President Obama says the $400 million he paid Iran in January for the release of four hostages was leverage, not ransom. If so, the mullahs have apparently developed a taste for it. Witness the five-year prison sentence handed to their latest Western hostage, which came to light Friday.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen, had traveled to the Islamic Republic to visit relatives. She and her 2-year-old daughter, Gabriella, were detained in April at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport as they were about to fly home to London.
The exact charges haven't been disclosed, but Iran's Revolutionary Guards accuse her of plotting revolution. Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe works at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the company that owns the Reuters news agency. She wasn't involved in coverage of Iran.
One purpose of the harsh sentence is to remind Iranians in the diaspora tempted to return home in the wake of the nuclear deal that the regime sees them as traitors. It's also no accident that the sentence came shortly after the U.K. upgraded its diplomatic relations back to ambassador level.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cheered the new opening to Tehran last Monday, only to receive a rude awakening days later. Now the regime has a new political and financial bargaining chip, and Mr. Obama has created a cash-for-hostages incentive system with his earlier ransom. Let's hope the British government is wiser than to stuff briefcases with unmarked bills.


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Americans Who Moved During The Pandemic Saw $3K In Surprise Housing Costs
By Nick Dimengo
Seattle (Knewz) — Throughout the pandemic, the U.S. saw a "Great Escape," as many people relocated from bustling cities and metro areas to more rural towns.
The reason was simpl, with many employers not requiring workers to come into an office in the city, people didn't want to pay premium prices on rent and instead opted to buy homes in smaller cities.
Unfortunately, for Americans who moved during the past 20 months, saving money wasn't always certain, per new data.
Information from a new survey by Angi — formerly Angie's List — showed that Americans who moved into a new home during the pandemic averaged a whopping $3,000 in surprise housing costs. Many of these new homebuyers either underestimated the cost of moving, the price of movers, skipped formal inspections or experienced unfortunate issues with their new homes when they moving in.
"Regardless of whether people hired movers or did the work themselves, the majority found the pandemic exacerbated issues like availability of movers, delayed timelines and higher costs," said Mallory Micetich, home care expert at Angi.
According to the Angi data, 35 percent of the Americans who moved admitted that they did so because COVID-19 made them move sooner than planned. Another 14 percent were not planning to move at all before the pandemic hit.
Surprisingly, the information also notes that nearly 25 percent of these movers skipped a formal house inspection prior to moving in, citing factors like a quicker move-in, self-confidence in fixing issues themselves, and a desire to avoid being outbid. 20 percent of those skipping the inspection admitted the decision was a mistake.
Maybe most surprising, of the movers, 89 percent ran into unexpected costs after moving in. The most common issues were home repairs, appliance repairs/replacements, cosmetic improvements, utility bills, security systems, insurance premiums and structural damage repairs.
These were the most common issues many Americans who moved experienced:
81 percent found some issue with their new house after moving in. More than 40 percent were major issues
Cosmetic issues were reported by 40 percent of people
38 percent of people reported plumbing/leaking issues
36 percent of people reported electricity/wiring/outlets issues
34 percent of people reported water damage issues
Given the surprise costs these homeowners experienced, Micetich offered advice for those thinking about making a move.
"Moving is a major investment and it will save time, money and stress to plan ahead. Add a cushion to your budget, ask plenty of questions, and book pros in advance.
"These steps will all make the moving process smoother and help minimize unexpected costs and projects."
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Q: Compare 2 not identical DTO but have common properties in Fluent Assertion I am writing a unit test for a manual mapper. It maps an object to two different classes but have common properties. how to compare if their properties are equal in fluent assertion?
This is what I tried
 var domain = new Domain.ConsentDefinition()
{
     SomeProperty = 1,
     ListOfFirstDTO = new List<FirstDTO>()
     {
          new FirstDTO()
          {
             Name = "Label",
             Age = 18,
          }
     },
     SomeOtherProperty = "one"
}

ef = domain.ToEF();

domain.SomeProperty.Should().Be(ef.SomeProperty);
domain.SomeOtherProperty.Should().Be(ef.SomeOtherProperty);
domain.ListFirstDTO.Should().Equal(ef.ListOfSecondDTO); // This is NOT working

classes
public class FirstDTO
{
   public string Name {get;set;}
   public int Age {get;set;}
}

public class SecondDTO
{
   public string Name {get;set;}
   public int Age {get;set;}
   public string Email {get;set;}
}

A: Override firstDTO's equals so you compare values instead of references:

        public override bool Equals(object obj)
        {
            if (obj == null || !(obj is FirstDTO) || !(obj is SecondDTO))
            {
                return false;
            }

            if(obj is SecondDTO){
              return (this.Name == ((SecondDTO)obj).Name)
                && (this.Age == ((SecondDTO)obj).Age)

            }
            // if obj is instance of FirstDTO check the rest of fields...
        }

and run again
 domain.ListFirstDTO.Should().Equal(ef.ListOfSecondDTO); // This is NOT working

Another more elegant solution with no need of overriding equals would be

domain.ListFirstDTO.Select(c => c.Name).Should().Equal(ef.ListOfSecondDTO.Select(c => c.Name);

domain.ListFirstDTO.Select(c => c.Age).Should().Equal(ef.ListOfSecondDTO.Select(c => c.Age);

fluentassertion/collections

A: domain.Should().BeEquivalentTo(new
{
   SomeProperty = ef.SomeProperty,
   SomeOtherProperty = ef.SomeOtherProperty,
   ListFirstDTO = ef.ListOfSecondDTO
});

or
domain.Should().BeEquivalentTo(ef, options => options
  .Including(x => x.SomeProperty)
  .Including(x => x.SomeOtherProperty)
  .Including(x => x.ListOfSecondDTO));

By default, FA will compare two collections by ignoring the order of the items in the collection. Use WithStrictOrdering to control that.
If the second DTO implements Equals, then FA will use that. You can override that by using the ComparingByMembers<T> option.

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In 2018 we have seen an increase of protests against perceived over-tourism and part of the campaign revolves around the effects of cruise liners, as hordes descend upon defenceless cities transforming the nature of the local environment. Similarly, the owners of the liners have come in for criticism for their environmental impact and contribution to climate change and water pollution.
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When I was a 22-year-old Seminary student, I was just cocky enough to believe the world would go to hell if I didn't do my part to detour them to heaven.
So, when a local church invited me to preach a revival, I accepted. In case you're wondering, a revival is a series of church services held every night for a week — guilt in its most concentrated form.
On my very last sermon, just as the drama was rising, one of the parishioners loudly announced a woman passed out.
I quickly stuttered my intent to conclude the service.
Suddenly, the nurse announced the woman was having a seizure and we should call 911.
Protests rose from the deacons urging me to keep preaching. Assurances were made that this woman did "this thing" on a regular basis.
Shaking the incredulity from my face, I jump-started my last tear-jerking illustration and introduced the most critical part of my sermon — the invitation.
It is called the invitation because the preacher publicly invites the repenting parishioner to pray at the altar. As is the practice, I motioned the music director to begin our invitational hymn and announced my willingness to abridge the invitation.
torpedo approach and firmly instructed the music leader to sing all six verses.
Now, I'm not making this next part up. I signaled the director to stop, but he was taking directions from the deacon. Four more verses were ordered.
On the last verse, patient and paramedics made their escape.
When the service ended, I popped a breath mint and shook the hands of those exiting. In the exit line, a deacon stopped to assure me the woman has fainted multiple times on multiple Sundays. He then pointed toward a spot where the woman had once lain while parishioners had stepped over her to get to Sunday brunch.
"Just a normal Sunday," he reported.
Upon hearing that, it was all I could do to hold my breath mint and not spray him with Certs spit.
Normal is a funny word. We use it describe what has become customary. But customary isn't always right.
This congregation had settled into a new normal, which involved building detours around their wounded. But church people aren't the only ones capable of doing this. We all do it.
These days, our normal life involves people losing their jobs, houses and loved ones in war. And we've become good at building detours around those painful thoughts. We go to the mall, we fill up our cars with overpriced gas, and we detour the pain.
Like these church people, we can make one of two responses. We can use our own pain as an excuse for detouring around the pain of others. Or, we can become involved in the hurts of others and thereby lessen the load of every one of us.
The first option will seem the safest one, but we just end up isolated and alone.
The second way will seem fraught with risk, but then again, faith always is risky. I think that's why they call it faith.


