Along with five local Main Street enthusiasts, Linden's new Main Street Manager Allie Anderson attended the invitational Texas Main Street Training 2017, held in historic Georgetown on January 24 and 25. Participating in these excellent training sessions were Linden Main Street Manager Allie Anderson and supporting volunteers Anna Dewell-Eddings, Ruth Halleck, Catherine Knapp, Sue Lazara, and Joe Lovelace. Others invited for the training were representatives of the City of Buda, also entering the program in 2017, and a small number of other Texas cities with new Main Street staff and/or volunteer leadership.
Linden representatives were impressed with the professionalism of the Texas Main Street Program staff and left Georgetown more excited than ever about the future potential of our own special, historic downtown.
Organization: Community partnerships lead to even more successful preservation-based revitalization.
Design: Guided by a town's own unique physical assets and local heritage, the design staff produces professional solutions geared to an active district that maintains authenticity.
Economic Vitality: Identify new market opportunities for the commercial district, find new uses for historic commercial buildings, and stimulate investment.
Promotion: Marketing activities are built around a unified, quality image of the business district as the center of activities, goods and services.
Texas Main Street communities range in population from 2,000 to over 300,000. As a group, these 80+ cities have added about 35,000 jobs and 8,700 new small businesses to the Texas economy – reporting also more than $3.2 billion of overall reinvestment, most of it privately funded.
NEXT STEPS: The Linden Main Street Advisory Board is forming committees and inviting broad community participation in those committees. Local Manager Allie Anderson will lead a local Advisory Board Training program on January 31 to review and reinforce some of the key learning from the Georgetown sessions. Finally, late next month, State Main Street Coordinator Debra Drescher and a team of her key staff will be spending a few days in downtown Linden, working toward an individualized Plan of Action for our local Main Street program and downtown development. Like the Georgetown training, this personalized assistance is given at no charge now that Linden is a designated Texas Main Street City.
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Mrs. Nelson sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "He Leadeth Me,"
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We are pleased to invite you and your friends to the 2018 Hudson Youth Leadership Academy, or HYLA as we like to say. HYLA will offer leadership skill building workshops in an intense, but exciting four day conference. This is an opportunity for you to share your goals, strengthen your skills, and make life-long friends.
Young people (like you) today have so much to offer as the leaders of tomorrow. With this view and our passion to see young people empowered, the Kurz Family Foundation initiated collaboration between Creative Response to Conflict (CRC), Me to We, Free the Children and Rockland Community College (RCC).
This registration package has everything you need to apply to HYLA. To register, please complete the form (in the link at the top of the page) and mail it to the address below.
Participants should arrive no later than 9 AM. at the entrance to the Cultural Arts Center. A HYLA team member will meet participants in the upper level of the Center.
Application deadline with deposit is due June 1. In order for an application to be considered complete, a non-refundable deposit of $30 is expected at the time of application. The balance is due June 7.
Please invite your friends, family, and colleagues.
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Don't forget to tell your friends, family, and colleagues.
We have started a Crowdrise Fundraiser to raise funds for a brand new Bullying Prevention and Intervention tool to use in schools and youth-centered organizations. The new tool will be a film called the BullyProof Movie. The film will feature the animal characters and their assorted BullyProof characteristics. There is a second portion of the film that will demonstrate in a group setting how to utilize the puppets in role-play activities that teach how to confront bullying by putting on one's BullyProof Shield. The purpose of this section of the film is to give teachers and other community leaders ideas of how to utilize the puppets within their environments. – For more information about the BullyProof Movie and the fundraiser for it, please visit Crowdrise: http://www.crowdrise.com/bullyproof!
"perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades and test scores". SUNY New Paltz's Humanistic/Multicultural Education program invites you to join Alfie Kohn in a conversation about common core and standardized tests. His thoughts and work in this area may lead us all, teachers, parents and school administrators, to some creative problem solving regarding the subject.
Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
Kohn has written books on the subject: No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Punished By Rewards and most recently, Feel-Bad Education. The talk is sponsored by the Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program; CAS; Departments of Elementary Education, Secondary Education; Educational Studies; and Sociology; Progessive Academic Network; Re-thinking Testing; New Paltz Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa; and Hudson Valley Writing Project. For more information about the event, contact: Nancy Schniedewind, 845-257-3200 x2827, schnieden@newpaltz.edu and for more information about Alfie Kohn go to: alfiekohn.org/index.php.
This year's theme is: Creating A Culture of Caring In Our Schools!
The Hudson Youth Leadership Academy (HYLA) is a four-day long camp, designed to give middle school, high school and college freshmen youth the leadership skills and confidence they need to create change within their community.
Re-Entry supports 1 Billion Rising!
Last Thursday, February the 14th, One Billion women danced and rose to end violence against women! This movement was started by OneBilionRising, an organization founded to make an end to the atrocity, that one of three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
Proud to be part of these one billion women (and those who love them), the women of CRC's Re-Entry Support Program met at the Palisades Mall, West Nyack and participated in the dance, with happened across the globe on the same day.
Have a look and enjoy watching One Billion Women (and those who love them) rising to end violence against women.
Each year, the German Peace Organization Eirene sends out volunteers who want to help in Organizations all over the world. Since the last three years, CRC was glad to welcome the volunteers Christopher Ohnesorg, Malte Greiner-Petter and Johannes Glatz from Germany to work with Creative Response to Conflict.
In their Newsletter they always feature articles about the work their volunteers do, all around the globe. This time, it's an article about Johannes Glatz and his work for Creative Response to Conflict.
The Original article is in German, but we are also providing an English version of the article.
To read the English translation, please click here.
To read the original German article, please click here.


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The Colbys (eerst getiteld Dynasty II: The Colbys) was een Amerikaanse soapserie die in primetime werd uitgezonden van november 1985 tot maart 1987. De serie was een spin-off van het meer succesvolle Dynasty. De serie had een ontzettend groot budget voor zijn tijd en had een indrukwekkende cast met bekende namen.

Verhaal
Fallon Carrington Colby en Jeff Colby waren personages uit Dynasty. De serie speelt zich af in Californië in plaats van in Denver. De familie Colby wordt uitgebreid en de serie draait rond een driehoeksverhouding tussen Fallon, Jeff en zijn neef Miles Colby.

In de serie Dynasty werd, na jaren, contact opgenomen door Jason Colby (Charlton Heston), de broer van de overleden Cecil Colby. Hij wilde met Blake Carrington een samenwerkingsverband aangaan. Samen met zijn familie kwam hij daarvoor bij de familie Carrington op bezoek. De familie bestond uit Jasons oudere zuster Constance Colby Patterson (Barbara Stanwyck), Jasons echtgenote Sable Colby (Stephanie Beacham), hun kinderen Miles Colby (Maxwell Caulfield), Monica Colby (Tracy Scoggins) en Bliss Colby (Claire Yarlett). Tijdens het feest kwam Miles opdagen met zijn nieuwe vriendin Randall Adams, die in werkelijkheid de verloren gewaande ex-vrouw (en tevens grote liefde) van zijn neef Jeff Colby bleek te zijn. Fallon leed aan geheugenverlies, maar kreeg bij het zien van het grote huis een paniekaanval en reed met Miles weg. Vanuit zijn slaapkamerraam zag Jeff het tweetal wegrijden. Wetende dat zijn ex nog leefde en in het gezelschap verkeerde van zijn neef Miles, nam Jeff het besluit Denver (en dus Dynasty) te verlaten en te verhuizen naar zijn familie in Californië, in de hoop Fallon voor zich terug te kunnen winnen.

