In this project we worked with two teachers in a primary school to investigate how we can use multiplication and division contexts to help young children develop part-whole thinking to solve problems in mathematics. The children worked with familiar contexts that involved groups of objects (e.g., pairs of socks) using counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies.
Research evidence from a large cohort of New Zealand students shows that at most year levels, insufficient numbers of students meet (or exceed) the expectations reflected in the Curriculum and National Standards. Teachers traditionally focus on addition and subtraction without recognising the value of multiplication and division contexts for enhancing part-whole thinking. Part-whole thinking is fundamentally important for developing an understanding of many key mathematical ideas such as multiplication, division, algebra, and fractions, ratios, and proportions. This project enabled an exploration of appropriate word problems that focus on equal-sized groups within the whole.
Throughout the project there were on-going design research iterations exploring the use of multiplication and division contexts to support part-whole understanding.
Assessment data were quantified to provide individual profiles of the students, an overall picture of the learning needs of students in the class, and to contrast students' initial mathematical understandings with their understandings at the end of the study using statistical analysis (SPSS). Interview data from teachers were subject to a content analysis based on key themes. Video-recorded lessons were analysed to identify critical incidents related to the development of part-whole understanding. Students' workbooks and teachers' modelling books were also subject to content analysis.
Knighton Normal School and The University of Waikato have a long-established partnership. This partnership provided opportunities for teachers and researchers to work together on a project of mutual interest and importance in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching for students from culturally diverse families. Our partners were two junior class teachers Jo Lelieveld and John Brooker.
Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (2015).Using multiplication and division contexts with young children to develop part-whole thinking. Set: Research information for teachers. No.2, 53-59.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2015). Using task-based interviews to assess early understanding of number. In C. Suurtamm (Ed.), Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education (APME) 2015: Assessment to enhance learning and teaching (pp. 67–74). Reston, VA: NCTM.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2015). Using multiplication and division contexts to build place-value understanding. In X. Sun, B. Kaur, & J. Novotná (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Congress of Mathematics Instruction (ICMI23): Primary mathematics study on whole numbers (pp. 379–386). Invitational conference, Macau, China. 3–7 June, 2015.
Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (2015). Young children's number-line placements and place-value understanding. In M. Marshman, V. Geiger, & A. Bennison (Eds.), Mathematics in the margins (Proceedings of annual conference of Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia) (pp. 101-108) Sunshine Coast: MERGA.
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Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (in press). Using problems solving and representations to build number knowledge. Proceedings of International Symposium for Elementary Mathematics Teaching (SEMT), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 16–21 August 2015.
Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (under review). Teacher-researcher partnership: Working together to enhance young children's learning in mathematics. In R. McNae & B. Cowie (Eds.), Realizing innovative partnerships in educational research. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2014). Developing young children's understanding of place-value using multiplication and quotitive division. In C. Nicol, S. Oesterle, P. Liljedahl, & D. Allan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) and the 36th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) (Vol. 5, pp. 409–416). Vancouver, Canada: PME.
Young-Loveridge, J. & Bicknell, B. (2014). Supporting the development of number fact knowledge in fie- and six-year-olds. In J. Anderson, M. Cavanagh, & A. Prescott (Eds.), Curriculum in focus: Research guided practice. Proceedings of the 37th annual conference of the Mathematics Group of Australasia (pp. 669–676). Sydney, NSW, Australia: MERGA.
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Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2013). Using multiplication and division tasks to support young children's part–whole thinking in mathematics. In J. Novotná & H. Moraová (Eds.), Tasks and tools in elementary mathematics: [Keynote address] in Proceedings of the International Symposium for Elementary Mathematics Teaching: SEMT13, (pp. 55–66). Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2013). Using multiplication and division contexts with young children: Crossing the boundary from counting to part–whole processes. In T. Dooley, S. NicMhuirí, M. OReilly, & R. Ward (Eds.). Mathematics education: Crossing boundaries: [Keynote address] in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education: MEI 5, (pp. 33–51). St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Bicknell, B., Young-Loveridge, J., & Simpson, J. (2015, March). Using division problem-solving contexts to build place-value understanding. Workshop presented at the Primary Mathematics Association one-day seminar, Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2015, June). Using multiplication and division contexts to build place-value understanding. Paper for the Twenty Third International Congress of Mathematics Instruction (ICMI23): Primary Mathematics Study on Whole Numbers. Invitational conference, Macau, China. 3–7 June, 2015.
Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (2015, June). Young children's number line placements and place-value understanding. The 38th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Sunshine Coast, 28 June–2 July 2015.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2015, July). Using multiplication and quotitive division contexts to provide foundational place-value understanding. Paper for the annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), Hobart, Tasmania, 13–18 July, 2015.
Bicknell, B., & Young-Loveridge, J. (2015, August). Young children's number line placements and place-value understanding. Paper for International Symposium for Elementary Mathematics Teaching, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 17–21 August, 2015.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2014, July). Supporting the development of number fact knowledge in fie- and six-year-olds. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2014, July). Developing young children's understanding of place-value using multiplication and quotitive division. Paper presented at the 38th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) and the 36th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Vancouver, Canada.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2014, July). Developing number fact knowledge for differing contexts. Paper presented at the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) in Education conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Young-Loveridge, J., Bicknell, B., & Lelieveld, J. (2014, May). Strengthening place value: Using multiplication and division contexts with young children. Paper presented at the Primary Mathematics Association One Day Seminar, Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland.
Young-Loveridge, J., Bicknell, B., & Lelieveld, J. (2014, May). Strengthening place value: Using multiplication and division contexts with young children. Paper presented at the Waikato Mathematics Symposium, Melville Intermediate School.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2014, May). Using multiplication and division contexts to enhance part–whole thinking in mathematics. Paper presented at the Technology, Environmental, Mathematics & Science (TEMS) Education Research Centre Autumn Seminar Series, University of Waikato. Hamilton, New Zealand.
Young-Loveridge, J. (2013, September). Using multiplication and division contexts with young children: Crossing the boundary from counting to part–whole processes. Invited keynote address to the National Conference of Mathematics Education Ireland (MEI5). St Patricks College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Young-Loveridge, J. (2013, August). Using multiplication and division tasks to support young children's part–whole thinking in mathematics. Invited keynote address to the International Symposium for Elementary Mathematics Teaching (SEMT), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Young-Loveridge, J., & Bicknell, B. (2013, September). Using multiplication and division contexts with young children to enhance their appreciation of number properties. Invited Address at King's College London, London, England.
Young-Loveridge, B., & Bicknell, B. (2013). Television interview with Hillary Entwistle about research on multiplication and division with young children. Aired on TV Central (Channel 30), 9 May at 7.55pm and 10.55pm.


