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Metal Laser Sintering at Vaupell November 25, 2008 By 3DCAD Editor Leave a Comment Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) does for metals what other RP processes have done for plastics, but takes it further with generally better tolerances and truly production worthy end-materials. DMLS builds parts from powdered metal in thin layers (20 microns/.0008 inches) with walls as thin as 0.2 mm (.008 Inches) and typical tolerances of ±.001 inch/inch. A broad range of materials are available to meet a variety of real-world application requirements. Materials include: 17-4 Stainless Steel, Direct Metal 20 (bronze alloy), Direct Steel H20 (tool steel), Cobalt Chrome, Maraging Steel. DMLS is best suited for small complex parts (including internal passages typical of aero investment castings). The maximum build envelope is 250 mm x 250 mm x 215 mm (9.85 in. x 9.85 in. x 8.5 in.) The combination of materials, tolerances and feature definition available with DMLS combined with the ability to build parts with internal passages and other geometric complexities open up a wide variety of applications for DMLS including: • Prototypes, short-run production, individualized products, spare parts • Parts requiring high corrosion resistance such as medical instruments or prototype implants • Parts requiring high toughness or ductility • Parts requiring hardness including tooling and fixtures. • Injection mold and casting die inserts, including conformal cooling. • Prototypes of metal cast parts, particularly those that will require ceramic core dies for internal passages (typical of blades and vanes, and fuel system components) www.vaupell.com Source: :: Make Parts Fast :: Filed Under: CAD Industry News, Make Parts Fast, Rapid Prototyping Rapid Prototyping with modo® Tutorial Series San Mateo, Calif. – Luxology® LLC announces the immediate availability of "MP3 Player: Rapid Visualization and Prototyping," a new video album that demonstrates how modo® 302's robust toolset can be used to complement and enhance the product design process. Created by Luxology's Training Division Director, Andy Brown, this training series offers step-by-step instruction on rapidly giving form to design concepts using Subdivision surfaces in modo. The video album also covers the process of preparing a model for 3D printing and creation of final presentation images. For more information or to purchase, please visit http://www.luxology.com/store/training_series12.aspx. Product visualization and design requires continuous revision and Brown's latest tutorial series demonstrates how modo can be used effectively at the ideation phase of the design process. With a portable MP3 player as the subject matter, this three-part video series covers the following topics: Sketching in 3D, Subdivision Surface Modeling for Rapid Prototyping, and Adding Colors and Context. A physical prototype of the MP3 player was produced using a Z Corp 3D printer during the development of this video album. Luxology's Training Division was formed over a year ago in an effort to answer the growing demand for high-quality learning materials for both novice and experienced 3D modo artists. Since its formation, there has been a continual flow of professional quality training materials on a variety of real-world topics. A typical video album from Luxology is priced at USD $25 and provides approximately 90 minutes of instruction and sample content. Each video is downloadable for immediate viewing and is formatted for playback on Mac and PC systems. www.luxology.com Subtractive vs. Additive Prototyping Building a wall out of bricks and creating a plastic part out of plastic layers are both additive processes. As such, they share several advantages. Both are relatively simple, inexpensive, and repetitive—brick is piled on brick; plastic layer is laid upon plastic layer to form the finished product. But additive processes have limitations as well. One of the most significant is weakness at the joints. Drive a truck into a brick wall. While the bricks may survive, the wall will give way at the mortar joints. Similarly, if you stress a layered plastic prototype it will tend to fracture along its layers. Brick walls are rarely struck by trucks, but plastic prototypes represent production parts that will almost certainly be subjected to a variety of stresses. If the prototype cannot withstand the same stresses as the production part (which will almost certainly come out of an injection mold as a solid resin) the prototype cannot be used for meaningful functional testing. An alternative is to replace the additive process with one of two subtractive processes. The first of these is a primary subtractive process: machining a prototype out of a solid block of resin, which will have similar characteristics to solid molded resin. The other is a secondary subtractive process: milling an aluminum mold and injecting resin to produce a prototype with characteristics very similar to those of a production part coming from a steel mold. If these subtractive processes can be made as fast and economical as additive processes like Stereolithography and Fused Deposition Modeling, they will be competitive with the additive processes. Besides eliminating the layering of additive processes, subtractive processes have several other advantages. They support a range of resins, which allows prototype models to be matched for strength, flexibility, chemical resistance, dielectric properties, and other critical characteristics. Most additive processes focus on a couple of resins. Subtractive processes also offer a variety of surface finishes, doing away with the "stepped" surfaces often found in many additive processes. This can be functionally important if parts must slide and cosmetically important if the prototypes are to be used in market testing. Automation is the key to making subtractive prototyping competitive with the additive methods. But while additive automation was a simple matter of "slicing" a CAD model into layers that could be laid one-on-another, subtractive processes faced the more complex chore of turning a CAD model into tool paths for milling machinery. At Proto Labs, a large-scale compute cluster and proprietary software allow CNC machining equipment and mold milling machinery to do just that. As a result they can compete with additive processes for both speed and economy. www.protolabs.com The Power of the Custom Part Every manufactured product is the sum of its parts, whether off-the-shelf or custom made. Custom parts developed with Rapid Prototyping and Internet-based technologies actually contribute more value to a complete manufactured product. Custom parts play a huge, yet rarely discussed role in the manufacturing industry. Whether custom-made, purpose designed, or off-the-shelf, parts for manufactured products create a ripple that affects almost everyone around the world. Parts generate revenue to sustain business, business sustains employees, employees sustain communities, communities sustain governments, and governments sustain other governments that, we hope, sustain a workable world in which we are all interdependent. This brings us back to the perspective that parts are the center of the universe. Harnessing the "power of the part" provides a smarter approach to develop and control the costs associated with designing and manufacturing parts. Rapid prototyping is the emerging technology that brings manufacturing into this twenty-first century. There are a number of rapid prototyping (RP) technologies available today that let manufacturers save time and money before they ever consider mass manufacturing. Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) are the most popular. Prototyping parts quickly achieves cost savings in both lead-time and quality. Every day that a part is not ready for installation is a day that money is not made. Prototypes can be done in as little as 2 days. Plus, you can run tests on the parts depending on their material properties. Manufacturers are able to test for fit, form and function to ensure that quality parts go into the finished product. Testing also eliminates the risk that a large order arrives only to be found out of spec, of inferior quality, or that they simply don't fit the application. With prototyping technologies, product developers ensure that the parts they need will be correct the first time and on time. Savings are generated immediately! In addition, Web-Based Instant Online Quoting eliminates days or weeks of waiting on quotes for critical parts. This new technology revolutionizes the world of product development, accelerating the quote, assuring product managers that critical parts will arrive in the time required and that they will meet and exceed quality standards. Since time equals money, imagine the money saved simply by getting your quotes online, instantly! With the latest Rapid Prototyping processes and Instant Online Quoting, product development communities will shorten the lifecycle of the manufacturing process, delivering top-quality products to the market faster, better and easier www.quickparts.com Rapid Prototyping Terms and Definitions Rapid Prototyping (RP) or rapid manufacturing is the automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform fabrication. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available about 20 years ago and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today, they are used for a much wider range of applications and are even used to manufacture production quality parts in relatively small numbers. Rapid prototyping takes virtual designs from CAD software, transforms them into thin, virtual, horizontal cross-sections and then creates each cross section in physical space, one after the other, until the model is finished. Additive Fabrication (AF) is the technique of building a part by laying down successive thin layers of material. With additive fabrication, the machine reads in data from a CAD model and lays down successive layers of liquid, powder, or sheet material, and in this way builds up the model from a series of cross sections. Desktop manufacturing or personal fabrication is the use of a personal computer to drive a printer that deposits (or catalyses) material in layers to form three-dimensional objects. It can be used for making prototypes or objects that have limited public Direct Digital Manufacturing is a manufacturing process that produces physical parts directly from 3D CAD files or data using additive fabrication techniques, also called 3D printing or rapid prototyping. The 3D printed parts are intended to be used as the final product itself with minimal post-processing. Electron Beam Melting (EBM) is a type of rapid prototyping for metal parts. It is often classified as a rapid manufacturing method. The technology manufactures parts by melting metal powder, layer per layer, with an electron beam in a high vacuum. Unlike some metal-sintering techniques, the parts are fully solid, void-free and extremely strong. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a type of rapid prototyping or rapid manufacturing technology marketed commercially by Stratasys Inc. Like most other RP processes, FDMworks on an "additive" principle by laying down material in layers. Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOMTM) is a rapid prototyping system developed by Helisys Inc. In it, layers of adhesive-coated paper are successively glued together and cut to shape with a laser cutter. Low-Volume Injection Molding creates functional parts from thermoplastics in short runs of up to 50,000 parts. Offers similar quality and accuracy to parts produced by normal production tooling, but often faster and at lower cost. Low-Volume Layered Manufacturing describes additive fabrication in which the object constructed is the actual end-use part for manufacturing, rather than a prototype or model. Sometimes viewed as another term for direct digital manufacturing. Photopolymer is a polymer that is cured by exposure to light, often in the ultraviolet spectrum. Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) is a process by which 3D SLS prototypes are formed by fusing or sintering powdered thermoplastic materials or metals to form functional prototypes. A claimed advantage to SLS is the range of materials that can be used, including nylon, elastomers, metals (steel, titanium, alloy mixtures, and composites) and green sand. Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) is a group of related techniques for manufacturing solid objects by the sequential delivery of energy and/or material to specified points in space to produce that solid. Stereolithography (SL) is an additive process using a vat of liquid UV-curable photopolymer "resin" and a UV laser to build parts a layer at a time. On each layer, the laser beam traces a part cross-section pattern on the surface of the liquid resin. Exposure to the UV laser light cures (solidifies) the pattern traced on the resin and adheres it to the layer below. STL File is the standard data interface between CAD software and a prototyping machine. An STL file approximates the shape of a part or assembly using triangular facets. Tiny facets produce a higher quality surface. Subtractive Fabrication is akin to conventional manufacturing techniques like machining, in which a part is shaped by removing or subtracting material from a piece of stock. The term "subtractive fabrication" is intended to differentiate those processes from those of additive manufacturing so widely used in rapid prototyping. 3D Printing is the practice of making a solid (3D) part using an automated additive process. Clear Resins for RP Processes: A New Standard Rapid prototyping (RP) is a critical link in today's fast-paced design cycle and is a cost-effective way to shorten product development from concept to production. The RP process builds concept models to verify new designs for form, fit, and function, which often includes aggressive testing. Such prototype model testing considerably shortens time to market and eliminates costly design errors. Both the manufacturers of RP equipment and the materials suppliers are constantly upgrading the capabilities of their products to give engineers more robust models and new ways to deliver products on time and on budget. Of the two major ingredients of the RP process—machines and materials—the materials have been perhaps the most challenging area for engineers and chemists to develop. A major material limitation lies in the strength of the prototype parts to withstand real-world loads, as it would in actual service. Clearly, this is an area that requires constant research and improvement. The Machines Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), and 3D Printing currently are the four major rapid prototyping technologies. SLA, the most widely used process, employs a laser beam to solidify layers of liquid resin. The SLS process also uses a laser to sinter layers of powdered material. In contrast, FDM machines build models by extruding layers of production-type material on top of one another. The 3D printers "print" a water-based adhesive delivered by the print head on layers of mixed plaster and resin, which bonds them in accordance with the CAD cross-section pattern. All four technologies are considered additive, since the prototype is built by adding material, as opposed to subtractive processes, such as machining where the material is removed. Compared to the SLS and FDM processes, the SLA has the fastest turn-around time and produces parts with highest accuracy and the smoothest surface finish. On the other hand, when a prototype needs to have production-part-like structural durability, the SLS and FDM processes have an advantage since they use materials with about 80% the strength of actual production parts. Because stereolithography is an extremely accurate, stable, and repeatable technology SLA parts are well suited for form and fit verification. However, engineers often were hesitant to conduct high impact functional tests since SLA parts were rather fragile. But this limitation is becoming much less of a factor. The advancements in modern chemistry and formulation processes allow the development of new resins known in the industry as mimics. These SLA materials closely mimic the properties of various engineering plastics. For example, if the production part will be made of ABS or polypropylene, engineers can choose prototypes made from the ABS-like or polypropylene-like SLA resins. The prototype will have mechanical properties closely matching the properties of the production injection-molded parts and can be used for functional tests, including high pressure and high temperature. So, the complete form, fit, and function verification can be done using one SLA prototype. Modern SLA machines can process a complete portfolio of stereolithography materials to address various needs of engineers. Service bureaus greatly increase their efficiency from the use of newer machines that come with rapid delivery modules, which allow quick changeover of materials. The shortened set-up time reduces the cost and overall turn-around time. The Prototype Model The type of the stereolithography machine mostly determines the feature resolution and the maximum size of the part. The selection of the SLA resin however is the deciding factor when reviewing options based on how the prototype will be finished, used, handled, and tested. SLA resins available today imitate the physical properties of engineering thermoplastics such as Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), polycarbonate, and polypropylene. For example, an ABS-like resin will produce as close a match to the production ABS part as possible within the SLA technology. Often translucent or clear parts are highly desirable during the concept development, functional verification, and approval phases of the project. Previously, machining and polishing were traditional methods of fabricating optically clear prototypes from polycarbonate and acrylic. Later, translucent resins became available for rapid prototyping. But early parts were formed semi-clear or became cloudy quickly. They had a greenish or bluish tint. The completely clear SLA resins became available only in the last three years. If exposed to light for a long time, parts made from clear SLA resins experience slight clarity degradation. For the majority of parts this degradation poses no problem, because the parts are usually discarded after design verification or concept presentation. The loss of clarity can be minimized by coating or sealing parts if the optical property has to remain constant for longer periods of time. Optically clear parts open new possibilities for designers. Some parts, such as lenses, see-through shields, retail packaging, and medical devices are made of clear plastic in production, and clear SLA parts allow building prototypes that look exactly like the real product. They can be used for marketing presentations, focus groups, shows, and concept reviews. Building architectural models of clear materials greatly simplifies the architect's job. Until the transparent enclosures let machine designers see how parts of various mechanisms moved inside an enclosure, they had to make holes in order to peek inside. Abe Reichental, the President and CEO of 3D Systems, gives an example of one company that had a transmission housing made of clear SLA resin. They populated it with the gear train and gaskets, filled it with transmission fluid, and ran the prototype to study the fluid dynamics in various modes. Another 3D customer uses clear rapid prototypes to test engine blocks. They ran the crank shaft with an electric motor and conducted various tests to study the motion and fluid dynamics inside the case. Now engineers had a full view of the entire engine. Another example of flow analysis where clear SLA parts allows visual study is in pumps. A common pump design problem is called cavitation, the generation of a void or the formation of bubbles in the liquid. Pump housings made of clear material gives engineers an unobstructed view inside the pump so that even the smallest areas of cavitation can be spotted. Building light-transmitting parts places additional requirements on the clarity and finish of the models. Clear SLA parts are successfully used to build prototypes of automotive instrumentation displays, lenses, head lights, and tail lights. Light guides, pipes, pointers, and diffusers are just some examples where machining acrylic or polycarbonate gave way to clear SLA process. Clear materials are typically geared toward a specific rapid prototyping technology. For example, clear resins available for use in stereolithography systems are not compatible with the SLS or FDM equipment. Several translucent ABS-like SLA resins are currently available, and several clear resins were recently added to the engineer's RP toolbox. Previously, clear resins usually involved durability tradeoffs. Newer, clear resins no longer have these trade-offs. Just five years ago translucent materials were rather fragile and could not be used for high impact, high pressure, or high-temperature tests. Newer, much tougher resins were developed to address this problem. New translucent and clear SL resins such as RenShape® SL 7870 made by Huntsman, Accura® 60 made by 3D Systems, and WaterShed® XC, as well as WaterClear®Ultra produced by Somos are only a few examples. Carl Holt, Commercial Sales Manager for NAFTA for Stereolithography of Huntsman Advanced Materials, explains that his company specializes in the formulation of ready-to-use SLA resins and offers approximately 30 SLA resins for various applications. Huntsman clear materials are high-clarity photopolymers; they are neither a polycarbonate nor an acrylic. Huntsman's RenShape SL7870 is a high clarity resin that also has extremely high impact strength. Another benefit of this material is that it does not age as rapidly over time as many other earlier clear resins. Huntsman also produces a UV-blocking coating (primer) to protect the clear parts from sun damage. Clear resin manufacturers typically publish standard sets of ASTM information on their Web sites. Since new materials are constantly added to the portfolios (although not all service bureaus include them in their line), it is always a good idea to check with the resin manufacturers to find out what new materials became available recently and which service bureaus are capable of processing them. The process for building clear parts involves the same steps as when using other SLA resins, except some additional steps are required at the end. A 3D CAD solid model is required to generate an SLA prototype. All 3D modeling software packages are capable of exporting a file known as an ".STL" file (which stands for Standard Tessellation Language). For standard clear finish the support structures are removed, while the support areas and the exterior surfaces are wet sanded. Sanding the part reduces clarity, so a clear coat is then applied to create a smooth, clear surface. The higher-grade clear finish requires deeper wet sanding to remove the build layer staircasing and create smooth surfaces. The clear coat is also applied and can take 12 hours to completely dry. The cost of an SLA part depends on part height, volume, total part surface area, and layer resolution. The cost of resin selected for the part and required finish are also important factors. In the case of clear parts, clear resins are relatively expensive, but the largest cost factors are the extra finishing and drying required to produce clear parts without blemishes. www.3dsystems.com www.huntsman.com www.dsmsomos.com How the RP Machine Works In a typical process for making RP models, the CAD file is loaded into the SLA machine's computer where a proprietary software program "slices" the 3D model into layers spaced the distance equal to the thickness of the resin that will be cured during the processing of one layer (for example 0.005" thick). The liquid-clear material is placed into a vat at the bottom of the stereolithography machine and a platform, upon which the part will be built, is positioned just below the liquid resin surface. The platform depth equals to the thickness of the layer. The machine guides a laser along the surface of the resin to expose the liquid according to the pattern in the slice. The laser beam cures the liquid resin that it lights upon. Once the first layer is completed, the platform is lowered so the next layer can be built on top of the first layer. The process repeats until all layers are built. After that the part is taken out and placed under UV light for final curing. A bridge-type support structure is built at the start of the SLA process to keep the bottom of the part off the platform and to support the bottom curved surfaces of the part. Without these thin columns, the initial layers, only few thousands of an inch thick, would sag and prevent the next layer from being built. The support structure is removed after the part is completed and cured. Several finishing levels are typically offered by SLA service bureaus. The most basic finishing level includes just removing the support structure. The next, standard level adds light sanding of support areas and exterior surfaces and sand blasting. For parts where surface flatness is important, the part is sanded smooth to remove the build layer stairstepping caused by layering. When the SLA part is intended for mold making or to be painted, the interior walls are also sanded and the part receives a coat of primer. Subtractive rapid prototyping finally breaks through Manufacturing by the removal of material may be among the oldest of human endeavors. In fact, the Stone Age takes its name from the process of chipping away unwanted rock to yield useful tools. Obviously, that process was completely manual. Even though it has become far more sophisticated, machining has continued to be labor-intensive and therefore challenging to use in the manufacture of prototypes. By the late 20th century, manual drafting had given way to computers and CAD software, and manual machining had evolved into computer numeric controlled (CNC) machining. But between those automated processes, there remained two very labor-intensive steps. The first of these was reviewing the design from an engineering standpoint and determining a price quote. The other was the conversion of the model from its original paper or electronic form to the machine code (toolpaths) that instruct the CNC machining equipment in the production of the finished part. Both of these were time-consuming, painstaking processes that could cost hundreds or thousands of dollars and take days of trained professionals' time, even with the use of high-end computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software tools. The cost and delay could be tolerated, if grudgingly, when a large number of copies were needed. But they made it difficult or impossible to justify the use of the CNC machining process to produce a small number of prototypes. That was particularly unfortunate for the plastics industry, since machined prototypes, being made from blocks of engineering grade resins, could do an excellent job of representing injection molded parts for the functional testing required during product development. Of course, developers still had the option of using non-CNC machining, but that, too, was costly and slow. Instead, they turned to the emerging technologies of additive rapid prototyping (RP), which used software to control the process of layering plastic materials to produce a physical facsimile directly from the 3D CAD model. But while the additive rapid prototyping processes were fast and inexpensive, they could only use a small number of resins, and they produced parts with rough surfaces and reduced material properties due to the layering process. This was a distinct disadvantage compared to the solid construction and wide variety of resins available using CNC machining, but prototype parts could be obtained quickly via additive RP, so it was seen as a reasonable tradeoff. The obvious answer was to computerize toolpath generation for CNC machining, but this required more sophisticated software and an enormous amount of processing power. First Cut Prototype, a division of Proto Labs, Inc., has developed software that runs on a high-speed 1.9 teraflop compute cluster that can generate toolpaths in minutes instead of days, all without the need for CAM programmers. This system supports the automated preparation of FirstQuote® web-based quotations, on-line ordering, and the manufacture of CNC-machined "subtractive RP" parts in as little as one business day, essentially providing all of the advantages of additive RP processes without the associated limitations. The end result is that, today, subtractive RP can produce "injection molding equivalent" prototypes even faster than additive RP processes can produce prototypes of lesser quality, so there is simply no reason to settle for less. C&J Deploys In-House Prototyping MEADVILLE, PA — C&J Industries now offers customers the ability to see their design and sample parts in just a few hours thanks to stereolithography, or SLA, a rapid printing process used to create three-dimensional objects from CAD drawings. The Eden 250 ultra-thin printing system is capable of producing a prototypical plastic part using even the most precise technical specifications to produce a 3D sample of the final product. For customers, that means quicker design time, decreased cost, and the opportunity to bring their injection molding product to the market in record time. The prototype may not be made of the same material as the final product will be, but it allows customers to see it, touch it, and experience it in 3D to be sure it's the direction they want to go in before full production. "What's important is that we can turn a CAD idea into a physical object – a sample part – quickly, without going through the entire production cycle. So the prototype can then be tested for proper form and fit, and with some materials the customer can even be sure that the final piece will function as originally intended," said C&J Industries Director of Engineering, Eric Sharman. Because there is no need to go through the longer process of building an injection mold that would be the final piece, customers can assess where the part's design may need adjustment to function as intended. Sharman is quick to point out that other plastic injection molding companies may offer one or the other: either rapid prototyping or full production, but not both. www.cjindustries.com

They may reside in rural or suburban areas with few doctors, much less a cancer treatment center with all the latest therapies. They may live in "food deserts" where fruits and vegetables are inaccessible or "food swamps" where junk food — and obesity and all of its related diseases — are the norm. Maybe they're afraid to go to the doctor because they mistakenly believe all cancer is a death sentence or they've experienced racial bias from their health care providers. Maybe they don't speak English so can't decipher crucial cancer prevention messages. No, the surprise isn't that health disparities are so prevalent that our most vulnerable populations — the poor, the elderly, ethnic minorities and such — are more likely to die after a cancer diagnosis than, say, middle-income whites. The surprise is that these well-documented health disparities have gone on for as long as they have. But change is afoot. Four leading cancer organizations have joined forces to decry these longstanding disparities and call for a collaborative effort to ensure cancer research benefits all patients, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, education or the communities in which they live. "It speaks to the importance of the issues involved that all of these organizations would make it a priority to come together and publish a statement with a unified voice," said Fred Hutch epidemiologist and breast cancer researcher Dr. Christopher Li, one of the co-authors. On Monday, a group representing the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a position statement, "Charting the Future of Cancer Health Disparities Research." It spells out why cancer health disparities continue to drive late diagnoses and bad outcomes for so many and offers an ambitious list of needs, priorities and recommendations — a research roadmap, if you will — to help even the playing field. The paper was published simultaneously in AACR's journal, Cancer Research; ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology, the ACS's CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and on the NCI's website. Its authors — leaders in clinical research, public health, epidemiology and patient advocacy — are members of a think tank created two years ago to foster better cooperation across the cancer research community. The expansive report addressed a wide range of issues and potential solutions. One of the biggest stumbling blocks in health disparities research, the report concluded, is data. There's not nearly enough of it and there's no consistency with regard to what's gathered. Patient data is frequently spotty or oversimplified. Questions about socioeconomic status or health literacy often go unasked. Large biospecimen banks devoted to people of color are nearly nonexistent. And even some of what is gathered isn't necessarily all that useful. Overarching categories like Hispanic, Asian and African-American don't accurately reflect our blended society, Li said, nor do they offer the kind of genetic insights that could better guide health choices and cancer treatment. Within given racial/ethnic categories, for instance, the data need to be more granular. An umbrella term like "Hispanic" might include someone of Mexican descent, Cuban American descent, South American descent, a third generation Hispanic American or a recent immigrant, he said. Today, cancer researchers and clinicians need to look not only at race but at ethnicity, socioeconomic status, neighborhoods, ancestry, immigration status and lifestyle factors. They need to dive deep, asking questions about everything from literacy to gender identity to the availability of healthy food. Georgia Bakke-Tull, with Seattle's Swedish Hospital, gives Shelly Dawson a mammogram during the Cierra Sisters' Community Wellness Festival and Health Fair on Saturday. The fair included cancer prevention tips, free cancer screenings and door-to-door distribution of health information. Gathering this level of granular data is crucial because health disparities can be driven by both biological and social determinants, Li said. Knowing more about people's ancestry may give them an edge when it comes to fending off cancer, not just with regard to inherited cancer mutations but in terms of biology, like the way our bodies responds to the foods we eat. Case in point: blacks and colorectal cancer. As Li and his co-authors point out in their new paper, research has shown that African-Americans living in the U.S. have a high risk for colorectal cancer, whereas blacks who live in rural South Africa do not. In the U.S., 65 out of every 100,000 people are diagnosed; in South Africa, it's less than five out of 100,000. These disparities have primarily been associated with diet (blacks in the U.S. eat more animal fat and less fiber), but an international study, published in 2015, offered further insights. The scientists recruited participants from both groups, gathered samples of their gut microbiota — that teeming community of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms that helps our bodies break down food and can influence our risk for diseases like cancer — then swapped their diets: the African-Americans ate a typical high-fiber South African diet, and the South Africans switched to a typical U.S. diet with high meat and fat intake. Within two weeks, Li said, "they saw a complete shift in the gut microbiome." The South Africans' microbiome developed the same markers for cancer risk that the African-Americans originally had, and the African-Americans' gut microbiomes reflected a drop in the cancer risk markers. And as soon as the two groups returned to their normal diets, the gut microbiomes slipped back to what they were originally. Another strong recommendation from the new joint statement: redesign cancer clinical trials to acknowledge and address cancer disparities. According to statistics from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Hispanic and Latino Americans make up less than 8 percent of enrollees in clinical trials, even though they make up 17 percent of the population. African-Americans represent 13.2 percent of the total U.S. population, but the FDA cites a 5 percent involvement in trials. All told, non-whites make up less than 5 percent of participants in clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health. As a result, researchers aren't able to gather valuable data on how minorities respond to potential new therapies (not everyone responds the same), and minority patients aren't able to access new treatments that could potentially save or improve their lives. Fear and mistrust of doctors is part of the problem (the Tuskegee Syphilis Study still haunts many), but there are other factors at play. Clinical trials are often conducted at large research institutions or hospitals so may not be as accessible to rural residents. Individual trial criteria can sometimes exclude patients, such as those with additional health issues or "comorbidities" like obesity, diabetes and/or other cancers (more commonplace in blacks). Underserved groups and/or or non-English speakers may not hear about studies in time to enroll or may have to drop out early due to economic constraints. Medical centers that serve minority patients may not have the capacity to support all the activities associated with conducting trials, such as providing more frequent exams and collecting more blood and tissue samples. Dr. Beti Thompson, head of Fred Hutch's Health Disparities Research Center. The HDRC regularly collaborates with groups like Sea Mar Community Health Centers, the Korean Women's Association, the African American cancer support group Cierra Sisters and others to study, and eliminate, health disparities. Fred Hutch's Health Disparities Research Center, or HDRC, is already doing much of this. Led by Dr. Beti Thompson, the HDRC does extensive outreach and research with the Hispanic, American Indian and rural residents of Lower Yakima Valley, and regularly collaborates with groups like Sea Mar Community Health Centers, the Korean Women's Association and the African-American cancer support group Cierra Sisters, which recently hosted a community health fair in the Skyway neighborhood featuring Hutch researchers, free cancer screenings and interactive educational tools like CASPER, the inflatable colon. Building relationships helps to build trust. It also helps researchers better understand patient populations and disseminate crucial findings. Thompson and her team, for instance, worked directly with members of the Yakima Latino community to tailor cancer prevention messages. As a result, they increased breast cancer, cervical cancer and colorectal cancer screening in this group. Li noted the Hutch has been "one of the leaders" in this area. How will the cancer research community respond to these recommendations? The recommendations could also help guide policy changes, which, he said, can be an effective way to quash health disparities. The state of Delaware, for example, completely erased its disproportionately high rate of colorectal cancer deaths in African-Americans by passing legislation that provided full coverage for colon cancer screening. Frankie Rentas and Kathy Briant, with Fred Hutch's Health Disparities Research Center, set up CASPER, the inflatable colon, before the health fair. HDRC uses the walk-through inflatable colon to teach people about colon cancer detection and prevention. Community-engaged research efforts like this were lauded in a joint report issued today by four leading cancer organizations.

<?php # Generated by the protocol buffer compiler. DO NOT EDIT! # source: google/cloud/metastore/v1beta/metastore.proto namespace Google\Cloud\Metastore\V1beta\Service; use UnexpectedValueException; /** * Release channels bundle features of varying levels of stability. Newer * features may be introduced initially into less stable release channels and * can be automatically promoted into more stable release channels. * * Protobuf type <code>google.cloud.metastore.v1beta.Service.ReleaseChannel</code> */ class ReleaseChannel { /** * Release channel is not specified. * * Generated from protobuf enum <code>RELEASE_CHANNEL_UNSPECIFIED = 0;</code> */ const RELEASE_CHANNEL_UNSPECIFIED = 0; /** * The `CANARY` release channel contains the newest features, which may be * unstable and subject to unresolved issues with no known workarounds. * Services using the `CANARY` release channel are not subject to any SLAs. * * Generated from protobuf enum <code>CANARY = 1;</code> */ const CANARY = 1; /** * The `STABLE` release channel contains features that are considered stable * and have been validated for production use. * * Generated from protobuf enum <code>STABLE = 2;</code> */ const STABLE = 2; private static $valueToName = [ self::RELEASE_CHANNEL_UNSPECIFIED => 'RELEASE_CHANNEL_UNSPECIFIED', self::CANARY => 'CANARY', self::STABLE => 'STABLE', ]; public static function name($value) { if (!isset(self::$valueToName[$value])) { throw new UnexpectedValueException(sprintf( 'Enum %s has no name defined for value %s', __CLASS__, $value)); } return self::$valueToName[$value]; } public static function value($name) { $const = __CLASS__ . '::' . strtoupper($name); if (!defined($const)) { throw new UnexpectedValueException(sprintf( 'Enum %s has no value defined for name %s', __CLASS__, $name)); } return constant($const); } } // Adding a class alias for backwards compatibility with the previous class name. class_alias(ReleaseChannel::class, \Google\Cloud\Metastore\V1beta\Service_ReleaseChannel::class);

420356 Праамжюс — транснептуновий об'єкт (ТНО) та можлива карликова планета в поясі Койпера. Він має другий найнижчий показник ексцентриситету після . Орбіта Праамжюса має приблизний орбітальний резонанс 3:5 до Нептуна, але замикання орбіти потребує 160 орбіт Нептуна (26500 років), менше, аніж очікують для об'єкта з резонансом 3:5. Об'єкт було відкрито 23 січня 2012 року із ухваленням Центру малих планет, підтверджені попередні спостереження відбулися ще в грудні 2011 року, непідтверджені попередні спостереження вели ще з 2004 року. Об'єкт офіційно отримав назву 22 лютого 2016 року на честь литовського бога неба, миру, та дружби. Праамжюс — один з нещодавно відкритих малих планет. Об'єкт отримав цифрове позначення через велику кількість спостережень, приблизно 1 кожні 10 днів. Усі спостереження, окрім спостереження 6 лютого 2013 року, відбувалися з Обсерваторії в Маунт Ґрехам. Примітки Пояс Койпера Можливі карликові планети Астрономічні об'єкти, відкриті 2012

Public Consultation on the Universal Health Care Act The Department of Health is conducting the first public consultation for the Universal Health Care Act on 13-14 June for Regions I, II, and CAR at Venue Parkview Hotel, Baguio. Following the signing of the law by President Rodrigo Duterte last February, the DOH is given 180 days to draft the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) which will outline the guidelines in operationalising the law. Secretary Francisco T. Duque III says: "The Department of Health is moving full throttle on Universal Health Care. It is a big undertaking and we're now laying the groundwork for the sustainability and effectiveness of this reform that aims to address a number of gaps in our health system. We want to make the process of IRR inclusive and consultative. This is why we are conducting a series of public consultations across the country. We want to hear from different stakeholders most especially the public because it is truly the Filipino people who will benefit from UHC." The DOH invites the public to provide comments on the copy of the current draft of IRR can be accessed in the official DOH website through this link: https://bit.ly/2RbXua7. The draft was put together in consultation with representatives of various public and private stakeholders, representatives from academia and thought leaders. Details for the public consultation in Visayas and Mindanao will be added in the schedule. Announcement will be made in the coming weeks through the official DOH social media accounts: www.facebook.com/officialDOHgov and www.twitter.com/DOHgov.