De serie begon dan ook bij de terugkeer van de familie Colby van het feest in Denver. Nieuwe personages waren o.a. Katharine Ross als Francesca Colby, de moeder van Jeff, die, nadat ze weduwe werd van Jasons broer Philip haar zoon aan zwager Cecil moest afstaan, en Zach Powers (Ricardo Montalban), aartsvijand van Jason Colby.

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Hoewel de serie erg gehyped werd en in 1986 de People's Choice Award won voor nieuwe dramaserie was de serie een fiasco in de kijkcijferslijst. In het eerste seizoen was de hoogste notering de 43ste plaats en in het tweede seizoen de 62ste. De serie werd een te grote kopie van Dynasty genoemd en na twee seizoenen afgevoerd.

Na het stopzetten van de serie maakten John James en Emma Samms als Jeff en Fallon meteen hun rentree in Dynasty en enkele andere Colbys-personages - Stephanie Beacham als Sable en Tracy Scoggins als haar dochter Monica - verschenen ook in het laatste seizoen van Dynasty.

Maxwell Caulfield keerde als Miles Colby terug in Dynasty: The Reunion.

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Erich Heckel White Horses (Weisse Pferde) 1912
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Q: Safe to share local git repository between OS' I have two OS' installed on my computer with a common separate drive used for storing my local git repository. Is it safe to access the same physical local repo from both OS' (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12)?
I downloaded the most recent versions of git, but the version numbers are different on each OS. Windows has 1.7.11 and Ubuntu has 1.7.9.5

A: Yes, it's safe
The git internal storage format is well-defined and the OS file system layer would need to be trying very hard to subvert it for it to fail when accessed from different operating systems.

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If you, like me, have been following the news as it developed through the day, it would have been hard to miss that there was confrontation brewing between megalomaniacal radio personality, Rush Limbaugh, and the newly minted RNC chairman, Michael Steele.
The abbreviated timeline goes as such. First Rush gets in front of CPAC and doubles down on his talk about wanting President Obama to fail. Then Michael Steele makes some public remarks that aren't so kind towards Limbaugh. Limbaugh retorts, and it's beginning to look like there's going to be a big old battle royale for who is the top voice of the party.
But, with tail tucked firmly between his legs, the rookie chairman has apologized to Rush and taken steps to mitigate whatever damage his words might have done to the talk superstar's ego.
While this carries with it the heavy veneer of so much minutiae, this is important, very important. For all the talk that Rush Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the Republican party and all the negativity that the GOP may suffer as a result, there has been no stalwart rebuttal to this. This dust up in the making could have tested Steele's resolve and he could have taken one of many hard but important steps towards reforming his party's image.
Instead, he cowed, and Rush's role as his party's leader has never been more clear.
Understand this; Limbaugh represents an extremist and unpopular faction of Republicanism in today's American culture. I won't dare to venture whether America is center-left, or center-right, but while Rush may continue to have a large audience, that large audience represents a political minority in this country, and a dangerous one at that. It is the mindless adherence to a disproven ideology that plagues the GOP at this point, and if this is the case, people like Limbaugh are the chief facilitators of this problem.
Considering the political defeats suffered by the party over the past two years, it would seem that this faction would be the first shunted to the wilderness, but instead, they have been elevated, lauded as the TRUE conservatives, whatever that is.
Until Republicans recognize this, and essentially stand up to this guy and his ilk, they may find their time as political pariahs will be longer than they can even imagine right now.
I agree. Rush is the perfect GOP leader for non-Republicans. He will single-handedly insure that the Republicans go the way of the dodo bird and the Dixiecrats.
But! God, I can't help but hate that smug, fatheaded fool on TV gloating about it everyday. I know there is more at stake here than Rush's ego. But God I hate that guy and his bloated ego. I hate having to see his fat face on TV. And I hate to think of living in a world where anyone would take that jackass seriously.
Suffice it to say that one comment from the President to Congressional Republicans ("You should stop listening to Rush.") on the day Barack Obama went to Capital Hill to talk to only Republicans about the now-passed stimulus bill, was enough to ignite a Republican civil war. That comment led to Rush's now infamous,"I hope Obama fails" line that split the GOP asunder. Now we have the spectacle of Eric Cantor, the Nancy- Polosi-is-mean-and-she-hurt-our-feelings-so-we-won't-vote-for-TARP (back in September when John McCain was busy losing the general election.) Congressman form Virginia supporting the Obama administration in hoping the stimulus works.
Now let's see if this picture works out. On one hand we have the king of the right wing hoping for failure of the new guys in office after doing so much to guarantee the failure of the old administration in the Dubya years with his doctrinaire "screw the markets" outlook and out-to-lunch commentary that was eagerly gobbled by everyone too lazy to think for themselves. And, on the other hand, we have former Rush acolyte Eric Cantor saying he wants the the new administration's stimulus plan to work. Sounds like a plan, doesn't it?
Perhaps this is the type of "bi-partisanship" that the President was working toward. Let's have a nod toward Rahm with his reinforcing knife in the ribs comment on Sunday morning talking-head TV.
Meanwhile, it looks as if the Republicans are up to their old tricks; they don't realize-yet- that they've been had.( Just like in days of Geo W.) And Rush doesn't realize- yet- that his best days are now in the past. His influence is waning. His audience is more afraid of reality than eager to support his fantasy of a "principled" conservative movement that has the best interests of the country as its only motivation.
Walkerdev: The way I look at it, Rush is a megalomaniac: not only is he addicted to pills, he's addicted to attention. He's going to go after it no matter what, so the way I look at it, I think it's nice that at least his megalomania is serving to undermin him and his party.
NN: I hear ya. Seriously, I hear ya. I keep thinking it, the prez is just too lucky for it to not be skill at least some of the time.
So, if Rush is the leader of the republican party, that must mean that Michael Moore is the leader of the Democratic party. I'm just sayin'. It makes just as much sense. Why is the president wasting all that vaunted political skill on….Rush? Old saying: never argue with a man who buys ink (or airtime) by the barrel!
And how has that presidential warning worked out about "Stop listening to Rush"? Not too good, I guess. Listenership is up by 5 million.
Steve, first, on your analogy between Limbaugh and Michael Moore; hardly. Michael Moore doesn't have party insiders too afraid to come out against him. Indeed, Michael Moore I would say doesn't have all that much support anymore amongst the Democratic mainstream.
As for the presidential warning; it may not have worked well as an actual warning, but it has thus far proven brilliant as a political strategy. The Republican Party has since the 2008 elections been without a leader, and without any kind of resonating message besides the same tired tropes that a majority of Americans have grown tired of. By delivering that warning, President Obama has stuck the party with a leader on their behalf, one that may, yes, have a 20 million strong listening audience, but one that also has a rather lower approval rating nationally, and even lower confidence that he would be the best person to listen to regarding the challenges we currently face.
If you really want to win, the best way to do so is to pick an opponent you know you can beat. This is essentially what the president has done.


Curley and Schultz — already indicted last year on perjury and failure to report abuse charges — were charged with obstruction, child endangerment and conspiracy.
The new charges stemmed from evidence turned up in former FBI director Louis Freeh's probe into how the university handled allegations against Sandusky in 1998 and 2001. Freeh turned up emails that suggest the three leaders discussed the Sandusky incidents, and a confidential file on Sandusky was found in Schultz's office.
The attorneys for the three men have maintained that their clients are innocent and vowed to fight the charges.
Curley and Schultz are scheduled for trial in January in Harrisburg on the perjury and failure to report charges that came from the first indictment in November 2011.
Penn State has spent almost $21 million on legal fees, public relations firms and consultants as it has responded to the Sandusky scandal's fallout.