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Clubs collaborate to create exciting new Triumph and MG Weekend!!
Wayne Scott
last updated 26th February, 2021
This new event marks a historic collaboration between Triumph clubs, TR Register and TSSC and the MG Car Club to create the Triumph and MG Weekend at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern 13 – 15 August 2021.
It was one of the great rivalries of the British Motor Industry. The automotive equivalent if you like, of City vs United - it was Triumph vs MG!
But, whilst fans of these historic marques have traditionally existed as friendly acquaintances ever since, the global Coronavirus pandemic has brought all sorts of communities together closer than ever before and the Triumph and MG clubs are no different.
It is with great excitement that the TR Register, Triumph Sports Six Club (TSSC) and MG Car Club have announced that they have created a partnership to create a memorable, jointly run, inter-club weekend at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire over the weekend of 13 – 15 August 2021.
The TR Register and Triumph Sports Six Club (TSSC) had already combined their annual international festivals into an inter-club collaboration with the Triumph Weekend in 2019. But, following the news that MGLive! at Silverstone had been forced to be postponed until 2022, the hand of friendship from Triumph was extended to the "marque of friendship" in MG and the partnership has added the MG Car Club joining as the event's third organising partner.
The weekend will feature specialist traders, an extensive Auto-jumble, Auto-solo including the MG Car Club's historic California Cup, technical seminars, plus inter-club challenges, evening entertainment, live music, live action arena show and Concours D'Elegance competition, anniversary displays – plus much more to be confirmed during the coming weeks. The collaboration between clubs isn't limited to those organising the event either, as all marque car clubs are invited to come and display their vehicles and join in with this historic collaboration.
The three-day event will also celebrate a number of historic milestones and
anniversaries for each marque including 60 years of the MG Midget, 60 years of the Triumph TR4 and Herald 1200, 20 years of the MG Zeds, and 40 years of the Triumph Acclaim and special display areas will be a focal point of what promises to be an event you will not want to miss!
Lauran Gallacher, Assistant General Manager of the MG Car Club says; "Whilst we were sad that MGLive! was not possible this year, we have turned the challenges of COVID around into an opportunity to offer a new, fun and landmark event for members of the MG Car Club. We need to come together more as a classic car community and this collaboration shows just what we can achieve when we do so."
Allan Westbury, Chairman of the TR Register says: "It is important for the future of the classic car scene that clubs come together and collaborate and the challenges we all face as a result of COVID have made this even more crucial. Combining our events and resources in this way, means that we can bring Triumph and MG fans together for a really memorable and enjoyable weekend."
Chris Gunby, Chairman of the TSSC says: " We are excited by the added interest this will bring to the show. We are all classic car fans at the end of the day and we think this will spark some lifelong collaborations and friendships across fans of these two marques, which have always enjoyed a bit of friendly rivalry. We can't wait to meet our new friends from the MG Car Club and celebrate our love of classic British cars in the wake of what has been a challenging twelve months for everyone."
Weekend entry packages, day tickets and other passes can be purchased online now via: www.triumphandmgweekend.com .
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TV - The X-Files Season 6, Dreamland I/II
After his Top 5 earlier Steve Taylor-Bryant remembers the Dreamland two-parter...
With the simplicity of the age old body swap concept you wouldn't expect a great drama to play out across two whole episodes, but that is the beauty of The X-Files, even when the whole is beginning to fail, the small parts are still full of the essence of genius. That is what Dreamland I/II are, they are little gems of genius that hark back to The Twilight Zone, Spielberg at his best, The X-Files when it first started, and the like.
An informant of Mulder's (David Duchovny) has told the F.B.I agent about some strange goings on at the iconic Area 51 so Mulder and Scully (Gillian Anderson) take a trip to the Nevada testing base where they are confronted by a smarmy, yet bored, shadowy agent Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean) the head of a unit of Men in Black types. As a UFO flies overhead Mulder and Fletcher go through a body swapping incident, unbeknown to Scully.
Mulder struggles with being Fletcher, where does he live? Why is Fletcher's wife so angry? But Fletcher is loving being Mulder, chilling out more than he could before and making a pass at Scully, who is now very suspicious of her partner. After finding a survivor of the wreckage and evidence of another body swap gone wrong, Mulder now suspects that Fletcher's boss is the informant and desperately tries to inform Scully of what has happened but Fletcher as Mulder phones Area 51 and reports Mulder as Fletcher as the source of all their leaks resulting in Mulder/Fletcher being dragged off by the Military police.
After pretending he actually is Fletcher, Mulder lies his way through a meeting to evade the prison cell, but still wants people to know he is not Fletcher. He tries telling Fletcher's wife who thinks he's going nuts, Scully has now guessed that Fletcher is actually inhabiting Mulder's body and starts demanding to know how to switch them back. Scully gets Fletcher/Mulder to set up a meeting for all the parties involved with Mulder's informant.
After decamping to a Nevada bar Scully Fletcher/Mulder, Mulder/Fletcher and Fletcher's wife meet the mysterious informant who is in actual fact Area 51's General Wegman, who admits that he sabotaged the UFO to try and get the stealth module, which he hands to he thinks is Mulder. After thinking that they may never be put back the right way Fletcher/Mulder manages to convince his wife that he and Mulder/Fletcher have actually swapped and set about finding an actual way to rectify things using the warp drive that Wegman gave them. After letting the warp drive overcome them Mulder and Fletcher revert back and the last few days are undone and reset.
The above recap sounds very freaky Friday and far too humorous to be a science fiction television episode but it truly is remarkable. Duchovny's portrayal, including the ridiculous mirror dance, is astonishing as is that of his body counterpart Michael McKean. Scully's willingness to believe is slightly heightened in this two-parter which adds an extra dynamic to her relationship with both versions of Mulder and the Area 51 aspect is a must see for any science fiction fan.
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Growth, Balance, & Giving: Justin, Account Executive, on Why Qualtrics
Why Qualtrics
Qualtrics Life // July 7, 2020 // 9min read
I had been looking for a company that I felt could really allow me to future proof my career, in an industry that is still growing, and give me an opportunity to grow with the company. More importantly, I wanted to work for a company that could give me a work-life balance, as my family means everything to me, but I also have a strong sense of philanthropy. Qualtrics really was the first company that ticked all the boxes.
What attracted you to Qualtrics in the first place?
The prospect of working for a company that was the market leader in a growing industry really piqued my interest. The recruiter spoke about the usual cool benefits, but I was mostly interested that Qualtrics was still growing, and the market leader in the XM space.
What was the turning point where you 'had to have the job'?
I did extensive research on Qualtrics to prepare for my interviews. I read about the purchase by SAP, Ryan Smith interviews, the XM space, and being the experience management leaders. Then I read about Qualtrics being the jersey patch sponsor for the Utah Jazz. However, when I looked it up I saw it was 5 For The Fight. I thought the information was wrong, or outdated because I didn't see Qualtrics. After I did some further research, I saw 5 For The Fight was a charitable cause that was started by Qualtrics for cancer research, and it's the only cause to be a sponsor of any of the pro sports teams in North America. Like many people, I have been impacted by the disease, losing both my grandfathers to cancer. I really wanted to be with a company that held the same values as me, to help others and do good where it can.
I'm not one to believe in the universe giving signs, but my first interview at Qualtrics I went to the office a bit early to mentally prep myself. I was asked to sit on the couch and wait for Pat Bolster to interview me. Ryan Smith who was in town for the Australia X4 came over and introduced himself. I, of course, had done my research on Qualtrics and Ryan. So I knew exactly who he was and we chatted. We ended up having a mutual connection back in Utah. He wished me luck in the interview. Not bad for a first interview. On the way back after the interview, I was listening to a Freakonomics podcast and, in that episode, the special judge and fact-checker was none other than Qualtrics' own Mike Maughan. I took those as some signs.
Fast forward a few weeks later, and I was offered a job at Salesforce. I told them I wanted to think it over for a day. An hour later I got a call from Ciara who offered me the job at Qualtrics. I already knew in my heart I wanted the job with Q so it was an easy decision which I am very happy I made.
What does your day look like?
I normally wake up at 5 am to go for a bike ride to clear my mind and start the day. Most of my workday involves meeting with my customers, either in person or by video link, and also working closely with my team on strategies as a collective group. I also practice on my guitar most days, but in private because my wife and kids can't stand to hear classic rock songs getting butchered.
What is your favorite part of your role?
Hanging out with some amazing and inspirational people, who help push me to do better.
We understand that you moved to Sydney. Tell us about it.
I'm originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and am a long-suffering Toronto Maple Leafs supporter. I moved to Sydney, Australia when I married my Aussie wife, after spending 7 years in China (Shenzhen & Beijing), Hong Kong, and 3 years in London before that. My wife has a deep aversion to the cold, so it would take some coaxing to get her to move to Canada. But, given that I can golf, surf and drink on the patio of a pub all on the same day in the winter it really is a no brainer living in Australia. Apart from the fact everything can kill you here.
Any tips for someone who is considering a role at Qualtrics?
Bring an open mind, and be like water, taking any shape or state. Qualtrics requires people who can adapt quickly, but it's worth it.
What surprised you most about working at Qualtrics?
How collaborative the place is and how it is a very open book with complete transparency. It really is a team effort and I like that a lot.
What made you want to get into sales?
I got into sales because I was too lazy to finish my law degree but I really enjoy meeting and speaking to people. It may seem clichè but it's very true.
What are your aspirations in career/life?