The goal of the new Space Technology Research Institutes (STRIs) is to develop automated technologies critical to a sustainable human presence on the Moon and eventually Mars. NASA (Washington, D.C., U.S.) has announced that it has selected two new Space Technology Research Institutes (STRIs) to advance space habitat designs using resilient and autonomous systems. The goal of the research institutes is to develop automated technologies critical to a sustainable human presence on the Moon and eventually Mars. "Partnering with universities lets us tap into new expertise, foster innovative ideas, as well as expand the research and development talent base for both aerospace and broader applications," says Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate. The selected proposals create two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes – Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) and Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi). The HOME institute seeks to enable resilient, autonomous and self-maintained habitats for human explorers through the advancement of early-stage technologies related to autonomous systems, human and automation teaming, data science, machine learning, robotic maintenance and onboard manufacturing. The team is led by Stephen Robinson, principal investigator at the University of California, Davis, in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Howard University, Texas A&M University and the University of Southern California. Industry collaborators include Sierra Nevada Corporation (Sparks, Nev., U.S.), Blue Origin (Kent, Wash., U.S.) and United Technology Aerospace Systems (West Palm Beach, Fla., U.S.). RETHi seeks to design and operate resilient deep space habitats that can operate in both crewed and uncrewed configurations. The institute plans to leverage expertise in civil infrastructure with advanced technology fields such as modular and autonomous robotics and hybrid simulation. The institute plans to create a cyber-physical prototype testbed of physical and virtual models to develop, deploy and validate different capabilities. The two new STRIs are funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD); each will receive as much as $15 million over a five-year period. The new selections will join two institutes founded by NASA in 2017 also aimed at developing self-sustaining exploration mission capabilities.

National Express Named UK's Most Improved Operator National Express East Coast has shown the highest improvement among all the rail operators in Britain, according to a new survey. Results of a survey conducted by the Office of Rail Regulation showed that nearly 90.4% of the rail operator's trains arrived on time in the first three mont National Express East Coast has shown the highest improvement among all the rail operators in Britain, according to a new survey. Results of a survey conducted by The Office of Rail Regulation showed that nearly 90.4% of the rail operator's trains arrived on time in the first three months of 2009, an increase of 4.3% over the same period in 2008. The jump is the biggest for any British train operator, according to the quarterly National Rail Trends survey. National Express East Coast is nationalised, after its former parent company National Express was forced to give it up following a $1.7bn debt. National Express is up for takeover. In the same survey, C2C, which operates trains between London and the Essex coast, was named as Britain's most punctual train operator with a 96.7% punctuality rate. Defense Industry Top 10 Themes Prediction for 2021 - Thematic Research United Kingdom Defense Market - Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecast to 2024 Iraq Defense Market - Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecast to 2024 Ghana Defense Market - Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecast to 2024 Germany Defense Market - Attractiveness, Competitive Landscape and Forecast to 2024 The Office of Rail Regulation C2C, Inc. National Express Corporation

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Home/Sports/Di Maria leads PSG to 1st-ever Champions League final berth Di Maria leads PSG to 1st-ever Champions League final berth Online News EditorAugust 18, 2020 Sports Desk, Aug 18 (efe-epa).- Angel Di Maria tallied one goal and assisted on two others to lead Paris Saint-German to a 3-0 victory Tuesday over upstart RB Leipzig and a first-ever berth for the French club in a Champions League final. The Ligue 1 side dominated in all areas in this behind-closed-doors semifinal contest at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, employing superior tactics, defending more effectively and capitalizing better on their scoring opportunities. Brazilian superstar Neymar Jr. nearly opened the scoring in the sixth minute when he received a pass from Kylian Mbappe and fired a shot that went wide of the post. Mbappe then appeared to score a minute later, but the referee called Neymar for a hand ball on an attempted clearance by Leipzig goalie Peter Gulasci and disallowed the goal. But the Parisian club's constant pressure led to three consecutive corner kicks a few minutes later, the last of which led to a foul on Neymar by French defender Nordi Mukiele. Di Maria took the ensuing free kick and sent a curling ball into the area in the direction of Marquinhos, who used his athleticism to rise up and power a header into the back of the net in the 13th minute. Leipzig's chances, meanwhile, were few and far between, the best of which in the first half came in the 25th minute when Yussuf Poulsen received a cross from the right side from Konrad Laimer but missed the mark with his shot. The second goal came in the 42nd minute after a poor clearance by Gulasci. Leandro Paredes gained control of the ball and found Neymar, who bounced a back-heeled pass that Di Maria controlled and then fired just inside the right post in the 42nd minute. PSG had a chance to take a 3-0 lead into the break, but Neymar failed to convert a counter-attack opportunity with time winding down. After the intermission, Leipzig head coach Julian Nagelsmann tried to seize the momentum by inserting Emil Forsberg and Patrick Schick for Christopher Nkunku and Dani Olmo. The Bundesliga club's play improved for about 10 minutes, but PSG put the game out of reach in the 56th minute when Juan Bernat scored on a header off of a cross by Di Maria. The Argentine had taken possession of the ball when Mukiele slipped near the corner flag in his side of the field. A fourth goal nearly came later on a one-on-one chance for Mbappe against Gulasci, but the Hungarian netminder broke up the chance to prevent an even bigger rout. PSG's website showed scenes of elation in the team's locker room after the game, while Mbappe sent out a confident tweet that read, "ONE STEP TO MAKE HISTORY…" The berth in the final is an enormous achievement for a club and a fan base that have dreamed of soccer's biggest club title since Qatar Sports Investments became majority shareholders in 2011. The club splurged to acquire Neymar from FC Barcelona in 2017 and Mbappe a year later from fellow Ligue 1 side Monaco, a pair of moves that are the two most expensive worldwide soccer transfers to date. PSG on Aug. 23 will be back at Estadio da Luz to take on either Bundesliga powerhouse and five-time champion Bayern Munich, who humiliated Barcelona 8-2 in the quarterfinals, or surprise semifinalist Lyon, who stunned Manchester City. That second semifinal will be played on Wednesday at Estadio Jose Alvalade in Lisbon. The Champions League's quarterfinal and semifinal rounds have traditionally been home-and-away clashes, but they were reduced to single-elimination matches this season (all played in Lisbon) due to the long, coronavirus-triggered hiatus. EFE-EPA rz/mc CHAMPIONS LEAGUE EFE Rodrygo, Valverde score in Real Madrid derby win over Atletico

Captain Swing va ser un nom que es va afegir a diverses cartes amenaçadores durant els disturbis rurals de Swing de 1830, quan els treballadors es van amotinar per la introducció de noves màquines de batre i la pèrdua dels seus mitjans de vida. El nom va ser inventat i va arribar a simbolitzar la ira dels pobres treballadors de l'Anglaterra rural que volien tornar als temps anteriors a la màquina quan es feia servir la mà d'obra humana. La guerra dels manobres William Cobbett va ser un activista polític que va donar suport als treballadors agrícoles. Va viatjar per Kent i Sussex i va parlar amb els treballadors agrícoles sobre els seus problemes. Després va utilitzar això com a material font per a la seva revista The Political Register. Va saber que molts treballadors agrícoles estaven mal pagats, o estaven a l'atur i mig morien gana. El suport econòmic per a un treballador agrícola acomiadat era inferior al que es pagava per mantenir un delinqüent a la presó. Cobbett es va adonar que les parròquies estaven intentant evitar haver de donar suport als pobres, ja que moltes parròquies enviaven treballadors als Estats Units per estalviar-se els costos de mantenir-los com a pobres. Cobbett havia predit que hi hauria problemes amb els treballadors agrícoles i quan els disturbis rurals van començar a Kent i es van estendre a Sussex durant l'agost de 1830, Cobbett la va descriure com la "guerra dels treballadors". Les principals causes dels disturbis van ser degudes a un excés de mà d'obra, majoritàriament d'homes implicats en les guerres napoleòniques, que tornaven a casa. També per obrers irlandesos itinerants preparats per treballar gairebé per res, soscavant els treballadors agrícoles locals. Això va coincidir amb una caiguda dels preus agrícoles. Durant la depressió posterior, els agricultors no van poder pagar als seus treballadors agrícoles un salari sostenible. Els pagesos també van deixar el costum de permetre que els seus treballadors s'enduguessin les restes de les collites després de la collita de blat de moro, que els ajudaria a passar l'hivern. Això s'agreujava amb els delmes de l'església i el tancament de terres comunes. A més, els agricultors van començar a introduir màquines de batre que van desplaçar la mà d'obra humana. Els treballadors desplaçats no tenien mitjans per alimentar o vestir les seves famílies durant l'hivern. Un resident de Lewes a Sussex, Gideon Mantell, ⁣ l'obstetra, geòleg i paleontòleg anglès, va assenyalar al seu diari de 1830: Les protestes populars dels treballadors agrícoles es van produir a les zones agrícoles del sud d'Anglaterra. Els principals objectius de les multituds en protesta eren els terratinents/latifundistes, les trilladores dels quals van destruir o desmantellar, i als quals van demanar un augment dels salaris. Les protestes destacaven per la seva disciplina, una tradició de protesta popular que es remunta al segle XVIII. L'acte de marxar cap a la casa d'un granger ofensiu va servir no només per mantenir la disciplina del grup, sinó també per advertir a la comunitat en general que estaven regimentats i decidits. Sovint buscaven reclutar funcionaris de la parròquia local i, ocasionalment, magistrats per millorar també els nivells de socors dels pobres. A tot Anglaterra, 2.000 manifestants van ser jutjats el 1830–1831; 252 van ser condemnats a mort (tot i que només 19 van ser realment penjats), 644 van ser empresonats i 481 van ser transportats a colònies penals d'Austràlia. Qui fou Swing Threshing machines had been contentious since the Napoleonic wars. Letters had been sent to farmers, in the Reading area, suggesting that they should get rid of their threshing machines as early as 1811, the following two were reproduced in The London Gazette: La nit del dissabte, 28 d'agost de 1830, a la vall d'Elham, Kent, una batedora va ser destruïda pels amotinats. Els caps van ser arrestats el 27 de setembre de 1830, nou dies després que la paraula "Swing" fos pintada a les parets sense pintar entre Canterbury i Dover. També es van enviar dues cartes amenaçadores als agricultors locals, signades amb el nom de SWING: Inicialment, les autoritats no tenien clar qui era el responsable de la demolició de les màquines de batre i altra maquinària agrícola culpant-ne a caçadors furtius, contrabandistes o lladres de cérvols. No obstant això, no va passar gaire temps abans que s'adonessin que es tractava principalment de treballadors de la població local. Les autoritats van intentar identificar qui era aquest 'Swing' i detenir-lo, i van trigar una estona a adonar-se que el Capità Swing probablement era un nom inventat. L'origen del nom no estava clar. Però la paraula "swing" semblava tenir un doble significat deliberat. Podria representar com la part del flail coneguda com a gronxador o swingel, que el batedor fa baixar en contacte amb el blat de moro. També pot representar un cadàver que es balanceja a la forca o al gibbet. Possiblement, una explicació més plausible és que després que un grup de treball s'hagués aturat a esmolar les seves dalles i estigués disposat a reiniciar la feina, el líder cridava 'Swing!', el líder era conegut habitualment com el Capità, per tant, 'Captain Swing'. El nom de 'Capità Swing' es va convertir en sinònim dels aldarulls i aviat va simbolitzar tota la resistència rural. Exemples de cartes signades per "Swing" {{citació |Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills. Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done as ye ought,... Swing'''' |col2=Senyor, el vostre nom es troba entre els cors negres del Llibre Negre i això és per aconsellar-vos a vosaltres ia persones semblants, que sou Parson Justasses, que feu els vostres testaments. Heu estat els enemics de la Guàrdia Negra del poble en totes les ocasions, encara no heu fet el que hauríeu de fer,... Swing''| |llengua1= |llengua2= }} No totes les cartes eren de treballadors agrícoles empobrits que intentaven millorar la seva sort, altres persones van veure l'ús de l'epònim 'Swing' només per a beneficis privats. Per exemple, una carta enviada a una senyora Chandler de Church Farm, Pursey, Wiltshire, va ser un intent d'extorsió evident: El remitent va resultar ser un soldat de Dragoons. Referències culturals Swing es presenta com una persona real a la novel·la de realitat alternativa The Difference Engine. Captain Swing és un àlbum de 1989 de la cantant i compositora Michelle Shocked. Un personatge anomenat "Findthee Swing" és un capità de la policia secreta "Unmentionables" d'Ankh-Morpork a la novel·la Night Watch de Terry Pratchett. Captain Swing & The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island és una novel·la gràfica de Warren Ellis, que inclou un Captain Swing amb tecnologia elèctrica avançada i un vaixell volador. L'obra teatral Captain Swing de Peter Whelan, dirigida per Bill Alexander, va ser produïda per la Royal Shakespeare Company el 1979. Capitan Swing és també el nom d'una editorial de lectura crítica amb seu a Madrid. Vegeu també Ned Ludd Notes Referències Bibliografia Enllaços externs Article "El capità Swing recluta un vicari de Mansfield" de 1831 al diari The Manchester Guardian.'' Epònims Revoltes pageses Revoltes del segle XIX

Steffen Schneider 25 Jan 1961 - 13 Jun 2000 Grave site information of Steffen Schneider (25 Jan 1961 - 13 Jun 2000) at Saint Christophorus Kirche in Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge, Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen, Germany from BillionGraves Register to get full access to the grave site record of Steffen Schneider Died: 13 Jun 2000 Saint Christophorus Kirche 26 Kirchstraße Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge, Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen JCCook Find more about Steffen... We found more records about Steffen Schneider. Grave Site of Steffen Steffen Schneider is buried in the Saint Christophorus Kirche at the location displayed on the map below. This GPS information is ONLY available at BillionGraves. Our technology can help you find the gravesite and other family members buried nearby. Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge,Erzgebirgskreis,Sachsen Life timeline of Steffen Schneider Steffen Schneider was born on 25 Jan 1961 Steffen Schneider was 12 years old when Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The majority of Americans believe the war was unjustified. The war would last roughly 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which also saw all three countries become communist states in 1975. Steffen Schneider was 29 years old when Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. Steffen Schneider was 33 years old when The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government. An estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100-day period from 7 April to mid-July 1994, constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population. Additionally, 30% of the Pygmy Batwa were killed. The genocide and widespread slaughter of Rwandans ended when the Tutsi-backed and heavily armed Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by Paul Kagame took control of the country. An estimated 2,000,000 Rwandans, mostly Hutus, were displaced and became refugees. Steffen Schneider died on 13 Jun 2000 at the age of 39 Browse > Germany > Sachsen > Saint Christophorus Kirche > Steffen Schneider Grave record for Steffen Schneider (25 Jan 1961 - 13 Jun 2000), BillionGraves Record 4500742 Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge, Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen, Germany

Michele Shirlow – Farm Week Column 9th August 2018 Awards great endorsement of the quality of our food and drink and the skills of producers I was delighted to see so many Food NI member companies collecting gold stars in the recently announced Great Taste Awards. Sixty of the 70 award winning companies are members, producing 200 of the 300 products to achieve gold stars in what has become the most influential food event of its kind in the UK, Ireland and other parts of Europe. It was tremendously encouraging to see so many companies successful in a competition which is watched closely by major retailers and foodservice organisations especially in Britain. Fifteen products, including four from Hannan Meats and two from Thompson's Teas, achieved the coveted three-star golds. Interestingly, Northern Ireland products gained 15 three-star golds while companies in the Republic recorded 10. And all the winning companies in the first-ever British Charcuterie Awards in London – Corndale Free Range, Limavady, Hannan Meats, Moira and Ispini Charcuterie, Aughnacloy are also active Food NI members. Our charcuterie producers have achieved a huge amount in just a few years. We now have a cluster of hugely innovative smaller producers developing distinctively Northern Irish charcuterie such chorizo, salami, bresaola, lomo and brisket pastrami, cured meats on a par with the best from France, Italy and Spain. While all the products have export potential, it is also essential that tourists are able to find such premium cured meats here being produced from the superb beef, pork and lamb from local farms. Such products offer the potential of a new revenue stream for our farmers because they tend to command premium prices. It would be great, therefore, to see locally cured meats being used by more chefs here to create deliciously different dishes. Dale Farm, one of our biggest members, also gained a host of medals for its cheddar cheese in the World Cheese Awards at Nantwich. There was further good news for Peter Hannan, a very supportive board member, in the enthusiastic endorsement of the outstanding quality of his beef from Cyrus Todiwala, the highly respected Indian gourmet chef, on BBC's Saturday Kitchen last weekend. Cyrus is the chef/owner of the popular Café Spice Namaste in London and one of the most creative celebrity chefs. He made it clear Hannan's location in Northern Ireland, providing another significant boost for the local food and drink industry. The Great Taste Awards are immensely important in signalling the excellence of food and drink readily available here for local hospitality businesses, retailers and consumers. They also demonstrate to tourists and other visitors that Northern Ireland is a great destination for superb food and drink. Visitors spend around a third of their holiday budget on food and drink so, it's essential that we market the outstanding food and drink here as widely as possible. Successes in international and national competitions are visible evidence that our food and drink is among the world's best. This reputation will also be important as we look forward to the The Open at Royal Portrush next year. This will be another golden opportunity to highlight the quality of our food and drink to the many thousands of golf fans coming to watch the event. There'll scarcely be a better opportunity to strengthen Northern Ireland's position on the global stage as a great destination with wonderful food and drink.

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How Arsenal Cristiano Ronaldo deal fell through over low transfer bid Date: 3rd November 2015 at 8:16am Written by: Football Insider By Arsenal correspondent Tony Hughes Arsenal were in the driving seat to sign Cristiano Ronaldo when he was 18 but missed out because their offer was too low, a new book reveals. Ronaldo had been persuaded to move from Sporting Lisbon to the Gunners early in 2003 after visiting the London club's training headquarters, with his agent Jorge Mendes convinced the deal would be finalised. However, a transfer fee could not be agreed between the two clubs and the young Portugese star signed for Manchester United the following summer. "The club making the greatest headway in 2003 was Arsenal," according to author Guillem Balague in Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography. " "Chief scout Steve Rowley met Mendes and Ronaldo in Lisbon early in the year to plant the seed. 'There was a time when I really thought he was going to Arsenal,' admitted Mendes. "Cristiano travelled to London with his mother in January to see the club's training ground and meet Arsene Wenger and one of his idols, Thierry Henry. 'We were in a car and Jorge kept calling me to reiterate I had to make sure nobody saw me,' recalled Ronaldo. 'We stopped at a service station and I had to have my face covered. Jorge was calling me every five minutes: "Be careful, be careful around people!" "Cristiano fell in love with the club, what it offered, the philosophy and the care with which young players are treated. "Arsenal, who wanted to confirm that he had the personality required to change his own lifestyle, country, language, had no doubts after his visit: he was ready. The player wanted to sign for the club. Mendes, too. As did Wenger, who kept the number nine shirt for him." It fell to transfer and contract negotiator David Dein, then the vice-chairman, to seal the deal for the player who would go on to become one of the greatest-ever during the following 12 years at United and Real Madrid. Record-breaker: Arsenal made a Cristiano Ronaldo offer that was too low "Dein travelled to the Portuguese capital to seal the deal, but the initial offer was too low for Sporting. 'Arsenal, with the construction of the new stadium, were short on funds and it wasn't possible to make the move happen,' stated Mendes. "The mistake by Arsenal was that, despite the very advanced negotiations, nothing was signed. Meanwhile, Manchester United agreed to play Sporting Lisbon in a friendly that very summer."

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John Paul Jones (ur. 6 lipca 1747 w Arbigland, zm. 18 lipca 1792 w Paryżu) – szkocki żeglarz, oficer amerykańskiej Continental Navy, bohater wojny o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych, zwycięzca w bitwie koło Flamborough Head, admirał rosyjskiej Floty Czarnomorskiej w wojnie z Turcją. Uważany za jednego z "ojców" US Navy. Życiorys Urodził się 6 lipca 1747 roku jako John Paul junior, czwarte z siedmiorga dzieci Johna seniora, ogrodnika, oraz Jean McDuff, w posiadłości Arbigland, parafii Kirkbean w hrabstwie Kircubright, w południowo-zachodniej Szkocji. W wieku 12 lat rozpoczął praktyki u Youngera, kupca z Whitehaven. Tam rok później po raz pierwszy zamustrował na statek "Friendship", płynący do Wirginii, gdzie osiedlił się wcześniej jego najstarszy brat William. Przez krótki czas służył w Royal Navy; był również oficerem na statkach do przewozu niewolników, awansując w 1766 na stanowisko starszego oficera na "Two Friends". Porzucił jednak tę służbę i przez pewien czas przebywał w Indiach Zachodnich. W 1768 roku powracał do kraju jako pasażer brygu "John", której kapitan i pierwszy oficer zmarli w drodze na żółtą febrę. W tej sytuacji objął dowodzenie statkiem i bezpiecznie doprowadził go do portu przeznaczenia, za co otrzymał od armatora nagrodę pieniężną i stałe zatrudnienie jako kapitan. Jako dowódca statku floty handlowej wykazał się znakomitymi umiejętnościami żeglarskimi, ale także wprowadził drakońskie metody utrzymywania dyscypliny na pokładzie. W grudniu 1773 roku po tym, jak skazany przezeń na karę chłosty marynarz zmarł (inne źródło mówi o zabiciu zbuntowanego członka załogi w samoobronie), porzucił dowodzenie i – pod zmienionym nazwiskiem, jako John Paul Jones – udał się do amerykańskich kolonii (według innego źródła, przyczyną rezygnacji ze służby i wyjazdu do Wirginii była śmierć najstarszego brata i chęć objęcia spadku po nim). Jego losy do 1775 roku nie są dokładnie znane; wiadomo iż w tym roku, dzięki protekcji kilku wpływowych wirginijskich osobistości (w tym Josepha Hewesa, jednego z sygnatariuszy Deklaracji niepodległości), otrzymał stopień porucznika i etat oficera na pierwszym okręcie tworzonej Continental Navy, brygu "Alfred". To on po raz pierwszy w historii podniósł na nim Grand Union Flag, poprzedniczkę Stars and Stripes. W 1776 roku uczestniczył w akcji zajęcia przez komodora Eseka Hopkinsa wyspy New Providence na Bahamach; wkrótce otrzymał swoje pierwsze dowództwo: slupa "Providence", na którym osiągnął szereg sukcesów w zwalczaniu brytyjskiej żeglugi. Następnie powrócił na "Alfreda" jako jego dowódca; dowodził z niego również eskadrą okrętów Continental Navy. W czerwcu 1777 roku powierzono mu dowództwo 18-działowego slupa "Ranger", na którym 1 listopada, już pod gwiaździstym sztandarem, wypłynął do sprzymierzonej Francji. Do Nantes zawinął 2 grudnia, w drodze zdobywając dwa statki brytyjskie jako pryzy. Na "Rangerze" 14 lutego 1778 roku w zatoce Quiberon odebrał pierwszy w historii salut obcego statku dla amerykańskiej bandery. Znając doskonale wody wokół Szkocji i Irlandii i mając wolną rękę w działaniu, zaplanował szereg akcji przeciwko Brytyjczykom na ich własnym terenie. 22 kwietnia wysadził desant w Whitehaven, opanował miejscowy fort i zagwoździł jego działa, przeprowadzając jednocześnie nieudaną próbę spalenia kotwiczących tam statków. Następnego dnia nieskutecznie próbował porwać earla Selkirk, by wymienić go później na amerykańskich marynarzy, wcielonych siłą do floty brytyjskiej. Cały czas szkodził lokalnej żegludze, atakując i zdobywając brytyjskie statki. 24 kwietnia nawiązał walkę z 14-działowym slupem "Drake"; po godzinnym pojedynku artyleryjskim zmusił jego dowódcę do poddania. Był to pierwszy w historii Royal Navy przypadek zdobycia przez przeciwnika jej okrętu na wodach brytyjskich. Po powrocie do Francji świętowano jego sukces. 13 maja gościł na obiedzie u przebywającego we Francji Johna Adamsa. Benjamin Franklin, ówczesny ambasador amerykański w Paryżu, zaproponował mu objęcie dowództwa 40-działowego okrętu, otrzymanego w darze od Francuzów – adaptowanego żaglowca handlowego zbudowanego do żeglugi wschodnioindyjskiej. Dla uczczenia Franklina został on nazwany "Bonhomme Richard" (znana jest także pisownia "Bon Homme Richard"). Na czele eskadry okrętów, obsadzonych w większości francuskimi załogami i z francuskimi dowódcami, miał za zadanie zwalczać brytyjską żeglugę. Pierwszy rejs okazał się nieudany: jego okręt flagowy zderzył się z inną jednostką zespołu i musiał zawrócić na remont. 23 września 1779 roku, w rejonie Flamborough Head w Yorkshire, eskadra Jonesa zaatakowała brytyjski konwój, osłaniany przez liniowiec piątej rangi (określany także w źródłach jako fregata) "Serapis" i uzbrojony statek "Countess of Scarborough". W bitwie, która się wywiązała, mający przy podobnym uzbrojeniu przewagę szybkości i zwrotności okręt brytyjski poważnie uszkodził "Bonhomme Richarda". Według legendy wezwany do poddania się Jones miał wówczas odpowiedzieć: "Ale ja jeszcze nawet nie zacząłem walczyć!". Po dramatycznym boju, za cenę utraty własnego okrętu flagowego (ciężko uszkodzony, zatonął dwa dni później w drodze do portu) i dużych strat w załodze, Jones zmusił ostatecznie dowódcę "Serapisa", komandora Richarda Pearsona, do kapitulacji. Bitwa ta przyniosła amerykańskiemu dowódcy uznanie i uczyniła go bohaterem Continental Navy. Kongres uhonorował go, jako jedynego oficera marynarki, złotym medalem, zaś król Ludwik XVI ofiarował mu pozłacaną szpadę. W tym samym czasie w Wielkiej Brytanii był przedstawiany jako pospolity pirat. Po powrocie do Stanów Zjednoczonych miał objąć obiecane mu przez Kongres dowodzenie liniowcem "America", lecz ten został oddany Francuzom jako rekompensata za utracony w amerykańskim porcie okręt. Nie znajdując możliwości dalszej służby i awansu w zdemobilizowanej po zakończeniu wojny z Wielką Brytanią marynarce amerykańskiej, Jones osiadł w Paryżu, a w 1788 roku przyjął rosyjską ofertę objęcia dowódczego stanowiska we Flocie Czarnomorskiej, zaangażowanej w wojnę przeciwko Turcji. Mianowany przez Katarzynę II admirałem, kierował działaniami eskadry okrętów rosyjskich, jednak na skutek intryg dworskich został zmuszony do dymisji w 1790 roku. Ponownie zamieszkał w Paryżu, gdzie zmarł 18 lipca 1792 roku. Został pochowany na cmentarzu na przedmieściach stolicy Francji. Jego zapomniany grób został odnaleziony w 1899 roku przez amerykańskiego ambasadora w Paryżu, generała Horace'a Portera. Szczątki sprowadzono do Stanów Zjednoczonych w 1905 roku i w 1913 roku uroczyście pochowano w sarkofagu z marmuru i brązu w kaplicy United States Naval Academy w Annapolis. Uwagi Przypisy Amerykańscy oficerowie marynarki Rosyjscy admirałowie Uczestnicy wojny o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych Urodzeni w 1747 Zmarli w 1792 Szkoccy żeglarze

mTelehealth™ aTouchAway Platform – Overview aTouchAway Platform – Features aTouchAway Platform – Ease of Use – Patients & Families aTouchAway Platform – What Sets Us Apart Pre & Post Operative Care Digital Patient Management Legislation Re-Introduced to Expand Access to Telehealth Under Medicare A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on October 30th designed to expand Medicare beneficiaries' access to telehealth services. The bill is called the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2019 (hereinafter, the "CONNECT Act" or the "Act"). In order to understand what the Act seeks to accomplish, it is important to have a working understanding of Medicare's current policies governing telehealth. A brief overview is provided below followed by a section by section summary of the Act. I. Understanding Medicare's Current Coverage of Telehealth Services a. Covered Telehealth Services under Medicare Currently, Medicare's coverage of telehealth services includes office visits, psychotherapy, consultations, and certain other medical or health services that are provided by an eligible provider who is not physically located at the Medicare beneficiary's location using an interactive 2-way telecommunications system (e.g., real-time audio and video). The specific telehealth-delivered services eligible for reimbursement under Medicare are identified by Current Procedural Terminology ("CPT") or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System ("HCPCS") codes. Each year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") considers submissions for new telehealth-delivered services to be approved. Submissions are allowed from providers, advocacy organizations, and other interested parties. CMS will decide to approve a submitted CPT code for reimbursement based on whether the service meets the requirements in one of two categories: Category 1: Services are similar to existing services, such as professional consultations, office visits, and office psychiatry services, which already are approved for telehealth delivery. In deciding whether to approve the new codes, similarities between the requested and existing telehealth services are examined, including interactions among the beneficiary and the practitioner at the distant site and, if necessary, the telepresenter, and similarities in the technologies used to deliver the proposed service. Category 2: Services not similar to Medicare-approved telehealth services. Reviews of these requests include an assessment of whether the service is accurately described by the corresponding CPT code when delivered via telehealth, and whether the use of technology to deliver the service produces a demonstrated clinical benefit to the patient. CMS maintains a list of current CPT codes eligible for Medicare reimbursement for CY 2019. Newly approved services typically become eligible for reimbursement on January 1 of the following year. b. Geographic Limitations on Telehealth Services under Medicare Medicare beneficiaries may only access telehealth services under Medicare if they are located in (i) a county that is outside a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); or (ii) a rural Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) in a rural census tract. These limitations generally serve to limit Medicare's telehealth services to those beneficiaries who are located in rural parts of the country. c. Requirements for Originating Sites under Medicare Telehealth services are only available under Medicare if the beneficiary is located at one of these places (known as "originating sites"): A doctor's office A hospital A critical access hospital ("CAH") A Rural health clinic A Federally qualified health center A hospital-based dialysis facility A skilled nursing facility A community mental health center An individual's home if the individual is receiving treatment of a substance use disorder or a co-occurring mental health disorder Renal dialysis facilities Homes of beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease ("ESRD") getting home dialysis Mobile stroke units II. Summary of the CONNECT Act's Provisions The CONNECT Act would make the following changes in an effort to expand the availability of telehealth services to beneficiaries. a. Expand Use of Telehealth through the Waiver of Certain Requirements Pursuant to Section 3 of the Act, beginning in 2021, the CONNECT Act would grant the Secretary HHS the authority to waive restrictions applicable to payment for telehealth services, including originating site restrictions, geographic limitations, limitations on the types of technologies to be used, limitations on provider type, and limitations on the types of services rendered. However, use of the waiver is only permitted if it is expected to reduce spending without reducing quality of care or denying/limiting coverage to beneficiaries. In addition, the waiver must apply to services provided in high-need, health professional shortage areas. b. Expand Use of Telehealth for Mental Health Services Section 4 of the Act would remove the geographic restrictions currently applicable to use of telehealth for mental health services and would add the home as an originating site for mental health services. c. Use of Telehealth in Emergency Medical Care. Section 5 of the Act would remove the geographic restrictions currently applicable to certain originating sites for emergency medical care services. d. Improvements to the Process for Adding Telehealth Services. Section 6 of the Act would require CMS' process for adding telehealth services, as described above, to better consider how telehealth can improve access to care. It would also provide clarification on what requests to add telehealth services under such process should include. e. Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers Section 7 of the Act removes the geographic restrictions currently applicable to federally qualified health centers ("FQHCs") and rural health clinics ("RHCs") and allows FQHCs and RHCs to furnish telehealth services as distant sites. f. Native American Health Facilities Section 8 of the Act would removes the geographic and originating site restrictions currently applicable to facilities of the Indian Health Service or Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems. g. Waiver of Telehealth Restrictions During National Emergencies Section 9 of the Act would allow for the waiver of telehealth restrictions during national and public health emergencies. h. Use of Telehealth in Recertification for Hospice Care Section 10 of the Act would allow for the use of telehealth in the recertification of a beneficiary for the hospice benefit. i. Clarification for Fraud and Abuse Laws Section 11 would clarify that the provision of technologies to a Medicare beneficiary for the purpose of furnishing services using technology is not considered "remuneration" under fraud and abuse laws j. Other Provisions Section 12 of the Act would require MedPAC to study how different payers cover the home as an originating site and what services would be suitable for the home to be an originating site under Medicare. Section 13 of the Act would require an analysis of the impact of telehealth waivers in CMS Innovation Center models. Section 14 of the act would authorize a model to test allowing additional health professionals to furnish telehealth services And, finally, Section 15 of the Act would encourage the CMS Innovation Center to test telehealth models in Medicare. The CONNECT Act is accompanied by companion legislation in the House of Representatives. Both the Senate and House bills have bipartisan support. Given that 2019 saw several CMS implement several expansions to Medicare's coverage of telehealth services, there appears to be a significant amount of forward momentum behind telehealth right now. Whether the CONNECT Act will make it through Congress and be signed into law is unclear. But the odds are good that Medicare beneficiaries' and others' access to telehealth services is likely to continue to increase if not through legislation than through regulatory means. We will continue to monitor the progress of the Act and report on any developments in the future. Copyright © 2019, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. 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News Sports Entertainment Life Opinion Business Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Northridge's Wogomon retires from coaching Tribune Staff Report South Bend Tribune Tom Wogomon took the Northridge football program to new heights. The Raiders will have to find a new coach to add to Wogomon's successful tenure in Middlebury. Northridge announced Thursday morning in a statement posted on Twitter that Wogomon was retiring after eight seasons in charge of the program. Wogomon, a 1986 Goshen High School graduate, went 52-34 in eight seasons at Northridge. He guided the Raiders to five winning seasons after the program had totaled just eight in the previous 42 years. "Tom did an outstanding job of taking our program to the next level," said Northridge athletic director Dave Harms in the statement. "He came in with high expectations from the start and maintained them throughout." Wogomon's 52 wins are the most among the eight coaches in program history. The highlight of his tenure was the 2014 season when the Raiders went 11-3 and won Class 4A sectional and regional championships, the lone sectional and regional crowns in program history. Northridge lost 28-10 to New Prairie in a semistate game in 2014. Wogomon also guided the Raiders to an undefeated regular season in 2017 and the program's only Northern Lakes Conference title. He was named the NLC Coach of the Year that season. Wogomon, who was also an assistant coach at East Noble, is 77-71 overall in 14 seasons on the high school sidelines. He went 25-37 in six seasons at Wawasee before taking over at Northridge, the community where he and his family resided, in 2013 to replace Jon Kirkton. He guided the Warriors to winning seasons in his final three years in charge in Syracuse. Northridge went 6-3 overall and 5-2 in the NLC in Wogomon's final campaign this past fall. The Raiders lost 14-7 to Leo in a Class 4A first-round sectional game. Harms said in the statement that the school will accept applications for the opening until March 1. Northridge is scheduled to play at Adams in the 2021 season opener on Aug. 20. © 2023 www.southbendtribune.com. All rights reserved.

