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Christopher Mallaby, Timothy Garton Ash and Andrey Kortunov join Christiane Amanpour to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, Iraqi unrest continues, as supporters of an Iran-backed militia attempt to storm the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad.
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Monday on the NewsHour, weekend attacks on Jewish and Christian congregations send shockwaves nationwide, reiterating fears of violence toward religious groups.
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Holly Willis
Holly Willis teaches in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and writes about new media art. She is the author of "New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image" and editor of "The New Ecology of Things" on pervasive computing.
This week in LA media art, there's a lot of video screening around town, from the low-tech and low-res Pixelvision videos at the PXL This fest to the latest digital experiments that comprise the quarterly Flux screening at the Hammer Museum.
Part 2 of the TBA A Group Video Exhibition in 7 Parts show at the Kristi Engle Gallery opens tonight with a reception starting at 7:00 p.m., and work by a long list of artists, including Hillary Mushkin, Daniel Nord and Annetta Kapon.
A recent graduate of USC's Roski School of Fine Arts, Mores McWreath is a media artist interested in "in-between states," evident in a range of recent video pieces. A show titled Between Everywhere and featuring the artist's work opens at M+B today, with a reception 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. From the curatorial notes: "As our world plunges deeper and deeper into a state of ecstatic and continuous communication, where even brief private moments are churning with the all-consuming, superficial chatter of reigning networks, McWreath's work seeks out rapidly diminishing liminal space by employing imagery from our media culture while denying specificity."
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space opens today at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, highlighting the role of Latin American artists working with light and space. Curated by Alma Ruiz, the show "will position Latin America as the source of new ideas about the nature and function of art through the re-creation of important large-scale installations by five highly regarded and influential artists: Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923), Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Julio Le Parc (b. 1928), Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) and Neville D'Almeida (b.1941), and Jesus Rafael Soto (1923-05)." Ruiz, as well as several other participants, will discuss the show today at 3:00 p.m.; the discussion is free.
For 20 years, Venice-based media advocate Gerry Fialka has been expounding the wonders of the PXL 2000 toy video camera produced by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s. The plastic camera records onto regular audio cassettes and produces a grainy, chunky black-and-white image. Marketed to kids, the camera was quickly adopted by artists, and now, nearly 30 years later, the camera continues to be a favorite of those seeking a rougher aesthetic counter to the high sheen of HD or even regular video. Fialka will proudly present the 20th iteration of his PXL This festival, featuring shorts produced with the Pixelvision camera in two different shows at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica; free admission. More info: 310-306-7330.
The Flux Screening Series returns to the Hammer Museum with yet another program of brand new digital experiments, featuring work by Angela + Ithyle, Vincent Haycock, Sophie Gateau and Neistat Brothers, among others. The show starts at 8:00, with music and a party to follow.
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Wolseley "Wedge"
by Wolseley Register member Dick Peters.
The Wolseley which has come to be known as "The Wedge" has the distinction not only to be the last car to bear the hallowed name, but also to "enjoy" the shortest production run in the company's illustrious history.
When BL took the decision to replace the ageing 'Landcrabs', the innovative designer, Harris Mann, was commissioned to come up with the goods, and the replacement was certainly distinctive. The tried and tested 'B/E' series engines were retained, but Hydrolastic(suspension) became Hydragas. The new models were offered initially under Austin or Morris guise, and were known as the 18-22. The upmarket (make that super luxury) Wolseley version was introduced in March 1975, and was badged simply as 'Wolseley', with no model name engine size or the like being shown anywhere on the body. Indeed, the only giveaway was a very discreet 'Leyland' badge on the nearside front wing. Perhaps the manufacturers had some insight into the turbulent times which lay ahead, and this discretion was born out of deference to the distinguished reputation of the Wolseley marque!
Wolseley 18-22 (Wedge), owned by member John Worth
As it transpired, the car was beautifully appointed for its day. It was only available with the silky six-cylinder engine, which drove the front wheels utilising a four-speed or (optional) automatic gearbox. Power steering and dual circuit servo assisted brakes were standard. It was available in a (very seventies) range of mainly metallic colours, and boasted a vinyl roof covering. Inside, there was plush velour upholstery, reclining front seats, three-speed ventilation system, and extensive sound proofing. Standard features included push-button radio, tinted glass, quad-beam tungsten headlights, long centre console and carpeted boot. The traditional Wolseley 'wood' was confined to the instrument surround.
The car's crisp space-age styling, superb comfort, and comprehensive list of standard features led the motoring press to dub it "an excellent car, much better than some more expensive competitors, and an outstanding stable-mate to the Triumph 2500S". High praise indeed, would that today's motoring journalists could see beyond a lozenge or tri-star. Such was the respect in which the car was held, that several examples were used by HMG to transport junior cabinet ministers, (the big shots got Rover P5Bs!). As an aside, probably the worst moment in the writer's experience of the car was when one was summarily wrecked in an episode of "The Professionals".
Sadly, as hinted above, the introduction of the range coincided with the most turbulent period in the history of the British motor industry, and indeed BL were the butt of many a comedian's jokes. After only 6 months, the 18-22 range was rebranded as "Princess", and on 11 September1975, after 80 years of producing much loved, quality cars, the name which we all hold with such reverence slipped, with barely a whimper, into the annals of motoring history.
In keeping with the general turmoil of the times, records are a little vague, but it is thought that only around 3,800 of these superb "swansongs" were produced. Good examples are rare and much prized today, if you can find one, go grab yourself a slice of motoring history!
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Restore Points from Backup that doesn't exist-how to remove?
I recently ran into a problem where all my restore points in Windows were disappearing. If I created a system restore point and then restarted the PC, the restore point would be gone!... I recently ran into a problem where all my restore points in Windows were disappearing. If I created a system restore point and then restarted the PC, the restore point would be gone!
In the past (before Windows 7) I sometimes cleared all System Restore points if a security program found a serious issue, but now they should be scanned and cleaned by newer security programs.


(Ottawa) Eighty two per cent of global wealth generated last year went to the richest one per cent, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw no increase, according to a new Oxfam report.
In Canada, billionaire wealth grew by a staggering $28 billion between March 2016 and March 2017. Oxfam Canada estimates that's enough to pay for universal child care and lift all 4.9 million Canadians out of poverty.
Since the year 2000, the number of Canadian billionaires has more than doubled – from 15 to 39 – and their wealth has almost tripled. Not a single one is a woman.
"Canada's feminist Prime Minister has an opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to tackle extreme inequality by championing women's rights and poverty reduction in Davos. Whether at home or abroad, women workers often find themselves at the back of the line in the economy. They consistently earn less than men and do the lowest-paid and least secure forms of work," said Julie Delahanty, Executive Director at Oxfam Canada.
Oxfam's report outlines the key factors driving up rewards for shareholders and corporate bosses at the expense of workers' pay and conditions. These include the erosion of workers' rights, the excessive influence of big business over government policy-making, and the relentless corporate drive to minimize costs in order to maximize returns to shareholders.
"Oxfam has spoken to women across the world whose lives are blighted by inequality. Women like Lan, who works in a Vietnamese garment factory far from home for poverty pay, and doesn't see her children for months at a time. Women working in the US poultry industry who are forced to wear diapers because they are denied toilet breaks. Women working in hotels in Canada and the Dominican Republic who stay silent about sexual harassment for fear of losing their jobs," Delahanty said.
Eliminate the gender pay gap and protect the rights of women workers.
Ensure the wealthy pay their fair share of tax and crack down on tax avoidance. Oxfam estimates a global tax of 1.5 per cent on billionaires' wealth could pay for every child in the world to go to school.
Increase spending on public services such as child care, health care and education.
"It's hard to find a political or business leader who doesn't say they are worried about inequality. It's even harder to find one who is actually doing something about it. Many are actively making things worse by slashing taxes and scrapping labour rights," said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International.


