traveled to Philadelphia this past weekend to receive his National Soccer Coaches Association of America Player of the Year award. Timmer transferred to Western Michigan this winter after playing at Iowa Western Community College, where he led the Reivers to a national championship and was named the top player at the junior college level this past fall.
Timmer joins Western Michigan with two years of eligibility after playing his first two seasons at Iowa Western. As a sophomore this past fall, Timmer led the Reivers to an undefeated 24-0-1 record, and the school's first ever national championship. He started all 20 games in the midfield and had one goal and eight assists.
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Frankland traveled with Timmer and his family to Philadelphia for the awards banquet. Timmer won a US Youth National Championship in 2011 with the Grand Rapids Crew Juniors when Frankland was a member of the Crew coaching staff.
"Greg is a player I have known for many years, so I followed his career at Iowa Western closely," Frankland said. "I was extremely proud and pleased for him when he won the NSCAA Junior College National Player of the Year award to add to his national championship.


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JW.org Press Releases & JW's in the News
Ashya King cancer-free
By Jothob
March 3, 2018 in JW.org Press Releases & JW's in the News
Jothob
Josie (Known as)
http://news.sky.com/story/ashya-king-may-be-cancer-free-after-pioneering-proton-therapy-11274109
update on the young JW family
Loje, boodles, Ferb and 10 others
I'm so glad for this young boy and his parents.
The way the media covered their ordeal was an absolute shame. The doctors were enraged that someone dared challenging their opinion and presented them as stupid and dangerous fanatics. Of course, when the media heard the words "sick child" and "Jehovah's witnesses" together in the same sentence they couldn't help jumping on the carrion. It's their nature.
I remember my workmates asking me why, and I just replied that it didn't have anything to do with them being JWs, that they were some concerned parents that wanted to try a different treatment than the one their doctors fostered. Put that way, it's hard to understand all the ado. Now time has proved them right.
Bob, Jothob, Dove and 8 others
Miss Bea
Western United States
They should be grateful. It's a breakthrough!
Jothob and Dove
Funny, now there is no mention of them being witnesses...
Bob, Loje, Stoffer and 5 others
I know, they only mention Jehovah's Witnesses when it's negative!
Im so pleased to see this lovely little boy may be cancer-free....such a welcome relief for his parents that fought so hard. :-)
Whitley M and Loje
1 hour ago, hatcheckgirl said:
Well, when the situation was clarified there was an uproar because it was clear that the media had shown prejudice against them for being JWs. Being JWs had nothing to do with the facts and it was completely unnecessary to mention it. I don't remember exactly who, but the PM or some very important authority told the media off because of this, and they immediately stopped including that detail in their articles. I guess that's why they are not mentioning it now either.
Jothob, Sheep, Loje and 1 other
2 hours ago, carlos said:
The way the media covered their ordeal was an absolute shame. The doctors were enraged that someone dared challenging their opinion and presented them as stupid and dangerous fanatics.
Yeah, "doctor" has become synonymous with "God" nowadays. That's scary.
Loje and Jothob
That is good news Josie ! I am so thrilled for the whole family, I remember the oldest children how they would take care of the youngest (as shown on TV and read on newspaper) while their parents were in prison, how mature they showed they were. I am so happy for all of them.
Jothob and Loje
retroHelen
Whitehaven, Cumbria
If you live in the UK and you are not a wealthy person or one with special insurance with your job, then you are at the mercy of the NHS - National Health Service. They set the standard of care. It's not good, but if you question it, you could be struck off from your Doctor or told that treatment will not be available to you or treated badly. If you are a parent, your child could be made a ward of court. There was a case recently in our Daily Mail of a parent who chose to take her daughter to continental Europe as there is little proper testing and treatment for special thyroid illnesses in the UK. She was arrested at our Border Control/Customs and her child made a ward of court and poor treatment forced on her when she and her mother returned to UK after returning from some initially good testing and treatment abroad - as there can also be in USA for her specific thyroid problem.
I chose not to go down the route of instantly being on medication and statins and eventually insulin because of my type 2 diabetes. I chose to diet - low carbohydrate. I was told off by the Doctor and diabetic nurse. I was told I was endangering my health as I was full blown diabetic, not even pre-diabetic and should be on the meds. I stuck by it though but obeyed the Doc and hospital in other ways. So far my blood tests and other tests and scans have been very good - in fact the diabetic clinician said they were surprisingly fantastic. It transpired that she is a type 2 diabetic, so she was asking me what I did as she hadn't come across anyone doing what I was doing and has looked it up for herself. Since then the country's Diabetic Association (Diabetic UK) has developed a low carbohydrate program 105 000 have joined and over 20 000 have lowered their medications or avoided them with positive benefits
It's about making an informed choice about your treatment. Checking the Advice on the internet thoroughly as there's a lot of fake quackery out there. I learned,as this family did, that there is choice in cancer treatment. Surgery may be necessary. Certain chemotherapy may be needed, but preventative Chemotherapy or radiation treatment that is aggressive was not as necessary in their case. In fact for many cancers it has more negative impact on a person as it is so toxic and can compromise the immune system setting up for further sickness.
Dr Kelly Turner wrote a book about a study she did of over 1000 patients that Doctors claimed had been terminally ill with various cancers and then went into what they termed "spontaneous remission". She interviewed them all and found out that it was not that simple. They had decided to stop 'conventional treatment' because for them the detrimental side effects were outweighing any good. Thus, the medical profession just lost touch with them and didn't monitor their outcomes except when they returned to tell them they were much better and it was not followed up, so reported as if nothing happened and they just happened to get well spontaneously!
These once very poorly people had worked hard to read up and act on on good common sense protocols to support healing themselves after initial surgery and some remedial follow up therapy. Many had followed the same protocol as Christopher Wark - a stage 4 terminal bowel cancer patient. He calls his personal treatment Square One, which he has documented on Youtube if people want to inform themselves of it. Another ex- cancer patient was Dr Veronique Desalniers who also tells of how she overcame her breast cancer in a similar way. It takes commitment to a diet that is quite strict for a year or 2, but is based on science and integrative medicine - preventative lifestyle and diet along with medicine.
Doctors will only give people what they have been taught and some feel that is all there is to know and don't recommend alternatives and don't credit patients with the intelligence to make their own informed choices. There is choice with cancer treatment and much new knowledge of how cancer starts and progresses in the body and how, given the right tools the body can prevent the cancer getting aggressive and be supported through whatever treatment the patient chooses to go ahead with.
This is true of many other chronic auto-immune diseases as well. Life-long standard drug therapy is not the only choice. There are other things to try if you believe that the body is designed to heal or at least cope better given the right building blocks and environment. You just need the right tools to get along with until the 'big cure' comes for us all.
Your Brother, DLM, Myew and 9 others
Adam!
It was nice to see the family on British morning television this morning.
Stoffer and Jothob
Málaga (Spain)
We had a congregation beach party last year and Aysha was there with the family, as they have been part of the local congregation here in Málaga for many years. It was great to see the progress after so many health problems and to be able to have a laugh with the family and see how they haven't lost their faith in Jehovah.
Patinage, Fiona, Bob and 8 others
BibleSteve
United Kingdom midlands
Great post retroHelen I am following Chris Wark chrisbeatcancer.com advice very closely at the moment and feeling really good on the complete diet change. Its so interesting how the pharmaceutical companies have led the way in convincing the world that theirs is the only way yet all it leads to in the majority of cases is more pain and suffering and an early death and a major swelling of their bank accounts at a cost of peoples lives.
But guess I shouldn't be surprised as we know who ultimately is behind it all.
Found this documentary shocking
On 5/31/2018 at 9:59 PM, BibleSteve said:
Its so interesting how the pharmaceutical companies have led the way in convincing the world that theirs is the only way yet all it leads to in the majority of cases is more pain and suffering and an early death and a major swelling of their bank accounts at a cost of peoples lives.
With all due respect I absolutely disagree with this comment. It's true that some cancer patients die despite their treatments, but it's not true nor fair to say that current treatments (surgery to remove the tumor, followed by chemo or radiotherapy) leads in the majority of cases to more pain and suffering and an early death. That is absolutely false and very dangerous to say too.
