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Sweety tips for everyone
How big is the smallest Tokyo apartment?
THE TINY APARTMENT MEASURES JUST 10SQM with a total population of 14 million people, tokyo is the most populous urban area in the world. this has led it to become an expert in micro-living — from capsule hotels to communal share houses, they know how to work with minimal space.
Why are apartments so small in Tokyo?
When it comes to downsized living, Tokyo has it all. From capsule hotels and compact prefabs to communal share houses, land scarcity and high property prices have pushed realtors and architects to work with limited space, resulting in tiny homes and rabbit-hole apartments cluttering the capital's neighborhoods.
How big is the average house in Tokyo?
The average size of an owned residence in Japan is 121.7 m2 (36.8 tsubo; 1,310 sq ft). This varies wildly between major urban areas (Tokyo: 91.0 m2 or 27.5 tsubo or 980 sq ft) and rural areas (Toyama Prefecture: 178.4 m2 or 54.0 tsubo or 1,920 sq ft).
Why are apartments in Japan so small?
In general, Japanese apartments are significantly smaller than those in the U.S. Why? Because Japan is a much smaller country, and much more crowded (depending on where you live)… there's physically just less space for building.
What's the smallest apartment in Japan?
Take a look inside the tiny apartment that Ikea Japan is renting out for less than $1 a month
Ikea Japan is leasing a tiny home in Shinjuku, Tokyo, for 99 Japanese yen (about $0.86) a month.
The compact apartment is just 107 square feet, but it comes fully kitted with Ikea furniture.
Do Japanese people live in small apartments?
Japanese apartments are famously small — tiny, in fact. While some urbanites are lucky enough to live in houses, others live in condos with multiple rooms, and a good deal of us live in one- or two-room apartments.
Do Japanese people live in small houses?
Though many people are happy with the houses in Japan and the surrounding environment, pretty much everyone has something to say about the small size. Despite the small land size, though, there are many people living the capital and major cities of Japan. As such, the houses get smaller and smaller.
Are houses in Tokyo small?
The average floor space of homes in Tokyo is 65.9 square metres. Of that area, there's an average 41 square metres deemed "dwelling" space. But homes get even smaller than that. 75,900 households in Tokyo have only 9.8 square metres of "dwelling" space.
Are houses in Japan Small?
Be it the east or west, they all feel that houses in Japan are small! Despite the small land size, though, there are many people living the capital and major cities of Japan. As such, the houses get smaller and smaller. But other than this, many said that they are satisfied with the housing situation in Japan.
Can foreigners rent apartments in Japan?
In order to apply for rental housing, you will have to pass a background check. This background check is required regardless of whether or not you are a foreigner, Japanese, making an individual contract, or making a company contract.
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Are there solutions to prevent cyclists from getting 'bumped' on Caltrain?
by Andy Gillin July 28, 2014
(Image via Streetsblog SF)
As Caltrain's ridership surges, bike ridership on the system has grown at a similarly fast pace. On an average weekday, approximately 5,900 riders (11 percent of total ridership) carry their bikes onboard, an almost 20 percent increase over the past year. As a result, Caltrain is running out of space to carry bikes: bicyclists are routinely "bumped" from trains – denied boarding due to lack of capacity.
Bicyclists and Caltrain have a complex relationship. On the one hand, Caltrain is one of the most bike-friendly transit agencies in the country. Each train carries two bike cars with a capacity for either 48 or 80 bikes, depending on the train. Given the decentralized employment centers on the Peninsula and the relatively isolated location of the San Francisco station, carrying bikes onto trains has proven popular for riders to address first/last mile gaps in their trips.
On the other hand, Caltrain has become a victim of its own success: so many riders want to bring bikes onboard that there simply isn't enough space. Largely fueled by the region's tech boom that has increased travel demands between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, ridership on Caltrain has increased by 54 percent over the past four years. Incredibly, bike ridership has grown even faster, at nearly double the rate of overall ridership growth over the past year. While bumping has occurred on Caltrain since 2006, it appears to be spreading to more trains over a wider time period as ridership grows.
(Source: Caltrain)
Bumping is bad for everyone: it delays and inconveniences passengers, limits ridership growth, and penalizes an environmentally-friendly mode of transportation that should be encouraged. Caltrain's official data suggest bumping isn't that common: it is estimated to affect 0.2% of passengers with bikes (PDF). However, the bigger questions are how bumping affects ridership growth: how many potential passengers don't attempt to ride due to lack of bike capacity, and how will future ridership growth be affected? The growing demand for bike capacity is clearly not sustainable; is there any capacity relief in sight?
Unfortunately, the answer appears to be no. A quick fix for Caltrain's bicycle capacity crunch and crowded trains is hard to come by given the constraints built into the system: Caltrain is presently limited to running a fixed number of trains during peak hours, and only has so many train cars that it may use. Some relief may come in 2015: Caltrain plans to purchase 11 to 16 used cars from Metrolink (Los Angeles) to lengthen some of its trains from five to six cars (increasing seat capacity from 650 seats to 780). But given the pace of ridership growth, these cars could quickly fill up. It's also unlikely that these cars will feature space for bikes.
In theory, Bay Area Bike Share could provide relief by allowing riders in San Francisco and the Peninsula to use bike share at either end of their destination as opposed to taking their own bike. A more robust system on the scale of New York City's Citi Bike or Chicago's Divvy Bikes could lessen the demand for taking bikes onboard in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Jose, among others. However, the small size of the program and slow pace of expansion has limited its usefulness. While Bay Area Bike Share is examining expansion opportunities, the bankruptcy of bicycle manufacturer Bixi has delayed any expansions until at least 2015.
