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Posted 5:55 PM, December 6, 2019, by Brian Day, Updated at 09:39PM, December 6, 2019
Prosecutors filed a murder case Friday against a Bellflower man accused of shooting another man to death in Inglewood in September, authorities said.
Homicide suspect Lancelot Joshua Wilburn, 38, of Bellflower, pictured in a photo released by the Inglewood Police Department on Dec. 6, 2019.
Lancelot Joshua Wilbur, 38, of Bellflower, is accused in the Sept. 27 killing of 23-year-old Adrian Dewayne Johnson of Inglewood in the 100 block of North Ash Street, according to Inglewood Police Department officials and Los Angeles County booking records.
He was arrested by a task force on Wednesday, Inglewood police said in a written statement. The county District Attorney's Office filed murder and other related charges against him on Friday.
"At approximately 1:53 a.m., the victim in this case, Adrian Johnson, was shot and killed in the yard of a home," according to the police statement.
An autopsy found Johnson died from a gunshot wound to the chest, L.A. County Department of Medical Examiner records show.
"A homicide investigation was started immediately and has been active since that time," the statement said. "As a result of that investigation, homicide detectives identified a suspect believed responsible for murdering the victim."
Homicide victim Adrian Dewayne Johnson, 23, of Inglewood, pictured in a photo released by the Inglewood Police Department on Dec. 6, 2019.
A motive for the killing was not available Friday.
Bail for Wilburn was set at $2 million pending legal proceedings in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Anyone with information can contact Inglewood Police Department at 310-412-5246, or the department's anonymous tip line at 888-412-7463.
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Home BUSINESS Post-Brexit 'hormone' beef imports would create UK public health risk – report
Post-Brexit 'hormone' beef imports would create UK public health risk – report
The report, published on Friday, warns unlabelled hormone-boosted meat could enter the food chain while still illegal in the EU.
A new report says the UK should not use acceptance of lower food safety standards as a trade bargaining tool (Andrew Matthews/PA)
Allowing hormone-treated US beef to be sold in Britain after Brexit would create "an unnecessary and unacceptable risk to public health", a report has warned.
Food safety standards should not be used as a "bargaining chip" as Britain strikes trade deals after we leave the European Union, the paper by the Food Research Collaboration says.
In Hormone-Treated Beef: Should Britain accept it after Brexit? Professors Erik Millstone and Tim Lang also called on farmers, supermarkets and butchers to make "explicit commitments to consumers never to produce or sell hormone-treated beef".
The report, published on Friday, warns that unlabelled hormone-boosted meat could enter the food chain while still illegal in the EU, risking a boycott of British exports.
The idea that, once the UK leaves the EU, it will become a rule-maker, not a rule-taker, is illusory
Professors Erik Millstone
Countries including the US and Canada allow the use of hormones to boost muscle growth in cattle, but the meat from these animals is banned in the EU.
Dr Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London, said: "The UK Government should ensure either that food standards remain fully aligned with EU standards, or that we adopt higher standards.
"There is a triple risk here: to health, to British beef farmers' livelihoods, and to the UK's ability to determine its own food safety standards.
"Hormone use is a test case for whether the UK seeks a more sustainable food supply.
"Hormone use would be a stupid step towards intensive beef feeding lots."
Fears over food standards post-Brexit have already been voiced as the Government seeks trade deals with countries around the world.
In June Compassion in World Farming said the UK will come under intense pressure to accept lower standards once its food production industry is removed from EU structures which currently guarantee high welfare for animals.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has already made clear the UK will have to adopt American standards in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal, the charity said.
It is also one of the many sticking points involving the Irish border, with British acceptance of the hormone-infused cattle seen as incompatible with a soft line between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
In July Environment Secretary Michael Gove tried to reassure MPs a deal with the US might not hinge on the issue of lower food safety, saying high standards were important to the British people.
He told the European Scrutiny Committee: "That's why I've been clear that in any trade agreement we secure with America or any other country, we shouldn't see a dilution of those standards.
"Some have said that means it would be impossible to secure a free trade agreement, but I think they are falling prey to the temptation to make the perfect the enemy of the good."
The report warns that Public Health England, the Food Standards Agency and Environment Agency, who all have roles in protecting food standards, would need a funding increase.
Mr Millstone, professor of science policy at the University of Sussex, said: "The idea that, once the UK leaves the EU, it will become a rule-maker, not a rule-taker, is illusory."
A Government spokesman said: "The Environment Secretary has been absolutely clear that we will not water down our high food safety and animal welfare standards as a result of any future free trade agreements.
"Artificial growth hormones are banned in both domestic production and imported meats. This will remain the case when we leave the European Union."
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Agrigate dairy portal partner, MetService, plans to install BloomSky weather data devices on the LIC Innovation Farm in the South Waikato ahead of Farming2020 which takes place there from Tuesday 9 May to Thursday 11 May 2017.
Farming2020 is designed to showcase some of New Zealand's leading AgTech businesses and solutions operating within a digitally connected working farm environment. The event will highlight how digital innovation is impacting on agriculture's long-term future to a diverse audience; industry representatives, other tech innovators, investors, media and invited international guests. Farming2020 is one of the feature events of NZ TechWeek 2017.