Unfortunately a lot of people I know have suffered some kind of cancer, including my mother and many relatives, brothers and sisters, workmates, neighbors, etc. In most cases they underwent a conventional treatment in a hospital and they recovered. Of course, nobody likes surgery, and radio and chemo are hard, although they have improved enormously over the last couple decades. The vast majority of those persons were healed after the treatment.
On the other hand, I haven't seen anyone healed of a cancer by taking baking soda, as in that video. I've known a handful of people who resorted to alternative therapies such as magnetotherapy and naturopathy and they all died of their cancer. I know someone who preferred not to have any treatment and died too. I'm not saying that alternative therapies don't have any value, they may have worked for some people. But when you look at the raw numbers it seems that conventional medicine, the one supported by pharmaceutical companies and by science, is astronomically by far the most effective we have.
The idea that there's an easy way to cure cancer but pharmaceutical companies keep it hidden is absurd. First, because those companies are made up of people, many of whom suffer from cancer or have relatives who die of cancer. Are they so greedy that they prefer to die or see their family dying rather than using that wonderful cure? If such a cure exists, why do powerful people who are rich and in the know, such as famous doctors, presidents or prime ministers die of cancer? Besides, pharmaceutical companies invest huge amounts of money in cancer research and they are all in competition. If one of them had a cure for cancer, it wouldn't make sense to keep investing on other treatments or keep it hidden, they would hurry to commercialize it before a competing company does! The first company to patent and sell the simple cure for cancer will quickly become the richest company on earth.
Please, don't try to convince people that doctors are evil or that medical science is evil.
CCCG, cricket246, Musky and 5 others
I agree with you that some treatments work for some but don't for others. But just a friendly reminded for everyone on this board. The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one, so Satan does have some control over the pharmaceutical companies (greed, deceit, etc.) I'm not saying all medical science is evil, some is quite helpful! I'm thankful for the medical help I'm getting! But how many times is a new therapy introduced and seems to work great, only to discover years down the road it causes other major side effects/symptoms? Sometimes the companies know, sometimes they don't.
And who knows, in the new system we may learn the food & water was poisoning us, then the meds were to cover over the symptoms and not fix the problems so they make more money. If you were a greedy company which would make more sense? Cure people once for a certain sum till noone is sick anymore and your company goes out of business, or just help with the symptoms to keep raking in the money? I think it depends on the company and the dr. Some are honest hearted and some are just out for the money. I am not against cancer treatment or any other treatment or for it, it's a personal choice and we have to weigh the pros and cons. Either way, one thing we can all agree on the only real answer we will have to cure mankind's problems permanently is God's Kingdom.
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jwhess
NW Ohio
13 hours ago, cricket246 said:
But how many times is a new therapy introduced and seems to work great, only to discover years down the road it causes other major side effects/symptoms?
I used to explain to my college students that "today's problems were yesterday's solution..." DDT killed mosquitoes and their bite-born plagues. Mercury was a potent antibiotic, Freon-type refrigerants preserved insulin, etc, etc.
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Stamford man faces up to a year in prison for groping incident
By John Nickerson
Published 4:18 pm EST, Thursday, December 5, 2019
The Stamford Superior courthouse on Hoyt St. in Stamford, Conn. on Monday, July 23, 2018.
Photo: Michael Cummo / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD — A city man is facing up to a year in prison after being convicted by a Stamford jury this week of a misdemeanor sexual assault charge. Daniel Morales, 46, of Sherman Street, previously declined to plead guilty to a lesser charge that would have resulted in no prison time
Stamford Criminal Defense Attorney Dominic Angotta said that he and his client were not pleased by the jury's verdict in the he said, she said case.
"We are obviously very disappointed with the outcome. After digesting it, we will focus on the fast-approaching sentencing and then potential grounds for appeal," Angotta said.
The prosecutor on the case, Assistant State's Attorney Michael Nemec said justice has been done.
"These are difficult cases and we're very happy the jury gave justice to the victim," Nemec said.
Monday was a busy day for the jury, which listened to the testimony of the victim, Morales and Stamford Police Sgts. Sean Boeger and Sean McGowan, who investigated the groping case.
The victim told the jury that she had been out drinking with Morales on Oct. 21, 2016 at the Riviera Maya nightclub. As Morales was driving her home, the victim testified that she fell asleep, waking up to Morales' hand down her pants and on her private parts.
The woman said she had previously told Morales that the two were just friends and she didn't want to pursue a sexual relationship with him. She reported the incident to police the next morning.
On Tuesday, the jury along with presiding Judge John Blawie heard closing arguments. The jury began deliberating at about noon and returned with the guilty verdict just after 3 p.m.
Before going to trial, Morales turned down a plea bargain to reduce the charge to breach of peace with no prison time, but decided to take the case to trial.
Angotta said Morales has always maintained that his actions were consensual and he told the jury the same thing.
After the verdict, Blawie raised Morales' court-appearance bond by $25,000 and he is currently being held at the at the Bridgeport Correctional Center. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18.
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This is a warm delicious salad – Zucchini, Barley, Chorizo Salad, you can make on the BBQ while you are waiting…..
I just can't seem to use up all of the ingredients I have in my pantry before there is one of those pantry raids. All of a sudden I look up and there are moths flying around the fluorescent light and I know I have got marauders in the cupboard again. You can look at it in a number of ways, they are annoying and if you dont watch out they flutter off to your wardrobe and nibble on your tea shirts. On the other hand it probably means that the food in my cupboards hasn't been blitzed with so many chemicals that there is still something good in the food for bugs to eat!
I have a lot of the dry goods in my cupboard from Italy and they are organic and non heat treated (pastas, grains and polentas). I cooked a whole packet of barley and have been using it in all kinds of dishes. However, you can use any Barley at all. This salad is nutty and mixes very nicely with barbecued vegetables and meats.
Make up the base of this salad and take it to the bbq. Finish off the grilling and toss together for a delicious warm salad. it is not always easy to write a recipe for a salad. So add or subtract some of the flavourings to taste. You may like more or less lemon or maybe you prefer green olives?
Mix the dressing ingredients together in a bowl: preserved lemon, smoked paprika, olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic, sugar and salt. Using a whisk or a fork, whisk the dressing together well till emulsified then mix in the barley and set aside. Add the olives cut tomatoes and chives. don't stir in just leave till later.
Toss the zucchini and sliced chorizo in a little olive oil and sear on the BBQ. Add these to the salad bowl and toss gently.
Love the idea of a barley salad! And argh aren't pantry moths the most annoying blight ever!
I hate pantry moths and I swear I get them more often than most. I've started putting dry stuff in the freezer for a few days and that helps but one time forgetting and I'm back to cleaning out the pantry.
I saw the title of this post in my email and wondered how you were putting barley on the bbq. I know you're clever. Mine would fall through the cracks.
I just had a similar raid in my pantry and filled a huge bucket with the throw away grains. The chooks have been well fed this week! I think part of the problem came from buying grains from loose bin stores. But then I recently bought a packet of Sunrice brown rice ( Australian) with a use buy date somewhere in the distant future, opened the packet and there they were, little grubs. I have covered my pantry with bay leaves, and rubbed the shelves with diluted lavender oil, hoping this helps.
mmm…grilled chorizo, barley, and roasted veggies…an absolutely delicious combination, Tania.
A lovely warm salad which autumn certainly would not stop me making 🙂 ! So easy to grill the same indoors!!
If I see pantry moths at our place in the near future, I shall cry. We had a horrible time over summer and I couldn't bear another infestation! This looks like a great use for your barley before the moths get to it, and lovely vegetable toppings too.
I'm glad it's not just me! I saw a moth over the weekend and my heart sank – the warmer weather must be bringing them out. What a beautiful salad and perfect for this weekend.
You've gotten me so excited for grilling season!! The crispy zucchini is calling to me!
This looks like a great salad, Tania. Love the ingredients and especially the dressing. You sure know how to close out BBQ season! And you're right. I wouldn't might starting our BBQ season with your salad.
Those pantry moths are the worst aren't they? Although thankfully now that the weather is becoming colder they tend to hatch less. This looks great. I love using barley in recipes!
That looks DIVINE. I hate pantry moths and have spent a fortune on tupperware in recent years to try and combat. So far so good. I bought some bulk spelt flour from a local shop's flour bin the other day and was very impressed to see a bay leaf fall out when I was using it. No pantry moths there!


