Like most of us, Steve Alcorn got into AV by chance. Like perhaps few of us, however, he also became an engineer despite planning not to.
"I became an engineer by accident," he likes to say. He entered UCLA with designs of majoring in economics until he met his future wife Linda McBride. When she entered into UCLA's School of Engineering, he transferred in and followed her.
This isn't to say he didn't have proclivities in this field; in high school, he learned how to design audio circuits to create a mixing board for his rock band. But when Linda got a job as a Disney electronics project engineer at the then under-construction Epcot, the table was set for him to turn his own engineering interests—which by then included building computers—into a career.
"I was brought in originally to work on the show controls for American Adventure, which was the most complicated show systems that they'd ever done at that point," Alcorn said. After the park opened, Disney kept him on as systems engineer, and assigned him the task of repurposing the show system software he'd written to collect status on 30,000 monitored points throughout the park.
"During the process of getting the monitoring system to work, a lot of the function of that system was to control the audio and video throughout the park," he said. "And the audio and video in those days was sourced from laser discs—cabinets filled up with laser discs." In addition, there were 24-track binloop tape machines, which his software would trigger to activate at different points as ride vehicles moved around attractions.
"All this time, I was thinking of how we could bring some computer sophistication to the way that sound and video was used in theme parks," he said. And in 1986, he founded Alcorn McBride and set out to accomplish that goal.
The first product he developed at his company was the V16—designed to control racks of laser disc players without the need to write custom software—installed first at the Wonders of Life pavilion at Epcot in 1989. Two other products followed in the '90s: the Digital Binloop and the Video Binloop, and all three continue to be widely used today, in virtually all major theme parks and high-end museums.
Alcorn doesn't foresee himself ever completely retiring from the company, though he would have a lot to occupy his time if he did: he still composes and records music, is an author and writing instructor for both fiction and non-fiction literature, and enjoys wine tasting—to name just a few of his many hobbies.
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About Community Projects/Mirror Hybrids Community Projects/Eviction Proof Contact Still Life Community Projects/Black and White Like Uncovering/About Uncovering Uncovering/Quiltiness Community Projects/About Projects Uncovering/Bodies (re)Genesis: Let Us Make Man in Our Image/About (re)Genesis: Let Us Make Man in Our Image (re)Genesis: Let Us Make Man in Our Image/His Body, My Gaze
About (re)Genesis: Let Us Make Man in Our Image
Good can only happen if we are able to see ourselves in others and others in ourselves. That is my core belief and the motivation for my artistic practice. I make art to instigate conversations that prompt us to understand something new about each other. For the last few years, I've been photographing my husband, Nati, in the nude. I started doing this because I like looking at Nati's body, but also because I could not find any iconic female photographers who used their male partners as muses, and I wanted to fill in the gap. Through this work and the reactions it generates, I've come to realize that even now, when the female gaze is claiming a much larger share of the artistic gaze overall, it is rarely directed at nude male bodies. I think men, especially the straight white men who have dominated production and acquisition of Western art, have successfully trained us to avert our eyes from what makes them feel uncomfortable, or vulnerable. In "(re)Gegenesis: Let Us Make Man in Our Image" that vulnerability is embodied, literally and symbolically, by my naked husband. The phrase "Let us make man in our image" comes from the Bible, Genesis 1:26. It's a male God talking about how he will create a male human to look like him. I've chosen this phrase as my title because my work is about interrogating all of the assumptions in that phrase: who is us, what are we making, who is in our image, what constitutes an image, and whose permission do we need to make it.

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Q: Associative arrays for grandmothers using awk I have a really hard time wrapping my head around arrays and associative arrays in awk.
Say you want to compare two different columns in two different files using associative arrays, how would you do? Let's say column 1 in file 1 with column 2 in file two, then print the the matching, corresponding values of file 1 in a new column in file 2. Please explain each step really simply, as if talking to your grandmother, I mean, super-thoroughly and super-simple.
Cheers

A: Simple explanation of associative arrays (aka maps), not specifically for awk:
Unlike a normal array, where each element has a numeric index, an associative array uses a "key" instead of an index. You can think of it as being like a simple flat-file database, where each record has a key and a value. So if you have, e.g. some salary data:
Fred    10000
John    12000
Sara    11000

you could store it in an associative array, a, like this:
a["Fred"] = 10000
a["John"] = 12000
a["Sara"] = 11000

and then when you wanted to retrieve a salary for a person you would just look it up using their name as the key, e.g.
salary = a[person]

You can of course modify the values too, so if you wanted to give Fred a 10% pay rise you could do it like this:
a["Fred"] = a["Fred"] * 1.1

And if you wanted to set Sara's salary to be the same as John's you could write:
a["Sara"] = a["John"]

So an associative array is just an array that maps keys to values. Note that the keys do not need to be strings, and the values do not need to be numeric, but the basic concept is the same regardless of the data types. Note also that one obvious constraint is that keys need to be unique.

A: Grandma - let's say you want to make jam out of strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries, one jar of each.
You have a shelf on your wall with room/openings for 3 jars on it. That shelf is an associative array: shelf[]
Stick a label named "strawberry" beneath any one of the 3 openings. That is the index of an associative array: shelf["strawberry"]
Now place a jar of strawberry jam in the opening above that label. That is the contents of the associative array indexed by the word "strawberry": shelf["strawberry"] = "the jar of strawberry jam"
Repeat for raspberry and blueberry.
When you feel like making yourself a delicious sandwich, go to your shelf (array), look for the label (index) named "strawberry" and pick up the jar sitting above it (contents/value), open and apply liberally to bread (preferably Mothers Pride end slices).
Now - if a wolf comes to the door, do not open it in case he steals your sandwich or worse!

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Atrial fibrillation is an independent predictor for adverse in-hospital outcome in ACS
A study in Italy has shown atrial fibrillation is an independent predictor for adverse in-hospital outcome in acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but this effect disappeared at 6 months' follow-up,...
GRACE score useful for patients with SCAD after PCI
The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) discharge score is valuable for patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). In a...
No association between ACS and telomeres in older patients
Researchers have not found a link between short telomeres or low telomerase activity and poor outcomes in older patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTEACS) undergoing invasive...
Atherosclerosis gene linked with increased risk of ACS in Chinese Han
A gene associated with the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis has been linked with an increased risk of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a population of Chinese Han.Researchers have long recognized that...
Ticagrelor associated with 31% MACCE reduction compared to clopidogrel in elderly patients with STEMI
Researchers have confirmed the efficacy and safety of ticagrelor for elderly patients (≥75 years) with acute ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), compared with clopidogrel.The...
Glycated haemoglobin is associated with in-hospital death in ACS patients
Higher glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) is a potential indicator for in-hospital death in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients as well as a predictor for short-term mortality in ACS patients, according...
Prehospital management of ACS patients on long-term anticoagulant treatment is highly variable
In Germany, there is a diverse practice of emergency treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) under direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) therapy when administering heparin and...
Researchers find biomarkers for nephropathy risk in ACS patients
Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who develop contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) have significantly higher mean platelet volume-to-lymphocyte ratio (MPVLR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (...
Ischaemia and bleeding occur at similar rates within a year after PCI in unselected ACS patients
The risk of recurrent ischaemia and bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) occurred at similar rates within 1 year of PCI. The average daily...
Risk of emergency hospital admissions for ACS patients correlates with ambient temperature
Both low and high temperatures are significantly associated with higher risks of emergency hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a study in China.Researchers collected...


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Jets sign undrafted free agent TE Matt LaCosse
The New York Jets announced Monday they signed free agent tight end Matt LaCosse, a rookie free agent out of Illinois. The team released defensive lineman Davon Walls in a corresponding move.
LaCosse, standing at 6-6, 240 pounds, first signed with the New York Giants in early May but was waived on August 1. He joins Jeff Cumberland, Jace Amaro, Kellen Davis, Steve Maneri, Wes Saxton and Arthur Lynch on the depth chart.
LaCosse played four seasons for Illinois, snagging 20 passes for 237 yards and three touchdowns in 2013 and 14 catches for 117 yards and three scores in 2014.


