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Anne Hathaway has always come up a little short in the man department, but this time she seems to have found a keeper. She's engaged to marry her boyfriend, Adam Shulman. Could he be the charm?
Hathaway, 29, undoubtedly hears her baby clock ticking. But she can't be accused of rushing into this relationship. They've been dating for three years.
The engagement was confirmed to UsWeekly by a rep, after Hathaway was spotted out and about recently sporting what looked like an engagement ring.
And indeed it was, crafted by Kwiat Heritage, according to the rep.
Which is odd since Shulman recently co-founded a jewelry company with jewelry designer Heidi Nahser Fink. It's sold under the name James Banks.
The line was featured in the April 2011 issue of Lucky magazine. He is Co-founder and Co-designer of the company.
Hathaway met the actor after her four-year romance with Italian fraudster Raffaello Follieri collapsed in 2008 amid charges he defrauding investors of millions of dollars by claiming he was a real estate consultant for the Vatican in Rome.
Hathaway stuck by her man even though she had been repeatedly warned by friends that he was a shady character.
He pleaded guilty in Sept. 2008 to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy and was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to four an a half years in prison.
Anne was never implicated in any of his schemes.
Shulman on the other hand seems like a solid citizen. He graduated from Ivy League Brown University with a theatre degree in 2003.
He also attended the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute.
He started acting in 2005 on television, and has appeared in a few b-rated movies.
Hathaway told Harper's Bazaar in June that she has a problem with getting involved with the wrong men, and getting wrapped up in the "intensity of romance."
She said her relationship with Shulman was mellow and not exhausting.
"Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life," she said.
More recently, she suggested she was ready to settle down.
"Before, when I thought of marriage, I was afraid that I would only marry for business reasons, or because I wanted to live out a little girl's fantasy. That's not the case any more," she told German magazine Gala.
Hathaway and Shulman reportedly moved in together in Brooklyn last month.
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Big Sky Conference names male runner 'female athlete of the week,' leaves out he's transgender
Greg Piper •October 23, 2019
Dominated men's competition two years ago
Even men who identify as women typically acknowledge that they are "transgender women," clarifying that they were not born women.
The Big Sky Conference didn't even go that far when it honored a transgender woman as its "Female Athlete of the Week" in cross country. The student's university was even more circumspect, simply identifying the transgender woman as "Athlete of the Week."
June Eastwood, formerly known as Jonathan, "finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational" and helped the University of Montana finish seventh as a team, the conference said in a press release. Both pages for "June" and "Jonathan" remain live on a University of Montana Athletics website (source of collage, above).
Eastwood's men's page appears to have been last updated in July 2018. It identifies Jonathan as a 2015 graduate of Belgrade High, names his parents and sisters, and says he's a "women's, gender and sexuality studies major." June Eastwood's page simply says the student graduated from Belgrade in 2015 and is majoring in philosophy.
Eastwood beat out eight other nominated competitors for Female Athlete of the Week, all of whom appear to be biological women judging by their official college headshots. The conference does not note Eastwood is transgender.
The University of Montana does not even note that the conference has male and female categories in its press release on Eastwood's recognition.
It simply says Eastwood was named "Big Sky Conference Athlete of the Week" after beating San Diego State University's Jenny Sandoval, who also appears to be a biological woman. (The Missoulian published a condensed version of the press release without identifying it as such, instead crediting the article to "Missoulian staff.")
Eastwood mentioned having "four years of college distance running under their [sic] belt," alluding to the student's competition in the male category as recently as December 2017. Jonathan Eastwood comfortably won that race.
MORE: Trans professor taunts female critics after winning race (again)
Eastwood's jump to female competition was noted on the LetsRun.com forum in August. The original poster did not name Eastwood:
There is an athlete competing this fall in women's cross country on a division one team who once was on a male cross country team at the division one level with [personal bests] of 3:50 in the 1500 and 14:38 in the 5000m.
This is going to shake some things up and force the NCAA to examine how it will handle this new occurrence. I can't see how this athlete won't be the favorite at the NCAA championships.
I fear for women's sports in the NCAA.
An editor's note posted to the thread – even longer than the original post – said the "athlete in question appears to be" June Eastwood. The editor changed the title of the thread and imposed a registration requirement to comment:
We imagine it's not easy to transition and ask that you please be respectful of June Eastwood the person even if you, like us, vehemently don't respect her decision to compete in D1 sports as a woman.
The reality is the NCAA's rules on transgender participation are sorely lacking. In June the NCAA confirmed in writing to us the following, "The NCAA does not have a maximum testosterone level for its current policy. The current policy is being reviewed by our membership."
There also is no independent verification of T suppression. So as long as one had a note from a medical professional saying they had undergone one year of testosterone suppression – even if they were in fact flushing the pills down the toilet – that person would be eligible to compete. But one could take one birth control pill every six months and technically be meeting the rules. It's a travesty.
It's not clear why the conference would hide Eastwood's transgender status. The "pioneering athlete" was featured as transgender by a Montana TV station in August and the University of Montana itself in September.
MORE: Trans girls take top two spots at Connecticut HS track championship
In a post for American Thinker early Wednesday, a New York state-certified cross country and track and field official noted Eastwood's first-place finish in the women's race at the Oct. 4 Montana Invitationals.
"Not surprisingly, [Eastwood] has fared quite well against his weaker and slower female competitors this season, finishing first at the U of Montana's Invitational and second (by one second!) at the most recent Bronco Invitational," Bill Zwerger wrote, noting Eastwood also topped the male category at the 2017 competition:
I have the sneaking suspicion that his latest second-place finish was due to him "letting off the gas" toward the end of the race, seeking to minimize the negative publicity his winning yet again would have garnered, along with the outrage his female opponents must feel in having a male win every race against them. It will be interesting to see what happens when he competes in the NCAA D1 championships, whether he again backs off at the end or instead decides to end his collegiate X-C career as the champion…of women.
Zwerger told The College Fix in an email Wednesday that the Big Sky Conference posted its athletes of the week after his American Thinker post went up Wednesday.
Regarding Eastwood's recognition as female athlete of the week, he said: "It doesn't get any more woke (or insane, depending on one's perspective) than this."
A spokesperson for the University of Montana Sports Information Department told The Fix there was no subtext behind the decision to identify Eastwood as "Athlete of the Week," without "Female."
"I guess that's just the way I write it," Joel Carlson wrote in an email. He did the same for other athletes last month and in March who were recognized by the Big Sky Conference.
The Fix also sent queries to communications officials for both track and field and cross country at the Big Sky Conference, asking whether its failure to mention Eastwood's transgender status is conference policy and how it handles nonbinary, genderfluid or other students who do not consistently identify as "male" or "female."
The University of Oklahoma recently revised campus awards to remove sex terms entirely after a nonbinary student complained.
Read Big Sky's announcement and university press release.
CORRECTION: The original post referred to the wrong Montana university in a few places and incorrectly said that Eastwood's school left the runner off its own athletics home page. Eastwood attends the University of Montana. The post has been fixed. A sports spokesperson at the university also responded to a query after this post was published. His comments have been added.
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5 Indians featured in Time's '100 most influential people 2020'
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The TIME magazine has recently released the list of the world's most influential people in 2020. The annual list mentions the leading titans, tycoons, artists, pioneers, and icons which have put in all they have to bring a change and impact the contemporary world. The list includes people specialized in all niches; from politics to influencing and from CEOs to artists.
TIME CEO and editor in chief, Edward Felsenthal, said that the current year brings unprecedented challenges for all. 2020 is extremely different from other years and nobody could've predicted this six months ago. TIME 100 has always reflected on people's good deeds and inspired the world. This edition is special because apart from the regular influencers such as heads of states, entertainers, and CEOs, it includes extraordinary prodigies who have given up everything to save our lives, realign the global ethics, lift up a positive spirit and build a movement. The hard work and passion exhibited by such souls influence us towards a more resilient, more sustainable, more ethical as well as a healthier world.
Time in its list of 100 most influential people has mentioned US President Donald Trump, the former Vice President and the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris, American physician Dr. Anthony Fauci, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and German chancellor Angela Merkel. The list mentions the name of 5 Indians as well who are as follows:
He is the only Indian politician who has his name recorded on the list. Since he gained power in the general elections of 2014, he has appeared four times in the list in the editions of 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2020.
In 2015's edition, the globally renowned US President Barack Obama wrote a profile for him.
AYUSHMAN KHURRANA
The only person to represent Bollywood in the list star and musician Ayushmann Khurrana.
As a token of respect leading Bollywood actress and global icon, Deepika Padukone has written a piece for him in the magazine. She has whole-heartedly appreciated Khurrana's talent.
It is widely believed that Ayushman's cinematic character often attacks the societal stereotypes. Deepika Padukone in her article said that she distinctly remembers how Ayushman debuted the film industry from Vicky Donor. He has been a part of the entertainment industry before as an anchor as well. He has been able to create an influential impact through his memorable movies and rejoiced characters. He has challenged the parochial attitude of the Indian audience which beliefs in male protagonist depicting stereotypical masculinity with his convincingly classic characters directed right at these stereotypes in his award-winning movies such as Vicky Donor, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Badhaai Ho, as well as Article 15.
BILKIS DADI
The 82-year-old Bilkis Dadi was the face of anti-CAA/NRC Shaheen Bagh protests in Delhi.
Bilkis Dadi and other women, after days of sitting, became the symbol of hope and resistance in the three-month protest. All of them together came to be known as "Dadi Of Shaheen Bagh". The TIME magazine honored Bilkis Dadi in its list of "The 100 Most Influential People of 2020."
Rana Ayyub, the journalist and author, who has written about her for the TIME magazine, said that Bilkis represents the voice of the marginalized. With her valor and determination, she became the symbol of resistance in India, a country where the voices of minorities and women were being systematically drowned out by the majoritarian politics of the Modi regime, – wrote Mr. Ayyub.
Another name added to the list is that of Chief executive officer of Alphabet and Google, Sundar Pichai. He has left no stone unturned to bring prestige and pride to the Indian community.
He appeared in the 'Titans' category beside actress Gabrielle Union Miami Heat forward Dwayne Wade, and Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton. Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, said that Sundar embodies that genuine dream of Americans as he came from the Indian Subcontinent as an adult and then did everything possible to excel in his career to become the CEO of one of the most valuable companies in the world. "(Sundar) represents the best of what we aspire for our society. He used his natural gifts and strong work ethic to rise through the ranks of Google (now Alphabet) by leading many of their most successful products…" he said.
RAVINDRA GUPTA
Another name to bring laurels to our country by being included in the coveted list is clinical microbiology professor Ravindra Gupta.
Ravindra Gupta is a professor of clinical microbiology at Cambridge University. He has been carved his name in the TIME magazine under the category of 'Pioneers'. Gupta, an Indian origin doctor, is famous for his achievement in the field of Medicine which can potentially create history. He has successfully cured the London Patient Eric Castellijo of human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Eric is the second person in the world to be functionally cured of this deadly disease. "Dr. Gupta has shared his knowledge and his enthusiasm to find a feasible cure for everyone and has championed me and empowered me to become an ambassador of hope to millions of people living with HIV around the world," wrote Castellijo.
It is no doubt that Indians are doing abnormally well in several domains all over the world. They are bringing prestige to the country by leaving behind the trails of empowerment, justice, and potence. The legacy is to go on forever!
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Q: Running helm upgrade not updating user pods - Jupyterhub As title states, running helm upgrade is not updating my user pods.  Currently have culling and scheduling disabled (via the Helm chart)...but I believed that wouldn't/shouldn't matter.  Is there another option I'm missing or misunderstanding?
JupyterHub chart version 0.11.1
More information, I can tell the hub, proxy, and other deployments update when running helm upgrade, why wouldn't the user pods as well?
Update: This is necessary when the docker image the user pods are relying on is updated with anything.