Sarah Piccolo has quite a following from her years as a caterer and a food truck operator, parking her mobile eatery outside top Sonoma County wineries since 2010.
Now, her Fork Catering has parked it as a new, brick-and-mortar shop in Sebastopol.
Like the menu for her truck (which is still out and about, by the way), food leans towards local, healthy, farm-to-table with Mediterranean accents. The European flair makes sense, since Piccolo studied and worked as a chef in Italy and France.
From her nimble fingers come breakfast dishes like an organic polenta and chevre bowl with poached local egg and greens ($6.75), or a breakfast sando stuffed with cheesy eggs and arugula ($5.50), plus nitrate-free bacon for an extra $2.
At lunch, there are daily changing offerings include panini like a grilled Clover cheese with poached egg, roasted sweet pepper puree and caramelized onions on Full Circle Bakery bread ($7.50), soups-du-jour such as carrot-ginger served with griddled bread ($5).
The blue plate specials look particularly appealing, like a breakfast of jasmine rice topped in Shone Farm poached egg, homemade rye bread and arugula flowers, and lunch of griddled naan with coconut curry lentils, local greens, raita and Liberty Duck confit or turkey meatballs ($10).
The truck, meanwhile, can be found at special events across Sonoma County, and is open for catering private parties. The 2001 Ford Grumman features a fully equipped kitchen with 10 burners, two ovens, and the espresso bar. Look for the vehicle, too, at the Rohnert Park Farmer's Market on Tuesdays, and at Sebastopol Food Truck Thursdays.
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Weapons of Math Destruction
by Cathy O'Neil
Introduction and Chapters 1–2 Summary
Chapters 3–5 Summary
Chapters 9–10 and Conclusion Summary
Weapons of Math Destruction Summary
Weapons of Math Destruction is a book by Cathy O'Neil that examines the dangers of using "Big Data" to make decisions that can alter the course of people's lives.
"Weapons of Math Destruction" (or WMDs) are Big Data models that use algorithms to make decisions. WMDs ignore nuance and often rely on flawed data.
Many WMDs are opaque to the people whose lives they affect, yet they are everywhere: in finance, college admissions, advertising, police departments, the job market, politics, and social media.
O'Neil concludes that the use of WMDs is biased, careless, and ultimately unethical.
Last Updated on August 14, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 1239
Cathy O'Neil's nonfiction book Weapons of Math Destruction exposes how data collection is being used to undermine individuals' right to privacy and the democratic society in which we live. Weaving her personal experiences with research, O'Neil traces the development of big data and its far-reaching impacts on the average citizen.
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In the introduction of the book, O'Neil describes her lifelong love for numbers, explaining how this led to a career in the field of mathematics. After the housing crisis and economic downturn of 2008, however, O'Neil recognized that mathematical equations were not infallible in measuring human behavior. She explains how, after 2010, the public accepted the growing trend of corporations and public services using algorithms to dictate much of their lives.
She cautions, however, that the ubiquity in these algorithms does not mean they are harmless. To illustrate this, she discusses the educational reforms in Washington, DC, under Michelle Rhee, whose teacher evaluation system IMPACT was meant to identify the lowest-performing teachers in the school district using math. Instead of solving the district's student achievement problem, the system fired good teachers based on a number that was calculated using undisclosed methods and unreliable data. The ability of mysteriously guarded algorithms to upend an individual's life without much proof is what inspires O'Neil to write about this subject.
In "Bomb Parts: What Is a Model?" O'Neil discusses how statistical analysis became integral to the sport of professional baseball. She suggests that baseball's use of data to analyze players' performance serves as a contrast to the destructive power of weapons of math destruction (WMDs) because it is transparent. In the rest of the chapter, O'Neil explains how models are created with goals and ideology in mind, which means they are just as biased as the people who create them. Because of this, O'Neil asserts that it is dishonest and immoral to keep the details of the model's creators and purpose from the people whose lives the model will impact. O'Neil discusses recidivism models in prisons as an example of how models can have detrimental consequences, even if they are unintended.
In the next chapter, "Shell Shocked: My Journey of Disillusionment," O'Neil goes into detail about how she arrived at her suspicions about Big Data. In her time working in hedge funds, O'Neil witnessed the havoc that models and algorithms could wreak on the economy during the 2008 financial crisis, not to mention the human suffering this caused. After leaving Wall Street, O'Neill worked in e-commerce, calculating the likelihood of website visitors to buy products. Even still, O'Neil grew increasingly uncomfortable with the way numbers were being used to manipulate, quantify, and control people—leading her to use her mathematical prowess to lead the charge in investigating Big Data.
In the next chapter, "Arms Race: Going to College," O'Neil explains how US News undertook the task of ranking the nation's colleges and universities based on a complex system of mathematical...
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Sai Dharam Tej to join hands with Gautam Menon !
Supreme Star Sai Dharam Tej is racing one film after the other and the latest buzz we hear is that Rey actor has signed up a multi-starrer trilingual film.
is now at a buzz that Gautam Menon is planning for a multi-starrer film with Sai Dharam Tej, Prithviraj and Puneeth Rajkumar which will be made in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada versions. However their is now official confirmation about the news it is turning out to be interesting combo on the way.
Tamanna and Anushka are being considered as lead actress in this mass love action entertainer for which Gautam Menon has roped in Vikatan as director. Lets wait for more update soon.


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Portsmouth midfielder felt side deserved Plymouth win
Ben Close felt Pompey deserved victory as he opened his league account.
By Jordan Cross
Pompey's Ben Close celebrates his goal against Plymouth. Photo by Joe Pepler
Close's second-half strike was cancelled out by Graham Carey's free-kick in the 1-1 draw at Home Park.
The midfielder didn't think it was a free-kick for Carey's goal and believed his side's display warranted a greater return.
But the Southsea man felt a point against a team showing impressive form is one his team can be satisfied with.
Close said: 'To score the first goal and not win was disappointing.
'I wanted to keep it low and get a good connection on the ball. It was pleasing to see it go in.
'We felt we deserved to win and we felt we were unlucky not to win. It was never a free-kick.
'But they have some excellent quality and it's hard to see why there are where they are. With their form it may be a good point.'
Check out our player ratings from today's draw at Plymouth.


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Chicago, Illinois Politics
Mayor Rahm Emanuel Finds Additional Chicago Residents, Wants U.S. Census Bureau Redo
Filed Under Chicago's 2010 Census, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Census Bureau
(Chicago, IL) – February 20, 2012. Whattya know. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has uncovered additional Chicago residents. And the mayor now wants the U. S. Census Bureau to revise Chicago's 2010 Census count.
What does it means?
It means nearly $3 million more each year for the Chicago's cash-starved treasury.
In Chicago's submission to the U.S. Census Bureau, Emanuel has presented 66 census blocks covering 23 wards which he estimates may contain as many as 1,160 additional housing units and as many as 2,350 additional people. Actual, breathing people.
"The accuracy of the Census is of critical importance for its role in determining federal funding distributed to our city," said Emanuel.
The census bureau has a program that gives state and local governments the opportunity to challenge 2010 Census housing unit counts.
The City stands to gain as much as $1,200 per year in federal funds over the next ten years for every additional person added to its count. A gain of this size in population could result in an increase in federal funding by $2.8 million annually.
The census bureau estimated that Chicago's population stood at 2,695,598 in 2010 or a 6.9% decline since 2000.
Other cities, like New York City, Houston, Miami, Des Moines, Detroit, Nashville, and Washington, DC have taken similar action.
Will Emanuel next announce that he has found more voters, too?
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Q: Compare Chars read from stdin? I am trying to read a line of tokens from the Keyboard. These are saved in a char[]. The tokens are seperated by a space. Using stok() I can split the string, but I need to evaluate the tokens for further actions. My Code:
char tString[50];

if (fgets(tstring, sizeof tstring, stdin)) {
            printf("%s", tstring);
            }

        char delimiter[] = " ";
        char *ptr;

        // initialisieren und ersten Abschnitt erstellen
        ptr = strtok(tstring, delimiter);

        while(ptr != NULL) {
            printf("Abschnitt gefunden: %s\n", ptr);
            // naechsten Abschnitt erstellen
            ptr = strtok(NULL, delimiter);
            if(ptr != '-'){
                puts("HIT MINUS!");
            }
        }

I can´t get the output HIT MINUS after entering 2 3 - as my Input line. Thanks for any help.

A: You are comparing the pointer here:
        if(ptr != '-'){

You want to compare the value:
        if(ptr && *ptr != '-'){

During the last iteration (last token) ptr will be NULL and you can't dereference NULL. So I altered the condition slightly.