Agrigate is a joint venture between Fonterra Farm Source and LIC. The dairy portal combines all the key data farmers need to make faster and smarter decisions on one, easy to use online dashboard.
MetService provides weather data to the dashboard. Access to historical weather data combined with real-time weather observations from the BloomSky field devices allows benchmarking studies and greater seasonal insights through data analytics.
In the near-future, this information will be used by MetService and BloomSky to power highly accurate hyperlocal weather forecasts that'll boost farm management and productivity.
Angus Swainson, MetService General Manager, Media, is attending Farming2020.
His presentation on Wednesday will highlight how analysis of high-quality, location-specific data is set to improve on-farm performance.
He will demonstrate how the functionality of the solar-powered BloomSky Storm and Sky2 smart weather camera systems provides real-time awareness of farm weather.
Every 5 minutes via a WiFi network the BloomSky devices transmit temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and rainfall data to a farmer's laptop, tablet or smartphone accompanied by high-definition photographs from wherever the devices are located on the farm.
Working in conjunction with the other Agrigate data providers, MetService sees opportunities to develop products that will combine data from multiple sources to increase farmers' understanding of weather impacts on their operations.
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"Satoshi Media aims to nurture a community of traders, investors and enthusiasts with up-to-date Crypto statistics and their practical application on the market", says Tiktok creator, Dj Magik, Satoshi Media's brand ambassador.
Satoshi Media derived its name from the founder of Bitcoin — the leading cryptocurrency worldwide today — Satoshi Nakamoto. Similar to how Satoshi Nakamoto launched something world-changing as the Bitcoin, Satoshi Media also aspires to do the same in the industry and change many people's lives by guiding them make the wisest crypto decisions based on relevant market facts.
Brightswap and Pitcoin are the major sponsors of Satoshi Media. These two are the keys to unlocking the doors of possibility for the Youtube channel.
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Innovations and developments in the space are to be expected from Brightswap. Brightswap has recently launched its own NFT marketplace under Solana to help boost the ecosystem's network coverage.
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Satoshi Media revealed their Brand Ambassador, DJ Majik, together with two other hosts named Liana and Clyde. These three are expected to be seen frequently in the channel carrying the Satoshi Media segments.
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Like any other content creators, Satoshi Media is in pursuit of ensuring it has a happy crowd. Satoshi Media is creative and informative in providing both subjective and objective points on every crypto-related topic it puts on the table. Quality, reliability, and timeliness are among the top priorities of Satoshi Media as they present their videos to the audiences.
We can see one of the leading sources on crypto slowly making its rise in the industry.
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"Narrative: Ali": Elizabeth Alexander Recites Her Poem Written from Muhammad Ali's Perspective | Democracy Now!
poet and professor. She is director of Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation. She is the former chair of African American Studies at Yale. She is the author of the persona poem "Narrative: Ali," written from the perspective of Muhammad Ali.
educator, writer and activist. He is author of the book, The Complete Muhammad Ali, which was published last year. Reed is a 1998 recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award and is currently a visiting scholar at the California College of the Arts.
Muhammad Ali, one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century, has died at the age of 74. Poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander reads her persona poem "Narrative: Ali," written from Ali's perspective.
AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali, we are turning to poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander, director of Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation, former chair of African American Studies at Yale University. She's the author of the persona poem "Narrative: Ali," written from the perspective of Muhammad Ali.
Welcome to Democracy Now!, Elizabeth Alexander. How did you get interested in Muhammad Ali?
AMY GOODMAN: Now, I want to warn people, in this poem, you use the N-word. Can you talk about your choice to do this?
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: One of the things—excuse me—about writing in persona is that you want to have a kind of fidelity to your subject. You don't want to veer outside of how you have researched or imagined that they might speak or their historical context. And so, that's not a word that I throw around, but that is a word that's used in two different contexts, both how he understood himself as a black person in America at a particular point in time and also how he talked about himself in a colloquial setting with another black man. So, it is how I researched and imagined he would have used that word, and to shy away from it felt disingenuous to the subject.
AMY GOODMAN: Why don't you share your poem?
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Yes. And, you know, epic poems have heroes. I really appreciate so much all of the context that Ishmael Reed has given us, and it's wonderful to be on the show with him. And I'm thinking about what sparks the imagination, I'm thinking about iconicity, I'm thinking about epic heroes in this poem.
will melt my stomach down.
don't walk if you can run.
and run in eight-pound boots.
I pound my chest but of my own accord.
or whip you in the street.
Put them yellow pants away.
We don't do no crawlin'.
told me I was finished.
AMY GOODMAN: That's Elizabeth Alexander reading her poem "Narrative: Ali." In fact, Muhammad Ali was not just the greatest boxer. He was not just an activist, a war resister. He was a poet, too.
