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Mooney may be entering race for Congress; Afzali to become sixth legislator to file
by Len Lazarick | Jan 10, 2012 | Annapolitics Blog, News | 0 |
With the filing deadline tomorrow at 9 p.m., state GOP Chairman Alex Mooney Tuesday morning is planning to announce whether he will challenge 10-term Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a man for whom he once worked on Capitol Hill.
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Mooney has raised $108,000 so far, and named county chairmen, including freshmen state Dels. Neil Parrott and Michael Hough.
Mooney refused to tell reporters his decision Monday night, but said Bartlett would not be at the announcement in Frederick.
Freshman Republican Del. Kathy Afzali of Frederick County said she will file for Congress Tuesday morning, though she was coy about which district she would be running in. She lives in the newly redrawn 8th Congressional District now represented by Democrat Chris Van Hollen, and has filed to run as a Republican convention delegate from that district.
"I think I'm electable with this huge district," Afzali said. "This clearly was a map made in Washington."
"We need to get back to the basics of the free market and the power of the individual," Afzali said.
She would be the sixth member of the legislature getting into congressional races. State lawmakers can run for Congress this year without giving up their seats in the legislature.
The entry of Mooney, who lost his bid for reelection to the state Senate in 2010, would create a crowded field of six Republicans seeking to unseat Bartlett — including Sen. David Brinkley, who filed last week. More state senators and delegates have signed on for Brinkley's campaign.
Del. Kathy Afzali
On the Democratic side in the 6th, state Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola of Gaithersburg is running in a field of four candidates. The district now includes a large chunk of Montgomery County and Garagiola's legislative district.
In the 2nd Congressional District that includes parts of Harford, Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Howard counties, Republican state Sen. Nancy Jacobs hopes to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger.
"I'm not a Washington insider, and I will never be a Washington insider," said Jacobs, echoing the anti-incumbent theme embraced by congressional candidates of both parties.
"I'm not one of those people who goes to Washington and becomes Washington," said Jacobs. "Dutch became Washington."
Ruppersberger scoffed when asked about Jacobs' comments at the annual conference of the Maryland Association of Counties, an organization served as president of when he was Baltimore County executive. "Did I forget my roots? I'll stand by my roots."
"I'm upset about what's going on in Congress," Ruppersberger said. "It's wrong."
Another Republican, Del. Pat McDonough of Baltimore County, looked at a race against Ruppersberger. He said with the newly redrawn congressional lines, "they made this district a little tougher," for a Republican, going from 62% for Obama in 2008 to 64% with the new lines.
Ruppersberger agreed. The redistricting "helped me," he said, and made the district more Democratic.
"This district is an uphill battle," McDonough said. He plans on devoting the year to overturning the law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, and will not endorse Jacobs.
In the 5th Congressional District, House of Delegates Republican Leader Tony O'Donnell hopes to challenge U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.
In the race for U.S. Senate, state Sen. Anthony Muse said he will challenge U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, but Muse has yet to officially file for the seat with the state Board of Elections or the Federal Election Commission.
—Len Lazarick
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Woozy Winks was the bumbling sidekick of Plastic Man.
Woozy Winks was a nobody who was in the right place at the right time: He saved a wizard from drowning. As reward, the wizard imbued him with a power which would protect him of any damage. Hitting himself with a hammer caused no damage, and trees would grow from the soil to protect him from a fall. Winks begun to use this ability to make money, but in a wrong way. He soon begun to steal and destroy all the Homer Twitchel busts that he could.
Plastic Man wasn't able to bust Woozy, because of his new-found power. Then he assumed his alter ego (Eel O'Brian) to convince him to form a gang (waiting, of course, to know who was manipulating the crook from behind the scenes). Woozy would not accept O'Brien until he could give some proof of experience, and then Eel committed a wave of crimes, only to get his attention. Convinced, Woozy explained that they would steal the Twitchel busts from a museum, and Plastic Man would tell everything to the police, who would try to organize an ambush, to catch Woozy (and O'Brian, whom they don't know to be Plastic Man). The duo is successful in getting the busts, even with the police ambush, due Woozy's power. After breaking the statues, Plas was still curious about the meaning of everything and trailed Woozy, into the Mire Mansion.
O'Brien realized that Woozy was contracted by a rich man named Mire to break the busts. It would increase the value of Mire's own Twitchels. But Mire refused to pay up for Woozy's last job, after he learned by the radio that the broken busts were fake ones (replaced by plaster copies by the police). When Plastic Man tried to arrest them, Mire called in his black panther, named Blackie. By assuming Mire's form, Plastic Man orders the animal to go back to its lair, and then punched Mire.
After some more demonstrations of Woozy's power, Plas appealed to his good sense, and convinced him to surrender to the police. At the police station, Plastic Man delivered Woozy, and all the money that Eel O'Brian stole during those two weeks of crimes, but then Captain Murphey wanted to arrest Eel O'Brian.[1] After convincing Capt. Murphey to allow him to keep Woozy under his custody for a week, the Plas/Winks duo thwarted a black market gang, who was using old retired men to plunder sunken American ships. Plastic Man assumed his identity as Eel O'Brien, and set himself up to be arrested by Woozy, who received 1000 dollars of reward. Using his elastic powers, O'Brien later easily escaped from jail, and Woozy returned the reward to the police.[3] After this, Woozy Winks became a full-time partner of Plastic Man.
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In a matter of an hour, a jury of three men and nine women found Kenneth Adkins guilty Monday of eight child molestation-related charges stemming from his sexual relationship with a teenage girl and boy at his church seven years ago.
In multiple telephone interviews leading up to his trial, Adkins said he felt a calling to be a preacher and that's when he landed in Southeast Georgia. It was here that he made enemies for failing to make good on financial promises; for his hard-line Republican stances that tended to put him out of step with other black people; and for seeming inflammatory no matter the subject.
Adkins told the Times-Union he was picked by multiple pastors to trumpet their anti-gay, anti-expansion stance. He said he was paid for efforts that included posting lewd and inflammatory caricatures of former mayor Tommy Hazouri in a restroom.


Mustang head coach Jason Keeler was pleased with the Thanksgiving Throwdown that South Effingham hosted Friday and Saturday.
He was especially pleased with his team's 56-46 victory over Brantley County on Saturday.
"We had a really good tip-off (tournament)," Keeler said. "Great games and great crowds. All that, and it was capped off with a win on Saturday."
The Mustangs (1-2) were led by their big guys, Aaron Davis and Aaron Fisher, who each posted 14 points, while Ian Byrd added 11.
"Having three guys in double digits is huge," Keeler said.
The win came after the Mustangs were blown out Friday night in their home opener against Rockdale County High, 74-31.
The Bulldogs' Bernard Thompson led the game with 20 points, and Tennessee recruit Kevin Ware scored 18 and notched 11 rebounds while playing only in the first half.
The Effingham County High girls basketball team fell to 0-3 on Saturday night when they hosted Brantley County as part of the Thanksgiving Throwdown tournament at SEHS.
With about seven seconds to play, the Lady Herons took the lead, and eventually the game, 47-46.
"We missed four free throws in the last 20 seconds," Lady Mustang head coach Stacey Womack said. "They made theirs; that was the story of the game."
Womack said her team, which has shot less than 50 percent from the foul line in two of three games this season, will spend extra time shooting foul shots this week in practice.
However, Womack was pleased with the way her team played throughout most of the game.
"We played very well," she said. "I'm proud of my team and the offensive effort. We played good enough to win."
Alexis Williams led the Lady Mustangs in scoring Saturday with 16 points. Katie Durrence and Gabrielle Wright each posted 9 points.
Against Rockdale County Friday night, the Lady Mustangs stumbled, 66-41, to the Lady Bulldogs thanks to a slow start.
The Lady Mustangs actually won the second half by a point, but the Rockdale lead was too much to overcome.
Wright led South Effingham with 9 points and Durrence added 8.
The South Effingham basketball squads are back in action on Tuesday when they host Claxton.