A: ptr is a pointer to a character. If you want to get at the character that it points to, use *ptr:
if (*ptr == '-') {
    puts ("HIT MINUS!");
}

You also appear to have the equality check the wrong way around as well. I suspect it should be == (is equal to) rather than != (is not equal to), so I've changed it to that.
You may also find yourself dereferencing the NULL pointer at some time so you may want to check for that as well:
if ((ptr != NULL) && (*ptr == '-')) {
    puts ("HIT MINUS!");
}

A: You have to dereference the pointer before you compare it - but also check against NULL there.
Also your char tString[50]; should be char tstring[50]; in order to compile.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv){
  char tstring[50];
  char delimiter[] = " ";
  char * ptr;
  if (fgets(tstring, sizeof tstring, stdin)) {
    printf("%s", tstring);
    // initialisieren und ersten Abschnitt erstellen
    ptr = strtok(tstring, delimiter);
    while(ptr != NULL) {
      printf("Abschnitt gefunden: %s\n", ptr);
      // naechsten Abschnitt erstellen
      ptr = strtok(NULL, delimiter);
      if(ptr!= NULL && *ptr != '-'){
        puts("HIT MINUS!");
      }
    }
  }
}

A: char tstring[50];

if (fgets(tstring, sizeof tstring, stdin)) {
            printf("%s", tstring);
            }

        char delimiter[] = " ";
        char *ptr;

        // initialisieren und ersten Abschnitt erstellen
        ptr = strtok(tstring, delimiter);

        while(ptr != NULL) {
            printf("Abschnitt gefunden: %s\n", ptr);
            // naechsten Abschnitt erstellen
            if(*ptr == '-'){  // "=="
                puts("HIT MINUS!");
            };
            // moved to the end. Now you won't dereference NULL anyway.
            // and it will work if minus is the last token in string
            // and first returned by strtok()
            ptr = strtok(NULL, delimiter);
        }

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Black Pro-Life Activist: Protecting Black Babies from Planned Parenthood Is 2019's Civil Rights Movement
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Robert Kraychik
Elizabeth Parker, regional coordinator for Students for Life at Mississippi Valley State University, described Planned Parenthood's targeting of black women for abortion procedures as the Civil Rights movement's newest frontier.
Parker joined Thursday's edition of SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight for an interview with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Parker told Breitbart News how she informs students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) about Planned Parenthood's origins and the eugenicist ideology of its founder Margaret Sanger:
I was able to give some history [about] how and why Planned Parenthood was started, [and] why Margaret Sanger started the eugenics movement. She literally sterilized people. … Margaret Sanger literally started a movement to decrease the black population, to decrease the 'unwanted' and the 'undesirables,' whether that be low-income or the mentally disabled, but very specifically the black community because we were growing at a rapid rate.
Ultimately, out of racism as well, she began the eugenics movement where, let's just be blunt with it, it's sterilizing people, but very specifically black people. What she ended up doing was getting the law on her side at some points. There were times when young black girls would come into the hospital, and they would be unwed, and they would have their babies and immediately someone would come in and tell them, 'You have to be sterilized.'
Parker shared an anecdote featured in the documentary films Maafa 21:
There's one particular case that if you've never seen the [film] Maafa 21 — I definitely suggest you take a look at that great documentary, anyone can it find on YouTube — there's one particular testimony where one of the black women who was sterilized during that time, she was 13, and she had her baby, and she was living with her grandmother, and they specifically told her grandmother, "If you don't sign off on allowing us to sterilize her, we're going to take away your food stamps."
Of course her grandmother didn't fully understand what she was signing, because she was illiterate, but she went ahead and signed it as it the only means of survival as far as being able to provide for her and her new great-grandchild.
They ended up sterilizing this young girl, who grew up and eventually wanted to start — to continue — her family, and she found out that she was unfortunately a part of the eugenics movement and could not have any more children outside of that one child she had — a son — when she was 13.
That's just one of the hundreds of horrid stories that come out of the Margaret Sanger-Planned Parenthood eugenics movement.
Margaret Sanger's racial eugenics vision is at the foundation of Planned Parenthood, explained Parker.
"[Margaret Sanger] saw that she couldn't keep getting away with that, so she turned that into the Planned Parenthood abortion movement that literally plants themselves in minority black communities," Parker said.
Parker added, "Most Planned Parenthoods across the country aren't found in well-to-do neighborhoods. You're going to find them in run-down urban areas where people are struggling."
"How have you helped them?" asked Parker of Planned Parenthood. "After they've had abortions, how have you helped them? How is that helping them? Are they any better off? Have you helped them with their poverty issues? Are you helping finish school or medically?
Parkewr went on, "Are you helping them or just taking their money and killing their children? And the answer is yes, they're taking their money and killing their children. The help that allegedly comes that they say they're providing is not being provided."
Parker continued, "There are more stories of women who've gone in and had abortion and regretted them than there are women who say, 'This hasn't fazed me and I'm living my best life, now."
The volume of abortion performed on pregnant black women amounts to a new form of self-induced "lynching," assessed Parker:
It's almost like a new deception. I don't know if you've heard the phrase, "Lynching is for amateurs," and it almost feels like they found a new way to begin to lynch us, and I know that sounds pretty harsh, but it's the truth. So they don't have to hold the noose anymore, they have fooled the minority community into literally taking the use and almost using it on themselves by walking into that clinic and paying for these procedures, these abortions.
Combating abortion among blacks is a new front for the Civil Rights movement, determined Parker:
At the end of the day, the Civil Rights movement is still very much alive, because we have to fight for this when it should just be a basic human right. So it's very much a part of the civil rights movement. Now we are fighting for truth to awaken the minority community and they are waking up. … As we fight to bring truth, then there is a fight to now enact and see that the civil rights of not just those that are here are protected and acted, but those who are on their way to being here, those are yet to come, and the pre-born. It's very much still a Civil Rights movement going on.
"No little girl grows up dreaming of the day she'll have an abortion," concluded Parker, "and that is true, I believe, for any woman who has looked at abortion."
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As we each grapple with how to best achieve our desired project outcomes and impacts, CADRE has pulled together some resources to help. In this special dissemination issue of the CADRE newsletter, we are excited to announce a Dissemination Toolkit, share information about upcoming DR K-12 project presentations, and more.
Do you have a story about your projects' outcomes or impact to share? We hope that you will continue to leverage CADRE as a partner in your efforts to reach audiences beyond those whom you engage through your project work.
DR K-12 PI Meeting: There are currently no plans for a PI meeting in 2017.
Project Keyword Survey: PIs of active grants received emails on Friday (2/25) with a request to identify appropriate keywords to describe their project. Please complete the 5-minute survey for your project today! If you did not receive a survey link but are an active DR K-12 PI, email cadre@edc.org. See the live survey results.
Thinking about how to best disseminate your work? This toolkit offers resources, tips, and strategies that may help.
It is always good to reflect on the overall goal of your project's communication and be purposeful about how you portray and communicate your work. Visit Project Communication Plans to start planning your approach and timeline.
Thank you for the enthusiastic response to our recent survey on project websites, upcoming presentations, and recent publications, and congratulations on all you have accomplished in the past year! We use this information to update project pages, the event calendar, and the resource library on cadrek12.org.
In this webinar, members of The Concord Consortium's Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) project discussed highlights from the February 15-17 DSET conference, which convened more than 100 researchers, curriculum developers, and software developers to build a community and identify innovative tools and approaches for integrating data science into the K-12 classroom.
Crystal clear charts and graphs are valuable - they save an audience's mental energies and keep a reader engaged. In this virtual workshop, attendees will learn the science behind effective data presentation. We will walk through Dr. Evergreen's Four Step Visualization Process and along the way, consider how audiences will engage with our visuals, which chart type will best tell the story in the dataset, and how we can leverage easy to learn design skills to sharpen our message.
The 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase will focus on "Research & Design for Impact." Registration to present in the showcase is now closed, but you can still participate! All are encouraged to view and engage with the work of your colleagues across the National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources Directorate. Interested in being a facilitator for the Video Showcase? If so, please email cadre@edc.org by March 24th.
On January 18th, CADRE hosted a virtual meeting for CAREER awardees, during which current awardees met with a former CAREER grantee to discuss tips for working with graduate students and advisors. This meeting was part of CADRE's broader efforts to support early career researchers and developers. In the spring, CADRE will host an informational webinar on the DR K-12 CAREER program and solicitation for prospective proposal writers.
We're pleased to share this quarter's news from DR K-12 projects and people, as well as our sister resource networks who serve other NSF funding programs (ATE, CAISE, CIRCL, CS for All Teachers, MSPnet, and STELAR). In addition to our newsletter digest, we disseminate your news items on our website and social media. Let us hear from you!
In the Press | In this Connected Science Learning article, Julie Yu and Sara Heredia describe The Exploratorium Teacher Institute (TI) and its work focused on implementing Next Generation Science Standards.
Awards & Recognition | In Ask-a-Tech-Teacher's annual recognition of exceptional tech-ed resources, Scratch Jr. was awarded Best in Coding. Scratch was also mentioned as an exemplar in the Insight article How Emerging Technology in Education Enhances the Classroom.
Publication | In her International Journal of Education in Mathematics article, former CADRE Fellow Jenny Dauer discusses research showing that "teaching and using a seven-step decision-making model helps students become more scientifically literate."
Product | Doug Clements and Julie Sarama are the featured experts in a video-based pilot-stage professional development module on Geometric Measurement. In addition to pilot information, there are two modules currently available on the program website.
In the Press | Earsketch was featured in this article after being recognized by the White House for its coding program that uses music to teach students how to code.
Publication | In this Journal for Research in Mathematical Education article, Jinfa Cai and colleagues discuss "how research can have a larger impact on educational practice and what kinds of research can have the greatest impact on educational practice."
Product | High Adventure Science is featured in National Geographic's collection of education resources.
Science Education: From Separation to Integration (Linn, Gerard, Matuk, & McElhaney).
In the Press | In this Getting Smart article, PHeT and Designing Assessments in Physical Science Across Three Dimensions are cited as examples of projects with simulations and online models/tools being used in schools.
Publication | In this report, based on the work of Fostering STEM Trajectories: Bridging Early Childhood Education Research, Practice, and Policy, Douglas Clements and colleagues provide recommendations for education stakeholders to improve STEM opportunities in early childhood.
What Is (or Should Be) Scientific Evidence Use in K-12 Classrooms?
Publication | In this JRST article, Katherine McNeill and Leema Berland "develop design heuristics to inform the design of classroom learning environments that productively use scientific evidence for student sensemaking about the natural world."
Jeremy Roschelle, Kemi Jona, and Patricia Schank describe key lessons, current issues, and project work related to remote labs as an alternative method for students to conduct science experiments and data collection. The primer also includes resources and readings for those wanting to learn more.
In a guest post on the MSPnet blog, Christine Cunningham describes three approaches to breaking stereotypes and building students' affinity with engineering.including websites, publications, and project information.
Last month, the CS for All Teachers blog featured a three part series by Sarah Wile on research to make computer science more accessible for students with specific learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders.
In a recent blog post, CAISE's Kelsey Wright curates some compelling examples of online science communication on social media platforms.
On March 28, ATE Central will host the 3rd installment of their three part series on sustainability. The March session will focus on revenue generation, while recordings of the first two webinars, focused on successful partnerships and institutional support, are available on the series webpage.
We encourage you to share this newsletter with your colleagues. Many of our news items, resources, and events may be of special interest to others on your project team, e.g., early career researchers and developers, evaluators, communication specialists, etc. We welcome all as part of our DR K-12 community and invite them to subscribe to this newsletter, join us on social media, and create an account on the CADRE website.
Making an Impact: A CADRE Video Blog featuring Christine Cunningham, Cory Forbes, Vikram Kapila, and Kathy Perkins. Click the image to play.