My aspiration in life is actually learning guitar properly. I really suck. In my career, I'd like to lead a team at Qualtrics, and master dad jokes as well as Bill McMurray.
What is your top #LifeHack?
Get your kids into the toys you like, so you can justify buying them to your spouse or partner.
How have you become involved in community at Qualtrics?
I have joined the 5 For The Fight committee for Australia, the Qualtrics Green Team APJ, and have become a mentor.
Qualtrics is growing, and if you're ready to find your "why" at a place like this, you can explore our open opportunities at any time by visiting our career page or by joining our talent community.
Justin is an alumnus of the University of Toronto and started his career at Osney Media. He loves traveling and has been to 36 countries so far. His kids are getting into it too.
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VoIP is short for Voice over Internet Protocol. It is considered far more useful than the landline. It is basically used for voice communications and several multimedia sessions over the Internet Protocol. Before starting a business it is necessary to have a proper communication set-up. Earlier, the most convenient source was the landline but ever since the establishment of the Internet, VoIP is preferred by most of the firms.
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Results: Give a Note Foundation has provided more than $1.2 million in grants to schools in 100 communities in the U.S. At the same time, we have conducted five national awareness campaigns that highlight the importance of music education for all students.
Programs: Music In Our Schools Tour, Give a Note grants, awareness campaigns. Many underserved schools around the country do not receive the support they need to sustain their music programs. This need inspired the creation of Give a Note Foundation, which was established in 2011 by NAfME with a vision of giving every child the opportunity to participate in school music programs. Give a Note shines a spotlight on those areas of need, and the value of music education in the lives of all students, and the great work of the music teachers who reach those students. Most recently, we partnered with the CMA Foundation to gather information on access to music education. The product of this study will ultimately be used in grant making by Give a Note and like-minded philanthropic organizations who are want to invest in music education. We have also had the opportunity to work with organizations such as Disney Performing Arts, Radio Disney, and 21st Century Fox to join us in the efforts of providing music education for all students.
Imagine an elementary music classroom without recorders, a middle school choir without sheet music, or a high school marching band without uniforms. Students everywhere are seeing their passion being cut from the curriculum as art programs continue to lose funding. The sad reality of the public education system of America is forcing advocates to step up and become champions of children and their right to a quality education.
At the University of Central Missouri, a group of 50 college students are utilizing their love of music to raise money for schools who can not provide music education resources to their students. The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) chapter at UCM has partnered with the Give a Note Foundation to support music education in under served regions throughout the United States. As future music educators, this cause is fueled by their passion. The money they raise goes to writing grants for schools that cannot provide valuable music resources to their students.
The UCM NAfME Chapter has one goal throughout this service project: to bring the music back into the lives of students. As active musicians, they recognize how important the role of accessing quality music education has played in shaping their lives. Not only have music programs instilled a life-long love of the arts, they have also helped define their identity. Through collecting money from the community surrounding UCM, as well as the faculty in the UCM Music Department, the students have managed to reach their goal of collecting $500 for the Give a Note Foundation. Even though they have reached their goal, they plan to continue to fight for quality music education programs for all students.
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Give a Note is an amazing organization that helps thousands of students recieve the gift of music. In a day and age where arts often get cut from schools Give a Note Foundation helps provide instruments for students to excel and experience all that music has to offer them. Thank you for all you do for music students k-12 across the United States!
My orchestra program was grateful and thrilled to receive a grant through the Give A Note Foundation as part of the 2016 MIOS Tour. The entire process of receiving the grant was rewarding and the foundation was very professional. They even succeeded in pulling off a secret mission with my principal for a surprise assembly to announce the news to me and the school. Along with the grant, we received a visit from Radio Disney, a concert with Forever in Your Mind, and an Ardy award. The experience really helped my students become extra motivated in their music education journey. The money went to purchase needed instruments for our growing program. Currently, we have 2 to 3 students sharing every cello, so the grant was very helpful as we work to meet the demand for instruments.
I got this grant out of the blue. I have been giving to the Give A Note Foundation as a part of my dues payment for the NAfME. Anyway, I didn't apply for the grant I was just selected because of the demographics of our student population. My budget for our music department is not very high, about $500 per year so I do a lot of my own repairs and maintain my instruments as well as I can but my favorite instrument is drums and although I have a couple drum sets I really love a marching drum line. This grant allowed me to purchase some economical marching drums and start a marching band program in the school. The students were reluctant at first but after our first little parade they can not wait to do it again.
I thought this would be a long shot for our tiny class D2 school in the North Central Division, but I'm very happy that we had the opportunity to be part of the 2016 Music in Our Schools - Give a Note Tour!! As a first year teacher, this was probably really ambitious, but I did it for the students and the community! We are very grateful that Megan Nicole and Nate from Radio Disney could take time out of their busy schedules and come see what a small town school is like. The Give a Note Foundation and Radio Disney have brought the students hope and excitement with the ARDY Award as well as the generous donation of $2,500 to our music program at Stapleton Public Schools. We are looking to upgrade some instruments in our music room! I cannot thank all of the wonderful people that made this experience possible! Our only suggestion would be to play with the timing of the event. The students wished that there was time for more than three songs by the visiting artist instead of the presentation with a few songs mixed into it. I think they said they would have liked to have the presentation first followed by a concert and meet and greet. Cheers, Give a Note Foundation! You are doing a great thing for schools around the country! We look forward to submitting another video for next year!
The Give a Note Foundation does some wonderful things for music education and music programs through-out the country! As a 2016 Southern Division winner of a $2500 grant, an ARDY award from Radio Disney, and a free Radio Disney concert by Carson Lueders and Candice on Air, Shady Hill Elementary is so very grateful for all that the Give a Note Foundation has done for us! Our sincerest thanks and deepest gratitude go out to the Give a Note Foundation and Radio Disney, not only for the grant, award, and concert, but also for the continued effort to raise awareness about the importance of music education for all our students in this country!
My elementary choir students and I participated in the Music In Our Schools Month National Bus Tour in 2015. The staff of Give A Note was EXCELLENT. I can't say enough about how professional they were and how smoothly they ran the event. All possible details were accounted for and they made my job (the teacher) so much easier by allowing me to focus on my students. They even took the time to meet with me in a conference call to patiently plan all the details, something that I'm sure was unnecessary for their team but certainly assuaged the fears of my administrators regarding the planning associated with the event on our end. I received grant money for my classroom as part of my participation in the tour. I was extremely pleased by every step of dealing with the staff of Give-A-Note.
This is Thomas J. Fleming, music director at Churchill County High School in Fallon, NV. We were awarded $10,000 in 2012. (I might be a year off.) One of the best things about the experience was that it was worth all the effort even if we hadn't been one of the winners. The students really came together. We had a blast arranging and filming. It was at the beginning of the school year, thus a good time to come together and gel as group. The money went a long way; instruments, uniforms, software, all that are still in use today. Thank you!
This has been a great year musically here at UPCA! The students have all enjoyed all the 'goodies' that have arrived into the music room – we have been able to use all these great teaching tools – books, posters, games – it is so nice to have these extra additions to the curriculum!!
The most exciting part for me was to be able to provide students in grades 3 and 4 a recorder in the Spring semester this year! Most students were able to learn the proper technique, and play different rhythms and the notes B-A-G! Quite an accomplishment in a short period of time!
Once again, I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to be awarded this grant and share all these wonderful tools with my students here! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Funds awarded are for the purpose of supporting the school based, curricular and co-curricular music education program.
The Give a Note Foundation Award of $3000 was used to secure transportation for the children of Carter Academy for the Performing Arts to attend two (2) performances by professional performing arts ensembles at theater venues in downtown Houston, TX.
874 students attended two (2) performances by professional performing arts ensembles at theater venues in downtown Houston. The students saw a variety of performances including musical theater, dance ensemble, and instrumental and vocal music.
Give A Note Foundation helped provide my students with a fantastic musical experience when we were one of the winners of the 2016 Music In Our Schools - Music Inspires Tour competition. Because of the great generosity of this organization, my tiny school in rural southeast Missouri received a concert and was presented with a grant check. The people at Give A Note are very easy to work with and are some of the nicest people I have ever encountered. Words simply cannot express the amount of gratitude I have for their role in providing my young elementary students with such a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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Q: Set a parameter value out of variables In my testng.xml file I have following parameter...
<parameter name="env.resources"
value="src/main/resources/common;src/main/resources/android;src/main/resources/android/test" />