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In teaching, the questions are as important as the answers, says political science professor Charles Lipson.
By William Harms
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" Students learn best when they are excited by the questions and by the prospect of looking for answers."
—Charles Lipson
"I never want my courses to sound like the answers are all settled and that my job is simply to dish them out," Lipson says. "Students learn best when they are excited by the questions and by the prospect of looking for answers."
Lipson's own research deals with international cooperation and conflict, and with political aspects of the world economy. His most recent book on international relations, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace, explains one of the most striking features in world politics: why democracies do not fight wars against each other.
He also has written extensively about education and academic integrity. His book Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, published by the UChicago Press, is used as a guide on many campuses. It is the first book for college students that deals comprehensively with academic honesty, plagiarism, and citations, including effective use of the Internet.
Fostering intellectual inquiry
Intellectual openness is crucial, says Lipson. "Whether a class is a large lecture or a small seminar, I want to encourage student inquiry."
To foster exchanges, Lipson tries to make his classes comfortable spaces. "It really helps when students begin addressing each other by name, when they start posing questions to each other instead of simply turning to me," he says. "I love it when they begin to push each other intellectually and build on each other's answers," he adds.
Lipson teaches a wide variety of courses in the College, from large lecture classes to smaller upper-level seminars. The teaching style is quite different for the two.
"In a lecture," he says, "it's crucial to provide structure—to post slides of your main points and to include lots of visual material. When I'm discussing the run-up to World War I, for example, it really helps to include maps, pictures of national leaders, photos of weapons and arms factories, and even propaganda posters. The visual cues reinforce the key points in the lecture," he says. "In seminars, the structure is more subtle but no less important. It comes from nudging the discussion one way or another and keeping it focused."
"I really love that he teaches classes that employ international relations theory without being too theoretical," says fourth-year student Tara Chandra. "The 19th-century world politics class that he taught in the fall was basically an in-depth look at how IR theory explains the historical events of the 19th century, especially in Europe. But instead of just being theoretical, it taught students how to apply the theory they learned to actual history."
Former professor inspires teaching
When he's teaching, Lipson says, he frequently remembers his own favorite undergraduate teacher, Charles E. Lindblom, a professor of political science and economics at Yale University. "He taught me in several seminars and was a model of what a good teacher can be. By taking us seriously, he seemed to shepherd us into his intellectual world," Lipson says.
Lipson's students are equally appreciative of the impact he's had on them.
"He can command a lecture hall with ease but values each of his students and goes out of his way to be helpful. His commitment to quality instruction and research is evident in every conversation," says fourth-year Greg Nance.
"I love teaching in the College, and I feel privileged to teach at the University of Chicago," Lipson says. "Our students are wonderfully smart, wonderfully interested. Most important of all, they seem to love ideas for their own sake. What more could a professor want?"
Originally published on May 27, 2011.
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Posted December 26, 2018 , updated on November 19, 2018 by Gina Tabasso
Second-shift receiving supervisor
What do you do/what are your job responsibilities on a day-to-day basis?
I unload trucks that arrive after first-shift leaves and set up the product for first-shift clerks to photograph and inventory.
What qualifications are needed to succeed in your role?
I have 11 years of experience in doing my job before I made supervisor and a lot of patience.
What background or prior work experiences that you bring to the table that help you do your job?
I have five years of experience doing body work and eight years of experience working on cars and installing performance parts before I came to HGR.
How long have you been with HGR, and why?
I have been with HGR for 11 years now because it's a good company to work for and I can't let down my late uncle-in-law, Ken Walker, who gave me this fun job.
What amazing things are you doing in your personal life?
My son and I are restoring a 1984 Ford Mustang; that's my dream car and one of his favorites. My son wants to get mine done so we restore one for him, too, for his 16th birthday.
What can you tell us about your family?
I have two kids. My son is 11, and my daughter is 12. My wife and I have been together for 15 years now.
What is the most important thing in the world to you/what matter most?
The most important thing to me is simple: family.
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What type of employer is HGR? Q&A with HGR's Receiving Department
Posted October 17, 2017 , updated on October 10, 2017 by Gina Tabasso
(Courtesy of Rick Hawkins, HGR's receiving supervisor)
What does your department do?
The main objective of the Receiving Department is to safely and accurately receive and prepare our incoming merchandise for sale. Our goal is to achieve the main objective along with ensuring that we present our customers with the best possible first impression of our merchandise. Many processes take place in order to prepare our surplus for sale: unloading, weighing, sorting, expediting, displaying, and inventorying are processes that are completed prior to sale. We supply our showroom and sales associates with ready-to-sell merchandise on a daily basis.
How many people work in your department, and what are their roles?
The Receiving Department operates on two shifts to help accommodate the high volume of deliveries each day. There are four forklift operators per shift who unload and prepare everything for the inventory process. There are four inventory clerks, two expeditors, and the chief pricing officer. Receiving also works closely with the eBay Department, the Recycling Department and the logistics coordinators. Together, we work toward a common goal; each position and every responsibility plays a crucial role in the desired end result: happy customers, happy vendors, good sales, and prosperity for all.
What qualifications do you need to be successful in your department?
Those who possess self-motivation to achieve goals, those who pay attention to detail, and those who are highly organized will succeed in the Receiving Department.
What do you like most about your department?
The fact that every single item in our nearly 600,000-square-foot showroom has been processed through the Receiving Department is a pretty amazing feat to consider. Every available item and every sales transaction is dependent on the efforts of those in our department. Knowing the contribution that our department makes to the whole of the company is gratifying.
What challenges has your department faced, and how have you overcome them?
I have been with the company since its earlier days. I have seen and been part of the evolution and can attest to the great accomplishments we have achieved over time. Any prosperous company must be willing to adapt and improve processes to accommodate growth. We constantly strive for improvement in efficiency and productivity. There was a time when a 10- truckload delivery schedule was nearly impossible. Now, a 10-truckload schedule is considered a light day. A lot of things have changed over the years. Improved organization, refined processes, better employee training, increased department size, additional docks, and effectively utilizing available space have greatly increased the capabilities of our department and our business, in general.
What changes in the way your department does business have occurred in the past few years?
As implied by one of our five company core values (personal dedication to continuous improvement in creating employee and company success), we are constantly evolving, adapting, and improving. During the past few years many changes have occurred: promoting company culture, major building renovations, the treat it like it's yours initiative, several employee-recognition programs, and the implementation of safety regulations. All of these companywide changes and improvements have created a better work environment as well as added to the foundation of our business for future growth. The biggest recent change in the Receiving Department was the addition of second-shift receiving operations. This occurred about four years ago and was an attempt to alleviate employee congestion, extend receiving hours, and enhance production. The outcome has been increased production, less forklift traffic with a safer work environment, and more accommodating receiving hours.
What continuous improvement processes do you hope to implement in the future?
I'm interested in streamlining some of our older processes and utilizing available technology to better improve efficiency. We have come a long way, but there will always be room for improvement.
What's HGR's overall environment like?
HGR not only sells machines, we are a machine, and a juggernaut of a machine at that! Everyone involved here knows that it takes a lot of effort and care to keep this machine operating with precision. In the industrial-surplus world, we are a massive entity. This is a fast-paced environment where things regularly change on a moment's notice. Our showroom is an ever-changing expanse of new arrivals and older equipment that has been further reduced in price. HGR is a place where you can find customers enthusiastically combing our isles to take advantage of our unbelievable deals and a place where the staff is well-versed in accomplishing goals and providing in excellent customer service.
What is your perspective on manufacturing, surplus, investment recovery/product life cycle/equipment recycling?
As long as there are consumers with demands for products, there will be machines, manufacturers and competition to supply those demands. As long as there is competition among manufacturers, there will be more advanced, more precise, faster machines being developed. The manufacturers themselves become consumers in a competitive market. The need for evolution in manufacturing and machinery engineering will keep the need for new and used equipment revolving. There will always be a market for used equipment as new, and expanding businesses seek to compete, improve, and evolve within their means.
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David Zuckerman – sceneggiatore e produttore televisivo statunitense
Ethan Zuckerman – attivista e blogger statunitense
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It is the season for spooktacular creations! STYROFOAM brand foam lends itself to all kinds of delightfully scary projects, quick and easy to make. This group of whimsical characters by Plaid Crafts are ideal for decking the ghoulish halls! A ball and a cone shape, so many combinations!