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Do you like soccer? If yes but you prefer not to run on the field then the Google Play store may have something for you. Indeed it does and this is FIFA 14.
FIFA 14 is the latest soccer game for Android devices developed by EA Sports. Just like with most games for PC developed by this gaming studio, FIFA 14 is another masterpiece. It offers you real players, real leagues and real teams that number in the hundreds with players alone being as many as 16 000. FIFA 14 even gives you the tools to build your own teams.
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'Moulin Rouge!' will open on Broadway this summer
Caitlin Huston
Danny Burstein as Harold Zidler in the Boston engagement of 'Mouling Rouge!' (Photo: Matthew Murphy)
"Moulin Rouge!" is coming to Broadway next season with the cast from its Boston tryout.
The musical, produced by Carmen Pavlovic, chief executive of Global Creatures and lead producer of "King Kong," will play the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Previews begin June 28, 2019, with an opening night set for July 25.
Alex Timbers, who is also the director of the upcoming Broadway musical "Beetlejuice," directs "Moulin Rouge!," which features a book by John Logan, a Tony Award-winner for "Red," choreography by Sonya Tayeh and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Justin Levin.
The cast is led by Karen Olivo as Satine, Aaron Tveit as Christian and Danny Burstein as Harold Zidler. Sahr Ngaujah plays Toulouse-Lautrec, Tam Mutu plays the Duke of Monroth, Ricky Rojas plays Santiago and Robyn Hurder plays Nini.
"We are thrilled to be bringing Moulin Rouge! The Musical to Broadway," Pavlovic said in the press release. "We are especially delighted that the show is going to the Hirschfeld – the perfect theater for this production with its lavish architecture and rich history of landmark Broadway shows."
As of April 2018, the producers of "Moulin Rouge!" were seeking a capitalization of up $28 million for the musical, according to forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The musical will take over the Hirschfield Theatre after "Kinky Boots" completes its six-year run there in April 2019.
Based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox movie, "Moulin Rouge!" had its world premiere at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre this past summer. It features some of the hit songs from the movie, with the addition of more recent popular music.
The ensemble and swings include Jacqueline Arnold, Olutayo Bosede, Kyle Brown, Sam Cahn, Max Clayton, Yurel Echezarreta, Jennifer Florentino, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Bahiyah Hibah, Ericka Hunter, Holly James, Reed Luplau, Jeigh Madjus, Morgan Marcell, Brandt Martinez, Jodi McFadden, Kevyn Morrow, Fred Odgaard, Dylan Paul, Khori Michelle Petinaud and Benjamin Rivera.
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Home News Breaking News Yeshiva Student Killed in Mitzpe Yericho Tragedy
Yeshiva Student Killed in Mitzpe Yericho Tragedy
Oded Hamdi, a 19-year-old yeshiva student, was killed in a trailer fire shortly after midnight on Friday in Mitzpe Yericho, near Yerushalayim.
His levaya will be held at 1PM in Netanya today.
Arutz Sheva initially reported Hamdi, who suffered burns all over his body, was anesthetized, put on a ventilator and evacuated to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem where he later succumbed to his burns.
Two other young men who were in the trailer were treated for light burns and smoke inhalation. Neither of their names have been released to the media.
Police are investigating the circumstances of the fire, noting they are examining the possibility the fire was started by heater than may have tipped over in the trailer. A Magen David Adom paramedic said an electric heater apparently fell on a sofa, igniting it.
Moshe Eyal, a spokesman for Mitzpe Jericho, told Arutz Sheva that Hamdi saw the fire and alerted his friends who escaped from the windows, "Once they realized he did not get out with them, they called friends and entered the burning caravan and brought him out, but he was already unconscious and was taken to the hospital, where he died."
Yeshiva and community leaders are currently seeking to assist the families of the students at Hadassah Hospital.
Before addressing students at the yeshiva, the Rosh Yeshivah of Mitzpe Yericho, Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, told Arutz Sheva, "Its hard to speak about it during these hours. We have encountered tragedy."
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BDE December 2, 2011 at 10:55 am
Mi sheamar liolamo dai yomar litzaroseinu dai
annoynymous December 3, 2011 at 12:33 pm
May Hashem give you inner strength at this difficult time,
Too, too many tragedies.
Condolences to the family. May he, Oded Hamdi, z'l, return to us together with all heilige yiddishe neshamas b'mheirah v'yameinu.


Grant adopted the Agworld platform together with his growers in order to facilitate a collaborative process and flow of data.
Starting from planning all the way through to harvesting, Grant now has all key information available when he needs it and is able to communicate this to key stakeholders. Growers know exactly when they need to do to grow their crop successfully while the merchandise managers can ensure adequate supply of product.
One of Western Australia's leading agronomists is generating serious efficiencies for his grain-growing clients through the capture and use of data for crop planning, protection, nutrition and management.
Geraldton-based Landmark agronomist Grant Thompson was an early adopter of the Agworld application (App) platform, noting its time-saving potential for recording key production information and advice in the paddock in real-time for immediate sharing.
"During the growing season, I spend whole weeks driving around many farms monitoring specific paddocks," he said.
"Farmers rely on my recommendations, received directly on their mobile device (or computer) via the Agworld App, about fertiliser use, what fungicides or insecticides are needed, application rates and other management issues.
"They can carry on with what they are doing and our head office in Geraldton, which also receives this information from me in the paddock, can batch-up necessary products and arrange delivery to their farm that day.
Mr Thompson said the recommendations he sent to his farmer clients through the Agworld App were converted to 'actual' actions in the system when adopted, underpinning the ability to analyse agronomy decisions at the end of the year and plan for the following year.
During this summer, he will be preparing 2017 cropping plans with his 20 clients networked through the Agworld App. The system will also be used for another 50-60 cropping plans for other Landmark clients around the Geraldton region.
Mr Thompson said the platform allowed advisers and farmers to closely track what was actually happening in the paddock and the financial spend on that paddock.
He said this allowed inputs to be tailored to specific areas of need, down to the nearest hectare and kilogram of product needed, which meant no wastage.
Dongara grain and livestock producer Brad Kupsch has been using the Agworld App on his smart phone for several years and said it was a great time-saver that freed him up to do other tasks while Mr Thompson - his agronomist - concentrated on monitoring his crop growth and protection.
He farms a total 7500ha with his parents Peter and Celine in a predominantly sandplain area that is cropped with wheat, lupins, canola and oats (depending on soil type) and supports sheep and Angus and Limousin cattle studs.
Mr Kupsch said the Agworld App platform had simplified crop management recommendations and input use and allowed the business to collect a range of data in a central location without repetition or double-entry.
"We are good at measuring and managing production data, but in the past have not necessarily been that effective at looking back on this information and seeing how we can improve year-to-year," he said.
Mr Kupsch said there were also real-time benefits during the crop growing season in having agronomic recommendations available immediately through the Agworld App, rather than getting emails that needed sorting or were lost in inboxes.
"We are getting efficiency in data management and doing budget and financial break-downs at the end of the year are very easy, rather than trying to correlate invoices to paddocks," he said.
"In most cases, my recommendations are done in the paddock and emailed to the grower before I even leave the farm," he said.
"With this system, we can easily see the break-down within paddocks and, in time, we will be able to make decisions for even more targeted input applications."


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\subsection{Demonstration}
For the purpose of demonstration, we transfer trained weights of MobileNet V1, Capsule 32 V1 and Capsule 32 V2 from a GPU server to another computer (CPU 2.7GHz).

We developed an application that loads all of these weights at the runtime. We test these networks on ASL fingerspelling videos made by professional signers.
Figure \ref{fig:demo} shows a screenshot of this application when the ASL sign is A. The red box indicates the area where the hand is detected. The box is plotted a little bigger so that the lines does not touch the hand for convenience of observing. The upper text shows a prediction from Capsule Networks and the lower text show another prediction from DeepNet (MobileNet V1). Recorded videos can be obtained via this link.

Since hands in these videos are moved around, we also built a detection technique to crop only the area surrounding the hand. Description of the technique is not included within this article to better focus on the main techniques.

