useContext(Context)
async function deleteWord () {
await store.deleteWord(word.id)
}
return (
<div key={word.id}>
<div>
<div>{word.word}</div>
<div>{word.wordT}</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>{word.instance}</div>
<div>{word.instanceT}</div>
<button onClick={() => {deleteWord()}}>delete</button>
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default WordItem
And this is my App.tsx file:
import React, {FC, useContext, useState} from 'react';
import {Context} from "./index";
import {observer} from "mobx-react-lite";
import {IUser} from "./models/IUser";
import WordService from "./services/WordService"
import { IWord } from './models/IWord';
import WordItem from './components/UI/word/WordItem';
const App: FC = () => {
const {store} = useContext(Context)
const [users, setUsers] = useState<IUser[]>([])
const [words, setWords] = useState<IWord[]>([])
async function getWords() {
try {
const response = await WordService.fetchWords()
setWords(response.data)
} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
}
}
return (
<div>
<button onClick={getWords}>Get words</button>
{words.reverse().map(word => <WordItem {...word}/>)}
{words.length == 0? 'there is no words': ''}
</div>
)
}
export default observer(App);
As you can see i successfully transported object word in a component but i really dont know the way to transport a function also. <WordItem {getWords, ...word}/> or <WordItem getWords={getWords} { ...word}/> does not help. Like how to properly put then into <WordItem/>
A: If you want to pass down both the word variable and the getWords function to the WordItem component, you should do it as follow:
<WordItem word={word} getWords={getWords} />
Then you need to adapt your component prop types to match these props:
const WordItem: FC<{word: IWord, getWords: () => Promise<void>}> = ({word, getWords}) => {
...
I am using object destructuring in the code above to get the two props from the prop parameter which is equivalent to doing something like:
const WordItem: FC<{word: IWord, getWords: () => Promise<void>}> = (props) => {
const word = props.word;
const getWords = props.getWords;
...
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Q: Is it possible to print one item legend item in italic in print composer? Is it possible to have one item in italic font (species names) and the rest in "normal"?
I use QGIS 2.6.
The legend consists of two items which should be written normal (trap positions and vegetation) and one should be in italic, as it is convention that Latin species names are written in italic fonts.
A: You can edit the Item Font of a legend by clicking the Item Font button in the Legend Item properties:
However, this is going to edit ALL items in your legend.
So a solution/workaround - use two legends
Below I have added two legends one for each layer, and made the items normal in the top legend and italic in the bottom legend. They are in fact two legends, but on my print composition, they appear to be in the same legend. I removed the title and background from the bottom legend so it can appear as if it is apart of the top legend.
Hope this helps!
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We know that one of the first considerations and possibly one of the most stressful parts when selling a home is setting the right price. Did you know there is some science behind price setting?
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Aramis is a strong leathery patchouli that is too grandpa-ish for me.
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In the forest for avalanches: spring safari in the suburbs
May 1, 2022 by banggiaxemoi.com
The primrose season is in full swing. And these are not just avalanches: anemone, pneumonia, raspberry – they grow despite the cold, in advance in the hope of a quick warm-up. Where to look for them? There are many beautiful forests around Moscow, where it is wonderful to meet in the spring.
The scientific name of true snow is galanthus. This is an ephemeral plant: the white flowers appear suddenly and disappear quickly until next spring. The search for elusive flowers is a gamble. The Scots call it gallantophilia – with the light hand of gardener Edward Bowles, who addressed his friend with the letters "dear gallantophile".
In fact, in the wild, blueberries are rare: in the middle lane they are garden plants. But in the forests near Moscow there are many other primroses: blueberry, copse, anemone, corydalis, lungwort, coltsfoot. The season of our ephemeral is not so ephemeral: unlike the blueberries, which already come down in March, these flowers can be found until the end of May. If you are not in a hurry, like a stepmother in the fairy tale "Twelve Months", but you go for avalanches in season, their search turns into a safari that confirms life.
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Each primrose has its own superpower
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Galanthous improves memory, because it contains galantamine. It is added to medicines for Alzheimer's disease.
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Lungwort changes color: at first it is pink and then it turns purple. This is a good honey plant, used in teas and salads.
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Korydalis in medicine it is used as a sedative: it contains sanguinarine, the active ingredient of some medicines.
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Spring Adonis can live up to 150 years.
Valley of the Seven Springs
Dozens of streams descend to Protva forming waterfalls from small waterfalls. The largest are five meters high. To see them in full height, you have to climb steep wet slopes: bring waterproof shoes! The terraces are overgrown with bright green moss – spring comes in stark contrast to last year's grass. The mixed forest here is quite light, so you can find different primroses: corydalis, lungwort, anemone meadows. You can look for them by stopping between streams and at the same time listening to frog concerts: the spawning is only at the beginning of May, on the coast of Protva there is a lot of frog caviar.
The village of Zolotkovo is accessible from Mozhaisk or Vereya. Park on Rechnoy Lane and walk down to Protva. The road passes through the water protection zone, after the water meadow you will be in the forest – and immediately you will hear the first streams.
110 km from MKAD along the Minsk highway
Pine forest in dunes
A piece of Karelia an hour and a half drive from Moscow: a transparent pine forest is full of light and audible bird trills, fragrant air soaked with pine needles. The landscape is hilly – under a soft moss carpet, the dunes themselves are hidden. The sand is exposed near the river Nerskaya, which is loved by kayaks: the pines cling graphically to the steep banks. You are less likely to find lungs or vertebrae, but at the edge of the forest there are shrapnel. And you can also see how the blueberries and berries bloom.
Natural ReserveIn the shelters are protected certain species of plants and animals and in the shelters nature is protected from any human influence. consists of three sections, separated by the Egoryevskoye highway and the road to their village. Tsiurupi. Comfortable parking is available on the Nerskaya River side.
70 km from the Moscow ring road along the highway Egoryevskoye
Dubrovitsky Forest
The majestic baroque church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the confluence of the Desna and Pakhra rivers attracts hundreds of tourists to Dubrovitsy every day. But few continue to travel to the surrounding area, but in vain – after all, there are beautiful forests around.
Dubrovitsky forest has the status of a reserve: in confirmation of the place name, oaks grow here – scattered with birches, maples, lindens, elms, pines and firs. This means that we are more likely to see oak anemones, oak roses and many other spring preachers. And on the other side of Pahra, on the side of the village of Erino, there is another mixed forest on a high steep bank. There are many surprises in the forest: a bicycle park, caves, rocks, a fountain and a house with goats and a pig.
Dubrovitsky and Erino forests are located on different banks of the river. It is faster to get to Dubrovits along the Kaluga motorway, to Erin – along the Warsaw motorway. Between them you can pass through Armazovo or Podolsk, and in summer with dry weather it is very likely to cross the river.
Erino: 21 km from the Moscow ring road along the Varshavskoye highway
Dubrovitsky Forest: 40 km from MKAD along the Kaluga National Road
Wild primroses can also be found in the forests of Moscow: Bitsevsky and Aleshkinsky, Meshchersky Park and Losiny Ostrov National Park, Pokrovsky-Streshnevo, Kuskovo, Neskuchny Garden. The main thing is to tune in to a little miracle.
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Muffaletta Sandwich
By Dana Logsdon
The muffaletta is one of New Orleans' most iconic and identifiable dishes. Made on large rounds of sesame bread and layered with olive salad, genoa salami, ham, mortadella, provolone and Swiss cheese, the muffaletta is clearly Italian in spirit and yet no such sandwich exists in Italy. Instead, it is the creation of Sicilian immigrants who arrived en masse to the Port of New Orleans from the Port of Palermo in the late 1800's and early 1900's. These new inhabitants brought with them strong customs and recipes that were joined with already vibrant local food traditions and ingredients.
Most of these immigrants settled in and quickly set up shop close to the busy French Market. This densely populated and thriving section of the lower French Quarter was referred to as "Little Palermo" and the "Italian Sector," and was home to a multitude of small shops and businesses. These included several Sicilian bread bakers, who baked a traditional Sicilian loaf called the "muffuletto." These early bread bakers often sold their wares on the street, yelling "muffuletto, caldo, caldo." Bakers also sold their loaves wholesale to grocers.
One such grocer was Mr. Salvatore Lupo, of Central Grocery store, who is widely credited with making the first muffaletta sandwich in 1906. According to his daughter, Marie Lupo Tusa, farmers would stop in at her father's shop at lunchtime, buy a loaf of muffuletto bread, sliced cold cuts, olives and cheese, and eat them standing up or balanced on their laps. In order to make it easier for customers to hold everything, Mr. Lupo decided to put all the ingredients together on a sandwich. The sandwich was not called by the name "muffaletta" at first, but eventually, the name of the bread carried over to the name of the sandwich.
Today, the traditional Sicilian bread bakeries have virtually disappeared; the sandwich that took its name from the round loaf remains as a testimony to an amazing one hundred year survival of a New Orleans born and "bread" tradition.
1938 Ad: No mention of the Muffuletta in this mid-1900s newspaper ad. Courtesy of the Times-Picayune Archive
French Market, circa early 1900s: By the late 1800s, an influx of Italians had led New Orleanians to rename "French Town" "Little Palermo." Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
Milk Wagon, circa early 1900s: Delivery wagons on Decatur Street. Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
Sunrise Bakery Ad: Wholesale bakery chain produced their version of the Muffuletta loaf by the mid-1900s. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune Archive
Suburban Restaurant features the Muffuletta, 1971: By the late 1900s, the muffuletta had become the second favorite sandwich for New Orleanians, and it was now available well beyond the French Quarter. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune Archive
923 Decatur Street, New Orleans, LA
Dana Logsdon, "Muffaletta Sandwich," New Orleans Historical, accessed July 19, 2019, https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/505.
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Increasingly, patients are complaining about physicians with poor bedside manners. This leads to an erosion of trust – the foundation of establishing and maintaining a positive doctor/patient relationship.
We all recognize this type of physician – they always seem rushed, don't provide a proper greeting, may not know our name, interrupt us every 18 seconds, hardly listen and talk-down to us on the rare occasions they aren't focused on their EHR.
These doctors, like others, may be great clinicians but that is only one key to being a great physician. The other key is having an equally great bedside manner, also known as "clinical empathy".
Clinical empathy simply means being able to understand a patient's circumstances and demonstrating a sincere interest in helping them. In other words, standing in their shoes. Would your patients rate clinical empathy as highly as your clinical acumen?
Ask yourself, when a patient comes in for an office visit, whose agenda is it – yours or theirs? Are you in the moment with them, actively listening to their issues and concerns or; are you distracted by your tablet, running behind, callbacks, etc.?
Why is clinical empathy important? Although the reasons are many, there is proof that a solid relationship between a doctor and a patient has a direct impact on patient outcomes such as asthma, obesity, diabetes, pulmonary infections, hypertension, and even osteoarthritis pain.
Additionally, when a doctor takes the time to actively listen to a patient's concerns, the patient will feel more comfortable sharing sensitive personal information they wouldn't normally share with a doctor who they don't feel a connection with (in other words, don't completely trust). The patient will also be more willing to ask tough questions. Ultimately, this all leads to a productive dialogue between the patient and the doctor.
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The conference room is located on the lower level. The room contains a podium, projector and screen. Room reservation fees: - The conference room use fee for individuals who do not reside in and non-profit organizations and business entities which are not located in Evergreen Park is $50 and must be submitted with the application. - Individuals who do not reside in Evergreen Park and not-for-profit organizations and business entities which are not located in Evergreen Park must pay $100 total, which includes use of the conference room and audiovisual equipment. The fee must be submitted with the application.
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package templates.lang.common;
import cml.language.features.TempConcept;
import cml.language.generated.Association;
import cml.language.generated.NamedElement;
import cml.language.generated.Property;
import cml.language.generated.Type;
import com.google.common.io.Resources;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
import org.stringtemplate.v4.ST;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.Collection;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static junit.framework.TestCase.assertEquals;
import static junit.framework.TestCase.assertNotNull;
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public abstract class LangTest extends TemplateTest
{
private static final Charset OUTPUT_FILE_ENCODING = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
private static final String EXPECTED_OUTPUT_PATH = "/%s/%s/%s/%s";
private static final String LANG_GROUP_PATH = "lang/%s";
private static final String TEMPLATES_LANG = "templates/lang";
@Parameters
public static Collection<String> targetLanguageExtension()
{
return asList("java", "py");
}
private final String targetLanguageExtension;
LangTest(String targetLanguageExtension)
{
this.targetLanguageExtension = targetLanguageExtension;
}
protected abstract String getExpectedOutputPath();
private String getTargetLanguageExtension()
{
return targetLanguageExtension;
}
@Override
protected String getTemplatePath()
{
return format(LANG_GROUP_PATH, targetLanguageExtension);
}
void testAssociationClass(Association association, String expectedOutputPath) throws IOException
{
final String templateName = "association_class";
final ST template = getTemplate(templateName);
assertNotNull("Expected template: " + templateName, template);
template.add("association", association);
final String result = template.render();
assertThatOutputMatches(expectedOutputPath + "." + getTargetLanguageExtension(), result);
}
void testConceptClass(TempConcept concept, String expectedOutputPath) throws IOException
{
final String templateName = "class";
final ST template = getTemplate(templateName);
assertNotNull("Expected template: " + templateName, template);
template.add("concept", concept);
final String result = template.render();
assertThatOutputMatches(expectedOutputPath + "." + getTargetLanguageExtension(), result);
}
void testTemplateWithConcept(String templateName, TempConcept concept, String expectedOutputPath)
throws IOException
{
testTemplate(templateName, "concept", concept, expectedOutputPath);
}
void testTemplateWithProperty(String templateName, Property property, String expectedOutputPath)
throws IOException
{
testTemplate(templateName, "property", property, expectedOutputPath);
}
void testTemplateWithType(String templateName, Type type, String expectedOutputPath) throws IOException
{
testTemplate(templateName, "type", type, expectedOutputPath);
}
void testTemplateWithNamedElement(String templateName, NamedElement namedElement, String expectedOutputPath)
throws IOException
{
testTemplate(templateName, "named_element", namedElement, expectedOutputPath);
}
void testTemplateWithNamedElement(String templateName, Type type, String expectedOutputPath)
throws IOException
{
testTemplate(templateName, "named_element", type, expectedOutputPath);
}
void assertThatOutputMatches(String expectedOutputPath, String actualOutput) throws IOException
{
expectedOutputPath = format(
EXPECTED_OUTPUT_PATH,
TEMPLATES_LANG,
targetLanguageExtension,
getExpectedOutputPath(),
expectedOutputPath);
final URL expectedOutputResource = getClass().getResource(expectedOutputPath);
assertNotNull("Expected output resource must exist: " + expectedOutputPath, expectedOutputResource);
final String expectedOutput = Resources.toString(expectedOutputResource, OUTPUT_FILE_ENCODING);
assertEquals(expectedOutputPath, expectedOutput, actualOutput);
}
private void testTemplate(String templateName, String paramName, Object paramValue, String expectedOutputPath)
throws IOException
{
if (!getExpectedOutputPath().endsWith(templateName))
{
expectedOutputPath = templateName + File.separator + expectedOutputPath;
}
final ST template = getTemplate(templateName);
assertNotNull("Expected template: " + templateName, template);
template.add(paramName, paramValue);
final String result = template.render();
assertThatOutputMatches(expectedOutputPath, result);
}
}
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The four most common types of chokes are listed below.
This choke is very tight and keeps the pellets close together. Used for longer distance shots, from 35-45 yards.
This choke is tight, but not as tight as the Full choke. Used for medium-range hunting, from 25-35 yards.
This choke is not very tight at all. Used for close-range hunting, from 20-30 yards.
This is no choke at all. Used for very close-range hunting, from 15-25 yards. Also used for shotgun slugs.
Make sure that the choke on your shotgun is suitable for the game animals, waterfowl, or upland bird species that you are hunting. Also, be sure that your barrel and choke are suitable for using non-toxic shot if you are hunting where non-toxic shot is required. Check with the manufacturer or a qualified gunsmith if you have questions. | {
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The Baby may refer to:
The Baby (song), 2002 single by Blake Shelton
The Baby (film), 1973 American psychological thriller film directed by Ted Post
The Baby (TV series), 2022 British horror comedy limited series
The Baby (Samia album), 2020 album by Samia
See also
The Babys, 1970s British band
The Babies, American band
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I think part of the problem is a shift in the way we view work. In the medieval days, we associated our names by the work we do, such as Smith, Baker, and so on. Our identity was based on the work we did.
Then something happened. In the mid 1800s with the industrial revolution, we began to work for "the man". No longer were we bakers and smiths, but we "worked at the factory" or we were "Ford guys". Pensions kept us working at the same place for years. My father worked 50 years at the factory before he retired. That was common back then.
In 1946, starting in large part to William Russell Kelly, our identity changed again. His Kelly Services started a new brand of temporary services where a Kelly employee would provide a job function for different clients.
With the introduction of temporary staffing, workers started to identify themselves with the work they do again. Temporary staffing exploded in the late 1900s and early 2000s to the point where, now, temporary staffing (including traditional temporary, freelancing and "gig economy") is becoming a permanent fixture in the way we hire.
Then, enter the Millennial mindset. I read an article that the average Millennial worker tenure is 2 years. If that is true (and the above graphic seems to somewhat validate my assumption- Google has one of the youngest work forces of the Fortune 500 companies and one of the lowest tenures), then tech industry tenure is likely to continue to decrease as more Millennials and the upcoming Gen Z enter the workforce.
Both of these workforce demographics are far more likely to go from company to company than Boomers are, who are exiting the workforce (except me, of course).
Either way, I believe that you will see more of these demographics identify themselves by the work they do (I'm a UI/UX girl, or SQL developer) than they are by the company they work for.
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A team captain as a senior, he holds school records for tackles in a game (25), season (197) and career (344). Angerer earned first team all-state honors as a senior and junior.
This would prove advantegous when the third of the 121 starters, Leanid Karneyenka, with no World Cup starts and a previous best of 16th from the World Junior Championships, won silver, Belarus' first medal at the World Championships. Angerer, the World Cup leader, earned his second medal at the championships with a bronze. Berger is the first person to win medals in both the biathlon and nordic skiing world championships in the same year.
They did not resume the climb until the following day, when, during a break, the party was seen descending, but the climbers could be seen only intermittently from the ground. The group had no choice but to retreat, since Angerer had suffered serious injuries from falling rock. The party became stuck on the face when they could not recross the difficult Hinterstoisser Traverse, from which they had taken the rope they had first used to climb it.
On the second day the party was bombarded by rockfall, a notorious problem on the North Face route. Angerer was hit just below the shoulder blade and injured though it is said that he tried to continue climbing. He certainly did not call for a retreat at the time.
Although he had strong Nazi connections, Angerer held no official position within the Nazi state. Degenerate art was a term used by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe any art that did not fit with their precepts of what art should be.
Northug, seventh at the 42.5 km mark, would win his third gold medal at the championships and fourth overall. It was Vylegzhanin's first world championship medal and Angerer's sixth career medal. The top 19 finishers all competed the course in under two hours while the top 22 finishers were separated by no more than 26 seconds at the finish.
After the season, Nadine was loaned to the Brisbane Roar with plans to return to Portland for the start of the 2015 season. Angerer made her international debut for Germany against the Netherlands in August 1996. However, after five matches in quick succession she was only used sporadically thereafter.
After four nights exposed to the elements, one of his hands and his arm was completely frozen. Kurz hauled himself back to the mountain face after cutting loose Angerer below him. The guides were not able to pass an unclimbable overhang that separated them from Kurz but they managed to get a rope long enough to reach them to Kurz by tying two ropes together.
Pundits credited Angerer's win with a strong door-to-door campaign which began in March of that year. Milosch was criticized for making statements against the minimum wage.
Prior to serving as State Representative, Angerer was the Communications Director for the Dundee Community Schools, where she successfully worked with a coalition of parents, teachers, and administrators to pass a millage expanding the size of Dundee High School. As a legislator, Representative Angerer was noted to author legislation brought to her by residents of her district. Two such examples include her legislation to fix problems with railroad crossing inspections and to expand the Michigan Promise Grant program.
Forewarned of a German art raid, local Jewish art historian Bernard Berenson had already gone into hiding, awaiting the Allied liberation of Italy, and collections had hidden their best items behind false walls. Angerer was interrogated by the Allies after the end of the Second World War.
He is put up by his Uncle Ferdinand (Karl Hellmer), who works as a butler for Direktor Wiesinger (Moser in rather an unusual role), the owner of a record company. In the course of the action Angerer is mistaken for several other people, in particular Prince Alba. However, he only has eyes for Wiesinger's daughter, Dore (Susi Lanner).
In her five minute substitute appearance she almost scored but was denied by German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer.
Angerer bested Milosch in the general election, outspending him nearly three-to-one. Again, Angerer was unchallenged in the Democratic primary.
They did not resume climbing until the following day, when, during a break in the clouds, the party was observed descending. Later, it would be learned that the group had no choice but to retreat, since Angerer had suffered more serious injuries from the falling rock than at first thought. The party became stuck on the face though when they could not recross the very technical and difficult Hinterstoisser Traverse, from which they had pulled the rope during their ascent.
The 3rd women's world championships were held in Falun, Sweden. Peter Angerer, West Germany, was stripped of silver due to use of a forbidden substance. The West German team was stripped of bronze due to Peter Angerer's use of a forbidden substance.
He started the season backing Gary Brackett at MLB. Angerer made his first career start during week 6 against Washington Redskins in place of an injured Brackett. Angerer had an impressive game with 11 tackles, a sack and 2 passes defended.
Angerer won twice at the Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon competition with wins in the 20 km individual in 1984 and 1985. At the 1986 World Championships, Angerer finished second in the individual and came third with the relay team. Subsequently Angerer tested positive for a doping offence that turned out to be the result of a flu remedy.
Peter Angerer, West Germany, was stripped of silver due to use of a forbidden substance. The West German team was stripped of bronze due to Peter Angerer's use of a forbidden substance.
Teichmann beat Angerer in a dash to the finish, while Piller Cottrer settled for bronze. Teichmann and Angerer are the first Germans to win gold and silver at the same distance in the cross-country portion of the World Championships. March 4, 2007 at the Shirahatayama cross-country course.