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Denise Phua Lay Peng () born 9 December 1959 is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Mayor of Central Singapore District since 2014. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Kampong Glam division of Jalan Besar GRC since 2015.

Prior to entering politics, she is a full-time special needs volunteer after working in the private sector for two decades. She became the president of the Autism Resource Centre and co-founded Pathlight School.

As an MP, she has focused on developing programmes for disabled people and special needs communities in Singapore. She is a member of both the Government Parliamentary Committees (GPC) for Education and Social and Family Development.

Early life and career
Phua attended Balestier Girls' Primary School, Raffles Girls' School and Hwa Chong Junior College before graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

She went on to complete a Master of Business Administration degree at Golden Gate University.

In a career spanning two decades, she held management positions at Hewlett-Packard and the Wuthelam Group. She then founded a regional leadership training firm, the Centre of Effective Leadership.

Volunteer work
Her son was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. As Phua consulted professionals and did research on how to help him, she thought about how she could help other autistic children. She subsequently founded WeCAN, a charity which helps caregivers of autistic people and offers early intervention programmes for autistic preschoolers.

In 2005, Phua left the corporate world to be a full-time special needs volunteer. She and her partners sold the Centre of Effective Leadership to Right Management, a Manpower Inc. subsidiary. Phua then became president of the Autism Resource Centre. She often wrote to newspapers and government agencies on issues affecting the special needs community. She is one of the key architects behind three 5-year Enabling Masterplans for the Disabled in Singapore.

Phua is also the co-founder and former acting principal of Pathlight School, the first special school for autistic children in Singapore. The school offers mainstream curriculum and life skills education to its students. A believer in helping autistic people realise their potential and integrate into society, Phua helped develop many of the school's programmes. These include employability skills training through a student-run café, specialised vocational training, and satellite classes where Pathlight students mix with mainstream students. In four years, enrolment increased tenfold and the school attracted media attention for its impact on students.

Continuing her volunteer efforts, Phua continues to supervise two charities – Autism Resource Centre (Singapore) and Autism Association (Singapore), and two special schools – Pathlight School and Eden School.

Political career
Phua joined the ruling PAP's Jalan Besar branch in 2004. The following year, she was appointed to the Feedback Supervisory Panel, which leads the government's Feedback Unit. In the 2006 general election, she was fielded as a PAP candidate in Jalan Besar GRC, which was contested by the Singapore Democratic Alliance. During the election campaign, she promised to make Singapore a more inclusive society by representing disabled people and special needs communities. The PAP team won Jalan Besar GRC with 69.26% of the vote.

In July 2006, the PAP formed a workgroup, headed by Phua, to explore initiatives to improve the financial security of disabled and special needs children. Phua also led a committee that drew up a five-year plan to improve services for special needs children. The PAP studied their proposals and later implemented some, such as a National non-profit Special Needs Trust Fund. Laws were also drafted to prohibit abuse of mentally disabled people and to allow parents to appoint someone to look after their disabled children after they die.

Mayor of Central Singapore District
Phua was appointed Mayor of Central Singapore District in 2014 for a three-year term, and was reappointed for the following term in 2017. As Mayor, Phua has initiated many projects to meet the needs of her residents. These include a suite of more than 50 community programmes by the Central Singapore Community Development Council to help residents live a better life, and build a do-good district. Among them are:
 Nurture, a 40-week programme to develop confident and self-directed learners in communications and problem solving;
 In Search of Purpose talk series, to spur residents on in finding their bigger purpose in life;
 Silver Friends, a platform to bring volunteers and partners to serve the seniors through a series of silver programmes; and
 The Purple Symphony, Singapore's largest inclusive orchestra comprising musicians with and without special needs.

References

External links
 Denise Phua on Parliament of Singapore

1959 births
Living people
Members of the Parliament of Singapore
Singaporean people of Hokkien descent
People's Action Party politicians
Golden Gate University alumni
National University of Singapore alumni
Hwa Chong Junior College alumni
Singaporean women in politics
Singaporean Christians
Singaporean disability rights activists
Raffles Girls' Secondary School alumni

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Jeremy and I came at the world from very different places. He's an activist and movement-builder and launched movements like Avaaz and Get Up! and I run a 143-year old institution. But we were both trying to get our heads around what was really changing in the world. And so often, the conversations about how the world was changing were reduced to quite a shallow discussion about technology–it was all something to do with Twitter, or changing tools. But it wasn't really a conversation about power.
We both in our work started to ask, "What's the right taxonomy to think about all of these changes in the world?" and we galvanized around old power and new power. The old power world is the one we know well, which is very command and control, top-driven, managerial and based on downloading information onto the world. What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models.
New power–that ability to harness the energy of the connected crowd–has really become the essential skill of the 21st century. If you look at all the people who are coming up on top right now, for good and for bad, what they have in common is the capacity to capture that energy. So whether we look at Trump and Obama and the unexpected victories that they both had politically, or we look at platforms like Uber or Facebook, or we look at movements like #metoo or March For Our Lives, these very different examples all share one thing: the people who are leading them have worked out how to harness this power of the crowd.
The 92nd Street Y is in New York, where one of the events we all pay attention to is UN Week. UN Week is typically the most old power week of the year. The only people who get anywhere near the action are people who have a UN Grounds Pass or who can afford to go to the Clinton Global Initiative. You had the most exciting people in the world here talking about the biggest issues of the day, and it essentially excluded most people. You couldn't get anywhere near it. Really, what UN Week brought New York was gridlock.
So about eight years ago, we at the 92nd Street Y – along with Mashable, UNDP and the UN Foundation – created the Social Good Summit which I think of as something that looks at the world through a new power lens. We said, "Instead of this being top-down-leader-driven week, how do you get people engaging in these issues in much more connected ways?" We opened up to thousands of bloggers and social entrepreneurs and others to come be part of it at the Y here. Then we encouraged people to meet up and create their own events around the world. We had meetings that first year in twenty-five countries where people collectively organized their own events similar to the Social Good Summit. Now we've counted 100 satellite events around the world. I'm speaking this summer at the Social Good Brazil event – which is larger than ours in New York City.
The 92nd Street Y is all about strengthening community. In the old power world, the way we did that is people would come through our door and we'd offer them experiences. For years we've created programs and people would pick up the catalog and consume our programs. But all the new tools available now allow us to do that work in a very different way.
#GivingTuesday is a perfect example of that. We took one of the key values of the Y, which is around community and philanthropy and said, "After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, how could you create a day that was really about philanthropy? How would you create something that could really scale around the world?" And that was #GivingTuesday. The design of Giving Tuesday was very new power in a couple of ways. First, we never branded it. We never called it the 92nd Street Y's Giving Tuesday, and the goal was never that it would be all about us. It was built so that other people would grab it and make it their own. Second, we designed it so people would improve it.
As a result, Giving Tuesday has morphed into all sorts of different hashtags and different campaigns around the world. I remember very early on when Baltimore turned Giving Tuesday into BMore Gives More–Baltimore Gives More. They decided they were going to make it all about how generous Baltimore is. Then the organization Dress for Success, which takes donations of clothing for women getting back into the workforce, turned Giving Tuesday into Giving Shoes Day, which was about women giving professional-appropriate shoes to those going back to the office. University of Michigan turned Giving Tuesday into Giving Blueday, and they used it to raise $5.5 million last year.
In the old power model, we'd say, "Cease and desist." You've changed our brand, you've altered the frame. But in the new power world these are all signs that your idea is spreading in the right way. At the 92nd Street Y when we're thinking about the future, we aren't just thinking about new technology, but new models for building stronger communities.
We kept hearing, time and again, from so many different sectors that the old power/new power frame was speaking to them and to the challenges and options that they faced. Even spies, who are perhaps the ultimate old power sector, started to engage with the idea, realizing now that they're going to have to work out how to deal with a much broader and engaged and connected landscape if they want to succeed. So even intelligence agencies are experimenting around open innovation and open sourcing and all these things and they recognize that they can mobilize the crowd around the outcomes they want in the world.
The reason we wrote the book was to really lay out this set of skills that help people become more powerful. The book offers a new playbook for a hyperconnected world. It asks and answers questions like: "How do you think about spreading ideas?" "How do you think about transforming an institution?" and "How do you think about raising money?" For that last one, of course, there's a very new set of dynamics around things like crowdfunding, which everyone now needs to understand. The book is very much a practical guide for how people can think about their own power and how they can think about being more effective in the world.
Yes, and that's why the stakes are so high. If you agree that the essential skill of the 21st century is the ability to harness the connected crowd, you have to also agree that a lot of the people who are doing that well are not on the side of the angels. You look at the capacity of anti-vaccers to out-message health professionals. You look at the power of climate deniers to communicate better than climate scientists. You look at internet crazies who are doing better than academics who have all these truths and all these facts. There's this real surge of new power that is not ending up in the right hands. So while the first bit of the book is a practical guide how people can really get their head around this new set of tools, the second bit is a call to action–which is to say, we really need those on the side of the angels to get good at new power quickly. The voices of reason need to catch up.
I think we're also seeing the beginnings of a new kind of political consciousness emerging against platforms, who have gobbled up a lot of new power and extracted it for their own ends. There seems to be a very big market opportunity for someone who could create platforms that actually create meaningful and fairer connections with the people who create the value.
So many of the people who are good at new power think about their work in an experimental, entrepreneurial way – with some real overlap with the Lean Startup method. Rapid experimentation isn't something that's just entrepreneurial, it's actually what the best mobilizers do. You talk to any long-time campaigner or activist; they'll tell you that's how they think about their own work– just constantly experimenting until you see something that hits. I think that's probably the ultimate lesson of new power. It isn't something you do once a year. It's a practice that people need to learn and get good at.
How do those two aspects–the practical and the cultural–play out in the business world?
We think a lot about how many of the most powerful businesses we see now have new power models but revert to old power values. Uber's a great example; it has this amazing new power model with terrific execution. But they really resorted to old power values: secretive, very leader-driven, and very transactional in lots of ways and it, obviously, ended up costing Travis Kalanick his job.
Contrast that with a company like Lyft which is trying, with some success, to actually create a business that has both a new power model and new power values. New power values are much more about empowering the crowd, about more transparency and collaboration, and engaging with the wider world. For two companies who essentially offer the same service, there is a real return available around culture and values. When Uber and Lyft were in a recent price war, at the same time that Uber was seeing its drivers organize pickets against it around the country, Lyft, essentially, responded by organizing picnics. They're really trying to build enthusiasm and community amongst their drivers. It will be interesting to see where they go with this.
Facebook offers another example of a new power model with old power values. And the price of that is becoming clear. It's very much about centralizing value, it's very much about Facebook deciding what's good for the world and not the users. It's very opaque in terms of how it's governed and how the algorithms work. For businesses, we think the opportunity is for organizations to build a culture that is based on more than the efficiency of their algorithms, and fosters the human connection they have with people in their network.
I think the biggest shift is not about technology, but actually about professional identity. It's about whether you are, in a committed and strategic way, really prepared to think about how you can engage more people more meaningfully in your work. For generations, the only real ask we had of our communities is "do what you're supposed to do" or "buy my product." That was kind of how the world worked. What's so interesting now is those businesses who are doing well are those who are offering more interesting routes to participation – far beyond "just consume". Airbnb is a great example of that. They have worked out how to get their crowd to be their hosts, they've worked out how to get their crowd to fight their regulatory battles for them, they've worked out how to get their crowd to essentially be their advertising machine. Our argument is that for every business, every organization, every political activity, mobilization is now the key activity if you want to get ahead. The book offers the playbook for the new power world.