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THE Wistaston Singers took their talents on the road when they travelled to Derbyshire to perform.
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In front of an audience of 80 at Bakewell Methodist Church, the group performed a variety of songs under the direction of Phil Houghton, including Sing a Song of Sixpence , Someone to Watch Over Me, a Les Misérables medley, You'll Never Walk Alone, Jerusalem, Some Enchanted Evening and A Clare Benediction.The audience was then invited to join the finale for Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah .The soloists were Chris White on the ukulele, Jane Hale on the piano and Phil Houghton on the organ.Musical director Phil Houghton said: "The choir had a wonderful visit to Bakewell, with time to explore this beautiful town before performing a concert in the evening which was greeted with warm applause."The group was formed by members of the choir at St Mary's Parish Church Wistaston in 2000 and new members are welcome to join. For more details call choir secretary Jill Oakes on 01270 662940 or email jillandjohnoakes@uwclub.net. Jerusalem, Some Enchanted Evening and A Clare Benediction.
The audience was then invited to join the finale for Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah .
The soloists were Chris White on the ukulele, Jane Hale on the piano and Phil Houghton on the organ.
Musical director Phil Houghton said: "The choir had a wonderful visit to Bakewell, with time to explore this beautiful town before performing a concert in the evening which was greeted with warm applause."
The group was formed by members of the choir at St Mary's Parish Church Wistaston in 2000 and new members are welcome to join.
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The local option sales tax proposed for the Nov. 6 Collier ballot includes some $37 million of proposed bridges, both replacements and new ones.
Editor's note: The local-option sales tax referendum proposed for the Nov. 6 Collier County ballot includes some $37 million of proposed bridges, both replacements and new ones, on its project list. The Naples Daily News editorial board asked Collier County government staff where these bridges are located and why these projects are necessary. This is the answer from Thaddeus Cohen, department head for Collier County Growth Management.
All the bridges on the 1 cent sales tax project list are located east of Collier Boulevard/County Road 951. There are 11 new bridges and 11 bridge replacements.
The new bridges will increase the safety of residents and visitors of Collier County and reduce the demand on existing thoroughfares. The bridge replacements will replace bridges that were built in the 1950s and are in very poor condition.
By providing additional network and mobility options, the new bridges will assist in reducing travel delay and accidents as well as eliminating the existing barriers that reduce the response time of lifesaving emergency services.
Golden Gate Estates has an existing road network that is interrupted by a series of canals with limited opportunities for commercial development. Estates residents are largely dependent on the services provided in the urban area. Currently, travelers are forced to one of a few arterial roadways, often via one route. The proposed bridges will allow travelers in the Golden Gate Estates area to access alternative routes, reducing the wear and tear on their vehicles, as well as the road network.
Travelers will have multiple options to gain access to the services they desire or during an evacuation situation.
School busing will be accomplished in a more efficient manner. In addition, emergency responders will be able to respond via multiple routes, thereby allowing for reduced response times.
Professional engineers evaluated existing bridges and determined that the existing bridges east of State Road 29 that were built in the 1950s are in poor condition.
The conditions of the timber foundations have resulted in temporary repairs to extend the life of these structures and make them safe for travel. The most economical solution is to replace these bridges since these repairs are temporary and cannot be incorporated into the replacement structure.
These bridges enhance the community by providing routes for emergency service vehicles and agricultural and industrial truck traffic that support the safety and economic stability of the Immokalee area.
Throughout the summer, the Daily News editorial board is posing questions to government and civic leaders about the sales tax referendums on the ballot in November in Collier and Lee counties.


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An astute listener would tell you I.E. hip-hop veteran Notiz Yong has always used music to vent his negative feelings. In BRB, he extrapolates the practice into a major theme for an album. In Dear Rappers… he owned his negativity, on BRB he attempts a spiritual cleansing, turning the aggressive feelings into blessings like squeezing water from stones.
Sonically, this is his most brain-massaging album since Rappers in my opinion. He smartly deploys his own production skills in conjunction with young but experienced I.E. beatmakers like Asend and Kordisepz to create an11 track record with a unified feel. His maturity and his anger on display side by side, the candor of Notiz' concerns and dreams and frustrations are human and soothing to hear whether it's over keyboardy boom-bap or nu-rap electro-bangers.
Notiz continues to wield his singing voice with confidence such as on the opening song and "RIL". "NTW" is the second video for the album, after the hip-hop homie cameo-laden "FYH", and it's a great demonstration of Notiz' updating his sound for new years while staying true to his aesthetic. It's one of the most impressive things about his catalog, the consistent style within works by numerous producers.
On "FYR", Yong tackles religion in America and explains how he sees tribalism. The concept of blessing has become mantra to him, a reflexive defense against not only external but internal negativity. The single "FYH" is the one moment where he lets himself go off on the haters with no Zen guardrails on his trains of thought. The ideas of people taking up your personal space, of haters, of being taken for granted are pervasive in an almost paranoid way. Yong's MC persona's wit and melody are his weapons against these encroaching forces.
"DTD", like "FYR", shows Yong' consciousness expanding beyond the I.E. and on America at large. I can't help but wonder if he would have made such songs if we were not in the era of Trump. Like "FYR", "DTD" meditates on tribalism and Yong's willingness to make the listener part of his, the distance people will travel to follow their dreams. Yong's dreamers that he refers to throughout the whole album, usually including himself in that grouping, are particularly present on "DTD" and I couldn't help but hear them as DREAMers as Notiz croons "You ain't got to fear/the time is near". Perhaps an artistic sign of hope for the day when people can come out of the shadows and live their best lives.
"Through the Pain" has one of my favorite sung choruses from Yong so far and makes explicit the idea of him squeezing blessings out of his pain. He reiterates all the album's biggest themes on this closer, with this entreaty to the audience: "live a lot and just shine". Yong's funny vocalizations and laughs throughout the album, singing "bonus" over and over on the intro, the recorded phone call "be right back.." at the very end and more, give this, his most thoughtful work yet, relatable flourishes of personality.
In 2017, balancing boom-bap sound with modern styled double time songs is a factor I look at with underground hip-hop albums since we're at a point when versatile MCs can't ignore the existence of these poles on the spectrum of rap. Notiz has delivered what I think represents the best balance of these styles in an album I've heard all year- weaving seamlessly from tempo to tempo, choosing beats that still feel of one piece, and taking his craft seriously throughout; there's something on this record for a lot of different kinds of hip-hop listeners. In Be Right Back / Bless Right Back Notiz Yong has reached the religious phase of his artistic career and the time has come for us all to reap the spiritual harvest.