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Established as Madonna College by the Felician Sisters of Livonia in 1937, Madonna University received its current name in 1991. This private, non-profit, Catholic university is located in suburban Livonia, Michigan. Though the institute has a strong affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church, it attracts students and faculty of diverse faiths. MU is regarded as one of the largest Catholic Franciscan independent universities in the nation.
Ranks 28th in Michigan and 962nd overall. See the entire top 2,000 colleges and universities list
Total Cost On-Campus Attendance $35,670
ACT / SAT 75%ile scores 25 / 1170
Madonna offers programs leading to associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees as well as certificates in diverse areas of study such as accounting & business law, history, learning, art, management and marketing, psychology, religious studies & philosophy, mathematics and computer science, criminal justice, education, gerontology, sociology, and nursing.
Certificate programs include Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Post MSN Certificate, Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Post-MSN Certificate, Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Post-MSN Certificate, Bereavement Post Master's Certificate, and Business Strategies for Nurses Post-MSN Certificate.
The Office of Continuing Education & Professional Studies offers noncredit and professional programs in diverse fields of study including information technology, business, visual arts, grant writing and nonprofit management, health care, languages, sales and marketing, web design, and writing. The affordable courses meet the educational needs of students seeking to define a new career path, learn a new skill or explore a favorite subject.
Freshman students seeking admission must send the completed application form along with the application fee, official transcripts, a 250-word essay describing educational goals, and ACT or SAT scores. Getting a transfer to the school is also fairly easy, applicants must send the completed application form along with all official transcripts from previously attended institutions. International students are encouraged to apply for admission as well. Applicants from non-English speaking countries must take a test to provide a proof of their proficiency in the language.
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Madonna also offers work-study programs for students that enable them to take up part-time jobs to help pay for college and gain work experience in their field of interest at the same time. The school also presents veteran benefits for the veterans, service members, and the family members who qualify.
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MU boasts a campus experience that is vibrant and supports the overall development of the students, allowing them to interact with each other in a friendly atmosphere. The students are encouraged to join the diverse clubs and organizations on the campus. Students have the freedom to express concerns and provide solutions to the campus community. The Student Government Association (SGA) serves as the connection between the students and the administration.
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ISTE 2013: Successful — but Too Big?
ISTE 2013 (San Antonio, June 23-26, 2013) defeated me. It was hot, too hot; it was big, too big — except that I am sure it generated a lot of money. The attendance was huge, national and international and local. The venue was so large that it made for sore feet.
There were busses to take you to the center, but the weather was so hot that you would rather walk to the site than wait 20 minutes for the next bus. Some meetings were so distant from each other that it was time impossible to get to the sessions.
Many people had just a few participants in their sessions. I felt like I do when in the airline lanes. These lanes would be: Vendors, Corporate Sponsors, Officers of ISTE, SIGS, Youth, SETDA. State Affiliates, Distinguished Apple Educators, and so on. Separation by funding, importance. And lost in the mix were new teachers who come to learn, make associations, and to benefit from ISTE membership.
A strand of kids were involved. There are people who think all kids are digital immigrants. I don't fight them. I tolerate them because they have the microphone and most of the funding. Perhaps ISTE is growing a new audience. The kids were everywhere, too. They did poster sessions and workshops, too.
A number of SIGs were involved. (See photos below.) We are at this time volunteers. We had a SIG open house. That's a good thing because the meetings all overlap. Significant interest groups work throughout the year and do professional development for ISTE. It was a good thing to see the people you talk to, if only briefly, in the course of the meetings. We networked at an Open House.
There were SETDA meetings, state affinity meetings. There were SIG-sponsored workshops and keynotes and bloggers' cafes. There were international gatherings… Does it sound like all too much? It was!
There were tourist distractions, but they were crowded too. Very crowded. I walked less steps in Rome. People in San Antonio walk all over the place, not just left or right. I fully expected someone to fall into the San Antonio River.
I think this is the very first time I gave up on the exhibit hall. It was too big, too many exhibitors, and crowded. I tried.
I have a black belt in exhibit halls, but this time I lost.
I did not go to Richard Culleta's keynote. I saw him at SETDA (San Antonio, June 21-24, 2013) and got his message about data. Boring. He did reference that the groups he profiled were funded from Race to the Top.
Twenty thousand people were at ISTE. I guess it was a marketing success.
People in line for Surface tablets. Microsoft gave away 10,000 tablets. I wrote about that event here. There were tears of joy here in the room where they were giving them away.
A very intimate and wonderful board meeting at ISTE.
It was expensive to attend.
We sent one member of our company for the start-up pavilion. He had a 2-foot square 1/4 table as a "booth" at a cut-rate price that was so good that ISTE had their quota of twenty companies signed up in just a couple of days from announcement.
Our goal was simple: strategic alliances. We were totally uninterested in selling. We were very polite to teachers who came by but did not spend time with lengthy demonstrations or sales pitches.
As a result of being there in that small capacity, we have three new potential large alliances that each could boost our annual revenues substantially. At least one should come to fruition.
For us, anyway, ISTE was a great success. Top-level contacts with very interested potential partners don't come from most such efforts.
What were your goals going to ISTE? How well did you succeed in meeting them? Do other conferences or other ways of fulfilling those goals work better for you? Would you go again?
I hope that some of our readers will answer these questions as I have. I would go again — in a heartbeat.
Maybe I had too many goals.
I wanted to meet with SIGS and to network with the people to whom I talk all of the time online.
I wanted to see some of the edtech "stars" present. That was a goal that was not met. I waited to buy workshops and they were filled there were a few workshops available but not the ones I wanted. I probably am spoiled, because I did not expect to pay for the workshops initially, but did get funding for them. Too late.
Meeting members of the board was a goal to express our ideas and concerns about those who are still not on board the use of tools . technology and transformational learning.. they posed the questions so I think, I think it was noted that there is still a huge digital divide. I understand that advocacy is a very small part of the outreach from ISTE.
Talking about and promoting the computational sciences in the age of PRISM seems to me to be a great idea. Many don't understand it.
I perceive ISTE to be not just the tools of technology, but a place where philosophy and research is shared as well, meaningful research that affects teachers in the classroom.
Common Core was covered well, but.. the controversy goes on.
I am sure there were some vendors who had handouts, as I can locate resources on line, I did not see them.
Having been in the center of power over the years, I will admit that I am not a business person. I go to ISTE to learn and to make connections for people across the digital divide and to find opportunities to bring people to see what the world of technology looks like. Maybe I am a hopeless romantic.
I went back four times, but there were lines , I saw the Google booth.
Jammed packed full. One could wait.
The exhibit hall is the place that one experiences all of the magic of the new ways of using technology, and one can discover technology that a particular school system or technology person may not have in mind. To that end I discovered new robotic resources, new LEGO tools and ways of working.
Microsoft give tools to teachers and schools. ( and instruction and resources) Are you tired yet? It may be that I am still learning and you are in business so the endpoint was different for you.
The new programming resources at LEGO were there to see and to understand. That was an unexpected discovery.
I wanted to meet with the computational SIG but there was a conflict, I met with them privately which kept us all from going to sessions we were interested in.
Gamification was robust. That was one of my interests too. I don't have a single minded agenda. I felt that the academic push for Gamification was mostly done by the SIG. They were super.
** the most important thing I did was to support digital citizenship , the idea of it as an incoming SIG. Perhaps the problem was that there are only so many hours in a day, and days in a week. In America, we still have school boards who are afraid of the Internet even as the President talks about access for all.
How I conquered going to the Mobile SIG? We cut our meeting short and walked over to that SIG because we have mutual interests.
I have attended ISTE from the time it was NECC. I have conquered big exhibit halls , as I attended the Texas conference in Austin.
I conquered that one, but I did not have but responsibility to share TACC.
In the SIG booth we met a lot of first time teachers.
It was my pleasure to share the Microsoft outreach with them, to network with them, and to assure them that the world of technology is not a moving train.
I am glad you were successful. I was not.
A pleasure was to have Dr. Paul Resta decide to help with our SIG, of Digital Equity and to meet with like minded people.
I'm skipping ISTE this year. And I'll confess: for the first time since I quit working at ISTE, I'm fairly relieved to not be going.