MTU Aero Engines Standardizes on UGS for Digital Product Development; Decision Displaces Company's Existing Solution WEBWIRE – Monday, November 14, 2005 Move to Standardize On UGS' 3D Design and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Solution, NX, Part of €1 Million (US$1.2 Million) Contract Extension Monday, November 14, 2005, COLOGNE, Germany and PLANO, Texas – UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced MTU Aero Engines GmbH, Germany's leading aircraft engine manufacturer, standardized on UGS for digital product development as part of a €1 million (US$1.2 million) extension. Under this new extension MTU Aero Engines will add another 85 seats of NX™ software, UGS' digital product development software, replacing the existing computer-aided design (CAD) software. Including these additional seats, MTU Aero Engines will be operating 320 NX workstations. UGS announced the original multi-million dollar PLM contract with MTU Aero Engines – UGS' largest-ever contract in Europe at the time - standardizing (s.o.) on Teamcenter™ solution, UGS' digital product data management solution, in 2004. (See separate release http://www.ugs.com/about_us/press/press.shtml?id=3618) "The successful implementation of our PLM² project using UGS software confirms that our original choice was the right one," said Erwin Pignitter, senior vice president Information Management, MTU Aero Engines. "The modular system-suite of UGS is the reason we are continuing with our plan to standardize our systems and at the same time we will continue to change and optimize our processes." "The decision of an industry leader like MTU Aero Engines to standardize on UGS' PLM software versus our competition is a testament to the technical superiority of our solutions and our expertise in manufacturing in general and specifically the areas of aeronautics and aerospace," said Tony Affuso, chairman, CEO and president, UGS. "MTU Aero Engines' decision to expand the implementation of NX to replace their existing system confirms that we are moving in the right direction, both in regard to our technology and in the way we work together as partners with our customers all over the world." MTU Aero Engines selected UGS as its strategic partner for PLM software and services to enhance and simplify its PLM environment. The company's PLM² project, initiated in 2003, laid the foundation for worldwide use of UGS' NX and Teamcenter systems. Teamcenter optimizes processes and work sequences, provides simplified global access to product data and documents, and enhances efficiencies in the IT system environment. About MTU Aero Engines MTU Aero Engines is Germany's leading engine manufacturer and ranks among the big players in the business. It operates affiliates in all significant markets and regions. In the commercial engine business the company cooperates closely with the world's biggest engine manufacturers – General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce. In the military arena, MTU is the industrial lead company for practically all aircraft engines flown by the German military and an important partner in all major military engine programs in Europe. MTU's network of maintenance shops is the world's largest independent provider of engine maintenance services in terms of sales. Technologically, the company has established a global leadership position. Further information about the company is available on the Internet at www.mtu.de About UGS UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with nearly 4 million licensed seats and 46,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, UGS' vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging UGS' open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process of innovation. Note: UGS, Tecnomatix, Teamcenter, NX and Transforming the process of innovation are trademarks or registered trademarks of UGS Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders. 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Zooxanthellen sind Protisten, die als Endosymbionten in einer Reihe von Lebewesen leben können. Bei den Zooxanthellen handelt es sich meistens um Dinoflagellaten, aber auch Chrysomonaden, Cryptomonaden oder Diatomeen kommen vor. Als Wirte kommen Rhizaria (Kammerlinge alias Foraminifera und Strahlentierchen alias Radiolaria), Steinkorallen (Scleractinia), viele Octocorallia, sonstige Blumentiere (Anthozoa), Feuerkorallen (Millepora), Riesenmuscheln (Tridacnidae), aber auch einige Quallenarten vor. Auch Nacktkiemer (Nudibranchia, z. B. Pteraeolidia ianthina) und Schwämme besitzen manchmal Zooxanthellen. Alle Korallen, die am Bau der tropischen Korallenriffe beteiligt sind, haben Zooxanthellen als Endosymbionten. Die Zooxanthellen leben im Körper des Wirts und versorgen ihn mit Zucker, Stärke und anderen organischen Produkten. Sowohl der Wirt als auch die Protisten profitieren von der Symbiose, es handelt sich also um einen Mutualismus. Bei den Foraminiferen ist die Symbiose fakultativ, das heißt, beide Lebewesen gedeihen prinzipiell auch ohne einander. Die riffbildenden Steinkorallen tropischer Korallenriffe sterben dagegen, wenn sie ihre Zooxanthellen unter Stress ausgestoßen haben, ein Phänomen, das als Korallenbleiche bekannt ist. Ähnliche Symbiosen Ein Sonderfall ist die Symbiose des Flecken-Querzahnmolchs (Ambystoma maculatum) mit Algen der Spezies Oophila amblystomatis (Chlorococcales). Die Algen leben in den Zellen der Embryonen und in der sie umgebenden Gelschicht des Laiches. Sie werden möglicherweise auch über die Keimbahn vertikal an die Nachkommen vererbt. Dies ist das einzige bekannte Beispiel für Wirbeltierzellen, die eine endosymbiontische Mikrobe beherbergen (wenn man die Mitochondrien nicht berücksichtigt). Wenn nicht die Protistenzellen als Ganzes, sondern nur die Chloroplasten erhalten bleiben, so spricht man hingegen von Kleptoplastie. Einzelnachweise Weblinks Wilfried Probst: Frühe Evolution und Symbiose, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Institut für Biologie und Sachunterricht und ihre Didaktik: §Pflanzentiere und Kleptoplasten, abgerufen am 19. April 2019 Symbiose

Le Deutsche Mark (prononcé signifiant littéralement en allemand mark allemand, code ISO 4217 DEM), deutschemark (graphie francisée) ou mark allemand, fut d'abord la monnaie officielle de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest dès (succédant alors au Reichsmark) puis de l'Allemagne réunifiée à partir du (remplaçant alors le mark est-allemand en ex-RDA) jusqu'au , avant son remplacement par l'euro. Le deutschemark était subdivisé en 100 pfennigs. Histoire Origine La capitulation allemande de mai 1945 signe la fin du régime nazi, et laisse l'Allemagne exsangue et de nombreuses villes en ruine, plusieurs millions de personnes sont déplacées, surtout à l'est du pays, occupé par l'Armée soviétique. La période qui suit la Seconde Guerre mondiale est marquée par d'énormes problèmes sociaux et économiques, par l'absence de perspectives politiques et par le désordre monétaire. Assez rapidement, les Alliés se disputent la suprématie sur le pays. Finalement, les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni décident d'une uniformisation économique en zone occidentale, créant la bizone en janvier 1947, celle-ci qui deviendra 18 mois plus tard la trizone lorsqu'elle sera rejoint par la France, trizone qui deviendra la République fédérale allemande. En 1949, la zone d'occupation soviétique devient la République démocratique allemande, avec sa propre monnaie. Dans l'intervalle, Lucius D. Clay, gouverneur général de la zone américaine, charge de sauver la monnaie allemande : il est considéré comme le « père du deutschemark ». Tenenbaum travaille conjointement avec l', qui fut chargée, dès 1947, de faire appliquer le plan Marshall. Entre 1945 et 1948, les prix à la consommation en Allemagne sont soumis à l'inflation, la fuite devant le reichsmark entraîne, sur le marché noir, une utilisation au quotidien du dollar américain, mais aussi de la livre sterling, du franc français et des monnaies d'occupation servant aux militaires. Cette situation malsaine prend fin grâce à ce plan Marshall, tenu secret jusqu'à l'annonce de la réforme monétaire de 1948 : les personnes physiques ont du 21 juin jusqu'au 26 juin pour changer leur avoirs. Il lie l'économie des trois zones allemandes de l'Ouest au système économique occidental. En mars, est créée la Bank Deutscher Länder, qui remplace la Reichsbank, dissoute à la suite de la dénazification de l'économie. Forte d'un capital initial de 100 millions de DM, c'est cette institution qui prend en charge l'émission de la nouvelle monnaie, et ce jusqu'au 31 juillet 1957, où elle est remplacée par la Deutsche Bundesbank. Son siège est à Francfort-sur-le-Main. Les nouvelles vignettes monétaires sont imprimées aux États-Unis, pour un montant total de six milliards. Le transport et le convoyage de cette masse de billets - représentant un poids de 500 tonnes - fut appelée Operation Bird Dog. Le deutschemark, dont les billets (de 1/2 à 100 DM) ressemblent fortement aux dollars, remplace donc dans la trizone le reichsmark, toujours en vigueur depuis la fin de la guerre mais de plus en plus dévalué. Le taux de change initial était de un contre un pour les 40 premiers reichsmarks, puis de 10 contre 1 pour les suivants. Cette vaste opération de change, appelée en allemand Währungsreform, eut un effet relativement désastreux pour les personnes qui possédaient d'importants capitaux sous forme de grosses coupures, mais cette opération de conversion était inévitable : ce fut le seul moyen de limiter les abus nés du marché noir et de l'accumulation de liquidités douteuses peu avant l'armistice. Le même phénomène eut lieu en France le 4 juin 1945 où les porteurs eurent 12 jours pour venir convertir leurs espèces en billets de réserve aux comptoirs des banques, et sous conditions. La zone soviétique suit le même chemin avec la création du Ostmark (ou « Mark de l'Est »). L'Ostmark était la monnaie de la République démocratique allemande (fondée 7 octobre 1949), même si le deutschemark y circulait de façon clandestine. Au début, la qualité des différents billets est fort irrégulière. C'est ainsi que les billets de 5 deutschemarks doivent être remplacés presque immédiatement par de nouveaux billets fabriqués au Royaume-Uni par l'entreprise De La Rue. Ce sont les premiers billets allemands portant une bande de sécurité métallique. Ce n'est qu'en 1955, et conformément au traité de paix, que le Gouvernement fédéral allemand peut reprendre la maîtrise de la production de sa monnaie nationale. Entretemps, le miracle économique (Wirtschaftswunder) s'est produit, en grande partie grâce au plan Marshall (European Recovery Program, 1947-1951). Les conditions financières sont donc totalement différentes de celles de 1918-1923 : la monnaie a été sauvée par une maîtrise de l'inflation, la confiance est restaurée, les exportations permettent une accélération de la croissance, le chômage recule. Le janvier 1957, lors de l'intégration du protectorat de la Sarre au sein de la République fédérale d'Allemagne, le nouveau land de Sarre ainsi constitué adopte le deutschemark en remplacement du franc sarrois, au taux de 0,8507 marks pour 100 francs. Le « miracle économique » La croissance économique des années 1950 et 1960 (Wirtschaftswunder) est fondée sur un énorme potentiel industriel en grande partie épargné par les bombardements alliés, une main-d'œuvre qualifiée, l'aide américaine et une forte demande. Le taux de change du deutschemark en 1950 est de 5 pour un dollar, taux qui était le même qu'avant 1914 pour le mark-or : c'est dire la réussite de la réforme imposée par les Américains. L'excédent de la balance commerciale amène des réévaluations du deutschemark en mars 1961 (+ 5 %), en octobre 1969 (+ 9 %) et en décembre 1971 (Smithsonian agreement). À partir de 1972, le deutschemark, en tant que monnaie forte, évolue dans le serpent monétaire européen, puis en 1979 dans le système monétaire européen (SME). Le deutschemark a ainsi été réévalué à plusieurs reprises face aux autres monnaies du SME. C'est seulement après la chute du Mur de Berlin en novembre 1989 et la réunification de l'Allemagne que le deutschemark est introduit dans la République démocratique allemande (RDA) et devient la monnaie de tous les Allemands. L'union monétaire entre en vigueur le juillet 1990 et le traité d'unification fixe les conditions d'adhésion des cinq Länder orientaux à la RFA. En février 1992, le traité de Maastricht fixe les conditions d'accès à l'union monétaire européenne. Le deutschemark devint la monnaie de plusieurs pays d'Europe de l'Est, comme les anciennes républiques de Yougoslavie. Depuis 1998, la monnaie nationale de nouveaux États européens comme la Bosnie-Herzégovine était le mark convertible (Konvertible Mark, symbolisé KM, code BAM), aligné au départ sur le deutschemark et dont la valeur a été convertie en euro le janvier 1999, date à laquelle la valeur du deutschemark fut fixée définitivement par rapport à la nouvelle monnaie unique européenne, à raison de 1,95583 DEM pour 1 EUR. L'euro et la fin du deutschemark 50 ans après la réforme monétaire de 1948, le mark était devenu pour de nombreux Allemands un symbole d'identification nationale. Le DEM symbolisait également la prospérité et la solidité de l'économie allemande. Le , l'Allemagne est cependant le premier membre de l'Union monétaire européenne (UME) à délaisser sa monnaie nationale pour adopter l'euro comme monnaie courante. En souvenir du deutschemark, les pièces de 1 et 2 euros allemandes ont gardé l'aigle allemand sur la face nationale ; les pièces allemandes de 1, 2 et 5 centimes d'euro ont conservé la branche de chêne qui figurait sur les pfennigs. Le deutschemark survit en Bosnie-Herzégovine sous la forme du mark convertible, toujours lié à l'euro au taux de change exact du mark allemand lors de sa conversion. Pièces de monnaie allemandes Billets de banque 4 séries de billets ont été émises : La première à partir de 1948, par la Bank deutscher Länder, une institution du gouvernement d'occupation de la zone occidentale. Les billets étaient semblables au dollar américain ; La deuxième à partir de 1951, coexistante avec la première et la remplaçant peu à peu spécifique à la République fédérale allemande (RFA) ; La troisième à partir de 1961, par la Deutsche Bundesbank, conçue par Hermann Eidenbenz. Elle comprend des billets de 5, 10 (avec un portrait de jeune homme par Lucas Cranach l'Ancien), 20, 50, 100 (avec le portrait de Sebastian Münster), 500 et DEM ; La dernière à partir de 1989, par la Deutsche Bundesbank, qui, pour faire face à la contrefaçon, met en place de nouveaux points de sécurité à partir de 1996. Les billets représentent des artistes, dont Bettina von Arnim pour le billet de 5, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff pour le billet de 20, Clara Schumann pour le billet de 100, Maria Sibylla Merian pour le billet de 500, et les frères Grimm pour le billet de , ainsi que des scientifiques allemands comme Carl Friedrich Gauss pour le billet de 10, Johann Balthasar Neumann pour le billet de 50, et Paul Ehrlich pour le billet de 200, une nouvelle coupure. Ces billets vont remplacer à partir de juillet 1990 le mark de la RDA. Taux de conversion avec l'euro Le taux exact de conversion fut fixé la veille de l'entrée en vigueur de l'Union économique et monétaire (UEM) le janvier 1999, quelques années avant l'introduction de l'euro : 1 EUR = 1,95583 DEM Pièces et billets libellés en deutschemark sont, sauf indication contraire de la Bundesbank, échangeables contre des euros sur tout le territoire allemand. Notes et références Notes Références Annexes Bibliographie Helmut Kahn, Martin Pontzen, Michael H. Schöne, Karlheinz Walz, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Mark. In Ost und West, Gietl Verlag, 2003 Articles connexes Histoire de l'Allemagne depuis 1945 Ludwig Erhard Liens externes Billets historiques de l'Allemagne Monnaie remplacée par l'euro Monnaie allemande Histoire économique de l'Allemagne Monnaie monténégrine

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On a slow day in March of 1997 I decided that it might be interesting to add a bulletin board system to my website. I'd had a little "Guestbook" system running for a while at that point and that was cool, but it seemed like a real interactive community could be entertaining. I just used a free script I found somewhere online and I was pretty satisfied. At some point a little better system came along that let me keep all the old posts, so I moved over to that. That system got upgraded now and again, so I followed along and upgraded with it. At one point I even hired one of the developers to upgrade me to the latest greatest system. Shortly thereafter he decided the system wasn't worth his time to maintain. So he quit, eventually nobody was supporting it. 21 years after I had that whim to start the BBS, and about 250,000 posts later, my web host upgraded the operation system on my server and the script was no longer fully functional. Luckily the data is all still there and the script works well enough that you can read the posts.

Q: How to update struct text file line by line My code store all activities details in a file and I have problem accessing data in that file by searching using id. This is my add activities function and struct. struct activities{ char id[5]; char actName[200]; char date[20]; char day[20]; }act; //function to add volunteering activities void addAct(){ FILE *fileAct; //prompt user to enter activities details printf("\n\t Planning Volunteering Activities"); printf("\n\t -----------------------------------"); printf("\n\t Program ID \t: "); scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &act.id); printf("\t Name of Activity : "); scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &act.actName); printf("\t Date \t\t: "); scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &act.date); printf("\t Day \t\t: "); scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &act.day); //create & write in file activity fileAct = fopen("Activity", "a"); fprintf(fileAct, "\n\t %s \n", act.id); fprintf(fileAct, "1. Name of Activity : %s \n", act.actName); fprintf(fileAct, "2. Date : %s \n", act.date); fprintf(fileAct, "3. Day : %s \n", act.day); //close file activity fclose(fileAct); } And this is my update function. void updateAct(){ //variable declaration char progID[5]; //open activity file FILE *fp = fopen ("Activity", "r"); //prompt user to search activities to update printf("\t Search by Program ID : "); scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &progID); while( !feof(fp)){ fread (&act, sizeof(struct activities), 1, fp); if (strcmp(progID, act.id) == 0) printf("%s %s", act.id, act.actName); } fclose(fp); } In the update function above, I couldnt access the act.id in struct based on user search, instead, the program display the whole data in the file. How can fix this problem? A: You provide pointers to char arrays, which technically is a pointer to a pointer. But scanf only needs pointers. Remove the &'s of the scanf()-calls and add a maximum lengt specifier to your format arguments: Change scanf(" %[^\n]%*c", &progID); to scanf(" %4[^\n]%*c", progID); for a 5 byte buffer. A: void readLine(char* message, char* buffer, int buffer_size) { printf("\t%s: ", message); fgets(buffer, buffer_size, stdin); // fgets inserts '\n' at the end // we are removing it buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0'; } void addAct(){ FILE *fileAct; struct activities newAct; //prompt user to enter activities details printf("\n\tPlanning Volunteering Activities"); printf("\n\t-----------------------------------\n"); readLine("Program ID", newAct.id, sizeof(newAct.id)); readLine("Name of Activity", newAct.actName, sizeof(newAct.actName)); readLine("Date", newAct.date, sizeof(newAct.date)); readLine("Day", newAct.day, sizeof(newAct.day)); //create & write in file activity fileAct = fopen("Activity", "ab+"); if(NULL != fileAct) { fwrite(&newAct, sizeof(struct activities), 1, fileAct); //close file activity fclose(fileAct); } } void updateAct(){ //variable declaration char progID[5]; struct activities readAct; //open activity file FILE *fp = fopen("Activity", "rb"); if(NULL != fp) { //prompt user to search activities to update printf("\tSearch by Program ID : "); fgets(progID, sizeof(progID), stdin); progID[strlen(progID) - 1] = '\0'; while(fread(&readAct, sizeof(struct activities), 1, fp) != 0){ if (strcmp(progID, readAct.id) == 0) { printf("%s %s\n", readAct.id, readAct.actName); break; } } fclose(fp); } }

Student Design Challenge Contest Interactive Roadmap How to read the Roadmap Start here if you are coming to the Roadmap for the first time. See the Interactive Roadmap Guide Explore the roadmap The 7 Themes Explore our framework for civics and history education. Explore the themes The 5 Design Challenges Embrace the complexity of curricular design. See the design challenges Implementing the Roadmap in your classroom Design robust curricula tailored to your students. See Pedagogy Companion by driving question DownloadReport & Roadmap Learn to read the roadmap The Seven Themes The Five Design Challenges Design Challenge Art Contest Home » Resources » American Indians in a Changing World American Indians in a Changing World Grades 3–5: Unit Plan/Lesson Plan Students will examine and analyze photographs of, poems by, and documents about American Indians experiences as European Americans migrated across the United States. They will use the knowledge gained through their analysis to write their own songs, poems, and letters. While the unit is intended to take three class periods, it is possible to complete the material in a shorter time frame. For example, you can set up three document centers around the classroom. After being introduced to the necessary analytical skills, the students can be split into three groups and sent to a document center to complete the activities there, switching to a new document center after a designated period of time. This will shorten the three-day unit to two days. Learning Objectives:Students will be able to analyze primary sources, including photographs, poems, and texts.Students will be able to complete activities that focus on higher-order thinking questions about the resources and the American Indians they portray.Students will be able to complete writing assignments based on lessons. Related Skills: Analyzing Texts, Images, or Videos, Historical Thinking Skills, Building Evidentiary Claims Developed in collaboration with teachers. America's Plural Yet Shared Story Civic Honesty, Reflective Patriotism Primary Theme Related Driving Questions HDQ3.2B How have different groups (e.g., religion, race, ethnicity) shaped our society? See question inside The Interactive Roadmap or Resource Library HDQ3.2C How do we engage with hard histories (e.g., enslavement, genocide, terrorism)? Secondary Theme Our Changing Landscapes HDQ2.2A Why should we learn about the history of the land we inhabit? HDQ2.2B How did different groups of people understand and express their connections to the land? Pedagogical Principles Inquiry as the Primary Mode for Learning See the full resource at www.gilderlehrman.org Questions, comments, concerns, and submissions: E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One. 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This theme explores the idea of "the people" as a political concept–not just a group of people who share a landscape but a group of people who share political ideals and institutions. Read more about the theme in: Institutional & Social Transformation This theme explores how social arrangements and conflicts have combined with political institutions to shape American life from the earliest colonial period to the present, investigates which moments of change have most defined the country, and builds understanding of how American political institutions and society changes. Contemporary Debates & Possibilities This theme explores the contemporary terrain of civic participation and civic agency, investigating how historical narratives shape current political arguments, how values and information shape policy arguments, and how the American people continues to renew or remake itself in pursuit of fulfillment of the promise of constitutional democracy. This theme explores the relationship between self-government and civic participation, drawing on the discipline of history to explore how citizens' active engagement has mattered for American society and on the discipline of civics to explore the principles, values, habits, and skills that support productive engagement in a healthy, resilient constitutional democracy. This theme focuses attention on the overarching goal of engaging young people as civic participants and preparing them to assume that role successfully. This theme begins from the recognition that American civic experience is tied to a particular place, and explores the history of how the United States has come to develop the physical and geographical shape it has, the complex experiences of harm and benefit which that history has delivered to different portions of the American population, and the civics questions of how political communities form in the first place, become connected to specific places, and develop membership rules. The theme also takes up the question of our contemporary responsibility to the natural world. A New Government & Constitution This theme explores the institutional history of the United States as well as the theoretical underpinnings of constitutional design. A People in the World This theme explores the place of the U.S. and the American people in a global context, investigating key historical events in international affairs,and building understanding of the principles, values, and laws at stake in debates about America's role in the world. The Seven Themes provide the organizational framework for the Roadmap. They map out the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that students should be able to explore in order to be engaged in informed, authentic, and healthy civic participation. Importantly, they are neither standards nor curriculum, but rather a starting point for the design of standards, curricula, resources, and lessons. Driving questions provide a glimpse into the types of inquiries that teachers can write and develop in support of in-depth civic learning. Think of them as a starting point in your curricular design. Learn more about inquiry-based learning in the Pedagogy Companion. Sample guiding questions are designed to foster classroom discussion, and can be starting points for one or multiple lessons. It is important to note that the sample guiding questions provided in the Roadmap are NOT an exhaustive list of questions. There are many other great topics and questions that can be explored. America's constitutional politics are rife with tensions and complexities. Our Design Challenges, which are arranged alongside our Themes, identify and clarify the most significant tensions that writers of standards, curricula, texts, lessons, and assessments will grapple with. In proactively recognizing and acknowledging these challenges, educators will help students better understand the complicated issues that arise in American history and civics. Motivating Agency, Sustaining the Republic How can we help students understand the full context for their roles as civic participants without creating paralysis or a sense of the insignificance of their own agency in relation to the magnitude of our society, the globe, and shared challenges? How can we help students become engaged citizens who also sustain civil disagreement, civic friendship, and thus American constitutional democracy? How can we help students pursue civic action that is authentic, responsible, and informed? How can we integrate the perspectives of Americans from all different backgrounds when narrating a history of the U.S. and explicating the content of the philosophical foundations of American constitutional democracy? How can we do so consistently across all historical periods and conceptual content? How can this more plural and more complete story of our history and foundations also be a common story, the shared inheritance of all Americans? Simultaneously Celebrating & Critiquing Compromise How do we simultaneously teach the value and the danger of compromise for a free, diverse, and self-governing people? How do we help students make sense of the paradox that Americans continuously disagree about the ideal shape of self-government but also agree to preserve shared institutions? How can we offer an account of U.S. constitutional democracy that is simultaneously honest about the wrongs of the past without falling into cynicism, and appreciative of the founding of the United States without tipping into adulation? Balancing the Concrete & the Abstract How can we support instructors in helping students move between concrete, narrative, and chronological learning and thematic and abstract or conceptual learning? Each theme is supported by key concepts that map out the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students should be able to explore in order to be engaged in informed, authentic, and healthy civic participation. They are vertically spiraled and developed to apply to K—5 and 6—12. Importantly, they are not standards, but rather offer a vision for the integration of history and civics throughout grades K—12. Helping Students Participate How can I learn to understand my role as a citizen even if I'm not old enough to take part in government? How can I get excited to solve challenges that seem too big to fix? How can I learn how to work together with people whose opinions are different from my own? How can I be inspired to want to take civic actions on my own? America's Shared Story How can I learn about the role of my culture and other cultures in American history? How can I see that America's story is shared by all? Thinking About Compromise How can teachers teach the good and bad sides of compromise? How can I make sense of Americans who believe in one government but disagree about what it should do? Honest Patriotism How can I learn an honest story about America that admits failure and celebrates praise? Balancing Time & Theme How can teachers help me connect historical events over time and themes? The Six Pedagogical Principles EAD teacher draws on six pedagogical principles that are connected sequentially. Six Core Pedagogical Principles are part of our Pedagogy Companion. The Pedagogical Principles are designed to focus educators' effort on techniques that best support the learning and development of student agency required of history and civic education. This resource aligns with the core pedagogical principle of: EAD teachers commit to learn about and teach full and multifaceted historical and civic narratives. They appreciate student diversity and assume all students' capacity for learning complex and rigorous content. EAD teachers focus on inclusion and equity in both content and approach as they spiral instruction across grade bands, increasing complexity and depth about relevant history and contemporary issues. Growth Mindset and Capacity Building EAD teachers have a growth mindset for themselves and their students, meaning that they engage in continuous self-reflection and cultivate self-knowledge. They learn and adopt content as well as practices that help all learners of diverse backgrounds reach excellence. EAD teachers need continuous and rigorous professional development (PD) and access to professional learning communities (PLCs) that offer peer support and mentoring opportunities, especially about content, pedagogical approaches, and instruction-embedded assessments. Building an EAD-Ready Classroom and School EAD teachers cultivate and sustain a learning environment by partnering with administrators, students, and families to conduct deep inquiry about the multifaceted stories of American constitutional democracy. They set expectations that all students know they belong and contribute to the classroom community. Students establish ownership and responsibility for their learning through mutual respect and an inclusive culture that enables students to engage courageously in rigorous discussion. EAD teachers not only use the EAD Roadmap inquiry prompts as entry points to teaching full and complex content, but also cultivate students' capacity to develop their own deep and critical inquiries about American history, civic life, and their identities and communities. They embrace these rigorous inquiries as a way to advance students' historical and civic knowledge, and to connect that knowledge to themselves and their communities. They also help students cultivate empathy across differences and inquisitiveness to ask difficult questions, which are core to historical understanding and constructive civic participation. Practice of Constitutional Democracy and Student Agency EAD teachers use their content knowledge and classroom leadership to model our constitutional principle of "We the People" through democratic practices and promoting civic responsibilities, civil rights, and civic friendship in their classrooms. EAD teachers deepen students' grasp of content and concepts by creating student opportunities to engage with real-world events and problem-solving about issues in their communities by taking informed action to create a more perfect union. Assess, Reflect, and Improve EAD teachers use assessments as a tool to ensure all students understand civics content and concepts and apply civics skills and agency. Students have the opportunity to reflect on their learning and give feedback to their teachers in higher-order thinking exercises that enhance as well as measure learning. EAD teachers analyze and utilize feedback and assessment for self-reflection and improving instruction. - Status: Waiting +

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Detailing the physical features, habits, territorial reach and other identifying qualities of the Arrowhead Orb Weaver. A bright yellow triangle on a pyramidal abdomen is the unique trademark of an Arrowhead Orbweaver Spider. It is unusual to see a spider with an abdomen that is not round, especially in the Orbweaver family. Orbweavers are part of a huge family of spiders in North America. The round-shaped webs created by these spiders form a delicate spiral. Silk threads radiate from the center, and many species rebuild their webs every day. The star of the novel "Charlotte's Web" was an Orbweaver Spider. The Arrowhead Orbweaver, however, looks a bit different from its relatives. While more common varieties of Orbweavers have a bulbous abdomen, this species does not. Its abdomen is shaped like the tip of an arrow: triangular and pointy. A bright yellow or white triangle is stamped on the top of this abdomen making it easy to see and identify. Some smaller, vein-like markings on this area are red. The color of the body is reddish-brown though shades may vary depending on the individual. Though variations exist, generally the color pattern is the same among Arrowhead Orbweaver Spiders living in the same area. This spider creates webs in shady areas of a forest and sits on it with its head up. This is also a departure from the norm among Orbweavers as most others sit in their webs up-side down. The legs are tucked in at their sides, taking up as little space as possible, while it sits and waits for prey. Like other spiders, once an insect wanders into its web, the spider immobilizes it with a venomous bite and eats it later. Arrowhead Orbweavers are most active in middle and late summer. They can be found in wooded forests, hiding in the darker, shaded areas so tread carefully through these places.