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:Introduction}
Capsule Networks arrive in the field of Deep Learning at the time when many issues are considered solved e.g. in image and object recognition, very deep networks with hundreds of layers are able to outperform human. One reason behind the success of DL is the Max Pooling (MP) layer which not only reduces dimension of images but also selects most critical pixels for routing from one layer to another. Though MP works very well, Hinton argues that MP causes loss of useful information. As a consequence, this layer is replaced with a routing algorithm and a new architecture namely Capsule Networks is designed~\cite{sabour2017dynamic}. The CN can also be referred as Vector CN since the approach is based on agreements between vectors. The design achieved $0.25\%$ test error on MNIST dataset in comparison with the state of the art using DropConnect $0.39\%$ without data augmentation~\cite{wan2013regularization}. The other CN applying Expectation Maximization (Matrix CN) reduces the best error rate by $45\%$ on SmallNORB dataset~\cite{hinton2018matrix}. However, the networks still face challenges on other datasets e.g. Cifar-10, SVHN and ImageNet.

In this research, we choose to build our CNs based on the Vector CN since there are few implementations in literature for Matrix CN and our preliminary results show that the latter takes longer convergence time in the ASL alphabet dataset.

For DL architecture, we choose several prestige Transfer Learning (TL) models including Inception V3 \cite{szegedy2016rethinking}, DenseNet V201 \cite{huang2017densely}, NASNet \cite{zoph2018learning}, MobileNet V1 \cite{howard2017mobilenets} and MobileNet V2 \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} to generate feature maps and compare these models to explore which model is the best in our setting. As TL is a very fast growing field, the models are trained on a wide variety of platforms such as Tensorflow, Caffe, Torch and Theano. In addition, just a year ago, Keras which was one of the biggest independent platforms had been integrated into Tensorflow. As Keras includes pre-trained models for most of leading TLs, we prefer to use this platform to set a unified environment for comparison of all TL models. We also classify models in two groups one that is mainly used for demanding computers (Inception V3, DenseNet V201) and the other for smaller devices (NASNet, MobileNet V1 and V2) since mobiles have become a crucial tool in our daily life.

We perform experiments on static signs of ASL dataset. In ASL, there are two distinct signs namely dynamic signs and static signs. Our aim is to build an action recognition framework to recognize signs in continuous frames (e.g. transcription generators for ASL songs or conversations). In this work, we focus on ASL alphabet signs. For this problem, models are usually based on Convolution Networks~\cite{ameen2017convolutional,bheda2017using}, other Machine Learning techniques like Multilayer Random Forest \cite{kuznetsova2013real} or Transfer Learning models such as e.g. GoogLeNet and AlexNet~\cite{kang2015real,garcia2016real}.

The rest of this article is structured as follows. We highlight our main contributions in Section~\ref{sec:contrib}. Next, we describe an ASL dataset for this research in Section ~\ref{sec:dataset}. Then we discuss about Vector CN and TL models' architectures in Section~\ref{sec:capsule} and Section~\ref{sec:transferlearning}, accordingly. Experiments and respective results are analyzed and discussed in Section~\ref{sec:experiments}. We conclude this work in Section~\ref{sec:conclude}.
\section{Contribution}
\label{sec:contrib}
In our research, we improve the design of the Vector Capsule Networks and perform empirical comparisons versus Deep Learning models on accuracy and speed using an ASL fingerspelling alphabet.

First, we propose to modify Vector CN's architecture to find the most efficient designs. Namely, we extended Convolution layers to better filter input images and varied Fully Connected layers in the Reconstruction to leverage image restoration.

Second, we explore distinct Transfer Learning models for demanding devices (Inception V3 and DenseNet V201) and small devices (NasNet and MobileNets) when integrated with Multilayer Perceptron and Long Short Term Memory. We use the former setting as a baseline to compare with the latter.

Third, Vector CN are analyzed against DL models. We find out that CNs perform comparatively on both accuracy and speed. In addition, CNs have an advantage as pre-training is not required. Capsules can be trained within an hour compare to days or more for pre-trained TL models.

Finally, we make a demonstration to compare CNs and DLs on videos for teaching ASL alphabets. The results are very promising as our models can recognize almost of all signs without previously seen.
\section{Recognition Models}
\label{sec:recognition}
In this section, we first discuss about an ASL dataset that will be used in our experiments. Then we deal with architectures of Vector CNs and DL models.
\subsection{ASL Dataset}
\label{sec:dataset}
\begin{figure*}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{img/6_1.png}
\caption{Random Samples from ASL Dataset}
\label{fig:ASL_Dataset}
\end{center}
\end{figure*}
One of our ultimate goals is to build an ASL translator that is capable of classifying alphabet signs from language training videos. In these videos, professional trainers illustrate hand shapes for signs from A to Z. As they perform demonstrations, the hand is moving around the screen from left to right, up to down and vice versa. To train our models, we search for a dataset that captures similar movements with a large sample size. We expect that each sign should have thousands of instances since a standard MNIST has $60000$ samples for $10$ classes. With these constraints and since ASL datasets are relatively fewer than for English alphabet, we found only one dataset from Kaggle website\footnote{https://www.kaggle.com/grassknoted/asl-alphabet} that meets our requirements.
This set of data includes all 26 signs including dynamic signs ``J" and ``Z" with 3 additional signs (Nothing, Delete and Space). We guess that the ``Nothing" sign indicates when there is no hand on the screen. The purpose of ``Delete" and ``Space" signs are undescribed. We keep these extra signs intact (including dynamics signs) and put them aside when comparing in real videos. Each sign includes $3000$ samples ($200 \times 200$ pixels), totally $87000$ for all signs. In these images, hands are placed in distinct positions on the screen, distance and lightning are varied.

Figure~\ref{fig:ASL_Dataset} shows 10 random samples from the dataset. We notice that signs ``N'' and ``P" have different shapes compared to the target video. In stead of replacing them, these signs are retained for the reason mentioned above.

The data are selected randomly and split into training and testing sets with the ratio of $70$/$30$. In addition, the value range is re-scaled from $[0,255]$ to $[0,1]$. For data augmentation, the rotation, shear, width shift and height shift are set in the ranges of $20$, $0.2$, $0.2$ and $0.2$ respectively. Moreover, images' brightness and contrast are spanned using random uniform within distances of $0.6$ and $1.5$.

\subsection{Capsule Networks}
\label{sec:capsule}
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{img/ASL_Vector_Capsule.png}
\caption{Vector Capsule Networks Architecture for ASL}
\label{fig:asl_capsule}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Hinton describes a Capsule Networks as a group of neurons that represent distinct properties of the same entity. In Vector CN, a capsule in one layer sends its activity to the capsule in above layer and the method checks which one agrees the most. The essential structure of Capsule Networks is shown in the Figure \ref{fig:asl_capsule}.

The initial step of Vector CN is similar to Convolutional Neural Networks where input images are filtered to detect features such as edge and curve. Then, in PrimaryCaps, the generated features are grouped to create multi-dimension vectors. Illustrated in the Figure, $256$ feature maps of size $14\times14$ are transformed into $16$ capsules each contains $14\times14$ vectors of $16$ dimensions. Routing from this layer to the ASL Capsule (ASLCap) layer is computed as follows.
\begin{equation}
v_j = \frac{||s_j||^2}{1+||s_j||^2}\frac{s_j}{||s_j||}, s_j = \sum_i{c_{ij}\hat{u}_{j|i}}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
c_{ij} = \frac{exp(b_{ij})}{\sum_k{exp(b_{ik})}}, \hat{u}_{j|i}=W_{ij}u_i
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
b_{ij} \xleftarrow{} b_{ij} + \hat{u}_{j|i}{v_j}
\end{equation}
where $v_j$ represents the vector output of capsule $j$ in ASLCap and $s_j$ is its total input produced by a weighted sum of all predictions from layer below. Next, the signal is passed through a squash non-linearity so that the value is in the range of $[0,1]$. The length of this vector suggests the probability an entity (represented by the capsule) being detected. For example, if the vector $v_j$ is set to represent the sign ``L" then the length of this vector indicates if the sign is actually presented. The output of vector $u_i$ is transformed to the vector $\hat{u}_{j|i}$ by multiplying with a weight matrix $W_{ij}$. The routing coefficient $b_{ij}$ will be increased or decreased based on whether the output $v_j$ has a similar direction with its prediction $\hat{u}_{j|i}$.