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From: The Socialist issue 520, 13 February 2008: Stop NHS privatisation now!
Search site for keywords: Chad - Darfur - Sudan - France - Imperialism - War - Oil - Troops
Chad conflict - part of a wider power struggle
BODIES LITTERED the streets of N'Djamena, Chad's capital city, after three days of intense fighting between president Idriss Déby's forces and 1,200 Chadian rebels, earlier this month.
Dave Carr
Déby - who has dictatorially ruled Chad after seizing power in 1990 in a military coup - narrowly avoided being overthrown himself. Only after the intervention of military forces from France - the former colonial power - using assault helicopters, did the rebels withdraw.
This conflict (a less well organised rebel attack on the city occurred in 2006) is inextricably linked to the more well known bloody civil war currently raging in the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan.
Both Chad and Sudan accuse each other of fomenting rebellion and civil war in each others countries. Many commentators say that the timing of the recent rebel invasion was a ploy by Sudan to pre-empt deployment of 5,500 EU troops - led by France - to protect over 200,000 Darfur refugees in eastern Chad. Indeed, this deployment has been delayed by at least four weeks.
Sudan denies the charges of being involved in the rebel attack. The charge is also denied by the rebels, led by Chad's former defence minister Mahamat Nouri and former chief of staff Timan Erdimi (also a nephew of Déby).
Sudan is also accused of trying to stall the intervention of a 27,000 strong African Union/United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur. It's certainly plausible that had the rebellion succeeded, the UN attempt to contain the five-year-old civil war in Darfur would have collapsed.
But even as UN forces are arranging deployment in Darfur, Sudan's government has used attack aircraft to strafe villages in the area, forcing a further 12,000 refugees to flee westwards into Chad.
But Idriss Déby (one of Africa's most corrupt rulers who has siphoned-off much of the country's oil wealth) is no innocent in this conflict. Déby stands accused of backing rebel groups fighting Sudan's troops in Darfur. And Amnesty International has warned that Déby is using his 'victory' to depose of his political opponents in Chad.
Inevitably the main victims in this regional conflict are the ordinary Chadian and Sudanese civilians caught in the crossfire and targeted by militias and government troops. Some 2.5 million people have been forced to flee to neighbouring states to avoid the bloodshed.
Their plight has worsened since the recent rebel attack in Chad as this has suspended a $300 million UN aid programme to Darfur administered through Chad. Chad's prime minister has also called for the expulsion of the Darfur refugees, claiming that they are assisting Chad's rebels.
The recent rebellion in Chad has given an opportunity for French imperialism (there are 1,400 French troops in Chad) to re-assert its influence in its former colony. The French government has offered to militarily intervene again in future to maintain the Déby regime in power. "If France must do its duty, it will do so," said French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Such a pledge is reminiscent of France's previous intervention in Rwanda in the 1990s under French 'socialist' President Mitterrand. Then, under the guise of providing "humanitarian assistance" French paratroopers collaborated with extremist Hutu militias in their carrying out of genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Déby has immediately 'repaid' Sarkozy's assistance by pardoning the French aid workers of Zoe's Ark charity who were convicted in Chad of illegally trying to fly 103 children out of the country for adoption in France. The announcement of a pardon came after talks between Déby and France's defence minister, Herve Morin.
The current conflict in eastern Chad is not simply an extension of the Darfur civil war. Many elements of the Darfur conflict originated in Chad.
According to Alex de Waal of the Social Science Research Council, the original Janjaweed militia - the notorious Arab militia used by Sudan's regime in Darfur - were actually Chadian rebels. And some of the leading non-Arab figures in Darfur's rebel groups fought in Chad's army at one time.
The conflicts in Chad and Sudan involve a number of elements. Firstly, imperialism is seeking greater political influence in the region. The US has long regarded Sudan as a hostile Islamist state supporting international terrorism. In 1997 under president Bill Clinton, economic and diplomatic sanctions were imposed. In 2001 these sanctions were renewed by George Bush. In May 2007 Bush imposed new, severe sanctions after accusing Sudan of conducting genocide in Darfur.
Secondly, the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in both Darfur and Chad, agreed by the big powers but typically ineffective at protecting local populations, is a useful political lever for imperialism.
Thirdly, the region's resources, especially its oil reserves, are seen as ripe for exploitation by Western and more recently Chinese companies.
The oil fields are rich sources of profits for multinationals and the local elites, at the expense of the impoverished local population. (An oil pipeline running from Chad, through Cameroon, to the Atlantic coast was completed in 2003, despite protests over its environmental impact. The project involved the World Bank, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas.)
Finally, the conflict also involves the rotten regimes, and their warlord proxy militias in both Chad and Sudan, to protect their power. The Chad rebels, for example, are regrouping and undoubtedly will launch fresh attacks. So too are the Janjaweed in Darfur.
It is clear that neither imperialism, nor the local capitalist regimes, or the UN, can solve this regional conflict. Genuine democracy, the redistribution of wealth to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and acute health and other social problems, all require the overthrow of the dictatorships in Chad and Sudan by the urban and rural workers and poor.
Only the establishment of workers' and peasants' governments, resting on socialism and internationalism, can guarantee the rights of all Chadian and Sudanese people and allow them to voluntarily cooperate to raise living standards in the entire region.


And so it was that Cain watched with little surprise Wednesday night as Bumgarner, now 25 and one of the best pitchers in baseball, came in from the bullpen in the fifth inning in Game 7 of the World Series and, for the next five innings, retired hitter after hitter of the Kansas City Royals – three days removed from hurling 117 pitches in a four-hit shutout against that same Royals team – until at 10:21 p.m. local time the Series ended just as it had begun, with Bumgarner turning his back slightly to the plate, swinging his left arm out wide behind him and delivering a pitch.
Salvador Perez popped it up, Pablo Sandoval caught it near the Giants' dugout, and for the third time in five seasons, the Giants were World Series champions. It was the 68th pitch delivered by Bumgarner on the night, and ended the 21st inning he pitched in the Series. He allowed one run in those 21 innings, issued one walk, struck out 17, earned two wins and, when the Giants had to protect a one-run lead in Game 7, recorded the final 15 outs to earn his first major-league save.
Amid the blaring music and heavy air inside a victorious visiting clubhouse in Kansas City on Wednesday night, Bumgarner's teammates and coaches struggled to put into words what they had just witnessed from the 25-year-old.
Bumgarner pitched seven innings in Game 1, threw a complete-game shutout in Game 5, then came back three days later to pitch five more scoreless innings in his first relief outing since Game 6 of the 2010 National League Championship Series. It lowered his career World Series ERA to 0.25 – one earned run in 36 innings.
Beginning with his complete-game shutout of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the wild-card game, the left-hander threw a total of 52 2/3 innings this postseason, surpassing Curt Schilling's previous record of 48 1/3 for a single postseason. He pitched nearly one-third of the 160 total innings the Giants' staff threw in October. He allowed six earned runs in those innings – a 1.03 ERA – the third-lowest by any pitcher with at least 30 innings in one postseason.
Nor did catcher Buster Posey, a player not prone to overstatement, who said that he had begun thinking about the historic nature of Bumgarner's postseason – while Game 7 was still going.
Pitching coach Dave Righetti said manager Bruce Bochy asked him before the game how many pitches he thought Bumgarner might be able to throw in a relief outing. Righetti's answer was "50 to 70." Bumgarner finished at 68, 50 of which were strikes.
That included Bumgarner's low-90s fastball and his signature cutter, his sweeping slider and the big, slow breaking ball that he commanded with precision.
The first batter Bumgarner faced, Omar Infante, lined a single into right field. The next 14 went down in order. With the Giants batting in the top of the ninth inning, their bullpen, where nobody had stirred since Bumgarner jogged in from the area behind the right-field fence, remained quiet.
Bumgarner retired the first two hitters before Alex Gordon lined what looked like a single to left-center field. Only Gregor Blanco let it bounce by him to the wall, and while Juan Perez corralled it and hurried a throw into the infield, Gordon sped into third base, holding there to represent the tying run.
That brought up Perez, the only hitter ever to drive in a run against Bumgarner in the Series, with a home run late in Game 1. He still holds that distinction. Perez popped a ball high in the Kansas City night, and minutes later Bumgarner was hoisting the Series Most Valuable Player trophy.
Royals manager Ned Yost was asked afterward whether there had been a "helpless" feeling when Bumgarner came in from the bullpen with a lead in the fifth.
"Yeah, it was hopeless," Yost said. "But you still have that hope in the back of your mind like in the ninth inning there. You get something going, something happens, you catch a break, and you find a way to dunk one out there or a sac fly with one out, and get the game tied and then just get them out somehow.
Yost was informed that honor had already been bestowed.
Throughout, Bumgarner maintained that he was physically holding up fine. He shrugged at the idea of pitch counts and said he felt he could throw "maybe 200" if needed in Game 7. When it was over, though, the task completed and the title secured, he let his guard down.
"It's historic. We have a great game, 135 years of Giants baseball, and I can't imagine anybody performing at a higher level in this organization.
Nominally, maybe. But when it comes to some of the lasting numbers from this postseason – the workload, the 0.25 lifetime World Series ERA, the no-walk, eight-strikeout shutout in Game 5 – the conversation is much shorter. There, Madison Bumgarner, who once showed that even at 19 years old he would not back down, stands alone.