I made the decision in part because I'm working hard on my book, and traveling costs too much – too much time and too much money.
I am, of course, sad that I'll miss the opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones. That is always the biggest draw for me of any event: an opportunity to connect face-to-face and learn from the folks I am connected to and learn from online. And ISTE has been, for many years now, the one place I can be sure to regularly run into people.
ISTE usually attracts around 12,000 attendees, including several thousand exhibitors. I can't help but think about that exhibitor-to-teacher ratio – about 1:3 or 1:4 – particularly in light of my deep dissatisfaction with SXSWedu, where the ratio felt almost reversed. But even 1:4 isn't such a great makeup if you want the focus to be on "learning" and not on "tools," let's be honest, and it's no secret that ISTE (the conference and the organization) relies heavily on corporate dollars.
For a (short) while, I'd hoped that education startups would provide an alternative to the Pearsons and the Prometheans that dominate the sponsorships and exhibit floor and would forge a different sort of relationship with the educators in attendance – one that involves listening, not selling to teachers. I'm much less optimistic these days, not just because Pearson (via Learn Capital investment) owns a financial stake in so many startups, but because I see many young companies following the same conference marketing practices as established ones: booths, giveaways, parties.
But who can blame them, I guess. These practices have become standard at ISTE. Attendees expect and look for the freebies, sometimes with little regard for the quality, the utility, the data portability, their privacy, the pedagogical implications.
Microsoft, for example, is handing out 10,000 "free" Surface RTs to attendees. And by midday Saturday as I started writing this, there were already photos shared on Twitter of the line of those waiting to pick it up. I do wonder how many have read the reviews for the device (largely negative) or have thought critically about the data they're agreeing to sign over in exchange for it. I wonder too, how just a few weeks after news broke of the NSA's PRISM project and tech companies' cooperation with building an infrastructure for spying on us, after Bill Gates' pronouncement that he plans to spend millions to equip every classroom in the country with video cameras, after all the handwringing about inBloom and its massive data grab, that educators could be so exuberant about Google Glass.
I don't get it. I mean, I try. I recognize the powerful allure of the education and technology industries' myths. But right now, I'm happy to skip ISTE as I'm busily trying to write all my observations and frustrations and fears out in book-length form.
Don't get me wrong: I like teachers that push teaching and learning with technology forward, and many in attendance at ISTE do just that. But I'm disappointed – increasingly so – that concerns about rampant tech consumerism and solutionism go largely unrecognized. I'm troubled that data portability, ownership, and privacy aren't a core part of the ISTE (or larger ed-tech) conversation. My session proposal on this topic – Terms of Service 101 – was rejected, hardly a surprise since the popular sessions are always a variation on the "Top 5000 Apps You Can Use in Your Classroom" theme.
All this strikes me as a signal there's a major problem at the core of education technology as we (commonly) know it, one that isn't simply the fault of the companies churning out their products (although I'm happy to put a lot of the blame there) but is also a result of the flaws in teacher training and in professional development. It's a reflection, more broadly, of our cultural fascination with the shiny and the new. And no doubt, it's a problem exacerbated by many technology and education technology blogs, where every app and every tool is equally newsworthy and nifty.
The theme of this year's ISTE conference is "forging a learning frontier" – with little reflection on the imperialist legacy intertwined with such an analogy, I'd wager (but that's a separate blog post). Yet it feels like, in many ways, we're retreading the same education technology landscape that we have been for decades.
For over 30 years now, ISTE has offered a strange and often unsettling combination of the old and the new. The same, old problems of student engagement and attainment, for example, alongside the newest tools that promise to enhance or expedite these. And yet, as year-after-year the old problems remain, no matter which new tools are adopted, we should probably consider there's something awry with the formulation. Something deeply, deeply awry. We should talk about it — and talk about it loudly. We should recognize too that much of the "newness" of "the latest and greatest" that's celebrated at ISTE is a function of the planned obsolescence built into much of the technology and education industry – there's always an update or an upgrade to procure, a latest edition to buy, a new (and well-lobbied for) policy mandate to fulfill.
Always. Every year. And by design.
So if I miss ISTE this year, I think I can be pretty safe in assuming it'll be pretty darn similar — with slight variations in color and layout, of course — when the conference moves to Atlanta in June 2014. Maybe I'll see you there.
Just to show you that others see it my way. I HAVE NEVER MISSED AN ISTE MEETING. It used to be about teachers and I discern that it is now about business with teachers a small part of the equation.. but maybe not with Kecia Ray. I have seen her work.
You hit on one thing that singles out mind-numbing conferences. The give-aways tend to belittle the intellects of the attendees.
You also point out correctly that the conference organizers are just tools of the big sponsoring companies who dominate the exhibit hall. Go to those booths and see a total lack of innovation. Yet, everyone goes. Go figure!
With respect to your comments on newness, I have gone for the subscription business model. We must constantly improve and enhance. There are no new editions for us. Every couple of years, we have a major update that no one has to buy to get because we do a cloud-delivered service. The new comes automatically as long as you renew.
I too am upset at the consumerism that permeates this show and other education actiivities. If a tech thing takes the consumer world by storm for a few years, it must therefore be good for education. Not.
I have to make enough money to pay the bills. I wish to make a real difference in education. These goals should not conflict, at least not very much. However, those seeking to become billionaires have a different view, and I've encountered it many times.
Harry you also need to read the "Bad Assed Teacher's Complaints on Facebook!!
For those who do not belong to the BAT bad assed teachers, it is that the feeling is that vendors and big money have taken over education and teachers are now customers and worse. There is a cartoon to show the bigs in education.
While this comment certainly is valid, it leaves out much. Big "vendors" and big money are taking over our entire society. Except for a few, e.g. textbook companies, they had left education alone due to a perception that it didn't pay. With the rise of ed-tech, new opportunities for making money, i.e. squeezing our schools, arose. So, many companies, some new and well financed, jumped into the fray with lots of marketing and slick-looking products but nothing really new underneath it all.
If I name specific examples, I'll just get a lot of static from teachers who have invested in these faux teaching products.
The marketing noise level, promoted by billion-dollar companies and investors, has reached the point where it's hard to distinguish good from good-looking. This is apropos because ISTE exemplifies this trend. I saw an article on ISTE that covered it from the point of view of the ten most eye-catching booths at ISTE. Now, that's fluff reporting at its worst. Who cares?! If you care, you should not be a teacher.
Yet, the ISTE booths did attract educators of all stripes. People stood in a long line for hours to get the free Surface tablets given away by Microsoft. Vendors spent tens of thousands of dollars on multiple booth spaces and eye-catching displays in them. Why? To get you, the educator, to pay attention to the cover instead of the book.
If you don't like big money dominating education, stop buying based on appearances and start looking under the covers.
When we created our software system for science education, the tools available for building websites and software products were relatively crude compared to today. We built both the website and our product to be simple and easy to use but not flashy. We were just starting and really could not afford to make a great piece of software AND a super slick interface. We had teachers complain that our interface was too difficult but did not hear that from students. The interface was workmanlike, practical, and it functioned quite well. It was NOT difficult; it just didn't look like more expensive interfaces. From a usability point of view, there was little reason to change.
However, the constant feedback from teachers, who actually decide what to use in classrooms and availability of new software made us revisit our interface. Students are the actual users, but teachers are the deciders, while administrators are the buyers. We invested the time in a nicer looking interface for the teachers and administrators (neither of whom use our software, except for occasional administrative purposes). Underneath, it is all the same. Yet, we now have people complimenting us on our product who wouldn't look at it before.
The way schools buy software forces small companies without the wherewithal to make slick-looking products out of the market. It allows a slick interface to cover up a garbage product that still gets sold by the carload. The way that too many teachers decide on what software to use is by feeling instead of by cold logic.
It's the same with many of the decisions being made in education. Generally speaking, these decisions favor those with big marketing bucks who are only interested in maximizing profits. If they spend lots on money on shows, on websites, on making user interfaces shiny, on well dressed sales reps, on give-aways, and so on, they get your business and have no money left to build the inside well. You end up buying a really nice looking shell, and all of the hype convinces you that you made the right decision.
This way of doing business forces smaller companies to spend more money, which forces them to raise their prices. Small companies are our innovators. Is this result really what you're after?
You are right on all points…. there were 500 exhibitors at ISTE.