A tricker measure could be adding a bike surcharge for riders to manage demand. Bike surcharges are not uncommon; bike-friendly cities like Berlin impose a minor fee for bringing bikes on trains. An idea for a $1 surcharge was floated in 2009 to raise more revenue, but it was met with significant backlash. It may be time to revisit the idea as a means of congestion pricing, but such a surcharge still runs contrary to regional goals for sustainable transportation that includes incentivizing (rather than discouraging) bike use.
The long-term outlook is better. The electrification of Caltrain in 2019 will reinvent the system as a more BART-like service, allowing for faster trains and more frequent service (increasing the number of weekday trains by 24%). The 1.3 mile extension of Caltrain to the Transbay Transit Center in Downtown San Francisco (DTX) will be similarly transformative, connecting Caltrain with San Francisco's employment and transportation hubs. It can be assumed that other transit improvements and the expansion of Bay Area Bike Share will also help improve access to Caltrain. Therefore, the future is bright, and these current capacity constraints should not last in perpetuity.
That being said, the challenge facing Caltrain is how to bridge the gap over the next five years before it reaches the "promised land" of electrification and DTX. Caltrain has a tremendous opportunity to continue growing its ridership, but it risks losing potential riders due to capacity constraints, crowded conditions, and bumping. It will be interesting to see how Caltrain deals with these issues in the near future.
2 responses to "Are there solutions to prevent cyclists from getting 'bumped' on Caltrain?"
I would hope that during peak commute hours bike cars with higher capacity would be used. Also, perhaps some of the current Bike Share resources could be redeployed to maximize their efficiency and to help with the problem on Caltrain. I bet there are lots of Caltrain riders that don't even think about bringing their bikes on board during peak hours for fear they'll get bumped.
RobBob says:
There are not enough seats as it is on Caltrain, so I can't imagine how they could add capacity without removing seats. Maybe they can remove the eight lower level seats in the bike car to increase capacity slightly. Since they are seats used by bike riders surely they won't object to trading seats for bikes.
They could also consider having one of the two conductors responsible for ordering bikes in one of the bike cars so that they can use the bike car aisle space for more bikes. Or maybe have one side of the bike car reserved for people who remove their front wheel so that they can fit a few more bikes.
I suppose they could also add a shelf to store a few lighter bikes above the current ones.
Obviously any solution at this point comes at the cost of convenience.


Sonorous songstress, Simi took to her social media space to celebrate and pen down a heartfelt message to her husband, Adekunle Kosoko aka Adekunle Gold on his 32nd birthday.
[i]'Light of my life. I love you. I also really like you and the way you do ur tins.


Group Jump via The Turnstile - FUNdoing. People. Together. Learning.
I love this activity ... like to ask them to be connected to each other in some way when I do the 2's and 3's. I also like them to go through the rope bowling pin style ... much like you last version. Depending upon the group size they must pass through 1 then 2 then 3, etc up to 8 or even 10. It's a lot of work (cardio work), high school and college age have solved it.
Thanks Jen - I love the requirement to be connected. You can let them be creative with this and you could also provide short buddy ropes to hold onto for certain groups.
Thanks for this Chris. My contribution to this post would be to simply reiterate that each level of Jump challenge is sequenced to match the ability of the group. My personal favourite is to start with the rope being jiggled on the floor, then slowly turning the rope, then faster turning, and then jumping the rope, and finally gradually building up the skill of the group to never miss a turn of the rope as they entered and exited. In my experience, this challenge is much bigger than the all-group challenge where 2 or more turns of the rope measure the success of the exercise. No matter what, have fun!
Thanks Mark - I like the rope "jiggling" start as well, especially with the younger groups. I've also simply swung the rope back-and-forth a little above the ground without making a full turn of the rope. This is another way for participants to start getting use to "jumping" the rope.


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Q: NoClassDefFoundError: com/mongodb/MongoClientURI     package com.sm.mongo;

    import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
    import com.mongodb.MongoClientURI;
    import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection;
    import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase;
    import org.bson.types.ObjectId;

    public class JavaMongoConnection {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //System.setProperty("jdk.tls.trustNameService", "true");

        MongoClientURI uri = new MongoClientURI(
                "mongodb+srv://admin:admin123@cluster0-bkruu.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority");

            MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(uri);
            MongoDatabase database = mongoClient.getDatabase("test");

    }
}

This is my code, and whenever I run this code, I get the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/mongodb/MongoClientURI

I looked at java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when using MongoDB driver and I tried their solution where I went to Run Configurations --> Dependencies and looked under Classpath Entries to make sure that I have bson-xxx.jar, mongodb-driver-xxx.jar, and mongodb-driver-core-xxx.jar listed. I have these listed and despite this, I keep getting the same error as in that stackoverflow post.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: com/mongodb/MongoClientURI class is present in mongo-java-driver jar. https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver/
Including the above jar in classpath should fix the issue

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The different types of jeans: Measure and double the widest point of the thigh area of the leg. Sizes go up in about 2-inch increments, so if an extra-small or a size 2 fits a woman with a inch waist, then an extra-large or a size 18 fits a woman with a inch waist. Well, maybe trying on bikinis.
Plus a calculator to convert a standard pant size to a jeans size. Plus a lot of info on the different types of jeans and jeans cuts. Generally, there are two ways how to measure your jeans size waist and length , the first one being the precise and easier one:. What size is a 30 in jeans, what a 32? Use our perfect-fit jeans calculator to convert any waist size to the corresponding US standard jeans size.
