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CRA Board Member Andrea Danyluk Named Distinguished Member of ACM
October 31, 2019 /In: CRA, People /
Recently, ACM named 62 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. Several from the CRA community were recognized for outstanding educational contributions to computing, including CRA Board Member and CRA-WP Co-Chair Andrea Danyluk. Congratulations to all!
Valerie B. Barr
Andrea Danyluk
Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones
Jodi L. Tims
"Each year it is our honor to select a new class of Distinguished Members," explains ACM President Cherri M. Pancake. "In everything we do, our overarching goal is to build a community wherein computing professionals can grow professionally and, in turn, contribute to the field and the broader society. We are delighted to recognize these individuals for their contributions to computing, and we hope that the careers of the 2019 ACM Distinguished Members will continue to prosper through their participation with ACM."
Danyluk joined the CRA Board of Directors in October 2019, replacing Julia Hirschberg. She is the Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Computer Science at Williams College. She received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1984 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1992, and was a researcher at NYNEX (now Verizon) before joining the faculty at Williams in 1994. Danyluk's research interests are focused on applications of machine learning. She has published book contributions, journal and conference articles in this area, and has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has served on numerous conference program committees, including the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and has served as Tutorials co-Chair for AAAI (twice), Associate Chair for AAAI, Program co-Chair of ICML 2001, and General Chair of ICML 2009. Danyluk is active in CS education. She is a co-author of Java: An Eventful Approach, with Kim Bruce and Tom Murtagh, and was a member of the ACM / IEEE Task Force on CS Curricula 2013. She is a member of the ACM Education Board, the ACM Education Advisory Committee, and is co-chair of the ACM Data Science Task Force. She joined the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in 2008. She is the co-chair of CRA-WP.
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HUD Awards $2.7M Jobs Plus Pilot Grant to Scramento Housing Authority
HUD will award the Housing Authority of the City of Sacramento $2,700,000 in grant funding for the Jobs Plus Pilot program as part of a $100 million investment in locally-based programs aimed to increase earnings and advance employment outcomes for residents of public housing through work readiness programs, employer linkages, job placement, and financial literacy
HUD Secretary Julián Castro and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will award the Housing Authority of the City of Sacramento $2,700,000 in grant funding for the Jobs Plus Pilot program as part of a $100 million investment in locally-based programs aimed to increase earnings and advance employment outcomes for residents of public housing through work readiness programs, employer linkages, job placement, and financial literacy. The City of Sacramento Housing Authority was one of only eight recipients nationwide.
These grants will make a meaningful impact in the lives of public housing residents and their families by providing a pathway towards self-sufficiency," said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. "As the Department of Opportunity, HUD is empowering public housing residents to improve their circumstances with new economic and educational tools they need to compete and succeed in the workplace."
"The Jobs Plus Grant builds on Sacramento's Promise Zone designation and Choice Neighborhoods planning grant, equipping public housing residents with the resources they need to feel empowered in their job search," said Congresswoman Matsui. "The Jobs Plus Pilot Program will connect low-income residents with employment opportunities, which is ultimately foundational to Sacramento families' long-term prosperity, and our region's continued growth. I am thankful to Secretary Castro and SHRA for their work in securing this critical grant."
"There is nothing more important than economic security and this money will increase earnings and advance employment outcomes for residents of public housing. With this $2.7 million grant, the Promise Zone designation and the Choice Neighborhoods planning grant, HUD continues to recognize Sacramento as a City working to improve the lives of everyone resident," Mayor Kevin Johnson.
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) administers the public housing program on behalf of the City of Sacramento which houses approximately 12,000 individuals. The Marina Vista and Alder Grove public housing communities are close in proximity to employment and education opportunities in Downtown Sacramento. The Jobs Plus Pilot Program supports work readiness and connects public housing residents with employment, education and financial empowerment services—and is a model proven to help public housing residents find and keep jobs.
"SHRA is proud to be selected to receive a $2.7 million Jobs Plus award which will greatly enhance our efforts to break down barriers to employment for residents at our Marina Vista and Alder Grove public housing communities where over 50 percent of the residents age 18 – 64 are able to work yet are unemployed," said La Shelle Dozier, Executive Director for Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. "We are grateful to Congresswoman Doris Matsui for her tireless efforts to benefit Sacramento residents. This award will significantly enhance our capacity to build on our Choice Neighborhoods workforce strategy with support from over 40 partners to create pathways to self-sufficiency."
SHRA has engaged over 40 partners to provide resources for the program leveraging over $3.7 million. Key partners are United Way, Sacramento Resident Advisory Board, City of Sacramento, Valley Vision, Urban League, WEAVE, Inc., Francis House Center, Center for Employment Training, Goodwill, GRID Alternatives, Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps, A.C.E., Asian Resources Inc., County of Sacramento, and Sacramento Employment and Training Agency.
The $100 million investment also included grants for HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency Program. The FSS Program helps PHAs to hire service coordinators who work directly with residents to connect them with programs and services that already exist in the local community. Service coordinators also build relationships with the network of local service providers so as to more effectively serve the residents. The program encourages innovative strategies that link public housing and Housing Choice Voucher assistance with other resources to enable participating families to find jobs, increase earned income, reduce or eliminate the need for rental and/or welfare assistance, and make progress toward achieving economic independence and self-sufficiency. The City of Sacramento Housing Authority and the County of Sacramento Housing Authority will receive $69,000 and $138,000 respectively to administer the program with support from more than 30 partners.
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Columbus teacher brings experience in Russia to classroom
This year Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science world languages teacher Margaret Mary Henry is presenting lessons she created during a professional development program this summer in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Henry, of Columbus, was one of 15 teachers chosen from around the country to study at Gerzen Pedagogical University. Funded by the U.S. and Russian governments and administered by the American Councils on Education, the month-long program in July included advanced courses in Russian language, culture and pedagogy, a stay with a host family and cultural excursions. Settings for Henry's new lessons range from memorials to the World War II blockade of the city, to a Petersburg eatery called Teremok, to the Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin was murdered.
A former journalist who worked in Moscow from 1992-1999, Henry re-launched Russian, which had been taught briefly at MSMS, in fall 2012. She was chosen to participate in Fulbright fellowship programs in Russia in summer 2014 at Moscow State University, summer 2016 at Gerzen University and summer 2018 at Irkutsk State University in Siberia. Four of her students have won federal high-school scholarships to study Russian in the former Soviet Union (Mary Frances Holland, Class of 2015; Ayres McCammon, Class of 2015; Hillary Gerber, Class of 2017; and Sidney Matrisciano, Class of 2018). Three have chosen Russian as a college major, and at least eight as a minor. Two former MSMS Russian students received federal Critical Language Scholarships to study in Russia in college (Mary Frances Holland and Kimya Jamasbi, Class of 2015), and at least three others have studied in the former USSR on study abroad programs through their universities.
Another graduate of the MSMS Russian program, Deandrea Hawkins of Clarksdale (Class of 2015), is headed to the city of Tomsk in Siberia as a recipient of a year-long Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award. Hawkins, who graduated in May from Millsaps College and plans to become a gastroenterologist, will be teaching English to Russian medical students while himself continuing to study Russian.
MSMS is the only high school in Mississippi that offers Russian. This year 22 MSMS students are studying the Slavic language, which is deemed by the federal government to be critical to U.S. political and economic interests. Russian is spoken by more than one hundred million Russians, but it is also a second language in territory stretching from the Baltics to the Caucasus to Central Asia.


