Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه) (born 1958) is a French-Algerian musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, techno, and raï. Taha was born in Oran, Algeria. His father was a factory worker. Taha's family immigrated to France in 1968. While working in a heating appliance factory in the late 1970s, Taha founded Les Refoulés ("The Rejects"), a nightclub where he would spin mashups of Arabic pop classics over Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley, and Kraftwerk backbeats.
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Wayrapa muspuymin Great album for relaxing all pipes and some singing on some tracks. Flying condor is their best track though.
Singer-songwriter Guy Harries is a modern day troubadour, weaving electronic and acoustic sound into song. Cabaret, urban soundscapes and musical influences from around the world are combined and presented in an intimate atmosphere. Guy performs with flute, voice and electronics in a wide range of unusual collaborations. As well as performing his solo projects, he is a member of the experimental band The POW Ensemble founded by award-winning musician Luc Houtkamp (www.powensemble.nl) and has collaborated with the acclaimed Meira Asher with whom he co-founded the Bodylab Arts Foundation.
" Here on Rasin Kreyol (which translates as "Creole Roots"), reigning queen of Haitian song Emeline Michel covers a lot of ground, writing songs that draw upon Haitan compas, twoubadou and rara as well as jazz, rock, pop, bossa nova and samba. Whichever direction the singer goes, her voice is clear and forceful as she dramatically imparts her political lyrics in Haitian Creole and French, offering up messages about AIDS, social justice and peace.
Kate Price is a hammered dulcimer player and vocalist born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has made recordings on several labels, including Priceless Productions, Access Music, Higher Octave / Om Town, Narada Productions, and LunaVerse Music. She creates contemporary international Folk fusion of Classical, Jazz and ethnic music using instruments from many cultures in the world.
Jungle by Night is a young and swinging, promising band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Friends, family and former strangers form a nine-headed ensemble, which is the talk of the town at this moment. Being different from the slipstream of young bands that find their inspiration in British and American pop, Jungle by Night is inspired by music away from the mainstream. Their music is a mixture of Afrobeat from Nigeria and Jazz from Ethiopia, played with a Western rock attitude.
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artists who started abstract expressionism
Posted on October 27, 2019 by Brenda
The problem was that the two main art movements of the 1930s – namely, Regionalism and Social Realism – failed to satisfy their desire for a break with current thinking. In this, they were strongly influenced by the arrival of numerous modern artist refugees from Europe, whose radical approach to art opened up a series of new possibilities.
TWENTIETH CENTURY ARTISTS
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see: 20th Century Painters.
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Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. Others included Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Elaine de Kooning, and Jack Tworkov. Most of these artists worked, lived, or exhibited in New York City.
Abstract Expressionism had a great impact on both the American and European art scenes during the 1950s. Indeed, the movement marked the shift of the creative centre of modern painting from Paris to New York City in the postwar decades. In the course of the 1950s, the movement's younger followers increasingly followed the lead of the colour-field painters and, by 1960, its participants had generally drifted away from the highly charged expressiveness of the Action painters.
The abstract expressionists were mostly based in New York City, and also became known as the New York school. The name evokes their aim to make art that while abstract was also expressive or emotional in its effect. They were inspired by the surrealist idea that art should come from the unconscious mind, and by the automatism of artist Joan Miró.
Within abstract expressionism were two broad groupings: the so-called action painters, who attacked their canvases with expressive brush strokes; and the colour field painters who filled their canvases with large areas of a single colour.
Many modern-day art historians believe that his emphasis on action leaves out another side of Abstract Expressionism: control vs. chance. Historians posit that Abstract Expressionism comes from three major sources: Kandinsky's abstraction, the Dadaist's reliance on chance, and the Surrealist's endorsement of Freudian theory that embraces the relevance of dreams, sexual drives ( libido) and the authenticity of ego (unfiltered self-centeredness, known as narcissism), which this art expresses through "action."
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) became known as "Jack the Dripper" because of his drip-and-spatter technique that fell upon a canvas laid out horizontally on the floor. Willem de Kooning (1904-1907) used with loaded brushes and garish colors that seemed to collide rather than settle down into co-existence. Mark Tobey (1890-1976) "wrote" his painted marks, as if he were inventing an unintelligible alphabet for an exotic language that no one knew or would ever bother to learn. His work was based on his study of Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, as well as Buddhism.
While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant-garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists who have become household names today had their well-established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field painters like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann; Harold Rosenberg seemed to prefer the action painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as the seminal paintings of Arshile Gorky; Thomas B. Hess, the managing editor of ARTnews, championed Willem de Kooning.
Technically, an important predecessor is surrealism, with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic, or subconscious creation. Jackson Pollock's dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor is a technique that has its roots in the work of André Masson, Max Ernst, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The newer research tends to put the exile-surrealist Wolfgang Paalen in the position of the artist and theoretician who fostered the theory of the viewer-dependent possibility space through his paintings and his magazine DYN. Paalen considered ideas of quantum mechanics, as well as idiosyncratic interpretations of the totemic vision and the spatial structure of native-Indian painting from British Columbia and prepared the ground for the new spatial vision of the young American abstracts. His long essay Totem Art (1943) had considerable influence on such artists as Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. [3] Around 1944 Barnett Newman tried to explain America's newest art movement and included a list of "the men in the new movement." Paalen is mentioned twice; other artists mentioned are Gottlieb, Rothko, Pollock, Hofmann, Baziotes, Gorky and others. Motherwell is mentioned with a question mark. [4] Another important early manifestation of what came to be abstract expressionism is the work of American Northwest artist Mark Tobey, especially his "white writing" canvases, which, though generally not large in scale, anticipate the "all-over" look of Pollock's drip paintings.