How Angerer gets used
Nadine Angerer
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TPWD Looking to Sell Part of Palo Duro Canyon's Fortress Cliff Ranch
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department got the go-ahead today from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission to provide public notice of the pending sale of 2,014 acres of the state-owned Fortress Cliff Ranch overlooking Palo Duro Canyon.
A key part of the purchase agreement for the property is the inclusion of a conservation easement to be held in perpetuity by TPWD that prevents any development near the rim and limits subdividing the property in the future into only two tracts. The property to be sold includes a modern ranch house, roughly 1,000 acres of grassland and mixed brush, a side canyon and a quarter mile of the canyon rim.
TPWD, working with the Trust for Public Land, acquired the valuable ranchland overlooking the renowned 29,000-acre park in a dual transaction straddling 2008-2009. The acquisition was made primarily to protect the views from the park of seven miles of cliffs targeted for possible development that would have allowed small, canyon-front home lots.
"With the sale of much of the Fortress Cliff property, the agency is staying true to its original stated intent and plan to protect the cliffs and the park's view shed, and make the best use of our limited funds by selling the ranch house and uplands at some future date," said Carter Smith, TPWD executive director. "A perpetual conservation easement will ensure the land's important wildlife conservation values are permanently protected. We will use the proceeds from this sale to acquire state park property elsewhere in Texas, where we have many high-priority needs."
TPWD staff told the commission that a purchase offer has been presented with terms and conditions believed to be in the best interest of TPWD.
TPWD used computer modeling and site visits to map views from the park, evaluate recreational access and outline public use options to come up with the December 2010 property listing. After the sale, TPWD will retain ownership of roughly 850 acres of the original 2,912-acre Fortress Cliff Ranch lands as part of Palo Duro Canyon State Park that will be integrated into existing resource management and public use plans.
"A plan for public use has not been developed yet, but it is anticipated that the Fortress Cliffs property we retain will allow park visitors to be able some day to access the rim via a hiking trail to enjoy the spectacular views of the canyon below," Smith said.
The Fortress Cliffs property, formerly Tub Springs Ranch, is located about 15 miles southeast of Amarillo in Randall and Armstrong counties. Palo Duro Canyon State Park is located about 12 miles east of Canyon on State Highway 217. For more information, contact the park at (806) 488-2227.
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Kathua case will be taken to logical end very soon: Altaf Bukhari
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Srinagar: Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday said that the investigations into Kathua case is being investigated in a very professional manner and would be brought to its logical end very soon.
"This unfortunate incident is being treated purely on humanitarian grounds and I don't think there is any scope for playing politics on this issue," Bukhari said on the sidelines of a function organized by department of education at Kothibagh Higher Secondary School here.
The Minister for Education observed that J&K police is a professional force and the case has already been handed over to the Crime Branch which is doing a thorough investigation into the matter through its Special Investigation Team headed by an officer of the rank of Superintendent of Police.
"It was a shameful and most unfortunate incident. People should avoid giving any political and religious colour to such unfortunate incidents and I assure you that there will be no compromise on any angle of the investigations and the culprits would be brought to book without any fail," he remarked.
Bukhari said that he is the custodian of the children in the State and nobody should play politics on such unfortunate issues. "Our Chief Minister has already handed over the matter to the Crime Branch which is a professional wing of the police department. I am told that the investigations are moving very fast and very soon the things would get clear."
Asked about the demands of handing over the case to Central Bureau of Investigations, Bukhari emphasized, that the Crime Branch is already seized of the matter and would conclude the investigations in a time bound manner without any fail. "I don't think so as the case has already under investigations by the Crime Branch. I assure you on behalf of the government that we will not fail to deliver justice in this matter," he told the reporters.
Bukhari, however, appealed people not to give the incident a political or religious colour and as culprits responsible for the un¬fortunate rape and murder case of the minor would not be spared and brought to book. (KNS)
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Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn), who will be Huntington's guest this evening, will be accompanied here from Washington by Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WVa) and Representative Ken Hechler of the fourth West Virginia district if Byrd and Hechler are able to leave the nation's capitol.
William A. Beckett, president of the West Virginia Young Democratic Clubs, said he was advised this morning by Robert W. Barrie, executive secretary of the Humphrey for President office in Washington, that Senator Byrd and Representative Hechler will accompany Senator Humphrey if congressional business permits.
Barrie also will be in the Humphrey party. The Minnesota lawmaker and his party will leave National Airport in Washington at 4 p. m. in a Beechcraft private plane. Ordinarily the flight to Huntington from Washington takes an hour and a halft [sic].
The Huntington reception committee, headed by Beckett and by Robert H. Burford, chairman of the Cabell County Democratic Executive Committee, plans to be at Tri-State Airport to greet the Humphrey group at 5:30 p. m.
Burford said a press, radio and TV conference will be held at the hotel Frederick before the dinner hour tonight if time permits. Otherwise, a conference will be held tomorrow morning. The senator plans to remain overnight in Huntington and will depart at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow for Pittsburgh.
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AO-92 Commissioning Update: Transponder and Camera Tested, Further Camera Tests Planned
January 13, 2018 January 13, 2018 by Paul Stoetzer
The first thirty-six hours of AO-92's life in orbit have seen a flurry of activity as the AMSAT Engineering and Operations teams walk through an extensive checklist of tests required to check the functionality of the satellite's on-board systems.
The first crucial test came on the initial pass over AMSAT command stations hours after launch. Around 15:00 UTC on January 12, 2018, AMSAT command stations successfully issued the first command to the satellite, changing it from the initial Beacon Mode to Safe Mode. The switch to Safe Mode allowed the collection of min and max data for the various telemetry values.
As AMSAT Engineering continued to evaluate the data received, the decision was made to test the U/v FM transponder briefly on the evening passes over North America. At approximately 01:30 UTC on January 13, 2018, the satellite was commanded to Transponder Mode for the first time. Initial tests show the transponder functions very well. One testing station was able to access the satellite using 5 watts from an HT to a whip antenna from inside his house at approximately ten degrees of elevation. AMSAT Engineering reminds all amateur radio operators that, although the satellite may be found in Transponder Mode at times during the commissioning process, it is essential to not transmit to the satellite before it is opened for general use as you may interfere with various tests that need to be performed.
The first image received from the Virginia Tech camera.
With the transponder successfully tested and telemetry values continuing to be nominal, attention turned to the Virginia Tech camera. At about 14:30 UTC, the camera was turned on and quickly returned it's first image of Earth. On the next pass over North America, the camera was again turned on and several images flowed into AMSAT servers. Images captured and uploaded can be found at http://www.amsat.org/tlm/fox1d/images/
AMSAT plans further testing of the Virginia Tech camera during the early hours of January 14, 2018 (UTC). If not shut off by a command station, the camera remains active for a period of 40 minutes following activation, so the active period may vary depending on when the camera is activated.
January 14, 2018 Camera On Times (Approximate)
The first image of Earth received from the Virginia Tech camera.
01:12 UTC – 01:52 UTC
This should provide an opportunity for stations in areas including Russia, China, and Japan to receive pictures from the Virginia Tech camera. Please be sure that FoxTelem's source is set to "Auto" so you will be able to receive either high-speed frames carrying camera payloads or data under voice (DUV) frames when the satellite is in Safe Mode or Transponder Mode. If using an external audio source for FoxTelem, be sure you are set for a minimum bandwidth of 20 kHz to receive the high-speed data.
Thank you to all stations who have uploaded telemetry data to AMSAT servers. As of 18:00 UTC on January 13, 2018, a total of 90 unique stations have contributed telemetry from AO-92. Continued collection of telemetry data is essential to the commissioning process. AMSAT greatly appreciates the participation of the amateur radio community in collecting telemetry for the Fox-1 satellites.
A view of the curvature of the Earth seen from the Virginia Tech camera. At the top of the image in the middle of the frame, you can see the tip of the satellite's receive antenna and a piece of the line that held the antenna down prior to deployment.
Categories AMSAT News, Fox, New Satellites
Fox-1D Launched, Designated AMSAT-OSCAR 92
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Recreating supernova reaction yields new insights for fusion energy
by Jim Lynch, University of Michigan
We study exploding stars in our quest to make reliable fusion energy a reality, but chances are we've been thinking about supernovae wrong.
New research led by the University of Michigan shows that heat plays a significant role in the way materials mix during fusion reactions—a factor that has, to this point, been left out of the discussion. It's a finding that should help focus future studies of how supernovae work and what we can learn from them.
Power from fusion, cleaner and more efficient energy than what we currently derive from fission, is the goal. Nuclear fusion reactions are constantly under way in the cores of stars, making them a natural research subject for scientists trying to recreate them for energy production on Earth.
It's impossible to get a peek inside those far away stars, so scientists take a look at the next best things: supernovae and small-scale fusion reactions created in the lab. And a key component of fusion reactions they study is Rayleigh-Taylor mixing, which occurs during both.
When a supernova occurs, it flings matter outward, mixing different plasmas with various elements that include iron, carbon helium and hydrogen. Rayleigh-Taylor instability, the dynamic of mixing liquids gases or plasmas with different densities, leads to the creation of supernova remnants.
U-M scientists believe our methods of modeling the mixing that occurs in supernovae have historically been incomplete. Energy fluxes causing heating have a significant impact on the mixing that occurs. Yet heat is not a consideration in astrophysical modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor.
"Rayleigh-Taylor has been studied for over 100 years," said Carolyn Kuranz, director of U-M's Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysical Research and an associate research scientist of climate and space sciences and engineering. "But the effects of these high energy fluxes, these mechanisms that cause heating, have never been studied."
The researchers found that increased energy fluxes and their resulting heating reduces the amount of mixing that occurs—decreasing the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. In addition to Kuranz, the scientific team includes physicists Hye-Sook Park and Channing Huntington of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
"These heating mechanisms reduce mixing and can have a dramatic effect on the evolution of a supernova," Kuranz said. "In our experiment, we found that mixing was reduced by 30 percent and that reduction could continue to increase over time."
To observe the impact of heat during fusion, researchers turned to the world's largest laser in Livermore, Calif. Opened in 2009, the National Ignition Facility uses heat and lasers to create a fusion reaction—creating conditions similar to those seen in a supernova remnant.
"Rayleigh-Taylor is theorized to occur in all Type II supernovae and there is evidence that these stars are turning themselves 'inside out' when they explode," Kuranz said. "These experiments help us learn what's going on inside."
The ignition facility allowed researchers to factor in the heat effect for the first time.
Observations from these controlled nuclear fusion reactions have wide applications for nuclear technology. In particular, they offer a roadmap toward maximizing the efficiency of energy production.
"Right now, all of our nuclear plants are fission plants," Kuranz said. "But fusion tends to be more efficient and yield less nuclear waste. Instead of using plutonium or uranium, as with fission, fusion can be generated using lighter elements such as hydrogen isotopes. So we have a nearly unlimited source of fuel on Earth."
A study on the research, "How high energy fluxes may affect Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth in young supernova remnants," is published in Nature Communications. The research was funded by the Department of Energy.
Laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion with record efficiency
More information: C. C. Kuranz et al. How high energy fluxes may affect Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth in young supernova remnants, Nature Communications (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03548-7
Provided by University of Michigan
Citation: Recreating supernova reaction yields new insights for fusion energy (2018, April 26) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-04-recreating-supernova-reaction-yields-insights.html
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Backstory: Darren Gruner
May 15, 2018 - By Abby Hart
Darren Gruner
Totalscape Design
Pompano Beach, Fla.
Turf's Up Radio
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Cherry Hill High School West
Cherry Hill, N.J.
Burlington County Community College
Mount Laurel, N.J.
"I took pre-med in college, paying my own way through school with the money I was making doing what I truly loved: landscaping. I soon realized that I would be happier staying true to who I am, and that I should follow my own dream, not the dream my parents had for me."
Kentucky Blue
Lindenwold, N.J.
"I taught myself to be better in business throughout the years."
Dolcis Shoes
N.J., Pa., and Del.
"I lived in the Northeast, and as a result, Kentucky Blue was seasonal, so I had to take on other work during the off-season. I learned a lot about how to manage a business, manage people and how to deal with all kinds of different customers."
West Palm Beach. Fla.
"I want to make sure that our station touches everybody who loves the outdoors, no matter what it is, and I wanted to be able to talk in layman's terms."
"When you look out your back window, I want that to be a picture of your dream. I want to create a path for you to walk through that picture and be in that picture."
(With daughter Jessica, 23, and son Michael, 18): "Jessica 'The Juice' will graduate in a year with her bachelor's degree in education—she wants to teach early childhood development. She's a great role model, and I'm so proud of her. Michael is graduating high school this year and has accepted a football scholarship to Ursinus College. He's got
a great head on his shoulders."
"I love being on the water, being outside and enjoying warm weather. That's why I moved to South Florida."
"As the host of Turf's Up Radio, I got to interview pro golfer Guy Burrows, Shannon Easter, director of golf maintenance at Broken Sound Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., and Russ Britton, CEO of Mirimichi Green at the PGA Allianz Championship last season."
"I keep the phrase 'I can't' out of my vocabulary."
"Even when I was a kid, I helped my competitors. I always shared my industry knowledge, and I knew that while I was teaching other people, it would help me to be better in my own business and I loved that. It's a big reason why I started Turf's Up Radio."
"Don't let others define who you are."
"Strive to be a leader in your industry."
"Be focused and driven and never give up."
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About the Author: Abby Hart
Abby Hart is the former senior editor of Landscape Management. A native Clevelander, she spent 10 years in Chicago, where she was operations manager of a global hospitality consultancy. She also worked as managing editor of Illumine, a health and wellness magazine; and a marketing specialist for B2B publications. Abby has a degree in journalism from Boston University's College of Communication. | {
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Some companies have people that have been around the Web for a long time. Trusted people who have seen a lot and gained from all the experiences.
We go back on the Web a long way, too. In fact, we go back to when the Web started, with a number of "we were there" moments along the way. One of the first 200 publicly listed websites in 1993, first Python meetup, bootstrapping board for the PSF and Plone Foundation, co-founder of Zope during $14M in VC funding, creator of the content framework for Zope, head of the Zope Foundation, creator of Pyramid...a few things here and there.
The timeline below is a tour of the decades and highlights.
Sep 2, 1993, Paul's first archived appearance on the Internet. Asking a question about compiling a web browser and getting a response from Marc Andreesen.
First www-talk posting. Oct 1993, Paul's first discussion about running the www.navy.mil web server.
Paul's www.navy.mil server first announced in November 1993. It appeared on the CERN listing of public websites, anecdotally in the first few hundred that appeared.
www.navy.mil listed in NCSA What's New, July 1994. This page appeared in the Help menu of NCSA Mosaic.
Paul ran the WWW session at the first Python workshop, held at NIST.
Paul's Funding The Perfect Beast presentation first given at a VC conference in downtown San Francisco, as well as at the WWW8 conference, Atlanta Linux Showcase, and other conferences. LWN said: Perhaps one of the best sessions of the show was Paul Everitt's talk entitled Funding the perfect beast: open source, venture capital, and intellectual property.
Subject of O'Reilly Network inaugural edition's first ever interview. O'Reilly later became an investor.
Tres arrives at Digital Creations, makes first release of CMF, the content framework used by Plone.
Paul joined the board of Open Source Content Management Systems out of Zurich and helped organize OSCOM Berkeley conference.
Paul, Tres, and Chris attend, Paul gives "Product or Platform" talk.
Paul serves on the Plone Foundation bootstrapping board, then acts as first executive director.
The first non-alpha release of Supervisor, Chris' widely-used software for process management.
Paul is elected to PF board and serves as president.
Tres gets Chris and Paul together in Fredericksburg, visits lawyer, founds Agendaless Consulting.
Tres was elected by the board to fill a newly-created "contriibutor" seat.
0.1 release of repoze.bfg, the project which is later merged with Pylons to form Pyramid.
Agendaless implements KARL atop Pyramid. KARL is a large-scale extranet / knowledge-management system for NGOs.
See the podcast in which Chris talks about the merger with lead Pylons framework developer, Ben Bangert.
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PCAOB teams with German audit regulator
The PCAOB has added an audit regulator from a prominent member of the European Union to its cooperative arrangement list.
On Friday, the PCAOB announced that it has entered an arrangement with the German Auditor Oversight Commission (AOC) to oversee audit firms subject to the regulatory jurisdictions of both regulators.
The arrangement takes effect immediately and will provide a framework for conducting joint inspections. It also contains provisions governing the exchange of confidential information between the PCAOB and the German AOC and includes an agreement on data protection.
Previously, the PCAOB entered into cooperative arrangements with regulators in two other European Union member states, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, as well as in Switzerland and Norway and in several countries outside Europe.
PCAOB Director of International Affairs Bruce Wilson said in a statement that the German AOC has been a strong advocate for cross-border audit cooperation, and that the PCAOB is pleased to have found a solution for joint inspections that satisfies Germany's data-protection laws.
"This agreement with the German audit regulator is a very significant step forward in our pursuit to improve audit quality and protect investors," PCAOB Chairman James Doty said in a statement. "We are pleased with our continuing progress in overcoming obstacles to conducting inspections in European Union member states."
More than 900 audit firms registered with the PCAOB are located outside the United States; 36 are located in Germany. | {
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Above pic shows panel installed on full size FLAT plate.
These plates attach over the existing panel located above your glove box door. Strips of special double tape are already installed on the back of the panels. Just peel off the backing and position in place. They are made in the same gloss black material as the original panels of your main dashboard.. The logos are actually engraved from the back of the panel and then hand painted. The front surface is totally smooth! The plates can be made with your choice of the pictured logos or custom engraved as well.
THESE GLOVEBOX PLATES ARE FOR GOING OVER THE STOCK FLAT PANELS COMMONLY FOUND IN THE 84-7 GRAND NATIONALS. IF YOU HAVE A STOCK PLATE THAT IS SUNKEN AND HAS A LARGER RAISED BORDER AROUND THE PERIMETER WE WILL NEED TO KNOW THAT UP FRONT SO WE CAN MAKE THE PROPER ONE FOR YOU! THOSE TYPE OF PANELS ARE USUALLY ON PLAIN REGALS OR LIMITEDS. BELOW IS A STOCK EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE MEAN BY A SUNKEN PLATE. THE PLATE FITS INSIDE THE BORDER AND MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 1.75" X 14".
Please don't make the mistake a recent customer did. He checked the wrong size glovebox plate. Double check your size and style of existing plate to be sure you receive the correct size. If any custom engraving is done and you ordered the incorrect one we can not accept a return as we will not be able to re-sell it.
Order the black gloss style plates from this order box! Be sure to pick the correct logo from the drop down menu below.
LET US KNOW WHICH STOCK GLOVEBOX PLATE YOU HAVE! NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ORDER THE WRONG SIZE.
These simulated aluminum plates will match the other overlays we make for the dashboard, radio area and the console. Totally change the look of your interior! The stock panel is pictured at the top of the picture below. The overlays cover that surface.
These black anodized aluminum and SIMULATED aluminum panels compliment our dashboard kits and look great! These differ from the above Gloss Black panels as the black anodized finish is flatter in appearance and has the engraving done from the front.
The simulated aluminum has the appearance of aluminum but is a plastic material. Engraving is from the front and will be black. Compliments our simulated aluminum console and dash kits to totally change the appearance of your interior.
Available in Simulated Aluminum or Black Anodized aluminum finish.
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Constituency question: South Yarra Station Upgrade
Mr HIBBINS (Prahran): My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. I ask: what is the latest information on the South Yarra station upgrade and master plan project? I ask because since the announcement of $12.3 million to upgrade South Yarra station and to plan for a longer term master plan there has been a real lack of information and consultation with the community. Residents would like to know: when will the works start? When will they be complete? What will be the design of the tram stop and extended foyer? When will there be an opportunity for the public to have their say on the upgrade and the long-term master plan to make sure that South Yarra station gets the upgrades it needs? Luckily for the minister I did conduct a survey in 2017. While it did indicate that, yes, South Yarra station needed an expanded front foyer and tram super-stop, commuters also wanted a second entrance and a platform overpass for the Forrest Hill area, a safer pedestrian crossing at Yarra Street and to make sure that the heritage character is maintained.
Answer - I thank the Member for his question.
There has been extensive consultation with the community on the upgrade to South Yarra station. All local residents have received information on the plans with invitations to provide feedback, and pop-up information sessions have been held at South Yarra station.
Works on the improved tram stop and station entrance will commence this year.
Hon Jacinta Allan MP
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Book Review: When Krishna Calls by Susan Oleksiw and Forensics by Val McDermid
When Krishna Calls
An Anita Ray Mystery #4
Susan Oleksiw
Five Star, August 2016
Indian American photographer Anita Ray lives at her Auntie Meena's tourist hotel in South India. She is preparing for a one woman show at a prestigious gallery and her aunt is pleased that she is not involved in solving other people's problems, for a change. When a young woman abandons her daughter inside the Hotel Delite and then flees, Anita recognizes the child as the daughter of an employee, Nisha. Soon the police come searching for Nisha, whom they want as the suspect in the stabbing death of her husband, Panju. Panju was angry about the local farmers losing their land to people who want to exploit the land, and he made enemies. Anita discovers that Panju owed debts to the unscrupulous moneylender from the family's village.
When Anita goes to take some more photographs for her show, she sets up her camera for a shot and discovers a piece of paper wrapped around the batteries and someone else's memory card inside. She doesn't recognize the photos on the card, but someone is sending her a plea for help. Anita is drawn into the search for Nisha and wants to exonerate the hotel's employee, while navigating the world of moneylenders and debts of honor.
The author does a wonderful job of capturing the rhythm of the speech and weaves references to food, clothing and customs throughout the story. The juxtaposition of the traditional India and the influence of new technology (cell phones are essential to the plot) make for a delightful journey. Readers who enjoy the mysteries of Tarquin Hall and Michael Stanley may like the Anita Ray series.
Reviewed by Susan Belsky, November 2016.
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
Grove Press, April 2016
From the publisher: The dead talk – – to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. Forensics goes behind the scenes with some of these top-level professionals and their groundbreaking research, drawing on Val McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.