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Hanns Alexander (* 29. November 1881 in Büblitz; † 22. April 1955) war ein deutscher Mediziner und Forscher auf dem Gebiet der Tuberkulose.

Werdegang
Alexander war Schüler von Carl Flügge. Während seines Studiums wurde er Mitglied der Landsmannschaft Macaria Breslau. Er war langjähriger Chefarzt des Sanatoriums für Tuberkulosepatienten in Agra (Tessin), dem so genannten Deutschen Haus, und leitete mit einer nationalsozialistischen Ausrichtung den Niedergang der Anstalt ein. Alexander hatte sich nicht nur als Lungenspezialist, sondern auch als engagierter Nationalsozialist hervorgetan und dafür gesorgt, dass sich ab 1935 in Agra eine Ortsgruppe der NSDAP etablierte, dass das Sanatorium die Hakenkreuzfahne hisste und in der Bibliothek ein Porträt Adolf Hitlers hing. Er war zum 1. Juni 1933 der NSDAP beigetreten (Mitgliedsnummer 1.800.573) und wurde Ortsgruppenführer.

Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er Leiter der Niedersächsischen Landesschirmbildstelle in Hannover.

Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Hand- und Lehrbücher zur Lungendiagnostik. 1952 wurde er mit dem Verdienstkreuz (Steckkreuz) der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausgezeichnet, 1955 erhielt er das Große Verdienstkreuz.

Der Schriftsteller Sven Stolpe (1905–1996) verbrachte in den Jahren 1927/28 einen Sanatoriums-Aufenthalt im Deutschen Haus in Agra und gibt in seinem Werk "Im Wartezimmer des Todes" der Person des Chefarztes Hanns Alexander das Pseudonym Prof. Lautensack.

Weblinks

 Totentanz an bester Aussichtslage
 Literaturliste im Online-Katalog der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Einzelnachweise

Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Träger des Großen Bundesverdienstkreuzes
Landsmannschafter
Person (Hannover)
Deutscher
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Geboren 1881
Gestorben 1955
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Nervul trohlear sau patetic () este cel de-al patrulea nerv cranian și este un nerv motor. Controlează mișcarea unui singur mușchi al globului ocular, cel oblic superior.  Originea aparentă este pe partea posterioară a trunchiului cerebral, iar originea reală în nucleu trohlear.

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Vedere
Nervi cranieni


We enjoyed a little pre-Christmas present opening party before we flew to Oregon.
Millie enjoyed putting on her new pretty lip gloss.
And the Christmas cookie decorating was a big hit.
A week earlier we got to make a trip into the big city of Spokane, and of course, hit up the carousel. We just can't go there without going for a ride on the musical horses.
Even Avery enjoyed the ride and oohed and ahhed at it all.
Here she is getting some practice with father.
Our little man! So handsome. Growing up so fast.
And the Landis girls with their big brown eyes.