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Q: Evaluation functors and injective model structure on diagram categories If $M$ is a combinatorial model category, it's known by the experts that there is a ''natural'' model structure on diagram categories $Hom(C,M)$, which is the projective model structure. The fibrations and weak equivalences are defined point wise. There is also the one called injective model structure, where the cofibrations and weak equivalences are defined point wise. I would like to know if for a given a morphism $\alpha \in Arr(C)$, the evaluation at $\alpha$ can be a right Quillen functor with the injective model structures on each side: $Ev_\alpha: Hom(C,M) \to M^2$ Thanks ! Edit: Here $M^2= Hom([0 \to 1], M)= Arr(M)$, sorry for the confusion. A: In general, this is wrong. Consider for example the category with 3 objects $a,b,c$, a morphism $\alpha: a \rightarrow b$, a morphism $\tau: a \rightarrow c$ and two morphisms $\phi, \psi: b \rightarrow c$. Composition is defined in the only possible way. We can now actually compute the left adjoint of evaluation at $\alpha$. Given a $2$-diagram $X$, we obtain by computing the Kan extension that the left adjoint $L$ of evaluation is given as follows: It has $LX(a) = X(a)$, $LX(b) = X(b)$ and $LX(c)$ is the pushout of $X(b) \leftarrow X(a) \rightarrow X(b)$, where both maps are $X(\alpha)$. $LX(\phi)$ and $LX(\psi)$ are obtained by the two maps from $X(b)$ into this pushout. This pushout does not usually respect pointwise cofibrations: if $X(a) \rightarrow Y(a)$ and $X(b) \rightarrow Y(b)$ are cofibrations, the induced map on the pushouts need not be. For example, in topological spaces set $X(a) = *$, $X(b) = Y(a) = Y(b) = S^1$ with all involved maps either the identity of $S^1$ or the inclusion of a fixed basepoint into $S^1$. The map induced on the pushouts $S^1 \vee S^1 \rightarrow S^1$ is not even injective, so cannot be a cofibration. However, if $C$ is such that there is a unique morphism between each two objects, I think the answer is yes. Explicitly, if I'm not mistaken, we can describe the left adjoint $L$ in this case as follows: Let $\phi_A: A \rightarrow B$ be an element of $M^2$.Then we have $L(c) = (\coprod_{End_C(b,c)} B) \coprod (\coprod_{f \in End_C(a,c), f \text{ does not factor over b via } \phi} A )$. Given $g: c \rightarrow c'$ in $C$, the structure map $L(c) \rightarrow L(c')$ is given as follows: On $\coprod_{End_C(b,c)} B$, we send the $B$-summand f corresponding to $f: b \rightarrow c$ to the $B$-summand in $L(c')$ corresponding to $g \circ f: b \rightarrow c'$ via the identity of $B$. The $A$-summand corresponding to a map $f: a \rightarrow c$ is either send via the identity of $A$ to the $A$-summand corresponding to $g \circ f$ or, if $g \circ f$ does factor over $\phi$, via the map $\phi_A$ to the $B$-summand corresponding to the map $b \rightarrow c$ over which $g \circ f$ factors. This map is indeed unique since $C$ has only one morphism from $b$ to $c$ anyway. It is then clear that $L$ preserves pointwise cofibrations. A: As already observed, this is not always true, but I will give a more general sufficient condition, which I believe may also be necessary. The condition is that $\alpha$ is an epimorphism in $C$. I will denote the one arrow category by $[1]$. The left adjoint to $\mathrm{ev}_\alpha : \mathcal{M}^C \to \mathcal{M}^{[1]}$ is the left Kan extension $\mathrm{Lan}_\alpha : \mathcal{M}^{[1]} \to \mathcal{M}^C$. It can be computed explicitly. If $X \in \mathcal{M}^{[1]}$ and $c \in C$, then $(\mathrm{Lan}_\alpha X)_c$ is the pushout of $C(\alpha_1, c) \times X_0 \to C(\alpha_1, c) \times X_1$ along $C(\alpha_1, c) \times X_0 \to C(\alpha_0, c) \times X_0$. If $\alpha$ is an epimorphism, then $C(\alpha_1, c) \to C(\alpha_0, c)$ is injective for all $c$ and the pushout in question is a pushout along a cofibration. It follows from the Gluing Lemma that $\mathrm{Lan}_\alpha$ preserves levelwise (acyclic) cofibration, so it is a left Quillen functor.

Thank you for helping Bosco with your compassion and love. I never wanted this day to come, but he earned his angel wings and it was time for him to go. The best gift I could give him was a comfortable, loving passing in his home with me, his momma. For 13 years we were able to laugh together as well as cry. We rescued each other from an abusive marriage and he supported me through cancer. Then we lost his best friend, Bella-girl. But now I can find peace knowing they're reunited and pain-free. No matter the age of our fur babies, the time together would never be long enough. Half my heart belongs to Bella and the other half belongs to Bosco. I look forward to the day the three of us are united so my heart can once again be whole. I love you for eternity Bosco, my smart boy with the most sensitive spirit. Bosco brought us an enchanting light of joy and zest for life. He created magic, peace, smiles and had a very special happydance. We embraced him w great love, fun and happiness and he shall live in our hearts and memories eternally. We considered time to know him, love him and share his life with you an honest and warm hearted privilege. Words can't express how much you're forever loved and missed until we reunite again in Heaven. You were the most special, sensitive, loving, caring little guy ever!! And we were blessed to be the family that God chose for you to live your life with while here on earth. Keep smiling special boy...until we play again!

The University of Arkansas system has received only one emailed endorsement of a plan to loosen its tenure policy, according to a Sunday report. The university extended the comment period on the proposed policy change, under which tenured professors could be fired upon receipt of only one negative review, but has thus far received only one favorable review of the proposal via its feedback email, reported ArkansasOnline. "It is important to have a method to protect free speech and opinion, as professors sometimes are the leaders in bringing important thought-provoking ideas to light, and we do not want to stifle that," said James K. Hendren, member of the dean's science council at University of Arkansas (UA) Little Rock. The American Association of University Professors, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the University of Central Arkansas faculty senate, which is not a part of the UA system, have all stated their opposition to the proposal, Steinbuch noted. The proposed changes would affect over 2,000 professors at the five UA system schools which offer tenure. "I would oppose any changes in the existing rules," said C. Earl Ramsey to TheDCNF. Ramsey has served as a professor for 50 years at Yale University, Bryn Mawr College, and UA Little Rock, where, although now retired, he still teaches some classes. The proposed changes would damage UA's faculty recruitment and retention, Ramsey suggested. He and other professors addressed in November to TheDCNF. The proposed policy would disproportionately harm minorities, including conservatives, who "are a political minority in higher education," Silverstein also previously told TheDCNF. Silverstein and Steinbuch instead proposed instituting a committee to address tenure issues, with Silverstein suggesting that the committee should be composed of both professors and administrators, work for at least a year, pass multiple drafts of its policy around UA campuses, and obtain approval from every UA faculty senate. UA will review feedback, which is due Dec. 15, and will also offer chances for faculty leaders to address their concerns in 2018, UA spokesman Nate Hinkel told ArkansasOnline. The policy needed changes to make it "clearer and more consistent," Hinkel noted, citing UA's incorporation of more reasons to suspend its seven-year period — through which faculty apply and obtain tenure — to account for changes to the Family Medical Leave Act. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to the UA system for further comment, but received none in time for press. The DOJ charged John Kapoor, 74, and seven other current and former executives at the pharmaceutical company with racketeering.

Q: Are random effects used for explanatory variables measured with inaccuracy or for explanatory variables designating a subset of groups? Quote I am reading from Quinn and Keough's book. In chapter Correlation and Regression, section Fixed X, at page 94, they say Linear regressions analysis assumes that the $x_i$ are known constants, i.e. they are fixed values controlled or set by the investigator with no variance associated with them. A linear model in which the predictor variables are fixed is known as Model I or a fixed effects model. This will often be the case in designed experiments where the levels of X are treatments chosen specifically. In these circumstances, we would commonly have replicate Y-values for each $x_i$ and X may well be a qualitative variable, so analyses that compare mean values of treatment groups might be more appropriate [..]. The fixed X assumption is probably not met for most regression analyses in biology because X and Y are usually both random variables recorded from a bivariate distribution. For example, Peake and Quinn (1993) did not choose mussel clumps of fixed areas but took a haphazard sample of clumps from the shore [..]. Question I used to think of that variables that should be integrated as random effects are those for which measurements was made with some level of inaccuracy and I am not sure this is what this quote is referring to. My question is Are random effects used for explanatory variables measured with inaccuracy or for explanatory variables designating a subset of groups that are sampled? Note that I am a little bit confused in how to think of these concepts in both the contexts of linear regressions and ANOVAs. I would like to clarify my misunderstandings via two examples. Example 1 Alice scuba dived, looked for anemones and for each one of them she measured their size and their depth. The question is "Does depth affect anemonea size?". I can think of two potential reasons why depth should be modelled as a random effect: * *Because the depth was measured with some inaccuracy (specific to the depth meter Alice used) *Because Alice has not exhaustively (and in the right proportions) sampled all the possible depths of interest. Example 2 Alice went on the sea shore and randomly sampled mussel clumps. For each clump sampled, she counted the number of individual mussels and the number of species of mussels. The question is "Is the number of species of mussels affecting the number of individuals". The counts are perfectly known (no inaccuracy in the measurement). From the above quote, I can still think of a reason why Alice should model the explanatory variable as a random effect; Alice haphazardly sampled clumps and a future study could have sampled different clumps. If all the clumps were sampled, then Alice should use a fixed effect model. A: The term "random effect" does not mean "something that is random", it refers to something in a hierarchical or mixed model that is not a population-level effect. Suppose I have some adorable newborn Great Dane puppies, and I feed them a special puppy supplement that I think will help them grow larger than they would without the supplement. I give different puppies different doses, and I measure their weights when they're grown and fit a model of "weight = intercept + beta*supplement_dose". My intercept here is the expected weight of a puppy who was not given the supplement, and my slope is "the increase in weight per unit dose of supplement". Now, suppose I do this with multiple litters of Great Dane puppies. Due to factors like their parents' genetics and their mothers' nutrition during pregnancy, some of the litters have bigger puppies than others. Littermates are more alike with each-other than with other puppies, so I no longer have independence of observations - if I fit a regular linear model here, I will calculate the variance incorrectly and my standard errors and p-values will be wrong. So I add a random effect for litter, specifically a random intercept. This means that now in addition to the model having its overall intercept (a fixed effect) each litter also gets its own separate intercept to account for the fact that some litters have bigger puppies than other litters. My fixed effect intercept is now kind of a weird averaged-across-litters expected weight of a puppy not given supplement. But since that differs by litter, I have to add the litter-specific intercept to get the expected weight of a puppy from litter #7 who was not given supplement (which may be different from the expected weight of a puppy from litter #3 who was not given supplement). The random intercept for litter #7 is "the effect of being in litter #7 on the weight of a puppy". It has no meaning at the population level, but because it is part of the structure of my data I have to account for it or I will miscalculate the variance of other things in the model. Random intercepts aren't the only kind of random effect. Suppose I did the same experiment again, but this time I used litters from different breeds. I have a litter of Great Danes, a few mixed-breed litters of various ancestries, and a litter of Chihuahuas. If they all gain three pounds per gram of supplement, I am going to end up with some really big Chihuahuas... more likely, I may find that while the Great Danes gain 3 pounds per gram of supplement, the Chihuahuas gain 0.25 pounds per gram of supplement, and each mixed-breed litter gains different amounts of weight too. So the slope of weight gain relative to supplement dose now also differs between litters. I can add a random effect for slope to allow slope to vary between litters like that, while still being able to look at my overall question "does the supplement make puppies bigger?" The important thing with random effects is that they're usually something that's meaningless at the population level. "The effect of being in litter #7 on weight of puppy." There is never going to be another litter #7 exactly like that with exactly the same effect on puppy size again. It's something meaningless/random that I can't make any useful inferences about, but that I still have to account for in order to correctly model the situation.

INSPIRATION FROM BEHIND PRISON WALLS By STAN SIMPSON; Courant Columnist I was in prison last week -- face to face with inmates considered among the state's most incorrigible. Cheshire Correctional Institution. Maximum security. These guys had committed some of the most unpardonable of sins -- murder, rape, kidnapping and drug dealing. They're supposed to be hard, mean, intimidating. I wasn't buying it. The hardheads were walking around with softened hearts. Looking into their eyes, I saw that some of the "tough guys" were fighting back tears. Others brandished prideful smiles, appreciative of a very different kind of attention. At this graduation ceremony, half of the 50 inmates received their high school equivalency diplomas. Others earned certificates to repair computers and do commercial cleaning. For many, it was the first time they actually completed something that was positive. Some worked for months to get their GEDs. Others began the program unable to read, so it took years. In my speech, I told the guys it didn't matter to me what they'd done in the past. I was more interested in what they were doing to redeem themselves. I believe in redemption, even for those who have screwed up royally. It costs about $25,000 a year to house a Connecticut inmate. Teaching them to read and write and deal with their addictions is the least we should expect before they're released. Many change their lives through spiritual growth. A lot of these men face hefty sentences -- some will die in prison -- but the majority will get out eventually. We should encourage those who still believe they can make something of themselves. About 80 percent of inmates are either functionally illiterate or have addiction problems. Social behavior experts tell us those deficiencies can influence criminal behavior. It may not be too late for Edson Gaillard, 20, of New Haven. Getting his GED gave his life purpose. "To me, it is about being able to give my little brother and sister some sense of pride," he told the graduates. "So at least they can say, 'Even if my brother is in jail, at least he has a GED.' Maybe that will motivate them and prevent them from winding up in the same predicament as me. . . . Getting my GED means that I set a goal and I achieved it, without a lot of procrastination. It also showed me that what people say is true -- if you put your mind to it, you can do anything." Gaillard is serving 30years for kidnapping. Two years ago, he tied and gagged a pregnant Orange woman in her basement. He later stole her car and purse. His sentence is under review. Slight, shy and well-mannered, you wouldn't think Gaillard could do something so horrific. Another inmate approached me after my talk. He's a voracious reader, has had a spiritual rebirth and wants to be a journalist. I told him to read "Makes Me Wanna Holler" by Nathan McCall, a former convict, now a Washington Post reporter and author. Earl Arnold, the nephew of a Hartford area corporate executive, looks like Snoop Doggy Dogg and croons like R. Kelly. Arnold, 33, and a prison band provided entertainment for the ceremony. If Arnold wasn't in the joint, he'd be singing professionally. Trust me. The problem is he's a convicted murderer, serving 70 years. In prison, so many talented lives are wasted. I went to Cheshire hoping to give a little inspiration. I left a little inspired.

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Wizarding in the Wild West Unpublished Tales The Trail of Alchemy Alchemy and the Reunification of the Three Peoples The Franchises of the Magical Mercantile The Spring of the Brothers' Long Life Metallurgy: Building the Ring of Power The First Halloween The Brothers' First Christmas The Capture of Benjamin Blackburn Mortimer's Mistress The Gardens of Master Benjamin Language: The Master Spell Relics the Brothers Encounter in their Adventures Everything is hinted, said, and then discovered. Three times each thing comes up in the narrative. Magic comes into their lives for the first time. They learn of their special abilities and look forward to going to school in an old castle. We establish early on that magic is real, that its includes a whole host of species under one umbrella, and that there's a name for them: the Shee. We also learn incidentally but giving no attention to it that there is something more powerful than the shee (the jinn). We also learn that there are mediocre species that have no magic. The brothers are told by their aunt of the myth of their people, and where they came from. In their youth, they are told the legend of Atlantis and of the three magical peoples, and how one fled, one was taken away, and one was lost, and one fled. (foreshadowing the identity of the three peoples, the place and what will happen with bringing them together) They also learn the story of the Great Alchemist who forges a ring in great heat and wields it in gaining great knowledge and part of that knowledge is how to bring back the dead. These are foreshadows for the audience and examples for the brothers to remember as they reencounter the ideas at the root of these myths of their culture. The Legend of Atlantis and the Three Magical Peoples. In their youth, they are told the story of Atlantis and of the three lost magical peoples. In order to raise Atlantis from the depths, the three magical peoples need to unite together and dispossess the djinn of their dominion and bind them. The lost peoples must be found and unite; only will the gifts of each people be fully manifest through the reliance on each other. Story of the Great Alchemist. The one who learned to change himself; symbolized in the Phoenix or Lion. He transformed himself into gold, and in so doing, showed the way for others. He was the embodiment of all three peoples. They must be united once more at the end, restored to, just like in the beginning. Mortimer also hears from his aunt the story of a Great Lion slain on a stone table by a wicked witch. The Blackburn family clurichaun shows up in their cellar. Their father bequeathed a brass ring to one of his sons with the pentacle family crest. They don't know where it comes from, but that it is an old family heirloom. The existence and recent origins family centered, non-magical origins of the ring. At school, the brothers learn in an obscure book the history of the Shee confirming the story told to the brothers in a fable as youth, now at school how the shee had fled and first hidden in the hills, and then spread throughout Europe and Asia. They assume that they are of the shee, and that the identity of the other two peoples is not known. They do not realize who they are or the significance. Reiterating to them consciously what needs to be done, that these people will some day reunite and help one another, and defeat their enemies and tie them up for a thousand years. Mortimer first deduces for the first time the idea of going back to their roots and how they could learn who they are and the special knowledge of their peoples. Mortimer and his father get kidnapped by pirates in the Barbary Wars. Mortimer gets taken and saved by an Alchemist. Mortimer is first exposed to alchemy at age 16 in Africa. Alchemy is where he learns of the idea of transformation as taught through alchemical practice. We automatically assume this means its a magical process for wizards, not necessarily something for everyone. The brother's father inducts them as masons into the lodge. This reawakens a part of the brothers that connects them to their unmagical heritage, and reminds them of the coincidence of the pentacle connection. It brings to the audience's attention to question the origins of the ring; draw attention to the ring and remind us of its non-magical connection. After returning home from Africa, his dad decides its time to induct Mortimer and Benjamin into Masonry. In Masonry, they see the symbols that represent transformation, but he doesn't recognize them for what they are exactly. He sees the symbols and forms without the profound meaning, and recognizes the elements that he'd learned in regards to Alchemy. We assume it means Masonry is a lost art from wizards that is now promoted by non-magicals. Allusion to a time when these things were known beyond the world of magic. This also provides a later cultural connection with Joseph Smith when we are told that Masonry has come to Nauvoo. In Egypt they find glimpses of the lost knowledge in pictures and fragments, but with no context, they can't piece it together. Another time where we see that the ideas in alchemy could be outside magic; or we think it could mean that magic was in Egypt. We find out that it wasn't though. Mortimer recognizes in Joseph Smith the power of the jann. Something beyond his own magic is reflected in Joseph Smith The Gods of Greece have corrupted ideas of it, but no credibility is given to them because they are so irresponsible and gross. Mortimer returns with regularity to West Africa to learn from the alchemist The dedication of the Kirtland Temple and the sacrifice the saints put into building it. Joseph explains to Mortimer the purpose that temples serve. This provides them with the background and knowledge that comes into play with the elves in ireland; their temples. To teach and prepare recipients with higher knowledge. Teaching of those truths in plainness; worship of them without recognizing exactly what they mean or knowing how to apply them. The idea of preparation and fulfillment demonstrated through the visual aid of the Kirtland Temple and its dedication The Kirtland Temple is preparation. This follows a pattern that exists through out; preparation and fulfillment. Music is discovered as a secret magical language; the history and function of language, it being blessed and using irish as a magical language allows the brothers to use their unique culture to channel spells that others wouldn't understand. The brothers get acquainted with the Kabbalah through Alexander Neibaur and Joseph Smith in the late 1830's. This reintroduces the idea of transformation ; a more explained understanding of what the transformation is and how it works and what it means in connection with the religious understanding and belief. The idea that these ideas are cross-peoples is rooted. Joseph Smith tells them of the history of the ring and of the spiritual meaning of the pentacle: that it represents the intrinsic power of God, and embodies the principles at the root of the power that God wields. The Brothers access to the knowledge of the Masonic lodge provides a background to recognize the ideas connecting the disparate truths to each other and providing a consistent narrative spine to the ideas that come together with the temple of the Shee in Ireland (the fractal), the Egyptian Pyramid, the fire of the Zoroastrians, the djinn of Arabia, the prophetic arch of Merlin the prophet or alchemist, the fractals of Mandelbrot, the unifying theory of Einstein, the preparation and fulfillment duality of Joseph Smith. Mortimer learns of ring making and the use of alchemy. He trains in metallurgy and amalgamations; instilling his intent into the metals. Mortimer returns with regularity to West Africa to learn from the alchemist. We see more ideas that he teaches him that provide us further understanding. It is still esoteric and cloaked, but he keeps learning and trying. Only when the alchemist dies does he disclose that there is more out there, and to seek for the reuniting of these peoples, and the protecting against the growing darkness that soon will descend. He knows who Mortimer is, and admonishes him to finish his role. To find his role and to embrace it. The process of alchemy gets Mortimer interested in mining; he establishes connections in the north and serendipitously makes friends of a dwarf. He consults him and brings him north with him. Nauvoo temple is built; the Kirkland temple was a preparatory temple, now there is a fulfilling purpose the new one will provide. Mortimer guesses what will be taught there because of his previous experience with the Elves in Ireland. We recognize by this time that the djinn are a formidable host, and we assume the wizards are here to save the day of everyone else. But they fail. It is here in Zoroastrianism in Arabic ness that we learn of just who the djinn are; we learn from an old arab and of the history that is passed down. The story of the ring of Solomon leads them to believe that is how they control the jinn. Mortimer initiates into ring making. Confrontations with Jinn happen that make them begin to doubt the ring hypothesis. Reliance on friends and collaboration allow them to save to day. It is through Merlin the human Sage that they learn to go to the place of their inheritance to find their purpose. He has a power that is not magic, but is a different, deeper knowledge from experience. He has no authority, but he has imagination and knowledge, and offers them his insights as a gift without undermining or telling them what they must do, only sage advice. Brothers go to India and there encounter the Zoroastrians and learn of the djinn and see the connection of this ancient myth to the stories of the other systems. They receive a clear understanding of who the djinn are. On an exploration for a concoction from a minor witch, they go exploring/wandering to the historic origins of wizards to Ireland: the faerie mounds. Their cross-specialty knowledge give them unique insights to discover the remnant sidhe Elves. They don't know what they might find; they are only there incidentally, but decide to wander and explore for fun, for the kicks of it. Sidhe elves and the Knowledge of How to Find Joy From the elves we learn how various species of shee had kept the old ways and passed them down, and were only open to those with pure intent to wish to understand. It is among the Sidhe in the faerie mounds of Ireland that Mortimer and Benjamin discover the lost knowledge of the Sidhe, and connecting this knowledge to the purpose of their existence, that they can be reincarnated, and that they live a life before... and that those stories that resonate are likely telling them that it was part of the life they lived previously. And that in order to be able to die and move on, that they must fulfill the purpose for which they were sent. He learns about the possibility of reincarnation of the sidhe and that they had had other lives. What is the key to moving on? By fulfilling ones purpose. How do you know you've fulfilled your purpose? Who knows. Mortimer and Benjamin and the Elven Temple in Ireland Elves teach them the higher knowledge. The connection with Joseph in that they have temples too. That knowledge is provided anew from the keepers of the lore in the Shee of Ireland, who show them it afresh. There are familiar symbols he's seen in Masonry and Alchemy. Suggesting there is a universal constant that they are encountering. Memories of the earlier ring of power and its collapse; pictures and memories of the old saga. Hint of the futility of using force to build the ring of power that is the key to building atlantis. Recognition that they need to integrate the school and not be racist; that the three types of people could benefit from this union? Mortimer gets introduced unexpectedly to the gods of norse mythology and become acquainted with them in the midst of a drunken party. Norse gods are akin to the Greek gods- they are flawed sidhe who have interacted with men understanding the djinn the djinn have influenced the sidhe and convinced many to worship them through the placeholder sidhe coercion is what separates djinn and djann the fruits of their teaching are the evidence of their real power and who they serve The Ring of Solomon fails at keeping the djinn from overcoming them. He struggles to learn the necessary lessons, but he's the fastest student to learn fire. Realization that mankind is the lost people; need to teach them alchemy. Mortimer begins to formulate the idea of the Alchemical Arts School. Alchemy becomes the ultimate expression of the deepest truths. The idea of transformation, of preparation and fulfillment, of the idea of the four stages of the individual that must align to bring health. Of the ultimate ability to become creators from the Kaballah. They see these ideas and principles in other places that align the ideas of the three peoples, and that indicate the truths, providing additional insight and nuance as each people and manifestation maintains or holds on to certain strong truths which they have gleaned from exposure or participation. They initiate a school to perpetuate these ideas. Mortimer finally applies and experiments with teaching his adopted niece Mercury who is non magical. They gather the three peoples in the towns in the mountains and protect them from the Djinn, who attempt to infiltrate and destroy them. They do not succeed. The principles of truth that Mortimer and Benjamin discover by accident through practical and theoretical learning. Chancing upon through the discovery of fractals, the arts, quantum physics, the historical patterns of history, and the golden ratio. Imply their birth connection to King Solomon by the inheritance of the ring, as well as the fact that their daughter, Mercury is non magic, meaning the three types of magic live within them already, they just need to recognize the principles, and live them; they have the shadow of the Great Alchemist with them. Solomon was a representative of the Jann. Joseph Smith demonstrates that he is one of the Jann as well. Moses is a Jann. Elijah was a Jann. He was human, he was also a jann. Christ was all three, jann, sidhe, and human. The racism of their culture. The biases of keeping back non magicals and the principles that unite them; these are "magical" principles that are just as important to non magicals as to magicals. The otherness of not only other magical creatures, but of entire races of magic only recognized upon a second glance. Discovery of the lost people by recognizing that these principles apply to non magicals even more so than to magicals; Mercury becomes the bridge of thought. The story of the separation of the ancient magical races and the fall or dissolution of Avalon/Atlantis. The brothers begin to recognize that they might be playing a key role in bringing together of the ancient races in one as they build a place of safety built incidentally on the foundation of these principles giving all a chance to learn; them working together to provide a place of freedom, safety, and joy and creation. Well after the dissolution of Avalon and Atlantis, many sidhe have attempted to reunite the three magical peoples and again bring about Avalon, but in their conceit had looked down at muggles and considered them lesser; they discounted them and did not discern their true identity. The incomplete knowledge and their own lack of character kept them from this lofty ambition. But being well outside the culture, conventions, and traditions of the wizarding community, the brothers were able to see past the biases and false ideas of their culture. They were open minded enough to see the other magical peoples for what they were, and to value them and recognized the part they might play in the bringing back of Avalon and Atlantis from the old days. And so alchemy was almost an accidental discovery for them. They had already found the mechanics that undergirded magic and helped non magical students to tap their potential. They just didn't know what it was. Even alchemy as it stood when they found it was flawed from what they'd found worked. They could tell there were a few things that had become warped over the years. Once they changed them, they adopted the name of Alchemy, seeing this as the closest approximation to what they were doing. But they called it New Alchemy, or alchemy as it was taught once upon a time. They believed that what they taught was the most ancient and fundamental foundation of magic Over the years, Mortimer Blackburn established many separate franchises of his mercantile. Not all of them were in tents, either. In fact a few of them eventually were brick and mortar storefronts. As a new American immigrant, was chasing success and fortune. Once he found success in his first establishment, he wanted to open another. As those thrived, he opened stores anywhere and everywhere he could. And once the known wizarding community was filled up, he went looking for other peoples and places to set up new shoppes. So he hustled, and worked, and established a presence wherever he could find an audience. He had plenty of money, and in a world of someone who was pretty creative and resourceful, plus had magic, money didn't really have a lasting hold on him. It was the challenge to build, and to grow. It was the adventure and the passion of making something, and building something bigger than himself. In time, it grew to much more than even this. He eventually used it as a front for some very meaningful movements, projects, and endeavors that saved or preserved individuals, traditions, and ideas that were at risk of being destroyed. Mercantile were opened in Narnia, in Wonderland, and in Steamville. They were in China, Japan, in Germany, and France, and in the South Pacific. And he had a pretty nifty network to keep track of these. In each store there would be a variety of portals or doorways that allowed hasty travel from the Blackburn Boarding House to each of these franchises. He'd even devised an adaptation to a very old tradition of using wardrobes for travel. One wardrobe could be used as a reliable means of transport with just a flick of the hanger, and the right shirt, on the left, that is. A few mistakes were made in the beginning that left him stranded before they'd established the franchises themselves, and had a reliable means of return. He conveniently access each franchise through a system he established through the magic of the wardrobe. He started by collecting in one location the various portals that would allow him to travel to and from. Eventually he realized that he needed a more regular mean, and eventually more diverse means of accessing his stores. This was the means by which the Great Magical Migration was facilitated. It allowed migrations to happen unseen, and beyond the reach of the authorities. He could transport entire races who wished to find freedom. Eventually the news got out and he had to use more discretionary means to assure that those who were coming would not tell, but at first he had to deal with the consequences of leaky ships. He would come across these places, not because of luck, but more because wizards had never stopped and considered that there might be worlds beyond the corners of the world that they had chosen to inhabit. If they could have trap streets and undetectable extension charms, what would prevent entire worlds from springing up in other unaccounted corners of the world? And it was his for the taking! New lands meant new customers, and new customers means new franchises! And there was the constant search for new products; new places opened up new traditions, new creators, and new vendors who might want to sell in his shops. And with a smattering of shops throughout so many distant lands, he could never have enough product to from his many, many suppliers. Eventually he began noticing that some of his friends could benefit from his market. He decided to experiment by inviting vendors to join him. He continued to expand his mercantile outside of the medieval tent. Wizards live for a considerably longer lifetime than humans. But to last without showing signs of aging is a trick even wizards need an extra measure of magic for. While one could reasonably turn to the dark arts to achieve such a notable end, sucking the life out of children, or zapping them into the past and letting them live to death, the Brothers never would have turned to the dark in order to achieve such an end. In fact, they wouldn't and didn't even seek it. It was an unlikely and perfect storm that had everything to do with a perfect storm of circumstances. As a merchant, and merchandizer, Mortimer Blackburn travelled the world. He was always on the lookout for new products to sell. Not only did he find it fascinating and entertaining to sell new and novel items, but he had many many franchises to keep stocked! There was never enough product, even when the difficulty of travel and freight was minimized by the magical. In fact the freight was the easiest part. The main problem was connecting to competent and talented creators who were interested in stocking his shelves. And Mortimer went high and low throughout lands distant and far to find what he was looking for. Sometimes he would find suppliers in the most unlikely of places. And sometimes he'd find them close to home. Mainly he had to keep an open mind, and not mind taking the time to be curious; to wander and play, and take the long way round. And it was this curiosity and willingness to take the long way that ended up providing him and his brother Benjamin all the time in the world. It was on one of these long ways round that found them in the jungles of South America. They had been searching many times for the lost city of Gold. They'd gotten a clue from an old witch doctor where they'd sold the feathers of a gigantic predatory bird that had swooped down on top of Mortimer. They weren't too keen on letting such beautiful plumage go to waste; they weren't really hunters to begin with, and hadn't have killed the bird had it not attacked them so swiftly. They'd left the body hanging in the jungle with the expectation of sending the tribe after it so that it wouldn't go to waste, but figured the feathers might fetch a pretty penny for the right buyer. This medicine man had looked at them like he'd seen a ghost. He wouldn't buy a single feather, but kept bowing to them and muttering, afraid to look up at them. But he insisted they follow him. The red-coated charletan Shasta Circusian Nikra the woman infected by spider venom; weaving her webs, injecting poison and fear Cadwin O'Connor Josh shows up and he shows his water bending skills. They work together. He fights with Benjamin. They learn to lean on each other, love and collaborate with each other, creating the real ring of power. This is the beginning and foundation of the Building of New Avalon So many people possessed by one djinn or another, always hanging up on fear, or self hate. Sometimes I wonder if anyone will come and stay. But for the record, there's Barry, and Rob They had celebrated Samhain for a long time as a time of remembering their ancestors and culture. Headless horseman, banshee, silkies. Jack-o-lantern Christmas really took on an identity with the work of Kris Kringle. They had already regularly been celebrating Yule, but it was the English Aristocracy that introduced the tradition of trees in the house, which they picked up. Electric lights came later. Krampus had already had a presence in their lives by then. Weaving in the tradition of Ghost stories at Christmas Connection to Charles Dickens; Poe. From Mortimer's travels In his travels, Mortimer gets discovered and mistaken for his brother, and he has to navigate the situation; his friends come to his aid, and he doesn't have to use a single spell to escape from captivity. They switch places; Mortimer shows his darker side, and Benjamin feigns a smile. Resolution of the bounty hunter. It has been inquired as to who might be the closest friend or associate of Master Mortimer. Many guess appropriately that his brother might be his closest ally, and they would not be completely wrong. But they would not be entirely correct. But long before his brother came to his side on the road to his destiny, Mortimer had another. Among his many compatriots and companions, Master Mortimer always had one who was with him from the beginning of his adventures. That was of his magical mercantile, or to be specific, the medieval tent. It was this lady that was his first and most constant friend through the earliest years of his adult adventures. Through thick and thin, pain and perspective, as well as and danger and deprivation that he became indistinguishable from the profile she cut against the dimming sunset and rising sun. He was Mortimer, and she his mercantile. Initially this connection was no more than maker and means, but only after a run-in with the djinn did his tent take on a personality of her own. Of all the many rare vines and bushes in the gardens of the Blackburn Manor, there are few not brought there intentionally by Benjamin Blackburn. Of all the interests and preoccupations that take up bandwidth of the dark and brooding wizard, this one is the dominant and recurring theme of his story. And strangely, if you were to take a gander at the nature of these wild and woolly green things, you would think they'd be made up of some dank and dark things. But not so. Not to say that there were the odd poison plant or thorny thistle, but among these were an overabundance of many flowers and fruits meant to simply delight and to fulfill delicious purposes. If you were to truly see into the heart of this brooding wizard, you would recognize a hurt little boy longing for healing and to provide help. Though gardening wasn't always an art practiced to perfection by Master Benjamin. He had had a long and tumultuous relationship with pets in the past. In his youth, there was a strange pattern of zombie rats that seemed to follow him wherever he went. And then there was the baby salt water croc he insisted on keeping and lost. Once he discovered plants, he laid off the pets as a general rule, or just kept one cat at a time. Sometimes he'd keep the odd reptile, and the attendant colony of rats to feed them, but that was it. One of the unusual byproducts to come of the revelations had by the brothers regarding alchemy and all its implications was the realization that magic had no single manifestation via a solitary linguistic root. In other words, latin and english were hardly the beginning nor the end of all the magical potential had within the world of words. In fact, as established in the realm of African magic, words weren't even necessary when conjuring a spell, though they had an impressive influence when done correctly. But they weren't the only, nor the most effective means at the disposal of wizards or sidhe. As long as the methods were prepared and practiced, any concerted form of communication could be channelled as a medium of magic. And so it was that music became a rather subtle and secret means of magic for the Blackburn Brothers. Over the years, Mortimer becomes the supplier of the best irish whiskey on this side of the Atlantic. He shows up in all sorts of places and establishments, always being careful to make friends. One of the more famous places he supplied was the bar in Tombstone, Arizona. These channels or avenues become pivotal in the future, as they become the means whereby he secretly imports the fleeing Hsidhe under the nose of the magical authorities. He becomes an outlaw on par with his brother once they realize what he's been doing, but they can never catch him because he's so crafty: he looked outside the magical world in order to accomplish his objectives. We see Professor River Song taking lessons from Doc Holladay. She seeks them out to learn all she knows about guns and fighting. and Dodge City, KS. Mortimer makes a point to have friends and then they protect him without him having to use magic. We see the Tardis in the distance. Relics the Brothers Encounter on Their Adventures A sarcophagus with a mummy that lives in their basement. Pandora's box has the curse most feared by the djinn and their enemies: Used to put on the annual program in the wizarding jail... against their will. Aztec gold. Retrieved from a cave down by Tortuga that nobody wants to touch. Sell as snake oil medicine for weight loss to zombies. It suppresses appetite.