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The fonds consists of a three page transcription of a letter written by Alexander Stewart on 12 October 1805, to his father, James Stewart in Perthshire, Scotland. Alexander's letter, postmarked from Charlottetown, was written in response to...
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Catherine St. John collection : [1834-1970]
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From clan to clearance : history and archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD / by Keith Branigan with J. M. Bumstead . . . [et al.] ; and contributions from E. Campbell . . . [et al.] . Oxford: Oxbow Books
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MH Council approves special election for parks project
January 8, 2021 4:45 am	Local News, WireReady
Photo: New Mountain Home City Council members (from left) Susan Stockton, Nick Reed and Carry Manuel were sworn in by Circuit Judge Jason Duffy.
Voters in the City of Mountain Home will get their opportunity to approve a proposal to overhaul the city's parks system and construct a new community center at McCabe Park on March 9.
After swearing in three new members Thursday night – Carry Manuel, Nick Reed and Susan Stockton – the Mountain Home City Council unanimously approved three ordinances to call for a special election to levy a one-half cent sales and use tax to finance the construction and a one-quarter sales and use tax for maintenance and operation of the proposed Mountain Home Community Center Complex facility.
The total cost of the proposal is estimated at $38.4 million, $36.2 million of which would be used to not only construct the new facility, but overhaul features at every site in the Mountain Home parks system.
A special election for the parks project had been scheduled for May of 2020, but was canceled due to concerns about the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sales-tax performance remained strong throughout 2020, with the city seeing slightly over a 9% increase in collections.
Paul Phillips, senior managing director of Crews & Associates, the firm that would be tasked with handling the bond issue, updated the council if tax revenues remain at current levels, coupled with bond rates being at some of their lowest ever, the half-cent tax could be retired in as few as 16 years. Increases in tax collections would result in a quicker payoff.
After the facility is paid off, the half-cent tax would sunset. The quarter-cent tax would be permanent for not only maintaining and operation of the community complex, but the parks system as well.
The council also heard the need for passage of both ballot measures. Passage of only the half-cent tax would allow the facility to be built, only to leave the city without the maintenance and operation funds provided by the quarter-cent tax.
The sales tax rate inside the Mountain Home city limits would rise to 9.875 percent with approval of both proposed measures. The new taxes would amount to an additional 75 cents per $100 spent in the city, according to estimates.
The council also took care of the annual housekeeping measure setting forth the organization of the city. The council also selected its members to serve on the Mountain Home Advertising and Promotion Committee, with Bob Van Haaren being reelected, and Jennifer Baker approved as a new member.