Clyfford Still – PH-129, 1949. Oil on canvas, 53 x 44 1/2 inches (134.6 x 113 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO. © City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
Arshile Gorky – The Leaf of the Artichoke Is an Owl, 1944. 28 x 35 7/8″ (71.1 x 91.2 cm). Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund. © 2019 Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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http://www.britannica.com/art/Abstract-Expressionism
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/abstract-expressionism
http://www.thoughtco.com/abstract-expressionism-art-history-183313
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism
http://www.ideelart.com/magazine/abstract-expressionist-artists
http://theabundantartist.com/artworkarchive-com-review/
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On behalf of Ed Hecht of Hecht Family Law posted in divorce on Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
Retirement might be years away when couples in Georgia decide to end their marriages. Their savings for retirement, however, will generally be counted as marital assets whether they are held in individual accounts or employer-sponsored plans. Accessibility of funds, penalties for early withdrawal and impacts on Social Security benefits all need to be considered by people negotiating their split.
On behalf of Ed Hecht of Hecht Family Law on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.
Divorce can be difficult, but don't make the whole process harder than it has to be. The way you respond to it defines what your future looks like. Even if your spouse ended a marriage that you did not want to end, you can bounce back and work toward a positive future. You just need to know what mistakes to avoid.


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* 314. An Articulated Faience Figurine of a Buddha
S. POSKHOCHIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, MID 19TH CENTURY
5,000-7,000 GBP
Height 20.5 cm.
Realistically modelled, wearing an oriental white robe with floral patterns and mint-coloured edges, depicted seated in a meditational pose, with articulated head, tongue and hands, with an impressed manufactory mark.
A sense of the refinement and harmony of Chinese culture was an integral part of the Rococo style in Europe. Richly coloured Chinese lanterns, painted screens, silks, lacquer miniatures and porcelain with stylised images of pagodas and dragons also came into fashion in Russia, and the artisans at privately owned porcelain manufactories duly mastered the art of "chinoiserie". The range of produced items included amusing Chinese dolls such as the present lot – simple and gaily dressed figures with nodding heads and even the ability to stick out their tongue. The original model for this work is the Pagoda figurine made at the Meissen factory in the early 1730s by Johann K ndler. The German artist was supposedly attempting to reproduce in porcelain an image of the blissfully smiling Buddha on the path to spiritual enlightenment. Pagoda was taken by K ndler as a general name, that was then used to describe all early Meissen Chinese figurines. Typically, the head and hands on this work are fixed with metal rods, bringing the statuette to life. These figures remained in high demand in the 19th century and were often treated as good-luck charms. Their popularity is evident from frequent representation in paintings and drawings. Such is Meditation, a painting by the German artist Conrad Kissel, where the artist carefully reproduces all the subtle nuances of a porcelain Chinese doll.


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New Jersey Legalizes Physician-Assisted Suicide, New York Could Follow
Hannah Howard
The 2019 legislative session has been a busy time for physician-assisted suicide activists and their adversaries. In the first three and a half months of 2019 alone, 20 states introduced legislation to legalize or expand physician-assisted suicide. Of those states, 11 defeated legislation and one, New Jersey, legalized assisted suicide. Nine states still have active legislation.
On April 12, 2019, after passing through the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation making New Jersey the seventh state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide is also legal in the District of Columbia, and potentially by court order in Montana. Under New Jersey's new law patients deemed to be terminally ill, with six months or less to live, must make two oral requests and one written request in order to receive a lethal prescription. Prior to writing the prescription, the attending physician must inform the patient of alternative options, and if either attending physician (approval of the request by two physicians is required) notices that a "patient may have a psychiatric or psychological disorder or depression" he is required to refer the patient to a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist. The latter stipulation appears to be inauthentic for two reasons. First, psychiatric consultation is required only if the attending physician recognizes the need for it. Second, a patient requesting a lethal prescription is undoubtedly experiencing some type of depression. In Oregon, a state where assisted suicide has been legal for over 20 years, the 2018 data summary on assisted suicide reported that of the 168 people whose deaths resulted in ingesting lethal prescriptions, only 3 were referred for psychiatric evaluation.
One particularly disturbing aspect of the New Jersey law appears on the Request For Medication To End My Life In A Humane And Dignified Manner form: "I understand the full import of this request, and I expect to die if and when I take the medication to be prescribed. I further understand that, although most deaths occur within three hours, my death may take longer and my physician has counseled me about this possibility." This stipulation is most likely due to the lack of uniformity in death times reported across the Northwest under similar laws. Kaiser Health News reported that "[i]n Oregon, even with fast-acting barbiturates, time to death has ranged from one minute to 104 hours during the 20 years the law has been in effect, state records show."
Another disturbing aspect of New Jersey's law regards the requirement of two witnesses. The following note accompanies the witness form: "At least one witness shall not be a relative by blood, marriage, or adoption of the person signing this request, shall not be entitled to any portion of the person's estate upon death, and shall not own, operate, or be employed at a health care facility where the person is a patient or resident." Thus 50% of the witness representation can be an individual who stands to benefit financially from the death of the patient.
The next physician-assisted suicide fight of 2019 is slated to occur in New York where Governor Andrew Cuomo has indicated that he would sign legislation to legalize physician-assisted suicide should it reach his desk.
States with Active Bills to Legalize or Expand Assisted Suicide in 2019
Delaware: HB 140
Maine: LD 1313
Massachusetts: SD 395, HD 171
Minnesota: HF 2152, SF 2286, SF 2487HF 2151F 2152
New Hampshire: HB 291 (study committee bill)
New York: S.3947/A.2694. A30 (study committee bill)
North Carolina: HB 879
Oregon: HB 2217, HB 2232, SB 579, HB 2903 (expansion bills)
Rhode Island: S 0157, S 0320, H 5555
States with Active Bills to Prohibit Assisted Suicide in 2019
Arkansas: SB 503 – Increases the penalties for assisting a suicide
New York: S 647 — Prohibits insurance coverage for assisted suicide
States That Defeated Bills to Legalize Assisted Suicide in 2019
Arkansas: HB 1536. Died in committee following a public hearing.