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Das Tankmotorschiff Copenhagen ist ein Typ-C-Tanker mit Doppelhülle vom Typ Kaap Green Tanker. Das Schiff wurde komplett bei der Schepswerf De Kaap in Meppel für die GMS Copenhagen B.V., Rotterdam, in Längsspantenbauweise gefertigt. Die Besonderheit ist, dass es das erste Binnentankschiff mit Pod-Antrieb ist. Durch den dieselelektrischen Antrieb und ein modernes Motormanagement sowie eine optimierte Rumpfform sind hohe Kraftstoffersparnisse bis zu 30 Prozent möglich. Das Schiff wurde mit dem Green Award ausgezeichnet.

Konstruktion und Ausstattung
Der Doppelhüllenrumpf hat zehn Ladetanks mit je 380 m³ Inhalt. Jeder Tank hat eine eigene Löschpumpe mit 100 m³ Förderleistung pro Stunde sowie eine pneumatische Nachlenzpumpe. Die Tanks für den Transport von leichten Chemikalien sind mit Zinksilikat beschichtet und beheizbar. Außerdem kann die Copenhagen bis zu 1800 m³ Ballastwasser aufnehmen. Die achtern liegende Wohnung und das in der Höhe verstellbare Steuerhaus sind geräuschgedämmt und klimatisiert.

Antrieb
Der dieselelektrische Antrieb besteht aus vier Caterpillar-Dieselgeneratoren mit je 465 kW und zwei MGT-Propellergondeln mit je 750 kW. In jedem Podantrieb sind zwei Elektromotoren mit 375 kW eingebaut, die einzeln oder zusammen ihre Kraft an den Propeller abgeben. Abhängig von dem Fahrzustand, beladen oder leer, mit oder gegen den Strom, werden automatisch die vier Generatoren zugeschaltet. Die Steuerung übernimmt das D&A Eprop-System des Unternehmens D&A Electric aus Ridderkerk. Da die Elektromotoren schon bei niedriger Drehzahl ihr volles Drehmoment liefern, wurden spezielle Schiffsschrauben entwickelt.

Zwei Dieselgeneratoren sind im Achterschiff und zwei im Bug eingebaut. Außerdem steht für den Hafenbetrieb noch ein Caterpillar-Dieselgenerator Typ C 4.4 DI-Ta mit 69 kW zur Verfügung. Zum besseren Manövrieren ist im Bug ein 500 kW starkes Bugstrahlruder installiert.

Weblinks
 Daten- und Lieferantenliste
 Bilder vom Bau der Copenhagen
 Bilder der Copenhagen im Binnenschifferforum

Fußnoten

Frachtschiff (Niederlande)
Binnenschiff
Tanker
Schiff mit dieselelektrischem Antrieb

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"Bowling for Columbine" is an alternately humorous and horrifying film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from many other countries? What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi.
"Bowling for Columbine" was the first documentary film accepted into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 46 years. The Cannes jury unanimously awarded it the 55th Anniversary Prize. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old, "Bowling for Columbine" is a journey through America, and through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.


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Das Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin ist eine der größten überregionalen archäologischen und prähistorischen Sammlungen der Alten Welt. Es befand sich von 1960 bis zum 27. April 2009 im Langhans-Bau (ehemaliges Schlosstheater) des Schlosses Charlottenburg. Seit Oktober 2009 ist die Sammlung im Neuen Museum auf der Museumsinsel zu besichtigen.

Neben einer ständigen Ausstellung werden regelmäßig Sonderausstellungen gezeigt. Dem Museum angeschlossen ist eine Fachbibliothek zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte mit 50.000 Bänden. Außerdem ist das Museum u. a. Sitz der Kommission zur Erforschung von Sammlungen archäologischer Funde und Unterlagen aus dem nordöstlichen Mitteleuropa und eines Projekts zur Erforschung altägyptischer Kalender.

Geschichte
Die Sammlung des Museums geht zurück auf das Kunstkabinett der Hohenzollern, die ab 1830 im Schloss Monbijou eine Sammlung alter Fundstücke als "Museum Vaterländischer Altertümer" aufgebaut hatten. Die Sammlung hatte später ihren Sitz zunächst im Neuen Museum, ab 1886 im Museum für Völkerkunde in der Prinz-Albrecht-Straße und ab 1921 im Martin-Gropius-Bau, der 1931 in das Staatliche Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte umgewandelt wurde. Zu den bedeutendsten Förderern und Beiträgern der Sammlung gehören Rudolf Virchow und Heinrich Schliemann.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gelangten Teilbestände des Museums als Beutekunst nach Russland, unter anderem der Eberswalder Goldschatz, die Schwertscheide von Gutenstein und der Goldfund von Cottbus. Teile der geraubten Sammlung wurden 2007 in Moskau im Puschkin-Museum in einer Merowinger-Ausstellung gezeigt.

Der Umzug des Museums in das Schloss Charlottenburg erfolgte 1960, erste Ausstellungen fanden bereits ab September 1958 statt. Nach der Wende konnten die Exponate, die sich bis dahin im Ost-Berliner Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte befanden, wieder mit den Stücken in West-Berlin vereinigt werden. Am 26. April 2009 wurde die Ausstellung im Langhans-Bau geschlossen. Die Werkstätten bleiben vorerst am alten Standort.

Seit Herbst 2009 befinden sich die Ausstellungen im Neuen Museum in Berlin-Mitte.

Ausstellungssäle
Das Museum kann in Form eines Rundgangs besucht werden. Dieser führt durch die folgenden Säle:

Rudolf-Virchow-Studio
Das Rudolf-Virchow-Studio (Saal 1) ist didaktisch ausgerichtet mit Schwerpunkt auf Schulklassen. Er gibt einen anschaulichen Überblick mit praktischen Beispielen über die Technikgeschichte der Stein-, Bronze- und Eisenzeit und ist mit einer PC-Station, einem Vortragsraum und ist mit einem separaten Eingang für Schulklassen ausgestattet.

Schliemann-Saal
Der Schliemann-Saal (Saal 104) beherbergt heute Funde und Fundkopien aus der Sammlung trojanischer Altertümer von Heinrich Schliemann, insbesondere Teile aus dem weltbekannten sog. Schatz des Priamos. Schliemann hatte diesen 1881 dem Deutschen Volke zu ewigem Besitze und ungetrennter Aufbewahrung in der Reichshauptstadt geschenkt, woraufhin Kaiser Wilhelm I. sich in einem persönlichen Brief an Schliemann bedankte und entschied, dass der Schatz des Priamos im gerade im Bau befindlichen Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin ständig ausgestellt werden solle, wo er von 1885 bis 1939 zu sehen war.