About two years ago I made a conscious effort not to use the term "trust" and encouraged those I was engaging for work and social interactions not to use the term. The problem is not the concept of trust, but the use of the term trust, or more accurately the overuse of the term trust. Trust gets used quite often as it is a word that has high value in our society. There are roughly seven definitions or contextual uses of the term trust, which is problematic when trying to design, develop, or evaluate ways forward from understandings gaps and potential problems.
Initially, I started a deep dive into reading everything I could on trust to get a better grasp of the term and underlying foundations. I thought this may provide better understanding and bring me back to using the term and with more clarity of understanding. While, this helped increase my understanding of the use of trust as a term it also confirmed the broad fuzzy use of the term, even within attempts to clarify it.
When I was working with people to help improve their social software deployments or use of social sites, as well as engagements in B2B and B2C arena the term trust was used a lot. I would ask people to define "trust" as they were using it, and they would describe what they meant by trust, but with in a sentence or two they had moved onto a different contextual definition. Sometimes I would point this out and ask them to redefine what they meant, pointing out the shift in usage. When I asked one group I was talking with to use other words as proxy for the term trust things started moving forward with much more clarity and understanding. Also gone were the disagreements (often heated) between people whose disagreement was based on different use of the term.
Once I started regularly asking people to not use trust, but proxies for the term I started keeping rough track of the other words and concepts that were underlying trust. The rough list includes: Respected, comfort, dependable, valued, honest, reliable, treasured, loved, believable, consistent, etc. Many found the terms they used to replace trust were more on target for what they actually meant than when using the word trust. There are some sets terms that nicely overlap (dependable, reliable, consistent and valued, treasured), but one term that came up a lot and generated a lot of agreement in group discussions is comfort.
Within a few months of stopping use of the term trust, comfort was the one concept that was often used that seamed to be a good descriptor for social software environments. It was a social comfort with three underlying elements that helped clarify things. Social comfort for interacting in social software environments was required for: 1) People; 2) Tools; and 3) Content (subject matter). I will explain these briefly, but really need to come back to each one in more depth in later posts.
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Social comfort with people is one essential for people interacting with others. Some of the key questions people bring up with regard to social comfort with people are: Knowing who someone is, how they will interact with you, what they will do with information shared, reliability of information shared, are they safe, can I have reasonable interaction with them, and why would I interact with this person. One of the biggest issues is, "Who is this person and why would I connect or interact with them?" But, most social software tools, particularly for internal organization use provide that contextual information or depth needed to answer that question in their profiles (even in the organizations where most people have relatively "complete" profiles, the information in the profiles is rarely information that helps answer the "Who is this person and why should I listen or interact with them?" question.
Social comfort with content or subject matter can hold people back from using social software. People may have constructive input, but their lack of their own perceived expertise may be (and often is) what inhibits them from sharing that information. The means for gathering this constructive feedback is needed along with the ability for others to ask questions and interact, which usually rules out anonymous contributions (additionally anonymous contributions rarely help mitigate this problem as that doesn't really provide comfort, as well inside most organizations it is quite easy to resolve who is behind any anonymous contribution, so it is false anonymity). People often have contributions they believe are helpful, but may not be fully fleshed out, or are need to have the information vetted for internal political reasons or put in context (terminology and constructs that are most easily understood and usable) through vetting of others (whom there is social comfort with).
One of the outcomes of this shift from the term trust to others, including social comfort is areas that need to be addressed are more easily seen, discussed, considered, and potential solutions identified. The end results are often improved adoption through improved community management, improved interfaces and interactions in the services, better tools through iteration, and improved adoption.
This week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston was quite good. It is one of the few conference I still won't miss. The conference is a good mix of vendors, implementers, and those who live with those results while working hard to improve upon this. This conference is a great place to talk with people who working through the gaps in Enterprise 2.0 tools and services, but still finding great improvements in their company from these tools and services.
Enterprise 2.0 tools and services comprise many different types of offerings that help groups of people share, communicate, interact, and even get to real collaboration. One big question in the halls outside the sessions was "Why is this all lacking standards? Why can't we choose best tools for our needs and get them in integrate?" This question is straight of of the content management system early days as well, but that ended up a rather huge mess with no picking and choosing of the best solutions for your needs from various vendors and easily assembling them together. The customers lost their bid to get best of breed for to solve their problems and have had to settle for mediocre components all from one vendor (nobody is happy with their CMS and never has been, we really must not repeat this bad pattern again). Right now Enterprise 2.0 has a variety of choices with some really good options depending on what a customer's need is (sadly too few educate the customer on what is really needed before they purchase).
On of the frustrating things at Enterprise 2.0 Conference this go around was there are still myth mantras that echo the podiums and halls. They really need to stop as they have never been proven to be right and are often proven to be incorrect (many times shown to be wildly incorrect). The last two years at Enterprise 2.0 Conferences (as well as other conferneces) I was presenting these myths and getting the whole room giving giant nods in agreement and standing up after in Q&A why people still make these statements. Part of the problem is the statements have been said so often they must be true (mantra), but as presenters we really must check these things not just repeat. Quite often this leads to disgruntled customers who make up, what Stewart Mader calls the "one year club", which are organizations that hit the 6 month to one year mark and have giant lessons learned from their tools and services, but wish somebody let them know this stuff up front.
Myth: It is believed that it is the Millennials (those recently out of university and roughly 22 to 27 years old) that are expecting or demanding these social tools.
Reality: Every year at Enterprise 2.0 Conference, since 2007, there are one or more sessions where this myth gets debunked. In the last 5 years or so I have never been in or talked to an organization what had actually ever had this request from Millennials (over 50 organizations at this point). In fact any Millennial that has been in any meeting I have been part of in an organization has stated very strongly, they can't find any reason for using the tools in the organization and they don't know anybody their age who thinks that either. They do think the existing tools (ECM, Portals, e-mail, etc. are absolutely horrid and nearly impossible to use). Often it is people in their late 30s to late 50s who see the solid value in these social tools inside the organization as solutions for the painful and unproductive tools they are forced to use.
In 2007 it was a lesson's learned panel that the panelist from Motorola claimed very few of their younger employees used the tools they put in place and challenged the other panelist to state differently and they could not do so. In 2008 it the same thing came up in a couple panels, one of which was Oracle's User Experience session which was heavy on the research they put into building their own tools and services. Oracle researchers were initially surprised that there were very few young workers who could understand why they would have these tools at work, but they found those older knew the need to more easily share, aggregate, curate, and collaborate with others. Most of these older workers found that their existing tools were keeping them from getting their work done efficiently, and some times keeping them from getting it done at all.
Another perspective that I found insanely helpful in thinking through this is talking with university professors who use social tools (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, etc.) as part of their class participation. Most professors (not in computer sciences or information sciences) have a common experience in that their students fall get graded on in-class participation, homework, and digital tool participation and nearly all do well in one or two of the three, but almost none do well in all three. Different people have different comfort zones and strengths, so the teachers have been learning to grade accordingly to balance for this.
Myth: Often people make the link from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0 stating we must follow this path which is successful.
Reality: This myth is problematic as organization look at Web 2.0 services and want exactly what is on the web. The problem with this is they often see the Web 2.0 tools as successful because they have a few million people using them. To most people 20 million people looks like a lot, or 50 million, or even 500 million. But with well over 1 billion people on the web around the globe, these numbers get put in to rather small percentages. Even with Facebook's 500 million or so, we still don't have 100% adoption.
When I have been dealing with Enterprise 2.0 "one year club" customers (and potential customers) they are often very disappointed with their low adoption (they were some how dreaming of millions of users inside the firewall of their 30k employee organization). Nearly every time they had out performed the Web 2.0 tools with percentage adoption, but that is not comforting.
What Web 2.0 does is provide a glimpse of much easier to use services and tools to get the job done. Sadly most Web 2.0 sites have been honed and incrementally improved on early adopters, who are not representative of the remaining 90% to 95% of the population. The reality of Enterprise 2.0 is that organizations are comprised of everybody (the mainstream and the ear) and they are a fixed population (for the most part) and great strides have been made with many vendor's tools that enable their offerings to be used by much higher percentages of the population. We all still need to work with vendors to get this ease of use and mapping to the wide variety of needs and depths of use.
Myth: Often you hear no training is needed because the tools are so easy, or its related mantra "if you build it they will come".
Reality: Similar the ease of use mentions in the Web 2.0 myth above, the enterprise 2.0 tools are much easier to use than the really complex and human unfriendly tools many organizations have through out. While the older tools usually require days of training, 500 page binders, and a lot of bullet point ridden presentations. The Enterprise 2.0 tools still require training, but the training is much much lighter. The training is hours (usually if it is more than 2 or 3 hours you may have the wrong tools or the wrong training) not days.
Many organizations are now complaining that they have spent incredible amounts of information for a enterprise wide portal or enterprise content management (ECM) tool. But the tools are so complex that they have an insanely small number of people in their organization that are trained well enough to add or manage content. Many organizations are looking to Enterprise 2.0 tools to get information out of people's heads easily and shared with others (as one of many uses and valuable solutions the tools and services provide).
Myth: Many people believe that one percent create content, nine percent modify and interact with that content, and 90 percent just consume that information and are passive.
Reality: Sometimes this myth gets attributed to Bradley Horowitz presentations while he was at Yahoo! that used these percentages as estimates inside a pyramid. He often has said he wished he never put numbers in it as they numbers are not accurate and the percentages can be flipped and still be correct.
Any organization that deploys social tools, iterates them to improve to people's needs, and has community leadership almost always finds these adoption rates grow over time. Some organizations many organizations get 5% to 20% adoption and active use in the first year. Over two years this grows to be much more. E-mail saw nearly similar patterns and took 5 to 7 years to reach about 99% adoption. But, the best example is the BBC's greater than 110 percent adoption over 7 years, but as Euan Semple explains part of this is the employee base of BBC shrunk durning that time, but it still makes the 90-9-1 myth look horribly foolish (I know many companies grade their potential consultants on use of this myth and if stated they are immediately dropped a few ranking points).
In 1996 I was working for a legal professional organization and one of my roles was running their private professional Compuserve forums. They had been using Compuserve 2 years or so by the time I worked there, but they were already above 40 percent of the 3,000 members were on the service. Of those using Compuserve more than 50% were actively participating. We were finding those with 6 to 18 months of were actively contributing at a 60% or higher rate. Every intranet forum or groupware service I have run, built, managed, or iterated in jobs since has followed similar patterns, so that is 14 years of living with the reality that the 90-9-1 is a myth and all the lessons learned during that time as well.
Myth: People are moving to being more openly social as years go by. This is also tied to the youth myth (this combination myth really doesn't hold up at all either).
Reality: In every organization the adoption and broad use of social tools is almost always tied to closed groups, but we know those are problematic as information is shared but is can be nearly impossible to access and use. Right up there is the nearly global understanding that services that are openly shared to all in the organization by default (or only option) have very low adoption. There is no better way to hinder adoption than to opt for all interactions to be openly shared.
This follows the understanding had pounded into me over the last 14 years and lead to the rethinking of all of the social interaction models I used and knew of (particularly from Web 2.0) and started from scratch, with one of the results being Elements of the social software stack. I used stack because there is a distinct order to how people progress through sharing information and one of the most important parts is having action (blogging, annotating, tagging, notes, etc.) followed by the decision how broadly you want to share it. Most tools have this backwards by choosing the tool or action you have set how broadly it will be shared. Community managers who have pushed to have this switched or to have the capability to not share everything by default have seen the adoption rates jump drastically. These same community managers are usually rather angry that nobody put them onto this basic understanding earlier.
Many who use this myth mantra point to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook as their proof. But, Facebook data doesn't seem to support Zuckerberg's assumptions, in fact it is quite the opposite. Many of the social computing researchers who work with this and similar data (danah boyd and Fred Stuzman among others) find there are no trends at all toward opening up social and in fact there are solid trends in the opposite direction in the past 3 to 5 years.
We really need to stop using these myths and start surfacing all of the evidence that runs counter to all of these myths. I keep thinking these myths have died as there are so many people sharing their research, experiences, and evidence to these myths. But, some it seems many don't have experiences of their own and are still finding it viable to surface these myths as they sound good.
The reality of all of this is people use the Enterprise 2.0 tools when they are well understood, the social realities and complexities are understood to help form solutions that fill the gaps in the problems that organizations face, and we all more forward faster. We need to focus on the realities not the false myth mantras so we all get smarter and can all start addressing the real hurdles while embracing real advances that are out there.