In this jeans size conversion chart, you will find an overview of jeans sizes for men and boys. You can measure them and determine the size, or you can easily check which jeans size corresponds to your clothing size.
The different types of jeans: In this chart, you will find an overview of jeans sizes for women and girls. Jeans are divided between High-Waisted-Rise to Low-Rise jeans, depending on how high the jeans are worn. Each pants size that is labeled in inches includes these two figures. The number 32 then corresponds to a leg length of 32 inches.
Before measuring your pants, take a pair of jeans and place them flat on the floor. Fasten the front button before measuring. To calculate the width of your waistband, measure the upper corner of the waistband from left to right.
For leg length, the inner jeans length from the stride length to the lower corner of the jeans is measured, i. Enter the results into the jeans calculator. If you enter the body measurements into the jeans size calculator, you will get the measurement in inches. These are, of course, only indicative values. In this way, you will ensure that they fall neatly on the top of your shoes.
This is different in the case of casual pants because it is sufficient for you to measure half the heel height. This also ensures that your clothes are not soiled too quickly — for example, during outdoor trips. If you want to measure your inseam another word for inside leg then best pick a pair that fit, you very well. You can measure the length of the inseam best if you place your pair of trousers flat on the floor, a table, or the bed.
Measure now from the crotch seam the point where the left and right legs are sewed together to the bottom of the leg.
In all cases, please also consider the cut of the pant you want to buy. Obviously a petite cut needs to be bought in a larger size than loose fit cut as these will have more room at the ankle. Most American pants sizes are based on width and length, measured in units of inches. All well-known manufacturers use two measurements: While the first measure is between 26 and 48 and indicates the waistband, the second measure is between 30 and 36 and reflects stride length.
Pants are produced in many, many different waistband and stride length combinations so that you can easily find the right pair for your individual physique.
The first number in pants is width: The size of the waistband is usually indicated with a W. For pants with a value of W25, this is taken to mean a pair of pants with the smallest, most common waistband width, namely 25 inches. The second number in pants is length: The leg length is also indicated in inches and is marked with an L.
Just as with classic clothing sizes, the inner seam is measured as well. L 30, to a length of 36 inches, i. If we receive the information from more than one eBayer, we will add it to our guide. Jean sizing varies by designer. It is recommended you also review measurements. Waist and hip measurements can vary, in the same size jeans, based on where the pants sit. To compare a pair of pants on eBay to a pair you own, match the rise first.
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Philadelphia has been a hot bed for talent for quite some time now. Whether it be when Allen Iverson reigned supreme for the 76ers, or more recently with the emergence of MMG powerhouse Meek Mill becoming one of the best spitters in the game, The City of Brotherly Love has produced a wealth of talent. Another name to add to their hot list, is 19 year old emcee and model Chynna.
Her track "Free Crack" was an outright banger in itself, and it seems as though the young emcee has just added more fire to the flames by calling up A$AP Mob members A$AP Ant and A$AP Twelvyy for an incredibly dope remix. The trio combine to form an east coast trifecta, as each artist holds it down for their cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York), and spit some incredibly sick bars. Each emcee comes through with some clever wordplay and slick flows that make the track into an all out banger. Cloud Atrium is on the boards on this one, and produces a laid back jam, with a beautifully tapered sample that completely relaxes the track, whilst packing a punch with some pumping drums that make you want to rock back.
You can stream and download the "Free Crack" remix below, and if you haven't checked out Chynna's Chinois project yet, then check it out on her Soundcloud. Also keep an eye out for the A$AP Mob collective album that's dropping on Tuesday.
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My nephew has neuromata. What are they?
Occasionally these develop as a result of damage to a nerve, but more often the swelling occurs in the sheath that surrounds the nerve cell...
My 14-month-old nephew has been diagnosed with neuromata.
There are raised bumps on his buttock and the doctor said they were raised tissue around the nerves.
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A neuroma (the singular of the plural neuromata) is a benign swelling of nerve tissue.
Occasionally these develop as a result of damage to a nerve, but more often the swelling occurs in the sheath that surrounds the nerve cell itself and arises spontaneously.
The symptoms can include intermittent pain in the areas of the body that are supplied by the affected nerve, and the same area can become numb and weak if the neuroma develops in an enclosed space and presses on the nerve.
They can occur singly, say in acoustic neuroma, which is a serious swelling on the hearing nerve that becomes damaged because the swelling in that part of the brain produces intense pressure on the nerve, or they can be multiple.
Your nephew seems to have multiple neurofibromas and these can occur as a result of an uncommon inherited disorder known as neurofibromatosis or von Recklinghausen's disease.
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Q: React Typescript not giving type checking errors I'm encountering a strange issue with React where TypeScript does not show any errors after running npm start or npm build. An example of my code is below, where I assign invalid values to the function arguments and variables. I get no errors with this code and it compiles fine, even though it should fail. I recently upgraded react-scripts from v3 to v4, which is the only thing I can think of that may have caused this. I'm using a mix of JS and TS.
export default function myFunction(
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}

I do get warnings, but no errors:
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Package versions from package.json
"react-scripts": "^4.0.3",
"typescript": "^4.2.3",

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Monthly Report, April 2018
July 25, 2018 / Cassidy Villeneuve
We hit a major milestone this month in our Classroom Program. Students have officially contributed more words to Wikipedia since our program's inception in 2010 than were published in the last print edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Executive Director Frank Schulenburg wrote a piece about the significance of this milestone, which can be read here. We also released a Press release for the occasion, which can be found here.