I didn't get any pictures (updated: got pictures of finished products), but today we rigged the Design Lab for wet work. By which I mean, we covered the tabletops in plastic, and brought out tubs, and did some work with water.
a group of technologies that deliver more than the sum of their parts.
Technology suites are great things to bring to a Design Lab or a MakerSpace, because they're a way to get a group of kids that are interested in one thing in a class, to learn about a bunch of related technologies. I've developed two of these classes now, and this is the first of them.
In the first class, my new parental-colleague and I introduced students to the methods necessary to produce rubber stamps. They learned about carving, and reverse lettering, and creating backwards-facing images that must then be carved. They learned about negative and positive space, about raying techniques (how to align your knife-cuts), and about creating drawings which are then reversed onto the block-blank, and then carved so that they leave a positive image.
And these will become the end papers for our book-binding project… the project that involves taking their stamps, all their stamps, to produce several dozen sheets each for a printed book (or maybe a blank book with some textual or decorative elements, depending on the skills and interest of our students). And then binding those printed sheets into signatures, and then assembling the signatures into books.
We're going to show a bunch of first and second and third graders who've rarely built anything more complicated than a holiday card how to cut blocks for printing, how to make the paper to print them on, and how to assemble their sheets of paper into books. We've even managed to finagle the loan of an actual printing press for a couple of weeks of the class. Practically the only thing we're not doing is showing them how to make the ink that they'll be using to print their images into the paper — and frankly, we don't have the rolling machinery to make really flat paper; it's all going to be the slightly nubbly stuff that you find as hand-made paper in nicely-bound leather journals that are crap to write in. So there's that challenge ahead of us.
Even so, I'm pretty proud of the development of this class. We're providing kids with access to a technology suite. And the individual learning opportunities — of making stamps, of making paper, of binding books — can easily be disaggregated from this one class into sub-classes or one-off workshops for individual grades. We're pulling together both the technology and the infrastructure to be able to do these kinds of projects, and that's pretty powerful in the long run.
Are we building robots and teaching kids to fuss around with electronics? No. But the Maker movement is more than that, isn't it? It's really about teaching kids to love making things, and to learn to create beauty in the world. One little boy, a kindergartner (think about that — a kindergartner who's going to make a full-scale book) asked, "why are we making paper when there's so much of it all around us?" And a little girl, second or third grade I think, answered him: "Because it's fun, and it means that we have paper to print our stamps on." It made my day.
More than that, though: I'm pleased that we're teaching a suite of technologies. We're teaching kids to use a broad round of tools in the Design Lab — and to think of water and plastic wrap as important parts of the tool kit. We're teaching kids that pressure and weight (on top of the finished paper) is an important part of production processes, and that drying is equally important. We're teaching kids that real tools are more than scissors and tape — that they're blenders and knives and pinking shears and buckets of water and super-fine mesh screens and wooden frames and sponges and cloths to mop up water. This is a lot different than their ordinary workaday experience; and I think it's going to give them a different kind of understanding of how the world works, in the long run, and the things that they can do to make meaning in their lives. Ned Halliwell wrote that the seeds of adult happiness lie in the play, practice, and development of childhood happiness. I saw a lot of happy children today. Planting some seeds.


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Based in Boston, MA, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is a non-profit legal rights organization in the United States. The organization works to end discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression, benefi ting individuals, couples and families across New England and throughout the United States.
GLAD was dependent on two providers for their data and voice services, consisting of two bonded T1 lines for their voice services and a coax solution (with 20 Mbps upload speeds) for their data needs.
GLAD's previous provider's Internet service was unreliable, resulting in multiple outages. In addition, the service was not synchronous. The upload speeds were too slow to accommodate their business needs.
There were no other communications providers that offered services in GLAD's building. The organization needed another option.
RCN Business worked with GLAD to bring fiber into their building. Upon accessing the building via conduit from the electric company, RCN Business deployed fiber services into the building within 30 days, providing GLAD with another choice for their communications needs.
With upload speeds increasing by a multiple of five, the reliable Internet solution has allowed GLAD to effectively communicate with its clients and handle legal cases more efficiently.
The RCN Business data and voice solution is more cost effective than their previous two providers.