Während sich die bedeutendsten Teile des Schatzes heute im Puschkin-Museum in Russland als Beutekunst befinden und hier zum Teil nur als Kopie zu sehen sind, sind die wenigen von der Sowjetunion an die DDR sowie von Russland 1992 an Deutschland zurückgegebenen Teile im Original ausgestellt, z. B. Silbergeschirr einschließlich der großen Silbervase (im Bild die oberste), in der Schliemann den aus Goldschmuck bestehenden Hauptschatz fand.

Stein- und Bronzezeit-Saal
Im Stein- und Bronzezeit-Saal (Saal 3) werden Funde dieser Epoche aus Europa dargestellt. Zu sehen sind Artefakte der steinzeitlichen Fundstellen von Combe Capelle und Le Moustier, Kunsterzeugnisse der Eiszeit sowie die Entwicklung der paläo- und mesolithischen Werkzeuge. Außerdem werden die neolithischen Kulturen Europas von der Bandkeramik- bis zur Glockenbecherkultur vorgestellt. Darüber hinaus sind im Abschnitt zur Bronzezeit Exponate ausgestellt, die die Entwicklung der Metallurgie und des Kults und der Bestattungsriten veranschaulichen. Geografisch reichen die Fundplätze dabei von Westeuropa, Norddeutschland und Skandinavien, dem östlichen Mitteleuropa, dem Alpen- und Donauraum bis nach Oberitalien. Zu einer der Hauptattraktionen zählt der Elch vom Hansaplatz – das vollständig erhaltene Skelett eines Breitstirnelches (Alces latifrons) aus der letzten Eiszeit.

Goldsaal
Der Goldsaal (Saal 4) beherbergt wertvolle Edelmetallfunde der Bronzezeit, darunter vor allem den Berliner Goldhut.

Saal 5
In Saal 5 findet man Ausstellungsstücke aus dem Zeitraum vom Beginn der Eisenzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Dies beginnt mit Funden aus der Hallstatt-Periode aus dem Alpenraum und dem Brustpanzer von Sticna, gefolgt von Fundstücken aus der Zeit der Kelten, der Germanen und der Römer. Schließlich ist das Mittelalter durch die Ausstellung von Münzen, Kleidungsstücken, Waffen und anderen Gegenständen dokumentiert.

Sonderausstellung
Bis zum 26. April 2009 zeigte das Museum eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte der legendären Prussia-Sammlung von Königsberg (Preußen), unter Einbeziehung eigener Bestände.

Das Museum ist Veranstalter der Archäologie-Ausstellung Bewegte Zeiten. Archäologie in Deutschland vom 21. September 2018 bis 6. Januar 2019 im Martin-Gropius-Bau.

Literatur
 Das Berliner Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Festschrift zum 175-jährigen Bestehen, Acta praehistorica et archaeologica Band 36/37, Berlin 2005.
 Marion Bertram: Vom Rhein an die Spree. Die Vorgeschichtliche Abteilung der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin und ihre Verbindungen zur preußischen Rheinprovinz im neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. in: Bonner Jahrbücher Band 215, 2015 (2016), Seite 3–30.

Weblinks

 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
 Freundeskreis für Alteuropäische Geschichte und Archäologie

Einzelnachweise

Archäologische Sammlung in Berlin
Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel Berlin
Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte


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De wereldkampioenschappen skeleton 2013 (officieel: Bauhaus FIBT Bob & Skeleton World Championships 2013) werden gehouden van 27 januari tot en met 2 februari op de Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz-Celerina in Sankt Moritz. Er stonden drie onderdelen op het programma. Tegelijkertijd werden de wereldkampioenschappen bobsleeën afgewerkt.

Wedstrijdschema

 * In de landenwedstrijd worden per team twee (2-mans)bobslee- en twee skeleton-runs gedaald.

Medailles

Medaillespiegel

Uitslagen

Landenwedstrijd
Eerst ging de skeletonner van start, dan de tweevrouwsbob, vervolgens de skeletonster en tot slot de tweemansbob.

Zie ook
 Wereldkampioenschappen bobsleeën 2013

Externe link
  Officiële website FIBT

Wereldkampioenschappen skeleton
Skeleton in 2013
Skeleton
Sport in Sankt Moritz


CD Art I had a stack of old CDs lying around. For a long time I was planning to reuse them for a different purpose but I had no clue. Then one day while I was surfing on the internet I found an interesting idea to convert these in to great art work that .Find fun Disney inspired art and craft ideas for kids of all agesincluding holiday and seasonal crafts, decorations, and more..Project Of The Month November Twilight Storybox Digi Paper Kit Create a beautiful project with a difference. The papers used for this project are available on the Twilight Queen Story Bocd or there is a Digi Paper Kit available too..This elephant craft for kids uses a really unique technique and is an absolute blast for kids to make! Children use newspaper to create a wrinkled effect just like the actual skin of an elephant. This art project includes a fun sensory aspect and is perfect for a unit on zoo animals, jungle animals, or to accompany children's books about .
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I just got back from a weekend in Iceland with Mrs Snappy and some friends. What an amazing place. Incredible sites to see and things to eat. A weekend is just not enough time and we only explored a tiny corner of the country. Perhaps we will return once more to explore that strange land….
A few memories of Bush House can be read here.
Oh blog of mine! I've not been ignoring you. I've just been super busy. I've also knocked a quick review blog post out over here while you weren't looking! UPDATE: I just got promoted to the main Wired GeekDad page here!


In the Dreams of Others is the first chapter in a a poetic series of character studies.
It was actually born out of a performance exercise. My partner Hassan Pitts and I were doing our 1st residency together, at Ox-bow Artists' Residency on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan (about a 2.5 hour drive from Chicago). We were trying to relate to the space and to each other and develop a new way of collaborating. We walked into one of the cabins there, which looked like a rural home. We instinctively started setting up and directing one another to interact with the space as if it were our home.
We shot in this way for about 7 days—setting up small scene fragments for each other in an imaginary life. When we looked at the footage we had collected, we began to think about the cognitive sway that location implicates. Meaning, if you stand next to a brightly colored wall—it doesn't really effect you internally, but a casts a tint. What can we do with tints like this? How do social constructs like gender, class, and race play out with different tints?
The short answer to the question is—to start conversations.
It's the portrayal of family going about their day, they just so happen to be mixed race in a rural setting in the United States, where race is a very serious, hot button topic. But the film is not didactic or particularly heavy handed about the topic—these are just a few humans interacting with themselves and their environment.
Also, I think this film would be attractive to people who are interested in poetics. We tried to develop a visual poetic rendering of the idea of shifting perspectives. I also think people interested in experimentation would find the film interesting.
Again, this began as a performance exercise during an artist residency we did. After assessing the footage generated, we created a skeleton outline of the way the piece could flow, we made tactical decisions based on singular moments. We would look for continuity between the perspectives displayed and approach the edit in a pragmatic way.
The sound is completely 'wild sound' all of it was added in post. With the sound we went for a reserved, naturalistic approach in order to keep the visuals grounded in themselves and not to add many additional layers of meaning.
The hope for the work to be more conceptually accessible to a broad audience.
I would love to continue to screen this film and and have the opportunity to talk about it (like this interview)… as the film hits its 2 year mark, it loses the opportunity to screen in countless festivals, due to the general trend in festivals to only want to show work 2 years old or less. I think it is a weird rule that shadows contemporary cultures obsession with youth and 'the new'… sometimes that isn't healthy. But, this work exists to present an idea and generate conversation. I don't think the conversation is done yet. Race is a serious issue all over the world, as are issues around gender and class! Let's keep talking!
Again, we'd like for this film to give a poetic sense of perspective and generate conversations around gender, class, and race.
Do poetic experimentations help—in other words, does art function in the space of social discourse?
Is considering how others live interesting?
We have a few projects in various stages of production/post production right now. The biggest project being The Richmond Reclamation Project (http://richmondreclamationproject.com/) which is essentially an oral history collection for the 21st century. We place location-specific memories (video interviews) of Richmond, Virginia's senior African Americans back into the landscape via GPS enabled mobile application and a playable map online.
S/N is a interdisciplinary art group, which works with film, video, sound, animation, photography and locative media. Members include Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts who have been creating collaborative work since 2008.
Where can I watch it in the next month? Would you like to screen it in your town? Contact us!