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: He was a poet, and he claimed himself as a poet. On the one hand, he spoke in ways that are very familiar in the African-American rhetorical tradition, with flourish, with a sense of rhythm, with a sense of rhyme, with a sense of occasion. But he brought that out for people to see in public. And when asked for a poem one time, he replied simply, "Me, we." He understood poetic economy. He understood that in a very short, concentrated place, you could do big things. He understood that poetry was memorable. He understood that poetry belonged to everyone. He recorded an album in 1963, I think, of spoken word poetry. He consorted with poets. There's an absolutely fantastic exchange visit that he had with Marianne Moore, when they decided to write a poem together, a sonnet, on the annihilation of Ernie Terrell. And George Plimpton brought them together and wrote about it, and it's a wonderful account. So, I think that that was a consistent identity.
AMY GOODMAN: He's the original rapper, hip-hop.
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Well, he was. And I think that what we see in that is the way that hip-hop and rap has very, very long and deep roots in black expressive culture.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Muhammad Ali in his own words, in 1968, interviewed on Channel 13, PBS, here in New York, by Bud Collins.
BUD COLLINS: What about jail? Now, you're appealing. Is that correct?
MUHAMMAD ALI: Oh, yes, jail, that could come up. And if I should lose appeal, then I'll have to go to jail. And I'll be out of there in a few years.
BUD COLLINS: Have you thought about jail, what it might mean? Have you talked about people who have been in jail five years?
MUHAMMAD ALI: Well, well, we all talk about, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, that black people actually have been in jail for 400 years we've been here in America. But I don't worry about jail, if I believe in Allah, I believe in Elijah Muhammad as the messenger of God, and many a great men have to go to jail. And so, I don't pay no attention to it. If the time comes, I'll just have to go. Boys in Vietnam are dying for what they believe, and I can't get on them for dying for what they believe. So I'll just have to—and they're dying to free foreign people 10,000 miles away, so I'll just have to suffer so that the so-called Negroes could be free, so they could have an idol and an image they can look up to that didn't sell them out, that didn't betray them.
BUD COLLINS: Do you think you can do more for your people by going to jail?
MUHAMMAD ALI: Oh, yes, sir.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Muhammad Ali in '68 being interviewed by Bud Collins, the journalist and tennis commentator. Bud also just died in March at the age of 86. Your dad, Elizabeth Alexander, was secretary of the Army, is that right?
AMY GOODMAN: And here is Muhammad Ali saying no to the war in Vietnam.
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Well, my dad says no to wars, too. So, I mean, we could have that whole conversation. But I think that, actually, since you bring him up, part of why Ali resonated for me is that he was a free black man in a way that my father is a free black man, and that taught me what I wanted to see in this world, what we need to see in this world. Muhammad Ali was imperfect, complicated. You know, what did it mean as a feminist writer to think about, you know, this is a man with a complicated history with women. This is a man working in a quintessentially male, physically expressive form. I'm very well aware of what class and race says about vulnerable bodies, what does it mean to make your body more vulnerable because that seems to be the way you can move in the world. All of those ironies are powerful ones.
But at the end of the day, there's still someone who, as a very, very young man, as a very, very young man, met a juncture and said no and paid the price and stood for years for that and sacrificed that very thing that was his currency. And that's what shines on: the power of self. Not very many of us are able to project that true, again, free self onto a world stage. So what we see in the work of other artists—I mean, you've been playing this amazing music—Yasiin Bey, so many people, other poets, you know, Khaled Mattawa, Marianne Moore, you know, people who have been inspired by what he gave, and made something more out of it.
AMY GOODMAN: Ishmael Reed, your final reflection on the man you have spent years researching, written a book about, The Complete Muhammad Ali?
ISHMAEL REED: Well, I think we shouldn't—we can praise Muhammad Ali, but we shouldn't forget about Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong and Sonny Liston, who fought—fought armed white men. I mean, Sonny Liston beat up two cops and was hounded by the police from city to city, wherever he went. And Sonny Liston was born near slavery and had great challenges and busted a whole bunch of people on the way up and the way down. Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis fought armed MPs in a segregated bus station, fisticuffs, and the fight only stopped when somebody said, "That's Joe Louis." So, we can honor Muhammad Ali, but we shouldn't dismiss some of the other great fighters as Uncle Toms.
AMY GOODMAN: And your thought, as we go out today, Elizabeth?
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: My final thought is that complicated people who make difficult choices sometimes, in a very curious and mysterious way, rise to the level of iconicity. And so, I think that when we—when we have that, the piece to remember, along with the complexities and the contradiction, is what might their example lead other people to do and stand up for.
AMY GOODMAN: Ending with the quote of Muhammad Ali, "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." Muhammad Ali died this weekend at the age of 74. His funeral is in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday. Thousands are expected to attend. Ishmael Reed, thanks so much for being with us, educator, writer and activist. His book, The Complete Muhammad Ali. And Elizabeth Alexander, poet and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, author of the persona poem "Narrative: Ali," written from the perspective of Muhammad Ali.