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Update: The Ministry of Transport has confirmed the new law has been gazetted and will be enforced effective immediately, as reported by The Sun.
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I'm currently working with two clients who are focusing on security. One is a large regional organization that is hiring its first chief information security officer (CISO). They asked StarBridge Advisors to provide an interim CISO to help build the security program while they recruit. The other is a university health system that is consolidating its security program under the university CISO and hiring an associate CISO to focus on the health system. Both organizations recognize the importance of the CISO role and the need to continually strengthen their security profile.
When I served as chief information officer at Michigan Medicine for the hospitals and health centers, we crossed that bridge in 2015. The IT leader responsible for infrastructure had been responsible for security as well—not uncommon in healthcare organizations. I recognized that the security function needed a dedicated focus, so we hired a full-time CISO.
Security is discussed at the senior executive level, with critical decisions about organizational security activities made by the CEO and other senior leaders.
Senior executives receive regular reports on the security posture of the organization and incorporate them into overall organizational risk management.
The organization has a CISO, positioned to influence organizational activities, and who operates independent of conflicts of interest.
Security staffing levels are adequate to address the existing and future security issues.
Security is a defined budgetary item, with security spending sufficient to address identified risks.
Security is incorporated into overall organizational activities, including system acquisition, and data sharing with business partners.
The organization's research arm views security as critical to research activities, even if the research involves information considered public.
A nationally recognized leader in health information technology, Sue Schade is a principal at StarBridge Advisors, a healthcare technology advisory services firm. She is a member of the AAMI Board of Directors.
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I think the key part on the last of the eight is "held accountable." The boots on the ground employees are the ones who support the organization and make normal operations happen every day. They must adopt the tenant of responsibility, if not organically, then by being "held accountable" by the chain of command of that organization.
I couldn't agree more with the eight signs Sue specified. Some companies hire a CISO thinking, hey, we're done. The fact is, just a CISO alone won't mitigate or control the risk. The hardest parts of implementing a security and privacy program are those that relate to organizational culture and changing it make information security an "us" thing rather than a single individual's responsibility (the CISO).
All short lists suffer from their inherent over simplification. Is it really just these eight signs such that if we can check each one who have the problem solved? One way to remember that the answer is probably no to always have "Other" on any short list.