Along the way, McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one's time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer, and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. It's a journey from war zones to fire scenes and autopsy suits and brings McDermid into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earlier beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.
Ms. McDermid starts the book with facts dating from eighteenth-century scientific discoveries, when the term "forensic, meaning a form of legal evidence – science, was born," to the present time. The first case, in the opening chapter, describes dates back to 2005, going on to the opening of the first crime investigation lab in 1910 in France, the founder of which wrote a landmark 7-volume textbook on which he called "criminalistics," and coined the phrase "every contact leaves a trace." The second chapter, "Fire Scene Investigation," goes back to September of 1666, then to a case in County Durham in 1844, one in Derbyshire in 1981, and on from there, covering each milestone reached. The ensuing chapters discuss at length other aspects of forensics, i.e., entomology, pathology, toxicology, fingerprinting, blood spatter and DNA, anthropology, facial reconstruction, digital forensics, forensic psychology, as well as the all-important courtrooms where all the evidence is presented, to the ends that justice is, irrevocably, done.
Not a dry recitation by any means, the author has made it very real and intense by recounting the names of victims and the circumstances of many of the cases cited. The book makes for fascinating reading, and it is recommended.
Reviewed by Gloria Feit, July 2016.
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and Base64 Can Get You Pwned!
Can Panic Now. Host Protection is (Mostly) Dead.
Description: A malicious Apache binary has been spotted on the Internet replacing legitimate Apache servers forwarding unsuspecting clients to be pointed to a Blackhole Exploit Kit.
Description: Greg MacManus, of iSIGHT Partners Labs, found a security problem in several recent versions of nginx. A stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.
Description: phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8 and 4.x before 4.0.0-rc3 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a /ex00 sequence, which is not properly handled before making a preg_replace function call within the "Replace table prefix" feature. | {
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Malte Stierngranat: the man who did what he wanted
2 years ago Robin
Locals in Sweden have a nickname for the eccentric nobleman who built himself a pyramid tomb in the middle of the south highlands:
"Mannen som gjorde vad som föll honom in".
Literally: "The man who did what he wanted."
The curious character certainly carried around a lot of names.
His name was Georg Malte Gustav August Liewen Stierngranat, and was born in 1871 on an estate called Nobynäs, outside of the small city of Aneby.
Because he was the oldest son, he was expected to stick around the manor house and take over the family farm.
But Malte, as he was known, had other plans.
As a young boy, Malte had only a grammar-school education that he had gained in the nearby city of Linköping. During his teenage and young adult years, he lived a life of privilege but his parents tended to spend more than they earned from the cash rents on their estate farms, and they sometimes had to sell off parcels of land in order to make ends meet.
Malte wanted to travel to America as a young man but lacked the cash to do so. So in the spring of 1898 he visited each of the Nobynäs tenant farms to personally collect the rent payments for the year from each of the farmers and, with cash in his pocket, he set off for America. His stated goal was to marry rich.
"I will go to America and get hold of a rich lady, it does not matter what she looks like, well it does not matter if the nose sits in the neck," he said.
He did it.
There he managed to acquire the title of "engineer", an expertise he would claim throughout his life (with little evidence that he actually studied engineering). At various times in his life, he claimed to be both a mechanical and a civil engineer but, in any case, he ended up in Indianapolis, Indiana building the city's waterworks. That same year, he worked on a similar project for the waterworks in Washington, D.C.
He eventually tired of his supposed engineering profession, and an art restoration work took him to the upper Midwest.
He settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he also found himself a rich wife, Anna Marie Vietor Dahlman. She was the daughter of Senator Anthony Dahlman, a wealthy real estate magnate, and they married in November, 1905.
She was Swedish herself, and with Marie by his side Malte talked himself into the society pages, a reputation as an expert art restorer, and even an invitation to the White House from President Roosevelt.
His next-door neighbor was none other than the recently retired General Arthur MacArthur. General MacArthur coined the phrase "On, Wisconsin" and was the father of General Douglas MacArthur of World War II. MacArthur was a close friend with President Theodore Roosevelt, and he invited Malte to join him in visits to the White House. Roosevelt, quite taken with Malte, even gave him a silver-clad walking cane that Malte carried with him throughout his life.
In 1908, Malte and his wife Marie set off for Europe on the ship RMS Caronia.
They were traveling with the "Lodge of Artists", a wealthy group of art patrons from Milwaukee. One evening on board ship, the club sponsored a dinner followed by entertainment and an art auction, with Guglielmo Marconi (you know, the guy that invented the radio) being the successful bidder on some of the art works. The same ship, the Caronia, was in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912 and sent the first ice warning to RMS Titanic using, of course, Marconi's own invention to do so!
Either way Malte and Marie traveled the world, visiting Africa, South America and Australia, and Malte continued accepting commissions to restore artwork, even working on a Rembrandt at one point.
When in 1910, Malte and Marie back to home in Sweden, together with their new baby daughter Ulrika, Malte's parents having been forced to sell Nobynäs.
Like a Swedish Downton Abbey, using his wife's fortune he was able to save some of the old estate, including the Castle Stjärne. Malte called his reclaimed home Stjärneborg – Castle of the Stars, in honor of the old castle, which he restored along with several other buildings on the property.
While his new little mansion was under construction, Malte was delighted to learn that Fifth Olympic Games was to be held in Stockholm in the summer of 1912.
As someone with significant American connections, he was named to be one of the "hosts" for the American athletes. He was to help greet the athletes as they arrived in the country, help provide for their accommodations and to generally show them a good time while they stayed in Stockholm.
For his efforts, he was rewarded with the honor of leading the American team into the stadium for the opening ceremonies.
Malte got even more eccentric the years that followed. He also created a small museum (that you can still visit today), and even a personal train station (that, unfortunately, was torn down in 1965).
Malte and Marie's marriage didn't stand the test of time, and they divorced in 1930.
He remarried and continued to create a legacy for himself throughout Sweden, but when also the second marriage ended he went back to Stjärneborg.
There he completed one final engineering feat: as over the years he became obsessed with his own death, and inspired by a visit to the Gaza pyramids of Egypt, he commissioned the construction of a burial pyramid near his property with the intention that he and his family would be interred there.
He lived for several more years, continuing in his eccentric ways and alternating between his beloved Stjärneborg and Stockholm, where eventually died in 1960 at the age of 88.
His wishes were honored and he is buried at the pyramid near Stjärneborg alongside his first wife Marie and his two sons. He instructed that his beloved Roosevelt cane remain with him in the pyramid.
And so, Malte Stierngranat carried his eccentric spirit also into the afterlife.
Until the very end, he remained a man who did what he wanted.
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A dozen drummers began beating an African rhythm. Six girls danced down the aisles of Orchestra Hall. A stream of young people followed, hoisting colorful flags. Their procession brought South Africa's flag onstage, where it joined two others representing the United States and Minnesota.
"We're not in Kansas anymore, are we?" joked the evening's host, Brian Newhouse of Classical MPR, after the drums had quieted and the applause died down.
Soon, the Minnesota Orchestra will tour South Africa — becoming the first professional U.S. orchestra to do so. But first, South Africa came to Minnesota.
Over two days at Orchestra Hall, the orchestra celebrated the 100th birthday of the late Nelson Mandela, South Africa's most famous statesman and freedom fighter, with speeches and song. Those songs ran the gamut from traditional to modern, from symphonies to protest anthems. It kicked off with Friday's flag ceremony, followed by the national anthems of both South Africa and the United States. On Saturday, the orchestra's International Day of Music offered free performances by groups including Insingizi, a powerful vocal trio from Zimbabwe; and 29:11, a gospel group of young Cape Town vocalists and instrumentalists that, in recent months, has hopped from church to church across the Twin Cities.
Saturday evening's concert paired Beethoven's beloved Ninth Symphony, including its famous choral finale, "Ode to Joy," with the world premiere of a piece the orchestra will highlight on its tour: "Harmonia Ubuntu," by South African composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen, which features a soprano singing text from Mandela's speeches and writings.
The fanfare previewed the orchestra's two-week, five-city tour in early August, which will include an Aug. 17 concert in Soweto, "the spiritual home" of the anti-apartheid struggle, as Ndodana-Breen put it. Between playing in city halls and churches, the musicians will work with and rehearse alongside young musicians, an experience they raved about during the orchestra's historic trip to Cuba in 2015.
With this tour, orchestra leaders wanted to let Minnesotans in on a bit of that magic.
"I never thought five years after my father has passed away he would be celebrated thousands of miles away in Minnesota," said Makaziwe Mandela, Mandela's eldest daughter. With a smile that echoed her father's, she described the sacrifices Mandela and his family made in fighting to end apartheid — a fight that landed Mandela in prison for 27 years.
But on this musical occasion, on the eve of an orchestral tour, she also described what music meant to her father as an activist and a man.
More broadly, music offered Mandela a vision of "a world in harmony, a world governed by empathy and compassion and love," she said.
A choir of 150, wearing an array of colorful shirts, packed the Orchestra Hall stage. Most were members of the Minnesota Chorale, which will send about 50 singers to South Africa for the second half of the orchestra's tour. But there were also singers from local church choirs and from 29:11, whose South African members offered coaching on click consonants and the complexities of a handful of African languages, including the Bantu language of Xhosa. In return, Chorale members helped everyone learn German for Saturday's performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
Brian Bogan sings tenor with the Shiloh Temple International Ministries Church Choir. In recent years, that choir has teamed up with the Minnesota Orchestra, singing as part of its "Send Me Hope" concert last year. Many of that choir's members learn music by ear, he said, rather than by reading sheet music. "Personally, I haven't read music since fifth grade," Bogan said, laughing.
So the first rehearsals were intimidating. In addition to reading music, he'd have to sing in German and a few African languages.
But he stuck it out. He worked with choral members more experienced in those other languages. He studied a cheat sheet. In the end, singing together and alongside the orchestra has been a beautiful experience, Bogan continued, full of emotion. | {
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The archaeologist"s laboratory
the analysis of archaeological data
by E. B. Banning
Published 2000 by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in New York .
Archaeology -- Methodology,
Archaeology -- Laboratory manuals
Statement E.B. Banning.
Genre Laboratory manuals.
LC Classifications CC75 .B33 2000
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Post-excavation analysis constitutes processes that are used to study archaeological materials after an excavation is completed. Since the advent of "New Archaeology" in the s, the use of scientific techniques in archaeology has grown in importance. This trend is directly reflected in the increasing application of the scientific method to post-excavation analysis. Day-to-day Archaeologists conduct field investigations, analyze artifacts, excavate sites, manage the logistics of projects at sites, write reports and recommendations, teach, conduct research, and publish the results of their research in academic journals. Archaeology is an important career because it assists us in obtaining a chronology of.
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The Alexandria Archaeology Laboratory Reference Book includes a Lexicon to provide consistent terminology when describing artifacts in the collection of the Alexandria Archaeology Museum, and an Illustrated Glossary to help defi ne the terms. These terms are used in the Alexandria Archaeology Collections Management Database.
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This book introduces archaeologists to the basics of DNA research so they can understand the powers and pitfalls of using DNA data in archaeological analysis and interpretation. By concentrating on the principles and applications of DNA specific to archaeology, the authors allow archaeologists to collect DNA samples properly and interpret the.
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Pieces of pottery, or potsherds, can survive in the soil under a variety of circumstances. Ceramic technology is considered a recent innovation and is. Anthropologists and archeologists must possess knowledge of scientific methods and data, which are often used in their research.
Critical-thinking skills. Anthropologists and archeologists must be able to draw conclusions from observations, laboratory experiments, and other methods of Entry-level education: Master's degree. The ability to use DNA evidence is revolutionizing our understanding of the past.
This book introduces archaeologists to the basics of DNA research so they can understand the powers and pitfalls of using DNA data in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
By concentrating on the principles and applications of DNA specific to archaeology, the authors allow archaeologists to collect DNA. Archaeologists find and excavate historical sites, taking extensive measures to carefully collect and transport artifacts to a laboratory.
While excavating sites, archaeologists use tools such as shovels, trowels, brushes and sifters. In a lab, an archaeologist uses specialized equipment, such as microscopes and X-ray machines, to examine the. Archaeologists staff and operate their excavations, which often involves coping with the business practices of distant countries, where customs may be quite different.
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Those in academia are expected to publish regularly. Historical Archaeology Laboratory The Historical Archaeology Research Group (HARG) was established within the Department of Archaeology in to bring together archaeologists and other researchers actively interested in the history of the last six hundred years, and to introduce the sub-discipline of historical archaeology to UCT.The Archaeological Institute of America is proud to name Jane Buikstra as the recipient of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology.
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There are many different types of Yoga, but all of them contribute to mankind's self-improvement. So, mankind has been a work in progress for thousands of years and has organized systems to constantly improve. Let's look at some Yogic principles that are often recognized as modern self-improvements.
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The parade route is changed so it can go down the street where the child lives, allowing himher to view the parade. I cant remember when i began to notice pictures of disabled veterans in regency childrens books. The child develops some illness that requires quarantine at home. Discover the best children s american civil war era history books in best sellers.
He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. She finds shelter in an old doll house, where she meets a group of tin soldiers, and this is the story of their friendship. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Discover the best children s military books in best sellers. Thousands of children are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. Discover book depositorys huge selection of childrens books online. Children of all ages are encouraged to talk about their feelings that are associated with a military deployment. Discover the best childrens american civil war era history books in best sellers.
Band of soldiers by sardindu bandhyopadhyay the first of my theme reads this month my reading theme is here, and this king in question in this one is the maratha warriorking shivaji, who ruled in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Please do not include books written for retail after a toy became popular like barbie. I enjoyed it so much that i read it as i walked to school, between. Books for military children with a deployed parent list 1 of 2. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual. Other childrens books bear out the truth of the duke of wellingtons sorrowful observation that the only thing as sad as a battle lost is a battle won. Chikwanines book looks at the drcs history and its brutal legacy of colonialism, and includes resources to find out more about child soldiers all of which chikwanine said were necessary to show that such atrocities do not happen in vacuum. Shop for children s books by age, series, author, subject and format. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at.
An index to records of the indiana soldiers and sailors children s home in the indiana state archives book annual report of the indiana soldiers and sailors children s home for the fiscal year ending. The story is about two boy soldiers who meet each other in the battlefield during the american civil war. With the help of a beautiful rocking horse called chester. Best children s books about wwii world war ii was a pivotal time in british history. The golden age of childrens book illustration and american soldiers in the great war vanessa meikle schulman the lion and the unicorn, volume 41. And there are several great books out there for military children to read, or have read to them, involving moving, deployments and their parents. The five chinese brothers won the lewis carroll shelf award in 1959. A 2020 bank street best childrens book of the year a 2020 childrens book council notable social studies book for young people over a quarter million underage british boys fought on the allied front lines of the great war, but not all of them fought on the battlefieldsome fought beneath it, as revealed in this middlegrade historical adventure about a deadly underground mission. Braving the changes when someone you love is wounded in service is an interactive book that helps children and families of wounded service members deal with the feelings, changes and challenges they face because of their loved ones injury.
Jun 30, 2014 what are the best first world war books for children. While the books imprint identifies it as having been designed in england, it also specifies that is was printed in berlin, so its certainly quite possible that the depictions of the toy soldiers recall designs of lead figures in germany, where they were also very popular childrens toys at the time, as well as those in england. Wife of wounded warrior writes childrens book to help daughters understand their dads injuries. This fun childrens book features a girl who has a great time in her grandmothers playroom after discovering some vintage toys. A former child soldier shares his story in new graphic. A childrens book about the value of family flores, sarah m. Best sellers in childrens american civil war era history books. In 2005 the government ratified the opac treaty and by 2008 the military use of children had reduced in the country, but both state armed forces and the spla continued to recruit and use them. Murphys a savage road to thunder account of the causes and first months of wwi offers a poignant and sometimes graphic introduction to the war to end all wars. If youre like me and find solace in books and are looking for resources to share with your children to explain military life, this list of picture books will comfort and. Childrens books with snakes and soldiers my wife swears she had a book as a child that featured soldiers in a jungle maybe vietnam, where snakes would drop down out of trees or lay across the trail like logs to ambush the soldiers.
These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in government forces. The childrens book council cbc is the nonprofit trade association of childrens book publishers in north america, dedicated to supporting the industry and promoting childrens books and reading. May 01, 2018 wife of wounded warrior writes children s book to help daughters understand their dad s injuries. These pageturning reads will give your children a real insight into what life was like for both children and adults, on the battle field and on the home front. Best sellers in childrens american civil war era history. This may not be the childrens coloring book youre looking for. Sounds silly considering theyre soldiers and expected to be armed but it felt a little too much. Hero dad by melinda hardin, alice bliss by laura harrington, military friends abc by tony hunter, grandpas 1 to 10 and back. Tom palmer, who is launching his new book over the line, about the footballers battalion, at the festival.
The childrens book guild award luncheon honoring reef, previously scheduled for may 30, 2020, has been postponed until spring 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The old toy room twinkl originals childrens book reading. Im not super conservative when it comes to most things kid related but once i sat down and looked thru this book i found too many images of weapons. Indiana soldiers and sailors childrens home worldcat. Mar 25, 2020 this fun childrens book features a girl who has a great time in her grandmothers playroom after discovering some vintage toys. Discover book depository s huge selection of children s books online. I like this book because it is a wellresearched simple story about one young mans experience of ww1. Timed to coincide with armistice day, this solemn graphic narrative recalls christmas 1914, when british and german soldiers called a fleeting truce.
Memoirs of a boy soldier 2007 is a memoir written by ishmael beah, an author from sierra leone. Beah ran away from his village at the age of 12 after it was attacked by rebels. The childrens issues picture book why is mom so mad. Discover the best childrens military books in best sellers.
The book isnt military specific, but explores a day in the life of a daddy bear and his bear cub. The author of soldier dog and a horse called hero picks her favourite novels and diaries from the two world. Looking for a book about a child looking forward to a town parade. Sam anguss top 10 war books childrens books the guardian. Stone soup is a european folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. Best childrens books involving war books fiction and nonfiction that are about war andor take place during a time of war.
Celebrates the special bond dads have with their children. Pink and say is a children s book written and illustrated by patricia polacco. Discover life in ancient rome with sticker and flap books, and stories and activity books. The global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers hardcover. Find bestsellers, new releases, award winners and our recommended books for kids at.
What are the best first world war books for children. After a decade fighting wars on two fronts, tens of thousands of service members are coming home having trouble adjusting to civilian life. The golden age of children s book illustration and american soldiers in the great war vanessa meikle schulman the lion and the unicorn, volume 41, number 2, april 2017, pp. Miss suzy s pleasant life in her house at the top of a oak tree is disrupted by six mean red squirrels who chase her away. Claire huchet bishop 1899 march 1993 was a children s novelist and librarian, winner of the newbery honor for pancakesparis and all alone, and the josette frank award for twenty and ten. The 2020 nonfiction award committee of the childrens book guild of washington, dc, is pleased to announce catherine reef as the nonfiction award winner for 2020. Childrens literature sentient toys this is a list for childrens books in which dolls, stuffed animals, or other toys come to life.
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2022 was world's 6th-warmest year on record
A world map plotted with color blocks depicting percentiles of global average land and ocean temperatures for the full year 2022. Color blocks depict increasing warmth, from dark blue (record-coldest area) to dark red (record-warmest area) and spanning areas in between that were "much cooler than average" through "much warmer than average." Image: NOAA NCEI.
The planet continued its warming trend in 2022, with last year ranking as the sixth-warmest year on record since 1880, according to an analysis by scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI.
Below are highlights from NOAA's 2022 annual global climate report:
Climate by the numbers
Earth's average land and ocean surface temperature in 2022 was 1.55 degrees F (0.86 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 57.0 degrees F (13.9 degrees C) — the sixth highest among all years in the 1880-2022 record.
It also marked the 46th-consecutive year (since 1977) with global temperatures rising above the 20th-century average. The 10-warmest years on record have all occurred since 2010, with the last nine years (2014-2022) among the 10-warmest years.
The 2022 Northern Hemisphere surface temperature was also the sixth highest in the 143-year record at 1.98 degrees F (1.10 degrees C) above average. The Southern Hemisphere surface temperature for 2022 was the seventh highest on record at 1.10 degrees F (0.61 of a degree C) above average.
2022 as ranked by other scientific organizations
NASA scientists conducted a separate but similar analysis, determining that 2022 ranked as Earth's fifth-warmest year on record, tied with 2015. The European Commission's Copernicus ranked 2022 as the globe's fifth-warmest year on record.
An annotated map of the world plotted with the year's most significant climate events.
Other notable climate findings and events
Global ocean heat content (OHC) hit a record high: The upper ocean heat content, which addresses the amount of heat stored in the upper 2,000 meters of the ocean, was record high in 2022, surpassing the previous record set in 2021. The four highest OHCs have all occurred in the last four years (2019-2022).
Polar sea ice ran low: The 2022 annual Antarctic sea ice extent (coverage) was at a near-record low at 4.09 million square miles. Only the year 1987 had a smaller annual extent. During 2022, each month had an extent that ranked among the five smallest for their respective months, while the months of February, June, July and August had their lowest monthly extent on record.
In the Arctic, the average annual sea ice extent was approximately 4.13 million square miles — the 11th-smallest annual average sea ice extent in the 1979-2022 record, according to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Global tropical cyclones were near average: A total of 88 named storms occurred across the globe in 2022, which was near the 1991-2020 average. Of those, 40 reached tropical cyclone strength (winds of 74 mph or higher) and 17 reached major tropical cyclone strength (winds of 111 mph or higher). The global accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) — an integrated metric of the strength, frequency and duration of tropical storms — was the fourth lowest since 1981.
December 2022 was warm: The average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces in December was 1.44 degrees F (0.80 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average. This ranks as the eighth-warmest December in the 143-year NOAA record.
Regionally, Africa tied 2016 for its second-warmest December on record. South America's December ranked fourth warmest on record, while Europe saw its 10th warmest. Although North America and Asia both had an above-average December temperature, neither ranked among the 20 warmest on record.
An annotated map of the world plotted with the year's most significant climate events. Please see the story below as well as the report summary from NOAA NCEI at http://bit.ly/Global202212offsite link. Image: NOAA NCEI.
LAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
Lake County Arts Council awarded California Arts Council Arts Integration training grant
LAKEPORT, Calif. — The California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $14,250 to Lake County Arts Council as part of its Arts Integration program in its second round of funding for 2022.
Lake County Arts Council, in partnership with Lake County Office of Education, will provide a series of Arts Integration Trainings highlighting multiple artforms for Lake County teachers, providing materials and insight on how teachers can easily apply each artform into their classroom.
Approximately 20 Arts Integration classes will be held over 2023-24 calendar year. The workshops will be held in various locations around the county.
Arts integration fosters diverse representation in classrooms; by centering the teaching around student thinking and the arts, focus will be on the student experience and connections, as opposed to the teacher's culture and expertise.
"I am very excited to see this program take off. More commonly we see funding for arts projects, not necessarily teaching moments," said Barbara Clark, executive director for the Lake County Arts Council. "This one is special because it gives us the opportunity to teach basic concepts that will allow teachers to take control of that art form and use it how they see is most appropriate for their classroom."
Lake County Arts Council was featured as part of a larger announcement from the California Arts Council, with grant awards for its Cycle B programming totaling more than $41 million across more than 900 grants supporting nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state.
All told, the projected sum of grants to be awarded for 2022's regular program funding cycle is more than $72 million — the biggest annual investment in the California Arts Council's 46-year history, largely supported by the $40 million one-time boost in support for the agency's creative youth and arts education development programs.
"The resilience and creativity of California's arts and cultural field in these last three years has been remarkable," said California Arts Council Director Jonathan Moscone. "We are proud to be able to support the great work that California's artists, culture bearers and cultural workers are doing within our communities as an indelible part of our state's identity."
Cycle B's programs include five funding opportunities for arts education and creative youth development, and related arts workforce development. Additionally, the cycle offered funding opportunities for administering organizations to regrant funds for folk and traditional arts and individual artists fellowship programs.
Operational support for statewide and regional arts service organizations and networks was also available during this round of grant funding.
Mara Johnson-Groh
Space News: Flashes on the Sun could help scientists predict solar flares
Two images of a solar active region (NOAA AR 2109) taken by SDO/AIA show extreme-ultraviolet light produced by million-degree-hot coronal gas (top images) on the day before the region flared (left) and the day before it stayed quiet and did not flare (right). The changes in brightness (bottom images) at these two times show different patterns, with patches of intense variation (black & white areas) before the flare (bottom left) and mostly gray (indicating low variability) before the quiet period (bottom right). Credits: NASA/SDO/AIA/Dissauer et al. 2022.
In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists have found new clues that could help predict when and where the Sun's next flare might explode.
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, researchers from NorthWest Research Associates, or NWRA, identified small signals in the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, the corona, that can help identify which regions on the Sun are more likely to produce solar flares — energetic bursts of light and particles released from the Sun.
They found that above the regions about to flare, the corona produced small-scale flashes — like small sparklers before the big fireworks.
This information could eventually help improve predictions of flares and space weather storms — the disrupted conditions in space caused by the Sun's activity.
Space weather can affect Earth in many ways: producing auroras, endangering astronauts, disrupting radio communications, and even causing large electrical blackouts.
Scientists have previously studied how activity in lower layers of the Sun's atmosphere — such as the photosphere and chromosphere — can indicate impending flare activity in active regions, which are often marked by groups of sunspots, or strong magnetic regions on the surface of the Sun that are darker and cooler compared to their surroundings. The new findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, add to that picture.
"We can get some very different information in the corona than we get from the photosphere, or 'surface' of the Sun," said KD Leka, lead author on the new study who is also a designated foreign professor at Nagoya University in Japan. "Our results may give us a new marker to distinguish which active regions are likely to flare soon and which will stay quiet over an upcoming period of time."
For their research, the scientists used a newly created image database of the Sun's active regions captured by SDO. The publicly available resource, described in a companion paper also in The Astrophysical Journal, combines over eight years of images taken of active regions in ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet light.
Led by Karin Dissauer and engineered by Eric L. Wagner, the NWRA team's new database makes it easier for scientists to use data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, on SDO for large statistical studies.
"It's the first time a database like this is readily available for the scientific community, and it will be very useful for studying many topics, not just flare-ready active regions," Dissauer said.
The NWRA team studied a large sample of active regions from the database, using statistical methods developed by team member Graham Barnes. The analysis revealed small flashes in the corona preceded each flare. These and other new insights will give researchers a better understanding of the physics taking place in these magnetically active regions, with the goal of developing new tools to predict solar flares.
"With this research, we are really starting to dig deeper," Dissauer said. "Down the road, combining all this information from the surface up through the corona should allow forecasters to make better predictions about when and where solar flares will happen."
Mara Johnson-Groh works for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Helping Paws: Akitas, terriers and malamutes
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Lake County Animal Care and Control has an interesting and diverse lineup of dogs waiting for new homes.
Dogs available for adoption this week include mixes of Akita, Alaskan malamute, American blue heeler, Belgian Malinois, German shepherd, hound, husky, Jack Russell terrier, Labrador retriever, mastiff, pit bull, pointer, shepherd and terrier.
This 6-month-old female pit bull terrier is in kennel No. 3, ID No. LCAC-A-4565. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
This 6-month-old female pit bull terrier has a short red and white coat.
This 3-year-old female pointer mix is in kennel No. 4, ID No. LCAC-A-4520. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Female pointer mix
This 3-year-old female pointer mix has a tricolor coat.
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler-hound is in kennel No. 6a, ID No. LCAC-A-4521. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
American blue heeler-hound
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler-hound has a short brown and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 6a, ID No. LCAC-A-4521.
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler-hound is in kennel No. 6b, ID No. LCAC-A-4522. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler-hound has a short brindle coat.
She is in kennel No. 6b, ID No. LCAC-A-4522.
This 5-month-old male American blue heeler-hound is in kennel No. 9a, ID No. LCAC-A-4519. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male American blue heeler-hound
This 5-month-old male American blue heeler-hound has a short brindle coat.
He is in kennel No. 9a, ID No. LCAC-A-4519.
This 5-month-old male American blue heeler-hound is in kennel No. 9b, ID No. LCAC-A-4523. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
This 5-month-old male American blue heeler-hound has a short brown coat.
He is in kennel No. 9b, ID No. LCAC-A-4523.
This 1-year-old male mastiff mix is in kennel No. 11, ID No. LCAC-A-4566. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male mastiff mix
This 1-year-old male mastiff mix has a short black coat.
This 2-year-old male Akita-shepherd mix is in kennel No. 12, ID No. LCAC-A-4539. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male Akita-shepherd mix
This 2-year-old male Akita-shepherd mix has a long brown coat.
This 2-year-old male Akita-shepherd is in kennel No. 13, ID No. LCAC-A-4538. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male Akita-shepherd
This 2-year-old male Akita-shepherd has a short fawn-colored coat.
This 1-year-old female husky is in kennel No. 16, ID No. LCAC-A-4562. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Female husky
This 1-year-old female husky has a black and white coat.
"Missy" is a 6-year-old female pit bull terrier in kennel No. 17, ID No. LCAC-A-4548. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
'Missy'
"Missy" is a 6-year-old female pit bull terrier with a short brown coat.
"Louie" is an 8-year-old male Jack Russell terrier in kennel No. 19, ID No. LCAC-A-4550. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
'Louie'
"Louie" is an 8-year-old male Jack Russell terrier with a long white coat.
This 3-year-old male Doberman pinscher is in kennel No. 25, ID No. LCAC-A-4543. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male Doberman pinscher
This 3-year-old male Doberman pinscher has a short brown and tan coat.
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler/hound mix is in kennel No. 28, ID No. LCAC-A-4524. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
American blue heeler/hound mix
This 5-month-old female American blue heeler/hound mix has a short brindle and white coat.
This 7-year-old male German shepherd is in kennel No. 29, ID No. LCAC-A-4561. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
Male German shepherd
This 7-year-old male German shepherd with a black and tan coat.
"Diesel" is a 2-year-old male pit bull terrier in kennel No. 31, ID No. LCAC-A-4549. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control.
'Diesel'
"Diesel" is a 2-year-old male pit bull terrier with a short white coat with black markings.
He's in kennel No. 31, ID No. LCAC-A-4549.
This 8-year-old male German shepherd has a black and tan coat.
Rotary Club of Lakeport
Rotary Club of Lakeport plans drive-through Crab Feed and Online Auction
LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Rotary Club of Lakeport will hold its third annual drive-through Crab Feed and Online Auction at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
The theme of this year's event will be "Under the Sea."
Tickets, which are available on the club website, cost $70 per person.
That will get you a complete crab dinner featuring two pounds of hot cracked crab and a pound of fresh shrimp, as well as tossed salad and warm bread rolls.
Also available for an additional $20 is a quart of clam chowder. Local wines can be purchased for $20 a bottle and take-home butter warmers are available for $15.
As part of the crab-packed weekend, Lakeport Rotary is holding an online auction beginning on Friday, Feb. 18, at 9 a.m.
There will also be a number of home-baked desserts auctioned as well. The dessert auction closes at 2 p.m. sharp on Saturday, February 18, and the main auction will close on Sunday, February 20, at 9 p.m.
There are sponsorship opportunities. Those who opt for the $2,000 King Trident sponsorship will receive eight full crab meals, four Lake County wines, four chowders, four warmers and desserts, as well as press coverage and a business promotional video with Crabby the Crab.
The $1,000 Mermaid sponsorship includes four meals, two bottles of wine, two chowders, two warmers and desserts, a Crabby promotional and press coverage.
And, finally, there are $500 Starfish sponsorships which include two meals, one bottle of Lake County wine, one chowder, one warmer and dessert. The same Crabby promotional video and press coverage are included.
This year's King Trident sponsors already include Adventist Health Clearlake, Sutter Lakeside Hospital and Lake County Tribal Health.
Mermaid sponsors who have already committed include Strong Financial Network and Lakeport Tire and Auto.
Starfish sponsors so far are Nala's Cleaning Service, Dennis Fordham Law and Bell Haven Flower Farm.
To inquire about sponsorships, please contact event coordinator Faith Hornby at 707-349-3533 or email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
State holds first listening session on effort to save Clear Lake hitch
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — California hasn't lost a species in 50 years, but that could soon change if efforts to save the Clear Lake hitch fail.
The population of the hitch, a large minnow native to Clear Lake and its tributaries, is crashing, local tribes are asking state and federal agencies for immediate intervention and on Thursday the state held a virtual meeting with Lake County residents and officials to discuss the emergency.
The hitch's troubles began decades ago. Once reported to number in the millions, over the last decade, the hitch population has plummeted.
In 2014, as the situation was accelerating, the hitch was listed as a threatened species under the California Endangered Species Act. However, the federal government hasn't followed suit so far.
The hitch has traditionally been a primary food source for Lake County's Pomo tribes. In December, those tribes and the Center for Biological Diversity asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide emergency protections to the fish. They also held a summit with state and federal agencies to discuss immediate help for the hitch.
Concerns about the hitch led to the proposal for a proclamation of a local emergency by the Board of Supervisors at the Jan. 10 meeting, but that discussion was rescheduled to Jan. 24.
On Thursday, the State Water Resources Control Board held the first of two public listening sessions about the hitch.
Thursday's State Water board session started out with some technical issues with its Zoom link. Officials said they have updated the links to avoid that problem at the Feb. 1 session.
Valerie Zimmer of the State Water Board said there is widespread agreement that the hitch has been in decline for a long time.
She showed a graph of hitch population and juvenile spawning data collected by the United States Geological Survey.
The data showed that there has been a near complete failure of juvenile hitch success after 2017, with Zimmer noting that the decline is validated by local knowledge and narratives.
The slide showed that a small number of juveniles were recorded in 2018, a smaller number in 2019. There were no numbers given for 2020, and then in 2021 no juveniles were recorded. In 2022, only a very small number were found.
"This looks like the population is crashing right now," she said.
With the hitch having up to a six-year life cycle, if they don't come back this year, Zimmer said they may be gone for good.
"Unfortunately we are late to this issue," Zimmer said, adding that the state is catching up and working with local agencies and organizations.
As for why the hitch population is crashing now, Zimmer said there is no single cause and no single person who is responsible, although the drought is having an impact.
Zimmer said the hitch's peril is due to human activity. Examples of harmful activities include:
• Flow barriers: Culverts, stream bed alterations and dams.
• Insufficient water flow volumes: Drought impacts, surface diversions and losing streams.
• Habitat degradation: Mining, land use changes, levee development and flood control.
• Predation and competition with invasive species
• Pollution: Mercury and harmful algal blooms.
Flow barriers may be a critical issue as hitch don't jump over barriers. Zimmer said they can migrate when there is a lot of water, but not when water is low.
A key issue is lack of flow in Lake County's creeks. "If there's no water in the creeks, none of this other stuff matters," Zimmer said.
Zimmer also showed a picture of a 2014 fish kill in Adobe Creek, when juvenile hitch got stuck and died. Just a week before, the creek was running very high, so a biologist couldn't get into the creek to get the fish out.
More recently, Lake County's tribes have carried out successful fish rescues, such as one that occurred in April when Robinson Rancheria and Habematolel Pomo tribal members worked with the Lake County Water Resources staff and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to rescue hundreds of hitch from an isolated pool in Adobe Creek near Soda Bay in Lakeport.
Other possible factors impacting the hitch's numbers include illegal water diversions, cannabis, turning in pumps too early, overallocated water and groundwater use, especially when wells are close to creeks. Zimmer acknowledged data gaps and a lot that isn't known.
Zimmer said the focus is being placed on the creeks that historically have had a lot of hitch in them — Adobe, Cole, Kelsey, Manning and Middle creeks.
She showed maps of surface water diversions — irrigation, frost protection, domestic water and stock watering — as well as a map of uses like frost protection, which tends to occur in the spring when the hitch are migrating.
Primary uses for water in Lake County include urban, 13,000 acres; vineyards, 10,000 acres; fruits and nuts, 7,000 acres; pasture, 3,000 acres; and grain and hay, 1,200 acres.
Zimmer said the state is not looking at the entire county as it tries to address the situation. "We're focusing on the areas that are important to the hitch."
"I do think agriculture can be a really strong partner," said Zimmer, explaining that some farmers are offering to put water into the creeks to get them moving so the fish can survive.
She said farmers also can help by looking for barriers — including roads and structures — on their properties that may impact the creeks.
John Murphy, a senior engineering geologist in the State Water Resources Control Board enforcement division, discussed the effort to get regulations in place, which can't be done within just a few months, and takes time and data.
"At the end of the day, we know that the hitch is in trouble," and the state wants to do everything they can to protect the fish, he said.
Murphy went over voluntary actions to keep water in the creeks this year, such as reductions in diversions and pumping, coordinating diversion and pumping timing, alternating frost protection methods and pump banks — using groundwater for streamflow. He said they are open to suggestions.
He said they have research going back to the 1950s when the hitch started having trouble.
There are concerns that, even with all of this year's rains, the storm that took place on Wednesday could be the last rain for months, following a pattern from last year.
Murphy said they have information and momentum to help the fish. "We can't lose this momentum. We don't want the hitch going extinct on our watch."
He said they are early in effort with lots of questions and possible solutions. Murphy added that they can't let uncertainty about what actions to take lead to the hitch's extinction.
As for what's needed from the community, State Water Board staff said they need commitments for specific voluntary actions, such as reducing diversions and pumping from February to May, using alternative frost protection methods, coordinating diversion and pump timing.
They're also looking for local coordinators, people to share data, leads on connecting with hard-to-reach people and invites to community meetings.
The state wants to hear what people would do to solve the problem in the short and long term, and get input on what specific steps the public thinks it should take.
There will be additional engagement opportunities with the state coming up.
The hitch will be discussed at the Board of Supervisors' next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and the State Water Board will hold another listening session from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, via Zoom, http://bit.ly/CLH_Feb.1.
For more information, visit the State Water Board's Hitch webpage. To receive email updates, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Jyoti Mishra, University of California, San Diego
Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, wildfire survivors study shows
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings in and around Paradise, Calif. Marcus Yam /Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors' brains and cognitive functioning, especially how they process distractions, my team's new research shows.
Climate change is increasingly affecting people around the world, including through extreme heat, storm damage and life-threatening events like wildfires. In previous research, colleagues and I showed that in the aftermath of the 2018 fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, California, chronic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression were highly prevalent in the affected communities more than six months after the disaster.
We also found a graded effect: People whose homes or families were directly affected by fire showed greater mental health harm than those where who were indirectly effected, meaning people who witnessed the event in their community but did not have a personal loss.
In the new study, published Jan. 18, 2023, our team at the Neural Engineering and Translation Labs, or NEATLabs, at the University of California San Diego, wanted to understand whether the symptoms of climate change-related trauma translate to changes in cognitive functioning – the mental processes involved in memory, learning, thinking and reasoning.
We evaluated subjects' cognitive functioning across a range of abilities, including attention; response inhibition – the ability to not respond impulsively; working memory – the ability to maintain information in mind for short periods of time; and interference processing – the ability to ignore distractions. We also measured their brain function while they performed cognitive tasks, using brain wave recordings obtained from electroencephalography, or EEG.
A wireless EEG cap records brain activity as a person responds to cognitive tests. The image on the right shows significant differences in electrical brain activity recorded on the scalp between people directly exposed to wildfires and a control group, with greater activity in left frontal cortex (red) for the group directly exposed. Grennan et al., 2022, PLOS Climate, CC BY
The study included three groups of individuals: people who were directly exposed to the fire, people who were indirectly exposed, and a control group with no exposure. The groups were well matched for age and gender.
We found that both groups of people exposed to the fire, either directly or indirectly, dealt with distractions less accurately than the control group.
We also found differences in the brain processes underlying these cognitive differences. People who were exposed to the wildfire had greater frontal lobe activity while dealing with distractions. The frontal lobe is the center for the brain's higher-level functions. Frontal brain activity can be a marker for cognitive effort, suggesting that people exposed to the fires may be having more difficulty processing distractions and compensating by exerting more effort.
With climate change fueling more disasters, it is incredibly important to understand its impacts on human health, including mental health. Resilient mental health is what allows us to recover from traumatic experiences. How humans experience and mentally deal with climate catastrophes sets the stage for our future lives.
There are strategies people can use to help reduce the stress. Psychosocial research suggests that practicing mindfulness and developing healthy lifestyles, with regular exercise and enough sleep, can protect mental well-being in these scenarios, along with developing strong social bonds.
There is much work to be done to understand if the effects we found are replicable in large sample studies. In this work, we focused on a total of 75 study participants. Scientists also need to understand how these effects evolve as climate disasters like wildfires occur more often.
We are also pursuing research with community partners to implement interventions that can help alleviate some the impacts we observed on brain and cognitive functioning. There is no one-size-fits-all solution – each community must find the resiliency solutions that work best in their environmental context. As scientists, we can help them understand the causes and point them to solutions that are most effective in improving human health.
Jyoti Mishra, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
Rebecca Weber, Oklahoma State University
A librarian recommends 5 fun fiction books for kids and teens featuring disabled characters
There's a small but growing number of books for younger readers that feature main characters with disabilities. Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images
Disability representation is slowly increasing in books geared toward children and teens.
In 2019 the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – a library that allows teachers, librarians and researchers to view books before deciding which ones to buy – found that only 3.4% of books it received from publishers included a character with a disability.
The CCBC website recently added a diversity statistics book search with categories for physical, cognitive and psychiatric disabilities or conditions. In 2022, the center received 165 books that included a character with a disability, up from 126 in 2019.
As an academic librarian who also has a disability, I'm happy to recommend the following five children's books that treat disability as a part of life and living.
1. Maria Gianferrari (author), Patrice Barton (illustrator), "Hello Goodbye Dog" (2017)
Moose loves her girl Zara – and she hates saying goodbye. When Zara goes to school, Moose wants to go too and keeps showing up, even though dogs aren't allowed. What will Zara, her parents, the principal, her teacher and the other kids in Zara's class do?
This fun picture book is perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners. While Zara uses a wheelchair, her disability isn't the focus of the story. Readers will have fun seeing what Moose is up to this time and learn that sometimes dogs can go to school.
2. Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos, "We Move Together" (2021)
All bodies are different – whether disabled or nondisabled – and everyone matters. These are the themes of this easy reader. With its vibrant illustrations, simple text and portrayals of a wide variety of people, "We Move Together" is a great introduction to the concepts of community, disability and accessibility for readers in kindergarten through second grade, while older readers can learn more about accessibility and disability rights in the glossary.
3. Darren Lebeuf, Ashley Barron, "My City Speaks" (2021)
A girl who is blind and her dad explore the city and its sounds. They wait at a crosswalk, play in the park, take a bus, avoid a rainstorm and eat ice cream. Words and pictures help the reader feel the rhythms of the city. Readers in preschool through second grade will enjoy this story because of its colorful illustrations and rhythmic text.
4. Ali Stroker, Stacy Davidowitz, "The Chance to Fly" (2021)
Nat Beacon is the new girl in school with a talent for wheelchair racing, but when the 13-year-old gets the chance to audition for a summer production of the musical "Wicked," she knows the theater is where she belongs. How does she tell her parents?
This novel for readers in fifth, sixth and seventh grades explores themes of independence, friendship and first love.
5. Melissa See, "You, Me, and Our Heartstrings" (2022)
Daisy and Noah are two of the best musicians in their high school orchestra and dream of attending Juilliard, the prestigious performing arts school in New York City. When their performance of an original piece goes viral, they have to deal with the world's interpretation of them and their relationship.
This rom-com of a novel combines disability representation with themes of friendship and romance. Great for readers in grades nine to 12.
For more books featuring characters with disabilities, check out the American Library Association's Schneider Family Book Award. For a wide variety of diverse titles, see We Need Diverse Books.
Rebecca Weber, Associate Professor Library, Oklahoma State University
Northshore supervisor to host meeting on Lucerne Hotel homeless youth housing facility plan
LUCERNE, Calif. — District 3 Supervisor EJ Crandell is hosting an informational meeting on the plan to turn the Lucerne Hotel into a facility for housing homeless youth.