Beginning level Android course covering basic Android development.
This course covers beginning level Android development from the perspective of a .NET developer. In this course you will learn to create a simple multi-screen Android application that can utilize menus and preferences and learn to deploy that application to the Android marketplace.
Today I'm going to talk to you about setting up your Android development environment. It can seem like a daunting task to try and figure out all the things you need to install, where you need to download them, and what you need to get setup to get started developing on Android, but I'm going to make it very easy for you by walking you through step by step showing you each step, how to get what you need, and how to get developing. First some basic assumptions before we begin. First, I'm assuming that you're using a Microsoft Windows environment. You could of course develop your Android applications using Mac OS or Linux, but for this demonstration we're going to be using Microsoft Windows. I'm also assuming that we're developing in Eclipse. You can use a different IDE for development, but Android has provided a set of add-ins for Eclipse that make Android development using Eclipse much easier. Finally, you need to have the JDK installed. If you don't have this already, you can get this from oracle. com. One note here is to make sure that whatever JDK you install, be it the 32-bit or the 64-bit, that you get the same version of Eclipse. Later on I'm going to recommend that you get the 32-bit version of Eclipse, so if you haven't installed the JDK already, you may want to just go ahead and get the 32-bit. So what are we going to talk about today? First of all, we're going to talk about Eclipse, where to get it, and how to install it. Next we're going to move on to the Android SDK Starter and we're going to get that setup and installed. Then we're going to get the ADT for Eclipse, which is the Application Development Toolkit that Google provides as a plugin for Eclipse. Then we're going to look at the platforms and components that the ADT will allow us to install in our Eclipse installation. And finally, we're going to create a Hello World application using Eclipse and a starter Android project just to make sure that everything that we installed and setup is working correctly.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight. And today we're going to be talking about The Android Project. The goal of this module is to get you familiar enough with the Android project structure so that you'll be able to understand when you create an Android application, where do you put certain files and where can you find files and configuration in your Android project. The very first thing we're going to talk about is the src folder, which contains all of your source files that you'll be creating for your Android project. Next is the gen folder. As you can guess, this is the generated folder that contains files that are generated for you by Eclipse. And then is the resource folder, which is res folder. It contains resources that you may use in your application. Then the Android Manifest file. This is a file that contains configuration for your Android project. And then finally I'm going to go over some tips for Eclipse. If you're starting out with Eclipse and you don't have a lot of familiarity, this section might be very useful for you. I've found that there's a few things that if you know about Eclipse can really help you get a jumpstart and really increase your productivity from the start. So I'm just going to go over some of the tips here that I've picked up using Eclipse that may be able to help you to really start using Eclipse a lot faster than it would take you trying to learn some of these things on your own.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and in this module we're going to be talking about the Android activity. Let's take a quick look at what we're going to cover in this module. First we're going to take a look at the activity lifecycle. We're going to look at the details of what happens when you launch an activity and when that activity is eventually ended, and all the steps in between there. Then we're going to look at how to get views from a layout so that we can use views likes buttons and textboxes in our activity. Then we're going to look at how we can update the view so that we can reflect changes that have happened in the activity to the view for the user to see. Then we're going to look at responding to events that happen within the view so that we'll be able to handle things like a button click. Then of course we need to be able to create a new activity, so we're going to look at what are the elements that are required in order to create a new activity, then to be able to launch that activity so that we can navigate from one activity in our Android application to another activity. And finally we're going to take a look at saving the activity state. In Android we have the possibility that the operating system may end your activity before you expect that to happen, and we need to be able to save and restore that state when that occurs.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and today we're going to be talking about the Android User Interface. First let's take a quick rundown of all the things that we're going to discuss in this module. The first thing that we're going to look at is the fact that in Android everything is a view. There's a lot of overload going on with the name view and we're going to discuss that and we're going to look at the view architecture. Then we're going to take a look at the layout files, which are XML files that describe the view. Then we're going to take a look at some of the different types of layouts. I'm going to walkthrough a few different kinds of layouts that you might use in your Android applications and show you some of the users of each one of those. Then we're actually going to go ahead and create a simple layout. We're going to create the layout that we had mocked up in a previous module for the Protein Tracker application that we're using for this course. So we're actually going to create that layout, lay it all out, and then look at the XML file so that we can understand how to create layouts in Android.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and today we're going to talk about Android preferences. In this module, we're going to cover what shared preferences are and when we would use them. The saving and retrieving of shared preferences, I'm going to show you how you can actually save a shared preference and then get that back whether it be in an activity or at the application level. Then we're going to look at creating a preference screen. In Android we are given the ability to use a special kind of layout file that allows us to lay out a preference screen that makes things a lot easier than trying to create your own. And then we're going to take a look at the preference activity, which is closely related to the preference screen. It is the activity that you can use to automatically display the preference screen and respond to events that happen inside the preference screen. And then we'll talk briefly about some other storage options that you have. We're mainly going to focus on shared preferences in this module because it's the easiest way to use preferences in your application, but there may be some other settings that you might need to store in a different format, and we'll take a quick look at some of the storage options you have for storing other types of user data.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and in this module we're going to cover menus in your Android application. So let's take a look at what we're going to cover in this module. First we're going to go over each one of the types of menus, I'm going to show you what each one looks like and give you a brief overview of when you would use each one. Then we're going to take a look at creating an option menu. I'm going to show you how to create an option menu and we're going to go ahead and create one for our Protein Tracker application. Then I'm going to show you how to create a context menu, we'll go over what is needed in order to create a context menu. And then finally we're going to create a sub-menu, which is just a menu that is part of another option menu or context menu.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and in this module we're going to be covering using dialogs in our Android application. Dialogs are a very useful part of the Android framework that allows us to give the user some notification of an event that has occurred or to get a quick selection from a user. So they're very useful in building our Android applications, and I'm going to show you how to use them today. So the first thing that we're going to look at is dialog management. Android provides a framework and a flow for managing our dialogs in our application. If we use Android's dialog management, it'll handle a lot of the work for us and we can just plug in the parts that Android asks for us to provide. We'll also cover the types of dialogs. There's several different types that we can choose from when creating our Android application, and I'll briefly cover each one of those types. Then we'll talk about creating an alert dialog, and we'll actually show you how to create an alert dialog in your Android application. We'll create an alert dialog for our Protein Tracker application and get some input from the user. Then we'll look at creating a progress dialog. I'll show you how to create a progress dialog in your Android application and some of the different variations that exist for progress dialogs. And finally, we'll take a look at creating a custom dialog. We'll go through the code required to create a custom dialog and create a custom layout for that dialog.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight and in this module we're going to be covering deploying your Android application. This is the part 1 of a 2 part module on deploying your application, and in this particular module we're going to cover signing your application. We're going to talk about what signing is and why you need to sign your application and some of the considerations specific to Android and the Android market. Then we're going to talk about exporting from Eclipse, we're going to look at how easy it is to export your assigned version of your application using Eclipse, and then we'll go through the slightly more tedious process of manually signing your application so that you're able to manually sign it if you need to using some Java tools and Android tools from the command line. And then finally we're going to take a look at an obfuscation tool called ProGuard, which is going to help you to be able to secure your Android application. The focus of this module is basically going to be on setting up you with the ability to sign your application and then to secure your application, and then in the second part we'll get into deploying your application. And with those three steps, you should be able to take your application and put it out there in the market so that someone will be able to purchase or download your app.
Hi, this is John Sonmez from Pluralsight, and this is the second module about Android deployment. And in this module, we're going to go ahead and dive pretty deep into the Android License Manager. Originally I had planned to make the deployment module just one module, but I decided to make this two parts because the Android License Manager is really one of the more difficult things that I've had to do in creating my application and in getting it deployed, and I think it's really important to understand how to do this so that you can make sure that your application doesn't get copied and you have this whole licensing issue under control. So we're going to just look at what it is and just discuss how it works. Then I'm actually going to walk you through setting up the license verification library, which is the library that is used by Android applications to take advantage of the Android License Manager. So we're going to download it, we're going to get setup in the project, then we're going to add some very simple license checking using the license verification library to our Protein Tracker application so that we can see how to get that working. And then finally we're going to take a look at publishing on the market. We're just going to go through a mock upload of our application and go through all the fields on the publishing and I'll briefly explain what those are.