The Spring 2018 term marked another important milestone for Wiki Education. We are supporting 400 courses, our largest number of courses to date, and for the first time, more than half of our courses are being taught by returning instructors. This is evidence that our recruitment and retention efforts have been working and that the Dashboard continues to be an effective tool for everyone: staff, instructors, and students alike.
The Wikipedia Fellows pilot finished this month. We quadrupled our goal for words added (29,000) and tripled our goal for articles edited (65), but fell short of our goal of a 10-point ORES improvement (on average we improved articles by four points). All nine Fellows submitted responses to the end-of-program survey and had glowing remarks. Most notably, all Fellows indicated that they want to continue to contribute to Wikipedia after the end of the program. We are already at work on planning our next round of Fellows cohorts.
Frank and Product Manager Sage Ross traveled to Berlin to participate in the annual Wikimedia Conference. It was a great opportunity to join other leaders of the global Wikimedia movement. While Sage joined the programs track to speak to the present and future of the global Programs & Events Dashboard that we maintain, Frank focused on the second round of conversations about the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement.
Dashboard improvement summer projects were announced this month: Outreachy intern Urvashi Verma will improve the Dashboard's support for media contribution campaigns, while Google Summer of Code student Pratyush Singhal will build an 'Article Finder' tool to help Dashboard users explore topic areas and identify articles to improve. These improvements will benefit users of our Dashboard worldwide, and will provide valuable learning experiences for these volunteers.
Educational Partnerships Manager Jami Mathewson attended the Midwest Political Science Association's annual meeting in Chicago, where she served as discussant alongside three instructors who are teaching with Wikipedia: Dr. Jinu Abraham, Dr. Matthew Bergman, and Dr. Megan Osterbur. They each offered insightful tips about teaching with Wikipedia for the first time, and they made compelling arguments for doing so. This was a fun opportunity to learn about their experiences on the ground.
Early in the month, Jami attended the Midwest Political Science Association's annual meeting in Chicago. She served as discussant alongside three instructors who are teaching with Wikipedia: Dr. Jinu Abraham, Dr. Matthew Bergman, and Dr. Megan Osterbur. This was a fun opportunity to learn about their experiences on the ground, and we're grateful for instructors who encourage their peers to join Wiki Education's Classroom Program. They each offered insightful tips about teaching with Wikipedia for the first time, and they made compelling arguments for doing so.
Three partners committed this month to recruit their members for our new Wikipedia Fellows program—the Midwest Political Science Association, National Women's Studies Association, and American Anthropological Association.
And Outreach Manager Samantha Weald hosted two online workshops and one in person event to continue expanding our visibility among interested instructors. She called in to a Teaching Discussion Group meeting at Florida State University, had an online call with Santa Clara University's Department of Modern Languages and Literature, and an in person event at California State University, East Bay all with the hope of expanding our work on translation, language, science, and humanities assignments. You can read more about each of these events in our two follow up blog posts here and here.
Classroom Program
Status of the Classroom Program for Spring 2018 in numbers, as of April 30:
400 Wiki Education-supported courses were in progress (220, or 55%, were led by returning instructors)
8,162 student editors were enrolled
54% were up-to-date with the student training
Students edited 7,460 articles, created 557 new entries, and added 4.95 million words to Wikipedia
The Spring 2018 term marked an important milestone for Wiki Education. We are supporting 400 courses, our largest number of courses to date, and for the first time, more than half of our courses are being taught by returning instructors. Returning instructors typically require less support from the Programs Team which means we can devote more time to our new instructors, while returning courses continue to add quality content to Wikipedia. This also means that we can continue to support a growing number of courses and rely on the experience and expertise of our returning instructors to ensure quality.
Going into the Spring 2018 term we devoted a great deal of our time and effort to recruiting and retaining courses that previously had significant success with the Wikipedia assignment. Over the years, we've continually refined our resources and have gained better insight into what types of courses are best suited for a Wikipedia assignment. This term, we are seeing the results of these efforts.
Our ability to support hundreds of courses is also in large part due to the Dashboard and the close collaboration of the Programs Team staff. This term, the Dashboard was critical in helping Wikipedia Content Experts Ian Ramjohn and Shalor Toncray uncover cases of plagiarism and copyright violation, some of the largest sources of confusion for students when contributing to Wikipedia. Ian and Shalor, along with Classroom Program Manager Helaine Blumenthal, have also been in the process of revising how they support courses to maximize how quickly they can respond to any issues that may arise.
While Spring 2018 is just coming to an end, we're already beginning to look toward Fall 2018 with an eye to repeating our successes from this term.
Wiki Education visited Cathy Gabor's course at USF in April.
In April, Communications Associate Cassidy Villeneuve visited Cathy Gabor's course at the University of San Francisco and Irene Bloemraad's course at the University of California, Berkeley. It was a great chance to see Wikipedia assignments in action and get feedback about how students are liking trainings and other Wiki Education resources.
Wiki Education at Irene Bloemraad's course at UC Berkeley.
