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commonwealth alert 25 Aug 2017
New cap on IT contracts
As of 23 August 2017, Commonwealth Government IT contracts will be capped at a maximum value of $100 million or three years' duration.
Exceptions will require approval from the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation and the Minister for Finance.
Further guidance is required in relation to how this policy applies, including which contracts it applies to and which agencies it applies to.
Agencies will also need to keep a keen eye on how the Government intends to implement the other recommendations of the ICT Procurement Taskforce. This will largely be coordinated by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA). In particular, agencies should expect more centralisation in the ICT space and a reduction in agency panels.
A brief history of the Taskforce
The ICT Procurement Taskforce (Taskforce) was established in October 2016 to identify procurement barriers and opportunities to streamline ICT procurement as well as to identify opportunities to make it easier for start-ups and small and medium sized businesses to compete for government ICT contracts. It issued a consultation paper in November 2016 and received submissions from ICT businesses, industry associations and government agencies.
The Taskforce issued its report on 23 August 2017, outlining 10 recommendations. All of these recommendations were accepted by the government, with the exception of recommendation 3 (which was accepted in principle) and recommendation 4 (which was partially accepted).
The new cap on IT contracts just announced is a result of Recommendation 2:
The Taskforce recommends setting annual targets for ICT procurement. An initial set of annual targets could comprise:
an annual, whole-of-government cap on internal and external ICT spending, with a target to reduce total annual ICT spending by 10 per cent over the next four years
maximum contract amounts and lengths for all ICT procurement
metrics on the quantum and timing of benefits realisation for all significant ICT projects
a measurement of the amount of ICT spending on agreed government priorities
a metric on the number of agencies that are using/building common platforms
a metric on the percentage of annual ICT spending on significant projects going to Australian businesses, including a breakdown of the amount going to Australian SMEs
All agencies will be required to provide an annual report to government on their contributions to achievement of targets.
Some of the key drivers for Recommendation 2 are to:
provide greater opportunity for SMEs to provide components of significant ICT projects
drive the use of agile rather than waterfall procurement approaches with smaller and more regular approaches to market
encourage innovation by reducing the impact of failure
reduce overall expenditure on ICT by 10% by more closely controlling higher value contracts.
Relevantly for the purposes of the new cap, the Taskforce report notes (on pages 16, and 36 to 37) that:
A very small number of the government's 17,000 ICT procurements drive most of the government's ICT commitments. In 2015–16, less than 200 ICT procurements (1 per cent) were worth $5 million or more, but these procurements were responsible for $4.7 billion (52 per cent) of the government's $9 billion of ICT commitments, with an average value of $25 million each.
In addition to introducing overall targets on ICT spending, the government would also set targets on the maximum size and length of individual contracts for ICT procurement. Although most of the government's ICT procurement contracts are for small amounts of money over a short period of time, the very few amount of long contracts make up a significant amount of the total value of ICT procurement … This indicates that more closely controlling these large and long contracts can produce disproportionately large benefits for the government.
In accepting Recommendation 2, the Government commented that:
Initially, the Government will establish an initial annual cap for agencies on ICT contracts and exceptions will require approval from the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation and the Minister for Finance.
On 23 August the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation announced that:
From today, Government IT contracts will be capped at a maximum value of $100 million or three years' duration. This is to allow small and medium sized businesses the opportunity to bid for smaller components of larger projects.
Further guidance is required in relation to key aspects of this policy.
How will this policy be implemented?
We expect this will be implemented as a procurement connected policy. Other procurement connected policies include:
indigenous procurement policy
workplace gender equality
Australian Industry Participation Plans
Which agencies does this apply to?
We expect this restriction is directed at:
non-corporate Commonwealth entities; and
corporate Commonwealth entities that are required to comply with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules. (This will require a Government Policy Order.)
How does the three year requirement work in practice?
Given that only a handful of agencies have IT contracts of over $100 million, the bigger question for most agencies will be how the three year requirement works in practice. In particular:
Does a contract for three years with a one year option breach the requirement?
Can agencies exercise options in existing arrangements?
What happens if the agency enters into a contract for acquisition and a support warranty and the acquisition phase takes longer than expected?
Does a perpetual licence trigger the requirement?
Does a software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or infrastructure as a service (IaaS) arrangement with no fixed term (but a right to terminate without penalty) trigger the requirement?
We expect that the policy is not intended to discourage warranties, perpetual licences or cloud arrangements. Rather the focus will be on ensuring that software maintenance and support arrangements are flexible and contestable. However, this requirement will need to apply equally to Australian software vendors.
How does this apply to standing offers? We expect that agencies will be required to value standing offer arrangements to avoid a situation where agencies enter into 3 year standing offer arrangements that allows it to award multiple contracts that together exceed $100 million. The government has also committed to reducing the number of panel arrangements.
What constitutes an IT contract?
While the Taskforce refers to ICT contracts, the Minister's announcement refers to IT contracts. Accordingly further guidance will be required about the policy's application to telecommunications contracts – particularly as these are often higher value/ longer term arrangements.
Clarifications is also required about how the policy applies to:
Projects (eg Defence projects) which include IT but are not predominantly IT projects
Contracts where the supplier is using substantial amounts of IT to deliver a service (eg call centres or forms processing)
Given that a key reasons for the new cap is visibility, we expect that the definition will be broad.
Who will manage exemptions?
Exceptions will require "approval from the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation and the Minister for Finance".
It is unclear at this stage whether exceptions will be processed through DTA or Finance.
We will issue a more detailed alert about the 10 recommendations, but we have summarised the recommendations into three categories (1) Framework; (2) Actions and (3) Reporting:
(1) New framework for ICT procurement, including targets and reporting requirements
(6) Build the APS's ICT procurement capability and culture
(3) A new dataset of government ICT spend
(5) New ICT strategy which complements the Commonwealth Procurement Rules but incorporates ICT specific policies such as cloud and the Digital Standard
(7) Co-ordinate significant ICT procurements and vendor relationships
(4) A new dashboard showing the status and outcomes of significant ICT projects
(10) Regular review and renewal of the new framework and policies
(8) and (9) Simplify ICT procurement practices, including by reforming panels and developing new procurement pathways.
Authors: Amanda Ludlow, Partner; Georgina Adams, Consultant;Tess Hemming, Senior Associate.
Amanda Ludlow
amanda.ludlow@ashurst.com
Georgina Adams
georgina.adams@ashurst.com


"Interoperability is essentially front page news now, and I think that's exciting," said Don Woodlock, vice president of HealthShare Platforms at InterSystems. "We spent all those years adopting EHRs, and now we're wanting to get the most out of them. Now we have the digital data, so it should be more liquid and in control of patients and put to use in the care process, even if I go to multiple sites for my care."
"We're in the interoperability business, and we like having data being more available and more liquid, and systems being more open to getting data out of them," said Woodlock.
"A lot of customers are starting to embark on their journey with with FHIR, and they're really bullish on this as well: having a standards-based API way to interact with medical record data," he added. "We're sort of at the beginning of that as being another giant breakthrough, I think, in terms of liquidity of healthcare information."
With its new Essential Alerts project, clinicians can get notified when their patients are admitted to the EDs at most area hospitals with chest pain complaints, for instance, even if they haven't given express permission for it. The alert is limited to the patient's name, initial symptoms, hospital, date, and time. That's enabled a big increase in the number of alerts fired, giving physicians more valuable insights into their patients' care while still complying with New York privacy laws.
"We're really bullish on the potential of AI and in healthcare I'm always interested in seeing different use cases coming to fruition," he said. "I personally have been less focused on the 'out-doctoring-the-doctor use cases, because I think that AI obviously can be targeted toward knowledge work, where people are taking in data and making decisions about that data, and it seems like the physician role is one of the most complicated knowledge workers we have."
Patient matching is an obvious and compelling place to start, and is "ripe for artificial intelligence to help out with," said Woodlock. "You can watch a person go through that, look at essentially the features of the two potential patients to see whether they match or don't match, and eventually learn the relationship between the features of the patients and whether they should be matched or not. There's a lot of very good artificial intelligence use cases that aren't necessarily getting into care decisions.
"When you're leaving the hospital – if there's an automatic alert to your primary care physician or your care team that you are even in the hospital; you've left the hospital and here's the discharge summary – they can be a more active part of a successful transition into the ambulatory environment," Woodlock said. "Having that more robust awareness in the community of the fact that you were even in the hospital has a positive impact on this readmission rate."