In the original design, input images have a size of $28\times28$ pixels. We vary this size in our experiments as we compare results with Deep Learning models where the images are $200\times200$ pixels. Having a larger image is crucial in ASL since shapes of certain signs are very much alike. For example, in signs ``M" and ``N", the position of the thumb finger just changes a bit resulting in another sign. DLs reduce the computation cost via pooling which selects the most active information rather than just re-scaling. In Vector CN, we found that by simply changing the image to a greater size would cause the application to crash. One of reasons is the costly matrix transformation between vector $u$ and $\hat{u}$ that does not fit well on computers with GPU of $12$ GB RAM. By feeding images in small batches and using MPs we could increase the image size to $64 \times 64$ pixels. We discuss more details in Section \ref{sec:experiments}.
\subsection{Deep Learning Models}
\label{sec:transferlearning}

This section deals with the integration of Transfer Learning models in Deep Learning architecture for ASL recognition to classify alphabet signs in continuous frames.
\begin{figure}[!t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{img/ASL_Recognition_TL.jpeg}
\caption{Transfer Learning Architecture for ASL}
\label{fig:asl_transferlearning}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Convolution Neural Networks (ConvNets) were introduced $20$ years ago with the notable architecture from LeNet \cite{lecun1998gradient}. Throughout the time, ConvNets tended to go deeper e.g. VGG ($19$ layers). With recent advances in computer hardware, very deep architectures such as Highway Networks \cite{srivastava2015training} and Residual Networks \cite{he2016deep} have exceeded $100$ layers. Training these models can take days or even months; this gives rise to TL where models are pre-trained on a dataset and re-used on others. In Computer Vision, earlier convolution layers are considered to behave similarly to edge and curve filters. Thus, these frozen weights can be used on our ASL dataset. A modification in the last layer is necessary as the number of signs is $29$ compared to $1000$ categories in ImageNet.

In our research, we include Inception V3, DenseNet V201, NASNet, MobileNet V1 and MobileNet V2 models in DL Architectures. Inception V1 (or often called GoogLeNet to honor LeCun's Networks) was a winner for image classification challenge in ILSVRC 2014 (ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition) and achieved top-5 error of $6.67\%$~\cite{szegedy2015going}. The results for Inception V3~\cite{szegedy2016rethinking} and DenseNet V201~\cite{huang2017densely} were $5.6\%$ and $6.34\%/5.54\%$ (on single-crop/10-crop) respectively.

NASNet was recently introduced and obtained state-of-the-art results on several datasets including Cifar-10, ImageNet and COCO \cite{zoph2018learning}. NASNet comes with two versions one for computers (NASNetLarge) and the other for small devices (NASNetMobile). Since the computation for NASNetLarge takes twice the required time for the slowest models DenseNet V201, we select only NASNetMobile in our experiments. Despite of being made for small devices, the model accomplishes $8.4\%$ top-5 error on ImageNet. Additionally, we choose MobileNets\cite{howard2017mobilenets,sandler2018mobilenetv2} for comparisons within mobile platform.

As shown in Figure \ref{fig:asl_transferlearning}, ASL's signs are illustrated in a video and extracted as a sequence of frames (Please see our demonstration for more information). At the runtime, an active model with trained weights is loaded. Based on each Transfer Learning model, the extracted features have length variations i.e. $2048$, $1920$, $1056$, $1024$ and $1280$ for Inception V3, DenseNet V201, NASNetMobile, MobileNet V1 and V2.

After this step, the flow goes through either MLP Layer or LSTM Layers. The former comprises  two Fully Connected Neural Networks (FC) whereas the latter contains one Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and one FC. The LSTM has $2048$ units with history's lookback of one for classifying one frame per time. Beside, all FCs are composed by $512$ neurons. We use MLP in our DL models as a baseline for comparison with Vector CNs. This is also interesting to see performance of DL built on other techniques like LSTM.
\section{Experiments and Results}
\label{sec:experiments}
In this section, we first discuss the performances of Vector CN and DL models on variations of input image size and number of samples. Later, we take two models in DL and compare with two models in Capsule.
\subsection{Experiment 1: Effective of Dataset Size and Image Size on Capsule Accuracy}
To perform this experiment, we scale the Input images to $64 \times 64$, $32 \times 32$ and $16 \times 16$ pixels and use datasets of $\frac{1}{16}$, $\frac{1}{8}$, $\frac{1}{4}$, $\frac{1}{2}$, and a full size. We vary the size of the dataset so that we can observe the effects when the number of samples is small. We exclude dataset of $\frac{1}{32}$ since this yields fewer than $100$ samples per class which may not be enough for recognition. The dataset is split into train and test with the ratio of $70$/$30$. We also use two FCs for Reconstruction, one FC has a half of Input image size and the other has an equal size e.g. when the Input image is $64 \times 64$, the two FCs have sizes of $1024$ ($32 \times 32$) and $4096$ ($64 \times 64$), accordingly.
\input{figure2}

Figure \ref{fig:capsule_imagedatasize_1_16} shows a result of this experiment using $\frac{1}{16}$ dataset. We notice that the accuracy for $64 \times 64$ resolution images are lower than for $32 \times 32$ and $16 \times 16$. This contradicts our expectation since with a larger resolution, the image is clearer and should be recognized better. From Figure \ref{fig:capsule_imagedatasize_1_1}, we see a different approach where $64 \times 64$ resolution images perform better than the others. We exclude results for remaining sets to save space.

In summary, these experiments show that a larger image's resolution does not always yield a better accuracy because a small number of samples may affect this performance. With a larger dataset, a higher resolution generally results in a better accuracy. In addition, we can observe that both $64 \times 64$ and $32 \times 32$ image resolutions achieve an accuracy of approximately $0.99$ after $10$ epochs using full dataset.

\subsection{Experiment 2: Comparisons of Deep Learning Models}
\input{figure3}
In this experiment, we use the same variations of dataset size as in Vector CN models and compare all DL models on MLP and LSTM. Figure \ref{fig:MLP_1_1} shows accuracy of all models with MLP and results from a typical ConvNet using full dataset. We can observe that, despite of being simple, the accuracy approaches $100\%$ on training set. However, this yields only near $60\%$ on test.
\input{figure4}

Much to our surprise, two versions of MobileNets both outperform Inception V3 and DenseNet 201. This maybe caused by the efficiency of Deepwise Separable Convolution layers. It also can be seen that DenseNet V201 performs better than Inception V3. Perhaps, the model's blocks in which one layer is connected to all other layers helps to reserve more important information. Additionally, a similar trend can be seen using $\frac{1}{16}$ dataset with accuracy be offset approximately $10\%-20\%$. Moreover, we can observe analogous results using LSTM in Figure \ref{fig:transfer_learning_lstm_size_dataset}. Overall, DL models classified with LSTM show faster convergences.

\subsection{Experiment 3: Comparisons of Vector Capsule Networks and Deep Learning Models on Speed}
In this experiment, we perform speed tests of Vector CN and DL models on running times for Feature Extraction and Prediction. Regarding the first metric, all models are executed on GPUs of Tesla K80 and P100. Capsules are excluded since extraction of features is not essential.

We observed that with only one ConvNet, the model performed very well on images $64\times64$ but poorly on the target video. This maybe caused by the model learns very well on the training data but distinct backgrounds between the two hamper its performance. For this reason, we add one more Convolution layer without Pooling after Input image to filter better the backgrounds. We did not add more ConvNets since we experienced the vanishing gradient problem with accuracy becoming zeros even after a long training.