Producer Brady Blade has enlisted a super-band, with himself as drummer, Doug Pettibone (John Mayer, Lucinda Williams, Marianne Faithfull, Tracy Chapman)playing guitars and pedal steel, and Tony Hall (The Neville Brothers, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Dave Mathews) on bass.
Other locals have also popped in to guest; US/Swedish artist Anders Osborne on guitar, Joe Ashlar (Dr. John) on keys and Mike Dillon, percussion. Completing the team was Texas-based engineer, Chris Bell (Destiny's Child, The Eagles, Erykah Badu, Don Henley).
To celebrate the album release, Anika is also assembling her band to perform live shows in the main centre.


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Angels of the Street (Spanish: Ángeles de la calle) is a 1953 Cuban-Mexican drama film directed by Agustín P. Delgado.

Cast
 Rolando Barral as Pititi
 Hortensia Betancourt as Mariposa
 Jaime Calpe
 Emilia Guiú as Magda
 Andrea Palma as Regla
 Ismael Pérez
 Gustavo Rojo
 Enrique Santisteban
 Lupe Suárez as Brigida

References

Bibliography
 Alfonso J. García Osuna. The Cuban Filmography: 1897 through 2001. McFarland, 2003.

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1953 films
Cuban drama films
Mexican drama films
1950s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Agustín P. Delgado
1953 drama films
Cuban black-and-white films
Mexican black-and-white films
1950s Mexican films


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"We Will Be The Chicken!": Power to the people of Hong Kong's design community
Father and son designers, Winston and Alex Shu, launch a new incubation model for the design community threatened by Hong Kong's competitive markets and downscaled breakthrough opportunities.
BY David Congram
Tags: Business of Design week, Design for Asia Awards, T.H.E design, Winston Shu
In November 2019, violent protests between police and student demonstrators at Hong Kong Polytechnic University saw some 1,500 tear gas canisters fired and more than a thousand demonstrators arrested and/or identified. Depending on news sources, between 5,000 (South China Morning Post) and 7,000 (Washington Post) arrests have taken place in streets, subways and airports where once-peaceful demonstrations against a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China transformed over 2019 into a direct – and ongoing – challenge levelled at Beijing's grip on Hong Kong. Chinese President Xi Jingping, who has long warned challenges to China's rule aren't to be tolerated, has said "restoring order is Hong Kong's most important task."
A month later, pro-democracy protesters dressed in black, marched en route to the consulates of Australia, Britain, the European Union, the United States, Japan and Canada with diplomatic petitions in hand. President Donald Trump had just ratified legislation requiring the State Department to annually certify Hong Kong's autonomy, bearing out favourable trading terms. Since the beginning of 2020, the world has turned its collective gaze upon the global ramifications emanating from central Hong Kong – an incredible show of international solidarity for continuing democratic action.
Meanwhile, the ramifications for Hong Kong's arts, design and architecture sectors have been dire. Art Basel Hong Kong, BODW: Business of Design Week Summit, the Design for Asia Awards, the Fashion Asia Hong Kong program and the deTour Design Festival have all been cancelled in the wake of escalating demonstrations, dwindling tourism numbers and outbreaks of coronavirus. deTour curator, Shin Wong told Dezeen "A lot of designers and their shops are not doing very well because nobody has really got the time or they've got more important things to worry about than shopping. It's a chain reaction from there to these events."
"We need to keep a positive outlook", says Winston Shu of Hong-Kong based firm Integrated Design Associates (IDA) and recent winner at the World Architecture Festival. "It is more important now than ever." According to Alex Shu, Winston's son and IDA's Design Strategist, "the market for design and architecture in Hong Kong is extremely competitive, pricing out young design firms who struggle to stand out and grow." Combined with the current suppression of these vibrant sectors, these highly competitive market forces and uncertain trade and political landscapes throughout the region continue threaten both the viability and the sustainability of Hong Kong's architecture and design community for generations to come.
"Social sustainability is very much a part of our major considerations at IDA," says Winston. "We borrow the thinking of the United Nations' Sustainable Development methods, focusing not just on energy, but also taking into consideration a whole range of social aspects and care for the local industry. We want these considerations to be involved in every aspect of our design thinking. It's a natural progression that this now is at the heart of T.H.E Design – our latest venture."
T.H.E Design is the creative workspace with the mission to grow the design community and build upon Hong Kong's creative ecosystem. Located at the heart of the city, with convenient access to Hong Kong Island and Kowloon's local craftsman communities, and Shenzhen's manufacturing and prototyping hubs, the genesis of T.H.E Design speaks so much to the nation's political desires and the growing momentum behind 'global' industry pathfinding.
"It all started when my father and I were having a conversation about the struggles young designers in Hong Kong regularly face," says Alex. "I am an architect and designer, and my father has been practicing for a number of decades. These kinds of cross-generational conversations are very important, I feel, because ultimately, they reveal what design really means to us. Together, my father and I kept speaking about Hong Kong's culture, the integration of people and place and, by extension, the interaction of technology, humanity and environment. Technology, humanity and environment – T, H, E – that's how T.H.E Design started."
But unlike traditional incubation projects which regularly see companies receiving equity for funding start-ups, T.H.E Design enjoys its stake through the reciprocal benefits of mentorship. "As father and son designers, we have so much to offer Hong Kong's architecture and design communities – particularly the younger generation who are more often than not priced out of establishing and growing their offering. We look at this not only as an opportunity to give back, but also as a real opportunity for IDA. It seems obvious that through nurturing the Hong Kong design talent pool, we will all benefit … at every scale."
"One of the problems a lot of companies find these days – and especially in the design industry – is talent attraction and retention. But one thing we don't often focus on is the question of also protecting the volume of jobs and clients needed to sustain this talent. If we look at the entire architecture and design community of Hong Kong as a talent pool instead of just hiring and firing them between projects and across firms, then the entire talent pool then starts to look something like a big team of collaborators. Everyone gets to tap into this pool of expertise, creativity and networks. Through T.H.E Design, for instance, IDA gets to share projects and project credentials, as do the other companies and practitioners who are a part of this collective. Ultimately, we get to share a workforce. To both myself and Alex, it seemed like a win-win solution." – Winson Shu, Co-Founder, T.H.E Design.
It's early days of the collaborative hub which launched November last year, coinciding with Hong Kong's escalating political situation, but for Alex and Winston, there is every reason for the country's design community to maintain a positive outlook. An exhibition in the T.H.E Design space in December 2019 offered one fortunate product designer the breakthrough moment of which dreams are made. "One of the IDA clients came to the exhibition by chance," says Alex. "When they saw the exhibitor's work, they were impressed and have since requested to have this start-up collaborate with IDA to be a part of the facade design of their building," he continues. "This is really great simply because such opportunities in Hong Kong for emerging talent are very rare – and rarer still for product designers. It was an incredible achievement for T.H.E Design's first month."
"See, this is a great example of exactly what we are trying to do," says Winston. "We mentor the young designers, offer them a space, and under our resources and supervision, we all grow and benefit from the ecosystem of support. It's sort of like that old chicken and the egg situation. We knew we could break the mould, and so we said 'Enough! We will be the chicken!' T.H.E Design has laid this egg for that product designer, and in the future they will do the same for another. It's a very simple solution, but for Hong Kong's design community, it is a breath of fresh air."
The world watches on as Hong Kong's once-silent majority continues to speak out clearly for greater democratic action for all. Meanwhile, Winston and Alex Shu's desire to nurture the future of the country's architecture and design talent gives us every reason to be optimistic. Technology, humanity, environment – a recipe for people power if ever I saw one.
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Ronin est un film britannico-américain réalisé par John Frankenheimer et sorti en 1998.