That's a "significant drop," said Woodlock. "And since you're not paid for those readmissions, that's real revenue for you."
"When they had that more comprehensive view of their diabetic population, they actually had a larger percentage of patients that were getting A1c tests on time, and they actually moved up in their quality rating, and so got more revenue," Woodlock explained. "Their patients were actually getting the right care, they were just getting it at other sites that they weren't aware of. So now that they had that unified picture, they were able to demonstrate that they had a better quality quality outcome."
Healthix is one use case where AI and machine learning are at work, via InterSystems partner HBI solutions – which is helping the HIE's customer realize the benefits of advanced predictive analytics.
"We do the work of aggregating and normalizing and deduplicating the health information across multiple sources, and what they do is leverage that data and build machine learning models that predict the likelihood of occurrence of many things happening in the next 12 months," said Woodlock.
For example, a hospital might be able to see from the AI-powered analytics that a patient who presents at the ED with a broken bone also happens to have a 70 percent chance of getting diabetes, he explained. "You may then have a different conversation with the patient than you would otherwise, now that you know that," he said.
The predictive alerts also offer a weapon against the opioid crisis, since "part of the behavior of people that have this addiction is they visit a lot of different EDs at a lot of different health systems, and it's very hard to put the puzzle together," said Woodlock.
Moreover with the HBI machine learning technology, "you would see that they would have a higher risk of opioid abuse let's say, and it would look at ED visits as an example factor. So this is a kind of a probability scoring on an individual patient level," he added. "The AI is kind of put to use on an individual care basis to identify risks or to help with directing population health health activities."


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Pumping Extremely Hot Metal, Part 2
by Jeff O'Heir Senior Content Manager, ASME.org
Part 1 of "Pumping Extremely Hot Metal" described the premise of a new type of ceramic pump and the applications it could serve. This part looks at the challenges the team faced in designing the pump and the solutions they used to improve design.
To create the pump, Henry had to first choose the material for its components and the heat transfer media that would flow through it.
For the media, Henry knew he had to use a liquid. Its low viscosity makes liquid easy to move and control without using a lot of energy, making it the most efficient and effective way to transfer heat. "The higher the temperature, the more useful the liquid is," Henry says. "The problem is, what liquid to use."
Fluids commonly used in heat transfer systems include salt, glass, and oil. But those materials have too many disadvantages - heat limitations, high viscosity, corrosiveness, low thermal conductivity and density - for the types of extreme-heat applications Henry had in mind. Molten metal, however, especially tin, performs much better in all of those areas.
Liquid metal flowing at 1400 °C in the crucible. Image: Caleb Amy
"It is low viscosity; as soon as it melts, it flows like water. And it's electrically conductive. That's huge because that capability doesn't change and the electrons can move freely; the liquid connectivity is almost the same as a solid connective," Henry says. "With metal you end up in a different regime of heat transfer. Heat transfer in liquid metal is extremely effective. You get a whole lot more heat transfer given the energy needed to move it." Molten metals, however, can eat away at metal pipes and other components. "It's like trying to make piping for sugar water with pipes made from sugar," Henry says.
For You: Read the latest on fluid engineering breakthroughs from ASME.org.
That last piece helped Henry decide to build all of the components of the pump – a gear pump, in this case, for simplicity and reliability - from ceramic. Ceramics, though, are brittle. The team feared ceramic gears and other components used to pump and circulate extremely hot metal would crack and fail. But new breeds of ceramics can retain their mechanical stiffness at temperatures over 1,300 °K. After some research, Henry chose Shapal Hi-M Soft, introduced in 2012 and known for its increased machinability, mechanical strength, and thermal conductivity.
With metal you end up in a different regime of heat transfer. Heat transfer in liquid metal is extremely effective. You get a whole lot more heat transfer given the energy needed to move it. Prof. Asegun Henry, Georgia Tech
Despite those attributes, extreme heat caused one version of the pump to expand and vertically misalign by 1 mm. As a solution, the team intentionally misaligned the pump by connecting a vertically angled, flexible tungsten sleeve on the insulating shaft connecting the pump to the motor.
Another major design problem remained. Most pump seals are made from polymers, which vaporize under extreme heat. After about three years of trials and testing, the team finally settled on pure graphite to seal the pump, pipes, and valves. "They're real squishy and are good up to about 3000 °C," Henry says.
But graphite oxidizes. To prevent that, the team built a simple vacuum chamber around the pump and filled it with a "cover gas" of nitrogen. It also allowed the team to use tungsten on the outside of the seals to strengthen areas where tensile forces were applied. The chamber doesn't greatly impact the cost of the system; it can be made from thin metal and double as a protective covering.
"When you take oxidation off the table, it opens up a range of materials you can use," Henry says.
Not What They Expected
By the morning of the third day of testing, Henry's students were begging to go home. Henry made them wait. He had to be sure that this version solved past problems. After 72 hours running at an average of 1,473 °K, Henry pulled the plug on the pump and declared the new design a success."I said shut it down because it wasn't going to break," he says. "The students had given up before, so everyone was excited. It was a big triumph."
Even though the pump worked, Henry is still working on future iterations. The teeth of the drive gear wore slightly, a problem Henry could solve by replacing the Shapal with a harder material such as the more expensive silicon carbide. He's now looking for a cost-effective source. Henry will also try replacing the gear pump with a centrifugal pump to increase its speed. Then the new rounds of testing will begin. He expects to have a commercial version ready within two to three years.
"When you're doing engineering and technical development there are different types of barriers to success," he says. "But we had tested enough aspects to know that it would work. We knew it could be done. You can't let the challenge or the effort be a barrier to trying again and again. If you have good ideas, you shouldn't give up."
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April 28, 2015 Arts & Events » Music
The Zen of Daniel Clarke
The acclaimed Richmond musician makes inroads as a sideman to the stars.
By Peter McElhinney
Richmond-based pianist Daniel Clarke, in a photo taken by musician Ryan Adams, is releasing an EP on Adams' label in a few weeks.
Pianist Daniel Clarke's greatest asset may not be his talent, which is prodigious, or his charm, which is substantial.
His not-so-secret appeal is the genuine, borderline-inspirational joy he takes in others.
He deeply admires the great alt-country torch singer K.D. Lang, with whom he's been writing songs. He's a longtime fan of Ryan Adams and says he's humbled to be playing with him in huge, fancy venues and on such shows as "Late Night with David Letterman."
But he's just as engaged and cheerfully creative playing a hometown gig with John Wynn and Brian Jones at Crossroads Coffee and Ice Cream. For Clarke, it's the playing that matters.
"Music is great," he says. "Because it is the most important thing, and at the same time it is the least important thing."
His big break came in October 2006 when Jones recommended him for a recording session for singing actress Mandy Moore. She recruited him for her touring band, visibility that opened the doors to other gigs. "Opportunities come from the funniest places," Clarke says.
Soon he was playing with the Court Yard Hounds, the less controversial two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks. After Moore married Ryan Adams, Clarke started touring with him. And Josh Grange, who played pedal steel for Moore, introduced him to Lang.
But what Clarke talks about with greatest animation isn't stadium gigs, or late-night television appearances, or rubbing elbows with celebrities. It's meeting the less famous musicians behind the music.
He met the great session guitarist Waddy Wachtel at a Stevie Nicks gig. He recalls lying on a couch when veteran bassist Leland Sklar, who has played with James Taylor and Warren Zevon, walked by. He recently finished a Butch Walker session where he played with Husker Du's Bob Mould and drummer Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello's Attractions. None of them is a household name, yet all of them are legendary players.
When Clarke returns home he collaborates with old friends. Among other projects, he's released experimental jazz on Brian Jones' Slang Sanctuary label, produced guitarist Chris Ryan's excellent solo record and played a big part on former Modern Groove Syndicate bandmate Todd Herrington's memorable debut "Things."
He's also playing a big role in the all-star School for the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community event in Richmond on June 7 — "Live Art: Soul," which features, among others, Mandy Moore.
Leaving the provincial city for the bright lights of New York and Los Angeles was the expected career trajectory in the pre-Internet music industry. It's a path Clarke has brilliantly followed, but it may be disappearing behind him.
"I still love Richmond," he says. "I am really proud about the young cats. They are doing so well and the game has changed. I am grasping at what is happening. … Facebook is not for me."