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No Link Found Between Anesthesia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
by Bidita Debnath on January 23, 2016 at 1:27 AM
A Mayo Clinic study of people who received anesthesia for surgery after age 40 found no association between the anesthesia and development of mild cognitive impairment later in life. Mild cognitive impairment is a stage between the normal cognitive decline of aging and dementia.
The findings are published in the February issue of the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Elderly patients can develop delirium after anesthesia and surgery, but it usually resolves within days or weeks. Researchers have been studying whether surgical anesthesia is associated with more prolonged cognitive impairment.
Mayo Clinic Study Claims There Is No Link Between Surgical Anesthesia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Elderly patients can develop delirium after exposure to anesthesia for surgery. But, researchers have found no link between surgical anesthesia and the development of MCI.
'Sometimes elderly patients can develop delirium after anesthesia and surgery, but it usually resolves within days or weeks.'
"We looked at a group of patients who have been followed here in Olmsted County, where we have detailed information about their cognitive function as they age. The bottom line of our study is that we did not find an association between exposure to anesthesia for surgery and the development of mild cognitive impairment in these patients," says senior author David O. Warner, M.D., a Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist.
A previous Mayo study found that older patients who receive anesthesia are no likelier than others to develop dementia. In the current study, researchers analyzed detailed patient information from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
Babies Repeatedly Exposed To Anesthesia May Suffer From Altered Emotional Behavior
Children may develop anxiety, depression, and learning disabilities when given they are exposed to anesthesia multiple times at age 4 or younger.
The study included people who were ages 70 to 89 and cognitively normal as of October 2004; their mean age was 79, and there were almost equal numbers of men and women. They were evaluated every 15 months. Of 1,731 people studied, 85 percent had at least one surgery requiring general anesthesia after age 40; 31 percent developed mild cognitive impairment during the study evaluation period, but it was not found to be linked to their anesthesia exposure.
The researchers noted that while exposure to anesthesia for surgery after age 40 wasn't associated with mild cognitive impairment, they couldn't exclude the possibility that surgical anesthesia after age 60 might be, particularly in vascular surgery patients.
"That may not be surprising, because there is increasing evidence that some of the problems that we see with cognition in the elderly may be caused by vascular problems that cause stroke and other sorts of problems like that," Dr. Warner says, adding that more research is needed.
Mayo researchers are also studying the effects of anesthesia in young children. At that other extreme of age, they are seeing some associations between surgical anesthesia exposures and some problems with learning and memory later in life, Dr. Warner says.
"That by no means is established yet. Right now it's just associations, and we and many other people are doing a lot of work to try to see if this really is a problem in children or not," he says. "Because of the associations that we've seen, there is more concern in the young than the old, and it will require quite a bit more research to find out what is happening with the children, and if there is a problem, how we can best address it. But for the moment, there is little clinical evidence that anesthesia itself leads to cognitive decline in the elderly - although more research is needed."
The current study was supported by National Institutes of Health grants P50 AG016574, U01 AG006786, K01 MH068351 and K01 AG028573; by the Robert H. and Clarice Smith and Abigail van Buren Alzheimer's Disease Research Program; Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Sciences Activities grant UL1 TR000135 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
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Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:51 pm on December 7th, 2006.
That's the title of a song I've been listening to a lot lately, by Stereolab. It's a beautiful lullaby of a song, sung in a way that makes it almost an instrumental, structured almost as a round, with a single verse which starts in the middle of a musical phrase. I've liked it for a long time, but just recently I've been listening to it quite often. It sounds like whirling stars.
I have a cunning Christmas present plan – but I'm not telling you what it is.
Anyway: what do you want for Christmas?
Written by Forest Pines; published at 12:30 pm on March 13th, 2006.
If I do dye my hair, what colour should it be?
Clearly, I'll be giving priority to answers from people who have actually met me. Otherwise it would just get silly.
Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:20 am on October 27th, 2005.
If this site was hosted on Livejournal,* it wouldn't just be limited to entries. I could do exciting spiffy things like host polls. Instead, if I want to ask you to vote on things, I have to do it manually.
Should I try answering personal ads in the local paper?
Go on, tell me what you think. New "only if you're going to blog about it" answers, please.
* rather than being one of your geeky WordPress things with hand-edited templates and customised everything.
** It's in capitals because, you never know, this might end up being an ongoing series.