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Once again we remembered the transitions from the last year. I think it is fair to say the service and sermon were touching and informative and healing Here are just a few photos from the setup of the front (click for larger versions, back button to return). You have to be there for the full effect and emotion, but video and photos during the service don't feel right.
The overall look of the front. The pulpit is on vacation.
A little closer to the key elements.
Sorry about the image quality. All I had was my daughter's iPhone 4.


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"As the Twig is Bent" for Outstanding Public Service by a Regional Station
(Honorable Mention) Outstanding Public Service by a Regional Station: A citation in the field of public service by a regional station is well-deserved by station WCCO, Minneapolis, for its program entitled, As the Twig is Bent. This program is the culmination of a year-long effort to secure the passage of a Minnesota State Youth Conservation Act, and, what is more, to make that act effective. So unusual and so practical was this program that the ideas in it... read more
"Disaster Broadcast From Cotton Valley" for Outstanding Public Service by a Local Station
Outstanding Public Service by a Local Station: In 1947, no local station in the country was more alert than Station KXAR of Hope, Arkansas. They merit a Peabody Award for the speed with which they came to the rescue of their own community. Here is the remarkable record of a new station, handicapped by limited facilities, which rose to the crisis when the neighboring country was devastated by a tornado. With a word of thanks to Mutual, who... read more
"Report Uncensored" for Outstanding Public Service by a Regional Station
Outstanding Public Service by a Regional Station: Every great municipality today is faced with the problem of juvenile delinquency. Our award for outstanding public service by a regional station goes to station WBBM of Chicago for its program, Report Uncensored. With alert detail and wise understanding, this program has helped to educate and arouse a great community to the causes of juvenile delinquency; and, what is more, has stimulated enlistment in the city Volunteer Bureau for a comprehensive... read more
CBS Is There
This award in education goes to a network, the Columbia Broadcasting System, for the real contribution it has made in its documentaries and in its program, CBS Is There. The documentaries, on subjects such as housing, health and old-age security, have been presented with thoroughness and candor, and at good broadcasting hours, not when the country is asleep. In CBS Is There, the network has invented a most effective method of making history come alive. This is one... read more
CBS Views the Press
If the F.C.C. criticizes radio, the newspapers print the story with glee. But if radio has the temerity to criticize the Press, each newspaper looks the other way and says, "Who, me?" The Peabody Committee wishes to congratulate the Columbia Broadcasting System for its weekly commentary, CBS Views the Press, a program of hard-hitting, frequently witty and always stimulating criticism of the New York press. Our award signalizes the skillful commentary of Don Hollenbeck, the courage of Edward... read more
Personal Award: Elmer Davis for Outstanding Reporting and Interpretation of the News
In September 1939, a clear mind speaking with the twang of Indiana helped us to think straight about the war. The Peabody Committee gave Elmer Davis its first award for his reporting of the news and we are happy to honor him again this year. Elmer Davis has learned to live in our national capital without losing his sanity, his sense of humor, and his knowledge of right from wrong. In a day of hysterical utterance, his resolute... read more
(Honorable Mention) A citation in the field of drama for Studio One, of CBS. As director of Studio One, Fletcher Marble has chosen remarkable material from books, plays, and short stories, preserving the spirit of the original in a production which, at its best, is distinguished for its taste, restraint, and radio craftsmanship.... read more
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
If music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, let's have more music in this troubled year. Twenty-two years ago, Dr. Serge Koussevitsky first led the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the airways. Since then, millions of Americans in cities, small towns, and in lonely farmhouses have listened enrapt to the music at his command. Today the nation takes pride in his incomparable record. For the genius and devotion which brought these musicians together; for the hearing given to... read more
The Children's Hour
(Honorable Mention) The Peabody Board and the Listening Posts have searched high and low for outstanding programs for children and too often what we found was simply at the level of mediocrity. In Washington, DC, however, there is a Saturday morning program for the pre-school child presented by Station WQQW, a program which reflects the sincerity and good taste of Carl Green, as he makes his attractive selection of songs and stories. Mr. Green and Station WQQW merit... read more
Theatre Guild on the Air
This year, our award in drama goes unhesitatingly to Theater Guild on the Air, American Broadcasting Company, which has done what every great company always dreamed of doing: It has brought the best of the Theatre, the finest plays of our time, right into every village and hamlet, right into every home. By the end of this season, more than one hundred plays will have been produced for an ever-increasing audience. For the admirable casting, for the unerring... read more
United Nations Today
(Honorable Mention) To the program, United Nations Today, which, as it was carried over a "Network For Peace" of 115 stations, has made it possible for millions of Americans to feel that they have a vital interest in the United Nations' deliberations. This program has made it possible for listeners to hear the official delegates as they debate the momentous issues which will determine our children's future. In a world sick with fearful thinking, it is tonic to... read more