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« Effect of increasing sea water pCO2 on the northern Atlantic krill species Nyctiphanes couchii
The proteome of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) larvae is resistant to elevated pCO2 »
Which ocean species will outlast the rising acidity of seawater?
Published 9 August 2014 Media coverage Closed
Many of the projected effects of climate change on the world's oceans are already visible, such as melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. But invisible changes may be the most threatening to human food sources, beginning with the tiny species like plankton that inhabit the bottom of the oceans' food chain.
As emissions from human activities increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, they, in turn, are modifying the chemical structure of global waters, making them more acidic.
Many researchers have speculated that most aquatic species won't be able to adapt in time to survive the acidification that has already begun, but there are some who are more optimistic. One of them is Jennifer Sunday, a postdoctoral ecologist and evolutionary biologist at Canada's Simon Fraser University.
"You hear people say species aren't going to adapt in time," she explained in an interview, "but I just knew that we don't really know that. This really motivated me to start thinking about a study to test this. We can and did put some science and data to this question."
Sunday and her team published a review earlier this year in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, aiming to help researchers improve their chances of finding potential survivors. It suggests that more studies should focus on identifying species with enough genetic variety to produce a mutant that can adapt.
Sunday feels that the better researchers get at searching for adapters, the more will be found.
The process that creates this risk is swift and globe-spanning. Oceans absorb roughly a quarter of the rising CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, so as that concentration increases, the oceans absorb more of the gas. In the past 150 years, human-induced climate change has changed the ocean acidity from roughly pH 8.3 to pH 8. (In the pH scale, 1 is most acidic, 7 is neutral and 14 is basic, or least acidic).
"It's anywhere from 10 to 100 times faster than anything we've seen over the last million years," said Richard Feely, a chemical oceanographer and senior researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "That's just according to our good records." And acidity is only expected to rise.
"By the end of this century," Feely said, "projections are an increase by another 100 to 130 percent."
Which tiny sea creatures can win the lottery?
Changes in pH levels can have massive effects on marine life, a fact that has led many scientists to believe that most species can't withstand large increases in acidification. When CO2 mixes with ocean waters, it binds calcium molecules that are usually free for marine creatures to build shells. The more acidic waters can also corrode existing shells.
Sunday isn't the first to try and isolate survivor species. Several teams worldwide have already been exploring the potential of marine life species to adapt to predicted climate changes.
In 2009, a European team published their research on the tiny circular plankton Emiliania huxleyi, made up of light-reflecting mineralized calcium ovals. These tiny plankton sometimes float in populations so large, they've been spotted from outer space.
Looking at strains of the plankton under varying CO2 levels, researchers found that while some plankton had difficulties forming their shells when the water was more acidic, others did not, causing researchers to speculate that the plankton might be able to use another form of calcium to substitute in shell making. Other studies have shown that certain species thought incapable of evolving quickly can, in fact, rapidly adapt.
Evolution is like a lottery. The faster a species reproduces, the greater the number of unique ticket combinations it creates in the genes of its offspring. For species that produce the right genetic mutation, their number is drawn and the prize is survival.
"This is particularly important when you want to look at a species' ability to cope with change," said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.
"Faster reproduction rates give us a chance to see how vulnerable a species is," Pistevos said.
In 2012, Sunday and colleagues spanning three continents reviewed past studies, and based on this work, propose future research dedicated to efforts to locate adapters by incorporating more experimental evolution into the studies.
Experimental evolution identifies members of a species born with the winning genetic ticket instead of those who can come up with the correct number during their lifetime. Being born with the winning ticket means these individuals may be able to ride the acidifying tides in the kind of time frame needed—which is immediately.
Questions that can't be answered in the lab
Sunday and her team also suggest more work should consider a species' response to multiple environmental changes, such as increased temperature and oxidation levels, as well as multiple stages of life. Currently, many studies only follow a species at a specific point in its members' lives, such as infancy. Without tracking an organism over its life span and in a complicated and changing environment, it's hard to say whether observed changes will translate into overall survival.
Although Sunday sees her work as laying the groundwork for less pessimistic predictions of the future fate of marine life, not everyone agrees that the approach is realistic. Aran Mooney, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who studies the effects of ocean acidification on Atlantic long-fin squid larvae, said some methods Sunday recommends are not practical for studying all species.
"Overall, the review is very good for us," he said. "The authors point out some great goals and the limitations we face." But for species like squid, Mooney said, Sunday's suggestions are unlikely to be used.
"Measuring squid evolution in the lab might be doable to some extent," Mooney said, "but it isn't really possible to raise multiple generations or even young to adult—[they] don't do all that well in captivity."
Though Sunday agreed that predicting exactly how oceans will look in the future remains hard, researchers are starting to look in the right places. "The question just seemed too difficult before," she said. "We wanted to put our advice out there so people could see it's not impossible for species to adapt in time."
"I do predict some species will adapt," concluded Sunday, "but not all. Ultimately, it's pretty shocking to think we'll be losing species and it will be because of us."
Jennifer Huizen & ClimateWire, Scientific American, 6 August 2014. Article.
Proteomic and transcriptomic responses enable clams to correct the pH of calcifying fluids and sustain biomineralization in acidified environments
Ocean acidification impacts fish larvae but warming could compensate juveniles


Mobile search is hotter than ever, which means that local searches will be taken along for the ride. There is a lot of excitement around it and suggestions are being put forward as to how websites can dominate local and mobile search. But when you look closely, SEO strategies for mobile devices aren't really that different from conducting a strategy to dominate traditional search.
While it is true that mobile searches are more likely to display local results than other forms of content, this trend might be exaggerated. It should be noted that a significant portion of searches on desktop computers have local intent as well. As the functionalities of mobile devices get improved, users will start using mobile internet the same way they do a traditional PC.
A significant percentage of individuals already have Blackberries, iPhones, and devices that run on Android. The increasing screen size, battery life, readability, and multimedia capacity of these smart phones are not "unique". Instead, the mobile industry is moving forwards feature parity with the desktop. Recent research studies conducted by Doubleclick also shows that search behaviors are becoming similar.
More Queries – the mobile search industry is growing at an astronomical pace. A lot more searches are being conducted while people are on the go. Overall, this presents a lot of good opportunities for SEO marketers.
Mobile Focus is a Possibility – Yelp lets you make your mobile search preference known. That is, the displayed results you'll get will be more local than general.
Similar SERPs – if you are searching for local information, it is now very likely to find the same set of SERP on your desktop computer (or laptop) and smart phone.
Limited Need for an Individual Mobile Website – just recently, search specialists were saying that creating a separate mobile site will help you rank better in mobile searches. But the need for this may soon disappear because of the reasons stated above. Also, trying to create a separate site raises concerns about technical and site duplication issues.
Draw of Apps – although it isn't clear whether people will continue to be obsessed with smart phone apps, it is pretty obvious right now that the industry is being driven by it. Apps can be used to promote brands and products/services effectively.
Importance of Separate Ad Strategy – unlike organic search, PPC results dramatically differ depending on the device in question. Right now, both costs per click and conversion rate are low but the latter is projected to increase.
Finally, another trend in SEO is geography. Both traditional and mobile search are giving more importance to geography in order to provide more targeted results to the searcher.
Rachel Allen is a California native and SEM enthusiast. She currently runs social media for a San Diego Tree Service as well as a Los Angeles Laser Hair Removal Clinic.