The HypoVereinsbank is the German face of the UniCredit Group and ranks in Germany as one of the leading commercial banks. In addition to classic education and training for banking personnel, the HypoVereinsbank also offers a dual course of studies (Bachelor of Arts) as a qualification opportunity.
Training materials in the financial industry are subject to rapid changes and must comply with comprehensive legal and regulatory requirements. For this reason, the HypoVereinsbank requires that in future the training materials can be maintained and managed more efficiently and redundancy-free.
The target group consists of about 1,100 employees currently in training.
A further requirement was that training materials be constructed with the greatest possible degree of practical relevance and contain plenty of exercises while at the same time being well-structured, trainer-friendly and sales-oriented in design, and capable of being quickly updated and distributed.
Structurally and methodologically optimized training materials have been created for all 14 topic areas. The materials are managed centrally and redundancy-free for two training courses, and are available digitally and as printed versions.
The sales-oriented training materials have an organized content structure with numerous pieces of additional information, e.g.
In this way, the content provides flexible support for a range of different learning habits as well as a high degree of practicability.


A local animal charity is raising money to support three kittens that were caught up in a field fire and pulled to safety by fire crews that battled the blaze.
Bath Cats and Dogs Home is looking after the three babies, which were named Cinder, Flame and Ember following their life-threatening ordeal.
A spokesperson for group said: "Heard crying, they were rescued by firefighters who had been called in to put out a field fire.
"They still smelt of smoke when they were brought to us."
The trio has been hand-fed every two hours by the team at the charity, as they no longer have a mother to look after them.
The group added: "Kittens this small need specialised care, including feeding them milk every two hours by hand, which over the first month adds up to 65-70 hours of time dedicated by our team.
"As well as regular feeding, each of these kittens also need a warm place to stay, plus vaccinations and neutering when they are old enough to keep them fit and healthy."
The group is hoping to raise £1,200 for the babies to help pay for their care.
You can donate to their JustGiving page here.
So far this year, Bath Cats and Dogs home has looked after 45 kittens.
They provide shelter and veterinary care for over 1,100 abandoned and unwanted animals each year, operating a strict non destruction policy.


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Ryszard Major (ur. 28 lutego 1948 w Krakowie, zm. 4 września 2010 w Szczecinie) – polski reżyser teatralny.

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Absolwent filologii polskiej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Wydziału Reżyserii Dramatu na warszawskiej Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Teatralnej.

Major był założycielem studenckiego teatru Pleonazmus w Krakowie.

W latach 1975-82 pracował w Gdańsku jako etatowy reżyser Teatru Wybrzeże. W tym czasie stworzył ponad dwadzieścia spektakli teatralnych, m.in. Teatr osobny Mirona Białoszewskiego, Marię Stuart Fryderyka Schillera, Iwonę, księżniczkę Burgunda, Ślub, Operetkę i Historię Witolda Gombrowicza, Bal w operze Juliana Tuwima, Wieczór Trzech Króli Williama Szekspira, W małym dworku Witkacego oraz Proces Franza Kafki. Pracował także w gdańskim Teatrze Miniatura i Teatrze Miejskim w Gdyni. Ostatnim spektaklem, który wyreżyserował w Trójmieście była realizacja Balu manekinów Brunona Jasieńskiego w lutym 2010.

W latach 1982-90 był kierownikiem artystycznym Teatru Współczesnego w Szczecinie, później dyrektorem Bałtyckiego Teatru Dramatycznego w Koszalinie (1990-93). W latach 1995-2004 pracował w Teatrze im. Osterwy w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, do 2002 jako dyrektor, a później jako reżyser. Od 2009 związany był z Teatrem Polskim w Szczecinie.

Współpracował z Teatrem Telewizji, w ramach którego wyreżyserował kilka spektakli: Aktor (1975), Krystyna (1980),Ślub (1983), Listy do Niny (1988) i Zapisz to Miron (1988).
Pochowany został na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Szczecinie kwatera 22B.

Nagrody i odznaczenia
 Laureat Nagrody Miasta Gdańska w Dziedzinie Kultury(za 1982)
 W 2010 został odznaczony Srebrnym Medalem "Zasłużony Kulturze Gloria Artis".