Today I'm delighted to welcome Simon Farrant to the blog. Please would you introduce yourself Simon, and then we'll find out more about your most recent book, Death Dolls?
Hello Mark! I'm Simon, and I live in Corby. It's a town an hour or so north of London by train and one of the fastest growing towns in the country. A bit of trivia, it's the only town in the country with extensive ancient woodlands in the town.
I've been writing for just over a year. A friend of mine asked for short stories to submit to an anthology. That was it – I was hooked! At home I live with my wife, Louise, our three children, our Bengal cat, Missy and Skeddie the pink tongued skink.
So far I have co-authored a anthology of short horror stories, with Mark Nye, and three hard-boiled (gory!) crime stories. There's a fourth one called Driven to Murder on the horizon.
In the past I've gained a degree, driven 18 wheel trucks and been a special constable. In 2011 I became ill with the swine flu and this developed into fibromyalgia, and I also suffer with psoriatic arthritis. It eventually meant losing the jobs, and I now use a mobility scooter to help with getting around. Writing has given me a great new outlook on life, and I love it.
Will your skin become a handbag after you die?
Benjamin sees himself as a great guy who employs various misfits at his remote family farm, but when his mother dies during a house fire, grief takes its toll on his mind. Strapped for cash, Benjamin starts a new, gruesomely profitable leather business with Tilly, an expert craft worker. The only hitch – where will they get the bodies from? Can they find people willing to sell their dead relatives' skin or will they need to take matters into their own hands?
If you like fantastic, gritty, dark crime that's not for the faint of heart then you will love Death Dolls. It is the third book in the hard boiled crime series, Newdon Killers, by Simon Farrant.
'Absolutely fabulous story, Simon Farrant is an excellent author who keeps you pinned to the edge of your seat.' – 5* Amazon Review.
Pick up Death Dolls to discover this exciting new book today!
You can find Death Dolls on Amazon by clicking on the book cover.
Did something you heard/saw inspire the plot for the book, or did the idea appear in your imagination out of the blue?
Last year I had a tattoo done, and I started to outline a story called Dr Tattoo. I wasn't sure how it was going to pan out, but it had the scene of Benjamin McGuinness building up his tattoo business in the countryside. I for some reason wondered if it was possible to make leather goods from human skin, and looked it up on the internet. To my surprise, it is possible and you can buy it. So, this was in the back of my mind, and the story came together. After introducing the next tattooist, the idea of a community of misfits seemed like a great plot.
The story started life as a short story in the book I mentioned earlier, the anthology, called Anathema. I was very pleased with the short story but knew that there was a much longer book bursting to be born. The ending is a little different too, which is fun as I wanted people who may have read the short to be surprised by the change.
Why did you decide to set the series in the same town, and do any characters feature in more than one book?
It feels right to have a fictional town, as it gives me a lot of scope to drop 'Easter Eggs' in stories that people who have read different books would notice. For example, in my upcoming book Driven to Murder, one character buys a pregnancy kit from a shop that features in the first book of the trilogy. Although they are quite different genres, it helps me to build a more multi dimensional world.
Sgt Laura Love features in Famously Ordinary, Death Dolls and much more so in Driven to Murder. She become DS Love in that book, and I plan to write some more mainstream crime books next year with Laura as the main police officer. The readers will have seen her try to tackle James Dean in Famously Ordinary, and then Benjamin McGuinness and his crew in Death Dolls and on to the murders in DtM, so I feel that readers will be rooting for her.
In Driven to Murder, a couple of high profile characters come back to the pages. I can't reveal who yet, but I think that readers who have been fans of Newdon Killers will be happy….
Which character was the most fun to write – good or bad, and why?
This is a joint one, between the brother and sister Benjamin and Lisa McGuinness. Seeing the moral dilemma that Lisa feels along with her boss at the undertakers was interesting to write. Without giving away too much, it seems like a perfect money making opportunity for them. Benjamin was really fun to write, the cringe was strong writing the murder scene when Benjamin had to dispose of one of his original employees who was intent on blowing the whistle to the authorities.
I very much enjoyed writing the comic scenes of him flying a small aircraft with customers to dispose of their loved one's ashes over the sea. I imagine that some readers will laugh at this, and it might be a bit more emotional to other readers.
In a few words could you tell us why we would enjoy reading Death Dolls?
Yes! Death Dolls is a short novel, so a fairly easy book to read in one great reading sitting if you have the time to do so. It's been called unique, as in a bit of horror a bit of crime and a bit of suspense. One reviewer went so far as to call it 'Brilliant', although I am far too modest to say that myself! The characters are mis-fits, and the setting is quite unusual too.
Do you have a favourite part of the story? Would you like to share an extract?That's a tough question, Mark!
I really like how Benjamin wants to provide a secure home for his employees; I wouldn't be surprised if some readers could see themselves living there too.
Nine months to the day after the piggery came under the stewardship of the triplets, Skunkworks Leather opened for business.
Tilly stood with great pride when Benjamin gathered the workers in the yard and placed the ribbon that he had affixed across the door to celebrate his new business opening between the blades of a pair of scissors. He said, 'Thank you all for coming.' That generated some laughter from the crowd, all of who lived in the accommodation on site, so it wasn't hard for them to be there.
'You're welcome, you three have been a total pleasure to have on board,' said Benjamin.
'Oh, what's that?' Benjamin said, an eyebrow lifted in surprise.
He blushed a deep shade of red, which was something that he never normally did. Zack and the other two sisters smirked.
Tilly laughed the awful laugh that the trio seemed to enjoy as if they knew they sounded like a coven of witches. Zack lit up a cigarette and puffed out a huge plume of smoke into the sky. Tilly pointed at him, 'Don't even think of smoking anywhere near this place Zack. There's loads of chemicals and I don't wish to risk a fire, mate! Anyway, see you lot in a bit, I have work to do.' She went into her new workshops and got on with preparing ready for hides to arrive. Zack and Benjamin returned to the tattoo studio, and the two remaining women made their way back to the Piggery.
Thank you Mark for inviting me on to your blog, I very much appreciate the opportunity!


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Перетягування канату — вид спорту, в якому дві команди безпосередньо міряються силою.

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Вісім учасників кожної з команд, чия загальна вага не повинна перевищувати максимальної для відповідної вагової категорії, розташовуються біля різних кінців канату, діаметр якого від 10 см до 12,5 см, а довжина не менше 33,5 м. Посередині каната робиться «центральна позначка» і на відстані 4 метрів від неї дві бічних позначки. Перед початком змагання команди стають так, щоб центральна позначка була розташована над проведеною на землі рискою. За сигналом судді кожна команда починає тягнути канат, намагаючись щоб відмітка, найближча до суперників, перетнула межу на землі (тобто намагаючись перетягнути канат на 4 метри), або щоб протилежна команда заробила фол, який зараховується якщо хто-небудь з команди сяде або впаде.

Проводяться також змагання за правилами, відмінними від традиційних. Так канат, що використовується на змаганнях, які проходять під час фестивалю в південнокорейській провінції Кьонсан має довжину 251 метр, діаметр близько 1,4 метра і важить 54,5 тонни.

Змагання в програмі Олімпійських ігор

Змагання з перетягування каната на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1904 року.

У програму Олімпійських ігор 1900—1920 перетягування канату входило як дисципліна легкої атлетики (на Іграх 1912 року, згідно з офіційним звітом, фігурувало як самостійний вид спорту), проте в наш час МОК на всіх Іграх враховує перетягування канату як окремий вид спорту . Переможцями Ігор були:

 1900 — змішана команда Швеції та Данії;
 1904 — команда Атлетичного клубу Мілвокі (США);
 1908 — команда поліції Лондона (Велика Британія);
 1912 — команда поліції Стокгольма (Швеція);
 1920 — збірна Великої Британії.

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Міжнародна федерація перетягування каната () утворена 1960 року; у наш час до неї входить 51 національна федерація; федерація визнана МОК .

Перетягування канату входить в програму Всесвітніх ігор. Щорічно проводяться чемпіонати світу серед національних збірних — окремо на відкритому повітрі та в закритих приміщеннях. Проводяться змагання і серед клубів.