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As the Times of Trouble are upon us, the prayer of Psalm 91 is comforting and effective when prayed from the heart by those who love God and are in relationship with Him. … She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty is a 2003 double album by Sinéad O'Connor. Psalm 91″He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High"Psalm of protectionLate 8th century ivory plaque with Christ treading on the beasts, illustrating verse 13Other namePsalm 90 "Qui habitat"1 more row Call on Me and I will reveal the truth that you need to overcome and remain (abide) under the shadow of your impregnable God, the One Who lies beside you and across the entrance to your soul to be on guard to attack and anything that would keep you from My purposes for you." Psalm 31:20 says, "You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues." As God's children we are provided a special place we can run to in the middle of trouble or any time we choose to. Pestilence means a deadly and overwhelming disease that affects an entire community. The Black Plague, a disease that killed over thirty percent of Europe's population, was certainly a pestilence. Pestilence is also one of the four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation (which is part of The Bible). (Entry 1 of 2) 1a : a small round shield held by a handle at arm's length. b : a shield worn on the left arm. 2 : one that shields and protects. When you read the whole chapter you will realise that the shelter being referred to is actually a fortress or tower. The Jerusalem Bible puts it very well as follows: If you live in the shelter of Elyon and make your home in the shadow of Shaddai, you can say to Yahweh, 'My refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust! 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Carlow's Ed Byrne set to miss key games for Leinster as Leo Cullen confirms knee injury Leinster's Ed Byrne could be facing 12 weeks on the sidelines following a knee injury picked up against Gloucester in the Champions Cup. Tuesday 20 December, 2022 in Rugby Ed Byrne. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile Ahead of Leinster's clash with Munster on St. Stephen's Day in the BKT United Rugby Championship, 'Blues head coach Leo Cullen's latest injury update includes some bad news for Carlow's Ed Byrne. Byrne's cameo against Racing 92 earlier this month yielded a try but coming on as a second-half replacement in Leinster's 57-0 nine-try demolition of Gloucester last Friday, the Carlow native has had a knee injury confirmed, ruling him out for up to 12 weeks. As a result, he will miss Leinster's festive ties against Munster (St. Stephen's Day) and Connacht (New Year's Day) along with the Heineken Cup fixtures against Racing 92 and Gloucester in the reverse pool games in January. Thomas Clarkson also picked up an arm injury playing with DUFC and is set to miss up to eight weeks. It is hoped that Tadhg Furling will be available for selection against Munster as he shakes off an ankle injury while Will Connors is stepping up his rehab programme this week having been ruled out of action with a bicep injury. There is better news for both Johnny Sexton and Jordan Larmour as both came through last week's game with Gloucester unscathed. Munster host Leinster on St. Stephen's Day with kick off set for 7.35pm. You can watch the game live on TG4.

Q: NHibernate query with distance calculation stored proc I have a stored procedure in my database that calculates the distance between two lat/long pairs. This stored procedure is called "DistanceBetween". I have a SQL statement allows a user to search for all items in the Items table ordered by the distance to a supplied lat/long coordinate. The SQL statement is as follows: SELECT Items.*, dbo.DistanceBetween(@lat1, @lat2, Latitude, Longitude) AS Distance FROM Items ORDER BY Distance How do I go about using this query in NHibernate? The Item class in my domain doesn't have a "Distance" property since there isn't a "Distance" column in my Items table. The "Distance" property really only comes into play when the user is performing this search. A: There are basically three approaches that can be used, some of which have already been discussed: * *Use an HQL query or CreateCriteria/ICriteria query; downsides: it is not part of the entities/DAL; upsides: it is flexible; *Use a property mapping with a formula; downsides: it is not always feasible or possible, performance can degrade if not careful; upsides: it the calculation an integral part of your entities; *Create a separate XML HBM mapping file and map to a separate (to be created) entity; downsides: it is not part of the base entities; upsides: you only call the SP when needed, full control of mapping / extra properties / extensions, can use partial or abstract classes to combine with existing entities. I'll briefly show an example of option 2 and 3 here, I believe option 1 has been sufficiently covered by others earlier in this thread. Option two, as in this example, is particularly useful when the query can be created as a subquery of a select statement and when all needed parameters are available in the mapped table. It also helps if the table is not mutable and/or is cached as read-only, depending on how heavy your stored procedure is. <class name="..." table="..." lazy="true" mutable="false> <cache usage="read-only" /> <id name="Id" column="id" type="int"> <generator class="native" /> </id> <property name="Latitude" column="Latitude" type="double" not-null="true" /> <property name="Longitude" column="Longitude" type="double" not-null="true" /> <property name="PrijsInstelling" formula="(dbo.DistanceBetween(@lat1, @lat2, Latitude, Longitude))" type="double" /> ... etc </class> If the above is not possible due to restrictions in the mappings, problems with caching or if your current cache settings retrieve one by one instead of by bigger amounts and you cannot change that, you should consider an alternate approach, for instance a separate mapping of the whole query with parameters. This is quite close to the CreateSqlQuery approach above, but forces the result set to be of a certain type (and you can set each property declaratively): <sql-query flush-mode="never" name="select_Distances"> <return class="ResultSetEntityClassHere,Your.Namespace" alias="items" lock-mode="read" > <return-property name="Id" column="items_Id" /> <return-property name="Latitude" column="items_Latitude" /> <return-property name="Longitude" column="items_Longitude" /> <return-property name="Distance" column="items_Distance" /> </return> SELECT Items.*, dbo.DistanceBetween(@lat1, @lat2, Latitude, Longitude) AS Distance FROM Items WHERE UserId = :userId </sql-query> You can call this query as follows: List<ResultSetEntityClassHere> distanceList = yourNHibernateSession.GetNamedQuery("select_Distances") .SetInt32("userId", currentUserId) /* any params go this way */ .SetCacheable(true) /* it's usually good to cache */ .List<ResultSetEntityClassHere>(); /* must match the class of sql-query HBM */ Depending on your needs, you can choose an approach. I personally use the following rule of thumb to decide what approach to use: * *Is the calculation light or can it be cached? Use formula approach; *Are parameters needed to be sent to the SP/SQL? Use sql-query + mapping approach; *Is the structure of the query (very) variable? Use ICriteria or HQL approach through code. About the ordering of the data: when you choose the "formula" or the "sql-query mapping" approach you'll have to do the ordering when you retrieve the data. This is not different then with retrieving data through your current mappings. Update: terrible edit-mistake corrected in the sql-query XML. A: You could try: session.CreateSqlQuery(@"SELECT {item.*}, dbo.DistanceBetween(:lat1, :lat2, {item}.Latitude, {item}.Longitude) AS Distance FROM Items {item} ORDER BY Distance") .AddEntity("item", typeof(Item)) .SetDecimal("lat1", lat1) .SetDecimal("lat2", lat2) .List<Item>() NHibernate is finicky about table & column aliases in the query, so you need to let it expand them using the {} syntax. Also, use the HQL named parameter syntax (:lat1 instead of @lat1), and change SetDecimal() to the correct data type. A: Ayende explains how to do this in the mapping files, without haveing to resort to passing SQL to your session: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2006/09/18/UsingNHibernateWithStoredProcedures.aspx Also see the Hibernate documentation regarding this issue (also relevant to NHibernate): http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/querysql.html

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Senate GOP Largely Ignore Dole's Exhortation on Disabilities Treaty Source: Roll Call http://www.rollcall.com/news/republicans_largely_ignore_doles_exhortation_on_disabilities_treaty-219649-1.html Several conservative groups ... opposed the treaty because they said it would allow the U.N. to overreach and impose on the rights of member countries. The text of the treaty, however, does not seem to support this assertion. Republicans Largely Ignore Dole's Exhortation on Disabilities Treaty By Meredith Shiner Roll Call Staff Dec. 4, 2012, 6:35 p.m.; Corrected 3:01 p.m. It isn't Bob Dole's Senate anymore. The 89-year-old former Senate majority leader, GOP presidential nominee and World War II veteran was escorted onto the floor in a wheelchair Tuesday by his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., to rally support for the United Nations disabilities treaty. Last week, he was being treated at the Walter Reed National Medical Military Center. This week, he was trying to buttonhole colleagues to support an initiative to extend the rights granted to Americans under the Americans with Disabilities Act to citizens of the world. Dole was gravely injured during World War II when his right arm was shattered in battle, and he has been a longtime advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly veterans. One by one, Senators of both parties approached the frail national leader, with former colleagues gently resting their hands on his shoulder or reaching out to his left hand, briefly clasping hands with the man who once presided over the chamber with a mix of wit, tactical guile and ruthlessness. Then, one by one, after Dole was wheeled off the floor, most Republicans voted against the measure. Many members did not register their "nay" votes verbally, instead whispering their opposition directly to the clerk or gesturing their hands from their chairs. Dole's dramatic appearance did not secure the 13 Republican votes needed to ratify the treaty. In fact, only eight members of the caucus he once led joined Democrats to back the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, which would have expanded rights to disabled people globally. Several conservative groups, Glenn Beck and former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., opposed the treaty because they said it would allow the U.N. to overreach and impose on the rights of member countries. The text of the treaty, however, does not seem to support this assertion. Some of the Republicans who voted "aye" on the bill said as much. "It would take a step toward making it easier for disabled Americans to live and work overseas, without impinging on U.S. sovereignty or Congress' authority to determine our disability laws," Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., a rising star in the conservative ranks, said in a statement. "Veterans service groups are especially supportive of the treaty, which would help level the playing field for disabled veterans who are abroad." The Republicans senators voting for the measure were Ayotte, John Barrasso of Wyoming,Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts, Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., changed his vote from an "aye" to a "nay" after it was obvious the treaty would fall short of ratification. Cochran is up for re-election in 2014 and could face a primary challenge from his right. Other Republicans who could face primary challenges from the right this cycle but who might have made the difference on the vote also voted against the treaty: Saxby Chamblissof Georgia, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. Alexander, in an emailed statement, would not say whether he supported the treaty, merely noting that the timing of the vote was bad. "Congress needs to devote all its attention in December to a budget agreement that reforms entitlement spending, reduces the debt and avoids the fiscal cliff. There's plenty of time to consider treaties, including the disability treaty, after the first of the year," the statement read. When asked whether he was disappointed in his colleagues for not backing the measure, Barrasso, the only member of GOP leadership to support the treaty, demurred. "I co-sponsored this. I voted for it in committee. Voted for it on the floor. I am an orthopedic surgeon and so I've practiced medicine for 25 years and for all that time, I was a host of theJerry Lewis Labor Day telethon for people with muscle disease. I read the treaty and I support it," Barrasso told Roll Call. "Every member of the Senate gets to make their own decision when they give advise and consent on treaties. And every senator is asked to vote, and I voted in favor of the treaty today. You read different things and different concerns, so I don't question or criticize any other member for the vote." Barrasso added that there was a small reception for Dole outside the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room before the vote, and he said he, Collins and McCain, along with several Democrats, "met to honor" the former Kansas Senator and his wife. After the vote, Heritage Action for America CEO Michael A. Needham released the following statement: "We congratulate the Senators who stood for American sovereignty by refusing to ratify this treaty. While today's vote is important, it does not mark the end of the fight. Bad treaties never die in Washington and Heritage Action will remain vigilant." Last week on the floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., characterized Dole's health status as "infirm." The current majority leader had a brief conversation with the former majority leader before the roll was called. "It is a sad day when we cannot pass a treaty that simply brings the world up to the American standard for protecting people with disabilities because the Republican party is in thrall to extremists and ideologues," Reid said after the vote. "I plan to bring this treaty up for a vote again in the next Congress. Our wounded veterans and millions more around the world deserve better." An earlier version of this article misstated how many Republican members supported the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. [email protected] | @meredithshiner I find the unmitigated stupidity of Republicans like Rick Santorum a threat to the very fabric of this country. How these types can be allowed to spout their lunacy in their role as a public servant boggles my mind. Who, exactly, elects these types of politicians to represent them? Michael Needham needs to be deported to a country where his freedoms will be truly infringed upon. Or perhaps he should be sent a dictionary with the word "sovereignty" highlighted. Do these people actually read these documents before commenting or is there a box full of stock rhetoric statements based in fantasy that they pull randomly from to use as their comment? I am embarrassed that people like Santorum and Glenn Beck are seen by the rest of the world as Americans. They are, in fact, an indictment of our political and news systems which should be viewed as shining examples to the rest of the world rather than as the laughable moronic institutions they have become.

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Q: TALEND: How to store refresh token required in tRest component? This question is the linked from my previous question of how can we use "tRest" to fetch API data. API which is related to OAuth, has provided access and refresh token. What blocks me now, is: * *how can we store all the tokens? Is there a specific component to do this? *Access token will expire after one hour, then need to generate new access token (gain new access token) by using the refresh token. This is so far what I've done in the Talend job. Successfully, fetch the data by providing access token as API authorization. What probably the best way to enable kind of like "auto-refresh" and set the new access token without manually refresh it and copy-and-paste everytime I wanna do fetching? A: The way I do it, is to use 2 tRest components. The first one is used for authentication: it stores the access token in a context variable. The second uses that access token by using your context variable, and sends the needed request.

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Tramping and hiking in New Zealand is a popular pastime. Stewart Island and Fiordland National Parks are two remote and unspoilt areas in New Zealand offering a range of wilderness outdoor adventures. Picture yourself in the southern most island of New Zealand wandering under a stadium of stars to try your luck at native Kiwi spotting. Or stick to the mainland and imagine hiking through "the most important forest in the world". Kiwi Wilderness Walks offers a range of all inclusive guided walks. Participate in the outdoors in classic "Kiwi" fashion carrying only your personal belongings. Accommodation on the trail includes modern back country huts, and holiday "cribs". Experienced guides help you have a safe, enjoyable trip while providing an entertaining and valuable insight in to the history of Maori, early settlers and the local ecology. Stewart Island offers the best chance most people will ever have to see New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi, in its natural environment. Rest assured not many New Zealander's can make that claim. Dr. David Bellamy described the Waitutu Forest as "probably the most important forest in the world". This ancient terraced forest rises out of the sea with each level 100,000 years older than the last. The pinnacle of New Zealand's alpine walking tracks. The Dusky Track offers an opportunity for fit experienced trampers to explore Fiordland back country wilderness at it's rawest. A customers account of their kiwi spotting experience. Lily's Stewart Island Trip Report.

Seymour nonprofit helping people through equine therapy, programs Reins to Recovery provides therapy through horses By Rachael Krause | October 16, 2019 at 7:29 PM EDT - Updated October 16 at 7:29 PM SEYMOUR, Ind. (WAVE) – "I think it's needed all around. And I don't think you realize the need until you're working with the different populations we serve," said Calli Johnson, Founder and Executive Director at Reins to Recovery. Tucked away off Highway 31 in Seymour, Reins to Recovery is often a quiet space. The horses move slowly, but you'll be hard-pressed to find another herd as eager to please as the ones living here. "We have horses that will come up and wrap their neck, like they just know that you need a hug that day," Johnson said. These horses work hard, helping those with disabilities as well as victims of violence and at-risk kids at schools through psychotherapy and learning programs. "Some, the successes happen pretty quickly, others have been riding with us for years," Johnson said. "It's pretty amazing to see," said Amber Payne, a teacher at Bartholomew Consolidated Schools. Payne has spent years teaching young students with emotional disabilities. Her kids have seen such a success, Payne said it's hard to remember a time that the kids weren't coming here to grow. The horses at Reins to Recovery working with students like Paynes', helping them deal with past-trauma with behavioral or therapeutic treatment. "You can see them learning, you can see them taking away skills and then, to go back to school and see them applying skills or applying concepts that I watch them practice out here with the horses is just remarkable," said Bobby Van Horn, coordinator of behavioral services at Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation. "They get to have a chance to learn about trust, empathy, respect, all the things that can kind of go along with being around these amazing animals," Johnson said. For riders like Danielle Guffey, a little boost up is all she needs. Cerebral palsy can make many tasks for her tough, but difficult, work here has helped improve that. Coming to Reins to Recovery for years, Guffey works on strength and muscle exercises, helping improve her balance and her mood as she works with the horses together with a big smile on her face. "Stretching activities make it fun but again, she's really working those muscles and zoning in on how to keep them calm while doing the different activities," Johnson said. The changes they've seen with Guffey over the years is sharp, Johnson said. "Just the simplicity of sitting astride her horse has been huge because it used to be where we couldn't get her stretched enough to do so," Johnson said. "So now you see her up there and it's no big thing for her at this point." "I like riding," Guffey said. Success like what they've seen with Danielle isn't unusual in the programs they offer. "I've gotten to witness kiddos say their first words on a horse, I've gotten to see a mother cry because their daughter is now walking and even running when a doctor once said they'll never be able to walk unassisted," Johnson said. Reins to Recovery's impact is now widespread, helping people all around the region. But it all started as a small idea in high school. "That senior project started with just an idea of something I thought I was interested in, and I got to see it grow over the years into a career path that I can help others with," Johnson said. "I'm just, I'm blessed." The program started with just three riders more than a decade ago, growing to serve around 60 riders a week now. While treatment is always the goal, the staff and the horses always work to find new ways to spread the love here, too. "So I'm blessed, beyond measure," Johnson said. Because each program has grown to be so popular, they're all waitlisted. For more information about Reins to Recovery, visit the website here https://reinstorecovery.org/ Rachael Krause Rachael Krause joins the WAVE 3 News team as a multimedia journalist and reporter covering southern Indiana. She's excited to bring her passion for telling community stories to WAVE Country. Hall-of-famer Alfred 'Butch' Beard wants to cut ties with UofL Honorary street sign unveiled for retired LMPD officer Sir Friendly C Dustin Vogt Barret Middle Schoolers start sock donation drive for those in need AMPED Louisville music program receives $50,000 national award

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Making Women's History In Southwestern New York State Edith M. Ainge Martha R. Almy Elnora Monroe Babcock Evaline R. Clarke Ellen Yates Miller Marian Patterson Martha Fuller Prather Carrie E.S. Twing Suffrage Movement SWNY in the Spotlight Prather's gravestone at Lake View Cemetery Birthplace: Poland Center, New York Place of Burial: Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, New York Contribution: Suffrage leader and women's rights advocate Martha Fuller was born in Poland (Chautauqua County), New York on November 23, 1848.[1] She was the second oldest of three children (her siblings were Sophia and Frank). Her father, Arad Fuller, was born in Windsor County, Vermont, and her mother, Melvina (A. Bill) Fuller, was born in Perry (Wyoming County), New York.[2] Martha's parents were farmers and owned 600 acres of well-cultivated land. Between 1855 and 1870, they made dairying a specialty. Arad was said to be broad and liberal minded, very generous and sympathetic, and deeply interested in education. He was a Republican in politics, and believed in the enfranchisement of women and helped the cause of women's suffrage. Melvina was equally regarded as kind-hearted and generous.[3] Martha grew up on her parents' farm, which was known locally as the "Fullers Farm." On December 14, 1892, Martha married Abraham S. Prather at her home at 863 Prendergast Avenue, Jamestown, N.Y.[4] After Martha's father died (June 28, 1894) she helped her mother manage the farm, and lived there for several years with Abraham.[5] Martha was the second wife of Abraham, and they didn't have children together. However, they opened their door to Connie Phillips and treated her as their own daughter.[6] Abraham was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania on Feb. 24, 1841. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in 1862, and was honorably discharged on account of disability the following year. He was also a businessman and came to Jamestown, where he is credited with building the first brick manufacturing plant in 1873. He was a charter member of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans' organization, for which he was elected as the first commander in 1882. He also belonged to the Union Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. His first wife, Lucy Jane (Holmden) had died in 1885. They had six children, three of whom reached adulthood.[7] After several years living on the "Fullers Farm," the couple moved back to Jamestown. Mrs. Prather was an active member of the Political Equality Club in Chautauqua County, and attended every state suffrage convention from 1898 to 1910.[8] She was the county president for nine terms and was frequently in attendance at national conventions.[9] On September 25, 1902, the fifteenth annual convention of the Chautauqua County Political Equality Club was held. Mrs. Prather (then Jamestown treasurer) and Mrs. Alice E. Bargar volunteered to make a list of the women taxpayers of Jamestown. After two full days of work, they found out that one-third of the city's taxpayers were women and that one-third of the taxes were paid by women, exclusive of those paid by stock companies.[10] On June 13, 1903, the Political Equality clubs of Chautauqua County held their annual convention at the Y.M.C.A building in Jamestown. The county organization had local clubs in different areas of the county, many of which were represented at this convention. Mrs. Prather, who was the treasurer at that time, represented Jamestown. During this convention, the noted advocate for women's suffrage, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, gave a lecture titled "Woman Suffrage Essential to a True Republic." At the end of the convention, Martha was elected as the president of the organization.[11] On October 1903, she went to the twentieth annual convention of the New York State Woman's Suffrage Association held at Hornellsville, New York. The meeting was attended by many distinguished women such as Ms. Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (president of the national association), and Rev. Shaw (then vice-president at large of the national association), among others. Mrs. Prather was elected as the director in charge of an endowment fund of $2,000 passed by Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland of Perry, Wyoming County.[12] She was also appointed as delegate to the national convention with Ms. Anthony, among others. On March 7, 1904, Mrs. Prather attended the Union Grange meeting held in Odd Fellow's Hall, and offered a resolution favoring the passage of a Senate bill that gave taxpaying women in third class cities the right to vote on propositions to raise money for special purposes. The resolution passed. Also, in 1904, Mrs. Prather had attended the Washington suffrage convention as a New York State delegate. Mrs. Prather was made honorary president as a compliment to her faithful and untiring work before stepping down from her position as president in 1911.[13] On July 13, 1934, at age 85, she died in her home at 863 Prendergast Avenue, Jamestown.[14] Many attended the funeral service including her friends from outside the city and state.[15] Compiled by Jovelyn Binkiwitz, 2017 Prather's gravestone at Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, NY Primary Sources to Explore Prather is elected president of Chautauqua County suffrage organization, 1903 Lecture Prather presented to the Chautauqua County Historical Society in 1919 on the county's contributions to the suffrage movement [1] William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), 1: 64. [2] Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, 1: 67. [4] Jamestown [NY] Evening Journal, December 15, 1892. [6] 1900 U.S. Census, Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, population schedule, lines 43-45, sheet 19A, SD 16, ED 102, accessed April 2017, https://ancestryheritagequest.com. [8] John P. Downs and Fenwick Y. Hedley, History of Chautauqua County and Its People (New York: American Historical Society, Inc., 1921), 1: 355. [9] Downs, History of Chautauqua County and Its People, 1: 64. [10] Downs, History of Chautauqua County and Its People, 1: 354. [11] "Equality Clubs: Woman Suffragists in this City Today," Jamestown [NY] Evening Journal, June 13, 1903. [12] "Woman Suffrage," Jamestown [NY] Evening Journal, October 26, 1903. [14] Death certificate, Martha Fuller Prather, July 13, 1934. [15] Martha Fuller Prather obituary, Jamestown [NY] Evening Journal, July 14, 1934. Traci I. Langworthy, Editor Copyright © 2023 Making Women's History in Southwestern New York. All rights reserved.

The Top Engineering Schools In Texas As one of the most populous states in the country and home to some of the world's largest and most successful companies, it should be no surprise that Texas is also home to some of the best engineering programs in the country. Whether you're a high school student looking to attend college or already in the workforce and considering returning to school for an engineering degree, this post is for you. We'll be looking at the top engineering schools in Texas and what makes each of them stand out. What are the top engineering schools in Texas? What are the top engineering schools in Texas? The engineering school in which you decide to invest your time and money is essential. We'll take a closer look at the top engineering school in Texas to help you make the best selection. Rice University, located in the metropolitan metropolis of Houston, is a private, non-profit university with a modestly substantial student body. Rice University is known for its strong engineering programs, particularly in bioengineering and computer science. Rice is a strong university in general, with a Best Colleges ranking of #23 out of 2,241 colleges nationwide. In the most recent year, around 355 engineering students graduated with this degree from Rice. Rice University engineering students earn $5,522 more per year than the national average. The University of Texas at Austin is one of the best colleges in the country for pursuing an engineering degree. UT Austin is a medium-sized public university in Austin, Texas. UT Austin is a strong university in general, with a Best Colleges ranking of #52 out of 2,241 colleges nationally. In the most recent data year, around 1960, engineering students graduated with this degree from UT Austin. Engineering degree holders at the University of Texas at Austin make around $12,266 more than the average engineering major. Texas A&M University – College Station Every student interested in getting a degree in engineering should look at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M is one of the largest universities in the country and has a strong reputation in engineering, particularly mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering. The school has several research centers and partnerships with industry leaders. In the most recent year, roughly 3306 engineering students graduated from Texas A&M. Engineering students who graduate from Texas A&M University – College Station earns $7,635 more than the average engineering student. Any engineering student should consider attending Southern Methodist University, one of the top engineering schools in Texas. SMU is a private research university located in Dallas. It has a strong engineering program, particularly in computer science and engineering management. SMU is a strong university in general, with a Best Universities ranking of #91 out of 2,241 colleges nationally. In the most recent data year, around 365 engineering students graduated with this degree from SMU. Southern Methodist University engineering degree recipients make around $21,539 more than the average engineering major. The University of Texas at Dallas is a significant public university in Richardson, Texas. UT Dallas is a strong university in general, with a Best Colleges ranking of 192 out of 2,241 schools nationally. In the most recent year, roughly 1031 engineering students graduated with this degree from UT Dallas. When they enter the workforce, engineering degree recipients at the University of Texas at Dallas earn $9,044 more than the average college graduate with the same degree. Texas Tech is a public research university located in Lubbock, Texas. It is known for its strong engineering program, particularly in mechanical and electrical engineering. The Whitacre College of Engineering is one of the largest in the state. Texas Tech is one of the top engineering schools in Texas, with a Best Colleges ranking of 2123 out of 2,241 colleges nationally. In the most recent year, around 1020 engineering students graduated with this degree from Texas Tech. Graduates of the engineering program earn approximately $70,613 in their first two years of employment. Baylor University, located in the medium-sized city of Waco, is a private, non-profit university with a sizable student body. Baylor is a strong university in general, with a Best Colleges ranking of 153, out of 2,241 colleges nationally. In the most recent data year, approximately 143 engineering students graduated with this degree from Baylor. Students who complete the engineering program report an average early career income of $65,812. The University of Houston is a public research university known for its strong engineering program, mainly chemical, mechanical, and industrial engineering. The Cullen College of Engineering is one of the state's largest and most diverse engineering colleges. UH is an excellent university, with a Best Universities ranking of #290 out of 2,241 colleges nationwide. In the most recent year, around 944 engineering students graduated with this degree from UH. Engineering students who graduate from the University of Houston earn $5,545 more than the average engineering student. The University of Texas at Arlington UT Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas. It is known for its strong engineering program, mainly in electrical, mechanical, and industrial engineering. UT Arlington is a strong university in general, with a Best Universities ranking of 307 out of 2,241 colleges nationally. In the most recent data year, around 1314 engineering students graduated with this degree from UT Arlington. Students who graduate from the engineering program report earning an average early career salary of $63,058. Austin Community College District Austin Community College District is a public college with a reasonably large student body located in the metropolitan city of Austin. This college is ranked among the top engineering schools in Texas and 30th out of 116 colleges in Texas for overall quality. In the most recent year, around 97 engineering students graduated from the Austin Community College District. Students who complete the engineering program report an average early career income of $39,565. Are engineers in demand in Texas? Are engineers in demand in Texas? The state is home to many large industries such as oil and gas, aerospace, and technology that require skilled engineers. Additionally, the state's population is growing rapidly, leading to increased demand for infrastructure and buildings, which also creates a need for engineers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment of engineers in Texas is projected to grow by 10% from 2018 to 2028, faster than the national average. Texas is also home to several major universities and research institutions that produce a large number of engineering graduates each year, which helps to meet the state's demand for engineers. The most in-demand engineering fields in Texas include mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering, as well as civil and petroleum engineering. Many of the top companies in the state, such as ExxonMobil, Raytheon, and Dell Technologies employ engineers in various fields. In summary, engineers are in high demand in Texas due to the state's strong economy, growing population, and large presence of industries that require engineers. Is it worth going into engineering? After learning about the top engineering schools in Texas you might be wondering if it is worthwhile to pursue a career in engineering. Engineering can be a rewarding career choice, as it offers the opportunity to solve complex problems and create new technologies that improve people's lives. Engineers also tend to have good job security and earning potential. However, it is important to consider your interests and aptitudes when deciding whether to pursue a career in engineering. It may be helpful to speak with practicing engineers and gain hands-on experience through internships or co-op programs before making a decision. Additionally, engineering is a diverse field with many specializations, such as mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering. It's important to research and explore the different areas of engineering to determine which one aligns with your interests and career goals. In addition, it is important to note that the field of engineering is ever-changing and evolving, with new technologies and advancements being made constantly. This can make the field exciting and dynamic, but it also requires continuous learning and adaptation on the part of the engineer. It's worth noting that an engineering degree provides a strong foundation in math and science, which can be beneficial in a wide range of fields, including technology, research and development, and consulting. With the right skills, engineers can make an impact in the industry and make a difference in the world. In summary, it can be worth going into engineering if you have an interest in problem-solving, enjoy math and science, and are willing to continuously learn and adapt. It's important to research and explore different areas of engineering and gain hands-on experience before making a decision. Texas offers something for every student. Whether you're looking for a large university with a diverse student body or a small school with a tight-knit community, Texas has an engineering program that can meet your needs. As the demand for engineers continues to grow in the state, choosing one of these top engineering schools in Texas will provide students with excellent opportunities to succeed in their future careers. AdmissionSight is here to help. With extensive experience ranging from college preparations to graduate school admissions, AdmissionSight offers programs and tutorials for students who need assistance. Feel free to book an initial consultation to start your admissions journey

Hello my lovelies! We're already five days into March and we could say that spring is upon us. It's still pretty cold where I live, but it's been sunny all week and I can tell that the air is changing. To celebrate the coming of spring I've been wearing light colors and pastels on my nails all week. I've started with a polish from the House of Colour collection from China Glaze, which is the Spring 2016 collection. I picked out 3 polishes from this collection and today I want to show you the first one. I don't wear pink very often (read never) but this one caught my eye because it's very subtle. Check it out! Let's Chalk About It is a very light pastel pink creme. It's almost white, but you can clearly tell that it's pink in almost every light. I picked it up because I figured it would be a good base for nail art, especially for the spring. I already had a great idea of stamping over it but I had one of those days when nothing worked, so I ended up with these simple flowers instead. I know that a lot of people weren't happy with the formula on this one but I think it's ok. Despite the name and the very light pastel color, it's not chalky at all. It can be streaky, especially on the first coats. If you are careful you can get away with two thicker coats, or you can go with three thinner ones. The polish is on the thicker side, so make sure you wipe the brush on the bottle or else you'll end up with tons of it on your nail. I ended up using two coats with a bit of leveling up on the second one. After the stamping disaster, I picked up my dotting tool and created these simple flowers using China Glaze Boho Blues (from last year's Road Trip collection) and Lemon Fizz (from the 2010 Up & Away collection). So there are polishes from three different China Glaze spring collections in this manicure. You can tell how much I love spring polishes from that. I hope you enjoyed these nails and have a beautiful and sunny weekend!