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Marijuana, or cannabis, has long been used as medicine. As far back as two thousand years ago, the Chinese were already using it as a traditional cure for pain, digestive problems, cough, insomnia, mania, anxiety, and many other ailments. More recently, doctors and medical practitioners in the western world have also come to recognize the medicinal value of marijuana. But a concern that comes up very often is, "Won't using marijuana as medicine makes the patient high?" Understandably, a lot of people want the health and therapeutic benefits of the plant, but they'd rather not get stoned or experience its psychotropic effects.
Let's then get to the bottom of this issue. Will marijuana get you high when you use it as medicine? The quick answer is: It depends. Some strains or variants of marijuana will get you high, while others won't. If you use THC-rich marijuana, you will get high. But if you use CBD-rich cannabis, you will experience its medicinal effects without getting stoned. Read on to know what THC and CBD are, and the roles they play in making marijuana medicinal.
The chemical compounds found in marijuana that give the plant its unique identity and properties are called cannabinoids. There are actually more than a hundred different cannabinoids that make up the cannabis plant, but of these, the two which are most abundant are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). These major compounds of cannabis have been studied a lot, and research findings reveal that they both have medicinal properties. But they are unlike in that THC is psychoactive (which means that has mind-altering effects), while CBD is not. Because of this, THC has earned the nickname "The High-Causer," and CBD is generally regarded as the "good" or "beneficial" cannabis. People who want to use marijuana as a recreational drug want the THC-rich variants, while people who want to use marijuana as medicine want the CBD-rich variants, which do not cause a high.
How do THC and CBD affect the human body? And why do they produce different effects? The answer has to do with a system in our body called the endocannabinoid system (ECS). This system is not very well known among people without a medical background, but it is an important system that performs a wide range of functions. It helps to regulate, for example, our sleep, digestion, hunger, pain, memory, motor control, and mood. It also helps to maintain homeostasis or the equilibrium of the whole body. Moreover, it influences the functioning of our immune system. In other words, the ECS plays a significant role in our health and wellbeing.
The endocannabinoid system is composed of receptor cells found all over the body, including the skin, internal organs, immune cells, and the nervous system. These receptor cells "receive" instructions from special molecules called agonists. Only specific agonists can "open" or communicate with the receptor cells because only they have the "keys" that can unlock the receptor cells. THC and CBD are examples of such agonists. THC mainly interacts with receptor cells in the central nervous system, which explains the powerful effect of THC on a person's mind and emotions. It is why THC causes a high or the euphoric feelings associated with smoking marijuana. Meanwhile, CBD doesn't affect the brain or the central nervous system as much. Instead, its influence is more on the immune system, the gastrointestinal tract, and the peripheral nervous system. Thus, CBD doesn't cause a high or any psychoactive effect, but it can strengthen the immune and digestive systems, as well as the parts of our physiology governed by the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Without getting too deeply into the details, the PNS controls our autonomic functioning (the part that doesn't require "thinking" or voluntary control), our muscles and joints, and the communication between the brain and the rest of the body.
CBD is a natural analgesic. It relieves pain and inflammation.
It has antipsychotic effects, making it useful as the supplementary treatment for schizophrenia and other mental disorders.
It eases anxiety. It is therefore useful in treating anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and social anxiety disorder.
It helps to fight cancer by inducing cellular death (of cancerous cells).
It relieves nausea and vomiting.
It helps treat seizures and other neurological disorders. It is particularly useful in treating pediatric or juvenile forms of epilepsy that are resistant to conventional therapeutic methods.
Apart from these, other medicinal applications for CBD are currently being studied. There are strong indications that CBD can also help treat other medical conditions, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
The most widely used, as well as the safest, form of CBD is cannabidiol oil or CBD oil. This comes from extracts of cannabis that consists mostly of CBD (about 99%) and zero or very negligible amounts of THC (less than 0.3%). It is impossible to get high on CBD oil, even if you use huge amounts of it.
CBD oil may be used topically, that is, by rubbing on the skin as you would use lotion or cream. As mentioned, there are cell receptors on our skin that form part of our endocannabinoid system. As such, CBD oil is effective when applied topically, contrary to what some people might think.
CBD oil may also be taken orally, in gel or capsule form. In fact, many people who aren't really sick take CBD oil as a nutritional supplement. When used this way, it mostly strengthens the immune and digestive systems. It also produces a calming or relaxing effect, which is great for stress relief.
If you wish to use CBD oil or any CBD product for medicinal purposes, it is best that you consult a medical professional who is knowledgeable about cannabis use. He can recommend that proper dose for you, as well as advise you on the correct timing of intake and the best forms or variants to take.
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Marijuana, or cannabis, has long been used as medicine. As far back as two thousand years ago, the Chinese were already using it as a traditional cure for pain, digestive problems, cough, insomnia, mania, anxiety, and many other ailments. More recently, doctors and medical practitioners in the western world have also come to recognize the medicinal value of marijuana. But a concern that comes up very often is, "Won't using marijuana as medicine make the patient high?" Understandably, a lot of people want the health and therapeutic benefits of the plant, but they'd rather not get stoned or experience its psychotropic effects.


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Death Valley Recorded the hottest Temperature on Earth
Frank Johnson
Earth might have seen many climatic extremes, but quite certain it never saw a glimpse of hell. Earth just witnessed its hottest day in an area named appropriately for its climatic condition: The Death Valley.
The US National Weather Service verified that Death Valley recorded a bone-melting 54.4C temperature.
The highest temperature recorded on Earth was 129.2F (54C), which was also in Death Valley in 2013. Death Valley is a notoriously hot climatic region.
The latest heatwave seems to stretch from Arizona and moving to Washington. It is expected to hit temperature at its peak on Monday and Tuesday, just before temperatures will start to decline later in the week.
A "Firenado" was observed on Saturday. The entire region's power generation relies on renewable resources including solar and wind energy.
Now because people make use of their electricity mostly for air conditioning and cooling systems during heat waves, due to this excessive usage of electricity the power grid gets choked.
If electrical strain continues to grow at the current rate, experts suggest that it can cause the electrical system to undergo pressure.
The Heatwave Is A Bigger Threat Than Perceived
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that heatwaves kill more people on average than any other extreme weather events in the country. The on-the-spot effects of heatwaves on the human body can include heat cramps but it can also potentially cause fatal heat strokes.
Extreme heat can also resonate with some pre-existing comorbid and health conditions, including respiratory diseases, cardiac conditions, and renal disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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80% of Covid-19 patients in HCMC have no or mild symptoms Two medical workers are seen next to an ambulance. Up to 80% of the Covid-19 patients in HCMC have no or mild symptoms – PHOTO: LDO The figure was announced as part of a plan to establish two field hospitals with a total capacity of 5,000 beds at the Vietnam National University HCMC, which would accommodate newly-detected Covid-19 patients and those who develop no or mild symptoms, news site Vnexpress reported. Doctor Nguyen Tri Dung, director of the municipal Center for Disease Control, has also stated that some 1.3% of the patients in the city developed serious symptoms, while 68% were asymptomatic. These cases have caused multiple difficulties in the tracing work, Dung noted. In the coming periods, HCMC should protect people with a high risk of infection and those with underlying illnesses. They should be prioritized to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Director of the HCMC Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh said the treatment of patients without symptoms in separate areas would help ease the pressure on the healthcare sector. In some countries, these patients have been asked to monitor their health condition at home. In HCMC, the number of… Read full this story
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Surprise! I'm back and ready to reveal all… within reason.
I've just returned from a wonderful and intensive tour of Ethiopia, which means: the black people. It's an amazing country, full of archaeology and history, volcanoes and lava, camels, donkeys and birds of many sorts, religion and tribes, music, dancing, paintings and much more. Although we were busy every single day of the nineteen, I'm sure there's plenty we didn't see. In fact, there were two things we expected to see and didn't. More about that later.
This is the notebook (given to me by my friend, Marallyn) in which I recorded activities, impressions, etc. Some of my scribblings are legible, I think. Some of them can probably only be deciphered by me. They were written while bouncing around in a jeep in the Dannakil Desert.
I plan to find a way of using it all – after writing everything else I have planned. In the meantime, when we've sorted out the photos, I'll post some of them here.
What didn't we see? The lava at Erta Ale as shown on YouTube. That's because there was an eruption on the day we visited. (The previous eruption, we were told, was in 2005, although Wikipedia says 2009.) We climbed all the way up, but weren't allowed to get near enough to see bubbling lava, although we watched the eruption from afar. We also weren't allowed to sleep at the top, as planned, and had to walk down again the same night. We were lucky, though, because groups arriving after us weren't allowed up there at all.
We also didn't see a regular ceremony that includes bull jumping (that doesn't harm animals, we were told) and dancing. The ceremony didn't take place that week.
Sounds like you had a great trip. Ethiopia is a country I would like to visit one day.
There's plenty to see there.
Definitely staying tuned – sounds fascinating!


Hawthorne Mayor Pro Tem Alex Vargas joined a host of elected officials, union members, and thousands of students returning to school at the SEIU-ULTCW Fresh Start event. Held at the Ted Watkins Recreation Park, students from all over the county lined up to receive new backpacks, health screenings, and a fresh hair cut or manicure.
"Labor is not just a vital part of our economy, they are an integral part in our communities." said the councilman as he spoke with a local reporter. "In the City of Hawthorne alone, the unemployment rate is currently at 16 percent. It is extremely important that we support labor by creating jobs through economic development in our cities.
Also in attendance with Councilman Vargas was Hawthorne School District Board Vice President John Vargas, and the 2011 25th State Senate District Woman of the Year Olivia Valentine.
Service Employees Union International represents millions of members who work in a variety of trades and professions. United Long Term Care Workers represents over 800,000 In-Home Support Service providers in the State of California. Fresh Start is a program that was developed to provide school supplies, health services, and resources to students and parents all over the County of Los Angeles.