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Polscy reżyserzy teatralni
Odznaczeni Srebrnym Medalem "Zasłużony Kulturze Gloria Artis"
Ludzie związani ze Szczecinem
Artyści związani z Gdańskiem
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Szczecinie
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A Vehicular Revamping
Filed under: Cambridge,cycling,MIT,schools,transportation — Sharanya Srinivasan @ 5:22 pm
Anyone who has traversed up the bulbous convexity of a steep hill has made the sweaty decision that bicycles should come equipped with an alternative power source that does not involve leg muscles. Luckily the recent development of the e-bike, an electric bicycle that comes with a rechargeable battery-powered motor, has addressed this serious transportation concern. According to a 2014 report in The New York Times, e-bike sales are "surging" in Europe, with "250,000 e-bikes on the road in Switzerland and bike sales rising by over 9 percent in Netherlands". Numerous start-ups in the Cambridge and Boston areas are looking to emulate the success of e-bike sales abroad, by engineering products that significantly reduce the physical exertion of riders while enabling an easy crossover from standard bikes to electric.
Superpedestrian, a Cambridge-based enterprise, creates a novel design for the e-bike called the Copenhagen Wheel. This technology involves no necessary hardware to install other than the wheel itself, and therefore fits on most standard bicycles. The wheel's motor is operated by a lithium battery which manipulates the torque on the bike's back wheel to propel the vehicle 20 mph via power assist. And the best part? The speed settings for the Copenhagen Wheel can be controlled by a smartphone app. Superpedestrian, born from a collaboration between MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the City of Copenhagen, plans to release its first consumer models by the end of the year.
Evelo, another Cambridge-based company, was established a few years ago and advertises the "electrifying power" of its bicycles. Evelo bikes are equipped with Intelligent Pedal Assistance, which provides 3 options of riding with a mid-drive motor system. Further e-bike expansion is around the corner – Craigslist posts shared by the Boston Cyclists Union have hinted that another electric bike venue will be coming soon to Boston.
Undoubtedly, these e-bike businesses are looking to capitalize on the relatively strong biker culture that already exists in Cambridge, a demographic that spans college students maniacally racing to class, leisurely weekend cyclists, and daily commuters pedaling to offices. Thus far, e-bikes have garnered attention in the US as a transportation option for the elderly and people with limited mobility. However, The New York Times states that e-bikes still represent a "niche" in the US. For e-bikes to experience commercial success in Cambridge and elsewhere in the US, these start-ups need to reach a broad target market and encourage standard bike users to transition to the electric version.
The state of Massachusetts also has specific restrictions on motorized bicycles, that limit the speed of e-bikes to 25 mph and prohibit their usage on major highways or roadways where standard bicycles are not allowed. Another "speedbump" to e-bike sales might be price; the Copenhagen Wheel is priced at 799 dollars, and various Evelo models land at 2000 dollars. Certainly, there is fairness behind the upmarket price tag on e-bikes (remember the smartphone app?), but it is up to electric bike companies to market this rationale appealingly to consumers.
Regardless, for those cyclists who find pedaling to be tiresome and an exercise in redundancy…you now have your solution!
Cambridge Challenges Somerville to the Ice Bucket
Filed under: Cambridge — Tags: Cambridge, David Maher, Jeff Young, Richard Rossi — Robert Winters @ 2:42 pm
L to R: Joe Amaroso, Mayor David Maher, City Manager Richard Rossi, School Superintendent Jeff Young
Not shown: School Committee members Fred Fantini, Mervan Osborne, Kathleen Kelly, and Patty Nolan; and City Councillors Tim Toomey, Marc McGovern, Nadeem Mazen, and Dennis Carlone
Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi, along with members of the City Council, School Committee, and City Staff, participated in an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on August 20, 2104. The challenge was dedicated to current City employees who are battling this disease and to those employees who have lost their fight. Over 5,600 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with ALS each year. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time.
So many people in all walks of life are being faced with this terrible disease," stated Cambridge Mayor David Maher, "just last week we lost a long time Cambridge School employee and friend, Jurina Vellucci, to ALS. Knowing how many people are suffering from ALS, we felt compelled to participate in a large scale way to help create awareness and to contribute to research for a cure."
Ms. Vellucci was an employee at the King Open School (and the former Harrington School) who lost her four year battle with ALS.
"I would do this challenge as many times as necessary if the awareness raised by this campaign could help find a cure," said City Manager Richard Rossi.
ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.
The ice and buckets were generously donated by Acme Ice on Kirkland St. in Cambridge.
To learn more about ALS visit: http://www.alsa.org/
Aug 20 Boston Globe Update:
ALS Association Donations Top $31 Million Thanks to Ice Bucket Challenge
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Cambridge InsideOut Episodes 79 and 80 with Terry Smith
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge government,Cambridge InsideOut — Tags: Cambridge, Robert Winters, Terry Smith, zoning — Robert Winters @ 9:50 pm
Cambridge InsideOut Episode 79 with Terry Smith (Part 1)
This episode was broadcast on Aug 19, 2014 at 5:30pm. Robert Winters was the host (Susana's on vacation). [On YouTube]
This episode broadcast on Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00pm. Robert Winters was the host (Susana's on vacation). [On YouTube]
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2013 Cambridge City Council Campaign Finance Receipts (Jan 1, 2013 through July 31, 2014)
Filed under: 2013 Election,Cambridge,campaign finance,City Council,elections — Tags: Cambridge, campaign finance, City Council, elections — Robert Winters @ 5:50 pm
Cambridge %
union/PAC %
Real Estate %
Benzan, Dennis $25,891.00 $55,161.00 46.9% 3.3% 0.5% $2,000 overpayment subtracted
Carlone, Dennis $34,796.00 $41,650.00 83.5% 0.6% 0.5% $16,000 from candidate
Cheung, Leland $21,366.00 $51,385.37 41.6% 6.4% 20.2% $2 from candidate
House, Janneke $12,177.24 $14,811.73 82.2% 0.2% 5.1% $6867.24 from candidate; $1132.76 reimbursed
Kelley, Craig $10,591.00 $11,441.00 92.6% 0% 3.5% $25 from candidate
Lee, James $1,800.00 $1,975.00 91.1% 0% 0% $1,800 from candidate
Leslie, Logan $20,520.00 $24,007.53 85.5% 4.2% 0% $13,100 from candidate
Maher, David $28,260.00 $50,653.68 55.8% 6.6% 22.4% -
Mazen, Nadeem $10,706.96 $41,058.43 26.1% 2.7% 0% includes $1750 in-kind, $3000 loan from candidate
McGovern, Marc $28764.80 $58,228.13 49.4% 9.3% 29.5% $1903.58 from previous campaign
Mello, Gary $500.00 $500.00 100.0% 0% 0% $500 from candidate
Mirza, Mushtaque $17,786.00 $19,983.00 89.0% 0% 0% $17,000 loan; $16793.84 apparently forgiven
Moree, Gregg J. $2,400.00 $2,400.00 100.0% 0% 0% $2,400 from candidate not itemized
Peden, Ron $500.00 $500.00 100.0% 0% 0% $500 from candidate not itemized
Phillips, Lesley $500.00 $500.00 100.0% 0% 0% -
Reeves, Ken $14,343.88 $67,362.93 21.3% 9.3% 25.0% Campaign headquarters greatly underreported; accounting unclear
Seidel, Sam $15,362.00 $22,245.82 69.1% 1.1% 0.9% $4,001 from candidate
Simmons, Denise $16,125.00 $35,222.02 45.8% 14.1% 20.3% -
Smith, Jefferson $20,040.00 $39,440.00 50.8% 6.0% 0% $17,220 from candidate; confused accounting
Toomey, Tim $15,969.43 $41,083.77 38.9% 13.6% 22.1% -
vanBeuzekom, Minka $22,512.00 $31,757.70 70.9% 1.3% 3.0% $7,500 from candidate
Vasquez, Luis $1,375.00 $2,410.96 57.0% 0% 0% -
von Hoffmann, Kristen $6,351.33 $17,166.45 37.0% 0% 1.7% $1,750 loan; $1640.33 in-kind forgiven
Williamson, James - - - - - no reported receipts
Yarden, Elie - - - - - no reported receipts
Note: Receipts include candidate loans which can greatly increase the percentage from Cambridge. Fees are included and reduce total receipts. Percentages for unions/PACS and identifiable real estate interests (RE) are shown. The total receipts in the first graph below includes all receipts reported by the bank. Bank receipts in some cases do not match the reported itemized receipts. All figures taken from Mass. Office of Campaign & Political Finance (OCPF) reports.
Two candidates in particular, Nadeem Mazen and Jefferson Smith, have financial reports that are especially difficult to decipher due to their liberal use of credit cards which resulted in some expenses being counted twice. I corrected the data as much as I could, but both campaigns could have used a competent treasurer.
Additional information, including expenditures, may be found at http://cambridgecivic.com/?p=2660.
These figures will be updated as additional information becomes available.
Total Itemized Receipts – 2013 (through Dec 14)
Percentage of Itemized Receipts from Cambridge – 2013 (through Dec 14, minimum $2000)
Percentage of Itemized Receipts from Cambridge w/o Candidate Loans
Percentage of Itemized Receipts from Real Estate/Developers – 2013 (through Dec 14, minimum $5000)
Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher and City Manager Richard C. Rossi Accept ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge government,City Council — Tags: City Council, Richard Rossi, School Committee — Robert Winters @ 4:37 pm
City Council and School Committee Members will Participate in Group Challenge
On Wednesday, August 20, at 2:00pm, Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher, along with Vice-Mayor Dennis Benzan and other members of the Cambridge City Council, will participate in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and funds for ALS research. The event will occur on Cambridge City Hall lawn. "So many people in all walks of life are being faced with this terrible disease," stated Cambridge Mayor David Maher, "just last week we lost a long time Cambridge School employee and friend, Jurina Vellucci, to ALS. Knowing how many people are suffering from ALS, we felt compelled to participate in a large scale way to help create awareness and to contribute to research for a cure."
Ms. Vellucci was an employee at the King Open School (and the former Harrington School) who lost her four year battle with ALS last week.
Joining them will be several Cambridge School Committee members, City Manager Richard C. Rossi, several city department heads and City Hall staff.
Vice-Mayor Dennis Benzan and Councilor Marc McGovern were recently challenged by former Cambridge City Councilor and Massachusetts State Representative Marjorie Decker. The Mayor's office seized the opportunity to make it a group challenge on the lawn at City Hall, and to help create awareness of ALS. The Cambridge contingent will be challenging another local city to do the same.
The ice and buckets will be generously donated by Acme Ice on Kirkland St. in Cambridge. Eric Law, owner of Acme Ice can be reached at 781-420-1332.
For additional information, please contact Alanna Mallon in Mayor David Maher's Office at 617-349-4327 or email amallon@cambridgema.gov.
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Cambridge InsideOut Episodes 77 and 78 with Patty Nolan
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge InsideOut — Tags: Cambridge, Patty Nolan, Robert Winters, Susana Segat — Robert Winters @ 8:54 pm
Cambridge InsideOut Episode 77 with Patty Nolan (Part 1)
This episode was broadcast on Aug 5, 2014 at 5:30pm. The hosts are Susana Segat and Robert Winters. [On YouTube]
This episode broadcast on Aug 5, 2014 at 6:00pm. The hosts are Susana Segat and Robert Winters. [On YouTube]