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It's Better In The Playoffs
You know all those fortune cookie fortunes sound better with the ending "in bed." At least the adult version (or if you get a fortune like I did, "You will get caught", not fun reading in front of the wife). When it comes to the NHL, there is no doubt it is better with the post saying: "In the Playoffs".
The Hockey News is a magazine someone subscribed to me eons ago and it normally finds a home on the back of the throne. But perusing through the May edition of this year, I came across some numbers that astounded me and prove that things are better post regular season. I wanted to break down some of their numbers in their article "2010-2011 Playoff Pace" (on newstands now).
The following numbers have been compiled to show the difference between the regular season versus the playoffs. Some increases are minor in size, some significant. But all prove the point that we suffer through 82 games to get to the beauty that is the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Attendance (building capacity)
Reg. Season: 92.7% vs. Playoffs: 101.2% - Okay, just about every team in the top three or four in the conference has boasted sell out crowds leading up to the end of the season (if not all season long). Let's take out the fact that the NHL only recognizes sold tickets and not turntables for attendance (if you were wondering, give away tickets do count as sold tickets). So even though a team could say it is a sell-out crowd, you may see a few of your fellow fans didn't make it to the arena.
But in the playoffs the numbers seem to match more closely, tickets sold in this case really does mean butts in seats for a playoff game. Plus it's always fun to have more of your fellow fans to taunt, cheer and berate the action.
Reg. Season: 5.46 vs. Playoffs: 5.54 - Goals are always a good thing, and this year even though the gpg is slight, the scoring has seen an increase most likely because teams once scored on are going all out to tie the game up. Not to mention we have seen a couple of really good 1-0 and 2-1 games this post season. So you would expect naturally this number would go up.
Fights per game
Reg. Season: .524 vs. Playoffs: .135 - It certainly not due to the effort of the NHL to suppress fighting in the game, but rather an acknowledgement that a fight doesn't cure a badly played game. It also points to the need for four solid lines as each shift suddenly becomes more and more important. Guys are not settling old bets, they realize that they need to stay out of the penalty box or face the wrath of a really good power play. Besides, players have their whole careers to settle sore scores.
Hits per game
Reg. Season: 45.5 vs. Playoffs: 60.9 - While the Playoffs are often called the sprint after an 82 game marathon season, a seven game series can be gruelingly long. Hits are all that more important as a team wants to tire the opposition and play physical hockey through out. Besides, you tell an NHLer he is in the playoffs and he is guaranteed not to forget to finish his checks. I am actually surprised the number isn't bigger.
Blocked Shots per game
Reg. Season: 28.4 vs. Playoffs: 33.9 - Again, it is all about sacrificing the body. Players are understanding the importance of blocking shots. A puck that doesn't get to the net is a puck that doesn't end up in the back of one. I think Aristotle said that.
Reg. Season: 18.9 vs. Playoffs: 17.3 - This number did surprise me at first. But once you really think about it, teams in the playoffs do not get there with out a good penalty kill. It's a slight decrease in part due to the amount of blocked shots go up (a trade off of sorts). The number is surprising considering the next stat.
PIM per game
Reg. Season: 24.5 vs. Playoffs: 25.9 - It is surprising the number of penalties called per game has actually gone up, while the power play numbers are going down. You might say that the Officials might be calling the games tighter. But I actually think the opposite is true. Players are more apt to reign in an opposing player once they are beat and take the penalty rather than give up a quality scoring chance.
I do think the Referees, for the most part, are letting some of the ticky-tac calls go and looking for the obvious calls. A player is not only scrutinized by fans and on national TV, but in the locker room as well by coaches. If a player gets beat on the ice, then he better do whatever he can to stop it from becoming a scoring chance which includes hooking the player or slashing his stick in two. Plus with the good PK's going around, why take the chance.
Save percentage
Reg. Season: .913 vs. Playoffs: .916 - Goaltending only gets better in the post season. But don't take my word for it, look at what Roberto Loungo and Tim Thomas are doing. They are practically willing their teams to the finals. There is no doubt that the goaltenders kick it into another gear when Stanley's Cup is being flashed around.
Some pretty interesting numbers for sure. But it all the stats can't take away from what these amazing athletes can push themselves to do. Save percentage is just a number compared to a "Hail Mary" stick save by Thomas in Game 5 can do. Or useless stat as blocked shots means nothing to Steven Stamkos' nose and three shifts later he is on the ice again. There is much more than numbers to prove how special the post season is. It is just nice to see that some stats seem to share that sentiment.
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PICKFORD — The Pickford Panthers put together their highest scoring output of the season and ran past Rudyard 83-58 in an Eastern UP Conference girls basketball game Wednesday night.
Darcy Bennin and Kennedy Guild scored 20 points apiece to lead five players in double figures for the Panthers (6-3 overall, 3-2 EUPC). Carley Cottle scored 14 points, while Lizzie Storey added 12 and Lucy Bennin 10.
Pickford got off to a fast start, taking a 22-13 lead in the opening quarter, and pushing their advantage to 45-26 by halftime.
It was the highest scoring output of the season for the Panthers, who won their third straight game.
Cierra Molina scored 21 points and Brooklyn Besteman added 10 points for the Bulldogs (6-4, 3-2).
Pickford plays host to Engadine, while Rudyard will be at home against DeTour tonight.
RUDYARD — Smith 3, Beelen 8, Chesney Molina 8, Cierra Molina 21, Besteman 10, Mesnard 8. FT: 11-22; F: 22; Fouled out: Chesney Molina; 3PFG: 3 (Cierra Molina 1, Besteman 1, Mesnard 1).
PICKFORD — L. Bennin 10, Storey 12, Cottle 14, D. Bennin 20, Guild 20, Thurmes 7. FT: 12-28; F: 18; 3PFG: 7 (Guild 3, L. Bennin 2, Storey 1, Thurmes 1).