Student work highlights on Wikipedia:
Six student articles received Good Article status this month, and one received a Did You Know nomination:
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The realm of politics was one that was not initially open to women in the United States, but as time progressed women were able to gain a foothold and show that they were just as capable as their male counterparts. Despite attempts by Wikipedia editors to close the gender gap, information on influential female politicians and advocates is still lacking. Students in Karen O'Connor's Women, Politics and Political Leadership class at American University chose to address this by expanding articles on women and women related topics on Wikipedia. One student expanded the article on Inez Smith Reid, who was the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia and served as a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest court for the District of Columbia. Reid attended Yale and UCLA, after which point she accepted a position as a professor in Congo-Leopoldville at the Ecole Nationale de Droit et d'Administration, where she taught students studying to become magistrate judges during the Congo Crisis. Another article that was expanded by O'Connor's students was one on the National Association of Women Judges. Established in 1979, this organization is a gathering of women judges who are dedicated to preserving judicial independence for women, minorities, and other historically disfavored groups while increasing the number and advancement of women judges, and providing judicial education.
If you were to ask a child in the United States during the 1980s, many would express a desire to study outer space and attend classes on the topic (especially the coveted Space Camp). However many of these minds, thirsty for knowledge and gazing towards the sky, would find it difficult to gain access to programs that would prepare them for this competitive field and give them a higher chance of success with job seeking. This is why the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program is so vital, as it helps ensure that more people — especially women, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities — have the ability to access education and training that would prepare them for careers in aerospace science and technology, as well as promote a strong science, mathematics, and technology education base from elementary through secondary levels. This is likely why a Cal Maritime student in Margot Hanson's LIB100-2 Information Fluency class chose to expand this topic.
Some plants change the form of their leaves drastically over the course of their lifespan — so much so that you might never think that the leaves of the juvenile plants and those of the adults even came from the same species. This phenomenon is known as heteroblasty, and before a student in Gordon McNickle's Principles of Plant Biology class started working on the article, it was just a seven-sentence stub that gave little more than just a basic definition of the term. Now readers can learn about the ecology and evolution of heteroblasty and the physiological and genetic mechanisms that underpin it.
Tactile discrimination is the ability to tell things apart by touch. A student in Michelle Mynlieff's Neurobiology class expanded a three-sentence stub into an article that deals with the biology of sensing touch, and the importance of tactile discrimination to people who are visually impaired, people with chronic pain conditions, and in the design of prosthetic limbs and robots. Monoplegia is the paralysis of a single limb. TRPV2 is a cation channel that allows cells to communicate with the environment outside the cell. Posterior cord syndrome is an uncommon form of spinal injury. Ferroptosis is a type of programmed cell death. These are among the many short articles on Wikipedia that students in this class expanded into informative articles about topics that are of relevance to the everyday lives of people.
A broad form deed is a type of deed which severs surface rights from mineral rights. Early in the 20th century, their use allowed coal companies to gain control of the rights to extract coal across Appalachia, even when this involved the destruction of the surface of the land. The Roving Picket Movement was an influential movement by mine workers in Appalachia to improve working conditions. The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a liquified natural gas pipeline designed to move natural gas from the West Virginia to southern Virginia. These are among the many articles created by students in Sarah Carmichael's The History of Coal class.
Student uploads to Wikimedia Commons:
One student in American University professor Karen O'Connor's Women, Politics and Political Leadership course uploaded a photograph of Shirley Hufstedler, who served as the very first United States Secretary of Education. She worked in this role from November 30, 1979 to January 20, 1981 and her tenacity helped ensure that she wasn't the last Secretary of Education.
United States Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler
Image: File:United States Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler at Miami-Dade Community College.jpg, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Matching update
Program Manager Will Kent has been in the process of searching for Visiting Scholars for North Dakota State University (NDSU) and the University of New Mexico (UNM). Although no placements have been made yet, Will's been communicating with applicants and sponsor institutions about potential placements. He had an encouraging conversation with Barnard this month about potentially hosting a Visiting Scholar. Our Barnard contact, Meredith, was very eager and pitched the idea to her colleagues at an all-staff meeting at the end of the month, which was well-received. They are moving forward with a draft description of the position with a potential August-September start date. If everything goes to plan, we would have a total of four new hosts in 2018.
Work by Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars have been busy at work this past month. Here is a small sample of what they have been doing:
Wehwalt has been working on the 2017-18 Bergen County eruv controversy, a Featured Article. He has trimmed sections for clarity, added more up-to-date information, removed misleading information, and linked to more neutral sources, among several other smaller edits.
Czar made some small edits to the Judith Kanakuze article, which he created last year.
Rosiestep has had a productive April. In addition to creating the article for Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette she also created articles for Addie C. Strong Engle and Emma Elizabeth Brown from scratch.
Textaural has been busy contributing to the Essex County, Ontario article. He has modified links, improved clarity, and added a section about Black settlement in Essex County.
Visiting Scholars also uploaded great photos to Wikimedia Commons this month.
From the Sand Geyser Article, uploaded by Bfpage.
Image: File:Martian sand geysers.png, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the Simon Hatley article. Added to the article by Wehwalt.
Image: File:The Duke and the Duchess at sea.png, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Textaural added 1,500 words to the Windsor, Ontario article as well as a map. Most of these contributions are historical in nature, but provide a historically black perspective that was previously lacking from the article.
From the Windsor, Ontario article. Uploaded by Textaural.
Image: File:Sandwich Township in 1881, Essex County Ontario.jpg, Belden & Co, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
This past month, scholars have created or contributed a total of 21 articles.
Wikipedia Fellows
The Wikipedia Fellows pilot has finished. We quadrupled our goal for words added (29,000) and tripled our goal for articles edited (65), but fell short of our goal of a 10-point ORES improvement (on average we improved articles by four points). All nine Fellows submitted responses to the end-of-program survey and had glowing remarks. Most notably all Fellows indicated that they want to continue to contribute to Wikipedia after the end of the program. We are already at work on planning our next round of Fellows cohorts.