I want to change the value for some tests in my jenkins.
I add this line to the maven goals
-Denv.resources=${ENV_RESOURCES}

and add a textparameter on the top of the build with
NAME: ENV_RESOURCES
VALUE : src/main/resources/common;src/main/resources/android;src/main/resources/android/test

In the testng.xml I change the line
<parameter name="env.resources" value="src/main/resources/common;src/main/resources/android;src/main/resources/android/test" />

to
<parameter name="env.resources" value="${ENV_RESOURCES}" />

If I execute the jenkis job the test works very well. As far as good.
Now I want to add two variables for the parameter value. I try that..
value="src/main/resources/common;src/main/resources/${OS};src/main/resources/${OS}/${INSTANCE}" />

When I execute the following setting with ${OS} and ${INSTANCE} the test failed.
The value : ${OS} can be "ios" or "android" and
the value : ${INSTANCE} can be "test" or "abnahme" or "produktion"

I want only one testng.xml file and want control the parameters via jenkins server.
How can I add this two variables to the testng.xml file?
cheers Jean-Pierre

A: It looks you are using QAF. If so you can have below paramter in config file;
<parameter value="src/main/resources/common;src/main/resources/${OS};src/main/resources/${OS}/${INSTANCE}" />

Set OS and INSTANCE through system property from jenkins.
-DOS=android -DINSTANCE=abnahme