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How do you convince your audience in 3 steps + best wishes for 2019!
Best wishes for 2019! Full of development, insights and presentation pleasure!
A few weeks ago, I started the fresh year, by supping over the Herengracht! It was truly magical to slide over the ink black water and paddle under those beautiful light art objects.
So, besides sharing my new year's card, also find enclosed a fresh 2019 Newsletter. Wherein you may read, how to convince an audience in 3 steps!
Or to put it differently, how can you not only lead the horse to the water, but make it drink as well?
The horse that refuses to drink.
In practice I often notice that many presenters use especially one element of the psychological process to convince an audience. Namely, a well-structured story based on good arguments.
So, in short, this often does not provide a problem. Which does not surprise me. Since, the professionals that I encounter are often specialists in their field and know a great deal about their subject.
However, there are still 2 other elements that are important and needed in the psychological process to convince your audience. And by convincing, I mean that your audience not only nods in an understanding fashion (logic), but that they go one step further and really embrace your idea, service or product.
And these other 2 elements are often missing.
So, in a nutshell, we need the 3 elements of the psychological process of convincing and not only one, so that your horse will not refuse the water bucket but will be eager and willing to drink it.
What are these 2 missing parts?
If you have ever followed a training or coaching session with me, the terms logos, pathos and ethos may sound familiar to you. According to rhetoric's *1 these parts are needed to be a good persuasive speaker. In the PWI training we zoom in on each part separately. We practice with all of them and in the final presentation everything comes together.
Simply put, these parts boil down to the following.
The arguments, data, logic, structure.
The emotions or appealing to the senses.
We can also see and feel it. For instance: examples, pictures, metaphors, stories.
We can feel it is a problem that needs to be solved, or a great desire that we need so strive for.
The speaker is congruent, body language and what the speakers says are in sync.
It is about use of voice, posture, gestures, contact with the audience.
Is the speaker "behind" his position?
Do we feel and trust the speaker wants the best for us?
Do all these parts go well? Are the parts balanced and do they connect to the specific public we have in front of us? Then you can feel the magic of persuasive presenting. The presenter is clear, engaging and credible.
And what is such great fun and truly amazing here?
It is that these 3 parts, logos, pathos and ethos can also be consciously used in the structure of a presentation. You put them in a specific order, that coincides with the introduction, middle and ending of your presentation.
In every part of your presentation (intro-middle-ending) you emphasize one of the parts. This order and emphasis on one of these parts is namely exactly following the psychological process, that the public needs in order to be convinced!
(Note: this does not mean that you will not, at the same time, use these elements throughout your presentation anyways. You will merely emphasize a particular part in a certain manner at a certain point in your presentation).
Let's have a look at how this happens, by means of a beautiful proverb, that Nobbe en Mieras use in their wonderful book "story-design" *2.
"You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink".
· If you want your horse to drink some water, you will first need to win its confidence. This is relatively easy. Cautiously, you will put your hand under its nose, so it can smell you. If its ears again erect themselves, you will gently rub its manes and whisper kind words. In this first phase of convincing, your credibility, or character is key. The others first have to trust you. ETHOS.
· After this, you may get the reins and lead the horse to the water. You will have to remove any obstacles that will be in the way. Occasionally, you will have to hold a carrot in front and clearly give the horse direction. This second phase, represents argumentation, convincing your audience on a cognitive level. LOGOS.
· Eventually you will be at the edge of the bucket, where you will enter the hardest, most difficult phase: how to make the beast drink? How to make sure your horse is eager todrink? This final phase "to appeal to emotion", is crucial for having success with your presentation. Without emotion, the other party will not come into action. PATHOS.
1. Your character, or your personal credibility. This persuasive element will get a lot of attention in the introduction of your presentation ETHOS.
2. Your reasoning, or in other words a good story with good content. This will predominantly take place in the middle part of your presentation. LOGOS.
3. The emotion or being able to call on the correct emotion. Important throughout your story, but it will be central in your closure. PATHOS.
In short, convincing an audience is not only about good arguments, but also about winning trust and using emotion in a functional manner. Because, if your audience cannot picture and feel that you and your information, product, service or idea can make a difference, your information is not really going to sink in and convince them.
This means that you might get your audience to the bucket of water, but you will not be able to make them drink, without including character and emotion!
How to do this exactly in practice?
How to put Character and Emotion in, in the right manner?
How to convince your audience in 3 steps and follow the right psychological path?
So that you will become more effective and professional as a speaker? And know at all times what is exactly needed to build a convincing presentation.
Also ideal if you have followed a training with PWI before and it is crucial for you to also be able to convince with your presentation.
*1 Rhetorics: the art of effective or persuasive speaking.
*2 Story-Design: Nobbe en Mieras.