The structure of Vector CN is changed as follows. For Capsule with Input image size $32 \times 32$ (aka Capsule 32 V1), we use one Convolution layer after the Input layer and four FCs in Reconstruction with sizes of $4 \times 4$, $8 \times 8$, $16 \times 16$ and $32 \times 32$. For Capsule with Input image sizes of $64 \times 64$, we add two Convolution layers where the first layer is followed by a Pooling with size $2 \times 2$ and the second Convolution layer is without a Pooling. We call this is Capsule 32 V2. In reconstruction, we design four FCs with sizes $8 \times 8$, $16 \times 16$, $32 \times 32$ and $64 \times 64$.
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It can be gleaned from Table \ref{tab:capsule_transferlearning_speed} that MobileNet V1 runs faster than any other models on both GPUs whereas DenseNet V201 is the slowest. This clearly shows the advantage of Depthwise Separable Convolution in reducing computation. As we expected, all models for mobiles perform faster than models for computers with an exception that NASNet is slower than Inception V3 on Tesla P100.

On prediction speed comparison, we pickup two models from DL. We select MobileNet V1 because of its best accuracy and fastest speed. Beside, Inception V3 is chosen instead of DenseNet V201 based on a faster speed. We perform this experiment on a computer with 4-CPUs of 2.7GHz. It is unexpected that Capsule 32 V1 is only slightly faster than MobileNet V1 since the model has only $2$ CN layers (and 3 ConvNets) compared to $28$ ConvNets of its counterpart. It is also noticed that Capsule V2 runs three times faster than Inception 32 V3 but quite slower than MobileNet V1.

\subsection{Experiment 4: Comparison of Vector Capsule Networks and Deep Learning Models on Accuracy}
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This experiment is designed to compare accuracy of Capsules and Deep Learning architectures. We select MobileNet V1, Inception V3, Capsule 32 V1 and Capsule 32 V2 as discussed in the previous section.

As we can see from Figure \ref{fig:capsulevstransferlearning}, MobileNet V1 and Inception V3 perform better than Capsules in first few epochs. However, as number of epochs increases, Capsule 32 V1 achieves a similar accuracy of Inception V3 and Capsule 32 V2 approaches the accuracy of MobileNet V1.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:conclude}
In this research, we propose to improve the design of Vector CN by extending ConvNet layers after Input image and vary the number of FCs in Reconstruction to accomplish better accuracy. Having a larger image size is critical in our approach since certain signs are similar. A small change in the position of fingers can yield distinct signs. In addition, variation of background contexts may hamper Capsules' performance. Using our approach we attain the goals as follows. First, our results show that Capsule 32 V2 performs comparatively to DL MobileNet V1 on accuracy and Capsule 32 V1 runs a slightly faster than its counterpart. Second, Vector CNs are greater than DL models in the sense that the latter requires pre-trained weights which can take days or even months for training whereas the former can be trained on-the-fly within an hour. Third, as a result of our exploration, we found that MobileNet V1 even though was mainly built for small devices but is superior to all other DL models both on accuracy and speed in this dataset.

Furthermore, we made a demonstration to illustrate our approach where we compare Vector CN V1 with DL MobileNet V1 in an ASL video. The recorded file can be accessed via the link\footnote{http://bit.ly/2O4sJSU}. Although, Vector CN can recognize most of all signs (excluding signs that we mentioned earlier), the model is more sensitive to changes than the DL model. This suggests pooling in DL may better than just rescaling as in Vector CN. Besides, more samples are also needed to improve the performance.

Although we demonstrate this approach in the context of ASL alphabet signs, the approach has broader applications to any video recognition tasks where each individual frame's information are crucial.

In the future, we plan to redesign Capsule NC structure to perform on larger images. We also plan to build Vector CN and DL MobileNet V1 on mobile devices as the accuracy and speed allow these networks to run in realtime.

\section{Acknowledgements}
We would like to thank developers at Tensorflow for their awesome software.

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Also, whenever possible, natural light should be used. Exposure to natural light decreases the risk of depression and can actually help residents feel healthier and more awake throughout the day.
All forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's, can have negative effects on depth perception, peripheral vision, contrasting, and heightened sensitivity to glare and shadows. These are all problematic as they create risk for falls and reduced stability in posturing.
Circadian-friendly lighting can help. This includes lighting that is adjusted throughout the day to simulate the natural light of the outdoors, with the brightest light being around the noon hour. This routine of lighting not only helps dementia patients feel more connected to where they are, but also ensures that activities can be scheduled around the best lighting "peaks" of the day without keeping the light at an overbearing brightness all day long for other residents who might not suffer from any form of dementia at all.
Does Your Senior Living Facility Need an Update?
Here at Persona, we recognize that all seniors deserve the best quality of life that we can give them. We can help you ensure a physical environment that supports their needs and also provides the comfort of home without a sterile hospital feel. Give us a call and let one of our experts help you update your facility with the best lighting technology on the market.


DANICO Trading is a service for our customers to help acquire third party products. This includes the products needed for complete and integrated solutions based on DANICOs own products.
DANICO Trading has developed from the close and long-lasting relationship that DANICO's Ukrainian owners have with Denmark. Today DANICO Trading is active all over the world, but we retain a special relationship with Denmark and the many business relationships we have build there.
If you need something special, let us help you find it!
When needed, DANICO Trading handles import/export, transport, logistics and after sale service.
DANICO is an exclusive importer of wood-chippers from the Danish company to Ukraine.
DANICO produces bio-heaters under license and has the exclusive rights to imports from the Finnish company to Ukraine.
If you are a manufacturer of machines for industrial or private usage, then DANICO might also be interested to represent your products in Ukraine. Contact us to explore if we can do business together.
From the very beginning, DANICO has acquired machines and equipment from Denmark and other countries to build up DANICO as we have it today. Since the late 90ties, we have developed many contacts and business relationships that today help us meet special requests from our customers - both for new and pre-owned equipment.
One of our customers was very reluctant to buy a pre-owned tractor. We convinced him about the idea, helped him find the tractor, import it to Ukraine and do a complete refurbishment so that the tractor would be reliable and "as good as new". Later our customer told us that this is the best thing he ever did.
A customer found a machine-tool in Germany, and we helped him deliver to it Ukraine and made custom-clearance procedures.
We met with a company taking care of trees in a larger Ukrainian city. The company had a very high cost from transporting and disposing waste from cut-off branches. By introducing wood-chippers into the process, today 5 truckloads of expensive waste have been turned into one truckload of sellable bio-fuel.


Do you remember the good ol days when newspapers were delivered to your door step and every week you would end up with a recycling bin full of them? Wait, some people still engage in said activity, but the majority of us have moved on… I remember being the paperboy and having routs in which I covered to deliver papers on a weekly basis. Now, we get online and read from a variety of sources and in some instances have push notifications sent to our phones, computers, and tablets regarding topics we are interested in. Any bit of information we want is at the tip of our fingers. If we don't find it engaging or good, we don't like it. If we do, we might create a facebook post about it or send out a tweet of some sort. The point is, The world of Journalism has changed and it is all thanks to the internet and the technology in which we use to engage with it.
We no longer want to read the boring, black and white newspapers. Instead we want media that is engaging. Media that we can touch, see, and hear. This may consist of a video, audio clip, or some pictures which are inserted into the content we are viewing. Instead of reading about a news event, we can watch that event or research further what's trending about it.
Journalist are no longer just given the task of writing the news story, but instead are expected to have a variety of skills. They have to be able to record audio, shoot video, take pictures, create illustrations, and have the ability to edit all of the above mediums. This is, infact, critical as to whether or not they will be hired, kept, or let go from a job.
In my course, the reason for this blog, my professor talked about how some of the big newspaper companies had fired all of their photographers, in turn, handing their jurnalist the cameras and saying, "You take your own photos and create your own media." Giving them no training at all. Personally, I think that sounds really harsh, but it is the world we live in now and as a journalist, one is expected to be a jack of all trades and have some form of knowledge to create their own content. My school, is actually developing a curriculum that encapsulates all of these skills that employers are looking for. It is going to be designed to help them be more marketable and competitive in the job market. As always, some will complain and grip and not see the value in being required to take such classes, but if they didn't want to do that then why did the decide to attend a liberal arts school?
The moral of the story is not that much has changed about journalism, as stated in Mike's quote above, but that the medium in which we create and view has. Journalist of today need to be adaptive, have the ability to learn new skills, and create content in which the viewer can interact with and relate to. Don't allow the medium to be what stands between you, your audience, and your dreams.