Arizona: HB 2408, HB2512, SB 1193. Died in committee with no action taken on bills.
Connecticut: SB 374, HB 5898. Died in committee due to insufficient votes to pass.
Kansas: HB 2089. Died in committee with no action taken on bill.
Indiana: HB 1184, SB 300. Died in committee with no action taken on bills.
Iowa: SF 175, HF 374. Died in committee with no action taken on bills.
Maryland: SB 311, HB 399. Defeated in Senate.
Nevada: SB 165. Passed in committee, no action on Senate floor due to insufficient votes.
New Mexico: HB 90, SB 153. House bill withdrawn due to lack of votes for passage. Senate bill passed in one committee and died in a second committee.
Virginia: HB 2713. Died in committee with no action taken on bill.
Utah: HB 121. Died in committee with no action taken on bill.
States That Enacted Bills to Legalize Assisted Suicide in 2019
New Jersey: A1504, S1072. Passed in the Senate and Assembly, signed by Governor.
States That Defeated Bills to Prohibit Assisted Suicide in 2019
Montana: HB 284 — Overturns the Baxter decision; failed in Senate
Hannah Howard, M.S. is a research associate at the Charlotte Lozier Institute
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Latest Research / End of Life
Studies Confirm: Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide Does Not Save Lives
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The Educated Guess
Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy
Tag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mixed results using iPads
A study conducted in four California school districts found that students studying Algebra I on an iPad did no better overall than students equipped with a traditional textbook.
The results of the 2010-11 study – the largest to date – disappointed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher that commissioned the research and had expected better outcomes from the new technology. But at the same time, a company executive said the firm remains undeterred in developing its digital textbooks and was heartened by scores in Riverside Unified, the one district in the study where students using iPads markedly outperformed their peers. In a white paper that the company published, putting a positive spin on the research, the Riverside teachers in the study extolled the software, which it said motivated students to take charge of their learning.
HMH Fuse, the software that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt developed exclusively for the iPad, comes equipped with many nifty features: more than 300 video tutorials by the textbook's author, a scratch pad for note-taking, icons that provide links for support, an ability to record notes by voice, and animated views that walk students through sample problems. Students I spoke with last year at a San Francisco middle school that was part of the study said they liked the features and found them helpful. (HMH has since then improved the note-taking capability, after students complained about its limitations.)
The study found no particular iPad feature directly contributed to math improvement, but collectively they kept students more engaged; there were also indications – though no hard numbers – that students with iPads did more math at home and after class. The students using the software who did outscore other students tended to have better attitudes, said Denis Newman, president of Empirical Education, the Palo Alto firm that did the research.
Riverside Unified students using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Algebra program on an iPad scored 9 percentile points higher than students using the company's Algebra textbooks, an impressive difference. Source: research by Empirical Education, Inc. (Click to enlarge.)
But overall scores on the California standardized tests and the publisher's year-end course exam averaged nearly the same for students using iPads and textbooks, after controlling for pretest and demographic differences – except for Riverside, where there was a 9 point increase in the percentile ranking, a significant amount, for those using an iPad. Put another way, by the district's analysis, 78 percent of students using iPads scored proficient or above on the Algebra CST; 59 percent scored proficient using textbooks.
78 percent of Riverside students at the Amelia Earhart Middle School using an iPad to learn Algebra I scored proficient or advanced on the state Algebra CST, compared with 59 percent using a standard textbook by the same publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Source: Houghton Mifflin. (Click to enlarge.)
Empirical Education did a rigorous analysis, using 11 teachers in six schools across four districts: San Francisco Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, and Riverside. They taught a combined 34 classes – 23 sections with textbooks and 11 sections with iPads, chosen at random. Most of the teachers volunteered to be part of the iPad study, but at least one teacher who proved to be a Luddite was assigned to the study. By the end of the year, nine of the 11 teachers said they would continue to use the iPad if given the choice (sorry, but HMH took them back).
Why the big difference with Riverside? Empirical Education found that the two teachers in Riverside used the iPads as a teaching tool much more extensively than the other nine teachers in the study, and the students used the iPads many more minutes per week in class than all but one of the others – a possible connection.
'Personalized learning devices'
But Riverside Superintendent Rick Miller has another explanation. The district has been proactive in deploying mobile technologies among its 42,000 students; it has learned that the best strategy is to encourage students to make iPads and tablets their personalized learning devices, as indispensable as cell phones. Allow students to download their own applications, including music, and they'll be more prone to access math videos and use the technology for learning. Others districts adopted more restrictive policies, at least at first: They reportedly locked up iPads when they weren't in use and didn't allow students to take them home.
The other difference, Miller said, is how the teachers used the iPads. Riverside's two teachers who volunteered for the study weren't chosen because they were tech-savvy; they hadn't owned Apple products. But, Miller said, they were good math teachers who came to recognize opportunities for differentiating instruction and for assigning videos at home to introduce concepts.
John Sipe, HMH senior vice president and national sales manager, concurred. "In Riverside, teachers were more comfortable from the beginning. They let the technology organically change the classroom structure and front-load instruction."
In retrospect, said Sipe said, the company should have done a two-year study, because there was a learning curve to the new technology. And it would spend less time at the start of the year teaching teachers on using the device and more time on classroom strategies with the software.
This year, Riverside has expanded its use of HMH's iPad Algebra program to four classes in the middle school that participated in the study. However, without the free iPads, students have to supply their own, which has led fewer low-income students to participate. (Parents can buy inexpensive insurance to cover theft or damage.) Meanwhile, Riverside is charging ahead with going digital, experimenting with multiple devices and free and proprietary software in multiple subjects.