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Survivors tell of devastating quake Jump to media player Emergency aid begins to reach remote Nepalese communities as the search and rescue efforts continue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32523888/nepal-earthquake-survivors-tell-of-devastating-quake
Quake survivor pulled from apartment Jump to media player A man pulled from the rubble of a Kathmandu building talks about his ordeal. Yogita Limaye reports from Kathmandu.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32509527/nepal-earthquake-survivor-pulled-from-apartment-block
On the ground in quake-hit village Jump to media player The BBC's Adrienne Murray is one of the few journalists to reach Gorkha - the district of Nepal where the earthquake struck.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32496917/nepal-earthquake-on-the-ground-in-gorkha-region
Fleeing Kathmandu: It's fearful here Jump to media player BBC News hears from people leaving from Kathmandu bus station following the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32509530/nepal-earthquake-fleeing-from-kathmandu
Volunteer: We're trying to find bodies Jump to media player A volunteer tells Yalda Hakim how he has been looking for bodies, alive or dead, in the rubble in Kathmandu, following the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-32509532/nepal-earthquake-scout-volunteer-on-finding-bodies
'We were thrown from wall to wall' Jump to media player Borders journalist David Knox tells BBC Radio Scotland's Angela Soave how he and his family survived Nepal's massive earthquake.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-south-scotland-32497991/nepal-earthquake-borders-journalist-describes-devastation
Nepal earthquake 'like disaster movie' Jump to media player A cameraman from south Wales has said the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal was like something out of a disaster movie.
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Nepal earthquake: Survivors tell of devastating quake
In Nepal emergency aid is beginning to reach the remote communities worst hit by the weekend's devastating earthquake.
Meanwhile search and rescue efforts are continuing.
The government has admitted that it is struggling to cope with the disaster.
Clive Myrie reports from the capital Kathmandu.
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Coast FM's Australia Day in the Park
June 26, 2015 from 3:00 PM
MOSS Band 26th January – Coast FM's Australia Day in the Park
In response to the establishment of FM community radio stations around Australia, a group of councillors from the South Western regions of Adelaide approached the Kingston College of TAFE – now known as the Onkaparinga Institute of TAFE – in 1985, regarding the establishment of a comunity radio station on campus. A steering committee was formed in 1986.
Southern and Western Broadcasters registered an expression of interest with the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the first transmission operating as SKY-FM was held over four days in June 1986 from a caravan adjacent to the transmission tower at the rear of the college.
Glandore studios
Following the success of the first trial broadcast with borrowed equipment, the Australian Broadcasting Commission made a redundant stereo radio desk available with grants and donations facilitating the purchase of studio equipment.
A TAFE-funded course allowed the construction of studios in a demountable classroom.
SKY TALK programmes were broadcast on Radio 5UV from August 1987 and then transferred to 5EBI in July 1989.
In March 1991 an application by the station, now known as Coast FM, resulted in a "C" class licence being issued and, on June 28th 1992, full-time broadcasts began on 88.5MHz. in 2002 the frequency was changed to 88.7MHz.
On the 13th of December 1998, from our humble beginnings at O'Halloran Hill we moved to the Naldera building at the Glandore Community Centre. The Centre is heritage-listed, with a colourful history of it's own dating back to the 1890s.
Coast FM is licensed to serve the Southern and South-Western community in the Adelaide metropolitan area. The station operates 24 hours per day, with live presenters providing personal contact with listeners. From 6.00am to 6.00pm the Committee of Management dictates the type of programming, such as news, sport, music and special reports.
Adelaide's Coast FM's programming has a very heavy bias towards popular rock and pop music from the 1950s, '60s and '70s, which suits the main audience who are 39 years plus. Coast FM also features country music, every day from 2pm to 4pm.
From 6pm each evening, Coast FM offers traditional community radio fare: sport, religion, foreign language and speciality music programmes, including jazz, soul, musicals, alternative, dance, rock-a-billy, contemporary pop and music featuring local artists and bands.
During the day you can also catch folk and more sport: John O'Neil's racing preview and Australia's longest running soccer radio programme.
WEBSITE: http://www.coastfm.com.au
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A recent report by Forbes mapped out the worlds billionaires. This exclusive club has 1,587 members of which 512 are in the US and Canada. Asia has grown to #2 with 403 and Europe third with 343. Latin America, Russia, and other countries round out the list. I find this impressive that the relatively young America leads the list and shows the power of a nation founded on ideas where multiple cultures come together as one. Notice the lack of members from repressive countries that experience fighting between separate groups within the same territory are vastly underrepresented.