With the summer in full swing and school holidays fast approaching, a new survey conducted by specialist operator Inghams Lakes & Mountains has revealed that holidaymakers are discovering new activities they weren't expecting to do during their summer getaway. The research has proven that the majority of UK travellers are open to trying alternative experiences such as e-biking whilst on holiday.
Of the people surveyed, those living in London proved to be the most adventurous and open to trying new things on their summer holidays with two thirds of London participants (66%) saying they are likely to try an out-of-the-ordinary or 'alternative' activity whilst on holiday. The survey also found a staggering 76% of respondents believe it is important to research their summer holiday destination before arrival and the 55+ age bracket places the most importance on this.
Of the 2,000+ consumers who took part in the survey, nearly two thirds (over 59%) stated they try something new on holiday which they weren't expecting to do, and more than half (57%) feel the activities and experiences they have on their summer holiday differ from their expectations. Furthermore, nearly a quarter of travellers (24%) said they'd be motivated to return to a destination if it offered plenty of new activities they hadn't tried before, while over 30% said they choose a holiday destination based on a specific activity, but end up trying something different once in the destination.
Inghams is offering a seven night holiday to Kitzbühel in Austria, staying at the four-star Q Resort Health & Spa on a half board basis from £599 per person, based on two sharing. Price represents a saving of £359 per person and includes return flights from Manchester to Salzburg and airport transfers. The package is valid for travel departing on 19th July 2017.


Reports on the Commander John Scott Hannon VA Mental Health Improvement Act of 2019 introduced in the Senate which aims to tackle the veteran suicide epidemic by boosting funding, mental health staff, alternative therapies and research at the VA. The bill, introduced by Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), was supported by NAMI and we lobbied for key components to be included and provided guidance by drafting sections of the legislation.