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I've had a slow start to winter.
Of late I've existed on a diet of cyclo-cross and commuting, but moving house, illness and, well, a lack of motivation to ride in the wind and rain after a long, busy summer have all contributed to the recent lack of road miles.
Winter starts here
But I've settled in at the former, am back to full fitness after my first (and who knows, last?) cold of the winter, and the hunger is back after kick-starting the winter season over the weekend. After all, I've got new roads to explore and now have the Chiltern Hills within a few miles riding.
November signals the start of the winter training season. Professional riders, some of whom will have finished the 2013 season-ending Tour of Beijing less than three weeks ago will wake from their off-season slumber to get back on the bike, and it's no different for the rest of us.
I've set myself four main goals for the winter to give my riding focus. I will ride eight hours a week, take to the start line in four of the Imperial Winter Series crits at Hillingdon and ride three local reliability trials. I will also join a new club, but that's more a product of moving from one side of London to the other, while, chances are, I'll also have a training plan to follow having volunteered as a guinea pig to try Wilier's Performance Progress Lab.
They're modest goals (the Imperial Winter Series has 11 dates from December to February) but tangible targets. Most coaches will advise you to set measurable goals: so, instead of 'I want to start racing', it's 'I will ride four winter crits at Hillingdon', and rather than 'I want to ride more', it's 'I will spend eight hours a week on the bike'. A maiden voyage yesterday on the aptly-named De Rosa Milanino Training under a blue sky on a beautiful, if windy, autumn's day brought the total for 'winter training week one' to nine hours.
I've also set myself a technical goal, although this is less tangible. I want to become a better descender. I'm not an awful descender, but I'm not too proud to say a couple of crashes have knocked my confidence this year when the road points downhill on steep, technical sections.
Half the battle when descending is confidence but I believe that by going back to basics and revisiting my technique over winter will stand me in good stead for the mountain descents that will inevitably follow next spring and summer. There is no better time than winter, when the focus on putting the building blocks in place for 2014, to work on your technique, whether that's descending, group riding, cadence or climbing.
Of course, it's easy to set goals in early November, with a full winter to come, but they're now in place, written down, for the world (well, you, at least) to see. They're my goals, what are yours?
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Trust key to our success
KEITH HILL has urged Rochdale supporters not to become disillusioned by defeat to Bury in the Gigg Lane derby. The Shakers' 1-0 win on Monday was Dale's first defeat in 12 games and brought to an end their fantastic run of form through the winter.
WELCOME BACK ... Will Atkinson, back for a second loan spell with Dale, takes on Efe Sodje during Monday's derby defeat
KEITH HILL has urged Rochdale supporters not to become disillusioned by defeat to Bury in the Gigg Lane derby.
The Shakers' 1-0 win on Monday was Dale's first defeat in 12 games and brought to an end their fantastic run of form through the winter.
But Spotland chief Hill called on the fans to keep faith with the players and management team who have guided the club to the brink of their first promotion since 1969.
"I think people have got to accept a true reflection of our season is the fact we have averaged two points per game," said Hill. "We shouldn't get disillusioned with losing one game. I think people have been getting ahead of themselves, even my family. I heard one of my family commenting on the performance against Port Vale last week, and that's where I think we have got to steady ourselves down a little bit, trust the players and trust me and Flicker to take care of business. There is no pressure on us, we have guaranteed our league safety for another season, which was our main priority, and like the chairman says, we can't throw money at a promotion bid. We do have to sell players and that does make an impact, no question."
Hill was referring to last week's sale of Will Buckley to Watford – he had warned against the effects of selling such a key player.
On Monday evening he fielded three 'new' loan signings after a busy weekend on the recruitment front.
Goalkeeper Frank Fielding, who replaced the recalled Manchester United stopper Tom Heaton, Will Atkinson, back from Hull City for a second loan spell, and Bolton striker Temitope Obadeyi, who came on as a second half substitute.
"The players we've brought in on loan will be good for us in the long-term. We have 18 games left to play and I think they will be good acquisitions."
Hill was keen not to dwell in the pain of derby defeat and turned his attention to the weekend's home fixture.
"We have an excellent game of football coming up against Crewe," he said. "They play the game the right way and we had a cracking game down at their place. I am looking forward to the remainder of the season and I would ask people to be patient and put the game against Bury in isolation. We do apologise for losing to our local rivals, but their was no shortage of commitment there and now we have to take advantage of the games remaining."
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The environmental problems, climate change and need to reduce greenhouse gases emission has compelled energy users to sort for alternative renewable and clean energy sources for a sustainable future. Researchers have identified hydrogen as a promising solution since it is a high-quality, clean and renewable energy source. Unfortunately, being a non-primary source, hydrogen can only be generated from other sources of energy such as fossil fuels, natural gas reforming, and coal gasification. However, such hydrogen production methods have failed to meet the requisite low carbon dioxide emission for sustainable development, therefore, researchers have been looking for alternative production techniques.
Presently, generating hydrogen from biomass has taken significant interest amongst researchers due to its renewability and zero carbon emission. To enhance hydrogen production process in large-scale experiments, the effects of a various operating condition like sorbent to biomass ratio, pressure, temperatures, and steam to biomass ratio have been investigated. Moreover, most of these methods have not been fully explored due to their expensive nature, time-consuming and less effective data mining techniques. The use of mathematical modeling techniques comprising computer-based models has henceforth been employed in the investigation of hydrogen production from biomass gasification. Despite the reported improvements, computer-based models are time-consuming, involve complicated algorithms and complex differential equations which may require assumption hence leading to inaccurate findings.
Recently, Dr. Jaroslaw Krzywanski at Jan Dlugosz University in Poland in collaboration with Chinese scientists at Zhejiang University proposed artificial intelligence (AI) methods that included artificial neural networks (ANN) and genetic algorithms (GA) as a simpler alternative method for data acquisition and analysis for hydrogen production via biomass steam gasification with CaO enhancement. They estimated hydrogen concentration in the syngas produced from biomass in circulating fluidized bed (CFB) and bubbling fluidized bed (FB). Also, they investigated the conditions and influencing parameters on hydrogen gas production. Eventually, they compared the experimental results and the simulation results. The work is published in the journal, Energy Conversion and Management.
The authors observed that desirably adjusting reaction temperature, CaO to carbon mole ratio and H2O to carbon mole ratio can result in a high hydrogen concentration in the syngas produced. Also, they noted that CFB produced high hydrogen concentration as compared to FB gasifiers. Furthermore, the similarity in the simulation and experimental results confirmed the efficiency of the proposed AI model. For instance, a maximum relative error less than ±8 was obtained between the calculated and measured data.
The developed non-iterative model enabled effective optimization of the hydrogen gas production process where the process parameters are generated from a given set of input data. In addition to the ability of the ANN to reproduce the whole process, the proposed AI approaches, therefore, overcomes the various limitation of the experimental procedures and programmed computing approaches. Consequently, owing to the simplicity of the model for handling data and experimental procedures, it can as well be used in hydrogen production for predicting its concentration in syngas from biomass via CaO sorption. This is possible for both CFB and FB gasifiers. The study will therefore advance hydrogen gas production for the realization of a sustainable development.
Abdul Rahim Shaikh is PhD candidate at the key laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization of Energy Engineering Department of Zhejiang University Hangzhou China. His work mainly focuses on Chemical Looping Gasification where he deals with the effect of natural and modified sorbents on coal, biomass and biomass/coal blends and also plant simulations on Aspen plus and Aspen Hysys. His favorite pass time is dismantling stuff in his home workshop and keeping up to date on current affairs.
Hongtao Fan is a doctoral research student in State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in the City of Hangzhou. His research focuses on the research and development of biomass calcium based chemical looping gasification technology, including experimental researches on dual fluidized bed gasification with sorbent enhancement and regeneration, sorbent cyclic capacity maintenance, process numerical simulation on CLG process and hydrogen plant system modeling.
Yi Feng, is studying for a doctorate in the national key laboratory of clean energy utilization of the institute of sustainable energy in Zhejiang University.
My working field is chemical looping gasification of lignite and have completed the related experimental researches of cal-based chemical looping gaisification using lignite and biomass as fuel within two pressurized fluidized bed at atmospheric pressure under various operation parameters, such as temperature (650-750℃), water/carbon molar ratio (1-2), Cal/carbon molar ratio (0-2), during the master stage. At the same time, I have participated in the declaration and research of coal/biomass pressurized oxygen-enriched combustion mechanism (national natural science foundation of China). i have also participated in the fourth international chemical looping conference and the fluidization conference in china, and the reports were given at the conference.
Jaroslaw Krzywanski is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland.
He received the M.Sc. degree from Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Thermal Machinery, Poland and Ph.D. degree from Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Poland.
He has published more than 140 refereed works, including papers, two monographs, conference proceedings and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals.
He is interested in modeling of energy devices and processes, including solid fuels combustion, gas emissions and hydrogen production from biomass combustion and gasification. He uses both programmed and artificial intelligence (AI), bio-inspired methods to predict e.g. heat transfer and pollutants emissions from coal and biomass combustion and co-combustion in large- and pilot-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) and calcium looping combustion (CaL) in fluidized bed (FB) systems, performance of adsorption chillers, as well as the hydrogen concentration in syngas during the H2 production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in FB units.
Krzywanski, J., Fan, H., Feng, Y., Shaikh, A., Fang, M., & Wang, Q. (2018). Genetic algorithms and neural networks in optimization of sorbent enhanced H 2 production in FB and CFB gasifiers. Energy Conversion and Management, 171, 1651-1661.