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2886-02. Blooming jack-in-the-pulpit (Indian-turnip, Arisaema triphyllum) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 20, 2021
Back lit leaves of jack-in-the-pulpit (Indian-turnip, Arisaema triphyllum) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 20, 2021
Blooming sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 10, 2019
Blooming bog white violet (Viola lanceolata) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 10, 2019
Small blooming tree of sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 10, 2019
Blooming plant of slender trillium (Trillium gracile) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 10, 2019
Late blooming yellow star-grass (Hypoxis) near the creek in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, October 20, 2019
Orange berries of greenbriar (Smilax) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 7, 2020
Devil s Urn mushrooms (Urnula craterium) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 7, 2020
Flower bud of sweet gum knocked by wind in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 7, 2020
Virginia creeper on a mossy tree in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 10, 2019
Long stems of bolete mushrooms Retiboletus ornatipes in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Underside of Phellinus(?) mushroom taken from rotting holly or other tree in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, January 16, 2021
Yellowing section of bolete mushrooms Retiboletus ornatipes in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Underside of snowy waxcap mushrooms (Cuphophyllus virgineus)(?) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, January 16, 2021
Yellow pores of a bolete mushroom Retiboletus ornatipes in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Cross section of bolete mushrooms Pulchroboletus sclerotiorum in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Branches of a false coral mushroom Tremellodendropsis semivestita in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Bolete mushrooms Retiboletus ornatipes under oaks and magnolia in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Pale violet bitter bolete mushrooms (Tylopilus) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Dissected viscid pinkish milkcap (Lactarius) mushrooms in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Underside of viscid pinkish milkcap (Lactarius) mushrooms in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Cross section of brittlegill mushrooms Russula earlei in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Cross section of a bitter bolete mushroom (Tylopilus) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021
Side view of bolete mushrooms Pulchroboletus sclerotiorum in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, July 10, 2021


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A Turbulent Path Toward 2042
03/03/2017 | By Katherine Prince
The way we work, teach, live, and learn is changing at an exponential rate. By 2042 the education landscape could look considerably different than it does today. Regional learning ecosystems could supplant standalone school districts.
Flexible learning pathways could gain sway over fixed school-based curriculum. Social-emotional learning and metacognition could come to be seen as foundational skills that help people navigate rapid change. Education could come to focus on helping learners make real impacts in the world during their studies.
An Era Shift
It can be hard to imagine how we might arrive at these scenarios, especially since education tends to be a very stable sector. As education futurists, my colleagues and I think that we are on the cusp of an era shift. We call the emerging era one of partners in code. While many factors contribute, central to this shift is our increasing ability to develop new uses for and new relationships with machines that are increasingly wearable, connected and smart.
Already, we are seeing signals of this era shift in everyday life. If you wear a Fitbit, ask Siri to talk you toward your destination, or use an app to guide yourself in meditating, you are partnering with machines in ways that were not possible a decade ago. These shifts extend beyond the personal. Uber is piloting self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, with human drivers in the cars simply to increase riders' comfort; The New York Times is using an algorithm developed by Google to manage hate comments on its website; doctors are using machine learning to help diagnose illnesses; and a venture capital firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, includes an algorithm on its board.
The Changing Nature of Work
As artificial intelligence and machine learning become more sophisticated over the coming decades, they will be increasingly capable of performing many of the cognitive tasks that have seemed exclusive to humans — and which are central to much current knowledge work. Combined with increasing taskification — or the breaking up of full-time jobs into discrete tasks that can be dispatched among many individuals — and globalization, they could dramatically reconfigure what work looks like by 2042. Indeed, many argue that we are on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution.
As highlighted above, we are already seeing the impacts of automation in work and in our daily lives. In those examples, smart machines serve primarily as helpers that make things easier for people. In other instances, smart machines are impacting industry structures in deep ways. For example, journalism has changed dramatically as a result of digital disintermediation, to the point that artificial intelligence can write some news stories and Facebook and Google are pioneering algorithms that cull fake ones. When factories come back to areas left behind by the global push for cheap labor, they tend to be dark factories run primarily by machines, with only a few people tending them.
A great deal of uncertainty swirls around the long-term impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning on work: they could replace people in certain — or many — jobs or tasks, or they could augment human intelligence, potentially freeing us from many menial tasks and leaving us to focus on what is uniquely human. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University study suggest that 47 percent of current middle-class American jobs could be lost over the next two decades as computers take over cognitive tasks in areas such as management, science, engineering and the arts. In contrast, James Bessen of Boston University argues that automation has historically redefined jobs instead of destroying them, freeing economic capacity for companies to expand or provide new services. The World Economic Forum projects net modest job growth accompanied by high skills instability, with 65 percent of children entering elementary today working in job types and functions that do not exist today.
Automation aside, the structure of work is changing due to taskification, which is driven in part by the lowered coordination costs that the Internet affords. Today, the average adult holds 11.7 jobs in his or her lifetime, and the number of people participating in the "gig" or project-based economy is around 91 million. That number is expected to rise, with the McKinsey Global Institute projecting that the independent workforce could reach as much as 50 percent. Generational differences could help fuel this growth: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reports that one-half to two-thirds of Millennials are interested in entrepreneurship and that 27 percent are already self-employed, and research from Upfront Analytics shows that 61 percent of Gen Z-ers in high school today would rather be an entrepreneur than an employee after college.
As these shifts highlight, we can expect to see significant changes in what jobs entail and how they are structured. A critical uncertainty is the extent to which people will be displaced as we transition from today's world of work to the employment landscape of 2042.