The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center, 3985 Country Club Drive.
The meeting also will be available via Zoom. The meeting ID is 977 5740 1156, pass code is 589351. One tap mobile: +16694449171,,97757401156#,*589351#.
The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians received a $5.2 million grant from the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency in November to convert the historic 95-year-old building into 65 housing units for homeless youth from around the region.
The grant language stated that the Lake County Office of Education would be the primary partner, and that dozens more local organizations would be secondary partners. However, neither the Office of Education nor other partners said they knew about the application or the plan.
Lake County News has outlined the plan in a series of stories, beginning in December.
The tribe has since threatened legal action against Lake County News for covering the project.
Also in December, the Lucerne Area Town Hall passed a resolution condemning the plan.
Crandell initially only posted the meeting on his own Facebook page before the county of Lake shared it on its Facebook page and sent out an announcement about the meeting.
The meeting's tentative guests include representatives from the offices of Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and state Sen. Mike McGuire, and the California Business, Consumer Services Housing Agency.
Confirmed attendees include the Lake County Community Development Department, the Lake County Office of Education, the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Earthways Foundation, the organization that the county sold the Lucerne Hotel to in 2019 over community objections.
A question and answer session also is scheduled.
Space News: NASA's Geotail Mission operations come to an end after 30 years
An artist's concept of the Geotail spacecraft. Credits: NASA.
After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the spacecraft's remaining data recorder.
Since its launch on July 24, 1992, Geotail orbited Earth, gathering an immense dataset on the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere, Earth's protective magnetic bubble.
Geotail was originally slated for a four-year run, but the mission was extended several times due to its high-quality data return, which contributed to over a thousand scientific publications.
While one of Geotail's two data recorders failed in 2012, the second continued to work until experiencing an anomaly on June 28, 2022. After attempts to remotely repair the recorder failed, the mission operations were ended on November 28, 2022.
"Geotail has been a very productive satellite, and it was the first joint NASA-JAXA mission," said Don Fairfield, emeritus space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and NASA's first project scientist for Geotail until his retirement in 2008. "The mission made important contributions to our understanding of how the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field to produce magnetic storms and auroras."
With an elongated orbit, Geotail sailed through the invisible boundaries of the magnetosphere, gathering data on the physical process at play there to help understand how the flow of energy and particles from the Sun reach Earth.
Geotail made many scientific breakthroughs, including helping scientists understand how quickly material from the Sun passes into the magnetosphere, the physical processes at play at the magnetosphere's boundary, and identifying oxygen, silicon, sodium, and aluminum in the lunar atmosphere.
The mission also helped identify the location of a process called magnetic reconnection, which is a major conveyor of material and energy from the Sun into the magnetosphere and one of the instigators of the aurora.
This discovery laid the way for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, which launched in 2015.
Over the years, Geotail collaborated with many of NASA's other space missions including MMS, Van Allen Probes, Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms mission, Cluster, and Wind.
With an orbit that took it as far as 120,000 miles from Earth at times, Geotail helped provide complementary data from remote parts of the magnetosphere to give scientists a complete picture of how events seen in one area affect other regions. Geotail also paired with observations on the ground to confirm the location and mechanisms of how aurora form.
Although Geotail is done gathering new data, the scientific discoveries aren't over. Scientists will continue to study Geotail's data in the coming years.
Estate Planning: Not all living trusts are created equal
All living trusts, at a minimum, have one common denominator: avoiding probate. Beyond that, living trusts are not created equal.
Let us discuss some of the estate planning features that a well drafted living trust often contains.
A well drafted living trust administers a person's assets during incapacity (prior to death) and at death, without any court supervision (e.g., conservatorships and probate), for the benefit of the settlor who created the trust and his or her loved ones. Flexibility to deal with unforeseen events can be beneficial.
First, a trust should provide for the care of the settlor and the settlor's loved ones if the settlor is incapacitated.
Does the trust provide authority and instructions for the settlor's personal care in the event of the settlor's incapacity?
A trust, as relevant, may say whether the successor trustee pays for in home care services to allow the settlor to remain at home as long as possible; whether the trustee allows an adult child to move in (rent free) to care for the settlor; and whether the trustee pays to relocate the settlor to live with family or at an assisted living facility.
Does the trust contain authority and instructions for the care of the settlor's dependents if the settlor is incapacitated?
A trust, as relevant, may say whether the trustee pays for all or some of the living expenses of the settlor's spouse; whether the trustee continues to support an adult child; and whether the trustee continues to care for the settlor's pets.
Second, a trust should provide a well thought out disposition of the settlor's trust estate at the settlor's death.
Does the trust adequately address the varied needs and life circumstances of its beneficiaries?
A well drafted trust often provides discretion to the trustee to administer the trust based on future conditions as they exist at the time of administration.
Does the trust provide the trustee with express instructions or with discretion to use their own judgment to administer the inheritance of a beneficiary who is a minor; to administer the inheritance of a beneficiary who receives needs based government benefits; to administer the inheritance of a beneficiary who has serious creditor problems; or to administer the inheritance of a beneficiary who cannot manage their assets.
A trust, as relevant, may say whether the inheritances of such beneficiaries are subject to further (ongoing) trust management over part or all of their lifetime.
A trust may also allow the trustee to administer a beneficiary's inheritance to purchase services and/or assets for the health, education, maintenance and support of a beneficiary and without distribution cash to the beneficiary.
Does the trust provide for the proper contingency planning in the event that a named beneficiary does not survive?
A trust should name or describe alternative beneficiaries in the event that a beneficiary is not alive to inherit and provide whether the alternative beneficiary receives their inheritance outright or in further trust.
Does the trust allow the appointment of an alternative successor trustee in the event that all persons nominated in the trust fail to serve as trustee?
A trust can provide a mechanism to appoint an alternative successor trustee without a court petition. That is, the trust may allow the beneficiaries to appoint a trustee or allow a person named as a power holder to appoint a trustee.
Does the trust include, as relevant, properly worded disinheritance and no-contest clauses? A disinheritance clause is particularly relevant when the settlor is not gifting anything to an heir.
Consider a parent who is excluding one or more of their children as beneficiaries. Consider a parent who is making an unequal distribution on their assets amongst their children. Is there a no-contest clause to discourage the less favored children from contesting the unequal distribution of the estate.
The foregoing illustrates how a well drafted living trust may avoid some unforeseen and unintended pitfalls. This is not legal advice. Consult an attorney.
Clearlake Animal Control reports on latest adoptions, available dogs
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Clearlake Animal Control maintained a high release rate in 2022 and now has many dogs for adoption.
At Thursday night's Clearlake City Council meeting, Clearlake Police Lt. Martin Snyder, who oversees the shelter, reported on the shelter's statistics for the 2022 calendar year.
He said 389 dogs were taken into the shelter last year.
Of those, 303 have left the shelter. Snyder said those include 169 that went to rescues, 102 that were returned to their owners and 30 were adopted.
Snyder said there were a total of three euthanizations — two for medical reasons and one at the request of an owner.
That leaves the shelter with a 99% release rate, Snyder said.
On Thursday, shelter staff brought "Noah" for a visit to the council. He's a 3 to 4 year old male American pit bull terrier who is a staff and shelter favorite.
They said he would do well with other dogs and probably cats and he's neutered and up-to-date on all vaccinations.
Dogs recently adopted include "Snowball," a male American Staffordshire terrier mix, and "Maya," a female German shepherd.
There currently are 37 adoptable dogs at the shelter, with staff hoping to find them loving homes.
The shelter is located at 6820 Old Highway 53. It's open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, call the shelter at 707-762-6227, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit Clearlake Animal Control on Facebook or on the city's website.
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TT69 (Theban Tomb 69) è la sigla che identifica una delle Tombe dei Nobili ubicate nell'area della cosiddetta Necropoli Tebana, sulla sponda occidentale del Nilo dinanzi alla città di Luxor, in Egitto. Destinata a sepolture di nobili e funzionari connessi alle case regnanti, specie del Nuovo Regno, l'area venne sfruttata, come necropoli, fin dall'Antico Regno e, successivamente, sino al periodo Saitico (con la XXVI dinastia) e Tolemaico.
Titolare
TT69 era la tomba di:
Biografia
Menna, scriba contabile del re Thutmosi IV, sommava in sé anche i titoli di: "Favorito del Buon Dio (il re), scriba e supervisore delle coltivazioni", "Gran consigliere del Signore delle Due Terre", "Occhi del re in ogni luogo", "Scriba dei possedimenti del Signore delle Due Terre nel sud e nel nord", "Supervisore delle tenute di Amon". Sua moglie si chiamava Henuttawi, cantatrice di Amon, "giustificata dal grande dio"; suoi figli maschi erano Sa, scriba del grano di Amon, e Kha, prete wab; figlie femmine: Amen-hem-weskhet (Henut), "la favorita di Hathor, amata dal suo Signore (il re)", Nehem-awayt (...Hem-ta), "colei che egli ama, favorita di Hathor, giustificata", e Ka-sy, la "sua amata" ritratta in dimensioni molto più piccole delle altre, il che lascia supporre che fosse adolescente.
La tomba
La TT69 venne sgombrata dalla Mission Archeologique Francaise negli anni '80 dell'Ottocento e, successivamente, durante i lavori di scavo di Robert Mond nel 1905; un breve sondaggio con rilevazione dell'apparato pittorico venne eseguito nel 1910 da Colin Campbell. Nel novembre-dicembre 2007 è stata eseguita un'investigazione multidisciplinare sulle pitture e sulle tecniche pittoriche.
TT69 si sviluppa con forma a "T" rovesciata tipica di analoghe sepolture dello stesso periodo. Ad un corridoio, sulle cui pareti (1 in planimetria) è rappresentato il defunto con la moglie e alcune figlie che recitano un inno ad Amon-Ra, segue una camera trasversale in cui il defunto e la moglie (2) ricevono offerte (tra cui vasi di miele) da alcune figlie, che suonano sistri, mentre assistono a lavori campestri. Segue una camera trasversale in cui il defunto e la moglie (2) ricevono offerte (tra cui vasi di miele) da alcune figlie, che suonano sistri, mentre assistono a lavori campestri. Alcuni ufficiali e funzionari assistono al carico, alla registrazione e al trasporto di grano su carri, in presenza di un uomo che suona una sorta di cornamusa.
In altre scene (3), il defunto e la moglie adorano Osiride, siedono a banchetto (4) e offrono libagioni (5) unitamente a figli e figlie che recano mazzi di fiori; un uomo offre un mazzo di fiori alla coppia assisa mentre tre suonatori si esibiscono cantando. Su una stele (6), Anubi dinanzi a Osiride e alla Dea dell'occidente (Mertseger), Ra-Horakhti e Hathor, nonché la coppia del defunto e la moglie, seguiti da alcuni sacerdoti, in offertorio agli dei. Su altra parete (7), su due registri sovrapposti, il defunto e la moglie ricevono mazzi di fiori da un uomo, e il defunto e la moglie che ricevono liste di offerte da preti e da uomini che recano unguenti e vasi.
Un breve corridoio, sulle cui pareti (8) il defunto e la moglie sono rappresentati nell'atto di lasciare la tomba per partecipare alla Festa della Valle, dà accesso a una camera perpendicolare alla prima. Su quattro registri (9) portatori di offerte, comprese statuette e modelli di barca, il trasporto del sarcofago a cura di nove amici, preti, macellai, scrigni, canoe in processione verso Anubi; poco oltre (10) il defunto in scena di psicostasia dinanzi a Osiride con Thot che registra il risultato della pesatura.
Su altra parete (11), su tre registri, il pellegrinaggio ad Abido, e scene di riti sulla mummia; seguono scene (12) di pesca e uccellagione svolte dal defunto e dai familiari; poco oltre (13) i familiari in offertorio al defunto e alla moglie.
Una nicchia sul fondo della sala (14), contiene la parte inferiore delle statue del defunto e della moglie.
Molti dei dipinti parietali, per il resto ancora in discreto stato di conservazione, sono stati deliberatamente danneggiati scalpellando gli occhi dei personaggi, o asportando parti dei volti e delle mani talché non è spesso possibile stabilire gli oggetti che impugnavano.
Note
Annotazioni
Fonti
Bibliografia
Voci correlate
Storia dell'Antico Egitto
Necropoli di Tebe
Tombe dei Nobili
Valle dei Re
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Disegni dai lavori di Norman e Nina de Garis Davies: tracings from Theban Tomb 69
Visita virtuale alla TT69: visualizzata 18/04/2020)
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Turkish forces and Mosques quickly spread gossip and rumors of Christian treason and collusion with opposing forces which led to the led to the deportation and mass killings of Chaldeans, Assyrians, Greeks, and Armenians during the First World War. To this day being 'Armenian' is considered derogatory in Turkey, and is often used to define somebody as unreliable among Turks.
In 1923, the Turkish Republic was formed as a nation state and a Turkish patriot was based on two things: being a Turk and being a Muslim. Being foreign or Christian, or in short, being gavur, become synonymous to being against the Turkish state, equal to being untrustworthy and treacherous.
According to one source at Istanbul's Armenian Patriarchate, it is estimated that at least 300,000 Armenian and Chaldean Christians converted to either Sunni or Alawite Islam after 1915 to avoid forced deportation. "This means there could be as many as a half million ethnic-background Christians in Turkey today who carry ID cards stating they are Muslims," the cleric observed.
Those that survived the death camps, forced conversations, or were unable to flee the region gravitated over time into small neighboring villages inside Turkey for protection. Eventually these villages were labeled Gavur villages or districts.
Today in the city's Gavur district, neighboring St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic church is a newly restored St. Giragos cathedral celebrating their rebirth.
The district mayor highlights the diversity of faiths in the district. Along with the Chaldean and Armenian Church restoration projects are a mosque, the Diyarbakir Protestant Church, a synagogue, and construction plans for places of worship along the same street for Alawite and Yezidi adherents.
Complete with seven altars and multiple arched columns in the sanctuary, St. Giragos was virtually abandoned after the massacre and deportation of its congregants in 1915.
According to Taraf newspaper columnist Markar Esayan, the church building was still intact until 1980, after which "because of hate … in modern times" it was attacked, looted and fell into disrepair, with just the walls and arched columns remaining.
Costing US$3.5 million, the church's two-year restoration project was funded largely by Armenian donations from Istanbul and abroad, although a third of the costs were donated by the Diyarbakir municipality.
By raising private funding, the Armenian church has regained this ancient building for its own use as a consecrated sanctuary, rather than a Turkish government-controlled museum like the 10th century Akdamar Church in Van, where only one religious ceremony is permitted annually.
Although no Armenian community still exists in Diyarbakir, a priest has been named by the Armenian Patriarchate to conduct occasional worship services for visiting clergy and Christian groups within Turkey and from abroad.
The mass was the first worship service in decades in the ancient St. Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church, built 350 years ago and still the largest Armenian church building in the Middle East, it once served as the metropolitan cathedral of Diyarbakir.
Although political dignitaries representing a number of foreign embassies attended the Mass, along with Armenian spiritual leaders from around the world, most of the congregation consisted of Armenian and Chaldean pilgrims from Armenia, the Netherlands, Germany, Syria, Lebanon and the United States.
Vartkes Ergun Ayik, a businessman of Armenian origin who spearheaded the project funding, said the restored church property will also be used for classical music concerts and exhibitions in the city. | {
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Why Does Some Firewood Produce Excessive Smoke?
••• campfire full of burning wood for preparation of the shish kebab image by Irina Igumnova from Fotolia.com
The Best Types of Wood for Fireplaces
Is Cedar Good Firewood?
By Tom Wagner
The amount of smoke generated by firewood depends largely on what type of wood you use. If you depend on wood fires to heat your home, you want a wood that will burn a long time and produce plenty of heat. Factors other than what type of wood you're burning can contribute to how smoky your fire is.
Due to the high density of plant cells in hardwoods, they tend to burn hotter and therefore produce less smoke than softer woods that have lower cellular densities. Hardwoods also burn for longer periods. Examples of low-smoke hardwoods include almond, apple, ash, oak, beech, birch, cherry, dogwood, hickory, maple, oak, pecan, walnut. Slightly smokier hardwoods include aspen, elm, basswood, cottonwood, gum (eucalyptus), sycamore and yellow poplar.
Softwoods
Most conifers fit into the category of softwoods. The plant cells are larger and not as tightly packed as the cells in hardwoods, and softwoods burn more rapidly, produce less heat and often create more smoke than the harder woods. Included among the softwoods are cypress, eastern red cedar, fir, spruce and southern yellow pine.
Sap Content
Many softwood trees, and a few hardwoods, produce pitch, or tree sap, which the trees use to heal wounds. When something penetrates the bark, or if a branch breaks, pitch seeps from the wound. Once in contact with the air, the pitch hardens, and forms a natural bandage. This sap is highly volatile and any pitch-producing tree will therefore emit a considerable amount of smoke when used as firewood. Some examples include the cedar, fir, most varieties of pine and the sugar maple.
Wet Wood
Wet wood cannot burn hot, and a hot fire is the key to reducing the amount of smoke produced. Any species of wood, when wet, will not catch completely until it dries out. Much of the excessive smoke emitted by wet wood is actually steam mixed with small particulate matter. Season firewood properly and keep it out of the rain.
Smoldering vs. Burning
The hotter a fire burns, the less smoke it produces. Hardwoods emit less smoke than do softwoods because the hardwoods burn hotter. Even softwoods need not create excessive amounts of smoke. Common fire building mistakes include using too little firewood or to clumping pieces of wood too closely together. Both of these practices can cause the wood smolder rather than burn. Leave several inches of space between your pieces of burning firewood and stack the firewood so that the pieces have minimal contact with one another. One effective strategy when starting a fire is to stack the wood in a log cabin configuration.
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Tom Wagner began writing for newspapers and magazines in the L.A. area in 2001. With articles appearing in "California Examiner," "World Reporter," the "Philippine Nurses Monitor" and "Famegate Global News," he currently writes for all three Philippine Media publications in Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas. His articles focus on food, social issues, travel, sight-seeing, humor, general information, politics and medical matters.
campfire full of burning wood for preparation of the shish kebab image by Irina Igumnova from Fotolia.com
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The commercial and residential wings of the Epicentre project have been structured to be complementary to one another. There are currently six units (out of twenty) left on the residential building.
The commercial wing of The Epicentre project is be sold open-plan so as to enable an investor maximize the space for a variety of uses. Although we have recommended that the building be used for lifestyle purposes, the project is being sold off-plan, so the floor plans can be tweaked to the investor's requirements. Based on the open floor plans for the building, each floor has between 308.75sqm and 353.45sqm of lettable space.
These amount can be paid in tranches, with 70% of the total amount paid over the first six months of construction, and the balance of 30% spread over the following 18 months.
We estimate that you would have received a net cash-flow of about 24% of the initial investment over the next five years. The value of the property is also expected to have appreciated by 45% by the fifth year.
The prices of each of the floors are calculated based on the size of the lettable space on each of those floors. As the floors go upward, the cost per square meter decreases.
On the first floor, the purchase price per meter square meter is ? show me .00. The quantity of lettable space on this floor is 353.45sqm. This brings the cost of the first floor to ? show me .00. Factoring in 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) would bring the total cost of this floor to ? show me .00 (One hundred and forty-four million, three hundred and sixty-six thousand, six hundred and fifty-two naira only).
On the second floor, the purchase price per square meter is ? show me . The quantity of lettable space on this floor is 308.75sqm. This brings the cost of the first floor to ? show me .00. Factoring in 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) would bring the total cost of this floor to ? show me .00 (One hundred and one million, four hundred and seventy thousand, six hundred and eighty-seven naira, fifty kobo only).
On the third and fourth floors (office floors), the purchase price per square meter is ? show me . The quantity of lettable space on these floors are 330.5sqm. This brings the cost of the first floor to ? show me .00. Factoring in 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) would bring the total cost of this floor to ? show me .00 (Seventy-nine million, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand, seven hundred and twenty-five naira only).
These prices and all our forecasted values where arrived at based on analysis of commercial property in comparable districts like Jabi, Wuye, Katampe and Gudu. The forecasted values are based on perceived rates acquired from new developments in various these districts with similar level of infrastructural development. | {
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SCCMO Executive Press Releases
[ARCHIVED] Ehlmann Appoints Ramsdell as Director of Facilities Maintenance for St. Charles County
Contact: Mary Enger, Communications Director, 636-949-1856, or 636-443-1008, [email protected]
St. Charles County, Missouri – St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann has appointed Christine Ramsdell as Director of Facilities Maintenance. Ramsdell was confirmed by the St. Charles County Council at its Sept. 11 meeting, and started in her new position Sept. 25.
"Christine has an extensive career as a strategic facility planner and a proven track record in facilities construction management and maintenance," says Ehlmann. "She has an excellent reputation in her field and brings skills, enthusiasm and experience that will be of tremendous value to St. Charles County."
Ramsdell began her career 18 years ago in operations at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, before moving to the corporate offices where she supervised all construction and strategic design projects for the corporate headquarters. In her operations role, she was responsible for the ongoing facilities and maintenance of all retail branches and administrative offices for Enterprise in Colorado. She then took on a new role at the company as Project Manager for interior renovation, and then, as Director of Space Planning and Design. Prior to joining the County, she served as Global Project Management Director at Cushman & Wakefield at MasterCard in O'Fallon. There, she managed a global team that oversaw new construction and major renovations of owned and leased corporate facilities worldwide. Her experience there included capital planning, budgeting, scheduling and project oversight.
Ramsdell has been active in the community throughout her career, having served as a board member, facilities chair and committee member of the YWCA of Metro St. Louis. She assisted the YWCA in space utilization, property assessment for relocations and current building assessments for future planning. She is also a member of Corporate Real Estate for Women.
Ramsdell received her Master's Certificate in Project Management from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. | {
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A murder suspect in Florida was accidentally released from jail
The Broward County Sheriff's Office said they accidentally released a murder suspect from jail.
Monday, June 3rd 2019, 1:14 PM EDT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Broward County Sheriff's Office said they accidentally released a murder suspect from jail.