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By Bobby LePire | March 18, 2018
Tomb Raider hit video game consoles in 1996 with resounding success. It won game of the year by just about every major game publication out at the time and launched a successful franchise, which is going strong to this day. Lara Croft, the game's heroine, is a female icon and one of the most recognizable and famous gaming characters of all time. The sequels were also generally met with enthusiasm and praise, though that is not true for all of them. In 2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie as the eponymous adventurer, was released in theaters to unfavorable reviews. Despite the lackluster reception, the movie grossed an impressive $275 million and two years later Lara Croft: Tomb Raider- The Cradle Of Life disappointed with just above $65 million. The intervening years have seen those two films become guilty pleasures for a lot of fans of the "so bad, they're good" variety.
In 2013, a wholly overhauled formula of the game was released, using the original title, Tomb Raider. Now, there's a cinematic version of that reboot directed by Roar Uthaug and starring Alicia Vikander as Lara. In this iteration, Lara is living a meager existence as a courier, illegally racing her bike for extra money to keep up with the bills. Discovering the location of her dad's disappearance seven years ago, Lara follows the clues to Hong Kong. She hires Lu Ren (Daniel Wu) and his ship to travel to the remote island of Yamatai. Nearing Yamatai at night, a violent storm swells the sea, causing the boat to be dashed upon the rocks. Waking up in an encampment of the Trinity, an order attempting to reap the island's supposedly mystical treasures, Lara manages to escape. Now she must evade her captors, uncover the fate of her dad, and save the island and the world from Trinity's evil plans.
"…she must evade her captors, uncover the fate of her dad, and save the island and the world…"
All the ingredients for a rousing adventure are present- a capable leading lady, a director with genre bona fides, the input of Square Enix (the company that produces the games), and the backing of a major studio. Why, then, does Tomb Raider feel so hollow and generic? The screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Robertson-Dworet and Evan Daugherty shoulders a significant portion of the blame. Given the importance Lara's father, Richard, plays in the storyline, you'd be forgiven for presuming that the movie takes its time to set up how close they are and allow the audience to watch them bond before his disappearance. Excluding the recordings and diary entries Lara uses to track down his final destination, there are only three flashbacks to the father and daughter interacting. Each time is when Richard is about to jet off somewhere in the world to uncover a new treasure or archaeological find. The impetus that drives Lara to action is her belief that her dad must still be alive; she senses it, but their relationship is so ill-defined it is impossible for the audience to care all that much about it.
The other major writing gaffe is Lara herself. She is primarily dictated by whatever the plot requires. In some scenes, she is a self-assured quip machine, only for confidence to seemingly vanish the next minute. There is a lot of talk about how brave Lara is but she continually freezes in the face of actual danger, often becoming a damsel in distress to be saved by one of the male characters. She supposedly listens to her father, but at every turn, she either disregards what he says outright or doesn't believe him, despite visible evidence he is telling the truth. A complex, three-dimensional character can have conflicting views or grow while working through internal tensions. But here, the writers have no clue who their version of Lara should be. In an attempt to make her everything, they make her nothing at all.
There are three credited editors for Tomb Raider– Stuart Baird, Tom Harrison-Read, and Michael Tronick. The film feels choppy and unfocused, having too many cooks in the kitchen. Lara's escape from Trinity's camp causes a chase and shootout, but figuring out where the guards are in relation to Lara during this sequence is nigh impossible. None of the action scenes have establishing shots, so characters just jump around from cut to cut, or seemingly appear out of nowhere. The lousy editing, coupled with the horrendous green screen effects, cause the action in this film to be a bloody terrible mess.
"…to make her everything, they make her nothing at all."
Uthaug directed Escape, in 2012, which is one long chase scene. It is invigorating and intense. He brings that same swift style to this production. At two hours long the movie moves from one mind-numbing action scene to another with verve and visual panache. A swooping crane shot, starting in the trees, swinging low to Lara perched a crashed airplane is visually impressive and shows the promise the production held at the outset.
Alicia Vikander has proven herself in the stunning Ex Machina and winning an Academy Award for The Danish GIrl. Vikander has got the right moxie and look for the role, but she is let down by the material. She holds her own in the action scenes as well, despite the god-awful editing. Dominic West plays her father, and the two have decent chemistry but neither can overcome ill-defined characters. Daniel Wu as Lu Ren gives the only charming performance of the entire movie. His role is just as random as the rest, but he makes his one-liners land and his physical comedy works. Walton Goggins the main antagonist and is undercut by the writing. He has nothing to work with and fails to be menacing, creepy, or interesting.
Tomb Raider looks like the game it is based on, with specific scenes being lifted wholesale, but that is not enough. The editing is shockingly bad, the green screen is some of the worst in recent memory, and the characters are so underdeveloped it seems inappropriate to use the word 'characters' on them.
Tomb Raider (2018) Directed by Roar Uthaug. Written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons, Evan Daugherty. Starring Alicia Vikander, Daniel Wu, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Kristen Scott Thomas.
Tom B says:
Bobby LePire, you hit the nail directly on the head. What a perfect review of this thoroughly disappointing movie.
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Why the stability of the Crown now rests on the shoulders of Camilla and Kate
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
11 January 2020 • 5:00pm
The Duchesses of Cornwall and Cambridge Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo
Although I noted in this paper a fortnight ago that courtiers feared the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were about to detach themselves from the Royal family and, largely at the Duchess's insistence, spend more time abroad, not even my impeccable sources predicted that the break would come as quickly, or as unilaterally, as it did last week.
Forests of newsprint have been expended in describing the differences, real and alleged, between members of the Royal family. It is a signal achievement of the Sussexes that, in their announcement about "stepping back" from royal duties – which took everyone from Her Majesty the Queen downwards by surprise – they have brought a rare unity to the family and its courts. Everyone, it seems, is appalled.
At Buckingham Palace, the breach of protocol in not following the wishes of the Sovereign, or properly consulting her, caused outrage for its lack of manners and respect. At Clarence House, there was bewilderment among the Prince of Wales's household, knowing as they do the almost total reliance the Sussexes have on funds from the Duchy of Cornwall. And at Kensington Palace, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge suddenly realised that they, alone of their generation in 'The Firm', will now have to bear a burden that ought to have been shared with the Sussexes.
What unites these households, above all, is the certainty that the way of life the Sussexes seem to envisage – going off to live in Canada, but then turning up in England and opting in to the Royal family as and when they feel like it – is not feasible. Courtiers are also bemused by how this couple with an Atlantic-hopping lifestyle (so much for the carbon footprint and their "progressive" intentions) will achieve the "financial independence" mentioned in their statement, and still live in the style to which the Duke has been accustomed and to which the Duchess has recently become so.
They must also ensure, in making money, that they do not make the monarchy seem grubby by relying on their link in touting for business. The coming months will provide a forceful reality check, and there may well be tears before bedtime.
'The Sussexes have brought a rare unity to the Royal family: everyone, it seems, is appalled' Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage
They must also be careful not to try the patience of British public, already near its limits. As any 12-year old child should merit, Prince Harry enjoyed great sympathy when his mother was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 with her delinquent boyfriend. But he is no longer a 12-year old child even if, in the eyes of some who have had to handle him, he occasionally behaves like one. Unlike the rest of his family – who cheerfully manage their accident of birth – he refuses to do so, except when it suits him: a cast of mind his wife actively encourages. It is useful, for example, to have a family that can provide a marital home amidst some of the finest real estate in England, a father who out of his considerable income can furnish the means for long holidays in Canada, and generous friends who will wheel out the private jet.
Going with the royal status that brings such perks are, as with any job, pressures. They include scrutiny by the press, which the Sussexes find objectionable unless on their terms, such as when the media highlight one of the excellent charitable ventures they patronise. The Duke says that every time a flashbulb goes off he thinks of the death of his mother.
That is unfortunate; but he either forgets, or does not know of, the lengths to which she went to cultivate and manipulate the press after her marriage failed, in seeking to punish her adulterous husband and, incidentally, his family, by contrasting her saintly public image with his tarnished one. The flashbulbs that fired, and which the Duke finds so distressing, often did so at his late mother's invitation or with her connivance. Like her younger son, she was better at plotting wheezes than grasping their consequences.
The Duke, whose ethic of service as a soldier was rightly praised, but whom no-one ever accused of being Oxbridge material, appears not to have thought through what this proposed change in life will mean to him, his wife and child, his father and grandmother, or to the monarchy to which, in his Wednesday statement, he thrice pledged loyalty. The issues are, as one courtier observed, "complex", and the complexities have manifestly been too much for the Sussexes to compute, and possibly to handle.
The Duke had no say in his accident of birth. It is right that he should be allowed to choose, now he is in his thirties, whether he continues to do the work, and live the life, associated with it. However, he must recognise that the two are so linked that if one goes, so will the other.
Also, he must realise that one is either among those who do royal duties, and all that that entails (and one thing it entails is media attention) or one is not; if he wants his father's cash, it seems, he has to decide to do the job that money subsidises. It was evident after the announcement that the public – on whose consent the monarchy relies – were deeply divided over whether the Sussexes' behaviour was justifiable. They need to brace themselves for a haemorrhage of support from a public that tends to dislike those who want to have their cake and eat it.
Perhaps it has gone to the Sussexes' head that many media outlets covering their activities do so under the heading of 'showbiz' as much as under 'news'. As a resting actress, the Duchess might think that appropriate; but it also raises the question of how far the celebrity status they have acquired, contingent not on her career but on his birth into the most famous royal family on the planet, will be sustainable once they have opted out of 'The Firm'.
They may find their currency weakened; and if relying, Kardashian-like, on the Mountbatten-Windsor brand to make a living, they will find problems there, too. Any attempt to exploit the family connection to earn a living risks looking grubby, and besmirching 'The Firm's' reputation. One thing concerning the court – some of whom would dearly like to be shot of the Sussexes altogether – is that even if they try to remove themselves from the control of courtiers, courtiers will still have to police their actions to try to keep the monarchy's reputation intact during this bizarre attempt to be "progressive".