Il est présenté à la Mostra de Venise 1998.

Synopsis
Six mercenaires recrutés pour former une équipe d'élite se retrouvent à Paris, où ils apprennent la mission qui leur est confiée : récupérer intacte une mallette très bien défendue. Mais les informations sur le contrat s'ébruitent, et la mission devient très trouble et périlleuse.

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 Titre français et original : Ronin
 Réalisation : John Frankenheimer, assisté de David Artur
 Scénario : J. D. Zeik et David Mamet (crédité comme Richard Weisz), d'après une histoire de J. D. Zeik
 Photographie : Robert Fraisse
 Direction artistique : Gérard Viard
 Décors : Michael Z. Hanan
 Costumes : May Routh
 Musique originale : Elia Cmíral
 Producteur : Frank Mancuso Jr.
 Production : United Artists, FGM Entertainmen
 Sociétés de distribution : United Artists / MGM (États-Unis), United International Pictures (France)
 Pays d'origine : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis
 Langues originales : français, anglais, russe
 Budget :
 Format : Couleur • 2.35:1 • 35 mm anamorphique • DTS
 Genre : thriller, action
 Durée : 121 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Robert De Niro  : Sam
 Jean Reno  : Vincent
 Natascha McElhone  : Deirdre
 Stellan Skarsgård  : Gregor
 Sean Bean  : Spence
 Skipp Sudduth  : Larry
 Michael Lonsdale : Jean-Pierre
 Jan Tříska : Dapper Gent
 Jonathan Pryce  : Seamus O'Rourke
 Féodor Atkine  : Mikhi
 Katarina Witt : Natacha Kirilova
 Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux : une petite fille
 Ron Perkins : l'homme avec le journal
 Amidou : l'homme de l'échange sous le pont
 Julia Maraval : une otage
 Laurent Spielvogel : un touriste à Nice
 Steve Suissa : un serveur à Nice
 Katia Tchenko : une otage
 Pierre Forest : le capitaine des CRS
 Georges Neri

Production
David Mamet officie sur le film comme script doctor. En raison d'un conflit avec la Writers Guild of America, David Mamet sera crédité sous un pseudonyme au générique.

Le tournage a lieu entièrement en France, c'est ainsi le quatrième film que John Frankenheimer a tourné en France après Le train, Grand Prix et French Connection 2 (French Connection II). Il se déroule de  à mars 1998 :
 à Paris : la rue des Trois-Frères et la rue Drevet dans le 18, au Zénith de Paris, sous le pont Alexandre-III dans le 7, station de métro Porte des Lilas, la poste rue Singer 16, sous le Pont Bir Hakeim 15, puits artésien de l'avenue de Breteuil,
 dans les Bouches-du-Rhône : Arles, Les Baux-de-Provence
 dans les Alpes-Maritimes : Villefranche-sur-Mer, La Turbie, Cannes, Nice

Skipp Sudduth a demandé à John Frankenheimer à réaliser ses propres cascades lors des courses-poursuites en voiture. Le réalisateur a accepté.

Le tournage a été marqué par l'arrestation de Robert De Niro dans la nuit du 16 au  dans une affaire de réseau de prostitution. Après enquête, il a été relâché.

Le réalisateur voulait des cascades sans trucages : la vitesse des caméras n'a pas été accélérée pour les poursuites en voitures. Des pilotes professionnels (dont Jean-Pierre Jarier) ont été engagés notamment pour la scène sur le boulevard périphérique où ils roulent à plus de  dans le tunnel des Halles, parfois même à contresens. Plus de  ont été utilisés dans cette scène.

Musique
Jerry Goldsmith était initialement choisi pour la musique de Ronin avant de finalement quitter le projet. Pour le remplacer, les exécutifs de la MGM choisissent plusieurs compositeurs. Dans cette liste, John Frankenheimer choisit le Tchèque Elia Cmíral.

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Le film reçoit des critiques assez positives. Sur l'agrégateur américain Rotten Tomatoes, il récolte 68% d'opinions favorables pour 68 critiques et une note moyenne de . Sur Metacritic, il obtient une note moyenne de  pour 23 critiques.

Produit pour environ 55 millions de dollars, le film récolte plus de 70 millions de dollars au box-office mondial. En France, il attire  spectateurs dans les salles.

Signification du titre
Dans le Japon médiéval, les  étaient des samouraïs déshonorés parce que leur seigneur avait été tué sans qu'ils aient pu le défendre. N'ayant pas été à la hauteur de leur mission, ils sont condamnés à l'errance. La vengeance est leur seule raison de vivre : ils doivent tuer le meurtrier de leur seigneur, puis se donner la mort par seppuku (en se tranchant le ventre). Le film débute par une explication moins développée.