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Chinese Retailer to Buy Britain's Hamleys
C.Banner International Holdings has agreed to pay around $154.2 million for the well-known British toy retailer
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Oct. 22, 2015 2:29 am ET
HONG KONG—A Chinese retailer focused on women's footwear is buying well-known British toy retailer Hamleys, according to people familiar with the situation.
Hong Kong-listed C.Banner International Holdings Ltd. has agreed to pay around £100 million ($154.2 million) for Hamleys in a deal expected to be announced later Thursday, according to one of the people.
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From the World Series, tales of heroes, luck and heartbreak
Review by Steven V. Roberts
October 13, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EDT
Washington Nationals fans celebrate at the watch party for Game 7 of the World Series against the Houston Astros at Nationals Park on Oct. 30, 2019. The Nats beat the Astros 6 to 2 to win the World Series. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
My father used to call the World Series the World Serious. A joke of course, but he was being, well, serious too. Since the first playoff between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903, the Fall Classic has played a central role in our national life and culture. "To be an American," writes Tyler Kepner, who covers baseball for the New York Times, "was to have at least a passing familiarity with the World Series." Kepner cites a 1961 episode of a popular TV series, "The Twilight Zone." A state trooper, trying to discern which patron of a diner is actually a Martian, asks one suspect: Who won the last World Series? The assumption was that any real human "could easily answer" correctly. (It was the Pirates, by the way.)
In his book "The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series," Kepner concedes that today, the Super Bowl has eclipsed the Series as "our sporting fixation" and that "football wins every poll when fans are asked to name their favorite sport." But baseball, he argues, "is a fundamentally different product" than football, "an everyday companion for seven months, not a once-a-week spectacle for five." The Super Bowl is a single game lasting perhaps four hours. A fling, a one-night stand, with rappers bellowing under strobe lights for 20 minutes at halftime. The series can go seven games consuming about 25 hours. It's more like a romance, requiring a commitment. With no strobe lights. As my dad said, it's serious, and old-fashioned in the best possible way.
I have one beef with Kepner. He focuses almost entirely on the games and the players, and not enough on the fans and their communities. Baseball is not just about who played on the field but who watched from the stands. Not just about homers but hometowns, about cheers and loyalties as well as champs and losses. What was it like, for instance, to grow up in Chicago, rooting for a Cubs team that had not captured a title since 1908? And how did it feel when they finally won in 2016, and fans visited the graves of their ancestors who had never lived to see that blessed day, bearing tokens and amulets of victory?
Still, this book is full of lively incidents and insights, and one question it tries to answer is: Why do certain stars shine brightest on the grandest stage? Like football's Tom Brady (seven Super Bowl victories) and basketball's Steph Curry (four NBA titles), baseball has players like Reggie Jackson, nicknamed "Mr. October," who played in five World Series for the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, hitting .357 with 10 homers and 24 runs batted in. Three of those dingers came on successive pitches on Oct. 18, 1977, the greatest offensive performance in 117 years (two series have been missed since 1903). "I started believing in the headlines," Jackson told Kepner, "I started believing what was written and almost relied on it." David Ortiz, the fabled "Big Papi," who hit .455 while leading the Red Sox to three titles, has a pithier explanation for success: "Some people got it, some people don't."
The best teams usually win a 162-game regular season, but in a short playoff, Lady Luck gets a turn at bat. In Game 7 of the 2019 Series, the Washington Nationals were trailing the Houston Astros 2 to 1 in the seventh inning. Astros pitcher Zack Greinke was sailing along when manager A.J. Hinch decided to replace him with reliever Will Harris. The Nationals' Howie Kendrick flicked Harris's second pitch down the right field line, barely clearing the wall and clanking off the foul pole, fair by inches, one of the shortest home runs in series history, but it put the Nationals ahead for good. As Anthony Rizzo, the Cubs first baseman in 2016, put it, "It not only takes a great team to win a championship, it takes a little good fortune."
For every hero like Kendrick there is a goat like Harris (and his manager Hinch). The intensity of the series amplifies both roles, creating narratives that can transcend sports and enter the larger culture. In Game 3 of the 1932 series at Chicago's Wrigley Field, the Yankees' Babe Ruth gestured with an upraised finger toward the Cubs pitcher, Charlie Root, and walloped his next pitch for a home run. Legend has it that Ruth "called" his home run, one of the most memorable moments in baseball history. Except Root insists Ruth was saying that while he had two strikes against him, "he still had one coming." On his death bed Root told his daughter, "I gave my life to baseball, and I'll be remembered for something that never happened."
Bill Buckner is remembered for something that definitely did happen. In the sixth game of the 1986 series, with the Red Sox on the brink of winning their first title since 1918, Mookie Wilson of the Mets hit a little dribbler down the first base line. It went through Buckner's legs, the Mets survived, and then they won the seventh game. "That little ground ball never stopped rolling, following Buckner to the great beyond," writes Kepner.
But there is a footnote. Over the years, his misplay gave Buckner "a measure of celebrity beyond baseball, a kind of cultural resonance few athletes ever achieve," observes Kepner. The writer Larry David devised an episode of his HBO show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," in which Buckner is walking through Manhattan and sees a woman clutching a baby in the fifth-floor window of a burning building. When she drops the child, Buckner dives to "snatch the baby in midair." David, an avid Yankees fan, tears up recalling that episode: "I did want to redeem him."
Baseball is a game of legend and loss, myth and memory, all magnified by the World Serious. Buckner flubbed the ball but caught the baby. And the crowd cheered.
Steven V. Roberts teaches journalism and politics at George Washington University. His latest book is "Cokie: A Life Well-Lived."
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The Coming Messiah IV: God's Description of Immanuel
By Media Gratiae — 1 month ago
There are many passages of Scripture where God describes Himself to us. This week we are focusing on four such descriptions of God describing the coming Immanuel in Isaiah 9. Some 700 years before the incarnation of Christ, God chooses to give royal titles to the One who would be born a King. He would be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Have you ever stopped to consider what these titles mean, and how much they can tell us about how we are to relate to our Redeemer? God made a promise not just the Immanuel would come to rescue His people, but that He would come in such a way that He would be known by these realities. Now, over 2,700 years removed from the making of this promise and 2,000 years removed from its fulfillment, what are you doing with these words?
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By Media Gratiae — 1 year ago
We spent three weeks skipping along the surface of Hebrews. There is so much more we would love to say. But we take a turn in this episode to see how God applied the priestly work of Jesus to the life of one sinner: Jordan Thomas. Like so many in our evangelical culture, Jordan prayed a prayer as a child and thought he was a Christian. But the Lord, in His kindness, showed Jordan the depth of his sin and used genuine Christ-followers to lead him to repentance. Jordan and John also benefited from the wonderful discipleship of a mutual friend.
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It has become a cliche' to say, "We're all God's children." But actually, that isn't true. In this episode, Barry Cooper articulates the extraordinary privilege Christians have in being adopted into the family of God. Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/adoption/