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Q: java eclipse formatting (unnecessary white space if condition ) On formatting my code Ctrl + Shift + f
This is how my code looks
if (item == null) {}

Is it possible to get it formatted like
if(item == null) {}

Thanks,

A: You can go to Window > Preferences > Java > Code Style > formatter > Edit > and uncheck option "before opening parenthesis".

A: You can configure formatting profiles on Eclipse.
Just go to Eclipse preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter.
As the other answer specifies (damn it, that was fast!) you'll find the particular option you're looking for on the before opening parenthesis checkbox displayed when selecting control statements > 'if else' on the white space tab on the edit profile dialog.
Check out these resources too:
http://www.ralfebert.de/archive/java/source_formatting/
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Treat Huey, Ruben Gonzales and Francis Casey Alcantara bolstered their Southeast Asian Games preparations after capturing doubles crowns in their respective tournaments in the United States and Egypt over the weekend.
Huey and Gonzales, who won the doubles silver in the 2019 SEAG edition, reigned supreme in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Savannah Challenger in Georgia while Alcantara teamed up with Colin Sinclair of the Northern Marianas Islands to rule the M15 Cairo International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament in Egypt.
Huey and Gonzales escaped a close opening set to survive Chinese Taipei's Wu Tung-Lin and China's Zhang Zhizhen, 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the 16-pair clay court event.
Prior to their title win, they edged Americans Robert Galloway and Jackson Withrow , 6-4, 6-7 (5), 10-7; United States' Jamie Cerretani and South Africa's Ruan Roelofse, 6-2, 7-5; and Americans Alex Lawson and Reese Stadler, 6-1, 6-3.
Alcantara and Sinclair, for their part, took down Denis Klok and Ilya Rudlukov, 6-3, 6-3, for the title.
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You can learn scales, chords, and picking patterns until your hand explodes. Don't neglect one of the most important resources in music: your ear.
Everyone is sure to be familiar with a couple of these simple tunes. Pick them out by ear. Its all trial and error. The more solid you foundation in diatonic scales, the easier it will be to figure out which notes could be next. Below is the melody (in tab) and chords in case you would rather work through the tunes a few times first.
Start with a tune like Happy Birthday and keep at it until you can work out a longer, more complex song like the Star-Spangled Banner.Learn these in open position and also up and down the fretboard.
Challenge yourself to play the whole melody on one string. Create your own arrangements by playing the melody and chords at the same time. If thats too easy, try to change it up: play Jingle Bells using jazzier chords or try to create a reggae version of London Bridge. The sky is the limit!!!


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I kept seeing the same message. When a message is repeated to me in 4 amazing ways, I must take it seriously.
The first time I heard the message was in a devotional. A man told about his illnesses and his examinations on a hospital. His reaction to being sick was to be joyful, always praying and always giving thanks. He quoted 1 Thess 5:16-18 "Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances;for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus". While I was reading this, I had a time when I was sad and complaining about my life, and I was not able to pray to God for days. I didn't think further about this verse.
A few days later my husband's wheelchair was broken. Life became more complicated than usual. One night my husband and I went to bed, and he began to talk. It was as if he preached. He talked about all the good things in our life, all the things we should be grateful for. I listened and said yes. I turned around and closed my eyes while thinking: Yes, but…I'm sad, I'm bored, I wish a lot of things were different, and that the wheelchair was not broken.


I just learned about SOZO Ministry and the concepts that it involves. While going to this 3 day seminar I realized that God had already put me through a sort of SOZO experience on my own between me and HIM.
I wrote my thoughts down at certain times as the SOZO was being explained and I felt exuberant because it allowed me to realize one of the ways God works and has worked in my life. I am not going to try to explain to you my impression, or my definition of SOZO ministries. I will however, explain to you my personal sort of SOZO experience.
First things first. The two that were immediately brought to my attention was, one, the Holy Spirit in us speaks to us and as he does, we need to listen and submit.
Secondly: As the Spirit allows us to change through the power of God, then each time we recognize the prayer we prayed was answered, whether because of our own obedience or otherwise, we can grow.
Through this we begin to experience a series of cycles that go something like this. We are being obedient, we pray, our prayer gets answered, sometimes in a miraculous way, we have a sincere spiritual realization through that experience, that in turn increases our faith and the reality of what Christ just did, and has done, should always push us forward into a deeper, more trusting relationship knowing that God's sovereignty and absolute power over things is real. In this, we can trust and we should never fall backward in our faith. We should always be reflecting on the real and tangible things of God.
Now, for the next set of notes I wrote, I was made to realize, (and this is what is so similar to the teachings of SOZO) that, God has shown me that He worked in me to develop a point where I was able to listen to that still soft voice of the Holy Spirit in my life. I started to recognize each ungodly act, ungodly thought and each occurrence of ungodly behavior. Then, through having a Christ consciousness, I was able to first, bind them up in the name and by the blood of Jesus, if it was something like a spontaneous ungodly thought. For the other two things, not only did I do battle against them in the name of Jesus, but then I also prayed with a sincere heart and asked God to either take it away, or allow me to change my heart, behavior or whatever it was that needed spiritual surgery.
So as I laid each thing at His feet, He gave me strength and the ability to over come. Now, in all this, we have to be conscience of what the Holy Spirit is saying to us through our convictions. We have to keep a clean slate before the eyes of the Lord, so He doesn't set His face against us, and in this way, we can experience true Godly intervention when we need it. We can experience much quicker answers to most of our prayers according to His will, and we can really see the providence of God being carried out in our lives. Trust me people, when you come to this point in your Christian walk, your faith, trust, and confidence that God is in control will pull you through any trials or tribulations in life.
But now that I have explained this, let me share with you the fact that it has taken God, 35 years to shape my life, and it has been an enormous undertaking. It has brought me through many hot fires, trials and tribulations, and many times I was on my knees in tears, over come by grief, like Paul, shipwrecked, but not on the ocean, and I'm not looking for sympathy here. I, like many, didn't want to listen, I wanted it my way. God however, had a different plan, and He finally got His message across to me loud and clear, and through it all, I was able to give Him complete control in my life, and am I ever glad I did! It took me a long time to realize that the spiritual laws that are in effect through God's omnipotence and power, can't be beat or manipulated.