When Edward VIII was Duke of Windsor he gave similar headaches to his brother, King George VI, and then his niece, our Queen. He and his American wife went their own way, but any ill-judged activity (such as visiting Hitler before the war, or making a goodwill visit to Washington in war-time with so much luggage that the British embassy had to hire a truck to move it) reflected badly on the whole idea of royalty. Those charged with protecting the reputation of the throne may, on that precedent, have their work cut out.
The Prince of Wales welcomed the Duchess unequivocally into his family Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
That this has been allowed to happen reflects the overstretch of the Royal family. It will now be made worse by the Sussexes' detachment, coming hard on the heels of the Duke of York's disgrace. The Duke of Edinburgh, retired and in his 99th year, would even a decade ago probably have impressed his feelings on his grandson in a way that would have rattled the windows.
The Prince of Wales, in being by-passed in this way, is said to be bemused and exasperated. His own generational planning for the future of the family will now have to be re-calibrated. And given the unequivocal way he welcomed the Duchess to his family – even offering to give her away in the absence of her own father – he will, friends say, be feeling particularly kicked in the teeth by her and his son's cavalier behaviour.
Maintaining the stability of the family may now be down to three women: the Queen herself, for whom this is yet another crisis made elsewhere in her family that requires her to steady the ship; the Duchess of Cornwall, who in her time has endured more obloquy than the Duchess of Sussex could ever imagine, and yet has just got on with her duty, winning huge respect in the process, and who must now be an even greater support to her husband.
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Likewise, the Duchess of Cambridge, who does not put the proverbial foot wrong and who, unlike her sister-in-law, has accepted that in marrying into 'The Firm', it was not her place to change how it operates in order to suit her. She has the potential to be a massively popular Queen Consort when her time comes, but before then must use her level-headedness not just to shore up her husband, but to ensure that their children, one of whom is also a future monarch, will be at ease with themselves, unselfish, and glad to play their part in the institution.
The Sussexes, in treating their royal roles as a dispensable day-job, have done what Walter Bagehot, the 19th century journalist who defined constitutional monarchy, warned ought never to happen: they have "let daylight in upon the magic". It is up to those not throwing in the towel to see that the magic is restored; ensuring they do no more to upset that process is the most useful way the Sussexes can show their much-vaunted loyalty.
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Jennifer's Law Could Bring Coercive Control Legislation to Connecticut
by Manya Wakefield
Connecticut State Senator Alex Kasser is sponsoring Jennifer's Law in honor of Jennifer Dulos in the 2021 Legislative session. The new bill will widen the definition of domestic abuse to include coercive control.
"When women are the victims of abuse, they seek safety for themselves and their children. Often that means staying with the abuser because the danger of leaving is too great," Sen. Kasser said in a statement about the bill, "But when victims do summon the courage to leave, we have a responsibility to believe and protect them. Too many women have lost their lives just trying to get free. And too many children have become collateral damage in this struggle. It's time for us to shine a light on DV in all its forms and protect those who need protecting. Women often feel shame and fear when they're with their abuser and when they leave they are re-traumatized by a society that doesn't believe them. DV is a public health crisis that's been exacerbated by the pandemic. And oftentimes the signs are invisible."
What is Coercive Control?
Coercive control is a pattern of acts used by one person to secure emotional, psychological, and financial dominance over another person. It is a distinct form of psycho-emotional abuse that is used as a tool to frighten the recipient into submission. Coercive control starts with occasional incidents of strategic aggression that escalate over time to full-scale campaigns of intimate terrorism.
Coercive control was conceptualized by Evan Stark, Ph.D., MSW, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University in his book Coercive Control (2007). Perpetrators of coercive control often harm children as part of a wider campaign to isolate the primary recipient of the abuse.
Signs of Coercive Control
Gaslighting The perpetrator deliberately distorts the victim-survivors' reality.
Isolation The perpetrator isolates the victim-survivor from family and friends.
Control of Daily Life The perpetrator dictates where the victim-survivor can go, see, wear, and eat.
Monitoring time The perpetrator oversees where the victim-survivor is, where they are going, and what they are doing at all times
Put-Downs The perpetrator may repeatedly tell the victim-survivor that they are worthless or useless, they may publically humiliate the victim-survivor by calling them degrading names or by criticizing their appearance, intelligence, etc.
Monitoring Communication The perpetrator may use spyware to track the victim-survivors' digital communication.
Rules and Regulations The perpetrator creates a set of ever changing rules which they enforce by humiliating, degrading, or dehumanizing the victim-survivor.
Threats The perpetrator may threaten to hurt or kill the victim-survivor, their child, family members, friends, or pets; they may threaten to take away their child; they may threaten to reveal private information such as intimate photos or revelations about your sexuality.
Deprivation of Basic Needs The perpetrator restricts the victim-survivors' access to healthcare and food.
Obstruction of Employment The perpetrator may stop the victim-survivor from obtaining employment, going to work, and earning their own money.
Financial Abuse The perpetrator takes control of the victim-survivors' finances, making sure they have little access to money so that the victim-survivor is dependent on them.
Criminal Damage The perpetrator may damage or destroy the victim-survivors' personal property.
Assault or Rape The perpetrator may physically abuse, sexually assault, or rape the victim-survivor.
How Will Jennifer's Law Help?
Jennifer's Law will expand and modernize the definition of domestic violence to include Coercive Control in Connecticut state law.
The bill will also require coercive control training by professionals with firsthand experience working with domestic abuse survivors.
It also seeks to give precedence to child safety when determining custody in family court by making domestic violence assessments a priority.
It seeks to furnish victim-survivors seeking a protective order from the Court with legal support.
The bill would require judges to recognize victims of domestic abuse and child abuse and provide them with adequate safety and protection.
Jennifer's Law and Interpersonal Femicide in Connecticut
Jennifer's Law was created in honor of Jennifer Dulos, a mother from New Canaan, Connecticut, who is missing and believed to have been murdered by her husband while appealing for protection for herself and her children in family court.
According to Connecticut Protective Moms interpersonal femicide sees approximately 28 cases of femicide and filicide committed every year by perpetrators of coercive control.
Some coercive control murders in Connecticut over the last few years include:
Christine Holloway in 2020.
Perrie Mason in 2019.
Aaden Moreno in 2015.
Jennifer Magnano in 2007.
So far, two states in the US have expanded the definition of domestic violence to include coercive control: Hawaii and California. Find out more about which states have coercive control legislation.
Ducey, K. (2021, February 23). Connecticut Senator Introduces Jennifer's law in honor of New Canaan Mother Jennifer Dulos. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
Kasser, Alex. (2021, January) Senate Bill 77: Jennifer's Law. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
Connecticut Protective Moms (2021, February 25). Connecticut Senator Alex Kasser and National Domestic Violence Advocates Introduce "Jennifer's (Dulos) Law" for 2021 Legislative Session. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
Albis, T. (2020, March 12). Opinion: Support from judicial branch for domestic violence bill. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
Meier, Joan S., and Dickson, Sean and O'Sullivan, Chris and Rosen, Leora and Hayes, Jeffrey. Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations (2019). GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-56, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-56, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3448062.
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Loxospora cismonica är en lavart som först beskrevs av Beltr., och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Hafellner. Loxospora cismonica ingår i släktet Loxospora och familjen Sarrameanaceae.   Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Northern Development Initiative Trust is proud to be a partner in providing this business development opportunity.
How can you build on your strengths, grow your business and make more money? It's all about mindset!
As a business owner, you need to have your head in the game to stay competitive. Having an "entrepreneurial mindset" can help you make good decisions, be confident in your abilities and plan for change.
Women's Enterprise Centre (WEC) and Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) have partnered to help business owners in the north assess and improve their entrepreneurial mindset to realize their business potential.
Through this partnership, 100 Entrepreneurial Mindset Grants will be provided to Northern entrepreneurs – women and men – so they can develop the thought and behavior that drives business growth.
The Mindset Grant offsets the cost for 100 individuals to participate in a comprehensive entrepreneurial mindset development program, delivered by WEC.
Mindset Grants are limited to 25 per Northern Development region (Cariboo-Chilcotin Lillooet Region, Prince George Region, Northeast Region, Northwest Region).
First come first served – apply today!
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile™ (EMP) is an exceptional resource that provides clear insight into entrepreneurial strengths and specific opportunities for development. The EMP compares an individual on 14 scales to two norm groups: entrepreneurs and corporate managers. Having this baseline understanding helps to focus on developing innovation, creativity and growth leadership. The assessment takes about 20 minutes – complete yours by July 17 and be automatically entered to win a $100 Visa gift card.
Facilitated by the only Certified EMP™ Practitioners in Western Canada, workshops will be offered throughout Northern BC in fall 2017. Gain a deeper understanding of the assessment tool, insight into your own profile and tips to create an action plan to apply your results to your business.
Women business owners who receive the grant can also access a special rate plus an early application invite for an in-depth mentoring program. The program includes a personal coaching session, webinars and mentoring to develop your seven key skill areas and improve your business performance. Program details and pricing to be confirmed in fall 2017.
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Built on the premise that "The best economic development decisions for the North should be made in the North," Northern Development has a passion for growing the economy of central and northern British Columbia. Communities, First Nations and businesses of the north are leaders in creating jobs, new revenues and improving the quality of life in the region, and the Trust is dedicated to supporting their growth.
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile™ is a cutting-edge assessment tool based on extensive research into the traits, motivations and skills of entrepreneurs. Developed by the Leadership Development Institute at Eckerd College, it not only assesses the degree to which you are utilizing your "entrepreneurial mindset," but it also provides you with resources to leverage your competitive edge.
We are the leading business resource for aspiring and existing BC women entrepreneurs. Our services include business loans up to $150K, business skills training, personalized business advice, mentoring, practical resources and a supportive community.