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BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE WEEK 10/06/2015: Hodgy Beats, Maroon 5, Travis Scott and more...
Ed Sheeran goes gangsta, Maroon 5 go club-friendly and Travis Scott goes proggy. What a musical mess this week has been! Fortunately, there have been some diamonds in the rough.
'Lorry Park' - LA Priest
Quirky digital loops and bright synth vocals come together on this avant-garde electronic instrumental. It sounds like something that was concocted with a lab coat on. To be quite honest, I'm not even sure if LA Priest is human. I tried visiting his official website and ended up in this confusing alien cyberworld.
'Lake Como' - Puro Instinct
California dream-pop sister duo, Puro Instinct, combine their hypnotic vocals with detuned ambient synths to give the impression of time slowing down – or at least that's how I perceived it. I'm reminded of that slo-mo drug from the recent Judge Dredd movie. Oh, how I wish that drug existed!
'Lay Back' - Hodgy Beats
Odd Future have apparently broken up, but let's face it – the solo projects have always been far more interesting than anything Odd Future have tried as a collective. Already this year we've had an album from Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator. Hodgy Beats may be the next ex-member to drop a project. This aptly-named laid-back new single certainly has me intrigued.
'Trap Queen' - Ed Sheeran
This isn't an official single per se (thank god), but I'm putting it here anyway. Why do the whitest artists insist on covering the blackest songs? It just comes across as awkward. Admittedly, there are worse cases.
'This Summer's Gonna Hurt Like a Motherfucker' - Maroon 5
It's about time a male ass got some attention in the music industry. Maroon 5's latest music video sees Adam Levine baring his buttocks to the world. SEXY STUFF. As for the actual song, well, it's proof Maroon 5 have become a full-blown pop band. The groovy instrumental isn't bad, but lyrically it's about as generic as summer anthems get.
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No trap anthem deserves to be eight minutes long, especially when it contains three of the most generic rap lyricists alive.
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I've always known the story of Paul and Silas but never really saw or understood the significance of their praises and faith in God. Paul and Silas were thrown in prison for spreading the Word of God and doing His work and will. They were beaten and in prison without trial, but as they sat in prison bruised beaten and uncomfortable, they began to sing praises to God. This struck me because while they were uncomfortable is when they started praising God the strongest and wouldn't let up.
When God miraculously released them from prison after hearing their praises the other jailer after witnessing their faith asked them what he must do to be saved. The jailer was saved that night. When Paul and Silas left town they left behind a body of believers. This was a great reminder that even in extremely difficult times, God can bring about great things. God will have His name glorified even through our trials and tribulations. Paul and Silas had this perspective, and that's why they were able to sing praises at midnight. Even when we don't feel like things are going our way or life couldn't be any worse; we need to still continue to praise God because you never know who is watching or where our next blessing is coming from.
The fact that the prisoners were "listening" to Paul and Silas singing hymns is not a detail to be overlooked. As women of God, we too have people watching how we react to life's circumstances. If Paul and Silas had been griping, protesting or whining about the injustice of their situation, the jailer would have never been drawn to believe in Jesus. But they responded to their situation gracefully and with joy, their actions were completely foreign to how others expected them to react.
Silas is a great example of someone who used his gifts to serve the Lord and others with all his heart. The apostles called him "faithful," and he was known as one to "encourage and strengthen the brothers." We can learn so much from Paul and Silas that during high and low times we have to continue to encourage others and ourselves. When we pour into others Jesus will pour into us, we also must surround ourselves with people who are able and willing to pour into us as well.
If we're going to live in victory we have to know how to praise him in the midnight hour. Even when things seem the darkest, when we're in pain, disappointed, lonely, or experiencing loss. When we praise Him no matter what, that's when God can enter any situation. Even if we're in a difficult season we have to remember that praises paves our way to victory.


Tibetans praying over the body of a self-immolator in Rebgong, Nov. 8, 2012.
Chinese authorities have threatened to block aid to families and villages of Tibetans who burn themselves to death in protest against Chinese rule, a rights group said Thursday, as another self-immolation occurred in a restive Tibetan county in Qinghai province.
Lhubum,18, burned himself to death on a street in Dowa township in Rebgong (in Chinese, Tongren) county in the Malho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a source told RFA's Tibetan service.
Local residents surrounded Lhubum's body to prevent the police from taking it away, the source said. Later, they brought the body to his residence for funeral prayers.
Lhubum's death brings to 79 the total number of self-immolations since the wave of fiery protests began in February 2009.
Chinese authorities seem to be increasingly concerned over the rising number of burnings, particularly in Rebgong where there had been eight self-immolations so far this month.
In a reflection of their concern, they have cut Internet links to the area to prevent more protests and have issued circulars aimed at punishing self-immolators' families and villages by withholding aid.
In an official notification issued on Nov. 14 by the Malho authorities, local officials from the ruling Chinese Communist Party and government have been given orders to punish self-immolators and their families—even those who had offered condolences and prayers to the bereaved family members and relatives, a Tibetan rights group said.
The India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) quoted a source as saying that the notification, issued both in Tibetan and Chinese, was shown on the Malho Prefectural TV channel.
It said government aid to family members of self-immolators will be cut for three years while development funds for villages where self-immolations took place—even if projects had been approved earlier—will be cancelled for a similar period, TCHRD said in a statement.
Officials, monks and monasteries sympathetic to the self-immolators will also face action, according to the circular.
News of the Tibetan self-immolations have been spreading rapidly among China's massive netizen community in recent weeks, a New York-based rights group said.
"Chinese netizens have helped spread reports of Tibetan self-immolations online and expressed their concerns by posting comments on Twitter," Human Rights in China said in a statement.
"They have done so despite intensified government crackdowns and Internet censorship in the lead-up to and during the 18th [ruling Chinese Communist] Party Congress," it said.
Reported by RFA's Tibetan service. Translated by Rigdhen Dolma. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai.
As a Native people, insulted by Invaders who suspressed by arms and power,or Illegal Migrants, without right to respond , dieing is better byself than those who.
The Tibetans DON NOT NEED anything Chinese, including Chinese AID, friendships, settlers and armies, Tibetans only need the invaders gone.


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Being selected as a couple's wedding photographer means they want to look back at their wedding photos and remember their special day through our eyes. Trusting our vision is the best compliment we could ever receive from a couple. When a fellow wedding photographer gets married, that honor is particularly great, and the pressure is definitely on! Annalie is a wedding photographer here in Montreal, and we have had the pleasure of getting to know her and Haig over the last few years. From their backgrounds, you'd think that they are as different as two people can get: Annalie is from Irish/Scottish decents, and Haig is Armenian. But after just a few minutes in their presence, you just know that you are witness to something real and beautiful. Annalie and Haig stuck together throughout the planning of their wedding, opting for a cozy ceremony and cocktail dinner, despite how different it was from what their families were used to. It takes a lot of courage to throw a wedding that is true to your relationship, despite what those around you might be thinking. And the result was a beautiful, intimate celebration, filled to the brim with good old fashioned love.
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Congratulations to Rose L. Chou of American University and Annie Pho of UCLA for their newly published edited volume, Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS (Library Juice Press, 2018).
This edited collection "explores the experiences of women of color in library and information science (LIS). With roots in black feminism, critical race theory, and intersectionality Pushing the Margins studies the ways in which multiple social and cultural identities impact individual experience. This book examines how lived experiences of social identities affect women of color and their work in LIS." With over 17 chapters including the foreword by Fobazi Ettarh, these essays cover a variety of important topics ranging from the experiences of Muslim Women and Public Libraries by Negeen Aghassibake to "The Voice of a Black Woman in Libraryland: A Theoretical Narrative" by Laverne Gray.
To celebrate the arrival of this new book, the editors organized a book release celebration Friday night in Sister Bar, near the Albuquerque Convention Center. #JCLC2018 attendees, chapter contributors, supporters, allies, and friends gathered together at the bar to share this special moment and recognition for everyone involved the project. Congratulations to the editors and authors for this timely and extraordinary edited collection!