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PhotoDynamic Set for Clinical Trials
Halifax-based PhotoDynamic Inc. will put its plaque-killing oral health product through clinical trials in the next month, the outcome of which will shape its strategy for the next few years.
The company will test its product with 20 patients at the Forsyth Institute in Boston, one of the world's most prestigious research facilities in the field of oral health. If it gets good results from these tests, the company plans to work closely with a Fortune 100 consumer products company to bring the product to market.
That product — called PD Foam and PD Tray — is a system that kills plaque buildup on teeth through a combination of light and an extract from a plant that grows wild in Nova Scotia. Because the plant is known to be safe for human consumption, the product has a relatively simple regulatory path. Its initial target market is the one-fifth of the population who suffer from excessive plaque buildup on their teeth regardless of how much they brush.
"We'll start in a few weeks and have the results by January," said CEO Martin Greenwood in an interview. "If the results are good, it will be easy to raise our next round (of financing) and then we'll be moving on to a larger trial."
In the spring of 2016, PhotoDynamic raised $250,000 in equity funding through the First Angel Network, and supplemented that capital with money from government programs. The company, which grew out of research by Acadia University professor Sherri McFarland, has remained lean with four employees and used the FAN money to build a working prototype.
PhotoDynamic has developed foam made from the plant extract, which the user places in the top and bottom trays of a special mouthpiece, like a mouthguard a hockey player would wear and which contains LED lights. Users turn on the lights, place the device in their mouth for one minute, and the plaque is gone.
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So far the system has killed plaque successfully in a petri dish and in animal tests, but surprises can crop up in human trials, Greenwood said. For example, 10 subjects will be given the PhotoDynamic device and the other 10 a placebo, to establish a clear gap between plaque buildup in the two groups. If a few of the 10 placebo-takers obsessively brush their teeth all day, it could skew the results.
Greenwood feels confident in the PD Foam and Tray and believes the company has positioned itself to proceed promptly with its commercialization. It has built up a strong working relationship with its multinational partner (whom Greenwood declines to name publicly), and that could help bring the product to market.
PhotoDynamic has also strengthened its board, recently adding former Johnson & Johnson consumer products CTO Neal Matheson and Barry Turner, a former vice-president of global complementary medicines with Warner-Lambert.
Assuming the trials are successful, Greenwood plans to raise about $1.5 million to take the company through the next two years. In that period he hopes to fine-tune the engineering of the product and carry out more thorough clinical trials, involving about 75-125 people over six months.
Then Greenwood plans to sell the oral health product to a large company that can develop it, and PhotoDynamic will use the proceeds to work on other applications for the plant extract.
"The way to really grow this company is to say, 'We're the people that can really take this technology to its potential,'" he said. "Let us be the R&D hub. . . . What we want to do is hit a home run and take the funds and reinvest them into the next one."
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Migos at the 2017 BET AwardsImage: Paras Griffin (Getty Images for BET)
Do it look like I was left off "Bad and Boujee?" seems like it was forever ago, but it was just last year at the BET Awards red carpet that hip hop trio, Migos sat or uhm stood with Complex's "Everyday Struggle" hosts DJ Akademics, Nadeska Alexis, and (*cough* former host) Joe Budden, thus creating a beautiful moment in black history. I wonder what we have to look forward to at this year's BET Awards?
BET hosted a nomination party for the 2018 BET Awards in New York City on May 15, and invited movers and shakers to hear all the nominees read out, while sipping on dranks. Ideal, TBH.
This year, the BET Awards is giving DJ Khaled the most nominations because apparently they haven't heard that he doesn't give his wife…you know what, never mind. Congrats are in order for your favorite social media hype man for getting six nominations. Khaled's up for album of the year for Grateful, video of the year ("Wild Thoughts" with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller) and he's even standing tall against hip hop greats like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Drake for male hip hop artist.
It's a little unfair that anyone is competing against Beyoncé for the female R&B/pop artist award, but alas here we are with Sza, H.E.R., Rihanna and Kehlani are all nominated. Honestly, one of these other talented ladies could take the trophy home because Bey is only nominated for two awards, she gave us Beychella, twice, muva's not about to give us another performance at this show. But one can hope!
Sza is the only woman nominated for four awards this year, leading the list of ladies who are nominated. She's up against Beyoncé for female R&B/pop artist, new artist (say what?), album of the year and viewer's choice. This just might be the R&B fairy's night! All the stars are closer. Cardi B is right behind Sza, and is up for three awards: video of the year, best female hip hop artist and viewer's choice. Something tells me at least one of those trophies belongs to Bardi.
The BET Awards is known to be one of the most entertaining awards shows ever. Remember the epic Destiny's Child "Cater 2 U' performance? How about Rick James and Teena Marie's "Fire & Desire" performance? Oh and no one can forget that time Prince and Stevie Wonder performed in a tribute for Chaka Khan. Listen, the BET Awards is an experience. I guess that's why they call it that now.
Watch the BET Awards with us live on June 24th and check out the complete list of nominees for the 2018 BET Awards:
Female R&B / Pop Artist: Beyoncé, Sza, H.E.R., Rihanna, Kehlani
Male R&B / Pop Artist: Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, the Weeknd, Khalid, Daniel Caesar
Group: Migos, A Tribe Called Quest, N.E.R.D., Rae Sremmurd, Chloe X Halle
Collaboration: Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B, "Finesse" (Remix); DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller, "Wild Thoughts"; DJ Khaled featuring Jay-Z, Future & Beyoncé, "Top Off"; Cardi B featuring 21 Savage, "Bartier Cardi"; French Montana featuring Swae Lee, "Unforgettable"; Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna, "Loyalty."
Male Hip Hop Artist: Drake, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Khaled, Jay-Z, J. Cole
Female Hip Hop Artist: Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Remy Ma, Dej Loaf, Rapsody
Video of the Year: Drake, "God's Plan"; Cardi B, "Bodak Yellow"; Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B, "Finesse" (Remix); DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller, "Wild Thoughts"; Kendrick Lamar, "Humble"; Migos featuring Drake, "Walk It Talk It"
Video Director of the Year: Benny Boom, Director X, Ava Duvernay, Chris Brown, Dave Meyers
New Artist: Sza, H.E.R., Daniel Caesar, Goldlink, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
Dr. Bobby Jones Gospel/Inspirational Award: Lecrae featuring Tori Kelly, "I'll Find You"; Snoop Dogg featuring B Slade, "Words Are Few"; Ledisi & Kirk Franklin, "If You Don't Mind"; Marvin Sapp, "Close"; Tasha Cobbs Leonard featuring Nicki Minaj, "I'm Getting Ready"
International Act: Booba, Cassper Nyovest, Dadju, Davido, Distruction Boyz, Fally Ipupa, J Hus, Niska, Tiwa Savage, Stefflon Don, Stormzy
Actress: Tiffany Haddish, Lupita Nyong'o, Issa Rae, Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Taraji P. Henson
Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Donald Glover, Sterling K. Brown, Denzel Washington, Daniel Kaluuya
Young Stars Award: Yara Shahidi, Ashton Tyler, Caleb Mclaughlin, Lonnie Chavis, Marsai Martin, Miles Brown
Movie: "Black Panther," "Girls Trip," "A Wrinkle in Time," "Detroit," "Mudbound"
Sportswoman of the Year: Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Candace Parker, Elana Meyers Taylor
Sportsman of the Year: Stephen Curry, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade, Odell Beckham Jr.
Album of the Year "Damn.," Kendrick Lamar; "Ctrl," Sza; "4:44," Jay-Z; "Culture II," Migos; "Black Panther: The Album," Kendrick Lamar & Various Artists; "Grateful," DJ Khaled
Bet Her Award: Janelle Monaé, "Django Jane"; Lizzo, "Water Me"; Mary J. Blige, "Strength of a Woman"; Remy Ma featuring Chris Brown, "Melanin Magic (Pretty Brown)"; Chloe X Halle, "The Kids Are Alright"; Leikeli47, "2nd Fiddle"
Viewers Choice: Sza featuring Travis Scott, "Love Galore"; Cardi B, "Bodak Yellow"; Kendrick Lamar, "Humble"; Drake, "God's Plan"; Migos featuring Cardi B & Nicki Minaj, "Motorsport"; Dj Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller, "Wild Thoughts"
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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Adult performer and director Jessy Jones was arrested in Woodland Hills last Sunday, April 8, police records show, after what former fiancée and fellow performer Jaclyn Taylor characterizes as "a domestic dispute" at the nearby West Hills apartment the estranged couple occupied at the time of the incident.
The arrest records show that the 32-year-old Jones, a popular, in-demand performer who is also a contract director for Evil Angel, was booked on Sunday at 1:50 p.m. for an undisclosed "felony." Jones was released the same day at 10:07 p.m., after his $50,000 bail bond was posted, according to public records.
Domestic incidents in California can be discretionally filed as either misdemeanors or felonies depending on several factors, including former charges against the accused.
XBIZ spoke with Jaclyn Taylor, who said she and Jones had been together for "four years and engaged for a year and a half." According to Taylor, they had co-habitated in the West Hills apartment until the day of the incident, although they "were no longer a couple" at the time.
Taylor claims that the conversation became heated and then she began "filming it on [her] phone." She says she told Jones she was video recording the argument because she didn't feel safe. According to Taylor, what followed was a "physical altercation" between them which she claims "can be seen in the video"of the incident.
Taylor has offered to show the video to XBIZ.
According to Taylor, she called 9-11 and Jones left at that point. Taylor says there were no other witnesses of the incident and that Jones' new girlfriend was not present when the alleged altercation occurred inside the apartment.
When the police arrived, Taylor says she told the police her version of the events, and showed them the phone video and what she alleges are "bruises and injuries" caused by the alleged physical altercation.
The police then arrested Jones, Taylor believes, at the nearby apartment of his new girlfriend in Woodland Hills.
Jones is scheduled to appear at the Van Nuys Courthouse West on May 2.
XBIZ contacted Jones and he replied via Twitter message. "I have witnesses and I have a video footage that shows that I did not do anything wrong," Jones wrote.
"This is absolutely ridiculous," he added.