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Q: Create a new sheet within loop and copies data
I am trying to create a vba code that can copy data whilst in a loop and copy the data (created through the loop) into a new sheet(s). (I am completely new to vba, any advice is welcome, thank you!)
More specifically I am doing this for Football teams Poisson calculations. The attached sheet shows the tables I am using.
Sub Pos()

 Dim k As Long
   For k = 1 To 20
     For l = 1 To 20
       For i = 0 To 10
         For j = 0 To 10
           Cells(75 + i, 3 + j) = Application.WorksheetFunction.Poisson_Dist(i, Cells(25 + k, l + 1), False) * Application.WorksheetFunction.Poisson_Dist(j, Cells(50 + k, l + 1), False)
         Next j
       Next i
     Next l
   Next k
End Sub

The bottom table is where the problem arises with the code written above. When I press run, it calculates the results but is constantly changing. Is there any way I can get it to copy and paste each result through each iteration.


Abstract: An effective method of obtaining the crystallization start (CS) line for bulk metallic glass (BMG) at a high heating and cooling rate, by which the required welding parameters can be estimated intuitively, has been studied. A fixed laser spot heat source, which can heat and cool BMG at a high rate, was used to re-melt Zr48Cu45Al7 BMG. The analysis of crystallization characteristics in the heat-affected zone (HAZ) indicated that at the boundary between the HAZ and the parent alloy there exist a critical state between crystalline and amorphous. The CS line should be tangent with the thermal cycle at the boundary, and the tangential point is most likely to be the transition location of the heating and cooling section in the thermal cycle. Based on simulated thermal cycles at the boundaries with different re-melting conditions by the finite-element method, the CS line for Zr48Cu45Al7 BMG at a high heating and cooling rate was constructed. Crown Copyright © 2009.


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Michael Poppmeier (born 24 July 1982 in Durban) is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Villagers in South Africa and the German national rugby union team.

He returned to the German side against Georgia on 7 February 2009 after a five-year absence, having made his last international in 2004.

Poppmeier, born in South Africa, started playing rugby in 2000. He has played for Villagers, DRC Hannover, Rosslyn Park F.C., Lazio Rugby and San Gregorio Rugby so far.

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Michael Poppmeier's personal statistics in club and international rugby:

National team

 As of 8 April 2012

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External links
 Michael Poppmeier at scrum.com
   Michael Poppmeier at totalrugby.de

1982 births
Living people
DRC Hannover players
German rugby union players
South African people of German descent
Germany international rugby union players
Rugby union locks
Rugby union players from Durban
South African rugby union players
Villager FC players
Western Province (rugby union) players
Heidelberger RK players
Rosslyn Park F.C. players
South African expatriate rugby union players
German expatriate rugby union players
South African expatriate sportspeople in England
South African expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate rugby union players in England
Expatriate rugby union players in Italy


Type of Work: Study part:Besides the manual work the study component will be an important part of our project. Volunteers will learn a lot about the time of National Socialism, the Holocaust and also something about the period after World War II especially the Soviet camp Sachsenhausen until 1950. Guided tours in and around the memorial site Sachsenhausen and excursions to different memorials and places of earlier German history are planned. Volunteers will have the opportunity to work in the exhibitions and in the library of the memorial site. Furthermore there will be several discussions with employees who perform guided tours and are involved in historical research. The international volunteers with their different backgrounds will inform the group about the memories and commemoration in their countries.Work part:The common learning at the historical site of Sachsenhausen shall be supplemented by manual work which constitutes the participantIs contribution to the maintenance of the memorial. This part will be rather small. All participants should have a very good knowledge of the English language and should be very interested in history and the present problems of neo-fascism and racism.
Accommodation: DetailsThe place where the project/workcamp will take place: Oranienburg Description of the partner organizing/hosting the project: Sachsenhausen was one of the earliest concentration camps in Germany, built in 1936. For example German people who were in opposition to Nazi policy, homosexuals, so-called asocials, criminals, Jews, and during the war especially people from occupied countries were imprisoned, forced to work and a lot of them were murdered. Between 1945 and 1950 a part of this area was used as a so-called Special Camp of the Soviet Secret Service.Now it is a place for studies and to commemorate the victims: the memorial site GedenkstEtte and Museum Sachsenhausen (Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen).Please inform yourself before the camp on this site: www.sachsenhausen-sbg.de Description of work: Study part:Besides the manual work the study component will be an important part of our project. Volunteers will learn a lot about the time of National Socialism, the Holocaust and also something about the period after World War II especially the Soviet camp Sachsenhausen until 1950. Guided tours in and around the memorial site Sachsenhausen and excursions to different memorials and places of earlier German history are planned. Volunteers will have the opportunity to work in the exhibitions and in the library of the memorial site. Furthermore there will be several discussions with employees who perform guided tours and are involved in historical research. The international volunteers with their different backgrounds will inform the group about the memories and commemoration in their countries.Work part:The common learning at the historical site of Sachsenhausen shall be supplemented by manual work which constitutes the participantIs contribution to the maintenance of the memorial. This part will be rather small. All participants should have a very good knowledge of the English language and should be very interested in history and the present problems of neo-fascism and racism. Description of accomodation and food: You will be accommodated in a youth hostel. The building is on the grounds of historical Sachsenhausen concentration camp complex, and was built in 1938 as the official residence of the Concentration Camp Inspector, 2 km away from the memorial centre. In the hostel there is a big kitchen for the group.
Requirements: ImportantFor this project it is necessary to have good or very good English skills German skills are beneficial.Please prepare at home a short presentation about your country, including the history of your home country and the view on German history.Volunteers have to be able to ride a bike, because various shorter and longer bicycle-tours are planned.
Approximate Location: Sachsenhausen is a part of Oranienburg, ca. 33 km to the north of Berlin.


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Media Advisory: Prototype device may diagnose common pregnancy complications by monitoring placental oxygen
NIH researchers pursue innovative method for observing maternal and fetal health during pregnancy
The prototype oxygen sensor next to a diagram of a fetus with forward-facing placenta.
Credit: Thien Nguyen, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Section on Translational Biophotonics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed a prototype device that could potentially diagnose pregnancy complications by monitoring the oxygen level of the placenta. The device sends near-infrared light through the pregnant person's abdomen to measure oxygen levels in the arterial and venous network in the placenta. The method was used to study anterior placenta, which is attached to the front wall of the uterus. The researchers described their results as promising but added that further study is needed before the device could be used routinely.
The small study was conducted by Amir Gandjbakhche, Ph.D., of the Section on Translational Biophotonics at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and colleagues. It appears in Biomedical Optics Express. The study was funded by NICHD's Human Placenta Project and Division of Intramural Research.
The researchers devised mathematical methods to study the passage of light through the skin, abdominal wall and uterine tissue to reach the placenta and calculate its oxygen levels. Currently, the device cannot monitor oxygen in women with a posterior placenta, which is attached to the back wall of the uterus, because the distance is too far for the light to travel. However, anterior placenta is associated with a higher rate of complications than posterior placenta, such as postpartum hemorrhage and an increased need for labor induction or cesarean delivery.
The researchers enrolled 12 pregnant women with an anterior placenta in the study. Of these, five had a pregnancy complication, including hypertension, a short cervix and polyhydramnios (excess amniotic fluid). On average, the women with complications had a placental oxygen level of 69.6%, a difference statistically significant from the 75.3% seen in the healthy pregnancies in the study. The authors see their results as a first step in continuously monitoring placental oxygen levels to assess maternal and fetal health.
Amir Gandjbakhche, Ph.D., of the NICHD Section on Translational Biophotonics, is available for comment.
Nguyen, T. Non-invasive transabdominal measurement of placental oxygenation: a step toward continuous monitoring. Biomedical Optics Express.2021. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.424969
About the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): NICHD leads research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. For more information, visit https://www.nichd.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit https://www.nih.gov.
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News Breaking News Scott Mason seriously injured in Vancouver pedestrian accident
Scott Mason seriously injured in Vancouver pedestrian accident
By MICHAEL HUSSAIN
Updated: January 16, 2023 02:14 AM EDT
Crash was at WA-503 and 4th Plain Boulevard
VANCOUVER, WA, (January 11, 2023) - A pedestrian was injured early Wednesday morning in Vancouver after being hit by a vehicle driven by a 32-year-old man, authorities said.
A pedestrian was injured early Wednesday morning in Vancouver after being hit by a vehicle driven by a 32-year-old man, authorities said.
According to the Washington State Patrol, Scott Mason was struck just before 3:30 a.m. at State Route 503 and 4th Plain Boulevard. Shortly after the crash, medics arrived at the scene and transported Mason to an area hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
There was no description of the vehicle involved in the collision, and no further details were available.
Many people choose walking to travel from one place to another; however, preliminary data from the Governors Highway Safety Association shows that this mode of transportation has become increasingly risky in recent years and has caused so much loss and pain to individuals and families.
According to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), the number of serious traffic injuries involving pedestrians has increased by 12%, from 360 to 403.
"Having the proper resources is extremely important to investigate a pedestrian accident case and prove negligence," said Candice Bond, an experienced pedestrian accident attorney and a Managing Partner with Bond Legal.
"It is almost always a driver's duty to yield to any pedestrian."
Scott Mason may have the right to pursue a personal injury claim, pending the results of the investigation.
Stefano Formica, Of Counsel at Bond Legal, said, "Injured victims involved in a collision often seek a personal injury claim to cover the cost of medical bills, future medical care, loss of income, emotional trauma, and pain and suffering."
"Insurance companies can be notoriously unconcerned with the mounting costs that an injured party may accrue. That's where an attorney can help. We protect the victims of these tragedies daily, forcing the insurance companies to pay for their mistakes," Formica added.
The Legal Advocate's national legal analysts Candice Bond and Stefano Formica are experienced in serious injury pedestrian accidents, and if you or a family member need help they are available for a free consultation to guide you
Tags: Injury Accident, Clark County, Vancouver, WA-503 and 4th Plain Boulevard, Pedestrian hurt
The staff of The Legal Advocate would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to Scott Mason and family
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This page displays sold house prices for Llanfach Road in Newport.
Llanfach Road in Abercarn, Newport consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Llanfach Road typically have values around £100,000 - £150,000, ranging upwards of £150,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
Map showing Llanfach Road in Newport.