HMH Fuse sells for $59 retail; districts can buy it for $49 with a six-year use. It's also now available for $19 for a use of one year. Miller said that if Houghton Mifflin Harcourt releases an app that can run on cheaper Android-based tablets, which will soon sell for under $200, then Riverside would deploy the HMH Fuse program much more extensively. Sipe said an Android app might be available this fall.
Author John Fensterwald - Educated GuessPosted on April 18, 2012 April 19, 2012 Categories 10.1Assessments, Jerry Brown, STEMTags Algebra I, HMH Fuse, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Rick Miller, Riverside Unified6 Comments on Mixed results using iPads
Welcome to the NEW TOP-Ed!
After a brief hiatus, SVEF's education blog, Thoughts on Public Education (TOP-Ed), is back in a new format. The blog will focus on deep analysis of education issues, especially as they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). These entries will attempt to translate complex education topics for readers as well as invite bloggers representing different perspectives to respond to our entries. We will also invite guest contributors to share their ideas about education along the way. We invite you to stay tuned to the new TOP-Ed.
We thank journalists John Fensterwald and Kathryn Baron for their work on TOP-Ed over the past three years. Their tireless efforts have successfully established TOP-Ed as a forum to present and discuss key education issues of the day. We wish them the best of luck continuing their excellent brand of journalism at EdSource and encourage you to keep up with them at edsource.org.
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to make room for apartments.
Can you arrange to relocate them?
and nobody came to its aid.
the space it left behind.
in need of an overhaul.
Can you ask them to stop it?
I'm writing this in a chair.
David Chorlton is a transplanted European, who has lived in Phoenix since 1978. His poems have appeared in many publications online and in print, and often reflect his affection for the natural world, as well as occasional bewilderment at aspects of human behavior. A recent collection of poems is Bird on a Wire from Presa Press, and The Bitter Oleander Press published Shatter the Bell in my Ear, his translations of poems by Austrian poet Christine Lavant. A new book, Reading T. S. Eliot to a Bird, is out from Hoot 'n Waddle, based in Phoenix. Read other articles by David.


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"Lacey" is just as sweet and beautiful as she looks.
Things are going along swimmingly, and we're on Day Two of living here in Syracuse.
You are right that Air Canada Cargo handles the shipping of animals very well. We arrived at the office and were told that there would be a wait of up to an hour as the plane got unloaded and cargo got transported from another area of the airport. Then I noticed that one of the men quietly said something and in a few minutes Jake was there. I think he personally went and got him rather than waiting for the whole shipment to get there. We were beyond excited.
I followed your instructions and put on the collar and leash inside the crate, but Jake would not come out. A slight tug or two plus coaxing with the Air Canada guy's pot of baked beans produced no response from Jake. Finally we sort of lifted him out under his armpits and he stood astonished. The car was pulled up to the door and he gratefully landed in Lucia's arms. He had his own side but immediately crawled on her, snout under her arm and spent the entire trip snoozing, watching her iPhone with her, and not making a peep. Several stops for breaks with no results, but no complaints either.
We got home before midnight. I set up the crate near my bed and near the sliding doors to the deck. We stayed up an hour watching the news. He had an "accident" in the rush of getting things in the house, but nothing afterwards. The first few minutes in the crate he complained and knocked about, but I was so exhausted I could feel myself dropping off and he did too. We slept about five hours, woke up for a pee break and slept for another three hours. Jake dozed on and off all day, but did eat and drink, and poop outside.
The best part is that I must work when I'm home, and I have to concentrate. He is beautiful and just lays at my feet; snoozing, dreaming, getting up occasionally to walk around. I'm still figuring out the house arrangement to minimize puppy-teasing details such as books, wires, etc. Do you know what kinds of chew toys he likes? He isn't all that fond of anything I've bought, but does have interest in my boots, blankets, etc. so vigilance is essential.
All in all things are going well and you made a great match.
Last Thursday we had our first unofficial 'Therapy' day. Waylon was amazing! The resident's at the nursing home where I work loved him. He thoroughly enjoyed the love and attention he received. I brought along some of his kibble, and he enjoyed receiving some as 'treats'. I was so proud of him. He was exceptionally well behaved on the leash, and sat patiently while I did some introductions, and organized my day. I brought along his kennel, so he happily napped in the afternoon, after a busy morning. My colleagues commented on his nature, they were amazed a puppy under three months would be so relaxed, and not jumping and barking out.
My three-year-old son and Waylon are partners in crime! Waylon does not get any planned table scraps, but he has realized that rice or cereal will occasionally fall on the floor, particularly under the seat of his buddy. So his favorite place to sit during meals is directly under the food source. They spend hours everyday chasing and playing in the house or outdoors if the weather permits. Once or twice I've let my son hold Waylon's leash – in the condo hallways – and Waylon happily jaunts alongside him.
Waylon is a wonderful puppy and gives us much love and happiness.
Just a quick note to let you know that Rigley has settled in here really well. I don't think you could possibly have picked out a better puppy for us. He loves it outside and plays really hard in the yard and is a perfectly calm well-behaved puppy inside. He didn't make a peep on our snowy drive home and was quite content sitting in the back with the girls. About 20 minutes from home one of them started feeling car sick and he snuggled right up to her and just stared up into her eyes as though he knew she needed help and didn't take his eyes off of her until we got home.
I knew standard poodles were quite intuitive but was surprised to see this at such a young age. It is astonishing how smart he is. We haven't really had to house train him. We took him outside once, he did his business, we cheered and made a big fuss, and now he goes to the back door whenever he needs to go out.