The Fellows team is working hard behind the scenes on curriculum updates, scheduling, communications planning, incorporating feedback from the Fellows survey, and reporting out about our Fellows Pilot. We are planning to start four new cohorts in early June, organized by themes. Here is a draft of the proposed themes:
A small interdisciplinary cohort, modeled after the pilot.
A small cohort that will focus on issues regarding the Midterm elections in the US.
A large cohort that will focus on issues regarding the Midterm elections in the US.
A medium cohort comprised of Fellows from Communicating Science associations.
We hope to support more than fifty Fellows in this next round of cohorts.
We hit a major milestone this month in our Classroom Program. Students have officially contributed more words to Wikipedia since our program's inception in 2010 than were published in the last print edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Frank wrote a blog post about the significance of this milestone here. We also released a Press release for the occasion, which can be found here.
We published more results from our Fall 2017 instructor survey this month. Instructors had great things to say about the impact of a Wikipedia assignment on a student's motivation and on the status quo in academia and beyond. We published our first post about survey results back in March.
We featured two guest contributors on our blog this month. Dr. Royal G. Cravens, III wrote about his experience in the Wikipedia Fellows pilot program here. And Dr. Benjamin Wolozin, of the Boston University School of Medicine, shared what it was like incorporating a Wikipedia assignment into his curriculum for the first time here.
Frank was interviewed on WMNF, along with Classroom Program participant Laura Runge, a professor of English at the University of South Florida. And Deputy Director and Director of Programs LiAnna Davis was interviewed on KPFK, along with Classroom Program participant and UCLA professor Dr. Ben Karney and his psychology students.
We printed a new subject-specific brochure this month for students editing Wikipedia in science communication courses. The brochure is now available to any course in the sciences and on Commons.
Blog posts:
Accessing diverse histories in the 21st Century (April 2)
Deep Carbon Observatory asks members to close gaps on Wikipedia (April 4)
Announcing a Visiting Scholar opportunity at the University of New Mexico (April 4)
How can we bring reliable information to the public? Political scientists of MPSA are here to help! (April 5)
What happens to a student's motivation when their work has an impact beyond the classroom? (April 6)
Writing for the lay public: medical students improve Wikipedia (April 9)
A day in the life: working online and in-person to expand the reach of Wiki Education programs (April 10)
How students can help inform the public about conservation (April 11)
How students are helping to curb misinformation, an interview with WMNF (April 12)
New resource for students in science communication courses! (April 13)
Contributing political science knowledge to our collective conscious (April 17)
Wiki Education hits a major milestone on its way to enhance the trustworthiness of online information (April 18)
Visiting Scholars opportunity at North Dakota State University (April 19)
Putting it all together: details of a Wikipedia assignment (April 19)
A classroom assignment that "makes the world a better place" (April 20)
Monthly Report, November 2017 (April 20)
Students translating Wikipedia articles expand coverage of South American colonial history (April 23)
Monthly Report, December 2017 (April 24)
Fostering inclusion in academia, Wikipedia, and beyond (April 24)
"Don't cite it, write it!" Why teaching students to improve Wikipedia is valuable (April 25)
Expanding our support of language and translation projects (April 25)
Wehwalt is ensuring the quality of Wikipedia's coverage of American political history (April 26)
UPenn Visiting Scholar Gen. Quon is making real progress improving Wikipedia's coverage of Classics (April 30)
Wiki Education reaches milestone, adding more content to Wikipedia than was in last print edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (April 23)
Sage got to meet Outreachy intern Candela in person at Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin.
Image: File:Candela and Sage at Wikimedia Conference 2018.jpg, Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.
In April, we laid the groundwork for an array of exciting technical projects for this summer and beyond. Two student coding projects for Dashboard improvements this summer were announced, once again mentored by Sage and Wikimedia Foundation Senior Design Researcher Jonathan Morgan. Outreachy intern Urvashi Verma will improve the Dashboard's support for media contribution campaigns, while Google Summer of Code student Pratyush Singhal will build an 'Article Finder' tool to help Dashboard users explore topic areas and identify articles to improve.
Sage attended Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin, where he hosted a workshop on using the global Programs & Events Dashboard and connected with many program leaders who are already using it for their programs or plan to do so. In the coming year, we'll be putting more effort into making the global Dashboard into an effective tool for Wikimedians running education programs, edit-a-thon campaigns, and other editing projects where the tools we've built for our own programs can be similarly useful. Many of the particular features we've built with Wiki Education programs in mind are also available on the global Dashboard, but they aren't on by default because they are only useful for certain types of programs. We'll also be working more closely with Wikimedia Foundation's Community Programs team to support global Dashboard users and prioritize areas for improvement.
Finance & Administration / Fundraising
For the month of April, the total expenses were $218,300 versus the budgeted $158,000. This variance of ($60K) is expected, ($50K) reduction in Programs due to reduction in Payroll and the Research and Engagement program. General and Administration was under budget by ($8K). The budget included $10K in personnel that was offset by an increase of professional fees (+$2K) to cover the work allotted to the unfilled G&A personnel position.
Wiki Education expenses for April 2018.
The year-to-date expenses of $1,562,000 were under the budgeted amount of $1,975,000 by ($413,000). For the most part, Governance is on track, just ($2K) short of budget YTD. As expected, Programs is the most under budget due to changes in budgeted personnel ($144,000K), Professional Services ($126,000K), Travel ($28K), Associated marketing costs ($8K), administrative costs ($12K) and indirect costs associated with a lowered occupancy ($20K). Fundraising is under budget ($21K) YTD due to a shortage in Travel in December/January, but is on track for the month of February. General and Administrative has been under budget due to Personnel changes at the end of Q2 and has not quite picked back up, as expected in the budget and is still under budget YTD by ($52K).