Recently, Google announced an important update that will affect your Google Analytics historical data. Google noted that they would be changing their data retention policy, in order to align with Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The update affects users historical data on their websites. Starting May 25, 2018, the new data retention settings are being applied automatically to your Google Analytics account. The new settings will make you lose all your historical data that is more than 26 months old.
Continue reading or watch the video included to find out how to fix the problem in 2 minutes if you don't want to lose your historical data.
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Google Analytics is a powerful FREE tool used to generate and analyze reports on website traffic. It's an IMPORTANT tool for reporting, analysis, and benchmarking.
Your website is one of your most powerful digital assets. Historical data allows you to compare data collected from years ago and compare it to your website's current performance. It offers incredible insight into your user experience, behavior and web traffic.
With the GDPR update, you will lose data that could have been used to generate great insights. Imagine not being able to see a 5-year trend line of users and sessions, or comparing last 24 months of website traffic with previous 24 months. Google has provided the option to retain your historical data before the update occurs on May 25th, 2018. Follow the steps below in order to save your historical data.
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A History of North Omaha's Stroud Company
Adam F.C. Fletcher September 2 July 19 20th century, 21st century, Belt Line Railway, business, Economics, Industry, Lost history, Saratoga
Thomas Frank Stroud's North Omaha business was successful. After starting it in Omaha in 1894, he formally organized the firm in 1895 to build dirt moving machines that he designed. In those early years his factory was at 12th and Nicholas. By 1903, he needed to double his capacity in order to meet demand, and he knew Saratoga would be the right location.
In 1905, he built a $20,000 factory at the intersection of Florence Boulevard and the Belt Line tracks. By then he owned patents for grading and ditching, dirt moving and road grading machines that were reportedly sold around the world.
Stroud and Company's "Little Red Wagon" was a road-making machine.
Just after the age of 50 years old, Tom Stroud hit his stride. Within five years, Stroud bought two major competitors from other states and brought their companies to Omaha, and built his mansion on Florence Boulevard. Stroud was, by all measures, a success.
By 1909, his machinery was being used around the world, including railroads in Germany and Thailand, and on the Panama Canal. His business employed 300 people in Omaha in 1910.
This is a 1922 ad for Stroud and Company's products.
Stroud made several acquisitions during these years. In 1909, he bought the Harrison Wagon Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan and three years later, he bought the Fisher Wagon Company of Chicago.
The Great Stroud Fire
This is an image of the Stroud Company factory at Florence Boulevard and Ames Avenue after a fire demolished the facility. Its from the April 12, 1912 evening edition of the Omaha World-Herald.
The entire factory was destroyed by a fire in April 1912, and one man died. In a lawsuit by Stroud against the American Water Company, he said damages amounted $100,000. He claimed that the water company didn't have enough water pressure in its system, and because of that firefighters weren't able to put out the fire, and he sued the water company for $89,000. Although he lost his lawsuit, by June 1912, he'd rebuilt a factory that was double the size of the original.
Hosting A Car Company
The Omaha Motor Company factory was launched at the Stroud plant in 1913. It lasted for a year, then was closed and sold off. Here's an ad for one of the few cars they produced.
The next year, Stroud's factory hosted the production of the Omaha 30, an expensive car built by the Omaha Motor Company. Supposedly, the motor company was building a new two story production building next door.
The car never took off, and just a few were made before the Omaha Motor Company shut down in 1914. The Stroud Company factory kept churning out its machines in the meantime.
More Stroud Products
This is an ad for Stroud and Company from 1922, after T. F. Stroud retired.
In 1916, the Stroud Company was a high tech road construction player. At a time when "paving" meant smoothing out dirt into flat paths, Stroud sold one of the only machines made specifically for road paving, anywhere. The federal Road Act of 1916 was the first legislation in the United States to enforce this type of paving on highways across the country. It was also the first law passed forcing federally-funded highways to be connected to each other. Stroud made the right machinery at the right time!
He didn't employ salesmen because he didn't need them; the Stroud tractors sold themselves. One tractor, called the Stroud Steel Frame Elevating Grade, was steered by a driver running a four-mule team. Promising prompt service, Stroud provided the machines nationwide on a sample basis with a guarantee to increase productivity by highway road workers. One of his customers, Fred Petersen, built the Omaha Auto Speedway with the Stroud machines.
By 1919, Stroud and Company reportedly operated its plant across 10 acres of land between Florence Boulevard and Commercial Avenue, from Ames to the Belt Line. He'd apparently implemented efficiency procedures, and was only employing 125 men that year. The "little red wagon," graders, road levelers, plows and elevators were built by Stroud's company. In 1919, they added trucks, truck bodies and tractors to their production line.
His company built several machines, including a popular road-making machine called the "little red wagon." Stroud's little red wagon was popular in road construction throughout the region. He also made a major acquisition by buying a Michigan-based firm and moving it to Omaha around the turn of the century.
Stroud Products
The Stroud Company exhibit sign at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in North Omaha.
By the 1930s, the Stroud Company's products included:
Little Red Wagon and Big Red Wagon stock dump wagon (bottom dump wagon, wheeled dump wagon)
King of Hi-Ways road shaper
Reversible Road Machine
Kid pull grader
Road drag
Slip scraper (pan scraper)
Buck scraper (Fresno scraper)
Tongue scraper
Wheeler wheeled scraper
Grading plow
Little Red dump cart
Canyon and Marsh Filler horse bulldozer, and
C. L. Best Tractor Company 60 crawler tractor.
They also manufactured a disc, plowshare, feed box, cattle manger and cart harness. That year, Allen Cecil Scott was the president of the company.
Stroud Patents
This is the logo of Stroud and Company. The Stroud Company was located in North Omaha, Nebraska from 1895 through the 1930s.
Tom Stroud owned several patents, first on his own, and later through the company he founded. They included patents for a belt cleaning mechanism and a rotary disc plow.
This is an ad for the October 31, 1932, bankruptcy auction for the Stroud Manufacturing Company.
I haven't figured out exactly what happened to the Stroud Company, aside from the Great Depression. After Tom Stroud himself retired, the company had new leadership that kept Stroud's name. Selling products as the "Little Red Wagon" brand, by 1931 they changed the name of the business to Stroud Road Machinery Company.
In 1932, the Stroud Manufacturing Company, also called the Little Red Wagon Manufacturing Company, went bankrupt.
Around that point, a man named Allen C. Scott bought Stroud. Scott was president of several other companies, including the Scott-Omaha Tent and Awning Company; the Seattle Tent and Awning Company; the St. Joseph Tent and Awning Company; the Lincoln Tent and Awning Company; the Scott-Bury Motor Company; and the Scott Manufacturing Company.
The Stroud name and the Little Red Wagon disappeared soon afterward.
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Stroud and Company from the Historical Construction Equipment Association
This is an architect's drawing of the Omaha Motor Car Company factory that was planned to be built at the southeast corner of the intersection of Ames Avenue and Florence Boulevard.
North Omaha Chronicles, 12/11/19, by Adam Fletcher Sasse. All rights reserved.
In this 1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, we see the Stroud Road Machine factory was located on the site of the former Omaha Driving Park.
This 1918 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows the Stroud Company factory in an identical location after its 1912 fire and reconstruction.
Thanks to Michele Wyman and Micah Evans of Omaha History Mysteries for their contributions to this article!
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Birzebbuga St. Peter's registered their first win in the BOV Second Division as they came from behind to beat Ghaxaq 2-1 at the Luxol Stadium on Friday.
Davide Mula put Ghaxaq ahead on the 15th minute but Keith Muscat levelled matters thanks to a penalty just before half-time. Lesley Cassar Jackson put the Saints 2-1 ahead thirteen minutes in the second half.
Zejtun lead the way with 6 points, followed by Marsaxlokk, Attard, Qrendi and Birzebbuga on 4, San Gwann, Swieqi, Zabbar 3, Ghaxaq, Mellieha and Siggiewi 2, St. George's and Mgarr 1 and Gudja 0.


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Q: Java garbage collection 5 This piece of code is from a book. The question is,

*

*how many objects are created

*how many objects are eligible for gc when the line // do stuff is reached.

The answers, according to the book, are 5 and 2. Here is the code:
class Dozens {
    int[] dz = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12};
    }

public class Eggs{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Dozens[] da = new Dozens[3];
        da[0] = new Dozens();
        Dozens d = new Dozens();
        da[1] = d;
        d = null;
        da[1] = null;
        // do stuff
    }
}

In answer to the first question, do you also count the int[] dz object as an additional object each time you instantiate Dozens?
Similarly, when you reach // do stuff, in calculating the number of objects eligible for gc, for each Dozens object, do you also count the int[] dz object contained therein?
I did not count the int[] dz objects, and arrived at the answers 5 and 3.
Can someone explain what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks.

A: I have annotated the code below with comments to highlight where references are created or lost.
When counting allocations, one must include the allocation of the array stored in the field dz.  My suspicion is that you counted the assignment of object references to da[0] and da[1] as allocations.  Since they are copying a reference, and not creating a new object; they only affect when the objects can become GCable and do not create a new object.
class Dozens {
    int[] dz = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12};
}

public class Eggs{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Dozens[] da = new Dozens[3];  // +1 object, the array containing 3 nulls
        da[0] = new Dozens();         // +2 objects, Dozens and the array in Dozens.dz
        Dozens d = new Dozens();      // +2 objects, Dozens and the array in Dozens.dz
        da[1] = d;                    // +0, d now has two refs to it
        d = null;                     // +0, d now has one ref to it
        da[1] = null;                 // -2, d now has no refs to it so both d and its internal array become available for GC
        // do stuff
    }
}

Summing the totals up gives, 1+2+2=5 allocations.  The -2 at the end concludes that 2 objects have become available for GC


IMPACT Connected Car is an acceleration programme that supports, connects and funds with €2.1 million in equity-free funding, startups and SMEs with innovative projects in the field of smart mobility.
The programme provides a direct link between entrepreneurs and large corporations, gives access to technical facilities as well as addresses the fragmentation of the automobile industry, which until now has hindered its digital transformation.
IMPACT Connected Car programme has already 15 companies in its first acceleration round and is now accepting applications to its second and last call until the 18th of October.