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Welcome to our classroom! The Junior High Community are explorers of their world- both physical and social. Through their experiences, adventures, and engaging discussions, they will decide how they want to shape the future. We can't wait to see what they will contribute!
"Within the child, lies the fate of the future."
- Maria Montessori
Kristina Weidenfeller, Junior High Guide
Kristina@traversechildrenshouse.org
Treenen Sturman, Junior High Guide
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Linda Smyka
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Thank you for an amazing 2018-2019 school year! We paddled rivers, forded streams, built robots, and collected data from ecosystems far and wide. We travelled hundreds of miles from the Florida Keys to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan east to Washington D.C.. All the while, we learned about the people and places that have shaped and continue to shape the course of our lives. We found our voices and used them. We grew as students and as citizens. We learned what it means to be a true community. Congratulations to our 8th year graduates, who will be sorely missed. We look forward to seeing our rising 7th years this fall, and to watching our new 8th years take on their leadership roles in the new community they will create.
Have a wonderful summer!
-Tree and Kristina
Well, here we are- the last installment of highlights before the closing bell. As promised, the past two weeks have kept us on or near the water. We've learned about how wastewater is cleaned, how the bay water is purified for drinking, and how the city works to keep the bay clean. We've gained perspective of our connection to water personally, and within the global community. We've examined humans' past and present relationship with water, and with that, imagined our own future relationships. The story of water is the story of us all. It has directed where civilizations were born, how humans migrated, and it will determine our future.
Speaking of the future, time not spent on water has been spent preparing ourselves for the immediate future. Student Showcase, Grandparent's Day, backpacking, and 8th grade graduation are imminent. Students have been working diligently to translate their favorite "work" into a showcase worthy presentation. Can't lie, getting 7th and 8th graders to edit, revise, and reimagine work while the sun shines in and summer whispers at the door is akin to attempting to stick uncooked spaghetti to the fridge. Amongst water tests, reading the Living Great Lakes, and preparing Showcase pieces, the 8th graders are trying to finish up 8th year projects, begin speeches, plan the "handing over" of the "torch" to the 7th graders and ensure a yearbook all while the 7th graders frantically work on slide shows, a graduation outing, and a business plan. Peppered throughout, we join the larger community to clean up the campus, prepare for Grandparent's Day, and give back to the greater community through stewardship activities like planting trees on the Boardman and cleaning out rain gardens in Sutton's Bay. Oh wait- almost forgot to mention backpacking preparations such as our practice hike, food shopping, dehydrating, and first aid overview.
May we all remember to stop along the way to enjoy these full, yet wonderful days ahead as we wrap up one more educational trip around the sun!
Since our last installment, the Jr. High has taken our nation's capital by storm. We visited many destinations, all surrounding the individual research our students tackled leading up to our trip. Examples included:
*The Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
*The Newseum
*The National Museum of African American History and Culture
*The Vietnam Memorial
*The Drug Enforcement Agency Museum
*The Headquarters of the Death Penalty Information Center
*The US Headquarters of the International Labor Organization
*Smithsonian National Museum of American History
At each location, students delivered presentations highlighting the key points of their research and explaining the significance and connection between their topic and their chosen location. And because this is the TCH Jr. High, our students were entirely responsible for navigating us through the DC Metro system, planning for, preparing, and cleaning up after each meal, and otherwise maintaining the peace during our six day, DC Adventure.
And of course, it's May, which means we are wrapping up the school year with umpteen field trips into and surrounding the waters of Northwest Michigan- the proverbial warp to the weft of our water-based curriculum. Guest speakers, readings, data gathering, reflection, and other cross-curricular activities ensure than any given day in May is chock filled with "ah ha" moments, and indelible memories.
Other highlights include:
- Completing our literature seminar on Revolution by Deborah Wiles
- Releasing "Superior" the Sturgeon into the Black River
- Participating in Meals on Wheels
- Trying on gear in preparation for our end of year backpacking trip to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
"...and I think to myself, what a wonderful world."
During our first week and a half back, we have truly been experiencing what a wonderful world it is. We started off with reading "Revolution" by Deborah Wiles. With photos, lyrics, primary documents, quotes, and an engaging storyline, Revolution masterfully weaves together the diverse perspectives and events simultaneously occurring during the summer of 1964. That summer, troops patrolled Vietnam while young adults from the north rode buses to the south to register African American voters. Fans swooned over the Beatles and folks visited the World's Fair in New York while Freedom Riders were arrested, or worse. LBJ was fighting a war on poverty while our nation worked to win the race to the moon.
Students have chosen their own "fights" to research: women's suffrage, women in the workplace, child labor, veterans's rights, rights to digital privacy, rights of the incarcerated, rights of those with disabilities or chronic diseases, civil rights, civil liberties, and Gay marriage. After visiting two different local libraries, students have gathered information on the leaders, events, and causes related to their own movements of interest. They have been scouring Washington D.C. for places to visit that match their topics. The itinerary is starting to come together, and just in time too!
To round out being "well rounded," we were fortunate enough to attend a presentation given by three astronauts, one of which lived on the International Space Station for over five months. They shared their diverse paths to space, and also how so many different areas of study and so many individuals in space, and on earth contribute to the work on the International Space Station. Major General Charles Bolden, who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War, spoke about growing up in the segregated south and, at that time, not thinking space would have ever been an option for him. A boy not allowed to attend the same school as whites became the 12th Administrator of NASA.
On Friday of last week, we attended a concert by a Detroit based Latin Jazz group, Aguanko. The band leader, a Mexican immigrant, provided history on the origin of the music style, relating the combination of African music, native Cuban music, and European instruments. Jazz is a true American art form- it represents the beauty of the "melting pot" that is our country. After the concert, we browsed the "Entire Life in a Package" exhibit at the Dennos Museum. The exhibit highlighted the struggle of refugees; begging the question, "What do you choose to carry with you when you leave your home, fleeing a situation you feel helpless to change?"
So as I reflect on the past eight school days, I wonder, "How is it possible that all of these people, astronauts, artists, authors and musicians, could be connected to our study of this "Democratic Experiment" that we all live everyday?" Simply, it is the nature of our country, it is the nature of our world. Voices from the past, present and future- cultural fusion and collaboration across all walks of life - have created and continue to create the incredible, exciting, wonderful world we live in today. As students look at the battles fought and won in the short 243-ish years of our nation, what could possibly be impossible to accomplish? As Margaret Mead said, all it takes is, " a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens" to "change the world."
In the latest installment of "Life in the TCH Jr. High," we find our heros showcasing their final projects in Early Human Civilizations. Having researched the various aspects of what makes up a civilization, our students were challenged to create one, from scratch. No, this is not an exercise in human growth and development. Instead, a celebration of the creativity and ingenuity of Montessori educated minds. We had many an island with many a volcano. There were delivery storks and human sacrifices to appease the gods. We heard languages that could be spoken, and others that could only be yoddled. Food ranged from your standard vegetable fare, to hippopotamus and capybara. In a fine marriage of art and public speaking, each of our students welcomed countless Elementary kids to their culminating "open house." The combination was priceless.
Now, as we will fill our days with "Theatre Week," the Jr. High is dipping its toes into our next adventure- a study of the bill of rights, and the democratic movements thereby made possible. This will, of course, culminate in our student-planned trip to Washington D.C..
Recycled art, Pi Day, swordplay, Wings of Wonder, and a technology talk by Lisa Thauvette round our this edition of Classroom Highlights. Thanks for tuning in.
"Educate children for their future, not our past."
Gene Carter
Students need to know where we've been in order to understand where we are, and plan for where they will take us in the future. In many respects, the Children's House is their "village," and in that capacity, it is essential that we share with them all we know, and give them the tools we have available for them to continue as lifelong learners and active citizens of their world. They will be the ones to carry the torch, and light the way forward.
During the past two weeks, students have been immersed in examining the evolution of civilization. They have been studying the history, and the present state of Native Americans, asking questions about what constitutes a civilization, and then, working to create their own. They have been examining time lines, watching what happened as many nations collided across the land we now call the United States of America. What was it like? What happen to change it? What is our country like now as a result?
In addition, we've also had Student-led conferences, Technology Health Education, Human Growth and Development, and script writing. Each part of the brain gets a turn! Students have taken the time to reflect on what they have learned and contributed so far this year, evaluate their own progress, and the share it with their parents. They have reviewed their ongoing goals, measured progress, and planned for the future. Most of us at some point have, or will have to show an employer, or an investor what qualifies us, what we have accomplished, what we plan to accomplish. How many of us have had to answer to our parents in that way in a professional format? It is truly impressive to watch the bravery and personal growth that takes place from the first seventh year conference to the last eighth year conference.
Wait there's still more! Students have been learning about healthy bodies, minds, and relationships. Between Tech Health Education, and Human Growth and Development, students have been focusing on issues of mental, physical and emotional health. Care of self is an important skill to have now and in their futures.
Finally, creativity. The classroom has been alive with a range of emotions, all created for the glory of drama. Students have been imagining all kinds of stories and situations that can be turned into entertaining skits for all to see. Drama seems to come naturally to our demographic- they have a flare for it!
Fresh from our trip to the Florida Keys, the Jr. High finished preparations for their final ROV mission of the winter, retrieving a series of pool rings from the bottom of the NMC ROV tank. All the while, students were putting the finishing touches on their ROV/Florida Keys presentations, which, after two, snow-day related postponements, they finally were able to deliver to the Upper Elementary Classes. Now, with ROVs in their rearview mirrors, our students have moved on to their winter Humanities Workshop on Native American studies. After an introductory presentation on Pre-Columbian civilizations, including current theories of human migration to the Americas, our students embarked on two field trips to local Native American cultural centers: The Eyaawing Museum in Peshawbestown, and Ziibiwing Cultural Center and Museum in Mount Pleasant. There, students learned about the Anishinaabeg culture, including their creation story, language/means of communication over time, methods of survival, spiritual practices, and life since the arrival of the Europeans. Our students have been challenged to use what they have learned these past two weeks in order to imagine and articulate their own, pre industrial civilization, complete with the essential elements of food, clothing, shelter, organizational structures, cross-cultural interactions, spiritual beliefs, and more.
Meanwhile back at the ranch…
While most of Michigan battled Old Man Winter, the Junior High was "off campus." We literally took our show on the road. The adventure began at zero dark thirty at Cherry Capital Airport just as the snow was beginning to fall. Our flights were running and on time, so by 10:30 Monday morning the entire class was well on their way to South Florida and the Florida Keys.
First stop, Pigeon Key Marine Science Center. Well, maybe the first stops were the rest rooms and food, but, close enough. To get to Pigeon Key it requires a short jaunt down from Fort Lauderdale Airport, through Homestead and several keys, and overwater on a ferry boat (not a large one) to the island, where you disembark onto a dock adorned with a Tiki hut. From the dock you can see across the island. Students dropped their bags in the dorms, changed into suits and then jumped in the water to complete their swim and snorkel tests. After dinner, they attended a taxonomic fish identification class in preparation for their next day of snorkeling on Sombrero Reef. Day 1, done.
On Tuesday, we were all up and at 'em at 7:30, sharing breakfast under a tent near the shore (everywhere on the island is near the shore). We had safety and boat briefings and then headed out. It was a beautiful and quiet day on the reef, with water temperature at a lovely 72 degrees. Students floated and dove, seeing many different types of fish, sponges, corals, and even an octopus! Upon our return to the island, we had lunch and then went tide pooling, where they were able to collect a variety of organisms to hold and learn about in the wet lab. Next, both ROV teams got a chance to see how their creations functioned in salt water. This time is best described by the words "team work" and "problem solving." Free time, dinner, shark biology, and then night ROV flying followed. We spent time on the dock watching the food chain in action. The little fish get eaten by the bigger fish that get eaten by the Tarpon- a lot of last meals were witnessed...and we saw a shark. Day 2 is through.
Wednesday brought lessons on Marine trash followed by a beach clean up, goodbyes and a trip back to Marathon, where we loaded the wagons and headed south, all the way south. We drove through all the keys which is truly an amazing stretch of water and land. We got to see the damage that still exists in the mangroves from Hurricane Irma. We drove slowly through the southernmost keys, watching for Key Deer In Key West, we visited the home of Ernest Hemmingway, learned of his adventures and exploits and met many "kittens with mittens." We made it down to the southern most point in the continental U.S. and then headed back north to Homestead.
Thursday seemed like the perfect day to search out some crocodiles (salt water) and manatees in the back country of the Everglades. We found them, as well as a rare sperm whale that was found dead off the coast and brought into Flamingo Marina to be removed and examined. The mosquitoes deterred any further trail exploration, so we headed back to the farm we were staying at for the remainder of the evening. Rest was needed, and definitely earned.
Friday we started home. We said goodbye to the sun with a short stop at Miami Beach- and got on the plane.
This week, students are busy putting the finishing touches on their presentations, adding pictures and knowledge gained. Another successful, memorable trip in the books.
Prior to departing for winter break, the Jr. High sat for our annual, Iowa Test. This standardized test, administered by private schools around the country, provides our students with the opportunity to learn and practice test preparation and test taking skills, as well as to experience the test taking environment.
With the New Year upon on, visit the Jr. High on any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday and you will find two teams of ROV engineers working feverishly, cutting, splicing, drilling, soldering, and otherwise assembling their respective remotely operated underwater vehicles. With our trip to Pigeon Key less than two weeks away, and our first trial run at the NMC ROV Tank scheduled for Thursday, it's not difficult to imagine the energy level in the Jr. High environment.
The dawn of 2019 also saw the first ever, student-led, Jr. High Open House during which parents of fifth and sixth year students had the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of our ROV project, participate in a literature seminar, and ask questions of current parents and students. The first week back from break also included a new installment of Read Across the County, with students from the Jr. High visiting Glen Lake Schools to participate in a Lord of the Flies book club discussion, including activities designed by students at the host school.
In other news, in early February the Jr. High will be rounding out our participation in The Stock Market Game, presented by the Stock Market Game Foundation,"an independent 501(c)3 educational organization dedicated to fostering knowledge of the financial markets, serving 17 million students since 1977." Since October, teams of TCH Jr. High students have been competing with 356 teams of Middle and High School students throughout the region to build a portfolio of investments with an initial cash balance of $100,000. Our highest performing team currently is in 68th position. No small accomplishment given the volatility of the Stock Market since last October.
"Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence."
-Dr. Montessori, From Childhood to Adolescence
It is ROV season in the Junior High! The students have begun the process of designing, building, and operating Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles. These vehicles need to be able to have a functioning camera, move up/down, side to side, forwards/backwards, and be able to collect a benthic sample.
Last week, students explored some of Newton's laws, how electricity works, and boat and propulsion construction. They also applied for positions on the ROV teams. Each student applied for their two top choices, the options being Mission Commander, Chief Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Propulsion Specialist, Structural Engineer, and Optics Specialist/Team Manager. Interviews were held, positions were filled, and teams were created.
Mission commanders and Chief Engineers set to work to create guidelines for teamwork and collaboration. The remaining positions paired off to learn about the type of work they would be doing as a part of their job. With goals, schedules, and project managers, the teams started the design process. Going into the end of the week, both teams will have started constructing their ROVs.
Why do we build ROVs? Is it just for fun? Well, it should at the very least, be fun. But, of course, there are many more motives at play. First, curriculum. The process of designing, building, and operating ROVs requires learning about laws of physics, the cycle of engineering, light, electricity, mass and matter, and movement in space. Students must read and then apply this information so that the ROV can effectively accomplish required tasks. Secondly, students visit NMC's Marine Technology Lab to see Work Class ROVs that are used for search and rescue missions, repair missions, and data collection. They get to see where the science is used, why it is needed, and who gets to use it. They learn that what they are doing in the classroom is what some people do as a career. Lastly, students have different roles as part of a team. They get to share their unique gifts, expertise, and talents in a way that contributes to a final product. They are held responsible for certain aspects of the process and their "grade" comes in the form of whether or not the ROV accomplishes its mission. Pass or fail- no extra credit can change the final grade.
Workshops in the Adolescent program are designed in this way so that students learn how to do both types of work, intellectual and manual, in order to understand how the two compliment each other and lead to the creation of the constantly evolving world around them.
Since we last spoke, the Jr. High has been gearing up for our annual trip to the Motor City, which took place this week. Our overnighttrips are annual favorites all around, and for a variety of reasons. Central to these is the opportunity for students to draw real world, cross curricular, real world, connections to the concepts and ideas they learn about in the indoor classroom. For example, while in Detroit we visited the Rouge Ford Plant (where they currently assemble the Ford F-150), the Detroit Institute of Art, the Henry Ford Museum and the Motown Museum. In preparing for the trip, students broke up into teams and researched, and reported back to the group about "The Vagabonds"(a moniker given to Henry Ford's summer camping companions, which included Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs) The Rouge Plant (one of the first Vertically Integrated manufacturing facilities in the United States), Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Berry Gordy (the founder of Motown).
While in Detroit, the students stood in the DIA and gazed up at Diego Rivera's most famous mural and learned about the connections between Henry Ford, his son Edsel (who commissioned the mural), and Diego Rivera, who, along with his wife and fellow artist Frida, joined a march protesting working conditions at the Rouge, Henry Ford's crowning achievement, and the very factory immortalized in his famous fresco. At the Motown Museum, we later learned how Berry Gordy, a former line worker, not only used the motions and sounds of the factory to inspire his early hit songs, but also how he adopted the efficiency of the factory line to build his musical empire. At the Henry Ford Museum, we learned not only about Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's ingenuity, but also visited exhibits on Rosa Parks, Woman's Rights, Abolition, the Great Depression, Roosevelt's "Four Freedom's" (brought to life by Normal Rockwell), and the myriad connections and cultural interrelationships between and among race, religion, industry, economics, and government. Among the students' highlights was an invitation by our mesmerizing Motown tour guide to sing and dance to "My Girl" while standing in the world famous Studio A in Hitsville USA!
We remember what we experience, what moves us to tears, what excites us so much that we have to tell our closest friends. We remember the "aha!" moments, the "that's so cool!" moments, the moments that we share with others. Reflecting back on our trip to Detroit, we, the teachers, are so grateful that we have the opportunity to bring these kinds of moments into the lives of our students. This, is the TCH Jr. High.
We have the absolute best parents! This is the conclusion we reached after watching student-led conferences. Students have been practicing the art of self reflection since the beginning of the school year; for experiences, presentations, and goal progress. They prepared a collection of documentation to support their perception of their progress and their challenges. How often do we as adults present our personal triumphs and tribulations our parents? It may be easier to tell a supervisor or even a peer than to have to tell our parents what we have or haven't accomplished, than admit it to our parents. Each student was able to experience the challenge of telling their story as well as the experience of being in charge of reporting on their progress. Parents provided support, their own observations and possible solutions. Students' overall feedback was that although they may have been nervous or uncomfortable, they were happy to be able to be the ones who shared what they did and how they were doing. We would like to thank both parents and students for the time, energy, and thoughtfulness you dedicated to this process.
Our study of elections reached a climax point with student presentations of proposals and candidates, followed by watching the returns together until late into the night. Students researched local, state, and national proposals and candidates. They presented information for all sides/candidates, decided which way they would vote if they could, and then created their own political advertising to either persuade or dissuade toward their desired direction. Through this process, they all ended up with a "horse in the race" going into election night. We gathered after 8 p.m., with snacks and sleepover supplies to watch the results unfold.
We watched a live stream broadcast, out of Detroit. The anchor mentioned that they had over 18,000 online viewers and asked for the audience to identify themselves (so we did). Suddenly, students realized he was talking to us. "Seventh and Eighth graders in Traverse City, watching this together? Are you really out there? Let us know if you are really still watching." After we confirmed that yes, we really were at school watching returns together, the anchor sent the students a "shout out" and talked about how important their awareness of and involvement, government is. Now we are in the process of adding a visit to the studio to our Detroit trip…
Many races were still too close to call at midnight. We woke up this morning to a wonderful breakfast delivery from a TCH parent. After enjoying crepes and quiche, packing up bedding, and cleaning our environment, we gathered to witness the changes in leadership and governance that had occurred. How will the decisions made by the registered voters of our community, our state, and the nation affect these 13 young lives as they move into the future? They had learned about many of the candidates, they understood the proposals- they had committed to directions they wanted the elections to go. What happens when it doesn't go the way you hoped? What happens if it does? Questions have more power than answers, they are a beginning, not an end. Questions have the ability to build understanding, not only of issues, but of each other. What more could we hope for these young citizens, and future voters?
It's been transition week at the Jr. High with one workshop ending and the other beginning. Last week ended our extensive exploration of Northern Michigan Natural Communities with each of our students presenting their research to audiences of Upper Elementary students. We witnessed everything from slide presentations to sand dunes made of fabric, cardboard, rice, beans, and cake (separately, not all together!). We then changed directions dramatically to a exploration of the US Government, with a focus on local, state, and national elections. We kicked things off with a deep dive into the swimming pool of checks and balances, and separation of powers. Then, on Wednesday we headed off to the Governmental Center to learn about Robert's Rules of Order, voting procedures, and the role of City and County Government. Our appreciation goes out to former Mayor Linda Smyka for setting up an unforgettable experience. So, if find yourself with nothing to do on the evening of Election Day, you are welcome to pop into the Jr. High wing (preferably with treats in hand) and say hello as we watch history unfold.
"Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination."
- Bryant H. McGill
Discourse, discussion, and debate help us express and understand more deeply our ideas, our truths, and our beliefs, as well as understand those of others. Through questioning, defining, and clarification we create a sense of who we are as individuals and who we are as a group. These past two weeks have brought a great deal of this "pollination" to our community. Both students and parents have had opportunities to explore and share their ideas, truths and beliefs.
For our parent education, parents used the school's mission as a guide to determine which social skills, personal characteristics, and academic skills individuals require to become, "independent, curious, confident lifelong learners that contribute to their community and the greater world." Parents brainstormed, defined, explored and debated until they identified their three most important outcomes in each area. In social skills they paired respect with empathy and patience with perseverance, while "sense of humor" earned its own place. Under the umbrella of academic skills, they identified "a desire to learn," problem solving skills, and organizational skills as their top three outcomes. For personal characteristics, the group prioritized positivity, grit, and kindness. The discussion wrapped up with sharing what we do as adults in the lives of these adolescents to guide, encourage, and support their work toward these outcomes at school, and at home.
Today the students echoed with their own "wise discourse" as they prepared for Student Council elections. Before the three candidates delivered their speeches, the class discussed the role of a student representative to the greater community. What traits should this person have? What skills do they need? How do we want our representative to represent us? They defined a worthy representative as someone who demonstrates self control, has the ability to be impartial, has a positive attitude, has an open mind, can listen well, is hard working and organized, follows through on what they say they are going to do, supports what is best for the group, can make decisions, is honest, and, last but not least, is "nice." The journey to this list provided the "whys" and the definitions of all of these traits. It was lovely to observe such thoughtfulness, respectful discussion, and maturity in a group of adolescents as they identified how they wanted to be represented in their local government. It was an amazing example of how people build community; community for all members. It seems quite timely, as we prepare to study elections in the classroom, and as we observe mid-term elections at all different levels of government in our country.
Early autumn in the Jr. High is all about the outdoors, and this year we have been making the most of the mostly cooperative September weather. It's Ecosystem time, so last week we took to Good Harbor Bay (Sleeping Bear Dunes) to study Dune-Swale Complexes, and Hartwick Pines to study one of the last remaining old growth White Pine forest in the lower peninsula. Our trips involve speaking with local experts, and laying down 100' transects to collect data on the plants, animals, and soils found at each location. This Tuesday, we visited Cranberry Lake in Kalkaska to study a rare bog ecosystem (and popped over to a Jack Pine Barrens along the way) and tomorrow we will head off to Brown Bridge Quiet area to survey the succession of the bottomlands following the removal of the Brown Bridge Dam several years ago. Data in hand, we have been learning how to use Google Sheets to create spreadsheets and present our findings using bar graphs.
In other news, thanks to former 8th year, Lauren Pauly, Jr. High "electives" have come into being with six currently running at the end of each day: Della Terra, Kitchen Classroom, Physical Education, Music, and Child Development (Infant and Primary). Electives provide an opportunity for students to not only learn about the subject matter, but also learn the different roles of adults in the community as well as contribute to these areas.
While we were at the Cranberry Bog, the TCH Sturgeon arrived. Sturgeon care requires much more finesse than the previous Salmon project, and we only get one! Our sturgeon needs to be fed and the tank needs to be cleaned twice a day. The Jr. High will be taking responsibility caring for the Sturgeon every morning during the school week and on Friday afternoons, while the Upper El will be present every afternoon. All Elementary and Junior High students are proposing names for our new little friend! If you get a chance, stop in and say "hi" (quietly, sturgeon are accustomed to the bottom of lakes and rivers) . The sturgeon can be found in a LARGE tank in the Great Hall.
Stay tuned for CH from JH next week when they will tell you about their Northern MI experience this week!
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Call for papers for the congress "Out of place: (in)tangible bodies in the minority cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Literature, Cinema and Art", which will take place in Warsaw on the 14th and 15th of November 2019. The activity will be organized by different entities: Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies of the University of Warsaw, Research Group (OUTRA)IBERIA, Galician Studies Center of Warsaw, Etxepare Basque Institute, Ramon Llull Institute, Camões Institute, International Association of Galician Studies and Cervantes Institute of Warsaw.
We will be interested in how the Other is constructed from the perspective of minority cultures and how, in reference to this Other, one's own identities are created; and, on the other hand, how dominant cultures (Spanish and Portuguese, respectively) inscribe otherness in minority cultures, we also want to examine what values are attributed to the Other and how they manifest themselves through the body from both perspectives. We propose to study which areas of alterity are framed within the Catalan, Galician, Basque and Mirandese identities, as well as their possible variants and their multidimensional character.
The communications, with a duration of 20 minutes, can be done in Galician, Basque, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Mirandese and English. Proposals must be sent through the congress web page, following the "inscription form" tab, before the 15th of December 2019. Registration fee is 60 EUROS / 250 PLN, to be paid before August 31st. The articles derived from the congress, after previous acceptance, will be published in the indexed magazine Iberian Studies of the Iaguelónica University. The deadline for receipt of proposals is the 31st of December, 2019.
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If your building has no purpose, how will you know what to build. We are called according to His purpose and that means you are built to God's specifications the demands of the works he has called you to do.
Of course no one else can handle what you do, how long you do it, when it don't make no sense to do it, THEY ARE NOT BUILT LIKE YOU, because you have a different calling with a different purpose on your life.
"To them that are called according to His purpose" means that you are working to the blueprints that God has laid out for you.
Is it for you? Is it for them? Is it for God?
Loving what you are working for helps you to deal with things you would quit on.
If you Love God, there are built in blessings and protections.
Do what you are called to do.
Some of us are trying to do things that we literally have 'no business' doing.
No business – mean you can't turn a profit on doing that thing. That there is no return on your investment…. You have no business doing this means you can not sustain yourself if you keep doing what you are doing.
God will take away the talent that you don't know how to use.