He's also learned that if he goes to the back door and picks up his harness that we'll come even faster so yesterday he did that and when we came running he dropped the harness and ran to his bowl so I guess he's figured out how to tell us his bowl is empty, too!
He's also figured out that our teen daughter will sit and rub his belly if he rolls onto his back so the moment he sees her he throws himself onto the floor beside her and kicks his feet in the air. He's such a sweetie. We absolutely adore him. Thanks so much!
Lincoln: First night in new home – one tired puppy!!
Phinn: travel front seat or don't travel at all!
When we left your farm, we thought it was going to be a painful drive. Phinn cried – it was so sad. Before we got on the highway to head back to Fredericton, we stopped to put his collar on to take him for a pee. Well, he wanted to get right back in the car. We situated him on a large kennel pillow on Bev's lap and he didn't make a peep for the whole seven hour drive! Between naps, he would look out the window and snuggle.
As you suggested, we put the kennel beside our bed. He didn't cry but needed to feel my hand on his nose for a few minutes. He slept for 7 hours for the first night which, as it turns out, was the shortest duration so far. He regularly sleeps between 8 and 9 hours per night without interruption.
He had a great Christmas! On the 23rd we went to a gathering in Woodstock with my family. We thought we would have to kennel him while we had supper but he was not an issue. We made the rule that he was not to be fed from the table so he just hung around for a while then laid down. Because of the weather, the trip was about 2 hours each way and he slept for the most part and didn't make a sound. On the 25th we went to Bristol for Bev's family gathering. Again, he mostly slept during the drive, only getting up to see where he was and to reposition. He was on his best behaviour at the gathering and again, lying down for most of the meal.
As for the house training, he has had a total of about 4 piddle accidents at our house. He will sit in front of the gate (baby gate at the top of the stairs) when he needs to go…. it took us 4 piddles to realize what he was trying to tell us. We have started bell training to help with the "need to pee" notification process. In less than 24 hours, he rang the bell for the first time but he prefers to just sit in front of the gate…. work in progress.
He is also being trained by our cat, Chloe. We/she have set some boundaries but after two days, she has nuzzled him under the chin. This morning, he took his ball out to the kitchen and dropped it for Chloe to incite her to play with him. She has had to give him a slap when he got a little too exuberant but kept her claws in. Phinn also likes to watch the cat eat but he knows he can't get too close because her food area is out of bounds and she might slap him.
We are so pleased with Phinnaeous! He is simply a brilliant pup and we are so happy he has joined our family!


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#KeyLIMEPodcast 226: When Feminist Theory Meets the Lancet
For her review, Lara selected a manuscript from a special February edition of the Lancet, which focused on feminist and gender issues. Her selection examined how feminist theory can be used to address modern challenges in the world of #meded and how it holds the potential to move clinicians and educators from theory to action. The authors conducted a scoping review that identified the four main ways feminist theory has been applied to medical education and medical education research – but to find out what these are, you'll have to listen to the episode.
KeyLIME Session 226
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Sharma M. Applying feminist theory to medical education. Lancet. 2019 Feb 9;393(10171):570-578
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This manuscript is from the February 9th, 2019 edition of the Lancet that highlighted feminist and gender issues in both medicine and medical education. While that edition of the journal has several important manuscripts, I selected this one because it focuses on medical education and on feminist theory.
Instead of reporting on a study, this manuscript focuses on how feminist theory has been applied to medical education, and how rigorous application of feminist theory can help address some of medical education's modern challenges.
Key Points on the Methods
This paper writes up a scoping review, which is an appropriate choice for this research. Remember the question is to explore how feminist theory has been applied to the field of medical education. A common purpose of a scoping review is to summarize a range of research on a particular topic – so that's fine.
The author used search terms of medical education, feminist and gender issues to make sure to find as much relevant lit as possible. She did not include any grey literature, justifying that choice by stating she was interested in reviewing literature that provides insight into what is considered legitimate or worthy by the field. There is a also a brief description of some of the other inclusion and exclusion criteria, including excluding any work that was theoretical or that dealt with medical practice and not medical education (which makes sense – she wants to see how feminist theory has been applied in med ed so if there is no theory in the paper or no education, it makes sense to exclude that work) The author approached two experts in medical education and feminist theory, asking them for literature that should be included in the review. Now, normally, consulting with experts is the final – and optional – step of a scoping review, but I think it is reasonable to have them weigh in early to help find literature. I think that was a clever approach used by the author
To my surprise, this search practice ended up finding 80 manuscripts for inclusion in the review. That is way more than I expected.
Before reporting the findings of her review, the author clarifies her key terms. She notes that there is no single definition of feminism, that it is a concept with multiple interpretations and historical roots. She turns to Bell Hook's simple definition as her grounding: "that feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." She also explains that there is no single unifying definition of a feminist theory. Table one offers a brief outline of 11 different feminist theories
The author found that feminist theory has been used in medical education in four main ways. First, is what the author called the what . This is about understanding gender issues in medical curricula through a feminist lens. Here, the "what" is the content of our curricula, where the author highlights systems that have failed to adequately consider women's health issues and contexts, that frequently patronize women and their experiences, and that place little value on women's lived experiences and areas of expertise. Second, is who. Here, the author notes that feminist theory has been used in medical education to analyze the lived experiences of medical training. This is a body of literature where the lived experiences of medical trainees has outlined the issues of classism, racism, homophobia, and sexism they have faced in their medical training. Third is how. Here the author summarizes how feminist theory has informed pedagogy. Feminist pedagogical approaches encourage us to recognize our assumptions and to examine the hidden curriculum of medical education systems. This body of work looks at the ideology that is perpetuated by our pedagogy, noting that current discourses and systems in education neglect social contexts and do not advocate for broader curricular shift to make room for different cultures. Finally, feminist theory has informed medical education research – this is what the author calls the why. Feminist theory has shaped the research questions asked, the theoretical frameworks through which those questions are asked, the methodologies used, and the the ways in which findings are translated into practice.