A sheriff's statement says they received "unequivocal direction" from the state attorney's office Thursday, claiming the second-degree murder charge against 28-year-old Eric Vail was dismissed. They didn't have any indication he was to be held on a first-degree murder charge after being indicted in the same case by a grand jury in April. So, he was released.
But the state attorney's office responded that sheriff's officials should have known about the charge because they took Vail to court Thursday on the upgraded charge.
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Vail is accused in the drive-by shooting of a 27-year-old man in October. He was arrested in January.
Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, whose office represents Vail, said they haven't heard from him. | {
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"Regardless of its make or model, your vehicle could have a problem with mold. Since you can't always see it, though, you might not know you have a problem until you start to feel the effects."
"The problem goes way beyond a nuisance and in many cases causes such respiratory problems as sneezing, coughing, tightening of the chest and drowsiness...a single cell organism that grows in the dark and wet environment in your car's air-conditioning system."
"It can collect in the bottom of the housing or on the evaporator fins and become a perfect place to grow mould and mildew. This is the cause of a persistent musty smell."
"The air quality inside of cars is typically much worse. The Hidden Threat to Automobile Drivers"
Environmental Health Perspectives - Research article titled, "Don't Breathe and Drive." Article features all aspects of in-car air quality. Page 5 points out the recognized problem of mold by vehicle manufacturers Honda and Lexus.
"When airborne mold spores are present in large quantities, they can cause allergic reactions, asthma episodes, infections, and other respiratory problems. Continued exposure to mold may result in nasal or sinus congestion, eye, nose, or throat irritations, and adverse effects to the nervous system."
"All molds have the potential to cause health effects. Molds can produce allergens that can trigger allergic reactions or even asthma attacks in people allergic to mold. Others are known to produce potent toxins and/or irritants,� according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."
"These toxins have irrefutably been shown to exhibit considerable cytotoxicity. When these substances come into contact with other cells – whether of microorganisms or human, cell death will occur. Humans may end up as innocent bystanders in the mold's efforts to thrive."
"People exposed to toxic air pollutants at sufficient concentrations and durations may have an increased chance of getting cancer or experiencing other serious health effects."
"Particle pollution - especially fine particles - contains microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can get deep into the lungs and cause serious health problems." | {
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Home Environment MICRO-FATE project to investigate microplastic in the Pacific Ocean
MICRO-FATE project to investigate microplastic in the Pacific Ocean
An international team of researchers are intending to find out where microplastic accumulates in the ocean, how it is degraded, and the effects that it has on the environment.
A five-week expedition from Vancouver to Singapore will see the research team take and conserve samples for upcoming laboratory analysis, in addition to performing initial experiments.
To date, there is no detailed data on where microplastic accumulates and how much exists in the oceans, with previous estimates relying on computer modelling, individual data, and observations from the air.
Dr Annika Jahnke, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, said: "We want to provide substantiation for these estimates and to find out what happens to the plastic in the ocean and what effects microplastic has on the environment."
One of the researchers' primary objectives is to collect samples from the surface water, the water column, and from the seabed, to find out more about the vertical distribution of the plastic particles and to identify potential gradients with regard to concentration, composition, age, and coverage with biofilms.
The analysis of the samples from the seabed is also expected to provide information on plastic material in the sediments and on where microplastic ends up in the sea.
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How Does Chronic Pain Change Eating Behaviors?
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Scientists are still working to understand how chronic pain and obesity are connected.
A new study suggested that changes to the brain's reward system may be related to disrupted eating behaviors in chronic pain patients.
The changes to the brain only developed after the pain became chronic, according to the researchers.
Studies have shown that people often experience chronic pain and obesity together, though the exact reasons are still unclear. Evidence has suggested that obesity is common in chronic pain patients, while people affected by obesity tend to report higher levels of pain.
A team of neuroscientists examined this connection further in a recent study. They suggested that changes to the brain's limbic system—an area associated with emotions and decision making—may contribute to obesity prevalence in chronic pain patients.
The nucleus accumbens, a structure in the brain that mediates between motivation and decision-making, could have major impact on the eating behaviors in chronic pain patients, according to Paul Geha, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester and lead author of the study.
In 2014, Geha studied the role of nucleus accumbens in how patients with chronic lower back pain digest food. He found that the patients' calorie intake were not guided by food pleasure or hunger. Some patients continued to eat high-fat foods and sugary drinks even if they weren't enjoyable.
Obesity and Lower Back Pain
Geha and his team took those findings a step further for the new study. They examined the relationship between pleasure pathways and eating behaviors in patients before they developed chronic pain.
The researchers recruited 43 patients with chronic lower back pain, 51 patients with subacute back pain, and 36 patients who had no back pain.
"We're interested in trying to determine whether we can find a biological marker for chronic pain before it sets in," Ivan de Araujo, PhD, a professor of neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study, told Verywell.
Participants were told to arrive neither hungry nor full on the first day. They were given a variety of pudding and Jell-O samples to taste and asked to rate how much they liked each sample. On the second day, participants came in hungry and were fed macaroni and cheese. Then they were given the pudding that had the highest rating and told to eat as much as they wanted.
Finally, the participants had an MRI scan so the researchers could further study the parts of the brain that are associated with pain and pleasure signals.
Main Types of Chronic Pain
"We expected the patients who would be at risk, or become persistent at the end, to have the same picture as the patients who were chronic," Geha said. He had a theory that since pathways in the brain that are important for pleasure perception and pain intersect, pain patients might develop disrupted eating behaviors early on.
"The picture was actually not like that," he said. "What happened was a bit of both. In the subacute phase, only the patients who recovered later on showed disrupted eating behavior. They were exactly like the chronic pain patients."
The data suggested that a change in nucleus accumbens only happened when the pain became chronic.
"The system that tells the brain you had enough food or enough calories changes because of pain. And we are trying to argue that these changes are related to the effect of pain on the reward circuitry," de Araujo said. "The way things relate to each other is very complicated and it shows the problem is very complex."
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Limitations and Future Studies
Despite the findings, it might be too soon to draw any conclusion between chronic pain and obesity. This study had a relatively small sample and only focused on one type of chronic pain. The participants were asked to self-report their levels of hunger and fullness, which could have been misreported.
"There are a lot of cognitive factors that influence the way people communicate with the experimenter," de Araujo said. "But all in all, we can still grab some significant differences between the groups assuming these biases are pervasive across subjects."
Researchers are planning to focus future studies on patients with fibromyalgia, migraines, and knee arthritis.
"I would think that different chronic pain conditions might have different ways of experiencing foods and maybe different types of disruptions," Geha said.
This study is part of emerging research that may help practitioners better predict how chronic pain will set in. Researchers only focused on lower back pain and more research is needed to show if similar results will be seen for patients with different types of chronic pain.
Okifuji A, Hare BD. The association between chronic pain and obesity. J Pain Res. 2015;8:399-408. doi:10.2147/JPR.S55598
Lin Y, De Araujo I, Stanley G, Small D, Geha P. Chronic pain precedes disrupted eating behavior in low-back pain patients. PLoS One. 2022;17(2):e0263527.
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For openers, veterans lead Seton Hall past Mercer
Jerry Carino • November 16, 2014
Brandon Mobley
Freshmen came in with all the billing, but veterans did the heavy lifting in the opener for Seton Hall men's basketball.
As McDonald's All-American Isaiah Whitehead struggled mightily, senior Brandon Mobley and junior Sterling Gibbs combined for 36 points to lead the Hall past Mercer 63-47. Game story link below, followed by five thoughts and five quotes . . .
CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE FULL GAME STORY:
Brandon Mobley's savvy on and off the court led Seton Hall to win No. 1 (with a Sterling Gibbs assist). Game story: http://t.co/IgMFhsXkFS
— Jerry Carino (@NJHoopsHaven) November 16, 2014
FIVE THOUGHTS
If Brandon Mobley plays like this every game, Seton Hall is going to have a fun season. So mercurial in the past, the senior forward is the X-factor. This is what he's capable of: 19 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, no turnovers, 7-of-9 shooting in 31 minutes. When the game got tight in the second half, he took over. Leadership has never really been his bag, but by all accounts he pushed the right buttons with his teammates during the game.
It's only fair to give Isaiah Whitehead a pass and chalk up his 1-of-10, 4-turnover, no-assist clunker to nerves. To his credit, he handled reporters' questions with great calm and patience in the postgame. It's too early to tell whether he's not totally comfortable playing off the ball, but that will bear watching as we go forward. The thing is, the rest of the Hall's offense functioned well with the ball in the hands of Sina and Gibbs. No reason to change that after a comfortable win.
Interesting debut for freshman forward Angel Delgado (8 points, 12 rebounds, 3-9 shooting, 2 blocks). He had a terrific first half, and man is he aggressive on the glass. But his performance dipped in the second half, possibly due to the fatigue of 31 minutes. Meting out his minutes with an eye toward the long haul will be a challenge for Willard. Overall a promising showing for Delgado, although Mercer's front line is weak.
Thumbs up: Sterling Gibbs (17 points, 5 assists, no turnovers) and Jaren Sina (9 points) were their reliable, efficient selves . . . Haralds Karlis may have been the 10th Pirate in the game but he brought it defensively and earned his long second-half run . . . strong student turnout, even if the regular crowd was only about 3,500. The season-ticket base of 7,000 has risen quite a bit.
After several inquiries, we finally figured out the captain situation. Willard is going with game captains this year. Today it was the three seniors: Mobley, Karlis and Stephane Manga. Interesting tactic. Indicative of a team whose best leaders are underclassmen (Gibbs, Sina) and a coach who wants to recognize that without slighting his seniors.
FIVE QUOTES
Kevin Willard, on Brandon Mobley: "This is always what I envisioned Brandon could do, play at this level. He's really turned the corner the last two weeks with his leadership. He's starting to understand how to talk to these guys . . . we had a really good talk two weeks ago about the tone of his message. He was sounding too much like me. As a teammate, you don't want that . . . I think he understands that this is his time to be the man."
Willard on Isaiah Whitehead: "I thought Isaiah played terrible. You know what, I knew he would. I'll tell you why . . . I went and looked at every freshmen (in the Big East), the big-time guys, how they played, and not one guy in his first game played well. He's a big-time player who has big-time talent, but it's also a huge learning curve for him.
"As he kind of goes through the next 3-4 games, because he's such a smart player, he's going to understand his opportunities and the fact that he's got a little bit of a target on his back. But so show you what type of a kid he is, he was the happiest person in that locker room. It shows you how successful he's going to be because he didn't sit there dwelling on how he didn't have a good (game)."
Brandon Mobley: "Being a senior is great. When thing start going south on the court, they look to me for guidance . . . I wanted to talk to them and communicate. I knew guys were going to be nervous."
Mobley on Whitehead: "He was nervous, that's all it was. First college game, and he kind of forced the issue a little bit. But I went to him and said, 'You're one of the best players in the country for a reason. Don't hang your head. It's a long season, and naturally your offense is going to come.'"
Isaiah Whitehead: "I took a couple of shots I shouldn't have taken, trying to get into rhythm a little bit, but my teammates lifted me up and carried us to the win . . . they played a heck of a game. You've got to tip your hat to them. They told me everyone goes through struggles. I told them, 'I'm good. Just keep playing the way you're playing and I'll come along.'"
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Cheap Flights, Holidays and City Breaks to Rome, Italy from Ireland
Italy's capital is undeniably one of the greatest cities in the world. There's a wealth of history for you to discover, with flights and all-inclusive holidays to Rome from Ireland always avaiable all-year round.
From the Colosseum to St. Peter's or the Pantheon, Rome is filled with many famous attractions that are located on every turn. For anyone who has an interest in history, Rome is a top destination to visit and explore. Rome is referred to as ''The Eternal City'', an opinion that was articulated by ancient Roman Writers and Poets.
Every year, millions of travellers flock from every corner of the globe to take in the treasures and the sublime masterpieces of Roman art and architecture. Even though it was once the largest city in the world, the capital of one of the greatest empires in the world and now the centre of the Christian world, Rome is quite a compact city. It's size makes it perfect for travellers as most of its renowned attractions are within close proximity to each other.
The ancient centre of Rome is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and you will be overjoyed discovering Rome's palaces, churches, old basilicas, amazing fountains and photogenic monuments and statues. Although Rome is steeped in history, it has a very cosmopolitan ambiance and it boasts of great shopping facilities as well as a lively nightlife, so there is definitely something for everybody to enjoy during your stay in this fantastic city. Call us about our cheap deals on flights, holidays and city breaks to experiences all that Rome has to offer.
Rome is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world due to its archaeological and artistic treasures.
A visit to the Colosseum is a must for any visitor to Rome. After your day of exploring, enjoy a café latte or an ice cream in one of the many restaurants dotted around this very historical city. A holiday to Rome is a truly unforgettable experience that will never be surpassed, that is for sure.
Rome is a city where you can enjoy countless pleasures, from the amazing thrill of feeling centuries of rough history under your feet, connecting with your inner gladiator at the Colosseum to joining an audience with the Pope at the Vatican or throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
If you haven't been to Rome before, it certainly is time to visit this magical city or if you are a regular visitor to one of the world's most photogenic cities, Rome is waiting for you.
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Rome enjoys a Mediterranean climate with mild, humid winters and warm, dry summers. Its average annual temperature is above 20 °C (68 °F) during the day and 10 °C (50 °F) at night. In the coldest month – January, the average temperature is 12 °C (54 °F) during the day and 3 °C (37 °F) at night. In the warmest months – July and August, the average temperature is 30 °C (86 °F) during the day and 18 °C (64 °F) at night.
December, January and February are the coldest months, with average temperatures around 12.5 °C (54.5 °F) during the day and 3.6 °C (38.5 °F) at night. Temperatures generally vary between 10 and 15 °C (50 and 59 °F) during the day and between 3 and 5 °C (37 and 41 °F) at night, with colder or warmer spells occurring frequently. Snowfall is rare but not unheard of, with light snow or flurries occurring almost every winter, generally without accumulation, and major snowfalls once every 20 or 25 years.
The average relative humidity is 75%, varying from 72% in July to 77% in November. Sea temperatures vary from a low of 13 °C (55 °F) in February and March to a high of 24 °C (75 °F) in August.
BY BUS IN ROME
The most convenient and economic way of getting around Rome is by far the Public Transit Bus service.
Buses run 24 hrs. a day and cover the entire city. Bus tickets and subway metro tickets are interchangeable within the time validity of the ticket. Validation begins by punching them into the ticket counter found on both the bus or subway. Keep the ticket with you at all times during your trip because if there should be a check by the controller, you could get a fine ranging from €40 to €70.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at any tobacconists (easily found by the blue sign with a capital T outlined in white found throughout the city) and from vending machines at both the train and metro stations. Tickets are not considered used until they are validated, so you can keep a supply of them. To validate your ticket you need to put it into one of the 3 machines the bus; one in the front, one in the middle and one at the back. The machine will beep if your ticket is not valid. Place the ticket in the machine with the arrow pointing down and facing you.
BY UNDERGROUND/METRO SYSTEM
Rome offers 2 metro lines, Line A red line and Line B blue line, and their entrances are indicated by a large red sign marked with an M.
Line A runs from Battistini to Anagnina and includes stops near the Vatican Museums (Cipro), the Vatican (Ottaviano), the Cola di Rienzo shopping area (Lepanto), Piazza del Popolo (Flaminia), the Spanish Steps Spanish (Piazza di Spagna), Via Veneto (Barberini) and San Giovanni.
Line B runs from Rebibbia to Laurentina and includes stops near Eur, St. Pauls Outside the Walls (Basilica S. Paolo), Piramide (also the Ostiense train station), Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo), the Colosseum (Colosseo) and the Tiburtina train station. There will be signs in both the station and on the train showing the stops along the route. Your ticket will be validated when going through the turnstile.
Those with passes can walk through the open lane while showing their pass to the attendant.
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Shine Your Eyes Cidade Pássaro is the debut fiction film from documentarian Matias Mariani. Telling the story of a Nigerian man who travels to São Paulo to find his brother, it is a gorgeously shot exploration of immigrant identity that tackles everything from finding a formula to solve horse racing betting to finding oneself adrift in a new city. Premiering in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, it is one of the best Brazilian films at the festival. We sat down with the director to learn how the film came about.
What inspired you to tell this story?
When I was younger, I lived outside of Brazil for five years. That was a very impactful experience. I reflected a lot on feeling very lonely but very empowered at the same time; that kind of weird situation you have when you don't know many people. I always wanted to do a film about that experience. And when I was away, I missed São Paulo a lot. It was a city I had a very strong emotional connection to so I thought about putting these two things together and doing a film about a foreigner in São Paulo.
My script collaborator Maíra Bühler and I researched what possibilities we had in terms of communities that were just coming to São Paulo at that point. We came across the African community that was growing in São Paulo. We had this really good idea. We put posters up for free Portuguese lessons. There's this cultural centre right by where they usually are. We rented a room and on the first day it was already packed with people. We did the class every day and would sit afterwards and have conversations. From these contacts, we flew to Nigeria to meet the people they knew: parents, wives, stuff like that.
So that's where it all started. In Lagos I had a conversation with a guy who told me about a time when he was in London. He met a guy who would go to all the betting places in London with his little notebook. He was trying to find a way to solve horse racing betting. He was very obsessed with this and sometimes he won and sometimes he didn't. That was the beginning.
It's a very different portrayal of São Paulo than most Brazilian films…
This is downtown São Paulo. São Paulo is a really big city. It has a lot of very different neighbourhoods. It can be a very rich city, a very poor city, it depends. Downtown is where the city was born and grew a lot during the coffee era of the Brazilian economy. A lot of the big farms were around this area, so they built huge buildings around the beginning of the 20th century. But from the 60s, other centres of the city opened and the downtown changed. It started to have a very peculiar population. The buildings were empty and a lot of people would occupy the buildings. Foreigners would come with no place to stay and look for a place. It became a centre for whatever the society didn't want to look at. As a result, it became extremely interesting both politically and aesthetically.
São Paulo is a weird place. We like to think of ourselves as a city of immigrants like New York. We like to mythologise those people — the Portuguese, Italians, Spanish and Japanese, and the immigration that happened in the 50s — but we want to believe as a city that it's over: "Now we're all Paulistas, now we're all the same". It's not like New York which constantly sees itself as changing and evolving. I think a lot it comes from xenophobia because the newest arrivals are Bolivians, Africans or Haitians; people who Paulistas don't feel comfortable talking about or dealing with. It has a small infrastructure to receive recent immigration. One of the organisations are in the film, but very few receive you if you come to the city with no money. That's an area I thought was interesting to explore.
You're telling a story about Nigerian immigrants, but you're a white man. What did you do to make sure that the story was authentic?
I have a peculiar way of working. I did it in this film and I want to continue doing it. I like to write with a lot of people together; almost like a writing room scenario. We get together, talk, go home and write a little bit. I feel very energised by that kind of atmosphere. One thing we did which I thought was important was to get a Nigerian writer — Chika Anadu. She was extremely important in order to get the characters right and to understand the political and cultural context of where those people come from. She also wrote the dialogue in Igbo. We had had this other writer called Chioma Thompson who is also Igbo and studies Odinani, the Igbo religion. She contributed a lot to the religious aspects of the movie.
I like to write with a lot of people together; almost like a writing room scenario.
I'm not Nigerian. I'm also not a Black Brazilian. Francine Barbosa, this amazing writer from São Paulo, rewrote Emilia's character from scratch after I tried something that didn't really work out. She picked it up for me and made her whole. I think if you're in São Paulo and you're white like I am, you have an extremely different experience of the city than if you're a black Brazilian and even more so if you are Nigerian. They are all completely different things, so I think it's very important to have that.
We also had a very diverse crew when we were shooting. We made sure to have either Nigerians or Black Brazilians in all the heads of crew. There's a political connotation to it, but the more important part is that it makes the film better. It makes the story more diverse and interesting. There was an artistic reason to make that happen.
There are really beautiful locations in the film that fit really well with the characters. How much location scouting was involved to create these amazing landscapes?
It's kind of the other way around for me. It's kind of been this way for a while. This is my first fiction film but I also did some documentaries. I go around São Paulo and see a certain place and I think: "Wow, I need to shoot here". I don't have the scene, I don't have anything, I just feel like this is the place where I want to shoot. When I work on the script I think about how to do it. I used to date this girl whose grandmother would love to bet on horses. We would go there together and bet every Sunday. I needed to find an excuse to use this location.
It wasn't so much about location scouting in that sense. I had most of the locations already. But there was one thing that was particularly difficult and that was to create the correct geography. Location scouting came in to place then as I wanted it to be realistic for someone in São Paulo watching it. For example, we'd go to apartments and not quite get the right perspective. I was a bit obsessive to make sure a guy from Sao Paolo would feel that it was right.
I sensed some science fiction influences too, for example Blade Runner, Akira or Ghost in the Shell. Did these films influence Shine Your Eyes' look?
Yes, it's a big influence. When I was like fourteen, fifteen, my father had this collection of all the sci-fi classics. This was my first literary passion. Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, all these guys. I've read them so much and I think that it really impressed upon me what I wanted to do in terms of film. So I think print sci-fi is particularly present too.
But I always really liked how these anime films deal with cities, how they are able to construct urban scenery in a way I don't see in other mediums. Ghost In The Shell for example; the animation is amazing in how much it can express through cities.
How did you find the cast?
A lot of people came to the conclusion that since this is an immigrant story that they're all non-professional actors. Lots of journalists are saying that. But it's the opposite. I really like working with actors that are classically trained. As this is my first feature as a fiction filmmaker, I wanted it to be in good hands.
Trying to find a common language was difficult, but it was a fun challenge.
We did a casting call in London, USA and Nigeria. We didn't have money to fly to these places but we received a lot of videotapes and self-tests. And that's how we found OC Ukeje and Chukwudi Iwuji. OC is quite a famous actor in Nigeria. He's a really well-known celebrity. People say he can't walk outside. It was amazing to work with him because he's such a dedicated actor.
Chukwudi is almost the opposite because he made his career in London, and he's a classically trained thespian. He was part of the Royal Shakespeare Academy and played all the major Shakespearian roles. He was the total opposite. And then Indira Nascimento is an amazing actress from Brazil and also a theatre actress.