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Specifying BACnet
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By now, most facility executives are familiar with BACnet, the standard protocol designed to enable various manufacturers' devices to share data and commands — in other words, to interoperate. BACnet makes it possible to integrate a facility's various control systems to a single front end for ease of operation. It also allows users to expand and upgrade controls using technology from multiple vendors. This is possible due to common communication infrastructure and front-end building automation systems.
"Imagine a situation where, in order to connect your DVD player to your TV, the clicker and wires all had to be from one manufacturer," says Grant Wichenko, president , Appin Associates. "Just as there is a protocol to permit the TV to interoperate with the DVD player, BACnet is the protocol of choice for allowing control system devices to talk to each other."
Today, BACnet is an integral part of the operation and automation of buildings around the world. BACnet has gained widespread acceptance as a national and international standard. It is formed by a set of software rules, rather than by hardware. The software provides a single-seat interface, which allows control of multiple building subsystems from one workstation rather than relying upon multiple locations or even separate software browsers to provide complete system control.
"Any vendor may develop software that adheres to the standard, and other vendors may share command and control information with other vendors using these rules," says Jim Herdeman, vice president of sales for KMC Controls. "There is no possibility that the hardware technology will become out of date because there is no hardware at risk."
Because the BACnet standard is independent, it has been able to evolve over time to take advantage of enhancements and breakthroughs in hardware. Manufacturers of such equipment as chillers and boilers now produce units that have BACnet integrated into the equipment, eliminating the need for hardwiring to the control device. This permits facility personnel and outside contractors to diagnose and correct problems. It also enables different vendors to provide products in the building on a competitive basis.
Automation Road Map
When integrating systems using the BACnet standard, facility executives must define a clear, open-system roadmap for their automation system.
"This roadmap should clearly communicate the interoperability and functionality goals and expectations for all building systems and equipment going forward," says Roy Kolasa, open system solutions manager for Honeywell's global offer management team.
The facility executive's first job is to conduct a detailed examination of automation goals and expectations, then translate them into clear specification requirements that fully define the preferred open system standards for the building automation system and subsystems. The facility executive should develop a list of interoperable equipment and subsystems, including infrastructure drawings depicting the networks and distribution busses on the enterprise system.
The facility executive should also detail what specific functionality is expected from the master system. This should include system points and functionality for control, scheduling and alarming from the master system.
FM and IT
Working in a BACnet environment requires a marriage between FM and IT. "Like a Blackberry or a car equipped with 'On Star,' the chiller and the boiler come to the job site as networkable, Web-accessible devices," Wichenko says. "The controls vendor is now the facilities networking contractor, and the facility executive needs to realize the controls contractor is now responsible for networking HVAC, fire, security and other systems together."
The facility executive must also decide where the network resides — on the enterprise network or on a separate network maintained by facilities. As maintenance costs rise, it is critical that maintenance staff and outside contractors can access the equipment remotely over the Internet. This enables maintenance costs to be reduced.
"The facility executive needs to educate IT staff as to the impact of having BACnet devices on the enterprise network," says Wichenko. "BACnet/IP has been designed to permit facility controls equipment to be resident on the network. The bandwidth consumption is minimal as the systems are designed to run on a standalone basis without connection to the network."
To reduce risk and cost, facility executives also should ensure the controls specification is "vendor neutral," meaning the language in the spec does not favor one supplier, leaving a facility with field equipment that might provide only proprietary BACnet objects that do not support interoperability.
"Owners should remain cautious because in the interoperable environment, not all functionality is 'open' due to some vendors' desire to maintain 'proprietary objects' and functionality that only their teams may utilize," says Herdeman. "Consequently, not all interoperable protocols are equal."
Vendor-neutrality is important in the purchasing process. The purchasing department only cares that the bidding is open and fair, regardless of whether one system or numerous systems are installed, but the facility executive should realize that the purchase usually involves an ongoing relationship.
In light of this, the facility executive must consider more innovative options for bidding control work, Wichenko says. A "best value" approach that considers product quality and price allows the facility team to rank features that are most desirable for the organization.
"It's really no different than buying a car," he says. "An individual has a certain amount of money in mind and attempts to find the vehicle that most closely meets his needs within the available budget. A best value selection must meet both the needs of maintenance and purchasing."
Case in Point: Energy Benefits
BACnet interoperability enables communication to subsystems and equipment including variable frequency drives (VFD) and lighting control panels. As a result, managing fans, pumps and lighting systems via BACnet can result in energy savings. BACnet may be used to adjust fan and pump speed, reducing the frequency of these systems to decrease energy use in a demand response control mode or to avoid setting a new peak.
Mike Olson, manager of HVAC applications at ABB Inc., describes a Dallas office tower that uses its building automation system to monitor percent of power of variable frequency drives. A 100 horsepower drive operating at 50 percent power delivers 50 horsepower worth of work through the motor.
If the percent of power of any of the building's 84 supply or return fans exceeds 50 percent, an algorithm in the BACnet system checks carbon dioxide levels to determine whether the volume of air to the space may be reduced. If so, the system performs a chilled water reset, reducing the temperature of the water delivered to the air handler coils and therefore of the temperature of the air delivered to the space. This action means rooms are satisfied faster, and fan drives slow down further, so the chilled water loop absorbs less heat.
The building has a thermal energy storage system that makes ice at night for daytime cooling. Less heat to reject equals less chiller run time to rebuild the ice for the following day. The combination of the adjustable frequency drives and the chilled water reset strategy produced savings that paid for the installation of the drives in four months.
"If facility executives can review the data and see what the cause and effect is, it will help them initiate change in the energy usage habits within a facility," Olson says. "Being able to link all systems together and see the data from a single location is one of the best advantages of BACnet."
Implementing Demand Response
Demand response control and communication standards and technologies are rapidly evolving to leverage energy flexibility in a facility's infrastructure. Heating and cooling systems account for between 30 and 50 percent of a building's energy consumption. This makes these systems key elements in a successful demand response program. Building automation systems provide essential control.
"To have the ability to respond to a demand response event, you have to have the ability to affect the overall control of a building," says Andy McMillan, president and CEO of Teletrol Systems Inc. "You need internal automation, and BACnet provides the logical components for managing energy use. It provides you an easy way to tell the system to reduce usage, and if the system is designed properly, by how much to reduce it when you receive an alert from the utility. In the old days, the alert came through a phone call. Now, through a Web services (Internet-based) interface with building equipment and the utility, BACnet can achieve this same thing."
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The Music Industry Technical Camp is a partnership between DianJen and the Ministry of Community Development, Culture & the Arts. It is a 6-week intensive programme of study for music practitioners in the technical and business management aspects of the music industry. This year the programme is designed to prepare participants for showcasing their talents at international Cultural Festivals such as Carifesta. It is aimed at developing the specialist business skills required to establish and manage independent production and music management outfits such as: Live and studio sound companies, music management firms, music marketing agencies and a variety of community music organisations such as Steelbands, Chutney and Calypso tents.
Explain fundamental music management and music production theories, without assistance.
Compare international music industry models with those in the Caribbean, with minimal assistance.
Co-operate with peers on music management and music production projects, with supervision.
Create music business plans for oneself, or a client, at a level judged satisfactory by the instructor.
Participant groups will create a full studio production using techniques studied during the workshop. For this production they will also create an accompanying digital strategy for marketing and release of the production. The various recordings will be distributed to iTunes, AmazonMp3 and other digital services and will be launched at the final showing ceremony. In addition to the group project, each participant will create at least one business document for their personal enterprise. This could be: An Invoice Template, One Page Marketing Plan, Press Kit or other similar documentation studied during the programme.
Duration: Saturday 28th July, 2018, 9:00am- 12:00 Noon – September 2nd, 2018!
Meeting Times: Saturday's 9:00am- 12Noon, Mondays 5:00PM- 8PM & Wed 5PM- 8PM- All Session MUST be attended!
Certification: Participants attending at least 90% of the sessions and completing all the course work activities will be awarded a Certificate of Completion. Participants that do not complete all course work activities but have an attendance of 75%- 89% of the sessions will be awarded a Certificate of Participation.
Mr Farley J. Joseph has operated in various segments of the Music Industry and possesses significant experience in the fields of Music Management, Production and Music Education. He has worked on various projects in Trinidad and Tobago and New York as: Audio Engineer, Music Business Consultant and Educator since 2009.
Mr Joseph earned various post graduate qualifications in general Music, Music Business, Music Technology, Business Management and Instructional Design- his highest being his Master of Arts in Music Business and Music Technology from New York University (NYU). As lead instructor and programme designer, he looks forward to presenting another immensely successful Music Industry Technical Camp in 2018.
Fabien Alfonso has been actively involved in the creative cultural sector for the past 30 years. He is an avid advocate for the overall development of our local Music Industry. He is very passionate about the appropriate administration of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in Trinidad and Tobago. He has proven to have a strong independent voice on this topic.
Mr. Alfonso, lobbied for the updating and passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill (2008), the signing of World Intellectual Property Organisation Performances and Phonograms treaty (WPPT). A treaty which identifies and outlines the rights of Producers and Performers.
A graduate of FullSail University with a major in Recording Arts and Entertainment Business Mr Darrell Bereaux's career spans some over 12 years in the Recording Industry. Owning his own recording Facility BEX Audio, he has worked numerous artists both locally and internationally. Mentoring young artists, audio engineers and producers he is known for his work with the youth constantly engaging and opening his facility to mentor and share his knowledge with the next generation of creatives.
An Audio technician for the Lord Kitchener Auditorium at NAPA, and the Senior Audio Technician for SAPA, he was able to expand his skill set to include live audio engineering and theatrical sound effects design.
Leveraging these skilled he has opened his own company BEXtronics, a company focused on sound, offering services of sound proofing, to recording studio design and construction, to professional audio installation to name a few.
What Does a Practical Session Look Like?
What are the Days/ Times of the course?
All Session MUST be attended!
Yes! Participants attending at least 90% of the sessions and completing all the course work activities will be awarded a Certificate of Completion. Participants that do not complete all course work activities but have an attendance of 75%- 89% of the sessions will be awarded a Certificate of Participation.
This programme is 100% free to participants!
Are there any other locations of this programme.
No. This programme is run once per year at our Gasparillo location, in partnership with the Ministry of Community Development, Culture & the Arts!
Does this programme pay a stipend or offer a shuttle service?