Key Conclusions
The author explains that medical education lays the foundation for medical practice. She argues that it is therefore essential for us to understand how in our teaching of future practitioners, we are socializing them into ways of thinking and working. Feminist theories are essential for not only changing what content we cover in our curricula, and who is brought into the medical profession, but also feminist theory requires us to see how our pedagogy has patriarchal underpinnings and why our research addressing some questions and includes some voices, but not others.
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Canton Police propose controversial license plate reader cameras at busy corner
Laura Colvin
Canton Police say the license plate reader cameras they're proposing at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Beck Road will help solve crimes in an area of the township hit hard by retail fraud.
Known as LPRs, the cameras take still photographs of passing vehicles, recording license plate numbers, date, time and the make, model and color of vehicle, along with GPS coordinates. Plates are cross-checked against a "hotlist" to identify vehicles associated with crime and alert police to wanted subjects, stolen vehicles, amber alerts, missing persons or someone on a terrorist watch list, for example.
The department was awarded a $40,710 grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, which would cover the cost and installation of four Motorola LPR cameras mounted to poles at the intersection, which sees approximately 30,000 vehicles per day.
"That's an area where we can cover the entire intersection with cameras and hopefully address our highest (area of) retail frauds," said Canton Police Capt. Mike Kennedy during a Nov. 15 study session of the Canton Township Board of Trustees. "Home Depot, Walmart, Target: that whole strip mall there. In a small, concentrated area, there's a lot of stores that are impacted by crimes."
This past May, the department conducted a trial run with LPRs near Haggerty and Joy roads. In one case, officers said, police used the LPRs to locate a man wanted on charges of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct after he allegedly groped the breast of an 18-year-old woman at a gas station. In another case, a man was arrested on third-offense drunken driving charges after hitting a gas pump.
While helpful in solving crimes, Canton Police Chief Chad Baugh acknowledged the technology can be controversial due to privacy concerns. In Ypsilanti Township, for example, citizens recently protested a plan to install LPRs in that community.
But, Baugh said, his department is planning an unhurried approach, starting with just four cameras.
"As much as we want to protect information, there are citizens that don't want to be the victim of a crime," Baugh said. "It goes both ways. We are a rigid organization and these (cameras) wouldn't be used by us in a manner they shouldn't be. We would be very measured in our approach."
"It would give us a way to measure how this would affect policing… with very intentional actions by our police department," he said. "We are finding theft-related crimes are an issue for our community, and Michigan and Beck is a thoroughfare for people who use a vehicle to commit crime."
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Baugh said his research shows LPRs are used by Michigan State Police, Warren, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Kalamazoo, Southfield, Flint, Jackson, Wyoming, Ecorse, Lincoln Park, Troy, Sterling Heights, Chesterfield Township, Van Buren, Metro Airport, Livingston County, Grosse Ile, Grosse Pointe Park and Oakland County Sheriff.
While LPRs do not photograph the diver or vehicle occupants, or provide name, date of birth, address or other identifying information about the driver, that information is available to police through a secondary search, but only when warranted.
In Canton, police said, the LPRs will be used to enforce certain traffic laws, including drunken drivers, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident and road rage where a crime was committed, but not speeding, red lights, stop signs or other civil infractions.
"That camera is... doing the same job an officer is allowed to do, running plates," said Canton Police Sgt. Adam Falk. "It doesn't get called away, doesn't take breaks and doesn't call off sick. That, in our eyes, is extremely important."
Information collected by the LPRs is stored in a secure cloud. Police, not Motorola, manage and control access to data, which can be shared with other police agencies.
Trustees brought up several questions, such as whether data collected by the LPRs would be subject to a Freedom of Information Act request, or whether any components of the LPR hardware or software could be traced to Russia or China.
Trustee Sommer Foster said she could see the value in the cameras as tools for combating crime but felt privacy was an issue to be discussed, as data would be collected even where no crimes were committed.
"I feel like it has to be a community conversation," Foster said. "We are the decision-makers, but it is it's a big deal for privacy, especially cyber security, (which is) on a lot of folks minds right now." Clerk Michael Siegrist said he did not like "imagining a situation where there's one of these on every street corner" but felt a more targeted approach was beneficial.
"We know a substantial amount of our crime is retail fraud," he said. "We know a substantial amount of it happens in a specific area. We're trying to implement this in that targeted area, we're not surveilling neighborhoods. Is it reasonable to put it at Michigan and Beck? For sure. I think it's a useful tool."
Supervisor Ann Marie Graham Hudak said the issue will come back before the board in a public meeting before any further action is taken. A date has not yet been set.
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Entire church in U.S. on ISIS kill lists — names taken from church directories on Internet
Hazel Torres 27 July 2016 | 2:08 AM
A helmeted New York Police Department (NYPD) officer stands guard in Grand Central Station, following the Nice terror attack, in New York City, U.S. on July 15, 2016.Reuters
As many as 15,000 Americans are on various "kill lists" that the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organisation has put out, with many of them not knowing that they have been marked for death.
Writing for Charisma News, author Michael Synder says some of those who are in the kill lists have been notified by the FBI. However, many have not received FBI notification and are unaware that they have been marked for death. Since the lists are not publicly available, Americans would not know whether their names are on the kill lists.
Circa News was able to obtain samples of the kill lists and found out that of the 24 people marked for death whom they contacted in Texas, 22 of them did not know they were on such a list.
Synder says last week, he was contacted by someone who told him that the FBI had informed him that he and his wife were on the ISIS kill lists.
Even more alarming was their discovery that other members of the couple's church—including their pastor—are also on kill lists.