Michael Lonsdale raconte la légende des 47 rōnin à Robert de Niro au cours du film, incitant par là à la réflexion sur les motivations et les mobiles d'(anciens ?) agents secrets.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Rōnin

Liens externes

 Ronin sur Histoires de Tournages

Film britannique sorti en 1998
Film américain sorti en 1998
Film d'action américain
Film d'action britannique
Film se déroulant à Paris
Film réalisé par John Frankenheimer
Film tourné à Paris
Film tourné à Cannes
Film tourné à Villefranche-sur-Mer
Film tourné dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris
Film tourné dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris
Film tourné dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris
Film tourné dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris
Film tourné dans le 19e arrondissement de Paris
Film tourné dans les Bouches-du-Rhône
Film tourné dans les Hauts-de-Seine
Film tourné aux studios de la Victorine
Film de casse
Film de course-poursuite
Mafia russe au cinéma
Mercenariat dans l'art
Film sur la CIA
Film évoquant l'Armée républicaine irlandaise
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Trump issuing new 'rules' for self-driving cars meant to speed up development
By John D. McKinnon
Published: Sept 12, 2017 8:04 a.m. ET
Voluntary guidelines, which come after sweeping House bill, aim to boost flexibility for car and tech companies
John Krafcik, CEO of Google-owned Waymo, shows off a self-driving vehicle at this year's Detroit auto show.
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WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to introduce new voluntary guidelines for autonomous vehicles on Tuesday in a bid to increase flexibility for car and tech companies and speed the industry's development in the U.S.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is scheduled to announce the new guidance—entitled "A Vision for Safety"—at an event in Ann Arbor, Mich., where companies test automated vehicles and technologies in simulated driving environments at the University of Michigan. The Obama administration guidelines also provided the nascent industry with much flexibility.
Read: House passes sweeping self-driving car bill
The rules will discourage states from trying to make parts of the federal guidelines mandatory, such as a voluntary safety-assessment process, said a person familiar with the matter. That has been a big concern for auto and tech companies in their feedback to the government on guidelines that were introduced by the Obama administration in 2016.
Many officials believe an over-restrictive approach to regulation could dim the industry's chances of success, in part because the federal safety rule-making process can be cumbersome. As a result, federal regulators have moved slowly to develop formal rules for driverless cars. The Obama administration's guidelines were also largely voluntary.
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Come celebrate Star Wars with food, drinks and cosplayers from The 501st Legion, Timberline Garrison, dressed up in as characters from the franchise. A photographer on site takes free photos of guests with the cast. Also catch Star Wars movies on the big screen.
The local Star Wars-themed retro arcade is offering $10 access to all-you-can-play games. Tournaments, prizes and a free potluck are also part of the festivities, and all items in the gift shop are on sale for 15 or 20 percent off.
Anyone who comes dressed in a Star Wars costume and says "May the fourth be with you" gets a late night pass for $20.95 and a free lightsaber. There will also be free raffle giveaways. The park's Garden Fresh Grill is serving Star Wars-named menu items such as "Yoda Soda," "Han Burgers," "Vader Taters," "Hoth Dogs" and "Wookie Cookies."
Rage Rabbit Entertainment hosts a Star Wars celebration with Star Wars Battlefront on Xbox or PS4, as well as a beer bong in the specially-decorated venue. Admission is free to all those who dress up as Star Wars characters, otherwise there's a $5 cover charge.
Get $2 off your first beer if you come wearing Star Wars-related clothing. All who attend can enter to win a Star Wars-themed movie night basket.
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Schmidt was present in South Korea for the historic Go match between current Go world champion Lee Se-dol and Google Deepmind's AlphaGo AI program. The match represented a milestone for artificial intelligence as AlphaGo defeated Se-dol in the first of five matches. Schmidt had a front row seat at the event's press conference, where he was spotted casually taking pictures with what appears to be an iPhone 6 or 6S. The exact model is unclear from the photograph because the device was wrapped in a case, but there's very little doubt it's one of Apple's most recent iPhone models.
While some might find it shocking that Schmidt would be using a device manufactured by one of Google's biggest competitors, he's never shied away from using other non-Android devices in the past. He once famously admitted (well before the launch of the BlackBerry Priv) that he still used BlackBerry devices because he liked typing with hardware keys, and he's even given Apple tremendous praise despite the fierce rivalry between Apple and Google. Android and iOS enthusiasts will likely generate plenty of chatter over Schmidt's choice of handset, but there's probably not much to read into it. He's always had a tremendous talent for sizing-up the competition, and he even had a brief stint as a member of Apple's board of directors. Moreover, he was probably far more interested in Google's Go match victory than in whatever phone he was using.
I've been a huge Android fan since 2011, and I've loved watching the OS grow and mature over the past several years. Technology has always been a big part of my life, and Android is pretty much at the center these days. My very favorite phone of all time was the Nexus 5 running KitKat, and I'm currently carrying (and very much enjoying) the Nexus 6P.