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UK cut off from Europe over fears of new COVID strain Hong Kong joins Britain's neighbors in banning flights from virus-hit nation Security officers inspect a vehicle at the port of Dover as EU countries impose a travel ban from the U.K. following a resurgence of the coronavirus disease. © Reuters December 21, 2020 10:43 JST Updated on December 21, 2020 18:45 JST | Europe DOVER, England (Reuters) -- The United Kingdom was on Monday shut off from the rest of Europe after its closest allies cut transport ties due to fears about a new coronavirus strain, sowing chaos for families and companies just days before it exits the European Union's orbit. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and Canada were among those that shut off travel ties after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a highly infectious new strain of the virus was a danger to the country. Johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on Monday to discuss international travel, in particular the flow of freight in and out of Britain. EU officials are due to hold a meeting at 1000 GMT on coordinating their response. France shut its border to arrivals of people and trucks from the United Kingdom, closing off one of the most important trade arteries with mainland Europe, a step Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said was surprising. "We're doing everything we can to get that restarted," Shapps told Sky. "They've said to us they want to restart the hauliers as quickly as possible." As families and truck drivers tried to navigate the travel bans to get back home in time for Christmas, there were fears that fresh food supplies to and from Europe would be disrupted though supermarkets have enough to cope with festive demand for now. Shellfish producers in Scotland said they had tonnes of perishable product stranded on roads as the French border was closed. Disruption in Britain will also snarl supplies to Ireland. Hong Kong is also due to ban all flights arriving from the United Kingdom from midnight, becoming the first city in Asia to do so. Asian nations including Japan and South Korea said they were closely monitoring the new strain. The pound fell more than 2 cents to $1.3279 and the FTSE 100 fell 2% at the open, with travel companies such as British Airways-owner IAG tumbling 15%. The yield on 2-year UK gilts hit a record low. Britain's Shapps said getting the bans lifted as swiftly as possible was his priority but that given British preparations for the end of the Brexit transition period, the country was well positioned for disruption. Johnson on Saturday cancelled Christmas plans for millions of British people due to what he said was a more infectious strain of the coronavirus, though he said there was no evidence that it was either more lethal or caused a more severe illness. The new variant contains 23 different changes, many of them associated with how it binds to cells and enters them. Shapps said Britain had done some of the best global analysis of the mutations of the virus so it was simply seeing what was already at large in other countries. The British government triggered plans it had for stacking up trucks in the southeast county of Kent - part of its plans for potential disruption when the United Kingdom exits the EU's orbit with - or without - a trade deal at 2300 GMT on Dec. 31. Talks on a Brexit trade deal were due to continue on Monday. Trucks are being stacked on the M20 motorway through Kent, heading towards the ports, which is closed to normal traffic. A nearby airport will also be used to hold freight. "Sick Man of Europe", the Daily Mirror newspaper said on its front page beside a picture of Johnson while the Sun newspaper said "French show no merci". The closure of the Channel Tunnel and ports for onward travel to France will affect the export of goods such as fish and shell fish from Scotland to Europe, and the import of food for British supermarkets if, as expected, European drivers refuse to travel. Trucks have been told to avoid Kent to prevent any further build up of trucks. "The closure of France to UK traffic, including accompanied freight poses difficulties for UK capacity to import and export key goods during the busy Christmas period," said Andrew Opie, director of food & sustainability at the British Retail Consortium. "While goods can enter from France, few haulage firms will be willing to send trucks and drivers across to the UK without a guarantee they can return to the EU in a timely manner." 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Timeline of integrated care policies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland To understand the policy goals of, and approaches to, integrated care reform across the four countries of the UK, we have mapped key policy documents and legislation in each country published since devolution in 1999. Health Act 1999 Flexibilities introduced to encourage more integration, e.g. pooled budgets, lead commissioning arrangements (where local authorities or NHS bodies could delegate service procurement to the other), and formation of "one-stop shops' for health and social care services. NHS Plan 2000 Invested in intermediate care services, which included expanding rehabilitation services within hospitals, establishing hospital at-home care teams and community rapid response teams; ensured nursing care provided in homes would be funded by NHS. Supported joint inspections across health and social care organisations. Health and Social Care Act 2001 Care Trusts established, partnerships that pool health and social care resources in one organisation to commission and/or provide a range of services such as social care, mental health, or community care. Community Care Delayed Discharges Act 2003 Required local authorities to pay health care providers when a delayed NHS discharge was due to appropriate local community care services being unavailable. Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services 2006 White paper committed to developing joint health and social care records and care plans, develop aligned planning and performance management system between the NHS and local government, and greater case management and multi-disciplinary teams; appointed social care lead to Department of Health board National Health Service Act 2006 Established Section 75 partnership agreements, which expanded flexibilities for NHS and local authorities to pool budgets and to integrate functions and management structures. Partnership for Older People Projects (2006 – 2009) The Department of Health funded 29 projects led by local authorities, in partnership with their local primary care trusts and representatives of the voluntary, community and independent sectors. Their aim was to "shift resources and culture away from institutional and hospital-based care for older people towards earlier, targeted interventions within their own homes and communities" Putting people first: a shared vision and commitment to the transformation of Adult Social Carel 2007 Committed to ensure independent living for all adults through a joined-up and collaborative partnership between local and central government, the voluntary sector, providers and the social care regulators. Set vision for system-wide transformation, including expanding joint strategic needs assessments and commissioning and co-locating services. High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review 2008 Committed to support greater patient choice and control, through joint commissioning and planning. Promoted greater provision of care in the home and personalised care plans. Introduced concept of Integrated Care Organisations which would bring NHS and social care providers together under single budgets to deliver more coordinated services. Integrated Care Pilots (2009- 2012) CQC established 2009 Evolved inspection to look at how health and social care work together (analysing whole systems, care pathways, and transitions between services, how they are commissioned and the role of partner organisations). Spending Review 2010 Transferred £2.7 billion from the NHS to local authorities over the four years to 2014-15, to improve collaborative working Whole Place Community Budgets 2011 Five-year pilot programme that gave areas funding for five years to develop new models for joint working across local services. Most focused on broader public services, but Greater Manchester pilot had core focus on health and social care integration. Established local health and wellbeing boards with a duty to encourage the integrated commissioning of health and social care services. Introduced new rules to facilitate competition across providers, but required newly formed NHS England and clinical commissioning groups to promote integration where this would improve quality or reduce inequalities. NHS Improvement also given duty to remove barriers to integrating care when in the interests of patients (trumping its role in applying competition rules). Integrated Care: Our Shared Commitment 2013 Set out shared vision by Department of Health and 12 partner organisations to make integrated care the norm by 2018, committing to a common purpose, developing national resources, and integrating information across systems. Spending Review and Better Care Fund 2013 Set up plans for Better Care Fund, which required CCGs and local authorities to pool existing funding and develop joint plans to: prevent gaps in health and social care and avoid unnecessary emergency admissions; support better data sharing and joint care assessments and planning; and demonstrate impact on acute sector. In 2015-16, the Fund comprised of £3.8 billion, made up of transfers from the NHS to social care, and contributions from local authority grants. Integrated Care and Support Pioneers (2013-2019) Selection of 25 areas (over two waves) to develop innovative models for improving coordination between health and social care services. Models pursued range of interventions but tended to focus on improved case management, community support, and multi-disciplinary working. Underpinned by joint approaches to information sharing and contracting models, and greater alignment of resources through local tariffs and budgets. NHS Five Year Forward View 2014 Set vision for new model of care delivery and commissioning that would reduce inequalities and shift more services out of hospital and into the community. New Models of Care Vanguards programme 2014 Set up seven new models of care based around the Five Year Forward View to be piloted at 50 'vanguard' sites. Included models like enhanced health in care homes to offer more joined up health and rehabilitation services. New Models of Care programme 2014 Set up seven new models of care based around the Five Year Forward View to be piloted as 50 'vanguard' sites. Included models like enhanced health in care homes to offer more joined up health and rehabilitation services. Care Act 2014 Required local authorities to promote integration of care and where this will benefit patients and quality of care. Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 Created a social care precept to give local authorities ability to raise new funding to spend exclusively on adult social care. Announced additional £3.5 billion for social care through the Better Care Fund and social care precept; Established £2.1 billion Sustainability and Transformation Fund to support integration and improve patient experience and outcomes. Sustainability and Transformation Plans 2015 NHS planning guidance introduced 44 new footprints that required local bodies to develop plans to support greater collaboration and address funding shortfalls. Key themes in plans included creating care hubs that bring together social care, mental health, and NHS services, changing organisational arrangements to support joint commissioning and contracting, staff pooling across organisational boundaries, shared care records, and outcomes-based payments. Integrated personal commissioning pilots 2015 Sites chosen to join up health and social care support and funding at the level of the individual. Involved creating individualised budgets for people with long-term conditions, people with learning disabilities, frail elderly people and children and young people with health and social care needs to direct where and how money was spent. City and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 Allows transfer of budgets and powers to combined authorities through devolution deals. In some places, like Greater Manchester, this included health and social care, where the combined authority established pooled budgets, took over commissioning responsibilities, and developed a strategy for integration. Local Government 2017–18 financial settlement The Department for Communities and Local Government introduced freedoms for local authorities to increase the social care precept by up to 3% 2017/18 and 2019-20. NHS Long Term Plan 2019 Set vision that integration and place-based care would be central to how the NHS would accelerate progress in improving health in early childhood years, early diagnosis and prevention of major health problems, and support for people to age well. Committed each STP to becoming an Integrated Care System (ICS) that would give local areas more accountability and authority to control resources and support greater collaboration across the NHS and local authorities. Aligned payments in capitation based models, and built on vanguards programme to implement new care models that build alliances of providers supported by integrated care partnership contracts. Hospital discharge and community support operating model and national discharge fund 2020/2021 Government introduced new funding during Covid-19 to help cover some of the costs of support packages of care and rehabilitation following discharge from hospital. Systems must ensure they provide adequate health and care discharge services 7 days a week to reduce length of stay in acute care, and improve outcomes following a period of rehabilitation and recovery and reduce the need for long-term care. Health and Care Bill 2021–2022 Proposes legislative changes that would establish integrated care systems as statutory organisations, and create two new bodies: integrated care boards (composed of NHS bodies and local authorities that would replace clinical commissioning groups) and integrated care partnerships (collaborative boards involving the NHS, local government, and broader local partners) to develop integrated care plans. Requirements to competitively tender some clinical services will be removed to better support collaboration across providers. Health and Social Care Levy and Spending Review 2021 Introduced a new approach to funding social care, including a lifetime cap on care costs and new means test limits (though recent amendments mean that the reforms might not protect those with lower assets from catastrophic costs). Introduced a new 1.25% levy that will be ringfenced to support UK health and social care bodies. People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper 2021 Sets out 10-year vision for adult social care, which includes a range of policies and measures to improve the level of care and support available in communities. Includes specific ambitions and investments to: better integrate housing, community, health and social care services together as part of local strategies, improve discharges for hospital with more integrated technology and support plans; embed innovative models of care that integrate services and support people in their homes; and strengthen obligations for new Integrated Care Boards and NHS England to include carers when commissioning services. Sources: Nuffield Trust analysis drawn from various sources including Health Foundation Policy Navigator, NAO Health and Social Care Integration review, and Nuffield Trust NHS Reform timeline, Kaehne and others Bringing Integration Home, Northern Ireland Systems not Structures.

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The US Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that US personal income increased $84.9 billion, or 0.5 per cent in October 2018 (seasonally adjusted levels at annualized rates). The increase in personal income in October primarily reflected increases in wages and salaries, proprietors' income, and government social benefits to persons. US personal disposable income increased $81.7 billion, or 0.5 per cent in October 2018. In real per capita terms, US disposable personal income increased $121.0 billion (chained (2012) dollars) or 0.3 per cent in October 2018. US personal consumption expenditures increased $86.9 billion, or 0.6 per cent in October 2018. Personal savings (disposable personal income minus personal consumer expenditures, interest paid, and transfers to government and the rest of the world) was $967.8 billion in October 2018. The personal savings rate was 6.2 per cent of disposable income.

Quit smoking and reclaim your life Quite Smoking Inside Quit Genius: Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking? [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="139″] FEB 19, 2018 / IN INSIDE QUIT GENIUS / 7 MIN READ It started out as a gorgeous Saturday morning in Palo Alto, I wake up, head downstairs in my PJs expecting a relaxing morning… Lucas (our CTO) finishes off his scrambled eggs and glances up at our analytics dashboard on the TV, "Were anyone of you guys testing the app last night?". Me and my two co-founders (Yusuf and Sarim) look at each other sheepishly "Not that I know of, why?". "Our servers are in meltdown – what's going on??". It's a frantic half an hour before we realise that Apple had selected Quit Genius out of the 2.2 million apps on the App Store to be the main feature in the USA. Our traffic and revenue have increased 10,000% from the day before. Our servers are in meltdown. I suggested we drill a Silicon-Valley-Style hole in the wall (shout out Guilfoyle), instead, Lucas goes for the more sensible route of calling up John (big up) – our contact at Amazon Web Services – to upgrade our servers. I jump on Intercom to answer hundreds of customer support emails that have begun to pile into our inbox. Meanwhile, the kettle is still boiling. Meant to be me at the back As the dust settles, I take a moment to do something I rarely do; reflect. Less than a year ago, I was in London revising for my final exams of medical school. Fast forward 9 months and we have an incredible team of scientists, designers and developers, we've relocated to Palo Alto to participate in Y Combinator (a well known startup school that has produced the likes of Airbnb, Dropbox and Coinbase (the Bitcoin one)) and most importantly we've already helped thousands of real people quit smoking. We pinch ourselves every day asking how this has even happened? I still have a vivid recollection of the conversation I had with my parents after graduating as a doctor. The shocked look on their faces when I told them I wanted to pass up my dream job to pursue what they thought was a long lost fantasy. In hindsight, they were probably right. We knew what we wanted to make but we had no plan, no experience and no money…but what I did have were two friends who were just as foolish as me! We launched Quit Genius just two months later. We messaged every single person we knew to download the app. Below is a message me of reaching out to my barber Luca, not for a "1 into a 4 and keep it wavy on top", but a plea to download Quit Genius. So "swell" We spent our lunch breaks in Golden Square (Soho, London), preying on smokers and telling them about Quit Genius. I remember one day we managed to get 100 new users and we treated ourselves to a team dinner at one of Soho's finest establishments. Haters will say this is Pizza Express It's crazy to think just 6 months later we've touched hundreds of thousands of lives from all across the world. I can't describe how rewarding it feels to get messages on a daily basis from people from all walks of life thanking us because their lives, and the lives of their families, has transformed because they've managed to quit smoking. All because of an app. We always get asked why we're not practising as doctors after spending six whole years at medical school. And the true reason is, as doctors we feel as though we could have made a positive impact on the lives of thousands, but with Quit Genius we believe we can make a positive impact on the lives of millions. From the outside looking in, it may all look rosy: a fast-growing user base, features in the press and bringing on board notable investors. But I can assure you it is far from that. Every day there's a new challenge, a new problem, a new setback. There are countless times this business could have been dead and buried (I'll save these stories for another time). It's only the dedication, motivation and sheer resilience of every single member of the team that has stopped that from happening. We count our blessings every day and are thankful to God for giving us this opportunity to change the way therapy is delivered. We know we still have a long, long way to go to get anywhere close to achieving our mission of making the world a smoke-free place. A smoke-free world?! You might think we're young, dumb and naive 24-year-olds wishfully thinking, but every step we take, every smoker we get to quit, fuels our fires. And so long as there's an ember, rest assured, we'll be working as hard as possible to make our long lost fantasy a reality. All the highs and lows on our journey to help 100,000 people quit smoking Subscribe to stay updated. We email our best content, just once per month. Download the Quit Genius app Quit Genius is free to download and includes personalised therapy content, craving tools and a vibrant community to help you quit smoking and stay smoke-free for good! The post Inside Quit Genius: Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking? appeared first on Quit Genius. Copyright © 2019 @ TheSmokingQuite

here is some designs exploration based on one Zbrush model that I have made earlier during my teaching class at NEW3DGE. It was to show to my students the fact that 3D (both for characters and environments) can be used as a guide to improve your designs researches and the fact that you don't have to be afraid to break it to find new exciting possibilities. as a 2D concept artist, 3D is here to help me in my design process and What I wanted to teach them is that you don't have to follow blindly what you have made in 3D, you need to think beyond this point and try to keep searching for interesting ideas, even if you spent a lot of hours building your 3D assets. Use it as a base, a guide, don't be affraid to think "outside the box"

I know Ria is the one who's on holiday but who ever said you can't send postcards from your own home? I've lived in Cornwall, albeit a little further inland than the beginning of the world, all my life. However, it's only in recent years, since moving barely an hour away to Devon for university and then back again after graduation, that I have really started to appreciate the beauty of the place. I guess I just took it for granted when I was growing up that my town was only a short drive away from the stormy seas and misty moors that have inspired so many writers and artists throughout history. I think at the time I was too busy being annoyed that most of my friends lived in neighbouring villages and valleys, too far to walk to, to really think about it. From Geoffrey of Monmouth naming Tintagel as the place of King Arthur's conception in the twelfth century, to Daphne du Maurier's novels, John Betjeman's poems, and, yes, Winston Graham's Poldark, there is almost no end to the writing that has been inspired by this wild coastal county. Creativity doesn't just seem to thrive here, it seems to be in the very dirt of the place. I'm positive that growing up here, between ocean and fields, is the reason writing and photography have always lived in my bones. Who could live in a place like this and not have a desire to capture it somehow? I couldn't resist taking this opportunity to share a little of it. If you'd like to see more you can find me, my photography, and my writing at stasialikescakes. Thanks a bunch to Anastasia for the lovely post and gorgeous photos. I've never ventured down as far as Cornwall but these photos are utterly dreamy! Gotta love the good ol' British coastline.

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What will Madison County look like in 50 years? of life in Madison County. We want your input, because no vision will succeed unless it is a shared vision. 130 years ago pioneers came to this valley and saw in the sagebrush covered land a vision of a thriving community. They laid the foundation for cities, and in 1913 a county, which reflected the values they thought important: community, family, and education; a place of gathering where their children and grandchildren could live, work and raise families. We are the beneficiaries of their vision, in the infrastructure, roads, and towns they founded. Today, our community is growing and changing. Over the last decade Madison County has experienced unprecedented growth, which has brought opportunities and challenges that were not dreamed of ten years ago. These opportunities require us to ask some hard questions, questions that will affect the way our area develops for the next 50 years. These questions include: How can we develop the jobs that will keep our community economically viable for the long term? How will growth affect our open areas? How do we maintain quality of life? Envision Madison is a community driven effort to help identify and develop a "vision" for the future of Madison County. Envision Madison Stakeholders will select elements of the scenarios they think should be explored. The reaction to the scenarios will serve as the basis for the vision's products: a set of goals, along with a vision scenario that illustrates one plausible way these goals might play themselves out in the cities and county. Envision Madison will then take the principles and vision scenario and translate them into an action plan that includes both strategies and short-term tactics to shape the future of Madison County. We invite you to join us in this effort to shape the future of our community for our children, grandchildren and all who choose to make Madison County their home. We invite you to share with us your top five concerns or challenges that we as a community need to address. Examples: infrastructure, jobs, etc. You can email us at [email protected].

Q: Intellij break point not working. I've a maven project deployed in jetty 9 server. I'm running jetty server with following options. java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar /home/shwetanka/tools/jetty-distribution-9.2.3.v20140905/start.jar I've configured a remote configuration with When I start debugger. It says Connected to the target VM, address: 'localhost:5005', transport: 'socket' But breakpoint remains in 'enabled' state(without any check mark) and doesn't stop on reaching the break point. I tried making the project again but it says all classes are up to date. nothing to reload. I tried restarting idea and also invalidating the cache. Nothing seems to be working. How do I make it work? A: You might want to try the solution mentioned at Breakpoint set with IntelliJ not working in premain of remote custom java agent. Alternately, you might try suspend=y instead of suspend=n This worked for me on the same problem. Cheers!

Senate Confirms Dean Winston Tabb's Appointment to National Museum and Library Services Board The United States Senate this week confirmed the appointment of Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, to the National Museum and Library Services Board. June 25, 2010 Tags: Applied Physics Lab, Eisenhower Library, Evergreen Museum & Library, Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute, george Peabody Library, Gilman Hall, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library, Hutzler Reading Room, IMLS, Institute of Museum and Liibrary Services, John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University, Marsha L. Semmel, Mason Library at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Milton S, National Museum and Library Services Board, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, University Libraries Council, Welch Medical Library, Winston Tabb | Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related

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MusicFest About MusicFest From Down Home Winter Base Map Base Parking Map 2020 Pricing General Check-In Info Arriving on Jan 5th Arriving Before or After Jan 5th 6 days - 200+ Hours of Live Music - 5 Mountains - One BIG TENT January 5-10, 2020 https://www.themusicfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Snowfall-Reckless-Kelly.mp3 https://www.themusicfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Snowfall-Reckless-Kelly.ogg Home With The Armadillo Gary P. Nunn https://www.themusicfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/London-Homesick-Blues-_-Home-With-the-Armadillo.mp3 https://www.themusicfest.com/Music/London%20Homesick%20Blues%20_%20Home%20With%20the%20Armadillo.ogg WEBSITE TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM Official MusicFest Artist Warren Hood Years at MusicFest: The Warren Hood Band (2013) Warren started playing classical violin at age 11 in the school orchestra. He won classical music competitions, which gave him the opportunity to perform as a soloist on "Lalo Symphonie Espagnole" with the Austin Symphony, conducted by Peter Bay. Warren later balanced studying at Austin High with touring with Charlie Robison and the South Austin Jug Band. After high school, Warren earned a rare scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he majored in Violin Performance, played with Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith and formed an acoustic string band, Blue Light Special. Leaving Berklee, Warren was in demand as a sideman, playing with Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, and joining The Waybacks, a band he would play with for the next ten years. Through all of this, Warren played with the South Austin Jug Band when he could, especially as a part of their Sunday night residency at Momo's on W 6th St in Austin and performed at The MusicFest for multiple years. When the residency ended for SAJB, Warren gathered a group of friends and took over Sunday nights under his own name, starting his first solo venture and releasing his first studio record, "Warren Hood", an eclectic mix of both songs and legendary Austin players. The band Warren plays with now is the current version of the band he started back in 2004 at Momo's.The Warren Hood Band plays a mix of their own songs, classic country, and blues, with a nod towards their Texas roots with a few Uncle Walt's. Warren spends as much time with his band as he does playing and recording alongside other artists: David Ball, The Bodeans, Hayes Carll, Joe Ely, Alejandro Escovedo, Robert Earl Keen, Ben Kweller, Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, Joan Osborne, Toni Price, Bob Schneider, South Austin Jug Band, Redd Volkaert, Jerry Jeff Walker The Waybacks, Bob Weir, Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis and more.The MusicFest is excited to welcome such a talented instrumentalist and vocalist to the many stages in Steamboat Colorado. No artificial ingredients or people! Dickson Productions DIALING FROM UNITED STATES Music Lineup MUSICFEST TOUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS ("AGREEMENT") PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF Todd Purifoy, Carl Dunn, Richard Clark, Daran Herman, Christina Feddersen, Larry Pierce, Marshall Foster, Trina Cash, Brooks Gray, Scott Gunter, Hunter Photography, Ray Yantch, Charlie Stout, Bradford Coolidge & Colin Zamarippa Website brought to you by the creative minds at Backstage Design Studio © 2019 Dickson Productions. All Rights Reserved

Several years ago, Nytegard undertook a project to crack into the data files for Ultima 5, and proceeded to extensively reverse-engineer the game. Along the way, he built himself several tools to assist in decoding elements of the game's data, most notably its graphics and conversation files. Nodling Dragon made his source code available for download, and I have added this entry — with the same files — to Aiera to serve as a second mirror for Nytegard's work. All of the above downloads are source code archives, and must be compiled with (at minimum) Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and the DirectX SDK.