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Issue #230 – Elite: Reclamation
Posted on: April 20, 2016 Written by: mossfoot@gmail.com
Elite was the first open-ended "space sim" video game, released back in 1984, and spawning two sequels in the mid-90s. Last year it was born again with the ambitious Elite: Dangerous. And along with it came a whole mess of original novels set in its universe.
The games have the same basic premise—the player is given a ship and has to make his or her own way in the universe. That's it. You can be a trader, miner, explorer, pirate, bounty hunter, whatever. There is no story script pinning you down and no plot hammer forcing you to the next cutscene. It's the original sandbox game.
Actually, saying Elite has no story is a bit misleading. There is a very large and persistent universe going on in the background, spanning three major factions: the Federation, the Empire, and the Alliance. Politicians, business moguls, even a pirate king all fight to hold onto or expand their influence, some through diplomacy, others through finance, and still others through force. There is no easily defined good or evil side, each has admirable and less-than-admirable traits. It's up to the player to find their place among them, or stand alone.
The game's news network, GalNet, updates almost every day with things that are happening in the universe. Since its release, the Federation's president has died in a hyperspace accident and replaced by a far more militaristic leader (2016 update: turns out she's not dead after all, what a twist!). The Emperor was murdered on his wedding day, ultimately resulting in his illegitimate daughter taking his place. Strange alien artifacts have been popping up, causing many to try and unravel its mysteries. Whispers of conspiracy abound, minor wars are fought, and plagues can ravage worlds.
But the key word here is background. It's the same kind of impact CNN and global politics has on your everyday life, which is usually next to zero. Your story is your own, as are your allegiances and ambitions. Even cooperating with other players is optional, with some choosing to support a faction in large organized groups, while others remain a lone wolf, going wherever the wind blows.
This is actually the main strength for a novel set in this universe. Like the game itself, there are no real restrictions to the stories one can tell. The sandbox, and its toys, are all readily available. There are already eight or so novels so far and one anthology, Tales from the Frontier, which collects stories by 15 authors from around the world.
The downside is that there is no character touchstone for a reader to relate to, and characters are the key to holding reader interest. In a Star Wars or Star Trek novel you've got familiar faces the reader will instantly connect with. Even the Mass Effect novels kept secondary characters involved to maintain that tie. In Elite, it's all up to the author, so they better be up to the challenge.
Drew Wagar's Elite: Reclamation, is definitely up to that challenge. It doesn't provide cookie cutter good guys or bad guys, instead playing in a wide range of gray.
The novel quickly immerses you in the unforgiving nature of galactic politics, with a vital mining colony bombarded and taken over by the Empire, and a legal loophole preventing the Federation from doing anything about it. After three years of a deranged Senator's rule, an orchestrated coup that was meant to put a more stable candidate in charge backfires, with the heir apparent first abducted by a pirate lord, then unintentionally abducted again by a young pilot hoping to make a name for himself.
While politics and intrigue are involved, they are not the focus of the story any more than the Death Star is the focus of Star Wars. The Senator's daughter, Kahina, is intentionally difficult to like at first, though it's easy to see that she comes by her prickly attitude honestly. Her mentor, Dalk, shifts seamlessly into whatever environment he's required to be in—household tutor, rebel subversive, loyal Imperial, bounty hunter, yet at the same time he's always on course with his own personal agenda.
The pirate queen Octavia is cruel, sadistic and efficient, to the point that she'd be perfectly at home in the world of Game of Thrones. And much like someone from Westeros, her deeper motivations and interest in Kahina aren't what they seem to be at first. They're a whole lot worse. Meanwhile, the young pilot Hassan is pretty much in over his head with this bunch.
Drew does a good job of incorporating the obligatory technobabble and exposition in a fluid and unobtrusive way. It's always a tricky thing, hiding the "tell me professor" moments or trying to incorporate a tech-tech solution without sounding like an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, but Drew does it well.
The big question for any adaptation or expansion of a property, though, is whether or not it stands up on its own right. Does Elite: Reclamation work as a standalone SF novel? Yes, for the most part. There are some things someone unfamiliar with the game world might take issue with. The nature of the Federation and the Empire feels a bit underdeveloped, though we do see more of what the Empire is like through Kahina's pre-coup life and Dalk's various roles. But honestly, the same could be said for any standalone Star Wars or Star Trek novel.
Ultimately it's a minor quibble since the focus is on the characters caught up in an elaborate chase, where nobody knows who to trust, or what their real intentions are. This is an SF adventure that subverts expectations as often as it flies straight into them, and the end result is a story that feels more layered and complex than your standard pulp adventure.
Originally Published in KODT #230
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Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity
Ifeanyichukwu I. Anusionwu, Edward James Wright
Aims The aim of the study is to evaluate the causes for artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) failure in a contemporary series, and to detect modifiable risk factors for device-related complications. The aim is to also report outcome after AUS revision. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of consecutive patients who underwent AUS revision at a tertiary care institution by a single surgeon from 2006 to 2011. There were 53 AUS revisions performed on 34 patients at a median age of 69 years. Results Urethral atrophy was the most common indication for revision. Fourteen patients (41%) underwent more than one revision. Seven patients had urethral catheterization in the setting of an active AUS while admitted to a non-urologic service; these patients all developed cuff erosion. Fifty-four percent of urethral erosions were associated with such traumatic catheterizations. After revision, 80% of patients with an AUS in place were using one or no pad daily at mean follow up of 27 months. Conclusion Urethral atrophy remains the most common reason for AUS revision. More than half of all urethral erosions are secondary to urethral catheterization in the setting of an active sphincter, suggesting that some of the risk of device-related morbidity may be modifiable. Neurourol. Urodynam. 32: 63-65, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Neurourology and Urodynamics
https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.22263
Artificial Urinary Sphincter
Tertiary Healthcare
Anusionwu, I. I., & Wright, E. J. (2013). Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 32(1), 63-65. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.22263
Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity. / Anusionwu, Ifeanyichukwu I.; Wright, Edward James.
In: Neurourology and Urodynamics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 01.2013, p. 63-65.
Anusionwu, II & Wright, EJ 2013, 'Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity', Neurourology and Urodynamics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 63-65. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.22263
Anusionwu II, Wright EJ. Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2013 Jan;32(1):63-65. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.22263
Anusionwu, Ifeanyichukwu I. ; Wright, Edward James. / Indications for revision of artificial urinary sphincter and modifiable risk factors for device-related morbidity. In: Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2013 ; Vol. 32, No. 1. pp. 63-65.
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Q: Format response from webhooks in Square API in nodejs I'm using the Square API in nodejs. How do you format the refund response from a webhook?
Here's an example. When I get the response from a webhook, the key names are in underscore notation.
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However, if I generate a refund using the Square API directly the response from the API will give me the same response but with camelcase notation. Is there a way to format this response from a webhook so that it matches what I would get from the API?


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a second look/
Currently Under Construction: Gray World
a second look
Several months ago in a post entitled Shades of Gray, I suggested that the use of gray tones in photojournalism could make a subject appear otherworldly. Thus, the photograph could alternately buffer the viewer from the those being depicted or reveal an inability to reach across the gulf between different cultures. Even if I got that right, there is more to be said about seeing gray. For one example, take a look at this photo:
The wildfires burning around Los Angeles this week were so hot that they could melt steel. Here a wheel rim has puddled into globs of dull metal. It's as if the vehicle were being smelted back to its original elements, reversing the long process of civilization that turned iron ore into a truck. The fire might have been started by a match stick–or, more likely, a random lightening strike, one among thousands that happen in the area every year–yet it can become a raging inferno capable of devouring cities. In the aftermath, green shoots will appear amidst blackened devastation and the great cycle of life will continue. But nothing there will put that wheel rim back together. Nature, it seems, is no respecter of machines.
The image is a color photo, of course, and that makes the point all the more poignant. The gray metal isn't an artifact of the photographic process. Instead, a color print reveals how gray has flowed into view. What had been hidden behind chrome has been released into the environment like lead or some other industrial toxin ready to leach further into the landscape. What had been crafted to help a society hum along now is neither artifact nor nature but that third thing: waste.
Again, a color photo reveals a world turning gray. It actually took a moment for the colored shirts on the Iraqi police officers to assert themselves into my focal vision, rather than merely providing a felt and uneasy sense of contrast. The wreckage from a car bomb dominates the foreground of the picture and is reinforced by the second smashed vehicle in the center rear. The scene as a whole is tonally consistent with these gray/white wrecks. But for one taillight and other minor reddish hints, this is a world of grays, greens, and other dull surfaces. Whether war zone or concrete yard, it's a world being given over to gray. No wonder the police seem out of place: colorful, nonchalant, they imply domestic peace and all the life that can be a part of that. They are balanced and then some by the soldiers opposite them, who seem more of a permanent fixture. By contrast, the police are just passing through.
People like to think that wars, like fires, are accidents; and that fires, like wars, could not have been prevented. In reality, the California conflagrations are predictable outcomes of poorly regulated housing development. And the war in Iraq–well, we know that story, and it was no accident. The truth is that for all the art and energy that goes into building up modern societies, they also carry within themselves powerful forces that are continually turning people, places, and things into waste. Alongside familiar scenes of peace, prosperity, and color, another world is also under construction: Gray world, inert yet dangerous, making waste seem like second nature.
Photographs by Phil McCarten/Reuters (thanks to The Big Picture) and Karim Kadim/Associated Press. Note that because NCN doesn't have a style sheet or a copy editor to keep my erratic spelling in check, I use both "gray" and "grey"; something I learned, somewhat to my embarrassment, when I searched for the Shades of Gray post and turned up more entries under "grey" than "gray." Both terms are correct, but consistency would still be a virtue were it to be found here. For that, readers will have to look elsewhere.
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In the explanation of the second picture you say "this is a world of grays, greens, and other dull surfaces.". I find this interesting in that green is sometimes considered a shade of gray, and in several languages there is no distinction between the two colors (they have the same word for both colors).
Also the wheel that melted was made out of Aluminun not steel, if it had been steel it would not have been such a gray color. As you can see the steel body is till intact as well as the steel belts that were in the tires.
Nick: thanks for the interesting comment and the correction. I'm probably not alone in using terms for metals loosely despite living amidst Aluminum, copper, tungsten, and much else.


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