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Mobile service visits Farmington to help homeless
By JOHN QUINN
Oct 5, 2009 at 3:15 AM Oct 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM
FARMINGTON — The area's homeless population now will have a chance to get basic medical help on Tuesday mornings when the Families First Health and Support Center van comes to town.
The multicolored van, named "Helen" after a woman who was a past advocate of outreach programs, made its first appearance in town Tuesday and is due to return to the town's fire station on subsequent Tuesdays from 9-11 a.m. to offer services.
The community has been hit particularly hard by the ongoing difficult economic times and layoffs, including at the former Collins & Aikmans facility in town, the former Prime Tanning plant in Berwick, Maine, the Thompson Center Arms facility in Rochester and others, said Heather Hesse-Stromberg, program coordinator for Strafford Network's Farmington Community Preservation Program.
"In the families where both of the wage earners are laid off, it's very easy to start struggling," she said, adding that she helped get the van to come to town, along with Debbie Christie, director of the Goodwin Library, and Traci Cameron, the homeless liaison at Farmington High School.
It is unclear how many people in the Farmington area are homeless since their numbers are hidden, according to Maureen Keating, Families First project coordinator for homeless health care.
"There are lots of people sleeping on other people's couches," she said, adding that families may also be "doubling up" with each other or using area campgrounds.
The mobile homeless center van project from Families First, which began in Portsmouth in 2002, also operates in Portsmouth, Hampton, Dover and Rochester.
While only two people stopped by the van during its first appearance, the staff believes they will get much busier as word gets out and the weather starts to worsen.
"Anyone can become homeless these days," said Nurse Practitioner Mary Kate Smith, who added that it's amazing what services are offered in the van.
"They can get a lot of things they can get out of a clinic," Smith said, adding they offer primary medical care, including management of diabetes, asthma, pneumonia, acute illnesses and chronic diseases.
While no narcotic prescription medications are offered or available in the van, Keating said, the staff can provide basic medications, immunizations and even flu shots to those in need.
"What we usually have is enough to start them on a medication," Keating said.
Care Coordinator Diana Smith, who greets people as they enter the van, said the staff can tell residents in need about local services — such as Service Link, the welfare office or the Community Action Program — or refer them to other organizations as needed.
She said they also provide toiletries, clean socks, reading glasses and basic items. Donations are always welcome, she added.
For more information, including a van schedule, visit www.familiesfirstseacoast.org.


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Dealing with the Devil?
By William Reinsch
Trade, Technology & Security
We swamp dwellers were surprised over the past two weeks to see the president confound his own party and make a deal with the Democrats on temporarily funding the government and raising the debt limit and then entertain deals on tax reform and DACA. There has been a lot of speculation about what all that means, if anything. I have spent some time thinking about that too, particularly pondering the question of whether it has any significance for trade policy. I am no more sure of my answers than anybody else, but I'll offer a few thoughts anyway.
First, there is always with Trump the possibility that these were impulsive decisions that signify nothing about the future. In the first case, he saw a deal that, if nothing else, solved some serious short-term problems (albeit only for the short-term) and allowed him to avoid getting sucked further into a messy partisan debate that wouldn't end until something was cobbled together at midnight September 30. Sometimes, as Freud said, a cigar is just a cigar, and we should leave it at that.
Of course, this being Washington, which is full of people who make their living pontificating, it can't just be a cigar; it has to be fraught with greater meaning. The main interpretations seem to be either that he was "punishing" congressional Republican leaders for their failure to move his agenda or that he was reminding everybody that he is not a traditional Republican but instead is a disruptor intent on draining the swamp on behalf of his base, which is not all ideologically Republican. Or both. Or neither.
Lost in that debate and in the argument over who won (the Democrats?) and who lost (the Republican leadership?) is the possibility that these may be smart decisions on their merits. The budget deal provided relief for Harvey quickly and efficiently; it prevented at least 50 news stories about what it would mean if the U.S. defaulted on its debt (something that Trump presumably knows about from personal experience); and it postponed the down-to-the-wire panic about a government shutdown.
In addition, it and the two episodes that followed unquestionably sent a signal that he is prepared to cross the aisle and make a deal if he finds a better one over there. More than anything else, that should worry Republican leaders who have religiously followed the doctrine of excluding the other party from all important decisions, even when it was obvious they couldn't hold their own troops together. (To be fair, the Democrats were guilty of exactly the same thing when they were in the majority.) And to my mind, it's a good thing if they're worried. There have always been two ways to run the House — by the majority party keeping its people in line and excluding the minority, essentially a parliamentary system— or from the center with both parties working together and each throwing their fringe elements over the side. The latter used to be the norm, but for the past 25 years the former has generally prevailed, and everyone can see the gridlock it has produced. Trump ran against gridlock, and, deliberately or accidentally, he has actually struck a blow against it. Party leaders now have to decide whether to continue with business as usual or learn from these episodes.
Obviously, questions remain. Will this turn out to be a one-off or the first steps in a consistent pattern? Will he try to bludgeon his new Democratic friends into a DACA reprieve in return for the wall (not so far) or get them to buy into supply side-based tax reform? Will the Democrats overplay their hand and demand too high a price? Will the leaders in both parties take the hint and change the way they do business with each other (when pigs fly)? In other words, this could all crumble into nothing, but there is potential here for changing the conversation, and it will be interesting to see if the parties are brave enough to do it.
And, finally, does this mean anything for trade policy? Maybe, but not in the way one would expect. The appeal of the president's trade policy crosses party lines, so it might seem a natural place for the two parties to work together, but that will be hard — particularly for the Republican leadership — because it attracts the extremes of both sides rather than the center. Instead of bringing the center together for a common cause it would drive it farther apart. It would, however, let the two parties practice working together, and that may be so important to the stability of our political system that it is worth looking at even if we know in advance it's going to produce a bad policy.
William Reinsch is a Distinguished Fellow with the Stimson Center, where he works principally with the Center's Trade21 initiative.
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Baron, Salo Wittmayer. A Social and Religious History of the Jews. 2d ed. 19 vols. Vol. 6. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.
Gil, Moshe. Hivi Ha-Balkhi Ha-Kofer Me-Horasan, Ketavim. Merhaviah: Sifriyyat Po'alim, 1965.
Davidson, Israel, ed. Saadia's Polemic against Hiwi Al-Balkhi: A Fragment Edited from a Genizah Ms, Texts and Studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1915.
Fleischer, Ezra. "A Fragment from Hivi Al-Balkhi's Criticism of the Bible." Tarbiz 51, no. 1 (1981): 49-57.
Guttmann, J. "The Sources of Hiwi Al-Balkhi." In Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume, edited by Saul Lieberman, 95-202. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950.
Malter, Henry. Saadia Gaon: His Life and Works, Morris Loeb Series. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1921.
Rosenthal, J. "Hiwi Al-Balkhi: A Comparative Study." Jewish Quarterly Review 38; 39 (1947-48; 1948-49): 317-42, 419-30; 79-94.
October 2001. An international force led by the United States begins military strikes against the Taleban regime in Afghanistan as part of a campaign to root out the terrorist forces who attacked American targets on September 11 2001.
Recent events have taught us more than we may have wanted to know about obscure locations in the bleak terrain of Afghanistan with names like Mazar e-Sharif and Kanduz.
Even without entering into the controversial theories that identify certain Afghan tribes with the "ten lost tribes" of Israel, there can be no denying that Jewish communities existed in Afghanistan for many centuries.
During the medieval era, the region was known as Khorasan, and it is mentioned in many Jewish documents as a place of habitation and as a station on the lucrative trade routes to the Orient.
I wish to focus here on one particular area in Khorasan, a place known as Balkh, which was recently mentioned in the news as the scene of a major surrender of Taliban fighters. The city of Balkh was known in ancient times as Bactria �� a glorious metropolis destroyed by Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century, and rebuilt in the fifteenth century by the Turkic ruler Timur.
This territory was also home to one of Judaism's most radical and enigmatic heretics.
The name of Hiwi (or more correctly: Hayawaihi) al-Balkhi shows up, usually qualified by caustic insults and maledictions, in the writings of several prominent Jewish biblical commentators, including Sa'adia Ga'on and Abraham Ibn Ezra.
Hiwi, who lived in the early ninth century, is one of the earliest Jewish scholars that we know of from the post-talmudic era. None of Hiwi's works have survived intact, and therefore modern scholars have been compelled to reconstruct the personality of this mysterious author on the basis of the derogatory remarks of his antagonists..
Sa'adia Ga'on devoted a special treatise to refuting Hiwi's unorthodox views, and a few fragments of that work have survived.
What was it about this obscure Afghan Jew that aroused the indignation of so many distinguished rabbis and scholars?
To judge from the few remaining samples of his two hundred (!) objections to the Bible, Hiwi was neither a profound intellect nor a systematic philosopher. Rather, he often strikes us as a prototypical village atheist taking pot-shots at easy targets in the Bible.
A favourite stratagem of his was to call into question the miracles of the Torah.
For example, he argued that the parting of the Red Sea was a natural phenomenon, and that Moses' claim to greatness lay merely in his ability to calculate the right moment for the crossing. Hiwi provided similar naturalistic explanations for the mannah and the radiance of Moses' face (the latter he wrote off as "wrinkling," not "shining"). He also emphasized that the Egyptian magicians were able to reproduce several of Moses' "miracles," proving that they could not have been so unique.
Several of Hiwi's criticisms were directed at what he felt were philosophically primitive notions of God's power. Why should an omniscient deity have to "test" Abraham? Why does God have to walk through the Garden of Eden calling out in search of Adam? Why does he have to be fed on sacrificial meat?
Hiwi was also quick to point out inconsistencies in the meting out of divine justice. Were the people of Sodom and Gomorrah really more evil than many other wicked figures in the Bible? Why can God not safeguard the righteous from natural or human injury?
Historians have attempted unsuccessfully to find a theological foundation that would account for Hiwi's critique of the Hebrew scriptures. Unfortunately, such efforts are usually obstructed by Hiwi's methodological inconsistencies. In some places, he bases his criticism on the literal meaning of a verse, but in others he is tacitly accepting the midrashic interpretation. Sometimes he seems to be championing a more refined monotheism, while elsewhere he seems to be supporting a trinitarian reading of the text.
Several scholars have pointed out that Hiwi's objections to the depictions of God in the Bible seem to be reworkings of arguments that appeared earlier in inter-religious polemical literature. In the hands of the ancient Gnostic Christian sect, these criticisms were used to prove that the God of the "Old Testament," is an inferior deity who dwells in darkness and ignorance. In the hands of the dualistic Manicheans and Zoroastrians (the founder of whose religion had actually been born in Balkh), the same proof-texts were cited in order to identify the God of Israel as a power of absolute evil.
From all the above examples there emerges a classic image of a self-hating Jew who has accepted the anti-Jewish accusations of rival religious movements. Viewed this way, it is not hard to understand the disdain with which he was treated by Sa'adia or Ibn Ezra.
In spite of all his shortcomings, our Afghan Jewish heretic may nevertheless lay claim to some more constructive contributions to Jewish culture.
It was only in recent decades that it became possible, by comparing a five-word quote preserved in a work by a Karaite author with a manuscript fragment in the Cairo Genizah, to restore about a dozen lines from Hiwi's original words.
This modest snippet of text is enough to reveal some unappreciated aspects of Hiwi's achievement. Most importantly, we can now recognize that Hiwi was a talented Hebrew poet, the earliest known writer to compose Hebrew verse for use outside the synagogue liturgy. Hiwi can also be credited as a pioneer in adapting the sacred tongue to the needs of rationalistic discourse. Many other Jewish philosophers were convinced that Hebrew was unsuited to that task, and elected to publish their works in Arabic. Hiwi had the ingenuity and boldness to harness the holy tongue to this formidable task.
In these respects, Hiwi may be compared to those exponents of Enlightenment ideologies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe who, in spite of their declared discomfort with traditional Jewish values, became so enamored of their ancestral language that they ended up laying the foundations for a renaissance of Hebrew letters that would one day play a pivotal part in the Jewish national revival.
So too with the enigmatic personality of Hiwi of Balkh-- even when he was attempting to disparage or ridicule the sacred scriptures, he did so as a Jew, and in the language of his people.