Wiki Education expenses, year to date through April 2018.
In April, Director of Development and Strategy TJ Bliss continued to cultivate relationships with funders who we think might be interested in Wiki Education because of our major initiatives, including Communicating Science (formerly Sustaining Science). We applied for the Drucker Prize, a $100K grant and leadership development opportunity. The last time we applied for this prize was in 2015, but we did not advance far in the competition. We are hopeful that with major growth in our organization because of the innovations we have implemented over the last three years, including the Dashboard, we might compete better this year. We continued to be actively considered for funding at three other major foundations. We also continued to reach out to funders who we think may be interested in sponsoring specific topic areas that we support in our Classroom Program and have finalized an infographic that explains this program to potential funders. We also continued conversations with two non-profit organizations, and started conversations with two others, who are interested in a co-fundraising approach related to areas of common interest.
Office of the ED
Current priorities:
Finalizing the first draft of our new Strategic Plan 2018–21 document
Working on the first version of next fiscal year's annual plan & budget
Participating in Wikimedia Foundation's strategy track at the Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin
Group photo at the Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin.
Image: File:Wikimedia Conference 2018, Group photo.jpg, Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
April has been another busy month, as the organization has moved full force into planning for next fiscal year. We're also getting closer to finalizing the first draft of our new strategic plan to be shared with the board in May.
Frank and Ozge also worked on preparing for the upcoming board meeting in early June. Board members will come together for a 2-day meeting in Tiburon for an in-person meeting that will serve at approving the new strategy and plan.
In late April, Frank joined Sage in Berlin to participate in the annual Wikimedia Conference. While Sage joined the programs track, Frank focused on the second round of conversations about the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement.
Visitors and guests
Marwa Ibraheem, University of California, Berkeley
Header image: File:Wikimedia Conference 2018, Group photo.jpg, Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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C. David Huffstutler
In February 2011, C. David Huffstutler was named CEO of Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare, the leading healthcare provider for El Paso and the surrounding region. Mr. Huffstutler also serves as president of Hospital Corporation of America's (HCA) Central and West Texas Division and as president and CEO of St. David's HealthCare, a seven-hospital healthcare system in Central Texas.
Prior to this, Mr. Huffstutler served as CEO of St. David's Medical Center, which comprises four of the seven member hospitals of St. David's HealthCare, including St. David's Hospital, St. David's Rehabilitation Hospital, St. David's Georgetown Hospital and Heart Hospital of Austin. Before joining St. David's HealthCare in 2007, Mr. Huffstutler served for three years as CEO of Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital in Houston, and prior to that, for seven years in various hospital operations leadership roles in the Houston market for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Before joining HCA, he spent nearly fifteen years in management positions for The Methodist Health Care System in Houston.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Mr. Huffstutler holds an undergraduate degree in healthcare management from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in healthcare from the University of Houston at Clear Lake.
Professionally, Mr. Huffstutler is immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Hospital Association (THA), the state's hospital industry group, and also serves on the executive committee. Prior to serving on the THA board, he served as a director of the association's political action committee, HOSPAC. He is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Don Karl
Don Karl was named chief executive officer of Las Palmas Medical Center in February of 2016.
For nearly two decades, Karl served as chief operating officer (COO) of Las Palmas Medical Center, where he oversaw day-to-day operations and managed many of the hospital's expansions—including the emergency department and the intensive care unit.
He also spearheaded the opening of the interventional neurosurgery suite, which is dedicated to advanced procedures and he was instrumental in the conceptualization and implementation of new hospital programs, including bariatric surgery and da Vinci robotic surgery. Karl has also helped recruit new physicians to the hospital to advance the hospital's care capabilities in various fields. Prior to his role at Las Palmas Medical Center, he previously served as CEO of Healthcare Diagnostic Center in El Paso.
Karl began his career in healthcare more than 30 years ago after earning a bachelor of business administration degree from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He went on to earn his master of business administration from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.
Ruben Castro
Ruben Castro serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Las Palmas Medical Center. Castro has more than 23 years of healthcare experience that includes administration, nursing, clinical laboratory and information technology. He previously served as the COO at St. David's Georgetown Hospital in Austin, Texas.
Castro has also served as the associate administrator and ethics and compliance officer at North Hills Hospital, an HCA affiliate in North Richland Hills, Texas. Prior to this, he served in several other capacities at North Hills Hospital. Early in his career, Castro worked as a licensed practical nurse and anesthesia technician at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford in Bedford, Texas.
Castro earned his bachelor of information technology degree as well as his MBA from University of Phoenix. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve for eight years.
Jerry Gonzalez
Chief Nursing Officer
Jerry Gonzalez currently serves as Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at Las Palmas Medical Center. In this role, Gonzalez provides leadership to the nursing team and oversees compliance with regulatory agencies and customer experience. Before serving as CNO, Gonzalez served as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer with oversight of numerous operations across various nursing departments. During this time, he led multiple clinical performance improvement initiatives.
Gonzalez previously worked at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, an acute-care center with 760 licensed beds, where he participated in the CNO Development Program. He served as the Associate Chief Nursing officer and Chief Staffing Officer and was responsible for Wesley's "Culture of Always" an effort to drive patient satisfaction and employees' engagement among nurses.