"The responsible gambling code in Queensland: implementation and venue " by Helen Breen, Nerilee Hing et al.
Queensland introduced its Responsible Gambling Code of Practice in May 2002. The Code was based on six practice areas related to the provision of information, interaction with customers and community, exclusion provisions, physical environments, financial transactions, and advertising and promotions. The practices were developed from the Productivity Commission's (1999) recommendations for harm minimisation and extensive stakeholder consultation. This paper reports on a study investigating the level of implementation of the Code's practices in casinos, hotels and licensed clubs in three regions within Queensland. The study also examined the perceptions of managers and employees about the Code's adequacy. The study was undertaken in Longreach, Townsville and southeast Queensland and involved on-site inspections of 30 venues and qualitative data gathered from semi-structured interviews with their managers and staff. The investigation established that some practices had a higher likelihood of being implemented than others. In addition, the level of implementation varied considerably between venues. For example, a small number of venues had implemented most practices, a small number had implemented very few, while most had implemented between 40 and 60 percent of the practices. It appears that the number of gaming machines in a venue, the type of venue, regional location and management attitudes to the Code may influence the level of compliance with the Code. Managers' perceptions of the adequacy of practices included in the Code varied considerably. Some practices, such as physical layout, were considered more effective by most venue managers than others, such as the provision of information and signage.