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New insights from serranid fishes on the role of trade-offs in suction-feeding diversification Christopher E. Oufiero, Roi A. Holzman, Forrest A. Young, Peter C. Wainwright Journal of Experimental Biology 2012 215: 3845-3855; doi: 10.1242/jeb.074849 Christopher E. Oufiero Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA For correspondence: [email protected] Roi A. Holzman Forrest A. Young Dynasty Marine Associates, 10602 7th Avenue Gulf, Marathon, FL 33050, USA Peter C. Wainwright Supp info PDF + SI Suction feeding is central to prey capture in the vast majority of ray-finned fishes and has been well studied from a detailed, mechanistic perspective. Several major trade-offs are thought to have shaped the diversification of suction-feeding morphology and behavior, and have become well established in the literature. We revisited several of these expectations in a study of prey capture morphology and kinematics in 30 species of serranid fishes, a large, ecologically variable group that exhibits diverse combinations of suction and forward locomotion. We find that: (1) diversity among species in the morphological potential to generate suction changes drastically across the range of attack speeds that species use, with all species that use high-speed attacks having low capacity to generate suction, whereas slow-speed attackers exhibit the full range of suction abilities (this pattern indicates a more complex 'ram–suction continuum' than previously recognized); (2) there is no trade-off between the mechanical advantage of the lower jaw opening lever and the speed of jaw depression, revealing that this simple interpretation of lever mechanics fails to predict kinematic diversity; (3) high-speed attackers show increased cranial excursions, potentially to compensate for a decrease in accuracy; (4) the amount of jaw protrusion is positively related to attack speed, but not suction capacity; and (5) a principal component analysis revealed three significant multivariate axes of kinematic variation among species. Two of the three axes were correlated with the morphological potential to generate suction, indicating important but complex relationships between kinematics and suction potential. These results are consistent with other recent studies that show that trade-offs derived from simple biomechanical models may be less of a constraint on the evolutionary diversification of fish feeding systems than previously thought. One of the central contributions that physiology and biomechanics have made to evolutionary biology has been to provide an understanding of the trade-offs that shape diversification of functional systems (Shoval et al., 2012). The major axes of functional and ecological diversity within evolutionary radiations are typically thought to reflect the major trade-offs within the functional systems that underlie the diversity. Two trade-offs have often been highlighted as playing a strong role in shaping diversification of the feeding mechanism in ray-finned fishes. First, it is thought that the ability to suction feed trades off with the ability to capture fish by rapid pursuit, often referred to as the 'ram–suction continuum' (Norton and Brainerd, 1993; Wainwright et al., 2001). Second, the fundamental trade-off in levers between the transmission of force and speed is thought to result in readily predicted consequences for kinematic patterns of jaw movement during feeding (Westneat, 1994; Wainwright and Richard, 1995; Westneat, 2004). Although the discussion of these trade-offs is extensive in the literature, there have been fewer attempts to evaluate the empirical distribution of species in the parameter space that should reveal the trade-offs. Some recent studies have found much greater diversity in trait combinations than expected based on underlying trade-offs (Van Wassenbergh et al., 2007; Holzman et al., 2012b) and generally raise the possibility that in complex systems trade-offs can often be overcome during diversification. In the present paper we explore several of the expected associations between the morphological design of the feeding system and kinematic patterns in fishes that feed using a combination of suction and forward locomotion during their strike. Our data set is derived from 30 species of Serranidae, a highly successful and diverse group of predatory marine fishes that primarily live on rocky and coral reefs (Randall, 1967; Wainwright and Richard, 1995; Wainwright and Bellwood, 2002). This large sample of relatively closely related species allows us to explore trade-offs and patterns of association between morphology and kinematics within the context of a recent radiation, minimizing major differences between taxa due to phylogenetic distance. We address a series of five issues. Is the capacity to generate suction pressure associated with the approach strategy of fish attacking their prey? Specifically, do we see a negative association between the capacity to generate suction pressure, as estimated by the suction index (Carroll, 2004; Collar and Wainwright, 2006) and attack speed, as might be expected from the standpoint of behavioral strategies for prey capture (Norton and Brainerd, 1993; Gibb and Ferry-Graham, 2005) or from a more mechanical perspective (Van Damme and Aerts, 1997; Muller and Osse, 1984)? Some theoretical considerations have yielded the insight that many fast-attacking species are generating considerable suction that, because of the relative motion of predator and prey, is not seen as movement of the prey toward the predator (Muller and Osse, 1984). Further, the translational pressure that fast-attacking species experience means that they do not require as strong suction during prey capture as slow-attacking species. Thus, we may see evidence that high-speed attackers are equally capable of generating suction as low-speed attackers (Van Damme and Aerts, 1997) or that fast-attackers have faster jaw expansion because of the passive assistance of water filling the oral cavity (Muller and Osse, 1984). Previous observations also led to the idea that moving toward the prey during the strike could be viewed as an alternative to a predator using suction to draw the prey into the mouth; the so-called ram–suction continuum (Norton and Brainerd, 1993). Attempts to quantify the position of species on this continuum have mostly used the ram–suction index (Norton and Brainerd, 1993), which characterizes the relative distance covered by the predator swimming toward the prey during the strike and the distance the prey is drawn into the mouth. However, other work has shown that suction distance shows little variation among species because suction feeders are limited to drawing prey from a maximum of approximately one mouth diameter, whereas attack distances may vary widely (Wainwright et al., 2001; Porter and Motta, 2004; Day et al., 2005). Thus, relative suction performance may be better characterized by the ability to generate strong suction pressure and thus, high flow speeds and accelerations (Wainwright and Day, 2007; Holzman et al., 2008b; Van Wassenbergh and Aerts, 2009). Using the suction index (Carroll et al., 2004), based on morphological measurements as a metric of suction performance, we ask whether a capacity for strong suction characterizes species that use less locomotion when attacking prey. The mechanical advantage of jaw levers captures a fundamental trade-off between force and velocity transmission of the muscle contractions that are input to the lever (Wainwright and Richard, 1995; Westneat, 2004), but recent work has challenged the straightforward implication of lever mechanical advantage for velocity transmission because lever mechanics inevitably have impacts on muscle mechanics and the interaction may not be easily predicted (McHenry, 2011). Interestingly, there are few comparative data in the literature on fish feeding functional morphology that allow one to empirically evaluate the widely assumed relationship between jaw lever mechanical advantage and the speed of jaw movements. We explore this issue by examining the relationship across species between the mechanical advantage of the jaw depression lever and the speed of mouth opening; this is the first quantitative analysis of this relationship across a large, diverse group of fish. The expectation is that species with a lower mechanical advantage in the jaw depression lever will have faster jaw depression (Westneat, 1994; Wainwright and Richard, 1995). Do species with a greater attack speed have greater cranial excursions during the strike? Comparisons between two centrarchid species led to the suggestion that greater attack speed is associated with reduced strike accuracy (Higham et al., 2005). Reduced accuracy during a fast-swimming strike may be partly overcome if the species has a larger mouth size when the prey is intercepted (Higham et al., 2007). We examine this relationship by looking at the relationship between attack speed and both maximum gape during the strike and anatomical mouth width; we also expand our comparison beyond mouth size to ask whether other kinematic excursions of the head during the strike are generally greater in species that use higher attack swimming speed. There are two major benefits of upper-jaw protrusion to suction feeders. Protrusion can be viewed as contributing to attack speed because it increases the speed of the mouth moving toward the prey (Motta, 1984). Protrusion can also significantly increase the hydrodynamic forces that a suction feeder exerts on its prey (Holzman et al., 2008c). Although these benefits of jaw protrusion are not mutually exclusive, we may see different associations across species if strong suction feeders use less approach speed (Question 1 above). We examine this issue in our sample of serranid species and ask whether jaw protrusion is associated with suction index or with attack speed. How are the kinematics of a strike related to the capacity to generate suction pressure? Few studies have explored how the potential to generate suction relates to kinematics during strike performance. We therefore ask whether the morphology of a species is related to the pattern of jaw and buccal skeleton movement. To address these questions we collected data from 30 species of Serranidae (Craig and Hastings, 2007; Smith and Craig, 2007) (Table 1). Serranids are an excellent group with which to address the above questions for several reasons. First, serranids are an ecologically diverse family, including piscivores, planktivores and species that feed primarily on benthic invertebrates (Randall, 1967; Wainwright and Richard, 1995), and there is moderate variation among lineages in body and head shape. Second, it has been noted that different serranid species use different strategies to capture prey, including ambush tactics and active pursuit (Randall, 1967; Wainwright and Richard, 1995; Wainwright and Bellwood, 2002). Because their diversity is focused along the 'ram–suction continuum', this group is well suited for explorations of the relationship between jaw mechanics and feeding kinematics, and the 30 species used in this study span the variation in strategies to capture prey, diet, and use of ram and suction used during a strike. Wild-caught fish from the Indo-Pacific region were obtained commercially from the aquarium industry and Caribbean species were collected in the Florida Keys. Specimens were brought to the laboratory at the University of California, Davis, and maintained at 22°C in 40 or 110 liter aquaria depending on the size of the fish. We filmed feeding sequences from a total of 72 specimens from 30 species, including 10 species from each of three subfamilies of Serranidae (Craig and Hastings, 2007; Smith and Craig, 2007), the Epinephelinae, Serraninae and Anthiinae (Table 1). Although these three subfamilies are currently recognized as belonging to Serranidae, recent phylogenetic work indicates that they do not make up a monophyletic Serranidae, although the groups are closely allied (Craig and Hastings, 2007). We filmed feeding events using a NAC Memrecam ci digital system (Tokyo, Japan) high-speed video camera at 500 frames s−1 or a Fastec HiSpec 1 system (San Diego, CA, USA) at 1000 frames s−1. Two 120 W halogen lights were placed outside of the aquaria to allow for proper lighting during filming. Fish were starved for at least 24 h prior to filming and fed live zebrafish (Danio rerio) or mosquitofish (Gambusia sp.) during recording sessions; larvae were used for smaller species, and adults used for larger species. For each individual we analyzed several successful strikes (approximately three to 10), which were characterized by the fish appearing to be oriented perpendicular to the camera and in focus (Fig. 1). All fish were filmed in their housing tanks, and after each feeding trial a ruler was filmed to scale the images. Values for mean (±s.d.) attack speed, strike distance and suction index for each species used in the study We then tracked 11 landmarks (see supplementary material Fig. S1) through each feeding sequence using a custom modified version of the DLTdv3 package for MATLAB (Hedrick, 2008; Holzman et al., 2012a). In short, point 1 represents the anterior tip of the upper jaw, point 2 represents the anterior tip of the lower jaw, point 3 is a dorsal and point 4 a ventral body point behind the operculum, point 5 is the estimated center of mass of the prey, point 6 is an earthbound reference, point 7 is an anterior point along the lower jaw, point 8 a posterior point along the lower jaw, point 9 is a ventral point on the head anterior to the operculum and above the hyoid, point 10 is a dorsal point on the head anterior to the operculum and point 11 is the ventral-most appearance of hyoid complex. We used these 11 landmarks to derive several kinematic variables during a strike (supplementary material Fig. S1, Table S1). We measured times with reference to the time of 20% of peak gape and defined peak gape at 95% of peak gape because of the asymptotic relationship that gape usually displays at onset and maximum expansion. Gape was the distance between the anterior tip of the premaxilla (point 1) and anterior tip of the lower jaw (point 2). Jaw protrusion was the displacement of the center of a line between points 1 and 2 in relation to the head (point 9), a measure of how much the mouth extends. Hyoid depression was the displacement of the hyoid bone (point 11) in relation to the head (point 9). Lower jaw rotation was the angle of the lower jaw (points 7 and 8) relative to the skull (points 9 and 10). Cranial rotation was the angle between the head (points 9 and 10) and the body (points 3 and 4) as the head rotates during the strike. Finally, strike distance was the distance from the center of a line between points 1 and 2 (position of the mouth) to the prey (point 5) at the time when the mouth was at 20% peak gape. We also obtained the timing for all of these variables, except strike distance; instead, we obtained time to prey capture, which is the time it takes for the prey item to cross the line from points 1 and 2 starting at 20% peak gape. Therefore, for each cranial excursion, we obtained the maximum excursion and the time to reach the maximum value. Based on the timings we obtained the mean speeds of the excursions; for maximum gape and jaw protrusion, speeds were expressed as millimeters per second, whereas for maximum lower jaw and cranial rotation, speeds were expressed as degrees per second. Finally, we obtained attack speed during the strike in millimeters per second (20–95% peak gape). A total of 636 videos were digitized from 72 individual fish. For each individual we calculated means for all kinematic variables from the sequences corresponding to the shortest three times to peak gape sequences, this was thus a measure of mean maximum performance. This resulted in a truncated data set based on 216 feeding sequences, on which all further analyses were performed. All traits were log10-transformed and corrected for body size by calculating residuals from regressions with log10 standard length, if the trait was significantly related to size. All traits were significantly related to size, except attack speed, cranial rotation and lower jaw rotation. Representative kinematic sequences of (A) Epinephelus ongus, a species that exhibits longer strike distances, high attack speed and low suction index, and (B) Serranocirrhitus latus, a species on the other end of the ram–suction continuum with short strike distances, low attack speed and high suction index. Images not to scale. After filming, each fish was euthanized with a lethal dose of MS-222, preserved in formalin, and at a later date cleared and stained for bone and cartilage (Taylor and Van Dyke, 1985). Using cleared and stained specimens, we measured two mechanical systems in the feeding apparatus, the lower jaw opening lever (Wainwright and Richard, 1995) and the suction index (Carroll et al., 2004) (supplementary material Table S2). For the former we measured the in lever of the lower jaw opening system from the middle of the articular-quadrate joint to the insertion site of the interoperculo-mandibular ligament on the mandible. The out-lever of the lower jaw opening was measured from the center of the jaw joint to the most anterior tooth row. The mechanical advantage of the lower jaw opening system was measured as the ratio of the in-lever to the out-lever. Suction index was calculated following previous studies (Carroll, 2004; Collar and Wainwright, 2006; Holzman et al., 2011; Holzman et al., 2012b) using the following formula: (1) where Lin is the length of the in-lever for the epaxial muscles, Lout is the out-lever for the force owing to the buccal pressure drop, AE is the cross-sectional area of the epaxial muscles, Lbuccal is the buccal length, dmouth is the mouth diameter and Lbuccal×dmouth gives the projected area of the buccal cavity (Carroll et al., 2004). Specifically, Lin is the moment arm of the epaxial muscle and was measured from the joint between the post-temporal and supracleithrum to the centroid of the epaxial muscle cross-section; Lout is the distance from the post-temporal/supracleithrum joint to the area of moment of the projected buccal area, and was measured as half the length of the buccal cavity plus the distance from the posterior edge of the buccal cavity to the post-temporal/supracleithrum joint. Mouth diameter was measured as the width of the mouth on cleared and stained specimens. Finally, AE was calculated based on the area of an ellipse from the height and width of the epaxial muscle. Suction index, which was developed with species of Centrarchidae, and pressure measurements in seven species were used to confirm that the model is a strong predictor of suction capacity in this group (Carroll et al., 2004). Centrarchids show striking similarities in morphology and prey capture behavior to serranids, suggesting that the extension of the inferences gained from suction index to serranids is reasonable. It has been well established that closely related species often do not represent independent data points and that phylogenetic relationships should be taken into account when comparisons are made among species (Felsenstein, 1985; Garland et al., 1992). Therefore, when analyzing our data it would be best to incorporate phylogenetic relationships to determine how kinematic traits evolve, and whether the relationships are influenced by shared ancestry. However, many of the species included in our study are not included in available phylogenetic studies, particularly species of Pseudanthias and Serranus (Baldwin and Johnson, 1993; Craig et al., 2001; McCartney et al., 2003; Craig and Hastings, 2007; Smith and Craig, 2007). We therefore chose not to incorporate any phylogenetic information, and only designate subfamily membership in scatterplots of the data. We do this because we feel incorporating poorly supported relationships would not provide more information than ignoring the relationships completely. We grouped fish into one of three subfamilies, Epinephelinae, Serraniae and Anthiinae; we chose to include the genus Liopropoma in Epinephelinae (Craig and Hastings, 2007). We used a weighted Pearson's correlation coefficient, using the number of individuals per species as weights (Table 1) and the cov.wt function in R, with a two-tailed P set at 0.05 to determine: (1) whether there is a trade-off between attack speed and suction index; (2) whether there is a trade-off between mechanical advantage and lower jaw opening speed; (3) whether species that use increased attack speeds have greater excursions in cranial kinematics; (4) whether the use of jaw protrusion is associated with speed of the strike or the amount of suction a fish is capable of producing; and (5) the relationship between kinematic principal components 1–3 (PC 1–PC 3, see below) and suction index. We determined multivariate axes of between-species diversity by performing a principal component analysis (PCA) on species values of cranial kinematic parameters, and examined the relationship between suction index and each of the major kinematic PCs. The PCA, on the correlation matrix of traits, included maximum excursions during the strike (strike distance, gape, hyoid depression, jaw protrusion, cranial rotation and lower jaw rotation), time to peak gape and timings of the remaining traits relative to time to peak gape (relative time to prey capture, peak hyoid, peak jaw protrusion, peak cranial rotation and peak lower jaw rotation; note that these relative traits were based on raw traits and not log10-transformed traits); speeds were not included in this PCA because they are composite variables of timings and maximum excursions. We then used the broken-stick model to determine which PC axes to retain (Jackson, 1993). This method compares the eigenvalues of each component against eigenvalues that are obtained from dividing the total variance randomly amongst the various components following a broken-stick distribution. If the observed eigenvalues exceed the eigenvalues generated from the broken-stick distribution, then they are considered interpretable. This method revealed that the first three PCs should be retained because their eigenvalues were higher than the corresponding random broken stick components. We then correlated suction index with these three PCs to determine major axes of kinematic variation associated with the potential to generate suction. All statistical analyses were conducted using the statistical software R (v2.13). Values are presented as means ± s.e.m. Our fish ranged in size from 30 mm (Plectranthias inermis) to 137 mm (Diplectrum formosum), a 4.5-fold variation in size averaging 62.25±4.56 mm (see supplementary material Table S2). Attack speed ranged from 128.33 mm s−1 in Odontanthias borbonius to 1277.88 mm s−1 in P. inermis, both belonging to Anthiinae (Table 1), approximately a 10-fold difference with a mean of 508.61±70.80 mm s−1 across all fishes. Attack speed was not significantly related to body size. Strike distance ranged from 2.73 mm in O. borbonius to 17.95 in Epinephelus ongus, more than a sixfold variation, with a mean of 8.29±0.75 mm. Because strike distance was significantly positively related to size, we used the residuals from a least-squares regression in final analyses. Suction index was not significantly related to size and ranged from 0.022 in Serranus annularis to 0.57 in O. borbonius, with a mean of 0.122±0.022. We found a significant negative relationship between suction index and both attack speed (r=−0.446, P=0.013) and residual strike distance (r=−0.436, P=0.016), and a strong positive correlation between attack speed and residual strike distance (r=0.887, P<0.0001; Fig. 2). This suggests a potential trade-off in predation strategies: species that strike from farther distances use faster attack speeds and have a low potential for suction, whereas those that strike from close distances use slower attack speeds, but have a high potential for suction (Fig. 2). We did not find a relationship between attack speed and residual mouth opening speed (r=0.08, P=0.66). We found no relationship between jaw-opening mechanical advantage and speed of jaw depression during mouth opening (Fig. 3). Species that had a high mechanical advantage for the lower jaw opening lever did not have decreased speeds when speeds are taken as the residuals from log10 standard length (r=0.27, P=0.29; Fig. 3A) or log10 lower jaw length (r=0.22, P=0.41; Fig. 3B). Furthermore, although there is a significant relationship between maximum rotation of the lower jaw and lower jaw rotation speed (r=0.54, P=0.002), including this relationship does not alter the results. When residual lower jaw rotation speed is taken from a multiple regression with log10 standard length and log10 maximum lower jaw rotation, it is not significantly related to mechanical advantage (r=0.26, P=0.17). Additionally, when residual lower jaw rotation speed is obtained from a regression with maximum lower jaw rotation only, there is no significant relationship with mechanical advantage (r=−0.12, P=0.52). Lastly, we did not find a relationship between attack speed and speed of the lower jaw depression when residual lower jaw rotation speed was taken from regressions with standard length (r=0.12, P=0.54), length of the lower jaw (r=0.26, P=0.16), maximum lower jaw rotation (r=−0.23, P=0.22) or standard length and maximum lower jaw rotation (r=−0.31, P=0.09). Relationship between (A) suction index and log10 attack speed, (B) suction index and residual log10 strike distance and (C) residual log10 strike distance and log10 attack speed. Species that strike from a farther distance have increased attack speed and low suction index. Conversely, species that strike from close distances and use slower speeds exhibit a wide range of suction indices. Points are colored by subfamily: Epinephelinae in black, Serraninae in red and Anthiinae in green. We also found that species that use higher attack speeds have greater excursions of all cranial kinematics (question 3; Fig. 4). Species that use high attack velocities have larger gapes (r=0.572, P=0.001; Fig. 4A), greater depression of the hyoid (r=0.585, P=0.0007; Fig. 4B) and more rotation of the cranium (r=0.771, P<0.0001; Fig. 4C) and lower jaw (r=0.702, P<0.0001; Fig. 4D) during a strike. Furthermore, species that use faster attack speeds also have increased jaw protrusions (r=0.426, P=0.019). Therefore, in relation to question 4, jaw protrusion is associated with the speed of attack in this group of fish (Fig. 5A). However, there was no relationship between attack speed and jaw protrusion speed (r=0.23, P=0.21; Fig. 5B), and no relationship between suction index and maximum jaw protrusion (r=0.07, P=0.73; Fig. 5C) or jaw protrusion speed (r=0.16, P=0.41). Finally, although we found a significant positive correlation between attack speed and maximum gape during a strike, there was no significant relationship between attack speed and residual log10 mouth diameter measured horizontally on cleared and stained specimens, and used in suction index calculations (r=0.12, P=0.52; Fig. 6A). The mechanical advantage of the lower jaw opening lever does not show a trade-off with residual lower jaw opening speed, when residuals are obtained from a regression with either (A) log10 standard length (r=0.201, P=0.286) or (B) when lower jaw rotation speed residuals are obtained from a regression with log10 lower jaw length (r=0.155, P=0.414). Points are colored by subfamily: Epinephelinae in black, Serraninae in red and Anthiinae in green. Finally, we found that the morphological potential to generate suction was significantly related to two of the three PCs retained by the broken stick model (Table 2). Suction index was significantly positively correlated with PC 1, where high values of PC 1 are characterized by species with short strike distances, smaller gapes, less hyoid depression, less rotation of the cranium and lower jaw, a longer relative time to peak cranial rotation and slower time to peak gape. Therefore, species that have a greater potential for suction, have less movement of cranial kinematics and take longer to reach peak gape and head angles. Suction index was not related to PC 2, which is characterized primarily by relative time to prey capture and relative timing of peak lower jaw rotation. Finally, suction index was significantly positively correlated with PC 3. Low values on PC 3 are characterized by species that tend to have high suction indices and relatively large gapes, and reach peak hyoid depression after peak gape. This axis is mainly characterized by the species O. borbonius, the species with the highest suction index, which also has a relatively large gape (Anthiinae data point in upper left corner of Fig. 4A). Species that use higher attack speed exhibit greater excursions of cranial kinematics – (A) residual log10 maximum gape, (B) residual log10 maximum hyoid depression, (C) log10 cranial rotation and (D) log10 lower jaw rotation – potentially to compensate for a decrease in accuracy. Points are colored by subfamily: Epinephelinae in black, Serraninae in red and Anthiinae in green. Note that with Odontanthias borbonius removed, the correlation coefficient for attack speed/gape increases to r=0.65. Among the serranid species in the present study, the use of jaw protrusion was associated with attack speed, as evidenced by a positive correlation between log10 attack speed and residual log10 maximum jaw protrusion (A; r=0.426, P=0.0019). However, jaw protrusion speed was not related to attack speed (B; r=0.23, P=0.21), and maximum jaw protrusion was not related to suction index (C; r=0.07, P=0.73). Points are colored by subfamily: Epinephelinae in black, Serraninae in red and Anthiinae in green. The trade-off between suction index and attack speed is not due to high-speed attackers having larger mouths (A; r=0.123, P=0.517), or species with high suction index having smaller mouths (B; r=−0.207, P=0.272). However, there is a significant relationship between suction index and residual log10 epaxial height (C; r=0.824, P<0.0001), suggesting the trade-off between suction index and attack speed is due to the elongate body form of high-speed attackers limiting hypertrofication of the epaxial muscle. Points are colored by subfamily: Epinephelinae in black, Serraninae in red and Anthiinae in green. Using a large detailed data set on an ecologically diverse group of fishes, we found that evolution has produced considerable diversity in strike kinematics and suction-feeding capacity. Our results lend support to the notion that trade-offs may be less of a constraint than once thought in the diversification of complex functional systems, such as suction feeding (Holzman et al., 2011). Below, we explore the results from each of the five expected principles in more detail. Principal component analysis on maximum excursions, time to peak gape and timings relative to peak gape Suction index and attack speed The continuum that spans strikes in which suction is relied upon to draw prey into the mouth and strikes in which prey are overtaken by a fast-swimming predator has been a major starting point in discussions of the diversity of fish prey-capture strategies (Norton and Brainerd, 1993; Gibb, 1997; Wainwright et al., 2001; Porter and Motta, 2004; Gibb and Ferry-Graham, 2005; Higham et al., 2005; Flammang et al., 2009; Kane and Higham, 2011). Liem (Liem, 1980) initially identified three general strategies, 'ram' feeders that use high attack speed, suction feeders and manipulators. Many other investigators have noted an apparent negative association between features that enhance suction feeding and features associated with a fast-swimming attack (Lauder and Liem, 1981; Van Leeuwen, 1984), while others suggest that fast-swimming attackers may also use considerable suction (Muller and Osse, 1984; Van Damme and Aerts, 1997). It is therefore not clear whether there should be a trade-off between suction and pursuit. Among the serranids, the relationship between the capacity to generate suction and the speed used during attack was more complex than a simple trade-off. Although the morphological capacity to generate suction pressure was negatively associated with attack speed, confirming the classic relationship, our large sample of species allowed us to see that the relationship only occurred in one of the three subfamilies, Anthiinae, and was considerably more complex than predicted (Fig. 2). Specifically, the diversity of suction index is strongly related to attack speed. No species that strike at high swimming speeds have a high suction index (Fig. 2): all of the species with the highest attack speeds have very low potential to generate suction pressure. This contrasts markedly with extensive diversity in suction index among species that used slow attack speeds (Fig. 2). The absence of fast-attacking species with strong suction capacity was also noted in a small sample of seven cichlid species (Wainwright et al., 2001). The absence of species with the morphological potential to generate strong suction pressure suggests that previous predictions that suction generation in high-speed attackers would be similar to slower attackers (Van Damme and Aerts, 1997) will need to be reconsidered. The complete absence of species capable of strong suction among the high-speed attackers is one of the strongest patterns in our data set and suggests a basic incompatibility between design for strong suction and a fast-swimming attack. This relationship suggests that species with a high capacity for suction do not attack at high speeds, whereas those with low morphological potential for suction attack at a range of speeds. One possible cause of this pattern is that the low range of suction indices among high-speed attackers reflects a functional constraint. Perhaps the poor accuracy thought to occur in high-speed attacks is incompatible with the small mouth that should characterize species with a high suction index? However, among our sample of serranids there is not a significant relationship between attack speed and residual log10 mouth diameter measured on cleared and stained specimens (r=0.123, P=0.517; Fig. 6A), or between suction index and mouth diameter (r=−0.207, P=0.272; Fig. 6B). Nevertheless, species that struck at higher speeds exhibited larger gapes (as obtained from videos) (Fig. 4A), suggesting that the amount of suction generated may be modulated with attack speed (Nemeth, 1997; Ferry-Graham et al., 2001; Van Wassenbergh et al., 2006; Tran et al., 2010; Van Wassenbergh and De Rechter, 2011; Arena et al., 2012). A second possibility is that the elongate body form of high-speed attackers may preclude the hypertrofication of epaxial muscle attaching to the back of the neurocranium, as seen in species with high suction indices, which seems to be the case in our sample of serranids. There is a significant positive correlation between suction index and residual log10 epaxial height (r=0.824, P<0.0001; Fig. 6C), and a significant negative correlation between attack speed and residual log10 epaxial height (r=−0.427, P=0.019). Whatever the cause of the pattern, the implication is that the continuum between the use of attack swimming and suction to capture prey is not a simple trade-off. Species that attack relatively slowly show the full range of morphological potential for suction, whereas high-speed attacks are limited to species with poor suction capacity. Trade-offs in lever systems One of the most commonly referenced principals of teleost skull functional morphology is that the mechanical advantage of levers reflects a trade-off between force and velocity transmission. This expectation is based on the assumption that the input velocity to a lever is held constant because under these conditions the basic trade-off in lever systems occurs. However, recent work has pointed out that the effect of lever mechanics on muscular input velocity is often considerable and the expected trade-off may not exist under many reasonable conditions (Arnold et al., 2011; McHenry and Summers, 2011; McHenry, 2011). Lever configuration influences the resistance experienced by the input muscle, which may result in different contractile speeds with the muscle experiencing the same level of neural excitation. Serranids showed no suggestion of a relationship between lower jaw opening lever mechanical advantage and the speed of rotation of the lower jaw during mouth opening (Fig. 3). This is a particularly interesting result because previous studies of fish skull levers have repeatedly found a correlation between mechanical advantage and ecological traits, such as preferred prey (Wainwright and Bellwood, 2002; Wainwright et al., 2004; Case et al., 2008; Cooper and Westneat, 2009), that are consistent with traditional interpretations of lever trade-offs. For example, species of Labridae that bite and remove attached molluscs from rocky walls have a relatively high jaw closing mechanical advantage whereas piscivorous and zooplantkivorous species have a lower mechanical advantage in the same lever (Wainwright et al., 2004; Bellwood et al., 2006). Nevertheless, to our knowledge these are the first comparative data from fish feeding mechanisms that test for the expected relationship between lever mechanics and speed of movement across the joint. As the assumption of a constant input velocity in this system across species is clearly violated, we suggest that the muscles and other linkage systems that transmit force and velocity through this lever may be diverse and the effect of loading on shortening speed is difficult to predict. Mandible depression in serranids and other teleosts also shows complexity proximal to the attachment of the interopercular-mandibular ligament on the retroarticular process of the mandible. This system is not characterized by a muscle that inserts directly upon the retrorarticular process. Instead, the largest input contribution is thought to derive from hypaxial muscle and sternohyoideus contractions that retract the hyoid bar (Carroll and Wainwright, 2006). The hyoid bar is connected by a ligament to the interopercular bone that transmits tension to the interopercular-mandibular ligament and thus to the mandible. In addition, the protractor hyoideus muscle inserts on the mandibular anteriorly, crosses the jaw joint and originates on the hyoid bar. Under very restricted, species-specific conditions, this muscle, though small in cross-sectional area, has a line of action that allows it to depress the mandible. Also, the opercular four-bar linkage transmits a small fraction of the force and motion input by the levator opercula muscle to the interopercular-mandibular ligament and contributes some to depression. We suggest that neither of these last two mechanisms makes a major contribution to lower jaw depression during the powerful expansion of the mouth and buccal cavity during suction feeding in serranids because both mechanisms are mechanically weak relative to the ventral coupling to the hypaxial muscles. Further, it is unclear whether the opercular four-bar transmits movement in the way that it was originally described (Westneat, 1994). Even if some of these potential contributors to lower-jaw depression have little effect, it is clear that complexity in the systems that provide input to the lower jaw lever offer numerous opportunities for lineage-specific modifications that could contribute to diversity in lower jaw depression speed during prey capture. Whatever the ultimate explanation, the key point from our result is that the mechanical advantage of the jaw-depression lever in serranids cannot be used as a morphological indicator of the speed of jaw opening. Attack speed and cranial kinematics A potential consequence of relying on increased speeds during an attack is a decrease in accuracy of the strike (Higham et al., 2006; Higham, 2007; Higham et al., 2007). Among centrarchid fishes, largemouth bass exhibit decreased accuracy and use higher attack speeds during the strike than bluegill, which have increased accuracy and use slower attack speeds (Higham et al., 2006). Although it is risky to make generalizations from a two-species comparison, the results suggest that species that use higher attack speeds may exhibit a decrease in accuracy. However, fast-attacking fish may compensate by ingesting a larger volume of water to ensure prey capture. During a suction-feeding event, there is coordinated movement of the musculoskeletal system to rapidly expand the buccal cavity (Lauder, 1980; Wainwright et al., 2007). Species that use high attack speeds may exhibit an increase in any one or a combination of cranial kinematic traits to increase the amount of water drawn into the buccal cavity (Porter and Motta, 2004; Wintzer and Motta, 2005; Tran et al., 2010; Kane and Higham, 2011). For example, cichlid species that use higher attack speeds also exhibit increased gapes (Higham et al., 2006). However, few studies have looked at other cranial excursions, such as cranial and lower jaw rotation and hyoid depression, in relation to attack speeds used during a strike. We found that serranid species using faster attack speeds exhibited significantly larger values of peak gapes, similar to previous studies. We also found that fast-attacking species also exhibited greater rotation of the cranium and lower jaw and greater depression of the hyoid (Fig. 4), supporting the hypothesis that fish relying on faster speeds ingest more water to either compensate for a decrease in accuracy or gain some other advantage of high-volume suction feeding (Carroll and Wainwright, 2011). Interestingly, there was no relationship between attack speed and the anatomically measured mouth diameter of the same specimens (Fig. 6A), suggesting that the tendency for fast-attacking species to expand their mouth to a greater degree is involved in the pattern. Similar kinematic results have been found at the intraspecific level in fish. Tran et al. (Tran et al., 2010) found that magnitudes of gape, cranial elevation, lower jaw rotation and hyoid displacement all increased with increasing attack speed within individuals of Indo-Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides), and also found a significant positive correlation between attack speed and strike distance. Therefore, a predator may modulate its strike depending on when the strike is initiated and the speed of the attack. The positive relationship between attack speed and cranial kinematics and the lack of a relationship with anatomical mouth diameter may therefore be due to behavioral differences of the predators. This potential behavioral variation may also partly explain why some species with a low suction capacity use slower speeds during a strike (Fig. 2). Jaw protrusion as an alternative to attack speed Upper jaw protrusion results from anterior sliding of the premaxilla, and both enhances the suction forces and helps close the distance to the prey item (Motta, 1984; Hulsey and García de León, 2005; Ferry-Graham et al., 2008; Holzman et al., 2008c; Hulsey et al., 2010). Although some authors have noted considerable jaw protrusion in fish that attack at high speed (Lauder and Liem, 1981), and others have noted that jaw protrusion works synergistically with swimming to move the mouth quickly toward the prey (Holzman et al., 2012a), jaw protrusion has also been viewed as an alternative to fast-attack swimming to minimize the predator–prey distance (Norton and Brainerd, 1993). One therefore might expect a negative relationship between attack speed and maximum jaw protrusion or jaw protrusion speed. Similarly, we might expect a positive relationship between suction index and maximum jaw protrusion, if jaw protrusion varies in relation to predation strategy. We found no support for these hypotheses. Instead, we found a weak but significant positive relationship between attack speed and the amount of jaw protrusion (Fig. 5A), indicating that attack speed and jaw protrusion are used synergistically in some species to quickly approach the prey. However, we found no relationship between attack speed and jaw protrusion speed (Fig. 5B), or between suction index and maximum jaw protrusion (Fig. 5C), indicating that different combinations of jaw protrusion and suction capacity are used across serranid species. Jaw protrusion was not restricted to species that have a high morphological potential to generate suction pressure, and varied approximately sevenfold among serranid species (1.1–7.5 mm). Furthermore, jaw protrusion ranged from 3.14 to 10.65% of standard length, similar to the variability found in other fish groups, such as cichlids (Hulsey and García de León, 2005), but less than species that exhibit extreme jaw protrusion [e.g. Luciocephalus pulcher (Lauder and Liem, 1981), Petenia splendida (Waltzek and Wainwright, 2003; Hulsey and García de León, 2005) and Epibulus insidiator (Westneat and Wainwright, 1989)]. Kinematic variation in relation to suction index How are the kinematics of a strike related to the capacity to generate suction pressure? We found three PCs that each accounted for greater variation than would be expected by chance (Table 2). Thus these represent three independent, uncorrelated axes of kinematic variation among species of serranids. Suction index was correlated with two of these three PCs (PC 1 and PC 3; Table 2), indicating that although these PCs are uncorrelated with each other, they are both moderately related to the capacity to generate suction pressure. The first PC indicated a trend for species with short attack distances and smaller kinematic excursions to show a timing pattern where kinematic events are less synchronous than in fast-attacking species with large excursions. The second PC captured a trend for species with delayed time of peak lower jaw depression and prey capture to strike from farther away, and was not related to the capacity to generate suction. The third PC was dominated by a trade-off between peak gape distance and the timing of peak gape expansion. Although studies have examined the effects of scaling on suction index (Holzman et al., 2008a) and diversification of morphological components of suction index (Collar and Wainwright, 2006), no studies have looked at how the morphological potential to generate suction relates to the kinematics of the cranium during a strike. Future studies should continue to incorporate morphological measurements with kinematic data to determine how the traits are related and how species that are considered to be strong suction feeders perform during a suction-feeding event. The considerable diversity found among 30 species of serranids reveals complexity in the ram–suction continuum. Although species that use fast attack speeds had very low morphological capacity to generate suction pressure, species that attack at slower speeds exhibited the full range of suction index values. This raises the possibility that the morphology of fish for high-speed attacks is incompatible with specialization for strong suction feeding, whereas the morphology for low-speed attacks is permissive. Swift-attacking species also exhibited greater excursions of cranial movements, potentially to compensate for the decrease in accuracy during faster strikes by increasing the volume of water that is drawn through the buccal cavity during the strike (Fig. 4, Table 2). Furthermore, we found a positive relationship between attack speed and maximum jaw protrusion (Fig. 5A), suggesting that high-speed attackers may have increased jaw protrusion to help minimize the predator–prey distance. However, we found no relationship between suction index and the amount of jaw protrusion (Fig. 5B), further suggesting that protrusion is a versatile feature of the feeding mechanism across species that vary in their capacity to generate suction. Finally, we found no evidence of the often-assumed trade-off between the mechanical advantage of the lower jaw opening lever and the speed of jaw depression (Fig. 3). The results from this study show that large comparative data sets can be used to reveal previously unknown patterns in the distribution of fish species in functional morphospace. We thank Will Seah at Pan Ocean in Hayward, CA, for help in obtaining Indo-Pacific serranid species, and the staff at Dynasty Marine in Marathon, FL, for help with Caribbean species. Thanks to Mercy Bechtold, Nicholas Buckmaster, Tram Dao, Samuel Fahrner, Patrick Fuller, Angela Jeffreys, Yoshi Kameyama, Ka Leung, Isabelle Lui, Matt McGee, Dan Naylor, Emily Mimi Nguyen, Vishal Patel, Catherine Pham, Samantha Price, Allison Ruder, Lars Schmitz, Brianna Slatnick, Monica Stupaczuk and Katherine Szelong, who assisted in filming sessions. ↵† Present address: Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, P.O. Box 469, Eilat 88103, Israel Supplementary material available online at http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/215/21/3845/DC1 This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant IOS-0924489 to P.C.W. Arena, A., Ferry, L. A. and Gibb, A. C. (2012). Prey capture behavior of native vs. nonnative fishes: a case study from the Colorado River drainage basin (USA). J. Exp. Zool. A 317, 103-116. Arnold, A. S., Richards, C. T., Ros, I. G. and Biewener, A. A. (2011). 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User security in the office of the future The days of the permanent office cubicle are almost over: users are exploding outwards into the world and taking their data with them. But how do you secure user access in a distributed world, one in which foreign governments are said to be hacking their way into individuals' machines? Andrew Collins looks for answers. Published: 19 Aug 2009 5:00 Imagine you walked into work one day and management had declared that no one had a permanent desk anymore. Instead, employees had to play a frantic game of musical cubicles, each leaping up and racing to a more convenient space whenever the music stopped. It sounds bizarre. How could employees get any work done without the trappings and comforts of their own familiar cubicles? How could this chaos be co-ordinated? And, most importantly, how could such a scenario ever be secured? As mad as it may seem, one of Australia's largest investment banks has created a scenario exactly like this - sans the music. When the bank moves into its new Sydney building, only a few of its executives will get permanent offices. Everyone else will shuffle around the building with their laptops in hand, working where they are required. The network will be primarily wireless, based on 802.11n. This roaming wireless scenario, which supports 2000 users and features 400 wireless access points, is made possible with technology from Aruba Networks. The deployment produced some interesting challenges, some of which were operational: for example, Aruba needed to deploy intelligent load balancing technology in order to allow the sheer number of wireless users to move around the building at will, without losing wireless connectivity. Roaming liabilities But more pressing is the concern of security; broadcasting your company's data on a wireless connection brings up all sorts of privacy and security issues. But the technology required to secure the radical facility is not unusual; Mark Verbloot, Aruba's ANZ technology manager, says the deployment uses a 'trusted model' of wireless security. "It's consistent with deploying wireless in an enterprise," he says. "Specifically, we use certificates on the machines and 802.1x at the authentication mechanism for the wireless machines." Relying on such a model is fine if you're starting an operation from scratch, and if you're okay with restricting the brand and type of mobile devices that can be used on the corporate network. But few companies are in this situation. More likely, you're happy with your wireless and wired networks (and seating arrangements), but you want to allow greater numbers and types of mobile devices on your network. Adding such devices ad hoc is, in some ways, more complicated than starting fresh. Given the variety of mobile devices with proprietary operating systems and software - BlackBerrys, iPhones, Android phones, and so on - things can get very messy for network security. Matt Miller, systems engineer at Juniper Networks, says organisations must create a "happy mix of security and operational efficiency" - they have to allow these devices on the network to increase productivity, while making sure the network is secured against these devices. "If the iPhone's Safari web browser was to be attacked, taken over, or have a Trojan installed on it, what are the things inside your network that need to respond to that or protect against that? All these types of things need to be taken into consideration and the appropriate security mechanisms need to be implemented to secure against that," he says. Dealing with these new threats is a matter of compliance - making sure your existing network is able to deal with what Miller terms "the idiosyncrasies of each of these operating systems". Out of the frying pan But work rarely stops at the office walls. Increasing numbers of Australians are working from home, connecting to the corporate network from their own computers. And when they do, they open up the company to a world of risk. Firstly, physical security is a concern. Homes don't have the same security precautions as offices - alarms, locks, gates, security guards, identity passes - so any data or computers left at home are much more susceptible to theft. There's also the risk of unauthorised family members or house guests accessing the computer. Infiltration poses an even bigger threat. Home users often neglect to update their anti-malware software and, if compromised, their machines can let nasties into any network they're connected to - like the corporate network. And according to Harry Archer, head of security at BT Global Services, this lax security on home machines is particularly alarming given the rise of targeted attacks, some of which are perpetrated by world governments. In such attacks, hackers go after specific employees of an organisation - such as senior executives or design engineers - in an attempt to steal the intellectual property sitting on their machines. How to lock down your office There are a number of things you can do to secure your remote and mobile users against such threats. Make sure servers are patched and your antivirus is up to date. BT's Archer says this is commonly overlooked, particularly on home machines. Establish security monitoring to catch attacks that bypass security measures. "Look at firewall logs, intrusion detection logs and server logs, and look for suspicious activity," Archer says. Ensure your systems are compliant with ISO 27001. If you adhere to that, "generally you will fix all the problems as you go along", according to Archer. Don't let employees access corporate systems with their personal machines. "Those organisations that do it are taking an extreme risk," Archer warns. "It shouldn't happen." When home users connect directly to the corporate network, deny - or at least limit - their access to the public internet. According to Archer, carte blanche internet greatly increases risk. Establish policies for the physical security of work machines that are used at home. BT itself, for example, stipulates that no employee should leave a work laptop near a window on the lower levels of their house, lest it be stolen and confidential data leaked out. Encrypt and secure devices used at home. "Put encryption onto the PC, and use a two-factor authentication token, so you secure that against family use," Archer says. Also, "There should be internet security suites on those laptops to make sure that they're protected from the internet." Don't give remote employees pure IP connections into the corporate network. Instead, consider SSL VPN or other secure remote access technologies. Miller warns that pure IP connections, if not secured, can open the corporate network up to attack. Secure every potential weak point on the network. This means employing layers of firewalls, intrusion prevention solutions, and the like. "If you don't have a defence in depth strategy, you really shouldn't be looking at opening up your network to points of connectivity that you can't control," Miller says. "They're not doing it to steal your bankcard," Archer explains. "It's primarily the theft of IPR. It could be the design of a jet engine, or it could be the design of the latest technology." These targeted attacks are themselves nothing new. But recently these attacks have evolved to include flanking manoeuvres. Now, instead of directly attacking a target's machine, hackers will find out the websites their target visits, hack into these and lay traps in the form of web-based malware. So if your CEO belongs to a gym with a poorly secured website, hackers can infiltrate that website and deposit a trojan, which will leap onto your chief executive's laptop when he accesses the website from home. This will ultimately deliver corporate data into the hackers' waiting hands. And while many targets are in government departments, these state-based hackers are broadening their targets to include private-sector organisations that supply infrastructure to the state - defence contractors, financial organisations and mining companies, to name a few. "States have been spying on each other for hundreds of years. What is new is that it's moved into this semi-corporate, semi-government level that sits in between. Someone who's building stuff to protect the state," Archer says. 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Browsing Administración de Empresas by Author "Gonzales, Liz" The present research entitled "Analysis of the factors that limit the development and growth of small business in Lima, Peru" aimed to analyze that the inadequate organizational structure originated by the occupation of direct relatives in the managerial positions of small business and that the low specialization in niche markets are the determining factors that limit the development and economic growth of small business. As for the research methodology, a qualitative design was approached, whose nature of research was based on grounded theory. The research sample was made to 18 small companies, through their officials were able to establish the interviews and carry out the field work. It was concluded that the occupation of the direct relatives in the management positions of the small company generates a weak organizational structure; however, it is not the only determining factor that limits its development and economic growth. Likewise, the low specialization in niche markets is not the only determining factor in the economic growth of small businesses. It is recommended to strengthen the organizational structure of small enterprises, focus on planning and strategic analysis, establish policies and procedures, train managers on management issues, carry out market studies, hire specialized sales personnel, use management indicators.. In this way, we seek to ensure that the companies analyzed have an improvement in the organizational and business aspects.