Prior to his promotion into the HCA Executive Development Program, Gonzales was Assistant CNO at Las Palmas Medical Center. In that role, he oversaw nursing operations and was responsible for the successful implementation of the first HCA Meaningful Use Audit. Gonzalez began his career with Las Palmas Medical Center in 2002, serving as Director of Neuroscience, Orthopedic Surgery and the Post-Anesthesia Care unit. In 2006, he developed the neuroscience service line, followed by the deployment of strategic plans to open a 10-bed Neuroscience Center with teleneurology in 2009.
He obtained his bachelor of nursing degree from The University of Texas at El Paso, and is completing his master of healthcare leadership from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Gonzalez has served on the board of the Child Crisis Center of El Paso. He is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives and the Texas Organization of Nurse Executives.
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David Shimp, FACHE
R. David Shimp, FACHE, was named chief executive officer of Del Sol Medical Center in February 2017. Before joining Del Sol Medical Center, Shimp was the chief operating officer of St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas. At St. David's Medical Center, Shimp played a key role in numerous strategic, clinical and operational initiatives, including more than $100 million in capital projects, that contributed to the hospital's overall growth.
Preceding his time with St. David's Medical Center, Shimp served in various roles at University of Oklahoma (OU) Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., ultimately serving as the chief operating officer. In this role, he was responsible for leading a variety of programs and service lines at the 798-bed acute care academic medical center, including the Solid Organ Transplant Program, cardiovascular and oncology service lines, the Sleep Disorders Center, respiratory therapy and rehabilitation.
Prior to his work with OU Medical Center, Shimp served in a variety of roles, including associate administrator at Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colo., a 422-bed acute care medical center. St. David's HealthCare, OU Medical Center and Rose Medical Center are all part of the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Las Palmas Del Sol's parent organization.
Additionally, Shimp served as a systems analyst and administrative intern at Bon Secours Richmond Health System, a research intern at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and a Michael E. DeBakey surgical intern at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
He earned his Master of Health Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in leadership studies with a minor in biology from the University of Richmond.
Shimp is a fellow of the American College of HealthCare Executives. He was also a member of the LifeShare Organ Procurement Organization Board of Directors and has served on the Executive Leadership Council of the American Heart Association. Shimp has also served as a volunteer for the Children's Hospital Foundation, Medical Business District Board, United Way and Habitat for Humanity, among other organizations.
Gary Purushotham
With more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Gary Purushotham currently serves as chief operating officer (COO) of Del Sol Medical Center. In this role, he oversees the daily operations of the hospital including all ancillary and support services departments at the hospital.
Purushotham received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Bangalore University in India, a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso and a master's degree in health services administration from Trinity University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the local ACHE chapter, Southwest Healthcare Executives Association. Purushotham is also a member of the Leadership El Paso Class 37 – 2015.
He volunteers his time with Shared Beat, a nonprofit organization created to support the health needs of the children and families of Safe Passage—an educational reinforcement program serving families living around the Guatemala City Dump. He has also been involved in food drives through the El Paso Fighting Hunger Food Bank.
Annie Garcia
Annie Garcia, RN, was named chief nursing officer (CNO) of Del Sol Medical Center in June 2017. Before returning to Del Sol Medical Center, Garcia served as CNO of Methodist Texsan Hospital in San Antonio for the past three years.
In Garcia's role at Methodist Texsan Hospital, she oversaw the nursing operations of the hospital and was instrumental in the hospital's efforts to improve nursing engagement, patient experience and quality outcomes, which resulted in a number of recognitions. During her time there, nurse turnover and vacancy rates decreased, while physician satisfaction with nursing care significantly increased.
Garcia began her career in El Paso at Del Sol Medical Center, serving for more than 10 years in several nursing roles with increasing levels of responsibility at the hospital, including administrative director of critical care services, director of telemetry, nursing supervisor and critical care nurse. Garcia has in-depth knowledge of the hospital and is well-known to the nursing team at Del Sol Medical Center.
Garcia earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from New Mexico State University. She went on to earn a Master of Nursing Systems Management from The University of Texas at El Paso.
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Modular build creates winter 'surge' ward at Watford General Hospital
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Unprecedented demand calls for modern solution as temporary wards are built in four months
A modular building system has been used to create a 'surge' ward at Watford General Hospital to keep on top of an unprecedented demand for emergency care services.
The Portakabin hire solution produced an HTM-compliant modular ward building in just four months.
The new 18-bed facility will be in use for the next three years while other changes are undertaken to allow the trust to cater for greater patient numbers. A further two-storey 'surge' ward building is also being provided for a five-year period.
The specification for the 'surge' building was developed by the trust in partnership with Portakabin and comprises two separate wards to achieve same-sex compliance and to meet all relevant HTM guidelines. It features a central core area to accommodate facilities such as clean and dirty utilities, kitchen, reception, toilets and showers, with two spacious nine-bed wards to either side.
Commenting on the project, Kyle McClelland, associate director for strategic developments at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said, "The timescale for getting this building on site was extremely challenging. Portakabin had just four months to design, build and hand over the building and this was achieved on time.
"The new ward has been well received by both staff and patients. The spacing of the beds is generous and the quality of the finishes meets all our requirements. It has helped us to manage the increased demand for our services."
The building is located in a car park, with a link corridor to the main hospital, and its modular construction meant it required no intrusive ground works, allowing the car park to be left intact. As part of the contract, Portakabin managed the building installation and fit-out, including foul drain connections, all reception furniture, special NHS-standard bedheads, alarm systems, heavy-duty flooring, cabling for data communications, and climate control systems.
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