Times of transition can be difficult. The final destination often feels uncertain, and it can be hard to see what new structures will help create social and economic stability. Given the importance of work and wage labor in many of our lives, we can expect to face considerable turbulence during the next 25 years. In past industrial revolutions, it took decades to adapt skill delivery systems; to add to the challenge; the current rate of change is exponential, putting the stable education sector at risk of lagging far behind workplace realities.
To make matters more turbulent, the world of work is not the only facet of our lives in transition. Broadly speaking, we are entering a time of shifting landscapes. Factors such as climate change, political shifts, and changing economic paradigms promise to cause volatility to spike. Public school districts that rely on size and scale might find themselves increasingly susceptible to system shocks, and funding for public infrastructure such as schools could decline, at least in some places.
In face of such challenges, individuals, communities and institutions are going to need to develop resilience strategies. As a society, we face some critical choices: will we pursue bold social innovation to help mitigate the effects of rapid change in work and other aspects of life, or will we take a more laissez-faire approach, leaving people to navigate as best they can?
Four Scenarios for 2042
These big economic and societal questions might seem far away from most classrooms. But the students crossing their thresholds — or seeking education in some other way — will be impacted by them. The adults working in education will be too. We need to begin responding to the changes on the horizon now so that we design the future of education with intention.
To help guide our collective responses, the four mini-scenarios below explore possible impacts of these changes on education. They are set in the year 2042, with present-day examples signaling how we are beginning to move toward them today.
Cultivating Interconnected Learning Ecosystems
Looking beyond discrete organizations to explore the potential for interconnected learning ecosystems comprised of many kinds of organizations and resources could help communities respond to shifting landscapes and enable greater personalization of learning. Digital tools such as web-based platforms, artificial intelligence, and brokering and curation algorithms could make it increasingly easy to link people, services, organizations, and other resources together in flexible, learner-centered ecosystems. What if education organizations and community partners cultivated flexible regional learning ecosystems and enabled learners to move smoothly among them?
West Virginia's collaborative Universal Pre-K program combines state, federal and private funding to offer free pre-K in a variety of settings, including public school buildings, private childcare centers, churches and Head Start buildings.
In creating Next-Gen Learning Hubs, six U.S. regions are building off cities' assets and bringing together partners to create innovative student-centered learning ecosystems.
Enabling More Flexible Approaches to Learning
To meet learners' needs in a complex and rapidly changing world, we may need to reshape today's educational institutions or manage them in more flexible and responsive ways. By 2042, school formats could become more fluid, relying less on fixed administrative structures and more on network- and relationship-based structures that reflect learners' needs, interests, and goals. Algorithms; artificial intelligence; and augmented, virtual, and mixed realities could help tailor school structures and match learners with the educators and learning experiences that best support their learning. What if going to school meant registering for a network or ecosystem instead of setting foot on a single campus?
The Tiny Schools Project initiative of 4.0 Schools supports entrepreneurs in testing new types of schools at small scale, with 10 to 15 students and their families giving high-frequency feedback on pilots that challenge fundamental assumptions about how school works today.
Some higher education institutions are enabling or exploring relatively flexible learning pathways. Among them, Northeastern University orients its offerings around experiential learning; Olin College of Engineering uses an interdisciplinary, project-based approach; and the Stanford 2025 project envisioned, among other possibilities, an open-loop university that would enable students to access six years' worth of learning opportunities across their lifetimes.
Redefining Readiness
The changes on the horizon for work will require us to redefine our current notions of college and career readiness. Even if the economy adapts quickly, people can expect to be learning, relearning and unlearning as we strive to keep pace with increasingly smart machines. Focusing on social-emotional learning and metacognition promises to provide people with foundational skills for lifelong, on-demand learning and more specific skill acquisition. What if curricula were designed to support individuals through a lifetime of learning and re-learning?
The Readiness Project of the Forum for Youth Investment is drawing upon learning science to define what readiness looks like and to explore what conditions and contexts influence whether a young person is ready, with the goal of making readiness a right for every young person.
New entrants into higher education, including stackable nanodegrees and boot camps such as General Assembly, are helping would-be employees rapidly learn valuable workplace skills.
Educating for Impact on a Global Stage
As landscapes become more volatile and complex problems reverberate globally, the need to help young people think innovatively will become increasingly pronounced. Education could support learners in developing as innovators and problem solvers who actively shape the world around them during their studies. What if school social impact scores became critical metrics for attracting funding, partnerships and community engagement?
Ashoka Changemaker Schools foster empathy, teamwork, leadership, and problem solving, helping learners develop as changemakers who make a positive impact on the world.
Middlebury College's Center for Social Entrepreneurship encourages students to apply their learning beyond the classroom by identifying and addressing real-world problems through ventures created with the help of staff, mentors and community partners.
Shaping the Future of Learning
These four scenarios suggest some ways of responding to the changes on the horizon. Nearer term, some starting points for shaping the future of learning to work well for all learners include:
Re-tooling schedules and responsibilities to enable educators to focus more fully on educating the whole person
Giving learners opportunities to practice academic and non-academic skills in real contexts
Finding ways to connect learners' individual needs, interests and goals with community needs
Creating incentives and opportunities for learners to participate in authentic and meaningful work beyond school walls — and finding ways to measure its impact
Designing for equity, with a focus on considering how well those changes might work for traditionally underserved learners, including those learners in decision making, and genuinely engaging diverse stakeholders
Looking beyond graduation day to help broaden definitions of success and prepare learners for the future.