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One time when I was a little kid, our family visited Arizona. We went to a restaurant somewhere out in the desert that served fried rattlesnake. As you probably guessed, it tastes like chicken.
Rattlesnake meat is perfectly fine to consume. However, snakes and other reptiles, as well as amphibians, can carry Salmonella. That's why it's important for people to wash their hands after handling pet reptiles... or to cook them properly if you plan on eating them. The CDC reports on a person in Kansas who found that out the hard way.
Some people like to take "rattlesnake pills." This dietary supplement, which according to the CDC contains "dehydrated and pulverized rattlesnake meat," is not approved by the FDA. Despite this, (literally) snake oil salesmen market the pills as cure-alls for everything from acne to cancer to HIV. Of course, you can find rattlesnake pills in any location that peddles alternative medicine and other "natural cures."
The Kansas patient recalls traveling to the State of Chihuahua in Mexico, where he purchased and consumed what he believed to be homemade rattlesnake pills. Consider the number of serious judgment errors that went into this decision:
The patient went to Chihuahua, a region that is currently under a level 3 travel warning by the U.S. State Department due to violent crime and gangs. (A level 3 warning means people should "reconsider" traveling there; level 4 means people should not go at all.)
He purchased rattlesnake pills, which he wrongly believes confer some sort of miraculous health benefit.
He purchased homemade pills, because the best medicine is made in somebody's basement.
He ate them. Not just one, but five. (If one is healthy, five must be better, right?)
As the patient found out, there's actually nothing magical about a rattlesnake. Just because rattlesnakes are tough and cool doesn't mean that you'll be tough and cool if you eat them. Instead, you might just be a dope.
Source: Bottichio L, Webb LM, Leos G, Tolar B, Dowell N, Basler C. "Notes from the Field: Salmonella Oranienburg Infection Linked to Consumption of Rattlesnake Pills — Kansas and Texas, 2017." MMWR 67 (17): 502-503. DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6717a4.
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Dr. Alex Berezow is a PhD microbiologist, science writer, and public speaker who specializes in the debunking of junk science for the American Council on Science and Health. He is also a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors and a featured speaker for The Insight Bureau. Formerly, he was the founding editor of RealClearScience.
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Whether it is Lean, DMAIC or DFSS, Six Sigma boils down to improving business processes. And irrespective of the methodology employed or the scientific rigor behind it, every process improvement initiative – if it is to be successful – has to be approved, understood and implemented by people. Given the body of work published about human inertia and change management, it should come as no epiphany to the quality professional that people are notoriously resistant to change, or may embrace change for the wrong reasons. Successful Six Sigma practitioners have a variety of methods for diagnosing and overcoming this inherent resistance – this is one.
A key component of process analysis is the notion that one should maximize those steps that add value and minimize or eliminate those steps that do not add value. In its simplest form, the idea of value-added is to do only those tasks that a customer recognizes or expects as being essential and is willing to pay for. Anyone who has been active in process improvement knows that most business processes are chock-full of non-value-added steps, possibly as high as 70 percent.
Imagine how a person working in a department, doing their level best every day, would feel if they found out that much of what they do is without value? Their level of job satisfaction would plummet and they would be disenchanted in leaders who had them completing tasks that no customer needs or wants. Such pockets of inefficiency are not the mark of a company dedicated to quality. Yet people are only human; nobody wants to lose their job. Thus, companies that foist quality initiatives on workers who live in fear of their livelihood are implementing a self-defeating program.
Conversely, if workers are motivated to look at what they do from an overall customer service perspective, they are more likely to be satisfied in their jobs. And they will be more confident that any effort to refocus their labor to give more value to the customer will in turn be valued by their employer. Thus, they are far more receptive to embracing constructive and innovative changes that a quality program may advocate. Such an employee perspective is essential for an organization's overall success.
While on active duty in the U.S. Navy, an officer stood duty as officer of the deck (OOD). The officer of the desk is an important position because he or she is running the ship based on the captain's authority. During flight operations with an aircraft carrier or maneuvering in close quarters with other ships, an OOD can get pretty busy and mistakes can be devastating. It was not unusual to simultaneously have several radio speakers blaring with all manner of information – a lookout reporting a ship on the horizon, engineering reporting a minor malfunction, navigation reporting a time to make a course adjustment, along with a new combat exercise about to commence.
In the middle of all this a young sailor, fresh from boot-camp would report in his loudest, post-adolescent voice, "Sir, lunch is now being served on the mess-decks!" The Navy calls this lad a "phone-talker" and his expected response from the OOD is, "Very well." The "very well" signifies to the sailor that the OOD had heard and understood his message. A terse "very well" is fine when the message involves lunch for the crew, but is insufficient when the information involves the ship on a collision course with a carrier. Moreover, this young sailor is duty bound to repeat his message until he receives a "very well" from the OOD. (Note, it matters not to the phone-talker that the OOD is busy answering a radio signal, responding to a lookout, contacting engineering, and giving orders to the helm. If a "very well" is received, then the mission is complete. In short, these sailors know what to do, but they do not know what they are doing.
Was it unusual for an OOD to utter a "very well" without understanding the message, just to stop the hollering? Yes. Was that a risky move considering what might be being missed? Another, yes.
After several months of this nonsense, the officer tried a new approach. During a quiet period, he spoke with some of the phone-talkers and asked them if they realized what they were reporting. Each admitted that, other than lunch or some other administrative matter, few had any idea what they were reporting and what it meant to the ship. However, all seemed anxious to learn and were immediately receptive to the attention the officer was giving them. The Navy is full of jargon and codes so it is not unusual that these young men and women would not comprehend what they were conveying. In fact, they were trained not to think or to summarize, but to repeat word-for-word what they were told over the phone. Mind-numbing? Absolutely. Necessary? Well, maybe during the War of 1812, but not in today's modern Navy with well-educated enlisted people.
What the officer did then was to begin to move around the training these sailors had received and to begin educating them about what their messages meant. Clearly it did not take a genius to grasp that an announcement about lunch or mail-call could wait until the OOD responded to the radio message from the admiral. More importantly, it was just as easy for them to appreciate the how critical it was that they ensure the OOD fully understood that there was a submarine about to surface 1,000 yards ahead of us. A simple "very well" would not be good enough. In illustrating the point, once they understood what the messages meant, the officer asked them to consider his position as OOD. What if they were doing that job, how would they want the information passed on to them so they could always make the best decision. None of them ever failed to see the point when viewed from that perspective.
As one might suspect, it did not take long for the intensity level to ratchet down somewhat. There were still radios blaring, lookouts and engineering reporting, course adjustments and combat exercises, but there also was a newfound cooperation between the OODs and phone-talkers. Now, instead of a constant drumbeat of inane information that clearly could wait, mixed in with a crucial element that could not, real communication between sender and receiver had been achieved. Communication that included true understanding and comprehension for all parties involved.
However, there was another unintended consequence of the officer's behavioral experiment – the phone-talkers felt better about themselves. Their pride increased. They now grasped how important their role was to the ship, its operation, the crew's safety and to the OOD. As their knowledge about the messages and reports increased, their pride increased. As their pride increased, their ability to perform their job improved. In short, it was a win-win situation. The OOD had better control of the situation and the phone-talkers had a real mission. These sailors now knew not only what to do, but also knew what they were doing.
Fast forward to the ex-Naval officer's life as a management consultant. He now is the guy leaning out business processes and having to tell people that much of what they have been doing has little value and must be eliminated. Many workers immediately jump to the conclusion that if what they do has no value, then he was saying they have no value. There starts the resistance. He had to find ways to overcome people's natural resistance to change in order to see his recommendations as a consultant be implemented and the savings realized. The same approach he discovered while in the Navy became his go-to method for managing change.
Several years ago a regional bank's operation site needed help. In simple terms, the site's staff was opening envelopes containing checks as invoice payments and depositing the checks into accounts for various small, medium and large businesses. Additionally, the site also processed payments for a variety of government agencies. The operation suffered from error rates that were off the chart, unusually high turnover and extremely low morale among the work force. It was clear that no manner of process improvement would stick if it was not possible to somehow turn-around the employees' attitudes and make them proud to come to work each day.
Using his Navy approach as a guide, the consultant and his team designed and implemented separate processing teams. These teams were tied to the industry they supported. For example, one team was dedicated to healthcare insurance providers; another to real estate businesses and a third handled child-support payments. Then by way of a series of training, or rather education classes, it was explained to each person how their role fit into the big picture.
For example, for the real estate team, the consultants explained that the checks they were processing were in fact rent payments from people just like them. Real-life examples were used to illustrate what might occur if they did not do a quality job: "Imagine what might happen if you fail to deposit that check in the right account? A person could come home and find all their belongings on the street and their apartment rented to a new tenant – all because you didn't pay attention to your work." Consultants explained to those handling child support payments that if they failed to process a father's check properly, he could be accused of being a "deadbeat dad" and face arrest, when in fact he had mailed in his payment. This approach with these examples hit home. Employees started to pay closer attention to their work because they now knew not only what to do, but they also knew what they were doing. They understood the value of their work.
More importantly, just like at sea an unintended consequence occurred. Because the consultants had designed and implemented teams that handled only certain industries, employees were now responsible for specific accounts that they processed every day. Previously, any employee could be told to process any account at any given time. As a result there was no ownership. Since assignments were given out at random, when a business customer called with an issue no one in management knew who processed that account on the day in question. Under the new system, employees were held responsible for their work. With responsibility came accountability. And just like in the Navy, this accountability led to pride. Each team began to track errors and productivity; not because management insisted, but because they wanted to demonstrate to each other which team was best. Additionally, instead of business customers wanting to talk to a supervisor or a manager, those same customers now wanted to talk to their processing clerk. Open customer was overheard saying to a supervisor, "I don't want to talk to you, I want to talk to Marcia; she's the one who handles my account." It is easy to understand the increase in self-esteem felt by members of the staff. Their work was valuable to a customer. They were valuable to a customer.
When the bank project was completed, customer-reported errors had declined by 63 percent and were continuing to fall. Productivity had increased by 20 percent and was on the rise. Turnover was declining and morale was high. In short, the company, its customers and the employees were all better off.
People are the key to successful projects. Overlook the people, and their likely resistance, and a project is doomed. Management and team leaders must value the work of everyone. That does not mean all tasks are value-added; they are not. Obviously that is the reason for an improvement project. Leaders on all levels must develop and maintain an attitude that the work someone does is worth both the leader's time and the workers' time. If workers sense that a leader looks down upon what they do, they will resist recommendations and perhaps sabotage the project. By the way, this attitude must be genuine. People will see through a charade and can detect a phony.
Employees should be accountable. That does not mean dishing out sanctions for not following disconnected and meaningless procedures. If someone cannot see the result of their labor they will begin not to care about what they do. When a business leader asks someone why they do a particular task and they get a shrug and the answer, "I don't know," is there any wonder about poor attitudes and poor quality? People want to do good work. Good leaders show them how and hold them accountable to a standard. They will reward the business with positive results. However, with this approach comes increased management responsibility as well. Training, metrics and pay-for-performance all become more important.
Everyone needs to know how what they do contributes to the company and its customers. Nothing is more frustrating than to think what one does for a living has no value. Many employees do not know how their jobs – the tasks they perform everyday – contribute to the success or failure of a company or its customers. Management needs to teach them. The opportunity in this regard is incredible. When workers know that their job is important they will approach it with a new found vigor and pride that can only lead to higher quality, productivity and morale.
Six Sigma quality and productivity cannot be achieved by workers who simply punch a clock. Quality and productivity come from workers who care. Management must not stop training at the task. Good people should not merely know what to do; they must know what they are doing.