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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE) > Confronting History, the Archive and the 'Stranger' in Educational Research
Confronting History, the Archive and the 'Stranger' in Educational Research
Sophie Rudolph & Jo-Anne Dillabough
Wednesday 16 July 2014, 16:00-18:00
Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Kate Jones.
In this workshop, Sophie Rudolph and Jo Dillabough would like to engage the Faculty of Education, other departments and friends with preliminary ideas we are working on in relationship to the concept of the archive. Neither Sophie nor I have degrees in history yet in our respective projects we have both been faced with dilemmas surrounding the use of the archive as a methodological tool for engaging in critical sociological research. Sophie's current work rests upon wider questions about colonization through educational policy in Australia and concerns about what role should reading with, and against, the archive play in better understanding the history of Indigenous knowledge in the Australian educational context. One element of my current work is concerned with the representation of racialized young people who have engaged in protests and/or 'riots' in the UK and South Africa from the mid twentieth century until the present. In the latter project there is a focus on comparative international politics, security and policing particularly in relation to racialized youth living on the fringe of global cities.
Our plan at the outset is to show a short clip from the French Canadian film entitled Leolo in which there are references to different ideas about the archive, the imagination and selfhood. It also reflects on how these three concepts come together to reveal utopian and dystopian dimensions of urban life. We do this so as to ignite interest in questions about what it means to confront the archival record in our work. We will then each give a brief 15-20 minute presentation of our work and ask participants to help us bridge the various challenges the archive presents for all of us but also to discuss its critical uses, limitations and possibilities. We hope that participants will engage with us in relation to their own work and associated dilemmas and use this session as an opportunity to think together about the various challenges and possibilities for doing work in these areas. Abstracts of our work for discussion are presented below.
Critical Reflections on the Archive as a Site for Interrupting Colonial Logics embedded in Contemporary Australian Education Policy, Sophie Rudolph
The settler-colonial history of Australia rests on the concept of terra nullius – land of no-one – which was used to justify British invasion and settlement in 1788. This colonial device represents the concurrent acts of erasure and declarations of superiority that were to characterise Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships into the following centuries. Historian Henry Reynolds argues that these ideas became embedded in institutions: 'the idea that Australia was waste land had become a central doctrine of the colonial courts by the middle of the 19th century' (1989:67). In this paper I examine the possibilities and challenges of archival research related to the construction of a genealogy of the notion of 'gap' attributed to Australian Indigenous students through a current national policy called 'Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage'. I explore some of the ethical dimensions of archival work in this context, the tensions and contradictions bound up in the institution of 'the archive', and the potential for a history of the present to understand, interrupt and challenge the power of continued forms of colonial logic in contemporary education policy.
Rethinking History, the Archive and the Representation of Young People's Surplus Affect and Stylistic revolts on the Urban Scene, Jo-Anne Dillabough
"Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent?"
"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?" [..] "Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
David: There is a lot of Asian here because this school is by []. ..They call us chinks and stuff like that. JD: Who's the they? […] When you say they call us Chinks? David: Native people. Yeah, they are like get off our land and stuff. And it's like, for them, there are too many of you. Then we call them a racist word for Native, Jugs, when people get pissed off and when people get mad or when a group beat on one guy. For being racist. JD: Who beat up who? David: Well then it gets complicated and it's mixed…because some Natives hate racism too! (David, Chinese Canadian, aged 14, Vancouver BC)
Department of Public Welfare: In the event that Displaced Persons or other immigrants coming to the attention of this Department as public charges, such cases are to be immediately reported to the Welfare Services in order that immigration authorities may be given immediate opportunity to arrange for deportation []. (City of Toronto Archives, LLP -46: 55.1 copy, 46.21, 39., March 3rd, 1950).
The above words, some derived from a research interview, some from a media account of the London Riots (2011) and some from archive sources convey in different ways the power of narrative and the narrative imagination (see Ricoeur, 2010) as a temporally located strategy for making sense of the world. In this respect, the exploration of narrative expressions constitutes a central element of the ethnographer's trade. It also, however, presents a number of methodological and interpretive dilemmas which I will discuss in this presentation. For example, such dilemmas may emerge when a young person may be interviewed about, or asked to visualize their past experience in a neighbourhood, the wider city (e.g., participating in a protest) or the history of one's own biography in the city as a 'history from below' (see Raphael, 2006). For experienced ethnographers, we learn that young people may often imagine they have little history to tell and/or may believe they carry little substantial knowledge about the history of the city in which they live. It may also be that some young people understand their urban history in the city as residing outside the borders of both the official and unofficial 'archive' or legitimate citizenship or that their subcultural communities represent a revolt into style: forms that serve to rewrite archival accounts about representations of youth in past time.
In this presentation, I argue that narratives expressed by young people, their stylistic revolts and associated representations in the public record always carry residual meanings which operate in the present in re-appropriated forms and which shape their projected futures. At the same time these narratives also speak back – as forms of repetition and collective and counter memories – to both the official and unofficial archive. It is the ethnographic interpretation of these narratives, styles and representations and their dramaturgical functions (see Goffman) that may provide one avenue for better understanding how particular identity categories – such as a young person imagining he or she is Eminem or as 'riotous rapper' – might be seen as part of a larger narrative imagination and a theatre of memory (see Ricoeur, 2010; Raphael, 2006); that is, as a form of social and cultural meaning which carries residual effects and surplus affect into the present which change the course of history.
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William Kenyon were approached by a large Chemical company in Stockport. The aim was for Kenyon to supply a truly energy efficient Cold room with Refrigeration to match, as temperature control was critical . The Cold room was manufactured in Italy at the factory then brought to site. The Kenyon Cold room is totally Modular and every panel locks together with Cam Locks. No Screws, Rivets or Angle section are used in the installation of a Kenyon Cold room. The internal floor is 304 Stainless Steel. Door are super seal made by Kenyon. Door furniture is Fermod for quality and reliability.
Refrigeration accuracy was achieved by the Kenyon Control Panel that uses several sensors that constantly map the environment within the Cold room space. The Sensors pass on Data every two seconds and the Hysteris and differentials are adjusted constantly. The Compressor is a Scroll for reliability, and Energy efficiency.
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Basaltos de Decão são uma grande província ígnea localizada no planalto Decão, no centro-oeste da Índia. Eles são uma das maiores características vulcânicas da Terra e consistem em várias camadas de basalto de inundação solidificada que, juntas, têm mais de 2.000 m de espessura, cobrem uma área de c. 500.000 km², e têm um volume de c. 1.000.000 km³. Originalmente, os basaltos de Decão podem ter coberto c. 1.500.000 km², com um volume original correspondentemente maior.