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Always make sure you're putting Detox first when starting your venture journey into sobriety, drug and alcohol detox allows you to be in an illicit-drug free setting environment of serenity and peace of mind. Most addiction detoxes in Hebo, Oregon have a duration of 3 to 7 days, it just depends upon the type of drug used, the amount used and information. During detox, an individual is tapered down on drugs and monitored by medical professionals, taper drugs are put to use to help soothe pain and get the patient on the right goal. Addiction professionals oversee the comfort medications and all other parts of drug and alcohol detox. The partial hospitalization period (or PHP) of treatment is crucial for individuals to learn new coping skills and adapt a recovery program of abstinence, residential detox can provide a safe place to go through the arduous process of detoxification. Once a client is ready to move on they are offered different choices- Longer term treatment, halfway houses and sober living facilities all help to prepare an addict for their journey into long term recovery.


Established for years near Highway 20 in Saint-Nicolas, Bains Ultra wanted to relocate in new installations to meet their ever-growing activities. As the chosen manufacturer / contractor, Honco supplied and erected a new building that doubled their existing area. The experience Honco has acquired in the realization of wide scope projects insured the success of this construction. As a turn-key project, Honco coordinated all site activities from the foundation to the interior finish.


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Metabolomics-Enabled Molecular Probing of Nutrient (Carbon and Phosphorus) Recycling by Bacterial and Mineral Catalysts
Dr. Ludmilla Aristilde
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Capturing nutritional values from the transformation of organic matter represents an important component in both natural carbon cycling and in engineered carbon recycling. A mechanistic understanding of this transformation through both biotic and abiotic catalytic means is required to predict natural processes and innovate engineering applications. Bacterial cellular metabolism has the potential to recycle organic matter to yield biofuel products, bioplastic monomers, antibiotic molecules, and other valuable products. Reactive soil minerals can catalyze the transformation of organic matter and subsequently release or trap nutrients important to ecosystem metabolism. Using mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approaches combined with several spectroscopic (X-ray, infrared) and computational approaches (molecular dynamics, numerical analysis), we have gained insights on mineral- and bacteria-catalyzed nutrient recycling in environmental organic processes.
This talk will highlight two research advances: (1) the metabolic network for simultaneous processing of aromatic and sugar monomers by soil bacteria and (2) the speciation complexity of phosphorus and carbon recycling by iron-bearing minerals. The findings provide important new insights into the metabolic versatility of certain soil bacteria and the diversity of catalytic specificity of soil minerals. These insights provide new grounds for technological advances in metabolic engineering, agriculture, and environmental engineering.
Dr. Aristilde obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California-Berkeley, and B.Sc. and B.F.A. degrees from Cornell University. Prof. Aristilde started her faculty career at Cornell University (Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering) as an Assistant Professor in 2012 and promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018. Prof. Aristilde joined the Northwestern Faculty in 2019.
Principles of Open Government Data and Open Science in Archaeology
Ecosystem Services Provided by Shrub Willow Buffers in a Row Crop System
Overview of Energy & Environment Lab, University of Chicago Urban Labs
Metabolomics-Enabled Molecular Probing of Nutrient Recycling
The Influences of Large Scale Forcing on the Diurnal Cycle of Cloud Properties
High-Resolution Historical and Future Assessments of U.S. Wildfire Potentials
Assessment of Climatic Variability and Management Effects on Ecosystems
Impacts of Flood-Irrigation on Pedogenic CaCO3 and CO2 Dynamics in Arid-Lands
Unveiling Mechanisms of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Biofilm System
Two-way Atmosphere-Lake-Ice Coupled Climate Simulation of the Great Lakes Region
Renewable Energy and Wildlife Interactions: What is Known and Research Needs


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The Defiance County Courthouse is located at 221 Clinton Street in Defiance, Ohio.

History
Defiance County was established in 1845 but had its roots in Williams County. The latter county was established in 1824 with the county seat at Defiance. As Williams County lost land to other counties, Defiance was no longer central for the remaining population. The county seat changed to Bryan and would have doomed Defiance if not for a proposal for a new county.

The time was right for Defiance as the population surrounding it grew to the numbers needed to form a new county. On March 4, 1845, a bill was passed to form Defiance County with the county seat in Defiance. A celebration was held on March 13 with speeches, bonfires, and banquets.