In the next few weeks Clarke is releasing an EP on Ryan Adams' label. "Diamonds" is a winning collection of funky songs, delivered by Clarke in a surprisingly assured falsetto. "Ryan is a North Carolina kid, he is down with soul music," he says. "I am singing like Curtis Mayfield, playing the keyboard, trying to find that simplicity. Not just trying to play the song, trying to make it something. "
He recalls a night in London in the middle of a tour. He was off and Virginia Commonwealth University-trained drummer Nate Smith was playing at Ronnie Scott's famed club just down the street.
"I don't get to just listen to players like that so often," Clarke says. "It was very good, then it was great, then, all of a sudden, it was the best thing you ever heard in your life."
As he says: the least important thing, and the most important.
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The 2008 Asia Series was the 4th Konami Cup Asia Series. The Seibu Lions won the Series, which consisted of three franchises named Lions; South Korea's Samsung Lions had fallen in the playoffs and were unable to make it four out of four. Tomoaki Sato was the MVP of the Series.
1 Qualifying Teams
1.1 Game 1
Qualifying Teams[edit]
China CBL Tianjin Lions Winner of the China Baseball League. The first regular CBL team to play in the Series; past Series had used an All-Star CBL team.
Japan NPB Seibu Lions Winner of the 2008 Japan Series, defeated the Yomiuri Giants (4-3)
South Korea KBO SK Wyverns Winner of the 2008 Korean Series, defeated the Doosan Bears (4-1)
Template:Country data Taiwan CPBL Uni-President Lions Winner of the 2008 Taiwan Series, defeated the Brother Elephants (4-3)
Game 1[edit]
Site: Tokyo Dome
Start Time: 12:01 PM (JST)
Tianjin Lions (CBL) 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 0
Uni-President Lions (CPBL) 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 7 7 1
The 2008 Asia Series opened with an exciting match-up between the Taiwan and China champions.
Tianjin jumped to a 4-0 lead after four and looked to get the first win ever in an Asia Series by a club from China.
Cheng-Fong Lin allowed run-scoring singles in the second to Zhaopeng Meng and Zhenwang Zhang.
Unfortunately for them, Taiwan rallied. Fu-Hao Liu homered off Changlong Su in the 5th. Kang-Lin Huang and Wu-Hsiung Pan followed with doubles to close the gap to 4-3. Meanwhile, Giancarlo Alvarado allowed one hit and no runs from the 4th through 8th innings for the Uni-President Lions.
Entering the 9th, Tianjin still led the Uni-President Lions 4-3. With one on and two outs in the 9th, rookie Chun-Yu Kuo pinch-hit against Jiangang Lu and singled in Liu with the tying run on a line drive to left field. After another batter reached, Pan hit a 3-run walk-off homer. Pan said "I knew it was going to be a base hit right after I hit it, but I didn't think it was going to leave the park." Yi-Cheng Tseng got the win and Lu the loss.
Start Time: 6:00 PM (JST)
Seibu Lions (NPB) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
SK Wyverns (KBO) 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 1
Seibu started strong on a double by Shogo Akada and a RBI single by 2B Hiroshi Hirao off of Kwang-hyun Kim in the first. SK quickly tied when RF Jae-hong Park homered against Kazuyuki Hoashi. The shot was not without controversy as replays indicated that it was on the foul side of the left-field pole.
In the 4th, Jin-young Lee singled and DH Jae-won Lee hit a 2-run homer off Hoashi - this time there was no doubt as the ball hit the foul post. Later in that inning, LF Jae-sang Park singled in a 4th run for the Wyverns.
Takumi Kuriyama and Hirao drove in runs in the 5th but SK's pitching then took over and held Seibu to no hits over the final four. Seung-ho Lee got the win with 3 shutout innings of relief. The other relief stars were Kil-hyoun Yun and Woo-ram Jung. They were a stark contrast to starter Kwang-hyun Kim, who had dominated Japanese teams in prior events but failed to make it through the 5th inning. Hoashi took the loss, allowing 4 runs in 3 1/3 IP.
It marked the second time in four Series that a Japanese team lost - and both losses were at the hands of the Wyverns.
SK Wyverns (KBO) 0 0 7 2 2 0 4 - - 15 14 0
Tianjin Lions (CBL) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 5 3
The mercy rule came into play as South Korea crushed China in game 3. After two hitless innings, SK came alive in the third with 7 hits, a walk, 3 steals and 7 runs. Joo-hwan Na opened with a double, then C Sang-ho Jung singled him home and the onslaught had begun.
In the 7th, DH Jae-hyun Kim hit a 3-run homer to give him 4 RBI on the day. Eun-beom Song tossed four shutout innings as the SK starter
Seibu Lions (NPB) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 - 2 5 0
Japan Series MVP Takayuki Kishi was the star of the show in this one, holding the Uni-President Lions to 2 hits, 2 walks and one run while fanning 10.
The only run for Taiwan's team came in the 4th when 2B Sen Yang hit a long double and came around on a sacrifice fly by Tilson Brito. Seibu quickly answered, getting their only scores off Wei-Lun Pan in the bottom of the 4th. 1B Yoshihito Ishii scored on a single by OF Hiroyuki Oshima. Ginjiro Sumitani followed with a double. Shogo Akada then hit one to right and Chun-Yu Kuo was unable to hang on to Akada's double, allowing the winning run to score.
Start Time: 11:59 AM (JST)
Seibu Lions (NPB) 2 3 6 2 0 3 0 - - 16 13 0
Tianjin, after a strong first game, was once again clearly outmatched. Seibu got on the board quickly against Wei Chen, scoring twice. China responded against Ming-Chieh Hsu, when Yubin Luo singles in two runs in the bottom of the first. While Hsu was yanked in the third, three relievers helped close out the win without allowing any more runs. Koji Onuma got the win.
In the second, slumping 3B Takeya Nakamura launched a 3-run homer into the upper tier of the left field stands to make it 5-0. That was the last run allowed by Chen but his bullpen was no better. In the third, Seibu scored six times, aided by two Tianjin errors.
LF Takumi Kuriyama and Nakamura each finished with 3 hits while both 1B Yoshihito Ishii and SS Yasuyuki Kataoka got two.
SK Wyverns (KBO) 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 8 1
Uni-President Lions (CPBL) 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 4 - 10 12 1
The Wyverns took their first loss and it was a critical one as it eliminated them from a chance to win the Series. As they were tied with Seibu and the Uni-President Lions, the tiebreaker of fewest runs allowed decided that the Wyverns would be the one 2-1 team left out of the finale.
The star of the show was RF Fu-Hao Liu, who hit a 3-run homer in the 4th and another 3-run homer in the 8th.
Jin-young Lee went deep off Yueh-Ping Lin in the second to put the favorites ahead, but starter Byeong-yong Chae fell apart in the 4th. With two on, Sen Yang singled in the tying run, then Liu hit his first homer, followed immediately by C Chih-Kang Kao's blast. Lien-Hung Chen added a third Lions homer in the 5th. In the 6th, the Wyverns closed it to 6-3. Keun-woo Jeong reached on an error and Jae-sang Park doubled, followed by a triple by Dong-hwa Cho. In the 8th, they made it 6-4 when Park singled in Jeong, before Liu's second homer put it out of reach.
8 Wyverns pitchers failed to slow the Lions' bats. Yueh-Ping Lin got the win, allowing 3 runs and striking out 6 in 7 innings.
The Series ended with an excellent pitching duel between two of the Lions outfits. Giancarlo Alvarado tossed six shutout innings for the Uni-President Lions, while Seibu's Hideaki Wakui struck out 10 in 6 2/3 IP of scoreless work. Koji Onuma, Tomoki Hoshino and Shinya Okamoto relieved Wakui and gave up nothing, while Taiwan's bullpen yielded nothing in the 7th or 8th.
In the bottom of the 9th, Wei-Lun Pan got the first two batters out and got a full count on Yoshihito Ishii. There was then a controversial call when the umpire said Ishii did not commit on a check swing that would have forced extra innings if it had been a strike. Manager Wen-Sheng Lu employed an outfield shift, moving his center fielder over to right because Tomoaki Sato tended to hit towards right. The ploy backfired as Sato lined one into the gap in left-center, allowing Ishii to score from first on the Series-winning double.
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Complete Bamboo Buyer's Guide. Buy Live Bamboo Plants.
The purpose of this buyer's guide is to give you a few tips and pointers to consider before purchasing a live bamboo plant for your garden or home. Bamboo can be purchased online or from your local nursery. It is important to examine bamboo before purchasing and we offer a few tips on how to gauge the quality of the plant before you take it home.
There are many nurseries in the United States who are now offering live bamboo plants online. On the plus side, this gives gardeners a near limitless amount of varieties and species to choose from. Many species that were once difficult to acquire are now readily available with just a few clicks of the mouse. On the down side, it is impossible to examine the quality of the specimen you are purchasing. We have purchased bamboo from multiple online suppliers (we won't name names) and have occasionally been disappointed in the quality of the product. Many nurseries will guarantee the quality of the shipped plant, and provide some type of refund policy if the bamboo reaches you in sub-par condition. There are certain logistical obstacles to overcome when purchasing any live plant online and you can't always count on UPS or FedEx to take exceptional care of the bamboo during shipment. Many areas require the plant to be shipped soil free, further increasing the plants vulnerability in transit. Overall, buying bamboo online is an excellent route to take when your local nursery doesn't carry the perfect variety for your garden. Here are a few things to consider before making your purchase.
Make sure a refund policy is in place in case the plant arrives damaged or defective.
Buy from suppliers with an established reputation for shipping live plants.
Buy from suppliers closest to your location to avoid long transit times.
Shop around, the price of bamboo varies substantially among nurseries.
Purchasing from a local nursery is the recommended way to buy a live bamboo plant. When buying from a nursery one can easily examine the quality of each individual plant. This also gives you a better idea of how well each variety of bamboo carried by the nursery grows in your local climate. In addition, you are able to see firsthand how the bamboo will look in your own landscape. Nursery associates are experts at raising and cultivating young plants and can offer specific growing advice for your area. The largest downfall to buying from a nursery is often the selection of plants offered. Most nurseries in the United States only offer a handful of bamboo species to choose from. Whenever possible, we recommend looking for a specialty nursery that deals exclusively with bamboo. Bamboo nurseries usually offer a wider selection of species at lower prices than their non-specialist counterparts. They can also provide you with bamboo growing accessories, such as rhizome barriers. Some bamboo nurseries will even offer delivery, consulting, and removal services. Here are a few tips to consider before buying from a nursery.
Look for specialist nurseries that sell bamboo exclusively, pricing and selection is better.
Examine the plant thoroughly before buying.
Ask questions. Nurseries can offer valuable growing advice specific to your area.
Buy the largest container size possible to ensure rapid and healthy growth.
Evaluating the quality of a live bamboo plant is an important step to take before making your purchase. Every component of the plant will need to be healthy to ensure the bamboo is able to thrive.
Roots and Rhizomes – The root and rhizome system is the primary indicator of a bamboo plant's growth potential. Healthy rhizomes are typically creamy white or yellow in color, and should appear slippery. Avoid rhizomes that are excessively dry or brown in color. Ideally, the girth or circumference of newly emerging rhizomes should be larger than the established culms. This will indicate the plant is capable of producing larger culms than the ones visible in the container. It is often not possible to examine the rhizomes in your average nursery, but take advantage whenever possible.
Culms – Culms are a great indicator of the bamboo plants overall quality, as well as its potential for future growth. The newest culms in a bamboo grove are the most important to examine. The most recent year of growth should be larger in both diameter and height than the previous year. This gives you assurance that the plant's vigor is increasing, rather than decreasing. In addition, culms should look appropriate in color and shape based on its species. Avoid plants that are not exhibiting the normal characteristics of its species.
Branches and Leaves – The foliage of bamboo is the least important indicator of the plant's future growth potential. Foliage is, however, important to examine purely for the aesthetics of your garden. Bamboo is an evergreen plant and its leaves should remain green throughout the year. When buying bamboo in summer of autumn, it is okay if the leaves are showing some browning due to the increase in temperatures. Ultimately, you just need look at the plant's overall appearance, and make the decision of whether or not its look is suitable for your landscape.


Last Friday, Max had his pre-booster immunisation for school. With sweets at the ready (the best bribe ever!), mummy braced herself for a tantrum, followed by him not talking to her for quite some time.
At first, she could not find any, so had to go into a different office in search of some. To his delight, she managed to find one for him. He said "Thank you! I like you!" as he was leaving the room.
Shortly after arriving back into reception, there was a lady waiting for her appointment. She explained to Max that she had grandchildren his age. He then rounded off the conversation with her, by saying that he thought she was cute, and that he loved her. Blowing a kiss to her, it was obvious Max had made her day.


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Dr Nicole Beisiegel (performer)
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Dr Shane Jensen (guest)
Nicole 0:07
Hi, I'm Nicole and I'm a postdoc in applied maths in UCD. And today I thought I am going to give you a bit of an idea what my research is about. But since Halloween is just around the corner, I also thought I'd talk about something a bit scary. But then I actually noticed for some of you that might actually be the same thing. Honestly, if I would get a euro for every time somebody tells me they're bad at maths, that combined with my postdoc salary would actually add up to a living wage.
Jessamyn 0:42
Welcome to You're Up Next, a podcast by Bright Club Ireland that explores what comedy can do for research and society. I'm Jessamyn Fairfield, and I'm a physicist, comedian, and spreadsheet enthusiast. This is the second season of You're Up Next, and we'll be exploring some important topics through the lenses of science and humor. In this episode, we're talking about math, maths, and statistics. And I'll be speaking with Shane Jensen about how these can not only be fun, but applied to sports, cities, and the world around us. The power of comedy lies in breaking down, humanizing, and making light of even the heaviest emotional and technical topics. So this week, we're going to take a look at something that can inspire great fear, loathing, and even dread, as well as great joy and enlightenment. I'm talking of course, about math. Don't change the channel, I promise this will be funny.
If you feel like there are numbers people and non numbers people, I totally hear you. I didn't really enjoy math growing up, despite being raised by two people with math degrees. And I only really came around in the last year of my education where math was mandatory. People sometimes talk about math anxiety, where students can get so worried about whether they're a math person or not, that it occupies their working memory, making them worse at math. But if we set the worrying aside, numbers and numerical methods provide an incredible way to solve problems in the world and make predictions about how it works. It's a means of abstracting what we see around us, like good versus evil, dark energy versus matter, altruism versus selfishness. Math is a literal, different language we can learn that isn't better or worse than verbal language, but it lets us do different things. An especially interesting example is statistics, which is rooted in math and data analysis, which has its own arcane ways and means, but which is also a favorite domain of that contemporary villain, The Internet Arguer. Statistics can feel like math applied for the benefit of humanity, and it can also feel like data wizardry that's being marshaled to support almost any argument.
So this week, we're chatting to Shane Jensen, who is a statistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and who uses and communicates stats are on a lot of interesting societal phenomena.
Shane 3:03
My name is Shane Jensen and I'm a professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Wharton School here and I've been a professor here teaching statistics for I guess 16 years now, which is a little mind blowing. I do a lot of really, what I think, cool research in kind of urban analytics and sports statistics and some other things – those are kind of the areas of application which I teach statistics,
I like to start with a really aggressive question [laughs], so do you think that like math and stats tend to get a bad rap sometimes, as like very technical or boring topics? Obviously not to you because you've devoted your life to statistics, but I feel like sometimes people have that impression of them.
Yeah, I get a very what a statistician would call very bimodal reaction basically whenever I introduce myself as a statistician. People like, you know, I mean, I think people either have a relative- I mean most people have a relatively negative I think experience with it through their own education. And I think it's in part because the way it's taught is- sucks mostly, I mean. I mean, the way we kind of teach statistics at least at an introductory level, I think because so many statisticians come from kind of more like the mathematical side of things you know, they fell in love in statistics because the mathematical beauty of it or whatever, but that's not I think what engages, you know, I think most people. In my own experience, teaching from kind of more like in a specific application kind of area, or kind of motivating it more through like real world data ends up being more compelling to people but I don't think that's the usual style in my field. So yeah, I mean I'm not surprised that people have that kind of reaction. I've been kind of fighting it my whole life, I suppose.
The one thing that has been kind of nice, over at least the last couple, you know, decade or so is I no longer- people still say "I had a terrible class in that" or "I had a terrible experience trying to learn that", but they no longer say "why would you want to do that?". So the nice thing is is statistics and you know, kind of analytics and machine learning or whatever else we want to call it has become so kind of commonplace in society, people no longer, no longer kind of question why people are doing that at least. So that's one battle, I guess, that I no longer have to fight
That is definitely a positive result. And because yeah, I know that you've taught a very broad variety of students, and you were mentioning too- like, I know, being in the Wharton School, you teach some MBA students who maybe do not want to learn statistics as much as other students. I don't know if I'm making a generalization here.
I mean, that is certainly the- yeah, I mean, they they are a little bit, you know, in some ways, they're, you know, they certainly come across to me, at least as the, you know, maybe the ones that are the least kind of, you know, into the inner workings, the 'under the hood' kind of thing, but at the same time, the MBA students, they were the ones that really kind of, at least first push me to kind of think about this kind of taking things from more applied perspective, because they are certainly I mean, almost to a fault, constantly questioning kind of what is the real world? What is the tangible value of each of these kind of procedures or methods that we're learning? I mean, they again have their own unique perspective, like, "how will this make me money, you know, very immediately?".
[laughs] Yeah, well, and I mean, like, let's talk about some of those applications, because I always find it really interesting, the sports statistics stuff that you do. And I don't know if that's the kind of thing that you bring up in your teaching, or I know you've done a lot of kind of public facing outreach about it as well, because people are interested in sports.
Yeah, no, and I mean, like, in some ways, it's kind of a bit of a risky kind of application area to try and engage students with because, you know, people typically are either really into sports or really not into sports. But I really, I mean, I personally am into sports. So I mean, you know, I certainly can teach enthusiastically using it, which is nice. And I feel like even you know, I manage to I think engage a lot of people that aren't into sports, because I try and kind of teach a law that kind of applications almost like from a personal level and I think you know, you know, that plus you know, a lot of kind of self effacing humor is really kind of helpful in that direction. Like for example, you know, I did this big project involving involving fielding in baseball many, many years ago. And, you know, I also kind of got into baseball specifically because I was in grad school in Boston, and it's almost a religion up in that area that you're into baseball. And you know, I've taught mostly on the east coast where you know, everybody's kind of conscious at least of this big rivalry that exists between New York and Boston in baseball, you know, the word the fans don't like each other, the players don't like each other. It's been one of the big rivalries in American sports over the last 100 years. And I got to actually kind of engage that directly because there are some prominent kind of players in baseball that I got to evaluate as part of this project. And one in particular that even even non fans of baseball know is this guy, Derek Jeter, who used to play for the Yankees. He in fact is a very famous player – first ballot Hall of Famer – and we got to basically analyze his fielding. And you know, again, in Boston, there was this constant sort of mantra that Derek Jeter was overrated, and all this type of stuff. And I got to kind of basically dig into the data and at least you know, according to our methods, you know, Derek Jeter – though he's an amazing hitter, actually came out as kind of a poor fielder, you know, according to our methods. And that's something that Bostonians just ate up. In fact, I remember giving a talk at this in a conference in Boston and it was one of the big American Association for Advancement of Science, so it was a rather big meeting and so there was was some press there, and I got you know, interviewed by this Boston Globe person that did a kind of write up of it. And it was so funny to me to sort of see that then you know, it was picked up by the Boston Globe and then the New York Post wrote an article that was- yeah I mean, it couldn't have been more more opposite in terms of its take on my research.
Yeah, it's funny too to imagine like a research talk that you could give that could get like, you know, a standing ovation in Boston and like booed off the stage in New York City just like "no don't say that".
And it was delightful too because the New York Post- I mean again the New York Post in general does not have a great reputation because it's kind of you know, it is kind of you know, not the most intellectual paper out there, but they always have that kind of whole like "now let's go to the man on the street" kind of thing, and they did that for this particular article and it's like you know, they talked to like Joe in Queens he's like "what are the professors down there at Penn smoking? They don't know anything. Jeter's got a lot of heart." So it was really kind of funny to see. You know, I've kind of grown up reading things like the New York Post and being like "oh man, that's not a very- you know, that's that's a pretty superficial take", and then I got to have the New York Post take on my own stuff.
And you talked about, like humor there, as well as like, both useful in terms of like reaching students and people that might not be that inherently interested in math and stats. But I assume it's also helpful in terms of like communicating this important Derek Jeter related research to the public.
Shane 10:08
Yeah, no, and especially because nowadays it's gotten again much easier as kind of stats and machine learning and all these things have kind of, you know, pervaded our lives basically. So these days, when I teach something, you know, I mean, I might teach a topic like, you know, regression, you know, or just predictive modeling in general, and, you know, used to be more difficult. Now, I can just kind of point to being like, you know, this is the kind of model that, you know, Amazon is using to make its recommendations to you or Netflix is using to make its recommendations to you. And I usually kind of present that in some kind of tried like, humoristic, like, self effacing kind of way, where I kind of talk about basically what Amazon does, with my recommendations, and how, you know, through predictive modeling over the last couple years, it's learned to throw, like, every single piece of clothing that has a wolf on it at me. And you know, I keep buying it, and I kind of can kind of talk about almost like reinforcement learning, and all these relatively sophisticated concepts, you know, with this tangible example of like, how I started buying t shirts with wolves on them, and then it started recommending more t shirts with wolves on them, and I started buying those. And, you know, it will occasionally try and throw it a t-shirt with a dragon on it and see if I like that too. And through that it can learn that dragons are correlated with wolves, and I can kind of start talking about how classification algorithms kind of work in general.
Jessamyn 11:31
Yeah, well, and because you did a radio show for quite a while about sports statistics as well, right? So like, what were the kind of communication tools that were…
What I like about about the sports podcast is we are kind of looking at sports from a more analytical perspective, and it allows me to kind of keep up with the field. But we also kind of, you know, do approach it with, I think humor, but I think also humility. Because I think a lot of especially academic takes on things – and I fall into this trap myself, especially from a statistical point of view – it's so easy to look at a study out there that's maybe been done, and sort of start poking holes in it immediately. Because every single analysis, no matter how principled, you try and be, you know, there's subjective decision making involved and, you know, hopefully that's informed by science or whatever, but you're going to be making subjective decisions and judgments all along the way. And then so it's always easy to retrospectively be like, "oh, I wouldn't have done the exact same thing in that situation". But I always kind of, I think, try and do a good job on, you know, when we kind of look at what studies are out there of trying to kind of not focus entirely on the negative, because I think you can quickly kind of get lost in the weeds with that. Myself and my co hosts, we always have it as kind of a conscious goal to sort of, like, you know, emphasize more the big ideas that are coming across this paper, even if we kind of, you know, maybe this technical issue wasn't done well, or this technical issue wasn't done well. And when you kind of have that perspective, you can kind of realize how much amazing research is going on out there in sports analysis, for example, and a lot of it's not being done necessarily within the academic community, it's being done by teams, or, you know, just kind of, you know, people blogging out there and stuff like that.
Yeah, well, I think that's such a great point, too, that like, you know, it's an application of statistics that has very broad interest beyond academia. And I think too like, what you said there about the, you know, the fact that choices are being made in how these things are analyzed, like, I think there can be a temptation of people to say, like, "oh, like, it's just, it's just the numbers, like, the numbers are the numbers man" or something like that. When it's like, well, no, we're making choices in how we analyze these things, and that's going to affect results. And that's actually a really important process to understand, and that doesn't necessarily get communicated that much.
And even once the numbers are analyzed, how you interpret said number. I mean, you know, it's really easy to come up with examples these days, especially like in the geopolitical world we live in where like, you know, the same statistic, the same number can be completely interpreted completely differently, depending on the prior viewpoints or biases, or whatever you're bringing into things. And so I think, you know, certainly within the US with the last couple of election cycles, and the amount of information and misinformation that's been going on out there, and how that misinformation is becoming like all information more quantitative in nature. You know, it's been both kind of exhilarating, but also incredibly frustrating as a statistician to sort of see that happen because there is so much misinformation out there where, you know, a particular number will be presented without the necessary context to understand it. And so it's kind of easy, certainly from the teaching side, to kind of motivate how important it is to be thoughtful about your interpretation of quantitative data.
I have to imagine too that in terms of like using the same number to support multiple interpretations, like do you want to tell us about your your current work on urban analytics, because I have to imagine that that happens a lot there.
I've kind of gotten really into over the last like, five, six years into studying cities in general, but Philadelphia specifically. And so like there's a lot more kind of data out there to kind of analyze basically, how cities function.
Have there been any surprises in that kind of research, stuff that might have gone against the conventional wisdom around cities or urban planning?
I mean, I guess I shouldn't have expected it would have been an easy endeavor anyway, because cities are very complex, interconnected things, but you know, just the amount of nuance there is to resolve. You know, like, there's a big kind of initiative in Philadelphia to take vacant lots and turn them into little parks or pop up gardens and stuff like that. And, you know, of course, the hypothesis would be that that's going to be good for the area. And we do know, overall, we do see things like improvements in safety and stuff like that, around these kind of little parks versus kind of, you know, the control group of lots that remain vacant. But it's subtle, these are relatively small effects and on kind of like a yearly scale, but like, you know, on a decade scale can be quite substantial. So you have to kind of look at things at the right timeframe. But also, you know, there's a lot of kind of surrounding context that influences that. You know, a new park is going to be more effective in terms of promoting public vibrancy if there's already a café nearby that people can kind of use as part of that. And so that type of stuff, I think, is, you know, where we've kind of- you know, we were a little bit surprised the extent to which the surrounding context does matter. You know, again, planners can be a little bit more thoughtful about kind of taking into account the surrounding neighborhood context when they do these interventions.
I'm not an academic, that just sort of thinks that it's easy to kind of just do these studies, and do the analysis. I kind of realized how difficult it is to basically get any kind of intervention, you know, actually into a city, and how complex things are just in general. I think, you know, I use a lot of humor, kind of in that connection point. And I think that also helps, too, because, in my experience, when people meet a new academic, you know, like it's a government public policy maker, or just, you know, somebody at the city's Office of Information Technology, I think they're maybe a little bit on the defensive, because academics can be kind of surly, and can be kind of, you know, high and mighty about their knowledge. That first connection between somebody and an academic often doesn't go as well, because academics tend to come in and think they know everything. And so I think, again, that's sort of like, you know, the nature of my humor, which is, you know, mostly a long string of admitting what I don't know about things, I think somehow it does actually help.
Admitting what you don't know is a great start in making any technical topic more accessible. I also think it's really interesting that humor can be so useful in defusing anxiety around math and other things, and busting those imagined hierarchies of people who get it and people who don't. If you Google math jokes, you will find a lot of in-jokes that don't really communicate math at all. They effectively just congratulate an in-crowd that already knows something. But what Shane described of making the surprising applications of statistics clear, while also being self deprecating and listening, that's the kind of STEM humor that I'm here for.
I mentioned at the start of the episode that I didn't really like math until I was a teenager. And if you're wondering what turned it around for me, it was an amazing teacher I had: Joy Hansberry. She was fun, laid back, but also really good at explaining things and connecting to a wide variety of students. She let students bring in their own music to work on problems to. She give high marks for a project about integrals that I turned in with math jokes on every cross section. She had a velvet painting of Elvis at the back of the classroom. And she taught the most basic and the most advanced math classes in our high school, and was beloved by both groups of students. A great teacher can draw students to any subject, but to me what was really amazing about Ms Hansberry was that she took this subject that people thought of as very arcane and scary, and made it fascinating and accessible to anyone. And, yes, even funny. So this episode is dedicated to her.
This episode was made possible by support from the community knowledge initiative, the CÚRAM Medical Device Research Center, the research office at NUI Galway, and Science Foundation Ireland. We're grateful to our guests, our host, which is me, Jessamyn Fairfield, our producers Maurice and Shaun, and to you our listeners and our Bright Club Ireland community. A transcript of this episode is available at brightclub.ie, where you can also find more information about what we do at Bright Club Ireland.
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Ever since I saw the photographs associated with Erica Baum's book of photographed juxtapositional found poems, Card Catalogue (1997), I've been rather obsessed with the project. I've taught it to my students many times. I can't think of a better way of extending forward the lessons they and I learn when encountering imagism and other radically condensed juxtapositional language at the beginning of poetic modernism. Baum of course has often photographed the language she finds out there and is especially attracted to categorizing systems, such as the codex (Dog Ear) or the catalogue. This conceptualist consciousness — and devotion to words in the ambience (as in: who needs to create them? they're there) — I find extraordinarily teachable and infectious. One of my students is a young autistic man, Dan Bergmann. Readers of this ongoing commentary will surely have heard of Dan's feats of talking (writing, really — or, still better: spelling). What is even more remarkable is the way in which Dan becomes aware of categories and meaning-systems.
That is just about the most evocative poem I've read in a long time.


Sorry, Art: Governor Scott is Just Not That Into You.
I feel like the spurned lover finally arriving at the painful revelation that "he's just not that into you". However, I'd be naïve or lying if I said that Rick Scott's indifference (and by extension, the State government's) is at all shocking. If indeed, the arts were the lover manifest of Mr. Scott, the relationship would be such that at this point the two would be sleeping in separate beds. Perhaps, even forgoing "honey" and "sweetie" in favor of "Mr. Scott" and "Mrs. Art". A strained relationship would be an improvement.
If not Southern, though, what does it mean to be Floridian and how would this manifest itself in art?
A Dime and Four pennies – Thanks, Tallahassee!
Florida arts funding to Bay area artists is like giving a dime as a tip to a Denny's server: it serves more as an insult than actual compensation. I knew Florida arts funding was bad (and thus my constant complaining), but the statistics nearly made me puke. How well the Bay area art scene does with the virtual absence of support from state funding is a testament to how awesome the local scene is. However, to pull ourselves out of this funding hole it may be helpful to get an idea of how deep it is.
A good benchmark is how much each state spends on the arts per person. The state that tops the list is Minnesota at $5.80 per person (Washington D.C., because it's not actually a state, really tops the list at $11.80 per person). Florida comes in at $.14 per person. That's right: one dime and four pennies. That puts Florida on the bottom of the list at second to last. To get an idea of how little that is consider this: your Minnesotan cousin gets nearly fifty times more money for the arts than you do! 50 times more!
The good thing about being in a pit, however, is that the only way to go is up. That is, unless the State thinks the best plan of action is to keep digging. The state of Florida managed to come in second on a list in this regard – largest arts budget cuts. In 2010 the state saw it fit to make the small art budget even smaller, cutting it by 65% or $2.5 million.
Hold on, I'm think I'm going to blorch.
I'm not going to bother spending time on the enigma of the reason why politicians hate art. The only thing I can think of is that phrases like "cultural enrichment" and "stronger tight-knit communities" come off as hippy-babble to politicians. That fact is, besides its hippy-perks, arts and culture is one of the best financial investments the state can make.
The fact that the state of Florida would treat the arts as trivial even though they generated $26.9 billion dollars in taxes nationwide in a single year (2005) is perplexing. Additionally, that same year the arts let people bring home $104.2 billion dollars in income.
I hate going down the road of why art is great economically (art and capitalism just don't mix) but now since we've started…both the audience and the artist have a large financial impact on their community. Consider the artist. The artist performs a job that can't be outsourced. Money made by the artist is in turn spent locally rather than funneled to out-of-state banks.
Consider the audience. The average arts and culture attendee spends on average $27.72 above the cost of admission (i.e. dinner, lodging, gifts, etc.). Simply put, spending money on the arts encourages people to spend more money elsewhere. However, non-local attendees on average spend over $40 above the cost of admission. That's important for places that are already established tourist destinations…like Florida. And not to be overlooked is the fact that arts tourists are more awesome than regular tourists. Arts tourists on average spend about 27% more than regular tourists and stay two nights longer. Studies have shown that in 2009 people spent $26 million in the city of St. Petersburg alone, with little help from the city itself.
Don't let the state of Florida's fiscal abandonment of the arts con you into thinking that arts and culture are a financial dead-end. Art is not only a cultural necessity but also vital for any stable economy. The funding of the Bay area art scene is directly tied to the welfare of the Bay area as a whole. I know five bucks is a lot to ask, but 14 cents?!
You'll find an awesome study at the very bottom of this page called 'Arts and Economic Prosperity III". Check out the National Study PDF.
Here you'll find an interesting analysis of arts funding sorted by state.


Health is a state of being whole. Disease is a state of being separated. When something is a part, it is a-part. To heal oneself is to become whole.
You cannot buy, beg, borrow or steal health.You cannot buy, beg, borrow or steal health. It is nature's gift to you. Each of us must find our own path towards a life lived to its fullest. In making the most of ourselves, we repay nature the debt we owe her for giving us life.
We have made an idol out of our individuality.Today, we pride ourselves on the fluidity of our society in which theoretically, everyone can use their talents and ambitions to earn their fame and fortune. We revel in our great mobility, in our rootlessness and love to live footloose. Forgetting the past and being free from all its ties and limitations, has become our youths' rite of passage. In magnifying our individuality, we have come to equate progress (as epitomised by science) with forgetfulness – and have made an idol out of our individuality.
Many people now live like slaves to progress. Many of us invest a lot in egotistically establishing our own individual ethics and morals, since we feel that we have nothing else to invest in with confidence. Our collective policy of "everyone for themselves" regards everything outside the individual, even nature, as an enemy.
We each have a personal responsibility to learn as much as possible about health.
However, in respect to health, we tend to ignore individuality, often focusing on 'backs' or 'lungs' and neglecting the organism, the whole being that hosts that particular back or lung. Piecemeal therapy cannot encourage balance within an organism. Since today's medical profession often fails to educate their patients about health, today's patients must educate themselves about health. Everyone in today's world who wants to be healthy, has a personal responsibility to learn as much as possible about health.
You are part of my environment and I am part of yours. Individual balance, or harmony, has a vertical dimension, which is the dynamic interplay of the individual's body, mind and spirit as well as a horizontal dimension, which is the equilibrium between the individual and it's environment. Everything outside your skin is part of your environment. Nature is the sum total of all individuals and their environments. For you to be healthy, your physical body must be in harmony with nature, your mind with the group-mind of the group you live with, and your essence, in a satisfying relationship with the universal ground of everything.


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Organize Files in Lightroom®
Lesson 30 from: Volume Sports Photography
Matthew The Body Kemmetmueller
Portrait Photography > Volume Sports Photography > Organize Files In Lightroom®
30. Organize Files in Lightroom®
What is Volume Sports Photography?
Volume Sports Accounts & Agreements
Preparing for a Presentation Bidding Round
Setting Up the Contract
Order Form Design & Layout
How to Price Products & Packages
Products to Offer in Packages
Different Sales Methods
Day-of Photoshoot Sales
Transporting Your Gear
Prepare for Photoshoot Day
Crew for the Photoshoot Day
Photoshoot Day Workflow
Photoshoot for Smaller Jobs
Team Photo Posing
Convert Volume Clients to Portrait Clients
Building Client Relationships
Simple & Consistent Lighting
Demo: Team Photoshoot
Demo: Individual Photoshoot
Demo: Banner Photoshoot
Tips & Tricks for Photoshoots
Processing Orderforms
Digital Workflow in Lightroom®
Set Up Files in Lightroom®
Batch Process in Photoshop®
Demo: Banner Design
Custom Retouching Workflow
How to Design Products
Order Sports Products From Labs
Sort & Deliver Products to Clients
Importance of Community Involvement
Video Vs Still Images
Build Community Relationships
So we're gonna go right back in here. We have that RAS folder. We have this dodge ball team. We're gonna load this in the Light Room, open it up, it's gonna ask me, "This Catalog?". Yes, open. And we are going to import in there. You're gonna see that as we import these files in, you'll see we have this broken up, because we're working in that RAS folder as the master. It's already breaking them up by sports for us. We're already starting to get that organization. So we're gonna go in here, and we are going to pick our files. One more thing that I do when I'm working on big jobs, I will go and create the largest full size previews possible, and it takes forever. So that's generally something I would start, and then I go home for the night. And I just let it run over night. And I got really frustrated last year, like I got really frustrated with a slow computer, and I was having a bad day, and I just couldn't handle it. So I spent like $7,000 on a computer, because I never wanted to hav...
e a slow computer again in my whole entire life. I did not need to spend that much money on a computer. I over bought by a significant margin. It's really cool looking though. It's on my desk. When you walk in and it's a statement piece. It sounds like a spaceship. It's always like (spaceship noise). So, with that said, you don't need an amazing computer to do all this work. You don't need to go buy a $7,000 machine, because even on my machine, if I'm doing those big jobs, even that takes a long time on that machine. And so I just work it out so i know that as soon as I start that, I'm done. I go do something else. Don't sit and wait for it. Sitting and waiting on a computer to do stuff drives me nuts. I don't want to sit there and wait on my technology, that's why I paid so much for my stupid computer. So we loaded these photos in. We're gonna through and pick our images. So, I'm not, and this goes for all of my portrait work, this goes for my wedding work, this goes for my sports work, it's either good enough or it's not. It's in or it's out. It's yes or it's no. There's none of this liKe five stars with purple cause I really love it. Four stars with green means it's super duper. You just gotta have a system. Are your clients are gonna see it, or they aren't. That's it. So I do picks and rejects. X and p. Now when I first started using Light Room, it would drive me nuts, because I'd go in and I'd hit, well that's not a good one, we don't need that, X. And then I'd have to hit the arrow key over. X. Drive me nuts. So slow. If you turn on your caps lock key, it auto advances you. So instantly, just hitting X, boom. We're onto the next one. When I'm doing Light Room, there is, it's somewhere in there, because I did find it that it will auto advance if you've picked our X'd it, too. Yeah, you can change that in the preferences settings, but I find we bounce around and work on so many different computers at the studio, that it's rare that it's changed in all of them all the time. So just remembering that it's just caps lock on, nah, I don't worry about it. So, yeah, you can totally change that though. And that's a good tip. If I was a one man show, and I was just working on my computer, that's how I'd do it. But with bouncing around and stuff, that's how, I just have to make sure I remember that. So, we go in, a lot of times I find, with the team photos, that one of the first pictures I take is almost always the one that I'll pick. For some reason, sometimes it's the best expressions. They look the most natural. It's easy. So I just want to look at the first one right away, okay? And we will go in, first thing we're gonna do is look at (laughter) that's a better one of Meg, okay. So everyone is looking at the camera. We got eyes open. She's got kind of a weird look going, so we're not gonna use that one. Okay, see the difference? Now everyone's smiling, And we sit up taller too. I like that one. When I sit and I'm shooting football, and I go, "Everybody sit up," and the whole like group of people grows three inches, it's a fun thing to watch. So, we got this. This one's looking not too bad. Let's go in, check it out. Okay, way better for her. It's a good one of Mag. Perfect. Perfect. I think that's just gonna be the look we got for all of them. It's good. That's it. It's a good one. Now I can go and look at these other ones, and see if there's something that jumps out at me as way better. This is an example of one of the things that you have to watch, when we were doing that, "Yes!" and "Yippee!", the photos that you're taking when that's happening are junk. It's the expressions after that are good. So, definitely a much, those are big smiles. I like that one. So, ooh, I like bossy. So I picked two. We can go in and put those two side by side, oops, here and here. Let's see, is one jumping out at me? They're all pretty good. I think we're gonna go with the one on the right, though. So, I'm gonna go back to this. Change this one to a reject and we'll get to the individuals. Okay? I just bought this new thing. I don't know if you guys have even seen it it's called the Loop Deck. I bought it on like Kick Starter or one of those ones like that. It came a week ago, 10 days ago. I didn't bring it out here cause I don't actually use it in my work flow, but it's a super cool keyboard for Light Room that just has a dial for the crop tool so you can just turn stuff and adjust color. It's a lot of fun. But I always have issues. In general I have issues with getting my images straight. So, it's unacceptable to provide that to our client as a crooked image. So we'll go in, you hit R for the crop tool. You guys know that you can pivot. You can turn it like that. You can do a bunch of stuff. We will go in and say, "Okay, we're bump it up just a little bit in brightness." You guys know all these little sliders down here. I can never remember what does what exactly. I do all of my exposure adjustments on the histogram. Makes more sense to me. You just understand what it's doing to the image. Better? So if you just go up to your histogram, and you'll see as I'm scrolling over my histogram, you'll see it highlighting the portion that it's going to change. So it still does the same thing you could do using the sliders, but it just makes more sense to my brain. So, we'll go in, that looks good. Now, let's just say we're going to go to the next one, we should go through and pick 'em all first. So, we go back to that. Pick. Reject, I like this one better. It's awesome. Alright, so this one is not gonna go. That's way better. That's good. Perfect. I like her chin up a little more. There we go. Mag's awesome. (laugh) And go through, get these images. Pick. So these are the green screen ones. We'll go through. Pick these. Pick. Pick. Pick. pick. Pick. Chin down. There we go. Yes, I just like that one. And that would actually be something that we probably would post on a social media one. Like it would probably be something we would post just for fun on Facebook. And there I am. So now we're gonna go in here, turn on our filters, we're gonna just look at the picked ones. We cut the 54 photos down to 17. We go in, we looked at this one. We're happy with the exposure. I think the color's good. Everything looks good. I always do to all of my photos, part of our treatment, they all get a bump of 10% in clarity and 20% in vibrance. So close that, that's done. And we're gonna go to this one. Now, this kid, it's all in the same tripod, same lighting, same everything, should be the exact same treatment, right? So I could do what? I could copy it and paste it. I could take all of them and sink them together and make these adjustments. But I don't like either of those options. The reason why, I just think it's clunky for me to go in and click copy. I just don't like this interface. Making sure that I have the things checked that I want to. I don't like the idea of going in and doing things like cropping on multiple images, because I want to actually see it on each one. I don't want to assume that it was done correctly. So what we use is the previous button. I don't know if you guys know about this button. What it does, literally the last picture you were on, whatever you did, click previous does exactly that to this image. So click previous, there it is. Pretty good. Next one. Previous. Okay? Previous. When I'm seeing all of the images, I'm seeing what it looks like. I'm not just blindly accepting it, and it's way faster than going and copying, and pasting, and verifying that way. So, cool. Cool. Cool, tough guy. Then we go in and for this stuff, we don't even need to worry about cropping or any of that jazz, because we're knocking out all the green screens. So this doesn't even matter. Matt, going back to my holder's issue, just a quick thing because I have everything on a hard drive, would you suggest starting with a new hard drive and just kind of fresh on that instead of trying to mix in with the-- I would. Cause they're cheap, so And you can buy like a 10 terabyte hard drive now. That's a thing. Like I could get in the 10 terabyte hard drive. That's how big that thing is. It's huge. You can go buy a new hard drive, and what I would do if I were you, I would actually just start a new one and know that this is going to be my new work flow. This is gonna be how we're gonna organize stuff. And then you can start transferring stuff from the old one to the new one in a systematic way that makes sense. But I think having a hard break, not just trying to redo it on the same device, I think having a hard break, it's affordable to do that. And I think it'd help you with that. Renee from the Netherlands, "When do you delete the rejected?" Going back to your work flow, do you ever? Do you just keep them? We keep the RAS for a year for our sports stuff. Keep the RAS for a year, then we get rid of them. Sometimes it's more than a year. I guarantee we'll keep them for a year. The images, all the other stuff, so when we get rid of those, all of the RA files, that's when all the rejected ones are gone. Until then, we'll keep them. But what's on our server, the images that are picked, the jpegs that are printed we keep forever. As long as we keep the account. I got a question about the refund. Earlier you was talking about how you would give some customers refunds, because they paid too much. How would you actually do that? Are you writing a check? I write a check. Okay, just write a check. Yeah, write a check. Okay. I just think it's about the customer service thing. You just gotta make sure that, like I'm just terribly afraid that people are gonna find out they overpaid later on and get mad that we didn't say anything about it. So it's kind of one of those things where like maybe I make $15, but I could completely alienate a customer forever, and like what we were talking about earlier, you never know who's gonna be president of the booster club next year. So, if they overpay me, we just write them a check, send it back, that's it. I don't follow up on them. Like if they lose that check, or if they never cash it, that's on them. But I'll send them a note, "You overpaid me. Here's your money. Have a good day." We can put this towards a family session.
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The People v. Russell
17 Ill. 2d 328 (1959)
161 N.E.2d 309
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. MARQUESS F. RUSSELL, Plaintiff in Error.
No. 34852.
Supreme Court of Illinois.
Opinion filed September 24, 1959.
*329 MILTON A. FISCHER, of Rockford, for plaintiff in error.
LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JOHN A. STROM, State's Attorney, of Belvidere, (FRED G. LEACH, and WILLIAM H. SOUTH, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for the People.
Judgment affirmed.
Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:
Marquess F. Russell, Herschel Adams and Richard Deemter were indicted for burglary. Russell was tried alone before a jury, was convicted, and was sentenced to a term of not less than three nor more than ten years in the penitentiary. The question that has given us most concern, upon this writ of error to review his conviction, is the sufficiency of the proof to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Spirit of '76 Tavern outside of Belvidere was burglarized on August 1, 1957. Russell and his co-indictees had been drinking in the tavern, and when it was closed about 12:45 A.M on August 1, they were let out by the back door. The bartender then cleaned the bar, locked the doors and windows, and left between 1:00 and 1:30 A.M.
About 1:30 A.M. two cruising deputy sheriffs saw a station wagon parked close to the tavern without lights. While the officers circled the tavern to investigate, the station wagon left. They pursued it, at speeds ranging up to 100 miles an hour, and curbed it after it had turned into Highway 20 without stopping for the stop sign. The defendant was alone in the station wagon. He told the officers *330 that he was on his way to his home in Burlington, Wisconsin, and had parked near the tavern to rest. The officers took him to the sheriff's office, leaving his station wagon where it had been stopped.
At noon on August 1, the proprietor opened the tavern and found that it had been burglarized. The glass in the door had been broken near the lock. Coin operated machines and a juke box had been broken into and emptied. A case of whiskey and $103 in silver had been taken. Near the door were cases that had been filled with various bottles, and wastebaskets that had been filled with cigarettes. A pinch-bar, a "brake-adjusting tool" and a screwdriver were found in one of the wastebaskets inside the tavern.
There were other tools in the tire well of the defendant's station wagon, which was under a lid in the back of the car. These tools were shown to the defendant along with the tools found inside the tavern. The defendant identified them as his, and specifically identified as his the three tools found inside the tavern, including the one that he described as a "brake-adjusting tool."
After the burglary had been discovered the defendant told the officers a different story. He said that he and his two companions had been drinking in the tavern all evening; that they left about closing time and drove to Belvidere for something to eat but found the restaurants closed. They then returned to the tavern where he let his companions out to get some drinks while he parked nearby. When he saw the squad car he "decided he would get out of there."
Upon this record the jury could properly find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The tavern was burglarized. The defendant had returned to the tavern although he knew it was closed. The burglars had to use tools to break into the coin operated machines, and defendant's tools were found inside the tavern. Conditions inside the tavern indicated that the burglars were interrupted *331 before their work was completed. The defendant's car was parked without lights where he could serve as a look-out, and the car was in position for a quick get away. When the police car approached he fled in a manner that indicated a determined effort to escape apprehension. After he had been caught he told contradictory stories to explain his presence at the tavern.
It is true that there is no proof that either he or his companions were inside the tavern a second time after they were let out at closing time. But a conviction can be sustained upon circumstantial evidence as well as upon direct. People v. Hansen, 5 Ill. 2d 535; People v. Weiss, 367 Ill. 580; People v. Schullo, 360 Ill. 580.
It is possible, of course, to conjure up hypotheses that are inconsistent with the defendant's guilt as accessory or principal, as it is in any case in which judgment rests on circumstantial evidence. The defendant's flight might not have been caused by his consciousness of guilt, or by his consciousness of guilt of this offense. So, too, one or the other of the contradictory stories that he told to account for his presence at the tavern might have been true, or there might even be a different and unknown explanation consistent with his innocence. His tools, which were found inside the burglarized tavern, might have been taken from his car without his knowledge, either by his co-indictees or by someone else.
But the requirement that the defendant's guilt be proved beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean that the jury must disregard the inferences that flow normally from the evidence before it. Here all of the inferences from the evidence pointed toward the defendant's guilt. The jury was not required to search out a series of potential explanations compatible with innocence, and elevate them to the status of a reasonable doubt.
The defendant also urges that the judgment should be reversed because the sheriff was permitted to testify as a *332 witness for the prosecution. At the outset of the trial, upon defendant's motion, the court had ordered all witnesses excluded from the courtroom. The sheriff was in charge of the jury, and was present during the entire trial. Despite the fact that he was custodian of the jury, and the further fact that he had been present while other witnesses testified, he was called and testified as a witness for the prosecution. On both grounds this action was improper. (People v. Botulinski, 383 Ill. 608, 617; see Gainey v. People, 97 Ill. 270.) But the sheriff's name was endorsed upon the indictment so that the defendant knew that he was a prospective witness. Nevertheless no objection was made when he was called as a witness. The question was first raised in the defendant's motion for a new trial, and then no effort was made to show any improper conduct on the part of the sheriff as custodian of the jury. In the absence of timely objection, or a showing of prejudice, the error does not require reversal.
The judgment is affirmed.
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