Where did ISIS get those names?
Synder says the terrorist group apparently got the names from church directories posted on the Internet, "and so now an entire church has ended up on an ISIS kill list."
Islamic terrorists are not afraid to target and kill innocent people in western Europe and the United States as proven by their attacks in Orlando, Dallas, Nice, and Baton Rouge, Synder says.
He urges churches to start taking security a lot more seriously. He cites a recent report about a 21-year-old Islamic radical who purchased a gun and admitted to police that he planned to go into a Detroit megachurch and start shooting people inside on a Sunday morning.
After he was arrested and subsequently charged in court, the suspect told authorities that since he could not do his jihad in the Middle East, he intended to "do my jihad over here."
The members of that church in Detroit should be thankful that the authorities were able to stop that plot in advance, "because the carnage would have been off the charts," Synder says.


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HTC Discloses More Details Of UMPC Platform
By wstaff on April 26, 2007 at 1:06 pm
HTC has disclosed further details on its first UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) reference platform, the Shift, which the company unveiled at CTIA last month.
The device is based on Intel's new "Ultra Mobile Platform 2007" spec and incorporates low-power Intel Pentium M processor technology.
The Shift represents HTC's first UMPC platform design. The Taiwanese ODM (original design manufacturer) has developed a wide range of reference platforms for Windows Mobile smartphones and PDA/phones, and is estimated to be the source of 80 percent of the Windows Mobile smartphones and PDA/phones being sold today, so this new UMPC reference platform may bode well for the future of the UMPC as a form-factor.
According to HTC, the Shift provides "all the power, functionality, and connectivity busy professionals need in a sleek, portable design."
In addition to its flexible folding capability (shown on the right), the Shift offers high-speed global connectivity via its tri-band UMTS/HSDPA, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, and WiFi wireless capabilities. It sports a 7-inch widescreen touch display and a QWERTY keyboard, and packs a 30 GB hard drive. The device "leverages" Windows Media Player 11 for access to music, videos, and photos, HTC said.
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Pensions in the national accounts, a fuller picture of the UK's funded and unfunded pension obligations: 2018
Release:Pensions in the national accounts, a fuller picture of the UK's funded and unfunded pension obligations: 2018
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Estimates of the total entitlement of households in the UK and abroad to pensions provided by UK government, pension funds and insurance companies.
End-2018 estimates of the total entitlement of households in the UK and abroad to pensions provided by UK government, pension funds and insurance companies.
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Estimates of pension entitlements in social insurance including state pensions, by funded and unfunded, and defined contribution and defined benefit.
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Hasselblad's new H6D is a return to form and a look towards the future
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If you've ever spent any time learning about the process of photography, chances are you've heard the name Hasselblad. The storied company has been making cameras since 1941, and it has been involved in some very iconic photos over the years. The Beatles' Abbey Road cover, the black and white portrait of Steve Jobs', even the first photos taken on the moon were all shot with Hasselblads.
Today, the company is still making high-end, medium format cameras that can capture stunning images with tremendous amounts of detail, but of course, they are all digital. The newest model, announced recently, is the H6D, which comes in a 50-megapixel version and a staggering 100-megapixel option. It's been updated with a number of new features, the most notable of which is a new autofocus system that can lock on to a specific point, such as a subject's eye, and track it as the photographer adjusts composition.
The H6D also has also gained a number of features common to smartphones and compact cameras, such as a touchscreen and 4K video recording. But the Hasselblad is no phone: the 50-megapixel model runs about $27,000, while the 100-megapixel version commands $33,000. Lenses extra, of course.
The reasons why someone might consider spending as much money on a Hasselblad as they might on a mid-size car are varied, but chances are they are looking to create massive with insane levels of detail. A museum might want one to catalog the artwork it houses and preserve every little piece of detail. A portrait or fashion photographer might want one to capture arresting and emotional portraits that a lesser camera just can't match. Or a landscape photographer might want a Hasselblad to be able to accurately capture the wide-ranging tones and range of color they see in nature.
It's safe to say that these cameras are not designed for hurried photography or fast action. They're big, heavy, and slow, and are built around shooting with a considered approach: thinking about the shot before it's taken, lining up composure, getting exposure correct, and finally, snapping the shutter.
Shooting with a Hasselblad is unlike shooting with a phone, compact camera, or even a DSLR. The heft and size of the camera makes every action more deliberate, and since the camera doesn't shoot more than a couple frames per second, it's not a rapid-fire experience.
But once you've gone through the work to set up your shot, line up the frame, set focus and exposure, and then finally snap the shutter, you're rewarded with images packed with detail and wide dynamic range. We used the H6D to shoot both still life and portraits in a studio setup, and it was able to capture far more detail than any smaller camera we've used in the past. The sheer size and resolution of the files mean you can zoom in incredibly far on an image and still have unmatched levels of clarity. The wide dynamic range lets you see details in the shadows and highlights that even full-frame DSLRs can't match. And the large physical size of the sensor combined with Hasselblad's precision lenses provides ultra smooth out of focus backgrounds and beautiful transitions from in-focus to out-of-focus areas.
Much like Leica, Hasselblad's name has reached storied levels, and it is often considered out of reach for many would-be photographers. That's not wrong – the price of the equipment plus the knowledge and dedication required to get the most from it prevent most people from ever considering a Hasselblad as part of their kit.
But if you're want to capture the absolute best images, with the most detail and a je ne sais quoi look that just can't be matched by a smaller camera, there's one rig you need to consider: Hasselblad's.
Take a look at the photos taken with the H6D's 50-megapixel sensor below. Each full-size image is followed by a 100 percent crop to show how much detail is captured by the large sensor.
James Bareham contributed to this report.