The first courts were held in a brick schoolhouse located on Wayne Street, but the first courthouse was started in October 1845. This Federal style building was designed and built by John Bostata on the site of the present courthouse. The brick structure rose two stories tall with a portico framed by four columns supporting a pediment. The rectangular building was lined with rectangular windows and pilasters with an entablature topping the facade. The roof was topped by a square drum supporting a domed cupola capped by a spire.

This courthouse served the county until 1870 as the population continued to grow. Soon the courthouse was deemed to be too small and a new courthouse was needed. The county selected the plans of architect J.C. Johnson designed in the Italianate and Second Empire styles. The courthouse was designed with a mansard roof but was decided against for safety reasons.

In 2006 the county was faced with a growing population and needed more room for the county offices. The county issued a vote to determine if the current courthouse should be razed or if a new building or addition should be built. The vote came back in favor of the building leading the county to investigate alternatives.

Exterior
The three-story building has a projecting center and ends. The facade is lined with decorative stone elements along the window and door trims and pilasters. The stone foundation is windowless and contains a water table. The first floor contains long rectangular windows with triangular pediments crowning each window. The entrance is located in a small arched portico with Doric columns. The second floor once contained arched windows but the arched portion is now bricked over and contains long rectangular windows. The third floor once matched the decorative bottom floors but was removed and replaced by a modern design containing rectangular windows and a clock face.

The third floor was once topped by a balustrade, and the central projection rose into a clock tower 125 feet above the ground.

A war memorial was designed by Mark Homier and is situated in front of the courthouse and lists the names of Defiance County soldiers from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Global War on Terror. The memorial depicts a grieving soldier and a nurse in the center of two gently sloping wings. The memorial also contains an eternal flame in honor of those who gave all for their country.

References

Further reading
Thrane, Susan W., County Courthouses of Ohio, Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, Indiana 2000
Marzulli, Lawrence J., The Development of Ohio's Counties and Their Historic Courthouses, Gray Printing Company, Fostoria, Ohio 1983
Stebbins, Clair, Ohio's Court Houses, Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, Ohio 1980

Buildings and structures in Defiance County, Ohio
County courthouses in Ohio
Italianate architecture in Ohio
Renaissance Revival architecture in Ohio
Government buildings completed in 1873
Clock towers in Ohio
Courthouse

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MMA:30 caught up with several contestants from this season of The Ultimate Fighter Live to get their thoughts on several topics. The fighters gave insight to bullying and offered advice to kids who struggle with it in school. Check out more videos at mma30.com.


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Q: How can I retrieve first second and third word of a String in SQL? I need a query which would extract the first second and third word of a string.
I have approximately 5 words in each row and I need only the first three words out of 5 in the same row (1 row). Example "ATV BDSG 232 continue with other words".
I need only the first three words together in one row (in the same row) like "ATV BDSG 232" as a first row. The table has about 1000 rows and at the end of it I should have 1000 rows again but each row should contain only the first three words of the string.
I found a query which works fine for extracting first two like "ATV BDSG" discussed in stack overflow. The query is
"SELECT SUBSTRING(field1, 0, CHARINDEX(' ', field1, CHARINDEX(' ', field1, 0)+1))
FROM Table"
Can we derive this for extracting first three words?
Thanks in advance

A: Things are easy, SQL Server provide STRING_SPLIT() function make that too easy
DECLARE @Var VARCHAR(100) = 'ATV BDSG 232 Continue with other words';

SELECT Word
FROM
    (
     SELECT Value AS Word,
            ROW_NUMBER()OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) RN
     FROM STRING_SPLIT(@Var, ' ')
    ) T
WHERE RN <= 3;

But since you are working on 2012 version, you need to define your own function.
You can also take the hard way, first you need to get the first word, then replace it with '' and get the second word, then do the same for the 3rd word as
DECLARE @Var VARCHAR(100) = 'ATV BDSG 232 Continue with other words';

WITH FW AS
(
  SELECT LEFT(@Var, CHARINDEX(' ', @Var)) FirstWord
),
 SW AS
(
  SELECT LEFT(REPLACE(@Var, FirstWord, ''),
              CHARINDEX(' ', REPLACE(@Var, FirstWord, ''))) SecondWord
  FROM FW
)
SELECT FirstWord,
       SecondWord,
       LEFT(REPLACE(REPLACE(V, FirstWord, ''), SecondWord, ''),
       CHARINDEX(' ', REPLACE(REPLACE(V, FirstWord, ''), SecondWord, ''))
       ) ThirdWord
FROM
    (
     SELECT *, @Var V
     FROM FW CROSS APPLY SW
    ) T

Demo
UPDATE
If you want to select the three first words then simply
SELECT SUBSTRING(Str, 0, CHARINDEX(' ', Str, CHARINDEX(' ', Str, CHARINDEX(' ', Str, 0)+1)+1)) Words
FROM Strings

Demo

A: If you don't want to create a dedicated function, you can use successive CROSS APPLYs:
SELECT
    T.s,
    FirstSpace.i,
    SecondSpace.j,
    ThirdSpace.k,
    CASE
        When ThirdSpace.k > 0 THEN LEFT(T.s, Thirdspace.k - 1)
        ELSE T.S
    END AS Phrase
FROM t
    CROSS APPLY (SELECT CHARINDEX(' ', T.s, 1)) AS FirstSpace(i)
    CROSS APPLY (SELECT CHARINDEX(' ', T.S, FirstSpace.i + 1)) AS SecondSpace(j)
    CROSS APPLY (SELECT CHARINDEX(' ', T.s, SecondSpace.j + 1)) AS ThirdSpace(k)

gives you the results you need:
|                   s                    | i | j | k  | phrase           |
|----------------------------------------|---|---|----|------------------|
| ATV BDSG 232 Continue with other words | 4 | 9 | 13 | ATV BDSG 232     |

A:  --make some test data

declare @test as nvarchar(100) = 'my test   string  for words';

select 1 id, cast('my test   string  for words' as nvarchar(max)) word into #test;
insert #test (id,word) values (2,'a  b c d e f g hhh   yyyyyy') ;
insert #test (id,word) values (3,'  a required test string  d e f g hhh   yyyyyy') ;
insert #test (id,word) values (4,'a quick test') ;
insert #test (id,word) values (5,'a test') ;
insert #test (id,word) values (6,'last') ;

--break up letters, count the first 3 words
;WITH CTE AS (SELECT 1 x, substring(@test,1,1) charx
             UNION ALL
             SELECT X + 1, substring(@test,x + 1,1) from CTE WHERE x < len(@test)
             )
             select * from cte c3 where (SELECT count(0) cnt FROM CTE c1 JOIN CTE c2 on c1.x <= c3.x and c1.x + 1 = c2.x and c1.charx =' ' and c2.charx != ' ') < 3

;WITH   tabx as (select id, cast(ltrim(word) as nvarchar(max)) 'word' from #test),    --do some ltrim
        CTE AS (
                SELECT id, 1 x, substring(word,1,1) charx from tabx
                UNION ALL
                SELECT t.id, c.X + 1, substring(t.word,x + 1,1)
                        from tabx t
                            JOIN CTE c on c.id =  t.id and x < len(t.word)
             ),
        disj as
             (select * from cte c3 where
                        (SELECT count(0) cnt
                                FROM CTE c1
                                JOIN CTE c2 on c1.id = c3.id and c1.id = c2.id and c1.x <= c3.x and c1.x + 1 = c2.x and c1.charx =' ' and c2.charx != ' '
                        ) < 3
                ),
        rj as
            (select disj.id,disj.x, disj.charx z
                                from disj
                                where disj.x = 1
                UNION ALL
                    select d.id, d.x, r.z + d.charx
                            FROM rj r
                            join disj d on r.id = d.id and r.x + 1 = d.x
            )
                select *
                    from rj r1
                        cross apply (select max(r2.x) TheRow from rj r2 where r1.id = r2.id) dq
                    where r1.x = dq.TheRow
                    order by r1.id;

 --delete test data
drop table #test

A: /* This is not perfect - but interesting */
declare @t table (fullname varchar(100))
insert @t values('Mr Jones'),('Mrs Amy smith'),('Jim Smith'),('Dr Harry Web '),('Paul Fred andrew jones')

select fullname,

a.value as a ,
b.Value as b,
c.Value as c,
d.Value as d,
e.Value as e,
f.value as f

from @t
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' '))  a
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' ')   where value not in (a.value ))  b
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' ')   where value not in (a.value,b.value ) ) c
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' ')   where value not in (a.value,b.value,c.value ))  d
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' ')   where value not in (a.value,b.value,c.value,d.value) ) e
outer apply (select top 1 value from STRING_SPLIT(fullname, ' ')   where value not in (a.value,b.value ,c.value,d.value,e.value) ) f

A: To Select First Word -
Select top 1 Ltrim(Rtrim(value)) FROM STRING_SPLIT(@input,' ')

To Select Only Second Word -
Select Ltrim(Rtrim(value)) from STRING_SPLIT(@input,' ') Order by (Select NULL) OFFSET 1 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY