Last week Taskstream launched Aqua, our response to the complexities of outcomes assessment. Getting to the launch of a new product that we believe offers a simpler path to more meaningful assessment took a lot of questioning, research, and reflection. It also took a fair amount of redo along the way (the fancy word is "iteration"). It has been a lot of fun and a lot of work. We should all count ourselves lucky when the two intersect.
We have passionate customers who are dedicated to their work and more than happy to talk to us about not just their use of Taskstream but their goals and challenges in their jobs.
Inside Taskstream, our colleagues include former faculty members, assessment professionals, and, I'll say it – assessment junkies – who have otherwise been supporting the mission of higher education for years.
We get to work side-by-side in our NYC office with talented engineers who are eager to move the needle in education.
Why we ultimately built Aqua and how we did it says a lot about Taskstream. When our marketing team invited me to take over our blog for a few days to write about the work and thinking that went into Aqua, I jumped at the chance. OK, they asked for one post. But once I finally sat down to write it, it turned out I had so much to share I had to break it up into two posts.
Why did we build a new product?
Last fall, we found ourselves at Taskstream exploring opportunities to make giant leaps forward in the experiences we could provide our users. We were looking for transformative, not incremental changes – the kind of changes that could not be easily met by simply adding new features to our existing products. Given the increasing interest in meaningful outcomes assessment across campuses, we were especially interested in finding solutions that could make it easy for an institution to start quickly, yet scale broadly.
To get inside our users' heads and frame the problem with a fresh eye, the product team took over our largest conference room and began mapping out key user workflows and supporting activities on the wall in a story map. And we reached out to assessment leaders on campuses to understand the work that was going on in their world, outside of our products. Doing this put some definition and structure around the most common activities we support for institutions and shed light on those we believed were most critical to the work of assessing student learning.
Organizing the work by actual human activities and workflows and not system features can be eye opening. We found many areas that were well covered by our current products and others that were not. What we were trying to trace in our map was the simplest path that would allow institutions to collect direct evidence of student learning outcomes.
If our research did anything, it confirmed one obvious reality: Software doesn't do assessment. People do. And those people, faculty members and assessment coordinators, have multiple jobs and pressures upon them. They are committed to the work of collecting meaningful evidence about learning, but often face the seemingly quixotic task of engaging others in the process.
We could help institutions build a positive assessment culture by achieving an appropriate level of faculty and student involvement. It may not be realistic to expect faculty to participate at all steps of an assessment initiative. Institutions need to engage them only where indispensable. And if faculty and students touch the system, the experience has to be remarkably simple and straightforward.
a. What are we measuring?
b. Where are we collecting the evidence?
c. How are we measuring it?
d. Who is evaluating the evidence?
e. What did we learn?
This process produced a sort of charter for our work, but it did not tell us what to build first. Where could we quickly deliver the most value without waiting the year it might take to build a nearly "full" system?
Like most companies, Taskstream has made the shift over the years toward an agile software development methodology, which assumes you can never get it all right up front and pushes you to ship a product or feature set to customers as soon as it is "viable." This allows for faster feedback loops and forces development teams to be fairly ruthless about prioritizing features. The main goal is to not build features users will not need or use.
We landed on a starting point: the process of scoring student work using rubrics. That may seem counter-intuitive, especially to users of our LAT product, where we reliably support millions of evaluations per year. In most other products, scoring for assessment is buried relatively deeply into a course and grading workflow. But scoring is such a critical point of engagement in direct assessment, we believed it deserved our attention. Leveraging newer technologies, we were confident we could offer a great experience catered to users who participated in scoring efforts.
The opportunity to demonstrate that we could provide a simple, intuitive scoring experience was in front of us: in February, we would have hundreds of college faculty from around the country, most of whom had never used or seen Taskstream before, log in to score dozens of student artifacts each as part of the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment (MSC).
Earlier in 2014, Taskstream was selected as the technology partner for this exciting pilot project, supporting AAC&U and SHEEO in their effort to see how institutions might scale efforts to get meaningful evidence of how students are achieving important learning outcomes. It was a project of remarkable ambition: Nearly 70 two- and four-year institutions from 9 states would collect student work for direct assessment using a selection of AAC&U's VALUE rubrics.
We had already built a simple utility we released that fall for MSC institutions to upload work as they began collecting. Given that these users would only need to score in the system, and do so with little time for training, this felt like a perfect test for our new approach. Could we make the scoring of student work even more efficient, engaging and failsafe?
We challenged ourselves with one very hard question: How easy can we make this?
In part two, I will try to answer that question!


25,000 square feet of skate and scoot features for all levels.
Skateboards, inline skates, and nonmotorized scooters are welcome at the skatepark.
Shady benches available for parents and other spectators.
There's a trailhead at the skatepark parking lot. Take your dog for a walk (on leash) while the kids skate or scoot.
Watch the Parks events calendar for ranger-led instructional classes and friendly competitions.
Safety gear–helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads–required.
Be aware of all the skatepark rules.
McInnis Park is conveniently located in central San Rafael.
McInnis Park address is 310 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael. From Highway 101 in San Rafael take exit 456 for Smith Ranch Road east approximately 0.7 mile. Drive over the railroad tracks and immediately turn left to stay on Smith Ranch Rd. The park entrance is at the end of Smith Ranch Rd. After entering, take the road left up to the skatepark.
Ample parking available at several parking lots within the park.
Planning a skate party? Groups of 20 or more, whether formally organized or not, must make an advance reservation.
You can also call Parks reservations at (415) 473-6388, or visit the Parks office Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Marin Civic Center, Room 260, San Rafael.
Wear commercially manufactured safety gear in good condition - helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads.
All visitors must abide by Parks staff instructions at all times.
Skate within your abilities. Progress slowly. Beginners should use the marked beginner area.
Skate safely. Take turns, look both ways before dropping in, avoid collisions.
No contests, except contests officially authorized by Marin County Parks.
Be respectful and courteous - no fighting, profanity, abusive language, or disruptive behavior. More advanced skaters should be helpful to beginners.
Skate through features. Don't stop at an edge or bowl bottom. Clear landing areas quickly.
Rest on benches, not the skate park.
No skating outside the skatepark, in the parking lot, on sidewalks, curbs, or near entrance areas.
Spectators stay outside the skatepark.
Children under age 6 must be accompanied by an adult.
Watch your equipment and other belongings. The County of Marin is not responsible for personal property.
No food, drink, smoking, or alcohol allowed inside the skatepark.
No dogs in the skatepark. Dogs are welcome on leash or under voice control in many other areas of McInnis Park.
No bicycles in the skatepark.
No graffiti, tagging, or other defacing of the skatepark. This will result in closure of the facility.
Do not build on or modify skatepark features.
When the skatepark is closed, do not enter. That's trespassing.
Tell Parks staff if you see any unsafe conditions inside or outside the park.
Groups of more than 20 people must make an advance reservation. Learn more about group reservations.
Keep the park clean and litter-free. Use garbage cans provided, and carry out all your belongings.
Dogs must be under the direct and immediate control of a responsible person. In most areas of the park, dogs can be kept under voice control. Leash no longer than 6 feet long must be kept in hand.
Dogs must be kept on leash along the levee path. Do not allow dogs to disturb marsh habitat.
Dogs are not allowed in tennis courts, with the exception of service animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Keep the park peaceful. Loud noise and amplified music are not allowed.
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No camping or overnight stays.
Permits are required for commercial use, including professional dog walking, tours, classes, camps, film, or photography. Learn more about permits.
Fishing is allowed subject to regulations of California Fish and Game, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Marin County Parks. No live bait. Valid fishing license required.
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Melvin Seals has been a powerful presence in the music industry for over 30 years with a long-established reputation as a performer, recording artist and producer. Melvin is most revered for his powerful, high-spirited, Hammond B-3 organ, and keyboards in the Jerry Garcia Band. Melvin spun his B-3 magic with the Jerry Garcia Band for 18 years and in doing so helped pioneer and define what has now become "Jam Band Music". From blues to funk to rock to jazz, Melvin Seals serves up a tasty mix with a little R&B and gospel thrown in to spice things up.
Melvin and JGB bring an intuitive, expressive style, soul, spontaneity and remarkable chops to the table. John Kadlecik on lead guitar and vocal duties, John-Paul McLean's savory bass, Jeremy Hoenig on the drums and, of course, a heapin' helpin' of the wizard's magic on Hammond B-3 Organ and keyboards. Their chemistry is the focus from which they create a spontaneous and high art where the sky is the limit musically. They offer an exciting, often psychedelic musical journey that changes nightly and keeps the audience dancing and smiling (and some staring in amazement) for hours.
Adding his rock-gospel-soul-rhythm and blues touch with his funky style of playing, no wonder Jerry nicknamed him "Master of the Universe". Melvin continues to treat music lovers to his unique brand of melodic flavor with JGB. Come see and hear for yourself!
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Melvin Seals - Hammond B3 Organ, Keyboards & Vocals
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Welcome to Curious Bends
May 28, 2014 Akshat RathiLeave a comment
A few years ago, I formed a group of science enthusiasts. Our goal was to fix the problem of poor science communication in India. There only existed a handful of science publications and fewer among them did the work that was so critical to a democracy with the potential that India has. We discussed many ideas but couldn't implement them.
After all these years, science communication in India hasn't changed much. But the problem kept nagging me all along. So now, with fellow nerd Vasudevan Mukunth, I've started a weekly newsletter to address that problem in a small way. The aim of the weekly newsletter would be to become a place where you can come to find interesting stories from global publications covering science, technology and data that have their focus not on the West.
Here is this week's edition (our second). If you enjoy it, you and your friends can subscribe here.
1. Warheads at supersonic speeds… on the ground
India's defence research organisation has installed five 4-km long rails at a research lab in Chandigarh for propelling missile warheads at supersonic speeds. Could this be useful for India's space programmes, too? The timing is suggestive. In July this year, the space agency is slated to launch an unmanned "Orbital Vehicle" that is at the heart of India's human spaceflight program. The rails can be used to simulate re-entry of crew capsules. (3 min read)
2. In the unfortunate event that New Delhi is nuked…
On the Doomsday Clock, which is a countdown to global catastrophe, the world has come 12 minutes closer to midnight since 1991. Recently, Nitin Gadkari, now a minister in the new Indian government, was exchanging nuclear threats with a Pakistani analyst on TV. This spurred a journalist to look at the government's emergency plans to deal with a nuclear fallout. Hint to civilians: "To begin with, nothing that can be dug without the help of E. Sreedharan—the Metro Man—is likely to be deep enough." (8 min read)
3. Are tiger poachers really trying to hack radio-collar data in India's sanctuaries?
The more we resort to technology to protect something, the more its failings become liable for abuse—except when it's animal poaching. There was a scare about a Pune techie trying to hack into data transmitted by radio-collars around some tigers. It turned out to be false, but not before conservationists reasoned that poachers relied on simpler, ground-based techniques to trap animals, and that's why they get away. (4 min read)
4. 101 suicides in two months: is Marathwada the new Vidarbha?
Freak hailstorms in March flattened orchard crops in Maharashtra's Marathwada region. In the two months since, 101 suicides have been reported. The reason? Faulty agriculture and irrigation policies have driven farmers to orchard farming that is submissive to failing, because of the time and capital investment it requires. (5 min read)
5. Call for action to prevent millions of "invisible" deaths
More than 780,000 babies less than 28 days old die every year in India. The cost of preventing these deaths is a meagre $1.15 (₹ 68) per person. Why then aren't these deaths prevented? Because these are "invisible deaths". Parents don't seek to register their child's birth or death because they don't think it can make a difference. This silence perpetuates the myth that newborn deaths and stillbirths are inevitable. (6 min read)
6. Video: Putting hardy small millets back on the menu
Decline in food diversity is driving malnutrition around the world, and the hardy millet is one casualty. This cereal crop can be cultivated in a variety of ecosystems, from coastal areas in South India to mountainous terrain in the Himalayas, but it has become a niche crop. A Canadian agency wants to redress this imbalance in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and to put women farmers in the centre of its approach. (5 min watch)
If you divide China into two, one half will have 94% of its population (nearly 20% of world's population). This geographic divide hasn't changed in last 80 years despite the population tripling. In 1935, a Chinese geographer noticed the divide and drew an imaginary line, called Heihe–Tengchong Line, that no one seems have crossed over to settle. Yet, what this map hides is the fact that China has recently seen the largest migration in human history: 160 million people have moved from rural areas to urban ones in the last 30 years, no doubt within Eastern China.
Please email curiousbends@gmail.com with suggestions or feedback. We'd love to hear from you. For more such stories, find curators Vasudevan Mukunth and Akshat Rathi on Twitter. Enjoy the week!
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Nuclear bomb tests reveal formation of new brain cells
June 6, 2013 January 25, 2014 Akshat RathiLeave a comment
Researchers have used the radioactive fallout from atomic bomb tests to show that new neurons are produced in one part of the human brain throughout life. Studies have shown that rats can grow new neurons, but there was little definitive evidence that it happens in humans too.
When atomic bombs were tested between 1945 and 1963, radioactive particles were released into the Earth's atmosphere. Among the isotopes created was carbon-14, which is commonly used in radio carbon dating.
As cells divide, they incorporate carbon from the environment, and some of that carbon comes from the atmosphere. That is why carbon-14 released by the atomic bombs found its way into the DNA of multiplying cells. The amount of carbon-14 in this DNA corresponded to its concentration in the atmosphere at the time the new cells were born.
This essentially meant carbon-14 in DNA can be used as a measure of the age of cells, such as neurons in adult brains. A team led by Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institute, used brain cells obtained from 120 people who had consented to have their cells used for experiments after their death. Of the cells analysed, some had much higher levels of carbon-14 than others. This meant that the cells with lower levels were produced after 1963, when bomb testing ceased, and therefore showed that new cells can be produced later in life.
"The idea was to contrast the hippocampus region of the brain with the rest," study co-author Kirsty Spalding said. They wanted to confirm the hypothesis that new neurons are only formed in the hippocampus, which plays an important role the formation of memory. The results of their study have been published in the journal Cell today.
The team measured the amount of carbon-14 present in the DNA of neurons in the hippocampus and, separately, in the rest of the brain. They then used complex calculations to model the results, which confirmed that new neurons are produced only in the hippocampus.
There were two surprising discoveries. First, these new neurons were produced in small part of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus. The rest of the hippocampus (and indeed the rest of the brain) showed no formation of new neurons. Second, about 700 neurons were produced every day, which turns out to be a turnover rate of about 1.75% per year. These neurons also lived about three years less than the ones that do not undergo replacement.
So after the brain is completely formed at the age of about two years, no new neurons are added except in the dentate gyrus. Gerd Kempermann at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, who was not involved in the study, has been studying the role of the dentate gyrus for some years. He welcomed the results and said, "These younger cells are key to the working of the dentate gyrus, possibly because they can respond faster than old cells."
According to Kempermann, by staying "forever young" the dentate gyrus could play a key role in the difficult task of learning, memory formation and the shaping of individual personalities. That might be quite a jump from the mere fact that new neurons are formed in the brain. But that jump dwarfs the results of this study, in which nuclear bombs—arguably the most destructive aspect of the human legacy—led to advances in brain science.
First published on The Conversation.
Image credit: ICTANW
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Yangzhou is located in central Jiangsu Province, China on the north bank of the Yangtze, river. Historically, Yangzhou was one of the wealthiest cities in China, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, artists, and scholars. In the late 13th century the city was home to Marco Polo. Its name, "Rising Prefecture", refers to its former position as the capital of the ancient Yangzhou prefecture in imperial China.
Yangzhou has a history of over 2,500 years and developed as a key trading center for salt, rice and silk. This once major economic hub is now known for its beautiful gardens, Islamic relics and ancient shrines. Two of its most famous attractions include the Daming Temple, a Buddhist complex named for the Daming reign when it was built, and the Slender West Lake which is framed by picturesque moon gates and classical bridges.
With its long history and rich cultural background, Yangzhou is one of the top tourism destinations in China. The city boasts over 340 historic sites and relics. The city features uniquely beautiful sceneries of rivers and a number of gardens and buildings as well as the well-preserved ancient city area of the Ming and the Qing Dynasties. The Geyuan Garden, one of the most famous gardens in the country, is over one thousand years old.
The native cooking style in Yangzhou is Huaiyang cuisine. Huaiyang cuisine is widely seen in Chinese culinary circles as the most popular and prestigious style of Jiangsu cuisine. It is considered by many to be amongst one of the Four Great Traditions that dominate the culinary heritage of China, along with Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine.
Huaiyang characteristically founds each dish on its main ingredient, and the way that ingredient is cut is pivotal to its cooking and its final taste. The cuisine is also known for employing its Zhenjiang vinegar, which is produced in the Jiangsu region. Huaiyang cuisine tends to have a slightly sweet side to it and is almost never spicy, in contrast to some cuisines of China (like Sichuan or Hunan). Pork, freshwater fish, and other aquatic creatures serve as the meat base in most dishes, which are usually more meticulous and light compared to the more "brash" eating styles of northern China.
The city is the birthplace of Yangzhou fried rice or Yeung Chow fried rice. This popular Chinese-style wok fried rice dish is served in Chinese restaurants throughout the world.


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Q: An approximation for an integral involving nested radicals and logarithms Yesterday I wrote some simple integrals involving nested radicals, and/or continued fractions. This was an example with nested radicals, let $$\int_0^1\frac{dx}{\sqrt{1+(\log x)g(x)}},\tag{1}$$ where $g(x)=\sqrt{1+(\log(x)\cdot g(x))}$, that is $$g(x)=\sqrt{1+\log x^{g(x)}}.\tag{2}$$

Question. Calculate a good approximation of previous integral. Thanks in advance.

You approach can be using analysis or a numerical method.
One has that $(g(x))^2=1+g(x)(\log x)$ and thus we need to calculate, if there are no mistakes, $$\sqrt{2}\int_0^1\frac{dx}{\sqrt{2+\log^2(x)+\sqrt{\log ^2(x)+4}}}.$$

A: For $$I=\int_0^1\frac{dx}{\sqrt{2+\log^2(x)+\sqrt{\log ^2(x)+4}}}$$ we can develop the integrand as a Taylor series built around $x=1$. This should give for the integrand
$$\frac{1}{2}-\frac{5}{64} (x-1)^2+\frac{5}{64} (x-1)^3-\frac{643
   (x-1)^4}{12288}+\frac{163 (x-1)^5}{6144}-\frac{11989
   (x-1)^6}{1179648}+O\left((x-1)^7\right)$$ Integrating terwise, we get
$$\frac{x-1}{2}-\frac{5}{192} (x-1)^3+\frac{5}{256} (x-1)^4-\frac{643
   (x-1)^5}{61440}+\frac{163 (x-1)^6}{36864}-\frac{11989
   (x-1)^7}{8257536}+O\left((x-1)^8\right)$$ then the approximation
$$I=\frac{6029213}{13762560}\approx 0.438088$$ while the exact value should be $\approx 0.433262$.
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Just for the fun of it, I used the above approach (using a CAS, for sure !) up to $O\left((x-1)^n\right)$. Let $I_n$ to be the value of the integral.
As shown below, the convergence is really slow
$$\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
 n & I_n \\
 50 & 0.4337137504 \\
 100 & 0.4334521397 \\
 150 & 0.4333768933 \\
 200 & 0.4333424597 \\
 250 & 0.4333230704 \\
 300 & 0.4333107672 \\
 350 & 0.4333023266 \\
 400 & 0.4332962080 \\
 450 & 0.4332915870 \\
 500 & 0.4332879845
\end{array}
\right)$$

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Fischer, P. ,	Baschek, B. ,	Schroeder, F. ,	Boer, M. ,	Grunwald, M. ,	Loth, R. ,	Klaus-Stöhner, J. and Boehme, T. (2013):	The new COSYNA Underwater Node System – a transregional and transinstitutional research approach in the North Sea and in the Arctic ,	The future of operational oceanography (FUTOORE),	Hamburg, 8 October 2013 - 2013 .
Coastal ecosystems are important interface zones between the terrestrial and the marine realm. Due to the continuously increasing anthropogenic pressure on most coastlines worldwide, a significant increase in the effort to monitor and assess changes in the coastal systems has been proposed. In the framework of COSYNA (Coastal Observation System of the Northern and Artic Seas), a cable connected underwater observatory for long term exposure even under extreme environmental conditions has been developed. Two prototypes of the COSYNA underwater node system have been installed in 2012 in the southern North Sea and in an Artic Fjord System (Kongsfjord Svalbard) and are operated since then continuously. These systems provide the logistic underwater platforms to operate standard sensors like ADCP and CTD as well as complex sensors like a continuous plankton recorder or a stereo-optical fish detection device with a data transmission rate up to 1 GHz year in both ecosystems. The main scientific objective of the COSYNA underwater node technology is the continuous assessment and (near) real time analysis of environmental parameters in the COSYNA target environments the North Sea and the Arctic Sea. The continuous data stream of the main oceanographic, hydraulic and biological parameters sampled synchronously in the two ecosystems year round even under extreme conditions like severe storms in the North Sea or ice coverage in the Arctic are used to monitor, analyse and to model ecosystem behaviour with respect to abiotic environmental dynamics and environmental shifts.


Stephanie Rutherford is an award winning choreographer and teacher based out of Toronto, Canada. Having a theatre major from the University of Winnipeg and extensive training in all forms of dance, Stephanie has managed to create an established career in the industry primarily focused in directing and choreographing commercial and contemporary dance . Stephanie is known to create an environment for dancers that demands them to be expressively open and artistically pushed. In turn, she has received much recognition in both professional, convention and competitive environments for her thought provoking work . She is the Artistic Director and founder of the company "Rutherford Movement Exchange" as well, the host of RME's annual elite dance intensive. Stephanie was selected as a finalist for the Capezio Ace Awards for Choreographic Excellence in New York City 2016, where she presented her work to an esteemed panel of choreographers and directors. She has traveled to Vietnam as an international choreographer for HTV's So You Think You Can Dance Vietnam – Season 3, where she choreographed during top 10 and 8 week. On the show, she also presented an original RME choreographic work that was performed by "All Stars" from season 1 and 2 as a guest performance in the results show. Stephanie directed and choreographed the show "Ascension- The act of rising to a higher level " (Rutherford Movement Exchange's company show 2013) as well as her company show "UNREFINED" in 2009. She proudly was the choreographer and coach for Team Canada 2016 -Modern World Dance Championships, where her team brought home 4 golds, 3 silvers and a bronze medal.
Other Choreography credits include: Manulife "Stars of Tomorrow" Global Awards Show (Debut Group), General Motors National Car Show (Diversified Productions), The Next Step (Family Channel,Temple Street Productions- Duet Usage), Treasure Island (Diversified Theatre), Puss and Boots (Diversified Theatre), Andrew Austin "Disappear" Music Video, # 1 music video on AUX TV (Director Gary Samson), Lynzie Kent "Whoop De Doo" Music Video (Bull Dog Productions), Melissa Oneil (Canadian Idol Winner), Elana Juatco, Paul McQuilliam (General Motors Show), Scotia Bank Charity Gala (Entertainment Exchange, Arlene Dickenson), Pennies From Heaven Charity Gala (Armstrong Wealth Consultant). As well as local events such as, Toronto's Choreographers Ball, Fever After Dark, TD-Pride Main Stage and Toronto's Women In Dance.
Stephanie teaches for various dance conventions across Canada and practices her art through freelance choreography, professional job opportunities and collaborative projects with other local artists. She continues to share and explore her passion with artists of all ages, and is always looking for inspirational ways to evolve her craft!


Mari Batterton was born in Manila, Philippines. She has been living in Japan eight years, the last two of them on Okinawa, and is quick to say that Okinawa is a paradise compared to the rest of Japan. Read More!
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An extract drawn from the northern Okinawa birch tree is finding its way into an elixir essence that promises to reduce fatty acids and lower cholesterol. More than 25 years in research and development, the birch extract essence is the handiwork of Tsutomu Gushiken, an agricultural arts and chemistry specialist first became interested in the esoteric business of natural products while working as a trust researcher for a cosmetics company in 1972. Read More!
Okinawa City hosts the US Kadena Air Base, plus residents from more than 30 countries, and this weekend they'll all be joining together for an International Carnival. The Okinawa International Carnival kicks off its two-day run on Saturday, expanding focus on Sunday by joining forces with the Gate 2 Street Festival and its lusty throated Harley Davidson Motorcycles. Read More!


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Alberta Carbon Trunk Line finance and construction agreement
Enhance Energy and Wolf Carbon Solutions have entered into a project development and coordination agreement for the construction and operation of the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line.
The ACTL is a 240-kilometre pipeline that will collect carbon dioxide from industrial emitters in and round Alberta's Industrial Heartland and transport it to aging reservoirs throughout central and southern Alberta for secure storage and enhanced oil recovery projects.
Subject to closing under this agreement, Wolf will construct, own, and operate the CO2 capture and pipeline transportation assets. Enhance will continue to be the owner and operator of the CO2 utilization and sequestration portion of the ACTL project through its EOR operations. Upon closing of this agreement, anticipated to be within 60 days, the parties will enter into a long-term service agreement and construction activities related to the ACTL project will commence. Initial CO2 flow rates are expected to start at 800 tonnes per day in the fourth quarter of 2019 and increase to 4,400 tonnes per day by the end of 2019.
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"Carbon capture and storage is already established as a viable emission reduction strategy for Alberta industries and we believe it has great potential to become much more widely applied," said Gord Salahor, Wolf's Chief Executive Officer. "The ACTL is a desirable infrastructure asset for Wolf because it represents the core of an expandable network capable of facilitating many carbon mitigation options for emitters over the long term."
The construction of ACTL will be funded by Wolf in part through investments made by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ("CPPIB") of up to $305 million. Additional public funding for the ACTL project of $63 million has been provided by the Government of Canada under the Federal EcoETI Program and the Federal Clean Energy Fund Program, and $223 million in construction funding has been approved under the Province of Alberta's Carbon Capture and Storage Funding Act (2009). Enhance also expects to invest over $1 billion in capital costs related to CO2 storage and EOR development over the life of the ACTL.
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Gloucester Man Arraigned In Beating Death Of Fellow Inmate At Mass Treatment Center In Bridgewater
Beth Stone | November 2, 2021 November 22, 2021
Contact: Beth Stone 508-584-8120
BROCKTON – A Gloucester man was arraigned on a Second Degree Murder charge in connection with the beating death of a fellow inmate at Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced.
On September 1, 2021, a Plymouth County grand jury returned indictments charging Michael Robinson, 42, of Gloucester, with one count each of Second Degree Murder and Assault and Battery With A Dangerous Weapon, Shod Foot. Today, Robinson was arraigned in Brockton Superior Court on the charges. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was held without bail.
On April 13, 2021 at approximately 10:38 p.m., corrections officers at the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater responded to a report of an altercation which occurred in a facility bathroom. Upon arrival, officers found the male victim unresponsive and bleeding. The victim received medical treatment on scene, before being transported to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton where he was pronounced dead of his injuries. The victim was identified as Scott Wonoski, 43, of Worcester.
Officials from the Massachusetts Treatment Center contacted Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office and an investigation commenced. Video surveillance obtained from the facility captured the incident, which shows Robinson allegedly physically assault the victim and exit the bathroom.
The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the manner of the death was homicide and cause was blunt force injuries of the head and torso.
Robinson is next scheduled to be in court on January 10, 2022.
Assistant District Attorney Kevin O'Leary is prosecuting the case, which was investigated by Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office and the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
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Wolfram Research is giving away its Mathematica software for use on the diminutive, $25 Raspberry Pi computers -- and debuting a brand-new programming language.
Not since Steve Jobs' Next computers did Wolfram Research offer Mathematica, its premium mathematics, processing, and analysis software, for free.
The Next was an expensive, higher-end workstation. This time around, Wolfram is giving away Mathematica for computers at the opposite end of the spectrum: the diminutive, $25 Raspberry Pi.
It's a nice horse to hitch your cart to. Two million Raspberry Pi machines have been sold so far, and they're popular in the educational circles that Wolfram also targets.
Wolfram Research founder and Chief Executive Stephen Wolfram said Thursday that Mathematica is now available for Raspberry Pi computers and will ship with future models. In addition, the company also is including the first public prototype version of a new product, Wolfram Language.
"I'm a great believer in the importance of programming as a central component of education. And I'm excited that with the Wolfram Language I think we finally have a powerful programming language worthy of the next generation," Wolfram said. "We've got a language that's not mostly concerned with the details of computers, but is instead about being able to understand and create things on the basis of huge amounts of built-in computational ability and knowledge."
Those grand aspirations, to be sure, but they're nothing compared to how Wolfram introduced the Wolfram Language last week: "If we're forming a kind of global brain with all our interconnected computers and devices, then the Wolfram Language is the natural language for it."
Raspberry Pi machines -- naked circuit boards that run a version of Linux from an SD Card -- are geared for the hardware hacker crowd that's bubbling up in high-tech circles. They are of course not very powerful: Wolfram warns that Mathematica's graphical interface can be "sluggish." But the command-line interface is snappy, he said, and the machine is still vastly faster than those on which Mathematica got its start 25 years.
Mathematica is ordinarily expensive -- even the home version costs more than 10 times a Raspberry Pi, and the professional version is something like two orders of magnitude more costly than the tiny computer. But giving it away could make sense: Comparatively feeble Raspberry Pi machines are hardly likely to cut into sales of Mathematica on the workstations and laptops that paying customers use. And exposing students to new software and programming tools is a time-honored strategy to cultivate the next generation of customers.
It also could give Mathematica, a fairly academic product, more modern cachet. With the Raspberry Pi move, Wolfram also is aiming to find Wolfram Language uses such as Raspberry Pi weather stations and logging location data that are more likely to appeal to the tinkerers.
"Raspberry Pi...encourages me to try a new style of real-world-connected computing," Wolfram said. "For a start, it's easy to connect devices to a Pi. And a Pi is small and cheap enough that I can put it almost anywhere. And if I start a Wolfram Language program on it, it's reliable enough that I can expect it to pretty much go on running forever -- analyzing and uploading sensor data, controlling an autonomous system, analyzing and routing traffic, or whatever."


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Home»ADOT News»ADOT internships prepare next generation of transportation professionals
ADOT internships prepare next generation of transportation professionals
Interns work in planning, construction, landscaping, meteorology and more
PHOENIX ‒ Arizona's network of highways requires transportation professionals specializing in areas as wide-ranging as planning routes, repairing bridges and creating beautiful landscaping along roadways.
To help ready the next generation of professionals to plan, operate and maintain a safe and efficient transportation system, the Arizona Department of Transportation employs nearly 40 interns whose work touches projects in every corner of the state.
Coming from communities across Arizona, the interns work in fields including engineering, urban planning, construction management, environmental science, landscape architecture and more.
Earlier this year, ADOT partnered with Arizona State University to have meteorology interns provide real-time forecasts to those managing highways. Working out of ADOT's Traffic Operations Center, these interns have helped crews respond rapidly to storms and other weather challenges.
ADOT recruits interns from high schools and colleges every spring, and interns can work for the agency throughout their college careers and up to six months after graduating. Typically working one day a week, they tackle the same kinds of projects they'll face after graduating.
Interns benefit from the experience of working with a supervisor plus a designated mentor.
"The interns I talk to love the program," said Candee Samora, ADOT's intern project coordinator. "They say they love school but there's nothing that can replace the hands-on training they're getting at ADOT."
One of ADOT's interns is Yuri Lechuga-Robles, an Arizona State University landscape architecture student who graduated in May as the 2016 Outstanding Undergraduate Student for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Lechuga-Robles' position in roadside development has allowed him to work on freeway projects in northern Arizona, Tucson and the Phoenix area. One of the lasting impacts of his work with ADOT Roadside Development is helping choose plants to go along roads and the graphic designs on bridges.
"Everyone in Roadside Development has been very helpful," he said. "They've really taken care not to hold back and they've put me in situations where I can do things and learn. They've had confidence in me."
Lechuga-Robles received the John E. McGee Intern Scholarship in 2015 from ADOT and the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. He was the first landscape architecture student awarded the scholarship named after McGee, the late ADOT chief financial officer.
"A lot of what I'm doing at school is directly related to the projects I do here," Lechuga-Robles said. "It's definitely been enriching to my career in landscape architecture."
LeRoy Brady, ADOT's chief landscape architect, said the agency gets just as much out of the experience as its interns do.
"Interns help us meet our project development goals and schedules," Brady said. "They bring in new ideas and new ways of looking at things."
For more information on ADOT internships, visit azdot.gov/internships.


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Patent Law Alert -- Placement of an Ornamental Logo May Avoid Design Patent Infringement
By Anastasia Zhadina
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that a defendant's placement of an ornamental logo is one factor to be considered in a design patent infringement case. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc., 942 F.3d 1119 (Fed. Cir. 2019).
Columbia Sportswear owns U.S. Design Patent No. D657,093 that covers an ornamental design of a heat reflective material used in jackets, pants, gloves and boots. Columbia sued Seirus for patent infringement over the sale of its products that incorporated material with a similar wavy pattern. The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted Columbia summary judgment that Seirus infringed the '093 patent. The case was then transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, which held a trial on the questions of damages and willfulness. At the end of the trial, the jury found that the infringement was not willful, and awarded Columbia over $3 million in damages for Seirus's total profits from the sales of the infringing products.
Columbia's patented wavy pattern Seirus's wavy pattern with different orientation and a repeated SEIRUS & Design logo
On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for design patent infringement. The Federal Circuit found that the district court should have considered the Seirus ornamental logo in evaluating the effect of the whole design in the infringement analysis.
The Federal Circuit previously had ruled, in L.A. Gear, Inc. v. Thom McAn Shoe Co., 988 F.2d 1117 (Fed. Cir. 1993), that an accused infringer could not avoid design patent infringement by labeling the copied design with its name. However, in the current case, the Court stated that L.A. Gear "does not prohibit… considering an ornamental logo, its placement, and its appearance as one among other potential differences between a patented design and an accused one." The Federal Circuit also criticized the district court's infringement analysis in other respects.
The Federal Circuit's finding that the placement of an ornamental logo is a relevant consideration in a design patent infringement case may, in some cases, have negative implications for owners of design patents covering surface ornamentations.
An ornamental logo applied to a surface ornamentation in a way that obstructs or covers some of the patented design, could potentially avoid infringement if it changes the overall visual impression of the surface ornamentation. By contrast, the application of a logo to a patented three-dimensional object is not likely to change the overall visual impression of the object and its three-dimensional shape.
The court did not decide the level of change in the overall visual appearance required by the addition of an ornamental logo.
Possible Design Patent Strategy
In view of the court's ruling, one potential strategy in applying for a design patent covering a surface ornamentation might be to limit the number of repeating elements claimed in the design patent drawings to only those that are necessary to show the pattern.
This strategy could potentially broaden the scope of the design patent protection, which would be advantageous to the patent owner. In addition, it could limit the ability of a potential infringer to avoid liability by minimally obstructing only portions of the patented design, or it could force a potential infringer to use an unreasonable density of ornamental logos to avoid infringement.
For more information, contact Anastasia Zhadina or your CLL attorney.
axz@cll.com / 212-790-9286
Ana Zhadina concentrates on patent and trademark counseling, patent preparation and prosecution.
Anastasia Zhadina


Italy's No.1 alt.folk band ANGUS McOG return to the UK for the first time in five years to play a very special launch for their acclaimed third album Beginners.
Beginning in 2009 as the alter ego of Modena musician Antonio Tavoni, Angus McOg released their debut album Anorak in 2011, followed by the widely acclaimed Arnaut, which saw them making inroads for the first time into the UK and US, performing a live session on NTS Radio, before guesting with Thurston Moore on his Italian dates. Running a nice sideline in arthouse film scores, they've since been joined by multi-instrumentalist Luca Di Mira from award-winning post-rock pioneers Giardini di Mirò.
Special guest for this show is rising Essex estuary songsmith M.G. BOULTER, whose latest release Blood Moon is out now though Hudson Records.


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At What Point Does it Become Technology for Technology's Sake?
Dylan Ellison October 15th 2015 5:00 pm
If you're reading this you're probably within the vicinity of at least a couple electronic devices. Maybe they have almost the same function. Maybe one is more convenient to use than the other. We're surrounded by technology. Saturated in it. And we acquire more and more as new technology is invented and older technology becomes more affordable.
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Everybody has different opinions about which technologies are more useful than others. The internet, smartphones, and tablets are all widely favored. But what about autonomous (self-driving) vehicles? Wearable devices? Drones?
Cost-benefit analysis of creating an automobile that drives itself results in some pretty polarizing conclusions. How cool! How convenient! Wait—is it really even that convenient? Why would we need that? Many people become skeptical, going on suspicious, when considering the usefulness of these inventions.
Technology for Technology's Sake
(or the "Look What I Can Do" effect)
Invention is impressive. When someone creates something new we watch in awe. But that novelty only goes so far. Whether or not it's something someone would use or enjoy once the newness wears off is a factor too few developers consider. Development becomes self-serving. "Look what I can do!" People only care so much.
The underwhelming sales of Apple's recent Watch are telling. Think of each time a new iPhone is released and how long it takes for half of your acquaintances to have one. Now try to recall how many people you've seen with an Apple Watch. Probably not many. As John Brandon at Inc.com says, "It's a device that doesn't change your day as much as it complicates your day." There's no need or room for this device in the lives of people who would potentially buy it.
Disapproval of new innovations is not always dismissive and forgettable. Drones have been shot down and misuse of self-driving vehicles has been speculated upon. This fear isn't altogether unreasonable. After all, the more information being stored in a digital space, the more opportunity there is for a security breach. And it's not just Big Brother or the NSA who might be poking around your personal information. In 2013, 57% of stolen cyber-records were stolen by "malicious outsiders."
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Evaluating Your Invention
If you've got an idea for an invention, begin your research by answering a few questions:
Does this invention solve a problem or does it further complicate things for the user? Is it useful? Are you just flexing your "inventor brain?"
What are the ethical implications of this invention? Can it be used for the wrong reasons?
Does it improve upon an idea?
Once these questions are answered you can go further with your invention, find ways to improve it, or find something better to work on.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dylan Ellison
@el.dylan88
Writer. Reader. Burrito-eater.


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Q: How to insert a full width div inside a container? I have a few divs inside a 900px width container.
I need one of these divs to go full browser width. How is this possible using Bootstrap?
Update:
Fiddle: http://www.bootply.com/vhqRQRPeBH
When clicking on the Filter Group, it filter options in a row bellow. I need this row grey background to be full browser width, and the buttons to stay inside the container like in this picture example: http://imgur.com/M4bJDnK
This in order for the row with the filter options to show bellow each respective Filter Group when they are stacked in a smaller screen.

A: You can just split your page...
Bootply : http://www.bootply.com/PIWtapBtS1
HTML :

content

content

content

content

content

content

A: I'm assuming you need this for styling purposes. .container is supposed to be used as a content wrapper, so you should mark it up like this:

The other way around won't work.
Then in CSS you style the .header:
.header {
  background-color: #333;
  color: #fff;
}

Now you got a full-width background.
If you need your content to go full-width too, you can use .container-fluid instead:

If this doesn't answer your question, you should describe your situation better.


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Подразделение альпинистов () — специальное резервное горнострелковое подразделение Армии обороны Израиля, входящее в качестве роты в состав резервного рекогносцировочного батальона территориальной бригады «Ха-Хермон» дивизии «Ха-Башан» Северного военного округа и предназначенное для ведения боевых действий в горной местности на севере страны, в частности в районе горы Хермон.

История
Подразделение альпинистов было скомплектовано в 1973 году из военнослужащих разведроты бригады «Голани» и специального подразделения «Эгоз». Возглавил его Давид Матак. . Из-за больших потерь (из  на задание солдат отряд потерял около ) было принято решение распустить подразделение. Однако, Левин утверждал, что этот бой стал одним из самых важных в истории Израиля, хоть и не смог затмить славу боев войны Судного дня. В 1978 году из-за предполагаемой возможности атаки горы Хермон со стороны сирийских формирований подразделение было восстановлено из резервистов. В 1982 году, во время Ливанской войны, подразделение было использовано для атаки на Шуф.

В настоящий момент командование подразделением осуществляет подполковник запаса Шимон Парьенте, выходец из бригады «Голани».

Подготовка
Подразделение альпинистов состоит из резервистов, прошедших службу в отборных пехотных частях. Учения проводятся в Иудее, Самарии и на горе Хермон, известном горнолыжном курорте, в зимний сезон, с октября по март. Тренировки проходят и за рубежом — в частности, в Турции и швейцарских Альпах, когда на Хермоне нет необходимого количества снега. На занятиях используется спец-оборудование — лыжи, снегоходы, сани, кошки, для связи между военнослужащими применяются специальные наушники и GPS-навигаторы. Тренировки проходят в течение нескольких дней, причём военнослужащие не возвращаются на базы, а обустраиваются на горе, строя убежища из снега с местом для сна, наблюдательным постом, иногда с мини-кухней.

Применение
Навыки военнослужащих применяются для эвакуации жителей районов, пострадавших от сильных метелей и снегопадов, а также для спасения лыжников, попавших под лавины. Кроме этого, членами подразделения проводятся развлекательные мероприятия для детей с неизлечимыми заболеваниями, умственными или физическими нарушениями, инвалидов.

Вооружение
Стандартное вооружение членов подразделения включает в себя автоматы M4, штурмовые винтовки TAR-21 израильского производства, пулемёты «Негев», снайперские винтовки М24 и SR-25.

Примечания

Формирования специального назначения Израиля
Северный военный округ (Израиль)
Альпинизм
Горные формирования

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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.federation.store.records.impl.pb;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability.Unstable;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.federation.proto.YarnServerFederationProtos.GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.federation.proto.YarnServerFederationProtos.GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProtoOrBuilder;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.federation.proto.YarnServerFederationProtos.SubClusterPolicyConfigurationProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.federation.store.records.GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponse;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.federation.store.records.SubClusterPolicyConfiguration;

import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.protobuf.TextFormat;

/**
 * Protocol buffer based implementation of
 * {@link GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponse}.
 */
@Private
@Unstable
public class GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponsePBImpl
    extends GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponse {

  private GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto proto =
      GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto.getDefaultInstance();
  private GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto.Builder builder = null;
  private boolean viaProto = false;

  private SubClusterPolicyConfiguration subClusterPolicy = null;

  public GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponsePBImpl() {
    builder = GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto.newBuilder();
  }

  public GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponsePBImpl(
      GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto proto) {
    this.proto = proto;
    viaProto = true;
  }

  public GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto getProto() {
    mergeLocalToProto();
    proto = viaProto ? proto : builder.build();
    viaProto = true;
    return proto;
  }

  private void mergeLocalToProto() {
    if (viaProto) {
      maybeInitBuilder();
    }
    mergeLocalToBuilder();
    proto = builder.build();
    viaProto = true;
  }

  private void maybeInitBuilder() {
    if (viaProto || builder == null) {
      builder = GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProto.newBuilder(proto);
    }
    viaProto = false;
  }

  private void mergeLocalToBuilder() {
    if (this.subClusterPolicy != null
        && !((SubClusterPolicyConfigurationPBImpl) this.subClusterPolicy)
            .getProto().equals(builder.getPolicyConfiguration())) {
      builder
          .setPolicyConfiguration(convertToProtoFormat(this.subClusterPolicy));
    }
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return getProto().hashCode();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object other) {
    if (other == null) {
      return false;
    }
    if (other.getClass().isAssignableFrom(this.getClass())) {
      return this.getProto().equals(this.getClass().cast(other).getProto());
    }
    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return TextFormat.shortDebugString(getProto());
  }

  @Override
  public SubClusterPolicyConfiguration getPolicyConfiguration() {
    GetSubClusterPolicyConfigurationResponseProtoOrBuilder p =
        viaProto ? proto : builder;
    if (this.subClusterPolicy != null) {
      return this.subClusterPolicy;
    }
    if (!p.hasPolicyConfiguration()) {
      return null;
    }
    this.subClusterPolicy = convertFromProtoFormat(p.getPolicyConfiguration());
    return this.subClusterPolicy;
  }

  @Override
  public void setPolicyConfiguration(
      SubClusterPolicyConfiguration policyConfiguration) {
    maybeInitBuilder();
    if (policyConfiguration == null) {
      builder.clearPolicyConfiguration();
    }
    this.subClusterPolicy = policyConfiguration;
  }

  private SubClusterPolicyConfiguration convertFromProtoFormat(
      SubClusterPolicyConfigurationProto policy) {
    return new SubClusterPolicyConfigurationPBImpl(policy);
  }

  private SubClusterPolicyConfigurationProto convertToProtoFormat(
      SubClusterPolicyConfiguration policy) {
    return ((SubClusterPolicyConfigurationPBImpl) policy).getProto();
  }

}

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Below are three of our latest Quibbls. We have assembled a nice mix for you to make predictions and climb up the leaderboard by letting us know what you think will happen (and being correct, of course).
The campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) will be interpreted differently, depending on who you ask. Someone who voted for President Trump would make a connection between #MAGA and renewing America's infrastructure, like rebuilding roads and bridges. President Trump's next legislative push is likely to be an infrastructure overhaul. For this effort, President Trump pledged to utilize around $1 trillion. However, the American Society of Civil Engineers in their most recent report found a need for $2 trillion over the next 10 years, to get U.S. roads up to speed. How many dollars will President Trump ask from Congress to repair America's infrastructure? $1 Trillion? More than $1 Trillion?
Will Other Countries Follow Trump's Lead?
Nothing says building bridges like building embassies. President Trump announced, in December, the American Embassy in Israel will be moving to Jerusalem. Days after, the Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced he will follow suit and move the Guatemalan Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as well. Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Tzipi Hotovely told public radio that ten other countries expressed interest in relocating their embassies. How many more countries do you think will move their embassies to Jerusalem, by the end of January 2018?
Pouring massive funds into rebuilding US Infrastructure, and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem are presidential campaign promises that have been kept. As President Trump gears up to campaign on behalf of Congressional Republicans running for office he will surely mention these accomplishments. The midterm elections are less than a year away, but it's never too early to quibbl. Will the Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress in the Midterm Elections?