These strategies exemplify just some of the ways education stakeholders can influence the trajectory of change. Despite the sense we sometimes have that change is happening to us, trends are not inevitabilities. We can shape, mitigate and enable them. As one educator recently observed, "We must stop talking about changing education and start doing it. The world is different — just look around."
What do you want learning to look like in 2042?
Katherine Prince is the Senior Director of Strategic Foresight at KnowledgeWorks.


The Berea Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), at Alma, Ontario was a Mennonite mission Sunday school organized on 13 July 1941 in a rural public schoolhouse situated at a place formerly known as Parker, about 3 miles (5 km) west of Alma, and about 13 miles (22 km) north of Floradale, Wellington County. It was originally called Parker Mission. Sunday school and preaching services were held each Sunday afternoon, with Reuben Dettweiler of the Floradale congregation in charge. In January 1942 Gordon Schrag began serving as minister, and from then on services were held in the forenoon. On 27 July 1947 it was organized into a congregation of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and was named the Berea congregation. At this time John Garber began serving as minister (ordained bishop in 1951) and Clarence Huber as deacon. In January 1953 the baptized membership was 54, and services were still being held at the schoolhouse.
The congregation merged with the Moorefield Mennonite Church and became Community Mennonite Church in 1989. The Berea building was sold to Old Colony Mennonites as a meetinghouse in 1991.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 276. All rights reserved.
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Itransition's take on data-driven decision making
Darya Nehaychik
Market experts agree, as does Itransition, that data-driven decision making has become one of the key drivers of the BI market growth in recent years, which also makes big data and its business impacts more prominent. Why is it then that executives still get caught in the dilemma of using data analysis versus their gut feel in order to arrive at strategic decisions?
We believe that it shouldn't be a choice between one or the other. As our experience of BI consulting shows, a solid combination of both gut feel and hard evidence is how managers can make effective decisions, garner strategic advantages, and position their companies at the forefront of competition. It also makes the case for data democratization as a crucial step in the evolution of data science that has made data-driven decision making possible.
After we've made our case, we will present five ways that Itransition can help you support gut feel with big data in order to make better business decisions. With a customized solution written by a reliable provider, you get faster updates, faster fixes, less time spent on support, and more time dedicated to new features.
In search of a data-driven decision making culture
Data-driven decision making and gut feel often come up as two opposing extremes, with managers' preferences often swinging toward the latter. The BI Survey research showed that 58% of the surveyed companies based half or more of their decisions on gut feel or experience over data. This habit of using one's intuition most likely remains the key tool of business decision making simply because it's been the best evaluator for centuries, while computer-based data analysis has only recently challenged it.
Gut feel: effective yet imperfect
Gut feel, or interoception as it's known in academic circles, is the ability to sense bodily signals such as heart rate, pain, etc. Traditionally, this ability is connected to decision making—the higher one's interoceptive sensitivity, the greater one's ability to make better decisions.
In one interesting experiment, a team of scientists studied 18 traders' ability to correctly count their heartbeats, and correlated the results with their trading floor performance. The findings clearly show that those who were more in tune with their bodies and accurately guessed the rate were more successful at making risky decisions, while they also showed higher profitability than those with lower accuracy scores.
However, relying on one's intuition also has its downsides. Following the gut feel alone makes way for cognitive biases that can distort and undermine effective decision making.
The following biases are the most common:
Looking for information in order to confirm pre-existing beliefs and assumptions, while discarding evidence that contradicts the decision-maker's opinion.
Focusing intensely on one particular piece of information (usually the very first bit of information) and overlooking others.
Attentional bias
Inability to consider the entire range of impactful factors by randomly prioritizing some and ignoring others.
Overestimating positive outcomes and underestimating the probability of negative ones.
In a Forbes op-ed, Bernard Marr also warns against the so-called HiPPO effect, which means over-relying on the highest paid person's opinion when making decisions. This effect is mostly found in larger companies that maintain a typical top-down decision making culture and, according to Marr, is one of the biggest barriers of data-driven decision making that's backed by evidence, as opposed to a single person's beliefs.
On occasion, the HiPPO effect can wreck a business when data analysis findings are not consulted. In an infamous example cited in the CIO Magazine, IBM decided to sell 50% of their ROLM unit to Siemens despite the research, which was commissioned but abandoned by IBM's executives, that firmly showed it would be a certain failure for the entire unit. Five years later, IBM was still dragging the irreversible financial losses that resulted from the decision.
What is data-driven decision making and its disadvantages, if any?
So, should decision makers run with data or with their gut feel? The short answer is: both.
In the best situations, gut-based decision making should always be backed by data. In fact, both approaches share a similar mechanism, which is about deriving an insight based on information from the past. While data-driven decision making is impossible without a slew of data at hand from the past, gut feel is derived from the outcomes of similar situations in the past, which all accumulate to suggest the way toward a better result.
As described by Paolo Gaudiano, intuition becomes crucial when making sense of complex or conflicting outputs and in turn navigating the ocean of data insights. Experience needs to come into play as well. Overlooking a managers' expertise in favor of machine-generated recommendations could lead to a mishap, since managers can often easily identify inconsistencies and unusual trends in data analysis outcomes.
In summary, truly effective decision making is only possible when data is included in the picture, though this should never devalue managerial gut feel and experience. With this in mind, the importance of data in decision making can't be overlooked in any case.
Benefits of data-driven decision making
The numbers are telling: the BI Survey cited above shows that 60% of top-performing companies rely on data when making the majority of their business decisions. This is further reinforced in Deloitte's 2019 survey on data-driven culture and the pervasiveness of analytics in decision making. The survey shows quite a broad scope of analytics use cases, making the future of big data in enterprises looks bright:
Data analysis and decision making work perfectly together if you consider the multitude of strategic advantages that come from using them in tandem:
1. Growing business by quickly detecting new opportunities and acting on them, for example, by entering new markets or launching new products or services based on identified niches.
2. Achieving cost-efficiency by decreasing expenses and optimizing business processes, like deciding on prolonging a contract with a vendor, or cutting off poorly performing SKUs and replacing them with items that are in higher demand.
3. Boosting customer engagement through a stronger focus on the customer experience and journey. Using multiple data sources makes this possible by building detailed profiles of customers then acting on insights in order to decide how to personalize their service best.
4. Improving a product or service based on customer feedback and sentiment analysis across channels in order to identify areas for improvement.
5. Refining a marketing strategy by applying predictive analytics in marketing to forecast the best-performing channels and cut off/add up advertising budgets as necessary.
6. Taking HR management to a whole new level through big data analytics of employee surveys and candidate profiles in order to create a healthier internal culture and make more effective hiring decisions.
Data democratization makes it possible
Until recently, pairing data analysis and decision making was a tall order that could only be accomplished by people with advanced data science skills. However, now that two essential factors—the proliferation of data sources and the adequate data processing technology—have fallen into place, data democratization has put data-driven decision making on every executive's agenda.
Essentially, data democratization means having the right tools for mining, visualizing, and analyzing data—all with minimum adoption barriers for non-tech users. After decades of data analysis being confined to specialized IT departments, today's data democratization heralds a breakthrough that eliminates the need for the gatekeepers of these valuable insights. According to Chad Bocklus, President and Chief Product Officer for CarStory, analytics is what brings democratization to decision making by opening crucial data to employees and making it transparent across an organization.
While corporate policy dictates opening up data to employees, technological innovations minimize the barriers to embracing data analytics. From simple data visualization tools like Excel charts to self-service BI applications centered around machine learning, data analysis software has come a long way. Now it can finally serve up digestible and usable information, providing there is a workable BI implementation project plan in the first place.
Advances in data virtualization, master data management, and cloud computing are all responsible for this paradigm shift. The previous barriers to data-driven decision making—data quality, fragmentation by departmental silos, integration of multiple sources, complex dealings with unstructured and semi-structured data—are now giving way. Technopedia even compares this evolution to the age of literacy, when common people finally gained access to the Bible and books, eventually leading to dramatic societal changes. While data democratization is unlikely to bring such a tremendous impact, it will certainly cause incremental effects in the decision making cultures around the world.
How Itransition can help: data-driven decision making examples
Many enterprises struggle when it comes to choosing a strategy to work with big data. Some opt for ready-made solutions for each data source, snowballing their support for each unstructured source into a state of utter chaos, where the same bugs have to be fixed 15 times adding to costs and stretching out schedules.
Below are five cornerstones of using big data to make business decisions, and more on how Itransition can help you implement them.
1. Get data anywhere you can
All of the data you can find (customer information, sales, follower trends, subscriptions, returning customers, the frequency of repeated purchases, and even word of mouth) should be used to drive decision making. Don't be discouraged by the fact that you will have to deal with big data from within and outside the enterprise that comes in a variety of forms.
2. Know your data types before you start processing
We work with all types of data. Our task as software consultants is to create a driver for each type of data. These drivers help us work with any data type, regardless of where or who it came from or its initial storage format. By developing drivers and enabling subsequent processing, we deliver easy-to-digest results in a universally accepted format. But above all, knowing how to work with different data sources is crucial, and the first step in data processing is determining the type of data source.
CSV. Most often, we utilize a data management tool that maps out the data path and informs us of its type. We don't expect the type to change in the process. For example, when we work with CSV data, the CSV driver launches to load the data in a convenient format for us before the next step starts.
Binary data. We have data coming from clients in a binary format. This requires a custom driver since binary data is hard to parse. By accepting binary data, we already know its structure beforehand.
Databases. Getting an entire database to work with is similar to CSV data processing, except that we don't load data from a CSV; instead, we load it from other database tables.
Custom formats. Sometimes business owners purchase data in custom formats. By knowing the structure of the received files, we can develop custom drivers for data processing.
Data from APIs. In theory, we can also load data from APIs. Data processing is similar: we write a driver that converts data into convenient formats. In turn, we can build reports, merge this data with other data, and give clients processed data for further steps (such as data verification and validation, inconsistency reporting, and so on).