Photography by James Bareham and Amelia Krales
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The Importance of Cybersecurity in Your Merger Acquisition……
In the business world, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace as businesses combine, acquire, and enter various partnerships. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are filled with often very complicated and complex processes to merge business processes, management, and a whole slew of other aspects of combining two businesses into a single logical entity.
In the modern business world before and after the acquisition, a new concern with M&A activities is cybersecurity. What role does cybersecurity play in today's mergers and acquisitions of businesses? Why is it becoming a tremendous concern?
Cybersecurity threats are growing in leaps and bounds
There is no question that cybersecurity risks and threats are growing exponentially. A report from Cybersecurity Ventures estimated a ransomware attack on businesses would happen every 11 seconds in 2021. Global ransomware costs in 2021 would exceed $20 billion.
It seems there are constantly new reports of major ransomware attacks, costing victims millions of dollars. Earlier this year, the major ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline resulted in disruptions that caused fuel shortages all over the East Coast of the United States. It helped to show that ransomware attacks on critical service companies can lead to real-world consequences and widespread disruption.
This world of extreme cybersecurity risks serves as the backdrop for business acquisitions and mergers. A Gartner report estimated that 60% of organizations who were involved in M&A activities consider cybersecurity as a critical factor in the overall process. In addition, some 73% of businesses surveyed said that a technology acquisition was the top priority for their M&A activity, and 62% agreed there was a significant cybersecurity risk by acquiring new companies.
Risks associated with Mergers & Acquisitions
What risks are associated with mergers and acquisitions? There are several that include but are not limited to the following:
Increased regulatory scrutiny
Inherited cybersecurity risks
Compromised accounts and passwords
Lost or damaged customer confidence
Data breaches in the acquired environment
Compliance regulations, like cybersecurity, are growing more complex and challenging for businesses. For example, regulators scrutinize business deals, including mergers and acquisitions, to help protect the growing emphasis on data sovereignty and data privacy.
From a cybersecurity perspective, businesses that merge or acquire other organizations must make sure data compliance is a top priority to prevent fines for non-compliance.
Companies must realize that even if they have a robust cybersecurity posture for their organization, the security dynamic can completely change with mergers and acquisitions. As a result, they inherit the cybersecurity challenges and issues of the acquired business.
The acquiring company inherits existing vulnerabilities, standards, risks, and cybersecurity liability as they assume control of the new business.
As was the case with the Colonial Pipeline hack in May 2021, compromised account passwords are often the culprit behind major data breaches and ransomware attacks. As a result, businesses must understand securing acquired accounts and directory services immediately and implementing breached password protection is a priority.
Scanning the newly acquired environment for password vulnerabilities, reused passwords, breached passwords, and other password threats can help to quickly bolster the cybersecurity stance of the acquired user account assets.
Businesses that have combined due to a merger or acquisition may federate Active Directory accounts between them to access various resources. Password synchronization between on-premises and cloud directory services may also be in play. It further emphasizes the need to strengthen password security as accounts are granted access to additional business-critical resources.
Businesses must take care of any merger or acquisition from a customer perspective. Any misstep, including handling cybersecurity during an acquisition or merger, can lead to customer mistrust and lost business.
As mentioned earlier, the acquiring company that has merged or acquired another company inherits the cybersecurity challenges and risks of the newly acquired environment. These risks include any potential data breaches. Knowledge of a data breach event can even stall or block a potential merger or acquisition once known. Data breach events can also go undisclosed to prevent any issues with the merger or acquisition.
Cybersecurity and compliance checklist for M&A
Form an M&A cybersecurity team
Review the target business cybersecurity posture
Inventory all physical, digital, and data assets of the target organization
Revisit the risk assessment
Engage a third-party security company
1 — Form an M&A cybersecurity team
Businesses often have excellent reasons for engaging in M&A activity. However, as discussed thus far, it can lead to additional cybersecurity risks. Forming an M&A cybersecurity team is a great idea to accelerate addressing the cybersecurity tasks involved with the M&A. This team may report to the CIO and should undoubtedly include cybersecurity leaders found on the security teams and key business leaders within the organization.
This team will be directly responsible for formalizing the reporting structure for addressing the cybersecurity risks discovered with the M&A activity. The team will also help to align the overall business on both sides for a consistent cybersecurity posture.
2 — Review the target business cybersecurity posture
The M&A cybersecurity team mentioned above will be instrumental in reviewing the target business cybersecurity posture. The review of the target organization's cybersecurity landscape should include:
A cybersecurity risk assessment
Review of security policies and procedures
Recent audit reports
Any breach reports that have happened recently or in years past
Audit of accounts and account access permissions across the organization
3 — Inventory all physical, digital, and data assets of the target organization
To properly understand the cybersecurity risk involved with an M&A of another organization, businesses must understand the complete inventory of all physical, digital, and data assets. Understanding and having a comprehensive inventory of these items allow full disclosure of the cybersecurity risks involved.
4 — Revisit the risk assessment
Any M&A activity means an organization needs to revisit its risk assessment. Even a recent risk assessment has now changed due to the reasons we have already covered (inherited cybersecurity risk, any security or compliance challenges, etc.).
5 — Engage a third-party security company
The M&A cybersecurity team may include a wide range of technical expertise with a wealth of experience in many cybersecurity disciplines. However, even with talented team members, organizations may opt to engage a third-party security company with the technical and staffing resources to help with cybersecurity discovery, remediation, combining security resources, and many other tasks.
Quickly manage M&A password security
Password and account security can be challenging to manage and secure during a merger or acquisition of multiple companies.
One of the blind spots with any merger or acquisition can be weak, reused, or even breached passwords lurking as a hidden cybersecurity threat.
By bolstering password security in target environments, businesses can protect mergers and acquisitions from one of the most common vulnerabilities leading to compromise.
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