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Biomechanics Expert Is Concerned About Mark Sanchez's Health
By John B Updated Jan 7, 2011, 10:00am EST
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Some people in sports have told me that biomechanics will be to this decade what advanced statistical analysis was to the last. As you likely know, advanced stats have recently become popular as teams have looked to define value as accurately as possible. As you might not know, the field of biomechanics deals with making sure athletes use the proper technique and preparation to enhance their athletic potential and avoid injuries. The first helps teams make prudent investments. The second helps teams maximize the value of these investments.
Zig Ziegler is a sports kinesiologist, a biomechanics expert. As a top sports kinesiologist, Mr. Ziegler's efforts have helped more than two dozen NFL players overcome serious injuries to stay on the field including three time Super Bowl Champion Derek LoVille, 12 year NFL veterans Chris Oldham of the Pittsburg Steelers and New Orleans Saints, and NFC champion Chris Walsh of the Minnesota Vikings, journeyman NFL Quarterback Stoney Case, and all-Pro Linebacker Seth Joyner. Some other athletes Mr. Ziegler has advised post-injury include,Canadian Olympic team member and National Pro Fastpitch Co-Pitcher of the Year Lauren Bay, MLB NL Rookie of the Year Jason Bay, 2006 MLB NL Rookie of the year and 2008 NL MVP–Ryan Howard, future MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher, Johan Santana, Future NBA Hall of Fame center, Shaquille O'Neal, and oft injured Trailblazers' center Greg Oden and his Trailblazer teammates.
He was kind enough to take a look at Mark Sanchez for GGN and give us his thoughts.
Read them below the jump.
As one of the top quarterbacks in the NCAA at USC, Sanchez suffered a career threatening injury to his patella tendon in 2008. While the injury on the surface does not seem garner as much attention as the dreaded torn ACL, it actually can be significantly more difficult to recover from. This is due to the direct relationship between the patella tendon and the quadriceps muscle group of the thigh. The patella tendon attaches the major muscles of the quadriceps to the lower leg (tibia). This connection provides stability to the knee and assists the muscle in moving the lower leg.
Typically, an injury to the patella (also know as the knee cap) and patella tendon occurs in the form of either a partial or complete rupture (tear) or a subluxation or dislocation of the joint. A tear might be easier to recover from because the typical mechanism of the injury is related to over use. However, the subluxation or dislocation is typically related to rotation of the patella to a position where the tendon no longer is "in-line" with the patella.
Sanchez, apparently never fully recovered from his patella tendon/knee injury at USC. As a result, in February of 2010, Sanchez underwent surgery on the left knee to repair the patella tendon, which was deemed necessary by team physicians. An injury of this nature to a player like Sanchez does more than limit his mobility as we might assume. As a quarterback, Sanchez relys on the knee to make him agile in the pocket. But more importantly, as a right-handed quarterback, the left knee is the joint that provides stability as he throws the ball. It also, must absorb rotational forces initiated when the quarterback firmly plants his left foot and initiates the throw.
In an evaluation of Sanchez throwing mechanics in video from 2010, 2009, and 2008, his mechanics show a poorly planting left foot and extreme extension of the left knee during delivery.
This is a subconscious compensation or adjustment Sanchez has made to reduce the rotational force on this knee which could cause another (more severe) left knee injury. In, addition, Sanchez risk of injury includes possible ACL injuries to both knees and possible lower back pain. As a result of his compensation, Sanchez has a tendancy to deliver the ball with a more pronounced vertical movement of his throwing arm during delivery. This is more noticable on balls thrown deep to the right as it will cause balls to the right to sail higher than expected. This can lead to more incompletions when throwing to the right or worse, more interceptions in that direction.
When throwing to the left, Sanchez more than likely will demonstrate balls which appear to lead the receiver in that direction because he is more likely to have natural rotation of his body increase. (Please understand that this flaw also can lead to incompletions as Sanchez may still be off target from where his throw was intended.) Until Sanchez works to increase the rotational stability of his left knee, he will continue to struggle in and out of the pocket with mobility and accuracy. Just as importantly, Sanchez will continue to struggle with confidence as he fails to achieve the success he was accustomed to in his early days at USC.
My number one exercise for Sanchez? Well, there are three I would recommend:
1) Medicine ball Rotational Twist to the left side
2) Single leg Hamstring curls on both legs with an emphasis on the left leg. (Hey Mark, be sure to focus on doing these in the prone position and keep your glutes tight so you don't arch your back.)
3) Increase left ankle mobility with manual therapy.
I can't help but wonder whether this might be contributing to Mark's sometimes suspect accuracy.
Part of me feels like almost any football player would have some disturbing sign. It is a physical game where everybody gets banged up. I'm not sure I would necessarily sound any alarm bells. I do hope, however, the Jets are open to new ways to thinking because it can minimize risk and maximize performance.
I find this very interesting, and we are likely to hear from Mr. Ziegler about other players on the roster in the future.
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