The apparatus connected to your telephone line does not affect your telephone from working.
The personal alarm is triggered by pressing the pendant (worn around the neck), the bracelet (worn around the wrist) or the call bell (if you are in bed) to the call centre which is alerted by the apparatus that shows your name.
An operator gets in contact with you immediately via your apparatus which serves as an intercom, if you press on the pendant by mistake (which happens to everyone) you just inform the operator when she calls you, if you faint or fall and you are unable to reply, the operator talks through the apparatus and you can ask her to call your designated contacts who will come to help you .
The smoke alarm (if installed) can also trigger a call automatically in case of a fire.


This page is designed to be a convener of area resources and information, which our member businesses can use to grow and promote themselves. The resources on the page are geared toward small businesses.
If you have resources or materials that you would like to share with other members please contact Renae Schlies, director of membership and retention, at rschlies@greatergbc.org. Through collaboration, we can better gain access to area resources to ensure a vibrant business climate for the Chamber's members.
All photos on the business resources page will be free for any business to use.
Several videos area available that promote our community through the lens of visitors, business, education and employment.
New North's "North of What You Expect"
Bob Costas Green Bay Story on NBC's "Sunday Night Football"
We want to give our members as many resources about the area as possible. Useful facts about the area; connect viewers to other outside small business resources such as the Startup Hub SCORE Green Bay, NWTC's Business Resources, the Small Business Administration and the UWGB Small Business Development Center; and provide links to information on the area's communities, their government, livability and business climate/opportunities.


The figure of the vampire has been around for centuries, and has lost none of its fascination. Although, the portrayal of the vampire in literature today has not much in common with its historical origins, the vampire belief is based on true events. Bram Stoker's novel 'Dracula' laid the foundation for the success story of the vampire. He created something sinister, a monster in the shape of a gentleman. The evil of the Victorian society was personified in the form of the revenant. Boundaries between good and evil, human and non-human, death and life are blurred and unrecognizable in his book. In contrast, Anne Rice creates a world where humans and vampires live next to each other. Her vampires resemble human beings not only in terms of their bodies, but also in terms of their minds. There is no horror detectable, but amazement and identification with the revenants by the reader. In this context, the differentiation of the constructed images of the vampires in the two novels, 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker and 'Interview with the Vampire' by Anne Rice, is analyzed. Thereby, the study investigates those elements that have been adopted, those ones that have developed over the time, and the consequences that go along with the manner of construction.


Live music returns to the Library on Thursday, November 29th from 12-1 p.m. with the LCC Jazz Band. Please consider coming out to the 2nd-floor lobby to enjoy the performance. Bring your lunch, bring a friend and enjoy this free event!
This event is in collaboration with the Healthy Stars Challenge! Contact Amy Stoakes at stoaka@lcc.edu with any questions.


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Opinion: Columns
Levine: Don't underestimate Putin's threat
October 25th, 2019 | by Deborah Levine
File photo by Erin Schaff of The New York Times / President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump participate in a bilateral meeting during the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan in June 2019.
Ukrainian-born Comedian Yakov Smirnoff jokingly said Russia's secret police, the KGB, stood for Kiss Goodbye Your Butt. That was decades before another comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, became Ukraine's president. But Zelenskyy knows there's nothing funny about Russia's annexation of the eastern part of his country.
The Russians have never been muted in their aggressive global reach. From Vietnam to Cuba, the United States and the former Soviet Union wrestled in a Cold War. As the Soviet Union, Russian invasions included Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and what became the communist republic of Eastern Germany. Russia has been a relentless dictatorship from czarist times to the present, and the number of people who tried to escape Russian rule are legendary.
The movie "Fiddler on the Roof" is great entertainment, but don't be fooled. Czarist Russia had the world's largest population of Jews — a population that was restricted to ghetto-like areas. When waves of massacres called pogroms emerged, more than two million people, including my great-grandparents, fled. The on-and-off again waves under later communist rule remained terrifying. When I visited Uzbekistan Jews two decades ago, they'd relocated there for safety and "to get as far away from Moscow as we could."
It wasn't only Jews who suffered under Russian rule. A guest speaker whose Christian family experienced and escaped the Russian takeover of Eastern Germany recently spoke at Chattanooga's Self-improvement Mastermind meet-up. Her terrifying stories of torture, rape and starvation illustrated why German refugees ran for their lives. This wasn't the first time I'd heard such stories, but given what's happening in Syria, I paid extra attention.
Trump's dismissal of the Kurds's fate in Syria is unacceptable, as is letting Russia dictate terms in the Middle East. It's also unacceptable that Trump mimics Turkey's President Erdogan by telling reporters that Syrian Kurds "deliberately" allowed ISIS prisoners to escape and that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a separatist group of Kurds in Turkey, is a larger terrorist threat than ISIS. But Trump echoing the former KGB officer Vladimer Putin isn't just unacceptable. It makes me want to yell, "run for the hills!"
Unfortunately, any hill high enough to escape Russia is being leveled by this administration. When Trump equates Russia and the United States as countries that have focused on battling ISIS, he legitimizes Russian aggression. In reality, Russia has inhibited ISIS removal by being focused on eliminating the enemies of the Assad's Syrian government. Their airstrikes hit rebel Syrians, with only about 10% targeting ISIS.
Nancy Pelosi was not having a meltdown when she told Trump that "all roads with you lead to Putin." Pay close attention, not to the back-and-forth between Trump and Pelosi over who's losing their mind, but to our new world. Russia is now the major broker in the Middle East, and we have been relegated to the outskirts, at best. Putin will not be shy about pressing his advantage. Be afraid now that Putin has revoked a Geneva Convention protocol protecting victims of international armed conflicts. Be very afraid.
During the Cold War, I learned to speak Russian in case of takeovers. Over the years, the tensions diminished so maybe I was being paranoid. But I wasn't imagining things; my timing was off. From Ukraine to Syria to interference in our elections, today's risks are monumental and growing. Watch the news. When you see Putin sporting a big grin, you'd be wise to cover your backside. And that's no joke.
Deborah Levine / Staff file photo by C.B. Schmelter
Contact Deborah Levine, an author, trainer/coach and editor of the American Diversity Report, at deborah@diversityreport.com.
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