Nollywood, Shakespearian theatre and Brazilian theatre all have different modes of expression. Was it hard to find a tone that works throughout the film?
My main job was to achieve that common tone. Although OC is originally a Nollywood actor, he understood very quickly that this is a realistic film and adapted very well. The major issue is that Indira doesn't speak any English. So Indira and OC didn't have a language in common. We did a lot of rehearsals just us three just to get that flow going and for them to feel at ease. Trying to find a common language was difficult, but it was a fun challenge.
You can read all of our Berlinale coverage here. The Berlin Film Festival runs from 20th February to March 1st. Learn more about the event at berlinale.de.
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It feels odd to write about cake with everything that has been happening this week. But with all the terrifying stories in the news, I guess we could all use some cheering up right about now. So cake it is. More specifically miso walnut cakes with espresso buttercream.
Coffee and Walnut is a classic cake pairing. So while I did not want to mess with the original idea too much, it was about time Miso and Walnut met in a sweet context. For quite some time now, one of my go-to easy dinners has been Heidi Swanson's recipe for Miso Walnut Noodles. You make a pesto of sorts with walnuts, olive oil, garlic, white miso, some vinegar, honey and salt and that you stir through some pasta. The bitterness and delicate crunch of the walnuts is the perfect contrast to the creamy and sweet and slightly funky-tasting miso – the paste is so good I tend to make a big batch to keep in the fridge for sandwiches, cooked pasta and greens.
While Heidi's Miso Walnut Noodles are decidedly savoury, her recipe made me realize how well walnuts and miso go together. And we already know how much I like using miso in sweets. While it lends a beautiful savoury note to custards and caramel or butterscotch (and in a less direct and less aggressive way than sea salt does), baking with miso I noticed how it can make things taste 'malty'. A brilliant discovery when malted milk powder can be hard to track down and given my fridge already sports several jars of miso.
These little miso walnut cakes don't contain a whole lot of miso. Like salt, miso is powerful and a mere teaspoon is enough to give these cakes a bit of a malty flavour and really underline the flavour of the toasted walnuts. The cakes are topped with a lick of espresso buttercream – enough for these little cakes to feel a bit more indulgent but without being cloying.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and grease a 6 hole muffin tin (or 6 similarly sized individual cake tins such as friand moulds).
Toast the walnuts in a dry pan on medium heat until fragrant, being careful not to burn them. Pulse in a food processor until the walnuts turn into a fine meal (but before they start turning into walnut butter!). Add the rice flour and whisk to combine. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat the soft butter with the sugar until pale in colour and doubled in volume (this should take ca. 4-5 minutes). Add the egg yolks and the miso paste and beat well to incorporate. Incorporate the flour and walnut mixture 3 portions, mixing well in between each addition.
Beat the egg whites until stiff before carefully folding them into the batter.
Carefully distribute the batter between the muffin tin holes/cake tins.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until well risen and the cakes are just starting to colour.
Leave the cakes to cool for 5 minutes before carefully removing them from their tins and placing on a cookie rack to cool down completely.
To make the buttercream beat the butter with the icing sugar and espresso powder on medium speed until combined (the mixture will look impossibly dry at first but should come together after 3-4 minutes). Add the milk and continue beating util the mixture is light and fluffy (at least 5 minutes). Using a spoon or a small spatula, carefully spread about 1 scant tablespoon of buttercream on top of each small cake. Decorate with the walnut halves if using.
Sophia, i really taste this by mere reading your recipe. Love your miso experiments!
That makes me so happy to hear! Miso is such a fantastic addition to all kinds of recipes – recently tried Heidi Swanson's Miso Porridge, another instant Miso favourite! | {
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Justice is traditionally represented by the symbol of a scale, where the strengths of a case's opposition and support are weighed out, ostensibly with impartial objectivity.
This symbolism is noble but doesn't take into account the often-unconscious biases that we carry into so many situations, the collective sum total of which amount to institutionalized racism, sexism, classism, and more.
Even so, the scale is an important symbol that helps us to visualize countervailing energies.
I believe that somewhere there is a metaphorical scale that is collecting the courageous responses that have been flowing so strongly these past weeks: from the thousands of people of color and white folks showing up in the streets of New York, Oakland, Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities – often in the face of police armed with military-grade guns and equipment, teargas canisters, and even tanks – to individuals who are writing brave words, folks like Paul Gorski talking about the challenging conversations we need to be having, and like Jessie S, naming how anti-black racism lives in each of us and what to do about it.
On the other side of the scale are the acts that have provoked these responses and the silence that so often accompanies them. This past week it was the decisions from Missouri and New York grand juries to not indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner, respectively. But these are simply the latest in a long long long line of injustices, and the conspiracy of silence and complicity which keep those injustices in place.
As terrible as these grand jury decisions have been, they are serving the purpose of waking up a lot of people who have been oblivious to or in denial of racial injustice. It's pretty impossible to deny that something is horribly wrong when you watch the video of Eric Garner – a peaceful and unarmed man who did nothing more than selling a few cigarettes on the street – pleading for his life.
And then you realize that the officers involved are not being held accountable in any way.
And then you learn that young black males are 21 times more likely to be shot dead by the police compared to their white counterparts.
The scale is there, waiting for you to weigh in. Which will it be? Speaking out the truth of this suffering and finding ways to respond to it… or remaining silent, eyes closed, living in the ignorance of your personal comfort zone.
I am speaking right now particularly to those of you who identify as Buddhist, and who happen to be white. If you choose to remain silent now, to turn away, you are weighing in on the side of perpetuating the injustices that run rampant in our society.
I realize the title of this article will irritate dharma practitioners who have studied and practiced the way of non-duality. I am one of you (a longtime dharma practitioner), and I get that. I get your concern.
And – this is an invitation to realize that non-duality includes points at which we need to take a stand on the side of love. You can hold a place of compassion for an individual officer who may have been trying his best in the moment, and yet call out the ways that he (or she) acted from a place of unexamined bias, and call out a 'justice' system that is blind to the reality of racism.
Use your dharma practice to help you settle into a place of receptivity and curiosity…. And get in touch with your deep intention to help all beings be free from suffering, yourself included.
Listen. Listen to the experience of people of color without jumping to defensiveness or explanations. Be willing to be in a space of 'not knowing.' We have much to learn.
Educate yourself about the dynamics of institutionalized oppression and privilege. Here's a great place to start.
Understand that racism hurts all of us. Don't act out of guilt. Realize it is in everyone's best interest, including yours, to dismantle an unjust system.
Organize a conversation about institutionalized oppression, racism, and privilege in your sangha. Get inspired by the models of the East Bay Meditation Center and Brooklyn Zen Center who have put the values of diversity and inclusivity at the heart of their practice.
Show up in support of actions that are happening in your city.
Join up with Sangha in the Streets, a Facebook group where you can find out about ways to offer a contemplative presence at these actions, or initiate one yourself.
Start a conversation about what the Beloved Community would look and feel like, talk about your vision and listen to others. Check out this video from Dr. Lee Lipp, a senior practitioner at San Francisco Zen Center.
Above all, don't be silent. Don't turn away. You may not know what to do, but you can at least talk about that… talk about what you are seeing that deeply disturbs you, reach out to others, start a conversation about what needs to happen. And listen, always listen.
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As this month's full moon shines down and illuminates the valley that is my home here in Santa Fe, I'm thinking about deep change and transformation.
Over the past month, I've been supporting the 24 people who are going through "Fall in Love with Your Work." One of the things I love about teaching this course is watching the transformations that unfold for participants on their way to create right livelihood.
When I first created the course, I didn't anticipate the deep levels of change that people would go through – not all of those changes directly related to their work. Some of them ended relationships that no longer served them or their partners. Some started exciting new projects, like a meditation group for their local community. Some dove headlong into creative endeavors that they had been postponing for way too long.
I thought I was simply offering a course that might help people get closer to work they would love. But in the process, I started to get how much our work in the world is an expression of our soul. So of course it makes sense that by deeply connecting with our mission and purpose related to livelihood, we would experience a shift at a soul level as well.
Transformation is not about making superficial changes – it's about radically altering something at a deep level. What makes transformation possible?
Dec 21: Seattle Liberation Lounge!
If you're in the Seattle area, I'd love to meet you in person! Join me on Sunday, December 21, for a "Liberation Lounge" afternoon soiree with like-minded and spirited folks. We'll explore the nature of liberation, celebrate the Solstice, and enjoy some yummy treats. You can RSVP via Facebook or contact me at [email protected] for more details.
Interested in bringing mindfulness into your workplace? Re-Connection and Renewal (R+R) workshops and retreats are designed to do just that. This past month, along with my friend and colleague Katya Lesher, I offered a one-day R+R retreat for staff of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Get in touch with me to learn more about how you can bring a custom-designed R+R to your group or organization.
Katya Lesher and I will be co-leading "Re-Connection and Renewal: A Women's Weekend of Mindful Nourishment" at Upaya Zen Center, June 26-28, 2015.
Please save the dates — I'd love to have you join us here in beautiful Santa Fe.
If you'd like to sign up for my mailing list to receive these monthly e-letters, c'mon over here.
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Rev. Danny Fisher has made some big changes in his life — leaving his position as director of the University of the West Buddhist Chaplaincy Program, moving to Toronto with his wonderful wife Stephanie, and starting a new web venture: "Off the Cushion." In its short existence, Off the Cushion has featured stories on Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and the People's Climate March, Cambodia's social justice monks, and "Buddhism After Ferguson," a podcast of an interview with Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Dawn Haney (Director of Training & Development) and Katie Loncke (Director of Media and Action). Danny's doing some innovative stuff on his new website… check it out!
Speaking of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, my old stomping grounds, have you been following their series on the Four Noble Truths? It's been unfolding all this past year with a number of excellent writers and dharma teachers taking a look at the Four Noble Truths through the lens of social and environmental justice. One of my favorite authors of the series has been Funie Hsu, a former LA public school teacher and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis in the School of Education. Funie is focusing her four articles on how systemic violence plays out in students' lives.
BPF is also sponsoring a call on November 3, 6 pm (PDT), on "How Does you Dharma Practice Support Your Social Justice Work in the World?" I'll be speaking on the call, as well as The Revolution Starts At Home author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and East Bay Meditation Center sangha leader Max Airborne. The call is for BPF members — you can become one and support this great organization on this page.
And finally, you may want to join up with Sangha in the Streets, a Facebook group I started back in 2011 during the Occupy Movement as a way for contemplative practitioners to find each other and organize "public displays of practice" as part of larger protests. Since that time, it's been a way to stay connected and has recently become more active around the People's Climate March and Ferguson, MO.
In the end, it's all about staying connected and staying present….
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Time and space are how we move through this world. In this digital age, we've gotten so attuned to our devices, whether they are smartphones or laptops or something else. The more digital we get, the less human we are…. that's my feeling, anyway.
Over the past few months, I've been remembering how good it feels to pay attention to the moon. When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was part of a small sangha (Buddhist community) that took full moon walks along a eucalyptus tree-lined trail in the Oakland hills. We would walk about 20 minutes in silence until we reached a certain overlook. Along the way, someone would ring a bell of mindfulness every so often. Then on the way back we took time to catch up on each other's lives, renewing friendships and connections that might have been put aside in the busy-ness of the previous month.
In July, I co-led a full moon ceremony at the International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice center in northern Thailand. My co-conspirator for that ceremony was Nicole Sangsuree Barrett, an extraordinary young woman who was there for the Buddhist Education for Social Transformation course that I was helping to teach. Sangsuree was a gifted ceremonialist and she designed a beautiful ritual to support all of us to reconnect to the earth and with each other. Just five days later, Sang was killed instantly when she was hit by a car in Chiang Mai.
As you might imagine, her loss was devastating for so many people who loved her. At the same time, there were many gifts that flowed from her death (I wrote more about Sangsuree's life and death here). For me, it was that reminder of how important ritual is, how deeply we human beings need that chance to find our way back to the 'home' that is always there in nature and deep inside each of us.
As you move into this next month, how can you create time and space in your life to re-connect and renew yourself? It might be as simple as turning off all your digital devices for one day of the week and being more present to yourself and those you love. This is so important in this world of ours these days… it's really an act of healing to be present. I'd love to hear how you do this in your life – drop me a line and let me know.
Kicked off the October/November round of "Fall in Love with Your Work," the e-course that I created three years ago. This time around we have 24 people taking the course from all over the world. I'm looking forward to watching big transformations unfold!
I'm helping the Academy for the Love of Learning, a wonderful Santa Fe-based nonprofit, to lay the groundwork for a very exciting project called "The City That Learns." I'll be sharing more about that in the near future.
On another note, I just returned from a journey through the Southwest. One of the highlights was spending time at Canyon de Chelly, in Chinle, AZ. Joseph Campbell once called this "the most sacred place on earth." Yes. I want to return and have more time there.
Interested in bringing mindfulness into your workplace? Re-Connection and Renewal (R+R) workshops and retreats are designed to do just that. This month, I'm traveling to Ohio to co-lead a one-day retreat for the staff of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Get in touch with me to learn more about how you can bring a custom-designed R+R to your group or organization.
Katya Lesher and I will be co-leading "Re-Connection and Renewal: A Women's Weekend of Mindful Nourishment" at Upaya Zen Center, June 26-28, 2015. I'd love to have you join us here in beautiful Santa Fe.
It's been a quiet month for writing… more coming soon!
Occasionally I like to cross-pollinate here from my other, more stealth Buddhist blog, The Liberated Life Project.
I thought that you — my Jizo peeps — might enjoy knowing that I'm offering an e-course in October called "Fall in Love with Your Work." This is an 8-week adventure into the heart of 'right livelihood' and how you can make it happen in your life. It's very much based in a perspective of mindfulness.
If you're considering making a shift in your professional life, starting to work for yourself or starting a business, or if you need to re-align your relationship with your current job so that it feels more meaningful, "Fall in Love with Your Work" may be right up your alley. You can find out more on this page.
Registration closes next Monday, September 29, and the course starts on October 1. I hope that some of you will join me for this!
p.s. Sharon Salzberg was kind enough to send me a box of her "Real Happiness at Work" to help promote this course. I've still got a few left — if you register this weekend you've got a good chance at receiving a free copy of this great book!
can accelerate your own path of liberation.
Your life is bigger than the boundaries around your skin.
When I was growing up, I loved the start of the school year – new books to read, inspiring teachers to learn from, and reconnecting with friends returning from summertime adventures. I've always had a passion for learning and connection.
September has always felt to me like the real beginning of the year – I wonder if that feels true for you too?
As this September starts, I'm ready to create something new… hence this newsletter!
A little background may be helpful. You're receiving this email because you've signed up for one of my lists: the Liberated Life Project, Five Directions, and/or the Jizo Chronicles. Over the years, I've discovered that readers on any one of those sites often have no idea that the others exist. It seems I've created different spaces for different parts of myself… but now I can see how connected they all are.
Recently I've started to see how all these venues — and my whole body of work — have one thing in common: creating space for learning and transformation.
In the next few months, my big project is to bring together these online personas into one integrated space, a place dedicated to transformative learning and mindful awareness and to supporting those who share those values. This monthly newsletter is a first step in that direction and makes it easier for me to tell you what else is going on in my 'world work,' as a friend calls it.
I know lots of folks are downsizing in the email department. If you need to unsubscribe from this one, I understand. But if you feel that you'd enjoy hearing what I'm up to, staying in the loop about ways to learn along with me, and keeping connected to the other great folks please do stick around! I would love to stay connected – if that feels right to you.
p.s. the beautiful photo of the spider web, above, was taken by my friend and colleague, Katya Lesher.
June — taught mindfulness practices at the Empowering Blind Students in Science and Engineering workshop, Seattle, WA.
August — facilitated a planning retreat in New Hampshire for a group of people founding a nonprofit organization.
Fall in Love with Your Work!
This October, join me for a journey into right livelihood! This is the only time this year I'm offering "Fall in Love with Your Work," the e-course that's been life-changing for many people. I'm expanding the course to two months, and there'll be an extra-special gift for the first 10 people who sign up (registration opens Sept 15). Learn more and get on the "Advance Notice Discount" list on this page.
I'm delighted to announce that Katya Lesher and I will be co-leading a retreat at Upaya Zen Center, June 26-28, 2015. Please save the dates — I'd love to have you join us here in beautiful Santa Fe. More details coming soon!
Lately I've been thinking a lot about despair and hope… how do we move from one to the other, how do we not lose hope when so many terrible things are going on — from our own neighborhood to all around the global community. In this age of nearly unlimited internet connectivity, we hear about these tragedies in nearly real time.
In the middle of my comfortable life it can be easy to ignore all this and more. The practice: Not turning away.
Not turning away is not easy, but it is what I understand to be the foundation of our bodhisattva vows. Being present to the truth of suffering, connecting with compassion inside of me, and then taking loving action from that place.
After I put up that post, I thought a lot about how I could respond in each of those cases. Initially I felt a sense of hopelessness, of how daunting it is to even consider addressing any one of those. But thanks to that very internet connectivity that made me aware of these situations, I was able to find what some other folks are doing to respond. And so was born… The Yes List. Who knows… maybe this will become a regular feature on The Jizo Chronicles.
YES! The Open Letter crafted by Jewish Voice for Peace… eloquent and powerful. A call for compassion for all sides, at the same time recognizing the root causes of the violence and calling for Israel to end the illegal occupation of Palestine. I encourage you to sign the letter. And let us know what other creative and generative responses you know of to this crisis.
YES! The good work of United We Dream, an organization pushing to re-frame the situation with the children in Texas as a refugee crisis, not an "illegal immigrant problem." UWD has organized a three-day vigil in McAllen, TX, to raise awareness of this issue and they've got a petition you can sign to urge President Obama to take action to protect all immigrant families.
YES! This piece of news just came to my attention in the last day, and I am more attuned to it because I'm here in Thailand right now and there are seven Burmese women in the group I am currently helping to facilitate. With this being a very recent development, I couldn't find an immediate response. But I am betting that Amnesty International will be an excellent resource, as it always is in cases like this. Keep an eye on them — they've already got an article on the situation posted here.
And for good measure, here's one more to add to the Yes List, a creative response that I just love. A group of folks in Dallas, TX, took to the streets on Friday to demonstrate for their right to open carry…. guitars. Yep, guitars instead of guns. Amen.
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Helsinki City Marathon Relay
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Helsinki City marathon
the 42nd Helsinki City Marathon with a beautiful sea view and the city centre
The Helsinki City Marathon has a long history it was organized for the first time in the year 1981 and it has always been the most international and largest marathon event in Finland. This year will be the 42nd edition for HCM. The Helsinki City Marathon's route will offer you a beautiful sea views and also offers views of Helsinki's city center on May 14th, 2022!
TIME TO START
Helsinki City Marathon Info
ABBOTTWMM WANDA AGE GROUP WORLD RANKING COMPETITION
Helsinki City Marathon is one of the AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Ranking competitions. At the end of the qualifying period, the top ranked runners in each age group will be invited to the AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Championships.
The first qualifying period for the AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Rankings will begin on January 1st, 2021 and will end on December 31st, 2021. The best two results in marathons over this period will count for each runner's ranking.
Age groups (men and women)
The rankings cover age groups from 40 to 80+ for men and women as following:
40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80+
HOW TO SCORE POINTS?
The maximum points that can be scored in any race by an age group winner is 4,000. The age group winners in any AbbottWMM race – the Tokyo, Boston, Virgin Money London, BMW BERLIN, Bank of America Chicago and TCS New York City Marathons – will automatically get 4,000 points.
Any age group athlete who is within 29 seconds of the age group winning time in an AbbottWMM race receives 10 points less, earning 3990 points. Runners within 30-59 seconds of the winning time receive 20 points less, and those earning times within 1 minute and 29 seconds less than the age group winning time receive 30 points less, and so on.
Runners can earn points for their performances in marathons beyond the six AbbottWMM races, provided the event is an official AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Ranking qualifying race. In those events, scoring will be based on a platinum time calculated for each age group and gender, using standard multiples of the 'mean' of the current marathon world record times for each age group and gender. Winners of any age group marathons that are not Abbott World Marathon Races must run faster than the platinum time for their age and gender to score 4000 points. The same points degradation according to time behind the winner applies. The full list of the platinum times is included below.
Runners' qualifying times must be recorded at a certified accurate marathon which has been nominated as an AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Ranking qualifying race. The current list is included at the conclusion of this document. If the age group winning time is below the platinum time, then the points awarded to the winner and every subsequent age group runner are reduced by the time the age group winner has missed platinum time for the age and gender of the athlete.
Platinum times for each age group are as follows:
40-44 2:26 40-44 2:46
80+ 4:17 80+ 5:33
HOW TO ENTER THE WORLD RANKING COMPETITIONS?
If you are +40 years old, you need to select "Yes" in the section "I want to score points for AbbottWMM Age Group World Championships and give a permission to give all the participant data to World Marathon Majors LCC".
AGE GROUPS AND PRIZES
W/M Open Class, W/M40, W/M45, W/M50, W/M55, W/M60, W/M65, M70
A runner will be placed in the right age group automatically based on his/her birth year (age per December 31st). Runners under 40 yrs will automatically participate the open class competition. One can get a prize both in open class and in age group.
Each runner finishing within 6 hours receives a Helsinki City Marathon finisher medal. A diploma can be printed from your own result page after the official results have been published.
Best male and female runners will be awarded with prize money. In case the winning time goes under 2.20,30 (men) and 2.45 (women) the below mentioned sums will be raised by 500 euros.
Prize money:
1. 900 EUR
The top 5 runners in the open class and the winner of each age group will be awarded with a special prize.
The top 3 runners of the open class will be awarded directly after the race at the finishing area. Other awarded runners can collect their prizes from the Race Office at the Olympic Stadium.
All rights to changes reserved.
There is an age limit of 18 years to Helsinki City Marathon. Runners who have or will turn 18 years during the event year are welcome to participate.
BIB NUMBER PICK-UP
Each runner must pick up their bib number from the Race Office at Helsinki Olympic Stadium before their run. Pleace check the Race Office opening hours from the general info.
Please note that we are only welcoming participants/runners to the Race Office this year.
Note! Helsinki City Marathon bib numbers must be picked up before 8:30 a.m. on Saturday May 14th, 2022.