Vincent Stoessel is a Java Developer that began building websites in the early days of the dot-com era. In 2000 he was hired to develop PHP web applications for the official site of then Vice-President Al Gore's presidential bid. It was also during this time that he made the transition to full time Java server side development and began the journey toward software mastery. Since then, he has successfully lead great development teams to build enterprise software for his employers. Vincent is a passionate about the concept that Information Technology can enable people to reach a higher potential. During his off hours, he finds peace of mind with his family. photography and cycling. He is currently employed by the Huron Consulting Group and lives in South Metro Atlanta.

Este curso faz parte do (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Risk Management: Use of Access Controls to Protect Assets (ISC)² Education & Training Inicia em 28 de jan de Auxílio financeiro disponível (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (ISC)² 9.416 visualizações recentes Course 2: Understanding Risk Management Options and the Use of Access Controls to Protect Assets In this course, we will focus on understanding risk management options and the use of access controls to protect assets. We will start by examining the basic steps that must be in place to develop a security culture within the organization and impacting policies. We will also look into how to write and use them to enforce security requirements. Then we will move on to the actual business of controlling how our systems, services, resources, and data can be accessed safely by authorized persons. We will also cover access control models like MAC, DAC, RBAC, and conclude the chapter with an examination of both LAN and WAN identity management. Course 2 Learning Objectives After completing this course, the participant will be able to:  L2.1 - Provide examples of the types of functional security controls and policies for identified scenarios.  L2.2 - Classify various access control models.  L2.3 - Identify components of identity management lifecycle.  L2.4 - Recognize access control and authentication methods. Course Agenda Module 1: Document, Implement, and Maintain Functional Security Controls (Domain 1 - Security Operations and Administration) Module 2: Access Controls Models (Domain 1 - Security Operations and Administration, Domain 2 - Access Controls) Module 3: Identity Management Lifecycle (Domain 2 - Access Controls) Module 4: Implement and Maintain Authentication Methods (Domain 2 - Access Controls, Domain 6 - Network and Communication Security) Who Should Take This Course: Beginners Experience Required: No prior experience required Programa de cursos integrados Curso 2 de 8 no (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Aprox. 6 horas para completar Habilidades que você terá (ISC)² is an international nonprofit membership association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world. Best known for the acclaimed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) certification, (ISC)2 offers a portfolio of credentials that are part of a holistic, programmatic approach to security. www.isc2.org Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso 1 hora para concluir Module 1: Document, Implement, and Maintain Functional Security Controls In this module we are going to start looking at the pieces that make up a security program. Now that we have examined the process of risk management, we have the information needed to justify the controls and other actions taken to secure and protect the assets of the organization. The core principle of information security must be remembered, which is that security exists solely for the purpose of supporting and enabling the business mission. Our goal as security professionals is not just to be secure but rather to secure the business. Our organizations do not hire us because they are really interested in security; they hire us because management realizes that security is necessary in order for the business to survive. Senior managers and leaders within the organization focus on achieving efficient use of every resource they have available to them, so that they can maximize the organization's effectiveness within the marketplaces it serves. Whether it is a for-profit business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency, the organization (in the words of the motto of the UK's Royal Air Force Police) has to survive to operate. It has to control the losses due to inefficient business processes, bad weather or criminal attacks.  Simply put, information security that minimizes losses and protects high-value assets, processes, goals, and objectives pays for itself, and thus commands support and resources from senior management. Security efforts that do not directly support defending those priorities won't.  The explosive growth in cyber fraud activities during the pandemic of 2020-2021 and the increase in ransomware and other attacks alike demonstrates how the attackers are learning faster than the defenders. Let's turn that around, starting with how we think about turning security needs and requirements into effective control strategies. 2 leituras Reading2 leituras Welcome5min Module 1 Overview2min Quiz3 exercícios práticos Applied Scenario 1 Review: Governance and Policies6min Activity 1: Password Policy12min Knowledge Check: Document, Implement, and Maintain Functional Controls2min Module 2: Access Controls Models It could be argued that access controls are the heart of an information security program. Earlier in this course we have looked at the foundation of security through risk management and policy, and the leadership of information security through management involvement and strategic planning, but in the end, security all comes down to "who can get access to our assets (buildings, data, systems, etc.) and what can they do when they get access?" Access controls are not just about restricting access, but also about allowing access. It is about granting the correct level of access to authorized personnel and processes but denying access to unauthorized functions or individuals. Access Control Fundamental Concepts4min The Data Security Lifecycle4min System Models: Biba and Bell-LaPadula4min Applied Scenario 2: Access Controls12min Knowledge Check: Access Control Model2min 2 horas para concluir Module 3: Identity Management Lifecycle This part of the course examines the process of identity management. Identity management (IM) is often described using the IAAA model (sometimes called the AAA model). This represents the steps of identification, authentication, authorization, and accounting (sometimes incorrectly called audit; we'll see why as we go along). Identity management includes establishing, maintaining, and removing identities on our systems. Access control focuses on the real-time tasks necessary to validate that an attempt to access a resource is being done by a recognized, accepted entity using an identity known to the system, and that the attempt is seeking to use privileges that are appropriate and valid for that entity, that resource, and current circumstances. Prior to the widespread use of web pages that allow site visitors to create an account (an identity) on that host system, most security professionals and organizational managers thought of IM and AAA as happening on two very different time scales, or as driven by two very different types of events:  IM activities were viewed as being driven by large-scale events, such as joining the organization, going through a major change in roles or job responsibilities, and then leaving the organization.   AAA activities then occur on a real-time basis with every connection (sign-on) attempt and every access request to resources made by any one of the accounts and user IDs created for that person.  As the concept of identity management has had to expand to include nonhuman users and entities, this view of IM and AAA time horizons has changed in related ways. A company hires human users and acquires endpoints or server devices. It signs partnership agreements with other organizations to set up federated access control mechanisms so that both can share information assets in controlled, secure ways. Each of these are IM activities that happen once (or a few times) in the lifecycle of that entity's relationship with the organization.  And just as a human user might go through a thousand resource access attempts during a single workday (or even in a short session), so too might a nonhuman entity performing its assigned or allowed tasks. Types of Tokens5min Biometric Data Security Standards3min Knowledge Check: Certificates and Tokens2min Activity 2: Biometric Identification12min Case Study: Biometrics Data Transmission4min Knowledge Check: Identity Management Maintenance6min Knowledge Check: Privileged Access and Associated Risks6min Knowledge Check: Identity Management6min Knowledge Check: Identity Management Lifecycle2min Module 4: Implement and Maintain Authentication Methods The implementation of access management contains its own challenges. Audits in many organizations often reveal that the identity management processes used are flawed, resulting in many users who have access permissions that they have accumulated over the years that are not aligned with their current business needs. This is a problem where privacy regulations require accountability and tracking of access permissions, and it can lead to financial penalties, security breaches, and embarrassment for the organization. The idea of an identity and access management (IAM) system is to automate the process and reduce the administrative overhead, while improving reporting and the ability to monitor the access levels granted to users. Some of the features of IAM systems include an automated process for users to request and be granted access to systems, a streamlined process for new users and for password resets. Decentralized Access Control Management3min Third-Party Connections4min Identity as a Service (IDaaS)2min Knowledge Check: Access Configuration6min Knowledge Check: Authentication Methods4min Module 5: Chapter 2 Review It's not an exaggeration to say that access control is the heart of the information systems security problem. Everything we do as security professionals drives down to this problem set; risk management sets requirements for access control to achieve, and the design, configuration, and operation of the information infrastructures the organization uses must reflect the access control decisions that have been made. Access control technologies may very well represent the most hotly contested "real estate" in the battle between cyber defenders and cyberattackers.  This chapter has provided you with a rich, detailed, and in-depth orientation and introduction to many aspects of the access control need and problem, while it has also shown you ways to solve that problem and address that need. 1 leitura Terms and Definitions5min Quiz1 exercício prático Chapter 2 Quiz: Understanding Risk Management Options and the Use of Access Controls to Protect Assets20min Sobre (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Pursue better IT security job opportunities and prove knowledge with confidence. The SSCP Professional Training Certificate shows employers you have the IT security foundation to defend against cyber attacks – and puts you on a clear path to earning SSCP certification. Learn on your own schedule with 120-day access to content aligned with the latest (ISC)2 SSCP exam domains. We're offering the complete online self-paced program for only $1,000 – a $200 savings when you get all domains bundled together. 3 Steps to Career Advancement 1. Register for the course 2. Gain access for 120 days 3. Register and sit for the SSCP certification exam Upon completing the SSCP Professional Certificate, you will: 1. Complete six courses of preparing you to sit for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification exam as outlined below. Course 1 - Access Controls Course 2 - Security Operations and Administration Course 3 - Risk Identification, Monitoring, and Analysis/Incident Response and Recovery Course 4 - Cryptography Course 5 - Network and Communication Security Course 6 - Systems and Application Security 2. Receive a certificate of program completion. 3. Understand how to implement, monitor and administer an organization's IT infrastructure in accordance with security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability. O que recebo ao me inscrever para este certificado? Quando você se inscreve em um curso, ganha acesso a todos os cursos no certificado e obtém um certificado quando completar o trabalho. Seu certificado eletrônico pode ser adicionado à sua página de Participações, de onde você pode imprimi-lo ou adicioná-lo ao seu perfil no LinkedIn. Se quiser apenas ler e assistir o conteúdo do curso, pode participar como ouvinte sem custo.

Various Speakers. 1 hours 51 minutes. Audio. Topics: Anima/Animus, Gender and Sexuality. Florence Wiedemann, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Dallas, Texas, past president of the analytical Psychology Association of Dallas, vice-president and training analyst in the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Dallas. Dr. Wiedemann is the co-author (with Polly Young-Eisendrath) of Female Authority: Empowering Women Through Psychotherapy, and author of several articles on related topics. Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College. She is a psychologist and Jungian analyst practicing in the mountains of central Vermont, where she lives and writes. She has published thirteen books, many chapters and articles that have been translated into fourteen languages. Her book, Perfectly Limited: Human Love, Life, and Fate, is published by Harmony Books (Random House) and is the basis for this program.

Q: CMS inside a grails app i'm trying to build a very simple CMS functionality within a grails app. Basically what I'm trying here is having a gsp in a string and I would like to build the gsp from this string. It works, but the resulting page is not decorated with the main layout. Furthermore in some other tries I noticed that model passed to the make method is ignored. I'm using grails 2.0.1. Thanks class HomeController { def groovyPagesTemplateEngine def cms() { def page = """<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <meta name="layout" content="main"/> <title>CMS page using your application's main layout</title> </head> <body> CMS page using your application's "main" layout. </body> </html>""" StringWriter sw = new StringWriter() PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw) groovyPagesTemplateEngine.createTemplate(page, "somepage.gsp").make([nome: "ciao"]).writeTo(pw) render sw } A: That doesn't work because you're essentially just calling render with a string. The layout gets applied when the sitemesh filter gets called. In order to get this to work, you would have to get the sitemesh decorators applied to your string. When we were building a similar feature, all we did was to send the relevant page fragments: i.e, Mytemplate.gsp <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <meta name="layout" content="${layout}"/> ${head} </head> <body> ${body} </body> </html> and then you can just call: render( template: 'MyTemplate', model:[ layout: 'layout', head: '...', body: '...' ] ) This has the same effect of what you're trying to do but with the addition of sitemesh ( and potentially plugins integrating correctly ).

U of T, United Nations explore how to improve the lives of people in cities like Toronto U of T master's student Kevin Vuong hopes to inspire a more sustainable and inclusive Toronto at an upcoming UN-backed event (photo by Romi Levine) Inclusive Cities Summit hosted by U of T takes place on Aug. 29 and 30 During a recent conversation with a visitor from Spain, University of Toronto student Kevin Vuong was reminded of what makes Toronto such a great place to live. "He said, 'We don't know how lucky we are to have a city like Toronto that's so inclusive and welcoming,'" says Vuong, who's in the Faculty of Law's Global Professional Master of Laws program. "Yes, there's lots of room for improvement but there are some things we do very well. That outside perspective really helped to remind me of that." It's a message Vuong wants to drive home at the Inclusive Cities Summit, a two-day event backed by United Nations-Habitat that takes place on Aug. 29 and 30 at U of T's University College. Read more about Kevin Vuong Vuong and economist Olivia Labonté, who is a member of the UN-Habitat youth advisory board, are co-organizers of the event, which brings together municipal and community leaders as well as city-building experts from U of T to talk about how to make cities like Toronto healthier and more sustainable. Participants include Emily Paradis, a senior research associate at U of T's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Steven Farber, assistant professor in the department of human geography at U of T Scarborough, TTC Chair Josh Colle and the City of Toronto's new Chief Resilience Officer Elliott Cappell. The summit will give a Toronto-specific context to the New Urban Agenda, a set of urban development commitments made by world leaders in 2016 that address issues such as discrimination, disaster preparedness, climate change and accessibility. "if you want to make a difference on the grassroots level, you can't just take something that's abstract like the New Urban Agenda – you need to drill it down, test it out and have a wide variety of different perspectives," Labonté says. Farber hopes the conversation continues beyond the summit to seriously address the city's most pressing issues, particularly around affordability. "Rather than having barriers to participate, our cities need to produce opportunities for participation," says Farber, who will be talking about how public transportation can help achieve this goal. Vuong says U of T's experts can help to move these ideas forward. "We have faculty members coming in and lending their expertise to us so we can really craft tangible and feasible action items to build a city of the future," he says. It was important to Vuong and Labonté to ensure that the next generation of urban thinkers had a voice in these discussions – so they made sure the summit's moderators were all young people. "Having young adults such as myself as active players in this event gives value to our voices and inspires us to enable change and contribute to the creation of a healthy, prosperous city," says Zahraa Saab, one of the event moderators, who will be starting her master's at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in the fall. Romi Levine From the Series City & Culture CitiesSustainabilityGlobalInternationalUniversity College How a researcher at U of T's Citizen Lab helped ID Capitol Hill rioters: Toronto Star Social media's decision to dump Trump too little, too late: U of T's Megan Boler Researchers at U of T, Northwestern use AI to accelerate discovery of industrial materials Get faculty and staff news delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe to the Bulletin Brief More U of T News Embedded video for 'Resilient and inspiring': U of T faculty members celebrate students in video message 'Resilient and inspiring': U of T faculty members celebrate students in video message U of T student encourages others to get involved in politics U of T, other Ontario universities create fellowship to increase diversity in engineering and technology

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It seems humans really are the cooperative ape. A nomadic society in east Africa that lacks a centralised government can still regularly muster armies of several hundred warriors, most of whom have never met before. We are the only species prepared to cooperate in large numbers with unrelated individuals. The feeling was that such behaviour was a recent development, requiring a centralised political authority. Now it seems possible that such cooperation could have predated these organisational structures and may have featured in numerous large prehistoric societies hundreds of thousands of years ago. Sarah Mathew and Robert Boyd of the University of California in Los Angeles interviewed 118 Turkana men. An ethnic group from east Africa, the Turkana live in small households that regularly move around to find fresh pasture for their animals. If a small group of Turkana men want to seize livestock from other ethnic groups they can rally a raiding party of several hundred men through word of mouth. The interviews revealed that these raids are risky – on a given raid each man has a 1.1 per cent chance of being killed – and some men are reluctant to participate. On 43 per cent of raids, at least one man deserted before combat, and in 45 per cent of battles someone behaved in a cowardly fashion. Such "cheats" are informally judged by the community, and may be tied to a tree and beaten. Mathew and Boyd speculate that this punishment helps drive cooperation in the absence of centralised government. Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico agrees that punishment may have spurred the development of large-scale cooperation. He says this cooperation may have set modern humans on the path to success.

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Within the podiatry field, Alex has a special interest in footwear, biomechanical assessment & children's podiatry. She is passionate about getting people back onto their feet, especially seeing kids run, jump and play pain free again. Alex enjoys playing sport and keeping active; she has been playing hockey since she was five years old, representing the region throughout her hockey career. Aside from keeping active on the hockey field, Alex has two young boys to keep her on her toes at home. Alex has recently returned from maternity leave and is working part time between the Edmonton and Redlynch clinics. Senior Podiatrist Chris Murray Chris joined the FNQ Podiatry & Orthotics team in January 2018, having previously worked as a podiatrist in the Cairns region for the past 10 years in private practice. Born in Brisbane but raised in Melbourne, he moved to Cairns in 2007, chasing the sun and outdoor lifestyle. Chris has a keen interest in sports injury rehabilitation and biomechanics, having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement at Deakin University in Melbourne and followed this up with a Bachelor of Podiatry at La Trobe University. He graduated in 2005 and worked for just over a year in private practice in Melbourne before moving to Cairns. Chris enjoys and is experienced in all aspects of podiatry, but specifically some of his passions include gait analysis, nail surgery, dry needling and shockwave therapy. In a broader sense, Chris gets immense satisfaction in providing the best level of care to his patients, and seeing the improvements in quality of life and functionality that can be achieved. In his spare time, Chris can generally be found outdoors – bushwalking, camping, fishing and hiking, more often with his son Jacob along for the fun and adventures. Chris has only recently rediscovered the joys of running and aims to train up for his second half marathon later in the year. Being a Redlynch local, you may come across him pounding the pavements chasing his dream with a determined look on his face! Callum Blunden Callum joined the FNQ Podiatry & Orthotics team in August 2019, having previously worked as a podiatrist in Victoria for the past 9 years in private practice. Callum Graduated from the University of Northampton (England) with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Podiatry in 2010. Callum relocated to Melbourne in 2010 before moving to the warmer climate of Cairns. Callum enjoys all aspects of Podiatry, with a keen interest in lower limb Biomechanics. Callum's Podiatry passions include gait analysis, dry needling and shockwave therapy. Callum is passionate about getting people back on their feet and partaking in the activities they love In his spare time, Callum has a busy home life with 4 children and numerous pets. Callum enjoys boxing and training at a local boxing gym in Redlynch. Daniel Neill Daniel has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry from Queensland University of Technology and has moved from Brisbane to Cairns to begin his career in achieving the best outcomes for his patients. Daniel was lured to Podiatry by the many aspects it offers such as biomechanical/ sports injuries, diabetic assessments and general care. He currently has a keen interest in sports injuries and strives to improve patient's health and well-being. Daniel ensures that he takes the time to understand the patient in order to develop a patient centred treatment plan to get them on their feet and back doing what they love. Away from work Daniel enjoys all sports, with a keen interest in cricket. He has also recently taken up running and may be found at the local Park Run. Apart from sport Dan loves the outdoor lifestyle and enjoys his fishing and camping. Anisa Kajee Anisa has recently moved to the Cairns area from Mount Isa and before that, from South Africa to join the FNQ Podiatry and Orthotics team. Anisa graduated from the University of Johannesburg with Honours and has been working overseas in her own private practice before moving to Australia in 2017. She is currently enjoying all that Podiatry has to offer and is passionate about helping people become pain free and getting them back to doing what they love. Anisa considers herself to be an all-rounder Podiatrist however does have a special interest in the sport and biomechanical side of the profession. Outside of work, Anisa has a standing date with Rusty's Market and you can find her there with her fiancé. She is definitely looking forward to experiencing everything the Tropics has to offer, maybe she'll even take up hiking! Watch this space! Podiatrist & Director Kyle Richardson Kyle Richardson is the Managing Director of FNQ Podiatry & Orthotics. A born and bred local to the Cairns area, Kyle moved to Brisbane in 2007 to study Podiatry at the Queensland University of Technology, where he graduated with 1st class honours. Upon completing his degree, Kyle was clinical supervisor at the University, helping students achieve their full potential as well as working in private practice. Kyle has played hockey at a National level and has been a treating Podiatrist for players in the QLD Blades/Scorchers hockey teams, the Kookaburras (Australian Mens Hockey Team) and the QLD Bulls cricket team. Since returning to Cairns, he is now the team Podiatrist for the Cairns Taipans and the Northern Pride. Whilst Kyle has a special interest in sports and biomechanical podiatry, he is passionate about keeping people of all ages on their feet and contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Outside of work, Kyle loves nothing more than getting away camping and fishing with his wife and two young boys. 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David Walliams Replaced by Bruno Tonioli on 'Britain's Got Talent' Choreographer and dancer Bruno Tonioli, best known for his stints as a judge on "Dancing With the Stars" and "Strictly Come Dancing," has replaced David Walliams on "Britain's Got Talent," according to a new video circulating on Twitter. In the video, which appears to have been filmed by an audience member at the first round of auditions, "BGT" hosts Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (better known by their collective stage name Ant and Dec) are introducing this year's judging panel, which is made up of returning judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Tonioli. "Thank you very, very much," Tonioli, clad in a sparkly red jacket, tells the applauding audience. "I am thrilled to be here. Look at these girls [Holden and Dixon], they're stunning and it's my old friend Simon. What an honor it is to work with you finally. He's teased me with this for years, years and years and years. I tell you honestly I'm thrilled to be here and very, very nervous." Dixon then invited Tonioli to push the "BGT" button, which Tonioli did to big cheers. Walliams, who has been a judge on the talent show since 2012, found his position on the panel under threat in November after transcripts were published in The Guardian newspaper detailing inappropriate comments he made about contestants on the show during auditions. At the time, ITV refused to comment on the controversy and there was no suggestion Walliams would be axed from the judging panel, although Thames, the Fremantle-backed production company that produce the show, told Variety: "Those involved have been spoken to and reminded of their responsibilities and the show's expectations as to future professional conduct." Representatives for ITV did not get back to Variety by press time. Weird Al Yankovic shouts out new bioreactor on Nantucket named after him USA February 9, 2023 EFM: China-U.S. Animation 'Shimmy: The First Monkey King' Picked Up by Odin's Eye (EXCLUSIVE) – Latest trending news China calls US 'spy balloon' claims 'data warfare' – Latest trending news

The Conservatives have won another seat on Woking Borough Council and narrowly missed out on picking up a second following yesterday's local council by-elections in Goldsworth Park. Chitra Rana won the usually safe Liberal Democrat seat of Goldsworth West by a margin of 18 votes, while Sonia Elbaraka came very close in Goldsworth East but fell 32 votes short of securing victory. Both seats were declared vacant earlier in the summer when the sitting Liberal Democrat councillors resigned and moved abroad after a period of questionable attendance at important meetings. The results are a mixed bag for both parties. The Conservatives had hoped to win the third Goldsworth East seat given that this is a ward which already has two Tory councillors and has seen a significant change in voting behaviour over the last five years. Credit is due to the newly elected councillor James Sanderson who fought a tough and effective campaign. The Liberal Democrats will be pleased that they have stalled the Conservative advance in this seat and have continued a trend which has seen their vote hold up relatively well in council by-elections since the General Election. At the same time, they will be bitterly disappointed to have lost Goldsworth West which has long been one of their safest seats on the council. While they will be celebrating the fact that they held on to Goldsworth East, the reality is that the Liberal Democrats are a further seat down in Woking and have failed to arrest the terminal decline in their vote and support in the borough. I would like to congratulate both of the newly elected councillors and hope that they will be effective champions for their communities. All eyes will be on the combined Goldsworth Park ward, which will be one of the most marginal seats in the borough once the changes to local government boundaries come into effect next year. The guest speaker at this year's Woking Conservatives annual dinner will be the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond MP. The event will be held at Chobham Golf Club in Knaphill on Friday 13th November and will include a reception drink and three course dinner followed by coffee with mints. Mr Hammond will make a keynote speech and be available to chat and mingle with guests. Tickets are £50 per person and can be booked through Sue Elson at the Woking Constituency Conservative Association on 01483 773 384 or by emailing [email protected]. More information about the dinner can be found on the Woking Conservatives' website here. It was a long evening at the HG Wells Centre. The Conservatives increased their majority for the fourth year running, and now have 24 seats on the council. The Liberal Democrats lost further ground, failing to hold traditionally safe seats like Old Woking and Hermitage & Knaphill South and coming within 50 votes of seeing their leader deposed in Kingfield & Westfield. Labour gained a second councillor in Maybury & Sheerwater, while attempts by independent candidates to win seats failed to replicate John Bond's success in Byfleet last year. UKIP's share of the vote held up well, but under their current leadership they are incapable of articulating a positive vision for the borough. I was particularly pleased to see my friend Melanie Whitehand re-elected in Knaphill with the largest majority in Woking. Somewhat dishearteningly, Melanie's majority is greater than the entire number of votes cast to re-elect me in Mount Hermon East last year, and she secured more votes in a single council ward than I gained in the entire parliamentary constituency of Glasgow East when I stood as a candidate in 2005. Melanie has provided a fantastic service to her residents and has addressed some challenging issues over the last eight years. Completely selfless in her work, she is the epitome of what public service should be about. I was also happy to see Hilary Addison elected to another term as councillor for Goldsworth East. Like Melanie, Hilary has turned a former Liberal Democrat seat into one with a large Conservative vote thanks to her staunch advocacy of residents' interests. In Byfleet, our excellent candidate Harry Briggs will now represent residents in the east of the borough. Although independent candidate Amanda Boote came a good second, pushing the Liberal Democrats into third place, voters were no doubt aware of the poor performance of the area's other independent councillor, who failed to turn up to a large number of important meetings last year. An independent candidate standing on a platform of opposition to the Sheerwater redevelopment also failed to muster significant support, suggesting that opposition to the project might not be as widespread as is often believed. It was going to be a tall order for the Conservatives to win in Kingfield & Westfield this time round given the high profile of the incumbent councillor, but credit goes to Natalie Bourne who represented the Conservatives extremely well in the ward. She will undoubtedly have better success next time. Colin Scott also failed to win election in Maybury & Sheerwater despite expending considerable energy campaigning in every seat in the borough as well as constituencies as far flung as Southampton and Rochester & Strood. Finally, congratulations to our new councillors, John Lawrence and Paul Smith, who will represent the traditionally Liberal Democrat seats of Old Woking and Hermitage & Knaphill South. Both men are hugely respected in their communities and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the council. I'm sure they will both be effective champions for their areas. You can read more about the local election results in the Woking Advertiser here and the Woking News & Mail here. The South Woking branch of Woking Conservatives will host our annual lunch party on Saturday 11th October at Strathmore, on Onslow Crescent. Our guest speaker this year will be Sir Richard Ottaway MP, Member of Parliament for Croydon South and Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Sir Richard will speak about the role of the Foreign Affairs Committee and on current events in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. With foreign policy currently high on the agenda, this will surely be a fascinating talk. Tickets for the event are £18 which includes drinks and a three course lunch. If you would like to attend please contact Cllr David Bittleston on 07800 844877. Thank you to everyone who turned out at the local elections in Mount Hermon East on Thursday and helped re-elect me as your councillor for a second term. I am grateful for the support that people gave me during the election and for all the kind messages I received both before and after polling day. I will do my best to continue to make sure that your views are well represented and to help resolve any problems whenever they occur. Overall the Conservatives increased their position on the council, with my colleague Rizwan Shah winning the traditionally Liberal Democrat seat of Goldsworth East, Debbie Harlow taking the third Knaphill seat, and Colin Kemp beating the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Horsell West. They are joined by the extremely talented Ayesha Azad, who takes over from Simon Bellord in Mayford & Sutton Green. While it was a great night for the Conservatives in Woking, who again bucked the national trend to increase our vote share and representation on the council, it was sad to see Dorothy Farrant lose out by a small margin in Byfleet. Dorothy was an assiduous local champion and I have no doubt she will return to the council when the Byfleet seat comes up for election again next year. It was disappointing to lose in Maybury & Sheerwater, although elections in that community are always unpredictable. My friend Colin Scott also spent a lot of time and effort working in Mount Hermon West and would have been a fantastic councillor, but unfortunately it wasn't enough to get him elected this time around. Both the Woking Advertiser and the Woking News & Mail have written extensively about the elections and you can get a detailed summary of the results here and here. It was a pleasure to welcome Marta Andreasen MEP to the winter lunch party hosted by the South Woking branch of Woking Conservatives this afternoon. Marta is one of the Conservative Party's Members of the European Parliament and is ranked fourth on our list for South East England in next year's European elections. She has made a name for herself as an anti-corruption campaigner, famously being sacked from the European Commission for refusing to sign off its accounts, and regularly appears in the press highlighting examples of EU waste. Many people will know that Marta defected from UKIP to the Conservatives this year after a public falling out with Nigel Farage. She has since expressed concerns about the way UKIP is run and the views of some of its candidates. However, I was pleased that during her talk she avoided personal attacks, and concentrated on her own work in the European Parliament, noting that the Conservatives are the only party pledged to hold an in or out referendum on our membership of the European Union. I found Marta honest and engaging. She made an effort to speak with everyone and took lots of time to answer questions. I look forward to campaigning for her and hope that the people of Woking will return her to the European Parliament as she is undoubtedly a principled advocate of our national interests in Brussels.

The last time I googled (searched online) something, guess what; I only got websites for results. People use the internet like they used to use the phone book. I used to tell small business owners that it didn't matter if they had a website if most of their business was local. But now almost everyone uses theiInternet to get information – even local information. Potential customers are using their Smartphones and tablets to decide where to go and what to buy. So your small business has to come up in local search or beware; people who are searching will find other local businesses rather than yours. A business website gives your business legitimacy. People expect businesses to have their own websites, just as they used to expect businesses to have a real physical business address. Not having a business website raises questions in customers eyes. Are you a technological luddite? Just still haven't gotten around to it? Or such a shoestring startup that you can't even afford to do this? All things you don't want people thinking about your business! A business website gives you another marketing channel. A business website gives you another opportunity for data collection/lead generation. For instance, getting people to write their email addresses on pieces of paper and handing them in at a physical storefront is hard. But getting people to type their email address into a box on a website is much, much easier – especially if they perceive that they're getting something for it, such as a newsletter, a special report or an ebook. And once you have the email address, you have another way to reach your potential customer. Ecommerce spending is increasing every year. In the U.S., ecommerce spending was $341.7 billion in 2015 and Forrester Research Inc. predicts that online shoppers will spend $385 billion in 2017. Retail ecommerce sales are forecast to grow at a fast pace in the coming years, going from 396.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to just over 684 billion US dollars in 2020. In the Caribbean, ecommerce spending figures are harder to pin down but believe me everybody is doing it ;-).

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