História
Os basaltos de Decão começaram a se formar 66,25 milhões de anos atrás, no final do período Cretáceo. A maior parte da erupção vulcânica ocorreu nas Gates Ocidentais cerca de 66 milhões de anos atrás. Esta série de erupções pode ter durado menos de 30.000 anos.

Efeito sobre extinções em massa e clima
A liberação de gases vulcânicos, particularmente dióxido de enxofre, durante a formação dos basaltos contribuiu para as mudanças climáticas. Os dados apontam para uma queda média na temperatura de cerca de 2°C neste período.

Devido à sua magnitude, os cientistas especularam que os gases liberados durante a formação dos basaltos de Decão desempenharam um papel no evento de extinção do Cretáceo-Paleogeno (K-Pg) (também conhecido como a extinção Cretáceo-Terciário ou K-T). Tem sido teorizado que o resfriamento súbito devido a gases vulcânicos sulfurosos liberados pela formação dos basaltos e as emissões de gases tóxicos podem ter contribuído significativamente para o K-Pg, assim como outras extinções em massa. No entanto, o consenso atual mais popular entre a comunidade científica é que a extinção foi provocada pelo evento de impacto de Chicxulub na América do Norte, que teria produzido uma nuvem de poeira que bloqueou a luz solar, o que matou grande parte da vida vegetal e reduziu a temperatura global, o que é chamado de inverno de impacto).

Trabalhos publicados em 2014 pela geóloga Gerta Keller e outros sobre o calendário do vulcanismo de Decão sugerem que a extinção pode ter sido causada tanto pelo vulcanismo quanto pelo evento de impacto. Isto foi seguido por um estudo semelhante em 2015.

Ver também
Lista de vulcões da Índia

Ligações externas

 Scientist argues that volcanoes, not meteorite, killed dinosaurs

Geologia da Índia
Cretáceo
Paleoceno
Tectónica de placas


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Shantala Shivalingappa
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Born in Madras, India, brought up in Paris, Shantala Shivalingappa is the child of east and west. She grew up in a world filled with dance and music, initiated at a tender age by her mother, dancer Savitry Nair. Deeply moved and inspired by Master Vempati Chinna Satyam's pure and graceful style, Shantala dedicated herself to Kuchipudi, and received an intense and rigorous training from her master. Driven by a deep desire to bring Kuchipudi to the western audience, she has performed in important festivals and theatres, earning praise and admiration internationally. Since the age of thirteen, she has also had the privilege of working with some of the greatest artists of our times: Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Bartabas, Pina Bausch and Amagatsu. In 2013, Shantala was awarded the prestigious "Bessie" dance award in New York City for Outstanding Performance in Shiva Ganga, Today, Shantala shares her time between touring, expanding her choreographic work in the Kuchipudi style, and collaborating with various artists in the exploration of dance, music and theatre.
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