ENTRY FEES 2022
Helsinki City Marathon entry fees 2022
5.10.-1.11. 60 €
2.11.-30.11. 62 €
1.12.-7.1.2022 69 €
8.1.-28.2. 75 €
16.3.-28.4.
Post registration 29.4.-14.5. 95 €
The event t-shirt is included in the entry fee until November 1st, 2021. From November 1st onwards, you can purchase the event t-shirt for 15 euros when you register (20 euros at the event)
PACE MAKERS
Pace makers help you to keep up the steady speed during the whole event. These experienced runners are wearing flags with the finishing time and bright coloured vests and they will run the whole route with a steady pace.
We have pace makers aiming to the following finishing times: 3:30h, 3:45h, 4h, 4:15h, 4:30h, 4:45h, 5h and 5:30h. Before the start, you will find the pace makers near the finishing time signs beside the start area.
REFRESHMENT STATIONS & PERSONAL REFRESHMENTS
The Helsinki City Marathon route will have 13 refreshment stations, one energy gel station, and an extensive refreshment station at the finish area. At the refreshment stations, runners will be served sports drink (Leader Performance sports drink, lemon flavour) and water. At some stations, runners will be served salty pickled cucumbers and on the second round Maxim energy gels (orange and strawberry flavor). Please find the locations of the refreshment stations from the link below:
HCM refreshment stations 2021
Personal refreshments
If you have personal refreshments, please bring them to the marked boxes to the hallway of entrance of the Race Office/Expo Area between 7.30 a.m. and 8.30 a.m. on the race day.
Please make sure that you can recognize your drinks, and that they are marked with your name, your bib number and the kilometre mark of the refreshment station (to what station you want your refreshments to be brought). You can find the locations of the refreshment stations from the link above.
The personal refreshment drinks are served first (before sports drink and water) at the refreshment stations.
START, ROUTE, ELEVATION PROFILE AND FINISH
Start at 9:30 a.m.
The marathon start is at 09:30 a.m. at the Mäntymäentie street, next to the statue of Paavo Nurmi.. All runners should be at the southern Olympic stadium square (starting area) latest by 09:20 a.m.
The Helsinki City Marathon results are based on runners' net times (time from crossing start line to crossing finish line). Therefore, runners do not need to rush to the start line, as their timing will not start before they cross the start line. Note! Runners shall not cover their bib number with their hands neither when crossing the start nor the finish line.
The route shows runners the best views and the heart of Helsinki city! It is a comfortable route to run, offering runners a mixture of seaside, park, and, downtown landscaping. It is faster and smoother than before, avoiding some of the steepest and longest hills and narrow curves.
The route consists of two laps where the first lap is longer, having a approximately 7 km loop in the Southern end of the city. The second lap is the same as the first lap, excluding the loop in the Southern end of the city.
The finish line is at the iconic Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Runners are served a variety of refreshments at the finish area.
Garmin Helsinki City Marathon route 2021
Elevation profile 2021
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General event info
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Civil-rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune to replace Confederate general as Florida's statue at U.S. Capitol
The Florida House voted 111-1 this week to support placing the statue of Bethune in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, replacing Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.
Gov. Rick Scott plans to sign a bill that would lead to a statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune replacing the likeness of a Confederate general as a representative of Florida in the U.S. Capitol.
The Florida House voted 111-1 on Tuesday to support placing the statue of Bethune in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, replacing Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. Rep. Jay Fant, R-Jacksonville, cast the only dissenting vote. Fant is running for Attorney General.
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A short time after the vote, Scott's office announced he intends the sign the measure into law.
Rep. Patrick Henry, a Daytona Beach Democrat who sponsored the bill, said he was "proud to be member of the House" as it was "poised to make history."
Bethune, who would become the first African-American woman honored by a state in the national hall, founded what became Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach and later worked as an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt.
Henry, who attended Bethune-Cookman, said Bethune is considered the "mother of the civil rights movement" at the university.
"Dr. Bethune was a revolutionary woman, she transcended race and social economic status," Henry said. "Her life is an example of what happens when you refuse to accept failure as an option."
The vote came with students from the university in the House gallery. The university has offered to pay for the statue.
The Senate backed the proposal (SB 472) in a 37-0 vote on Jan. 31.
Smith was born in St. Augustine but had few ties to the state as an adult. As commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, Smith was considered the last general with a major field force to surrender. He has represented Florida in the National Statuary Hall since 1922.
Florida's other representative in the hall is John Gorrie, widely considered the father of air conditioning. Each state is allowed two representatives. The bill requires the Smith statue to be acquired and displayed by the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
After voting against the proposal when it appeared before the House Government Accountability Committee in October, Fant said the Legislature shouldn't be involved in the statue-removal process.
"Messing with statues is a fool's errand for the Legislature," said Fant. "I don't think we should even remove any of the statues that we have, including the ones that they're moving to replace here. … It's one of those issues that I think truly creates division within communities, this whole statue-removal business, and I don't want to be part of all that."
The proposal has also drawn opposition from a group called Save Southern Heritage, which was formed in 2015 in response to "knee-jerk Anti-Southern institutionalized bullying."
The Legislature voted in 2016 to replace the Smith statue during a nationwide backlash against Confederate symbols in the wake of the 2015 shooting deaths of nine African-American worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
But lawmakers couldn't agree last year on who should replace Smith. Lawmakers considered three possibilities — Bethune, Everglades activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Publix grocery store founder George Washington Jenkins, Jr. — submitted by a panel known as the Great Floridians Committee.
Democrats' demands for a replacement grew last summer after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly. A plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee helped spur the Charlottesville rally.
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Stochastic games for the smart grid energy management with prospect prosumers
S. Rasoul Etesami, Walid Saad, Narayan B. Mandayam, H. Vincent Poor
Center for Statistics & Machine Learning
In this paper, the problem of the smart grid energy management under stochastic dynamics is investigated. In the considered model, at the demand side, it is assumed that customers can act as prosumers who own renewable energy sources and can both produce and consume energy. Due to the coupling between the prosumers' decisions and the stochastic nature of renewable energy, the interaction among prosumers is formulated as a stochastic game, in which each prosumer seeks to maximize its payoff, in terms of revenues, by controlling its energy consumption and demand. In particular, the subjective behavior of prosumers is explicitly reflected into their payoff functions using the prospect theory, a powerful framework that allows modeling real-life human choices, rather than objective, user-agnostic decisions, as normative models do. For this prospect-based stochastic game, it is shown that there always exists a stationary Nash equilibrium where the prosumers' trading policies in the equilibrium are independent of the time and their histories of the play. Moreover, to obtain one of such equilibrium policies, a novel distributed algorithm with no information sharing among prosumers is proposed and shown to converge to an \epsilon-Nash equilibrium in which each prosumer is able to achieve its optimal payoff in an equilibrium up to a small additive error \epsilon. On the other hand, at the supply side, the interaction between the utility company and the prosumers is formulated as an online optimization problem in which the utility company's goal is to learn its optimal energy allocation rules. For this case, it is shown that such an optimization problem admits a no-regret algorithm meaning that regardless of the actual outcome of the game among the prosumers, the utility company can follow a strategy that mitigates its allocation costs as if it knew the entire demand market a priori. Simulation results justify the convergence of the proposed algorithms and present new insights toward more efficient energy management in the smart grids.
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Etesami, S. R., Saad, W., Mandayam, N. B., & Poor, H. V. (2018). Stochastic games for the smart grid energy management with prospect prosumers. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(8), 2327-2342. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2018.2797217
Etesami, S. Rasoul ; Saad, Walid ; Mandayam, Narayan B. ; Poor, H. Vincent. / Stochastic games for the smart grid energy management with prospect prosumers. In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2018 ; Vol. 63, No. 8. pp. 2327-2342.
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Celebrating Queerness Operatically
by Rachael Fuller
October 28, 2017 October 28, 2017 by Rachael Fuller
Halloween in Davis Square inevitably brings together Tufts University students, families, and the vibrant and wonderful Somerville queer community, packing the bars, the provincial Davis Square Theatre, and on Friday night, The Rockwell. In this exuberant context, Whole Tone Opera Company hosted an adaptation of Louis Bertin's Le Loup-garou with new music from Molly Preston, called The Werewolf: A Fiercely Queer Opera (including musical librettist Teri Kowiak and spoken librettist J. Deschene), in the small underground comedy space, which celebrated queerness in opera in the 19th-century style. Comprising students and young professionals in the area, the company is associated with Whole Tone Music Academy, a staple for community music education on Highland Ave in Davis Square.
The night began with an opening act from Parlour Opera Players, whose A Game of Werewolf by Timothy Ayres-Kerr set the stage for Preston's undertaking. The small box theater with a thrust proved appropriate for a reduced-scale opera of an experimental bent. Disappointingly, both companies faced frontwards for the entire show, leaving two-thirds of the audience to guess facial expressions. After Parlour's showing came The Werewolf, complete with a marching band-style pit orchestra that supplied a weak, out-of-tune background to the partially-used stage. While the company gave a very spirited presentation of the Halloween work, the music in both acts revealed little more than an amateur attempt at clichéd Rossini.
While the costuming fashioned a very typical 19th century Victorian flair, a few choices frankly seemed bizarre, likely attempting to follow the quirky LGBTIA+ trends. One character wore a full coat of fur on top of what appeared to be jogging shorts, complete with casual loafers. Another wore a purple sports jacket, foreshadowing his genderqueer transformation. Another completely deviated from the 19th century style, wearing tight, leather pants with a lavender vest.
The shallow, vague plotlines supported neither nuance nor finesse. The apparent attempt at an edgy, risky operatic equivalent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show misjudged badly. The only antidote to the over-acted sentiments and perplexingly terrible puns, came in a pleasant lyric aria from soprano Jeila Irdmusa. The problematic celebration of queerness was most troubling; although well-intentioned, it led, for me, to a non-inclusive, forced vision instead of a welcoming celebration of LGBTQIA+.
Vincent, in a purple blazer, had the potential to rise above antiquated, cartoonish stereotypes. Towards the end of the night, Count Albéric proposed to Vincent after a fraught, heterosexual love triangle exploded, asking Vincent to be his wife, slipping a wedding dress onto his shoulders, and telling him that his "true form was waiting to be revealed." Rather than letting Vincent conclude that he identified as a woman, instead this gender role was put upon him by Count Albéric in a selfish move to make the other two in the triangle jealous. Vincent's gender was fetishized throughout the rest of the act, seeming to convey that gender and sexuality are one in the same.
For all who need their queer fix for Halloween week, The Werewolf: A Fiercely Queer Opera continues at The Rockwell through October 31st.
Rachael Fuller is an MIT administrator who has studied piano and music theory. By night, the concertgoer is also a practicing musicologist.
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Hey, it was a fun evening, I went on Hallowe'en as Calais and Pilgrim (a MUST SEE btw) beckoned for earlier nights–3 operas in 6 days, a mini-Glimmerglass (4 operas in 44 hours). The Main Event, The Werewolf, was Worth It. Yes, one could dispense with the curtain-raiser "A Game of Werewolf" or something like that with musical writing threatening the idea this was One-Note Opera performing (repeated notes) apparently based on a video game and demonstrating another reason to not watch TV. When that was over there was a short entr act of a costume contest before the Main Event, The Werewolf.
One got a feeling what entertainment and art were like before the coming of radio and movies and television and their hand-held offspring; the days when the local opera house above a block of stores–think Clark Block in Natick–held sway; good clean (?) family entertainment. Yes, maybe 2nd and 3rd rate opera but some of it musically clever (real counterpoint in ensemble numbers which Broadway can no longer do). Much of the singing was quite good and so was some of the (over)acting and the opening dance ballet sequence (the French model; must have ballet); one would not mind seeing it again in a few years in a revival. Yes, homosexual stuff is now quite the rage so Whole Note Opera went with the flow–but they did not let agitating get in the way of the story and it ended as a screwball comedy should with everything in disarray and one in doubt as to who was what but willing to let it remain that way for any further resolution would only be an anticlimax. The Finale could have used a little expansion for a minute or more of music for a more convincing ending; if The Werewolf is a Work In Progress some expansion here and there is in order. After having read the review and sitting in front of the stage I was pleasantly surprised and went home feeling I had NOT wasted an evening. Chronontolog-er-etc. next!..then Burke & Hare if I can get in.
Comment by Nathan Redshield — November 1, 2017 at 11:19 pm
No one has posted about Chrononothologus, or something like that, by Guerrilla Opera; I saw the last performance Guy Fawkes Day at a larger venue than the Black Box Theater for "Beowulf" last year, a safe deposit box of a space. Competent singing of challenging music and very good acting and choreography, worth seeing if they ever do it again. Now it is a challenge to turn a play that is a parody, satire, travesty, etc. of obsolete literary stiles and spectacles into an opera. Do you turn the play into a musical vehicle, or do you go for a parody of opera itself? Chrononon-etc. chose to not parody opera but rather turn the play into a musical vehicle. Must say it is the absurdist story which is a parody/travesty of literary conventions circa 1734 that carries the day rather than the music tho' the music did not get in the way of the story. In fact the ending is not convincing and needs changed; having the story gradually over seconds be left behind for a segueing into a treating of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach from ca. 1867. Afterwards I argued with Susan Larsen over this; Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" ("There curfew shall not ring to-night" or something like that) would have been more fitting for the period for Chronon-etc.. Why subject poor Matthew Arnold to the Henry Carey treatment? What did he do to deserve that? "Call a coach, and let a coach be called"; that pompous literary style deserved being parodied as much as "The Da Vinci Code" cried out for parody (the old Boston Phoenix DID do a number on that one). It did not help that I confuse "Dover Beach" the poem with "Dover Harbor" the Pullman car (I'll hear from John Ehrlich for that one). Composing King Chronon-etc.s crown out of silverware and other staging conceits abounded in this production; the actors pulled materials from several trunks at the rearof the stage when needed. There was a shadow play for part of the story with actors visibly holding lights for the purpose, parodying spectacular stage effects. One wonders how this work would fare under a less imaginative director, which leads to the idea that a revival should rewrite the ending to "do in" Gray's Elegy and have one pratfall to end the piece on a comic note which Chrononon-etc. sorely needed afther this "tragic relief" in a comedy.
Comment by Nathan Redshield — November 6, 2017 at 6:33 am
Not a word about the singers in an opera review?!!
Comment by William Fregosi — November 9, 2017 at 8:21 am
The reviewer cited one singer. Maybe the others were lucky not to be named.
Comment by denovo2 — November 9, 2017 at 9:27 am
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It is an open invitation to every member of the human family to transition away from all systems and enclosures which limit our capacity for creative self-expression, and instead unite as an extraterritorial family of sovereign individuals who, with the support and solidarity of that family, are collectively empowered to consciously co-create a new paradigm of prosperity, harmony and abundance.
You can become a member of New Earth Nation by ratifying the New Earth Treaty, and to ratify the New Earth Treaty you will need to establish yourself, your family, community or tribe as a sovereign micro-nation.
The New Earth Institute is a supra-national, interactive hub and chalice for wisdom-keeping, knowledge sharing, and freedom of continued learning – availed openly to all people, transcending any and all limitations based on ones origin, status, age, background or financial capacity.
We invite—through heartfelt connection—leading pioneers and aligned institutions to nest within our continually evolving Faculties, Academies and Special Projects / Initiatives. At the Institute we share wisdom, knowledge and information without discrimination – dynamically bypassing controlled academia and media-manipulated disinformation, which has hitherto polluted and defiled true learning and knowledge sharing in our age.
As this unprecedented full-spectrum educational platform continues to evolve, our dedicated team maintains the vision of offering the most effective, accessible, intuitive and self-empowering educational resource on Earth – an interactive playground for real creative collaboration and expansion.
The creation of a new pathway to true learning and growth is not some futuristic goal, but available now.
The New Earth Institute facilitates international organizations dedicated to the open flow of both ancient wisdom and break-through knowledge and technologies, via international symposia, congresses, retreats, workshops, training camps, webinars and seminars.
The Institute embraces the understanding that true education is a natural process of learning and remembering. Coming into harmony with oneself allows this natural process to be self-organizing and efficient.
To support this process of learning and remembering, we offer teach/ learn – learn/ teach models, where simplicity and ease of access to information is the core principle. Knowledge that is rooted and presented through the New Earth Institute is offered without subjective interference.
Informational resources, courses and programs by pioneering scholars are designed to empower all peoples, to embrace their inherent sovereignty and divinity. These include toolkit materials across each of the principal areas of human endeavor, to serve as a catalyst for meaningful change in one's life, community and planetary condition.
Economics – inspired from the Greek principle oikonomia or the management of the household – connotes the organization of a system that promotes the identification, utilization, proliferation, production, distribution, stewardship, consumption and exchange of goods, services, and experiences by a group or community.One of the core principles of New Earth is the recognition that individual members within communities benefit from conscious exchange of value between and among each other and that this value exchange can be aligned to abundant gratitude and service. Consciously honouring the manifold abundance of the physical and intangible realms, the New Earth recognizes the opportunities that emerge when the flow of value exchange – currency in its literal, flowing sense – is sentient and expressly honours all participating members in an ecosystem including the ecosystem itself.
Wealth in the New Earth is discerned by the facility with which members and communities can maximally access and exchange value with the least impediments to themselves and the ecosystem.Acknowledging that abundance calls forth discernment, generosity and stewardship, our choice is to facilitate and honour the flow and transmission of value within networks rather than reinforcing fear induced scarcity illusions that lead to hoarding and insecurity.Economic power, once synonymous with oppression, is reclaimed in light of the actual ease with which value exchange energy can flow throughout the ecosystem per unit time.The more value exchange flow by and between actors in the systems, the more economic power.
Inspired by, and in homage to the abundant nature that surrounds us, we understand that economic systems must be sentient, scaled, and suitable.Value must be discerned within and by the exchanging parties and must be explicitly offered and received.Value cannot be imposed by fiat and can in no manner be an agent of indenture or suppression.The flow of value within the system must be scaled to number of engaging participants and to the productivity of the same.Perpetual growth (an attribute of malignant disease) and illusory excess (an attribute of ego) are set aside in favour of exchanges by and between rationale actors sharing common and aligned value understandings rendered in explicit form.Units of value are aligned with the nature of value in exchange.As often as possible, optimal utilization of stewarded resources is valued most highly when no surrogate of exchange (value temporarily stored as money) is required.In short, conscious actors engaging freely with each other are emancipated from the singular surrogacy of the previous monetary systems of indenture and exploitative malignant growth.
Allows investments, large and small, to be made into New Earth developments & initiatives, and into other programs and initiatives which embody the New Earth ethic, without the reliance on indenture-based banking interests.
Allows those investments to be deployed anywhere in the world on whatever is necessary to deliver the various developments & initiatives.
Provides a repository for tangible resources which can collateralize the creation of a New Earth.
Allows all people to use their old currencies to purchase New Earth homes (and other products) valued and sold in New Earth Currency.
Offers a mutual credit 'memory of transaction' currency system, for use within the New Earth global community itself allowing communities and other project participants to exchange with each other around the planet.
Offers non-indenture payments and currency systems for all mankind facilitating the protection of human freedom, liberty and privacy through free exchange for all people of the world, serving as a transition to a mutual credit system.
Those expending their energy in service of any aspect of the New Earth Exchange do so from a place of service. At their election, they may receive exchangeable compensation in New Earth Promissories, and earnings are transparent.
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I'm a little bit speechless, says French Open champ Barty
PARIS – Ashleigh Barty ended Australia's 46-year wait for a French Open singles title on Saturday by thrashing nervous Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in a one-sided women's final.
Eighth seed Barty got off to a strong start and never looked back, winning 6-1 6-3 after only 70 minutes to claim her maiden Grand Slam title.
The 23-year-old will rise to second in the world behind only Naomi Osaka when the latest rankings are released next week, after becoming the first Australian winner at Roland Garros since Margaret Court won the last of her five trophies in 1973.
She will be best-ranked Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1976.
"It's unbelievable, I'm a little bit speechless. I played the perfect match today. I'm so proud of myself and my team, it's been an incredible two weeks," said Barty.
"It's a special place for Australians here. Sam (Stosur) has done well here before and come so close. It's been a magical two weeks."
Barty, who famously took a break from tennis to play professional cricket in 2015, struck 27 winners past an opponent riddled with nerves.
The 19-year-old Vondrousova saw her bid to become the first teenage Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova won the 2006 US Open come to a tame end, as the world number 38 made 22 unforced errors, against a mere 10 winners.
Almost 90 minutes after the match was due to start, the players made their way onto Court Philippe Chatrier, after Dominic Thiem's thrilling five-set win over Novak Djokovic in the men's semi-finals forced Barty and Vondrousova to endure a nervous wait.
The scheduling had already been criticised on Friday as a sexism row erupted when the women's semis were moved away from the showpiece Chatrier court.
In fact, this was the first match on the premier Roland Garros arena in Vondrousova's career, although she did have a brief practice session on Saturday morning.
Australia's Greatest @ashbar96 is the 2019 Roland-Garros champion, defeating Vondrousova 6-1 6-3.
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— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 8, 2019
The tension got the better of the Czech early on, as she double faulted to gift Barty two break points, before firing long to put her opponent 2-0 ahead.
Barty, who also reached the Australian Open quarter-finals earlier this year, consolidated the break with a confident love hold, leaving Vondrousova firmly on the back foot after only seven minutes of play.
Another break followed as Vondrousova threatened to fall apart, but she settled down and got herself on the scoreboard.
Barty quickly got back on track, and wrapped up the first set after only 29 minutes with a crunching forehand winner.
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Vondrousova had it all to do in the second set having managed just two winners in the opener, but she contrived to drop serve again at the first time of asking.
She finally held serve for the first time in the match, though, saving two break points in the third game.
Vondrousova had reached the final without dropping a set, and had the best record on tour since the Australian Open, but she left it too late to get her game in order on this occasion.
And Barty broke once more, hammering away a simple smash on her first match point to seal her moment in the spotlight, with Vondrousova left sitting on the bench in tears.
"I really enjoyed my time here"
We loved having you, Marketa!#RG19 pic.twitter.com/Kv31jRF5N5
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