The 2017 WACOSS Cost of Living report was launched on 1 December, and shows that people in financial hardship are spending on average half of their weekly budget on housing costs alone. The tenth annual Cost of Living report included data from the financial counselling network, which was compared with data from the recent Australian Bureau of Statistics Household Expenditure Survey. Benchmarking against the data produced dramatic results, with age pensioners doing it particularly tough; an age pensioner couple who rent will have just $13 left over to meet the basic living costs each week.
WACOSS is funded by the Department of Communities, and our Service Agreement is currently under review. The Department is seeking your input via a short online survey on how to refine program and development of services WACOSS and other peak bodies provide. The survey will take up to 10 minutes, and only aggregated results will be sent to WACOSS and other peak bodies. The results are important for our work, support of the sector, and the people that we advocate on behalf of.
The final report for the Service Priority review has been released today. WACOSS played an active role in the review, consulting with the community, preparing submissions, and meeting with the panel. It is positive to see some high-level recommendations, such as data sharing legislation, and whole-of-government targets included. WACOSS will comment specific recommendations within the review in coming weeks. Read WACOSS' submissions here.
The Honourable Minister Simone McGurk MLA has presented a Lotterywest grant to WACOSS on behalf of the community services sector, for the development of a sector-run, state-wide Food Relief Framework. The contribution will support the current community relief and resilience sector, leverage existing providers' work, expand on collaboration between providers, and building capacity within the sector. The project comes off the back of recent research, which shows that many Western Australians are food insecure, particularly those who have been placed in a vulnerable position, and will enable them to source food in an accessible and dignified way.
The newly formed Noongar Child Protection Council (NCPC), is pleased to invite individuals and organisations as members, to keep Aboriginal children on Noongar Country strong, healthy and connected to families and culture. Led by the Inaugural Convener, Dawn Wallam, the Council invites everyone to join, to protect the rights of children. The NCPC aim is to have the voices of children, families and communities heard, and to ensure connection back with community.
WACOSS workshops to build the natural disaster resilience of community organisations are scheduled around the State in February next year. Bookings are now open for Kalgoorlie (6 Feb), Esperance (12 Feb), Perth (small organisations 14 Feb, others 15 Feb), Northam (19 Feb) and Geraldton (22 Feb). Bookings opening soon for Bunbury (late Feb), Kimberley (late March/early April) and Pilbara (April).
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are now available for the 2018 WACOSS Conference. Sponsorship provides affordable registration for regional and metro community service organisations and helps develop a diverse and dynamic program. Your sponsorship supports and invests in the development of the community services sector and the sustainability of the local community. A range of sponsorship packages are available.
WACOSS has received a Lotterywest grant to deliver free training throughout regional WA. Attached is a link to a short survey, so you can have your say on what the local professional development needs in your region are. If you could respond to it and also share it with any of your local networks and whoever else you think would like to provide feedback, this will help shape delivery of provide relevant training to your region.
To all of those mission-driven organisations who struggle to find high quality graphic designers and website developers with in budget – look no further, contact DropIN Solutions - a social enterprise from WACOSS! There is no project too big or too small for the team. Regardless of the size, all social projects and causes could lead to great impact.
The Commissioner for Children and Young People (CCYP) in Western Australia has released a new report which reviews Western Australia's current system of oversight and accountability for children and young people and makes a number of recommendations to strengthen the State's independent oversight arrangements. WACOSS welcomes the recommendations and agrees that independent oversight is urgently required and the most effective means of preventing abuse and maintaining high standards. We acknowledge there is work that we all need to do to improve cross-sector oversight.
Shine Lawyers are investigating legal action on behalf of Indigenous Australians in Western Australia, NT, and NSW, who were negatively impacted by wage control legislation that was in effect during the 19th to 20th centuries. Indigenous Australians who were directly affected, or whose relatives, alive or deceased, might have been subjected to this, are encouraged to get in touch for more information on the process.
WA children and young people now have a permanent, safe and fun way to express their views with the launch of DigiMe by the Commissioner for Children and Young People WA. DigiMe is a dedicated online space where children and young people can create their 'digital image' and have their views and ideas published anonymously online. All WA children under 18 years of age are encouraged to get involved.
This two-day workshop will focus on how to engage with children in a therapeutic relationship, using their preferred language, which is play. There will be plenty of opportunity to explore and practice projective techniques such as drawing, sand tray and clay work, basic principles of child-centred play therapy will be explored. Core issues such as assessment, confidentiality, duty of care and developing a relationship with the child's caregiver will be discussed.
The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) will be holding a seminar for social workers involved in trauma-informed care. This seminar will include discussions regarding research into trauma-informed care, the future direction of a trauma-informed care practice group, and networking opportunities.
The WACOSS project on natural disaster resilience for community organisations has some new resources on disaster resilience and people with disabilities. These US resources have lots of useful content, relevant to many of our community service sector disaster planning.
The Emerging Leaders in Governance Program is a four month program between February and May 2018 that pioneers engagement of young leaders under the age of 40 on boards and committees in the aged care and community sector. Interested participants can come along to an information night on Wednesday 29 November.
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Ben Lerner's new novel goes back to the '90s to understand Trump's America
The Sunday Edition
Ben Lerner's new novel, The Topeka School, is perhaps his most dazzling yet — an exploration of masculinity and whiteness in Trump's America, how to raise children well, and the devolution of public debate and civic discourse into a vicious martial art. Lerner joins Michael Enright for a wide-ranging conversation about the peculiar cultural and social temper of the times and how we got here.
CBC Radio · Posted: Nov 08, 2019 5:59 PM ET | Last Updated: November 8, 2019
The Topeka School is a novel by Ben Lerner. (McClelland & Stewart)
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When Ben Lerner attended high school in Topeka, Kan., in the '90s, he was a seasoned debater. However, he quickly learned that his skills in discourse and rhetoric were futile.
"[We] weren't really debating health care or whatever," he says. "This nominal exchange of ideas devolved into this glossolalic ritual. Spit would be flying, people would pass out, people would be speaking much more quickly than auctioneers."
This fast-paced manner of arguing is a debating technique known as "the spread." Competitors are encouraged to speak as fast as they can so that opponents will inevitably concede arguments that were missed during a speedy exchange.
For Lerner, this foray into the world of debating became a sport rather than an exercise in verbal reasoning.
Lerner is the writer behind Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School. (Matt Lerner)
"I got really interested in this … as a kind of metaphor for the bankruptcy of political rhetoric," he says. "[Debate has] been ... reduced to this kind of athletic performance of unreason."
This is how Lerner sees politics now. Appropriately, his latest book, The Topeka School, is described as a "prehistory of the present." It's a book that explores masculinity and whiteness in Trump's America, right-wing trolls and how to raise children well.
But rather than taking place in the aftermath of the 2016 election, it begins at a high school in Topeka.
Set in 1997, the family at the centre of the novel closely resembles Lerner's own family. The main character, Adam, is a high school debate star. His mother is a famous feminist psychologist and his father is also a psychologist who works with troubled boys.
The writer behind such acclaimed books as Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, which were also littered with autobiographical elements, Lerner is also a poet, Fulbright scholar, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College.
Here are some highlights from his conversation with The Sunday Edition's host Michael Enright.
Whether Topeka is 'ground zero' for today's America
"[Topeka] has produced incredible writers, there's all kinds of cultural richness. This is also a place where you can buy a house and not have to be a rich person, unlike Brooklyn, where I live now. But it's also a place where you can identify this kind of crisis of identity amongst middle-class white boys.
"By the time I left Topeka in the '90s, it was like fourth in per capita homicide, and it seemed to a certain degree to foreshadow those other American towns like Littleton, Colorado — that's the location of Columbine — where there were these ... crimes not of passion, but of nihilistic dispassion. There very much seemed to be something the matter not just with Kansas politically, but with kind of middle-class white boys in America generally."
Autobiography and esthetic
"A lot of it is biographical for sure, but with huge things admitted or altered or rendered composite. [The Topeka School's] autobiographical all the way through, in the sense that it's a kind of self-examination of the genealogy of my voice. Like how is your voice influenced by your mother versus your debate coach versus what you hear on the radio versus the grandfather, whatever. There's lots of fiction involved, because the truth is in the esthetic form, the thing the book is. But it does risk a lot psychologically and draw a lot on my own experience."
Ben Lerner's last novel 10:04 was critically acclaimed. (Ariana Mangual/McClelland & Stewart)
"This thing that we're calling 'toxic masculinity' isn't a new thing. I mean, the story of the American empire is the story of violent identity crisis at the heart of white masculinity. When James Baldwin talks about the 'lie of whiteness,' he's saying, why is it that these people had to create this bad fiction called whiteness that depended upon both the appropriation from and brutalization of others? [It's] because they were so afraid of a kind of identity vacuum in their own heart.
There is a kind of identity vacuum. There isn't a vocabulary of making meaning, so violence fills the void. Misogyny and xenophobia fill the void. - Ben Lerner, author
"This is a reductive version of [Francis Fukuyama's] argument, but it was basically this idea that [in the '90s] it's going to be the advent of technocratic liberals and ideology is over or whatever. What I wanted to get at was the way that the claim to have arrived at the end of history was ineffectively masking the continuation of the history of a kind of white masculinity that could only define itself in opposition to some other enemy. What happens to ... many of the characters in the book is that there is a kind of identity vacuum. There isn't a vocabulary of making meaning, so violence fills the void. Misogyny and xenophobia fill the void.
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"One thing that I think you see happening is that in the absence of a discourse on the left about love, collective possibility that can make meaning for people in their lives, like forms of affiliation across boundaries of class and race ... You have this reactionary white supremacist discourse that gives people an easy enemy and gives people a permission to kind of delight in the libidinous discharge of violence against others. There has to be a counter discourse and there has to be a mode of meaning and possibility that doesn't depend just on the demotion of some other."
Parenting in the age of Trump
"I think there's this sense of when you grow up, the thing you learn is that there are no grown ups. And I think that I was reckoning with that. Like when you're the parent … what you realize is that you don't really know what you're doing and also you realize your parents didn't know what they were doing.
When you're the parent … what you realize is that you don't really know what you're doing and also you realize your parents didn't know what they were doing. - Ben Lerner
"You know that Larkin poem — I can't quote it on the radio — but it has a lot of truth. There's no getting it right. Everybody's damaged, everybody transmits damage. I think [my parents] tried to be really open and loving about the way that making family is an attempt to honour some patterns, and disavow some patterns. I definitely think parenting has to start with an acknowledgement that you're going to mess it up, and that you're going to mess up your kids, but that you also can be a kind of loving fellow traveller through the damaged life.
"My wife is Puerto Rican and my girls are Spanish-speaking. We have an interracial, intercultural family. My wife's work is largely about working with undocumented families in Brooklyn and studying how citizenship status affects educational opportunities. So all of that is certainly taking place against this backdrop of Hispanic-phobia and attacks on immigrants ... I don't know if there's been a moment where a kind of regressive, racist misogyny has so explicitly been in control. I'm in that moment, like a lot of parents, trying to figure out to what degree do you want your kids to confront as soon as possible the hard truth of climate change and of the radicalization of the right and white supremacy or how much do you want to try to protect them from that reality."
Ben Lerner's comments have been edited for length and clarity. Click 'listen' above to hear the full interview.
Listen to more interviews with Ben Lerner
English professor, novelist and poet Ben Lerner says even great poets are doomed to fail, because they yearn for the divine which cannot possibly be grasped. His book is called "The Hatred of Poetry." 14:42
Ben Lerner found fame with his debut novel Leaving the Atocha Station. His follow-up, 10:04, is now out. Lerner's latest work is narrated by a fictional author who both is and is not the real writer. 23:25
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Plant Macronutrient Use Efficiency presents an up-to-date overview of the latest research on the molecular and genetic basis of macro-nutrient use efficiency (NUE) in plants, and strategies that can be used to improve NUE and nutrient-associated stress tolerance in crop plants. Plant NUE is a measure of how efficiently plants use available nutrients and an understanding of plant NUE has the potential to help improve the use of limited natural resources and to help achieve global food security. This book presents information important for the development of crop plants with improved macro-NUE, a prerequisite to reducing production costs, expanding crop production into noncompetitive marginal lands with low nutrient resources, and for helping to prevent environmental contamination.
Plant Macronutrient Use Efficiency provides a comprehensive overview of the complex mechanisms regulating macro-NUE in crop plants, which is required if plant breeders are to develop modern crop varieties that are more resilient to nutrient-associated stress. Identification of genes responsible for macro-NUE and nutrient-related stress tolerance in crop plants will help us to understand the molecular mechanisms associated with the responses of crop plants to nutrient stress.
This volume contains both fundamental and advanced information, and critical commentaries useful for those in all fields of plant science research.
Dr. Mohammad A. Hossain is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. He received his BSc in Agriculture and MS in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. He also received an MSc in Agriculture from Kagawa University, Japan in 2008 and a PhD in Abiotic Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology from Ehime University, Japan in 2011. In November 2015, he moved to Tokyo University, Japan, as a JSPS postdoctoral scientist to work on isolating low-phosphorus stress tolerant genes/QTLs from rice. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications on important aspects of plant physiology and breeding, plant nutrition, plant stress responses and tolerance mechanisms, and exogenous chemical priming-induced abiotic stress tolerance. He has edited four book volumes, including this one, published by CRC press, Springer, and Elsevier. He is a professional member of International Metabolomics Society, Bangladesh Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, and the Seed Science Society of Bangladesh.
Dr. Takehiro Kamiya is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD, in 2006, from Nagoya University, Japan. After doing his postdoctoral research at the Nagoya University (2006–07), University of Tokyo (2007–10), Aberdeen University (2010–12), he accepted the position of lecturer at the University of Tokyo. Since 2015, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. His current research interests are understanding of the essential and nonessential element dynamics in plants using ICP-MS and hyperspectral camera. He is also interested in molecular mechanisms of Casparian strip formation.
Dr. David J. Burritt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (hons) in Botany, and his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include oxidative stress and redox biology, plant based foods and bioactive molecules, plant breeding and biotechnology, cryopreservation of germplasm, and the stress biology of plants, animals and algae. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has edited 2 books.
Dr. Toru Fujiwara is a Professor at the Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD in 1992 from University of Tokyo, Japan. He worked in several institutions in his early carrier, including Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Davis, and Cornell University. Since 2011, he is at the current position. He has worked and is presently continuing on a wide range of topics,including plant nutrient transport, long-distance transport of nutrients and macromolecules, regulation of nutrient transport processes, mathematical modeling of nutrient transport, and generation of low nutrient tolerant plants.


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