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Over the weekend, I spent some time re-reading my book manuscript on print media and the American Revolution, which was based on my Ph.D. dissertation. Comments came back from the anonymous reader for the pressa few weeks ago, and I've been working to draft a response and think about revisions. Since I hadn't read the manuscript all the way through in over a year, it made a lot of sense to read the entire book first.
I'm re-reading my book ms to prepare my response to the reader's report, and I'm struck at how many layers of text I can see.
As I said on Twitter, the writing—I think—flows smoothly, so no one else would ever notice whether a sentence written in 2008 immediately follows a sentence written in 2013, in a paragraph whose argument was realized in 2010. But our writing lives with us and tells a story to its author that almost no one else gets to see, our own personal palimpsests, if I may put it alliteratively. And in the meantime, I need to go back to my revisions, in hopes that at some point soon I can stop making writing memories on this particular project.
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Chief Justice: 1929, 1936, 1944, 1952
Walter H. North was a native of Michigan, born in Hillsdale County on November 1, 1871. He was brought up on a farm, where he became accustomed to hard work and devotion to duty. He managed to do other work, and it was largely through his own personal efforts and earnings that after completion of his public school education he was able to attend Hillsdale College, where he received an academic degree. He then went on to the law school of the University of Michigan and graduated in 1899. After his graduation, he opened a law office in Battle Creek in partnership with Jesse H. Hatch, the father of then Circuit Court Judge Hatch. Two years later, he entered into partnership with Duane C. Salisbury. He remained in private practice only a short time before he became a Judge of the Circuit Court of Calhoun County on January 1, 1906, a position he held until his appointment to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Fred Green in 1927.
North practiced law for 53 years. Twenty-two years were spent as Judge of the Thirty-Seventh Judicial Circuit and 25 years as Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. A colleague on the Bench, Henry Butzel, spoke of North's behavior: "I was overwhelmed by his ability, his knowledge of the law, his character and his industry. I lived at a hotel opposite the Capitol, and, due to noises from the street or within the building, I arose early, usually arriving at the courtrooms shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning. I always found the door leading to our joint waiting room wide open and Judge North already at work. He worked hard all day and when evening came he always went home with a briefcase loaded with briefs and records. I never knew a man of greater industry. In fact, during our noonday lunch hour, unless there was some business that needed immediate attention so as to detain us in the conference room where we ate lunch, Judge North rushed back to his private office and used the extra half-hour to continue his work."
Walter H. North died on July 23, 1952, while still employed by the Court. (Michigan Supreme Court. Michigan Reports: Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Michigan. Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing, 1879 – 1949, Vol. 335.)
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