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Abp.Application.Services;
using Abp.Application.Services.Dto;
using Abp.Authorization;
using Abp.Domain.Repositories;
using Abp.IdentityFramework;
using Abp.UI;
using tzky.saas.Authorization.Roles;
using tzky.saas.Authorization.Users;
using tzky.saas.Authorization;
using tzky.saas.Roles.Dto;

namespace tzky.saas.Roles
{
    [AbpAuthorize(PermissionNames.Pages_Roles)]
    public class RoleAppService : AsyncCrudAppService<Role, RoleDto, int, PagedResultRequestDto, CreateRoleDto, RoleDto>, IRoleAppService
    {
        private readonly RoleManager _roleManager;
        private readonly UserManager _userManager;

        public RoleAppService(IRepository<Role> repository, RoleManager roleManager, UserManager userManager)
            : base(repository)
        {
            _roleManager = roleManager;
            _userManager = userManager;
        }

        public override async Task<RoleDto> Create(CreateRoleDto input)
        {
            CheckCreatePermission();

            var role = ObjectMapper.Map<Role>(input);
            role.SetNormalizedName();

            CheckErrors(await _roleManager.CreateAsync(role));

            var grantedPermissions = PermissionManager
                .GetAllPermissions()
                .Where(p => input.Permissions.Contains(p.Name))
                .ToList();

            await _roleManager.SetGrantedPermissionsAsync(role, grantedPermissions);

            return MapToEntityDto(role);
        }

        public override async Task<RoleDto> Update(RoleDto input)
        {
            CheckUpdatePermission();

            var role = await _roleManager.GetRoleByIdAsync(input.Id);

            ObjectMapper.Map(input, role);

            CheckErrors(await _roleManager.UpdateAsync(role));

            var grantedPermissions = PermissionManager
                .GetAllPermissions()
                .Where(p => input.Permissions.Contains(p.Name))
                .ToList();

            await _roleManager.SetGrantedPermissionsAsync(role, grantedPermissions);

            return MapToEntityDto(role);
        }

        public override async Task Delete(EntityDto<int> input)
        {
            CheckDeletePermission();

            var role = await _roleManager.FindByIdAsync(input.Id.ToString());
            if (role.IsStatic)
            {
                throw new UserFriendlyException(L("CanNotDeleteStaticRole"));
            }

            var users = await _userManager.GetUsersInRoleAsync(role.NormalizedName);

            foreach (var user in users)
            {
                CheckErrors(await _userManager.RemoveFromRoleAsync(user, role.NormalizedName));
            }

            CheckErrors(await _roleManager.DeleteAsync(role));
        }

        public Task<ListResultDto<PermissionDto>> GetAllPermissions()
        {
            var permissions = PermissionManager.GetAllPermissions();

            return Task.FromResult(new ListResultDto<PermissionDto>(
                ObjectMapper.Map<List<PermissionDto>>(permissions)
            ));
        }

        protected override IQueryable<Role> CreateFilteredQuery(PagedResultRequestDto input)
        {
            return Repository.GetAllIncluding(x => x.Permissions);
        }

        protected override async Task<Role> GetEntityByIdAsync(int id)
        {
            return await Repository.GetAllIncluding(x => x.Permissions).FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Id == id);
        }

        protected override IQueryable<Role> ApplySorting(IQueryable<Role> query, PagedResultRequestDto input)
        {
            return query.OrderBy(r => r.DisplayName);
        }

        protected virtual void CheckErrors(IdentityResult identityResult)
        {
            identityResult.CheckErrors(LocalizationManager);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Hear ye, hear ye! Guys and gals! Don't you dare miss all this madness! You could find your ideal graduation gifts for your kids, siblings, friends at the MARKDOWN MADNESS SALE event of the month! Let me roll the details!
What: MARKDOWN MADNESS SALE of up to 70% off on shoes, apparel and accessories from your favorite brands like Skechers, Ecko Unltd, Zoo York, and a whole lot more!
Drop by at the Tektite Auditorium anytime from 9am-8pm on March 19-23, 2012. See you there!
Wow that's a big sale, 70% you can buy a lot of shoes and resell it afterwards.


My trip was all to short but wonderful. What a treat to meet so many writers for the Anthology. What a fantastic group, I can't express enough gratitude to them for including me. To my great surprise, I was given amazing gifts! Everyone was far to kind to me and I will be returning their kindness (all I brought with was chocolate >.<). Just look at this!!!
First came this amazing cell phone strap. うにょさん made one for each of us. She also gave us copies of her personal まりメラ doujin. If that wasn't enough, she then gave me this. "I got this a long time ago, but I cannot make it." I was shocked!!!
This is one of one 3 garage kits for Brigadoon. I will do right by her gift and make it fantastic. I'll be adding my own twist to this one as well(^ _ -).
And for those who remember earlier posts, you'll recall my dear friend Hiro. She is still fighting a hard battle in the hospital, but I got to spend a day visiting her. She is wonderful beyond words. My little interim project is based on one of the characters from her original work DOLL.
And last but not least: Nezu! It was rather lovely and a great change from the insanity of Asakusa. I'll post pics though the next few weeks.
The Shrine layout is exactly the same as in まりメラ. I was surprised by the accuracy.
I haven't thank everyone properly yet, but I'm still suffering form terrible jet-lag and need to sleep. More later.