3. Visualize and centralize your data
At this stage, we build a frontend where data processing output is uniform, easily consumable for the average user, and readily available to the right players who have the power to transform business decisions into accomplishable goals. Make sure decision-makers have real-time access to this frontend via any device and mobile network. The more you visualize, the faster the data can be consumed.
Below is the image describing big data processing done by Itransition for one of our clients. The client used different data sources (from data vendors 1, 2, 3, etc.) in varying formats. Itransition utilized a custom automated decision-maker tool called Driver Selector. The Driver Selector further directed data to the appropriate Driver. From there, data was centralized in a Microsoft SQL Server database, verified (as explained below), prepared for output, and finally delivered to the frontend.
4. Verify data
When data is not coming from a reliable source, it needs to be verified. This is a partially automated process, where we have ready-made algorithms for different types of data sources. For example, if you take in data by country, one way to catch inconsistencies is by paying attention to each particular country's geographical divisions. If we are supposedly working with data related to the United Kingdom yet get tables containing information on federal states, we reject this data since it is most likely data related to the USA.
The system of approval consists of the following levels:
Level 1. All data is loaded into a database, but each type of data has a different approval level. First, it is brought into the system, checked by our automated tests, and, if verified, passes the first level of approval. This data is not yet ready for the frontend.
Level 2. Reports are made and checked by a responsible party who confirms the validity of the data.
Level 3. The data goes to the analyst who works with this type of data source, and if they legitimize it, we change the approval type for this data and show it to the end users. At this stage, it becomes available for further action.
Let's describe data verification carried out by Itransition in one of our previous projects.
The client provided raw data, which we then processed with our Automated Data Verification System. The system performs three functions: checking for consistency, updating the algorithm, and adjusting the data. At the consistency check stage, data can be either validated and immediately prepared for the output, or analyzed for inconsistencies. A blatant inconsistency can lead to automatic data rejection. When further information is needed, Itransition consults the client, tweaks the algorithm, relaunches it, and receives adjusted data that has been prepared for the output. The next time that same inconsistency is discovered, it will be included in the algorithm, thereby speeding up the entire data verification cycle.
It's essential to know which data verification challenges are likely to come up. We are often faced with text and numerical changes that need to be verified or rejected. If the configuration changes dramatically, we alert the client that the structure has changed, which is sometimes approved but can also lead to algorithm rewriting.
Below is the image describing an example of data verification with a client when it comes to a country name inconsistency. Data sources 1 and 2 have country names in the correct format, and are therefore labeled as valid data and sent to the output. Data source 3 needs to be verified. Once the client confirms that "S. Afr." means "South Africa," this information is added to the system, the data gets adjusted and prepared for the output.
Master your data-driven decision making tools
Decision making is one of the most critical business functions delegated to managers. With today's upsurge in data availability, the question of whether to use data for this purpose or to resort to good old intuition is more pressing than ever.
The answer is, neither one should exclude the other. Although gut feel is subject to cognitive biases, it can serve as a solid double-check for analytical findings based on the manager's experience and contextual awareness. At the same time, advanced data analysis, previously reserved for scientists and now available to the common public thanks to data democratization, allows decision-makers to mine petabytes of data for valuable insights and make sense of the outputs through big data visualization techniques.
When combined, both approaches are likely to bring in competitive advantages by helping managers refine and validate their strategies—in product management, marketing, human resources, customer experience, and other domains.
And even though managing big data is never a walk in the park, using the tips mentioned above and teaming up with a reliable business intelligence consultant can really help you reap all of these benefits.
Technology has arrived, now it's up to business decision-makers to embrace this cultural shift for competitive gains.


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The Shed Distillery of Pj Rigney in Drumshanbo has been shortlisted for yet another prestigious award.
It is one of 24 companies who have been shortlisted for Bord Bia's biannual Food and Drink Industry Awards which seek to recognise the most progressive, ambitious and forward-looking companies in Ireland's thriving food and drink industry.
More than 350 Irish food and drink industry leaders will gather for Bord Bia's biannual Food and Drink Industry Awards, hosted by Broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan, on Wednesday, November 29 in the RDS Concert Hall.
The Shed Distillery of PJ Rigney will compete for a Branding Award which recognises businesses who have demonstrated that they have differentiated themselves from competitors by using creative marketing communications, consumer insight and understanding to develop brand strategies ensuring long term success. The Shed Distillery is up against competition from Britvic Ireland (Club); Diageo (Baileys); and The Happy Pear.
The distillery's first gin, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, is currently on sale in 15 countries and the company projects the addition of 8 new markets. From brand creation in 2015, brand awareness has quickly grown with 85% per cent of people sampled at events in Ireland saying they have heard of the brand.


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BloodRayne: Betrayal is a 2D side-scrolling platform game released in 2011. Arc System Works published the PlayStation 3 version in Japan under the name  on May 1, 2014.

An enhanced version with the subtitle Fresh Bites was released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch and Windows on September 9, 2021.

Gameplay

BloodRayne: Betrayal is a side-scrolling platform game that keeps the hack and slash combat of the previous games in the series. The player controls Rayne through 15 "Chapters". With Rayne's arm blades and a handgun, the game will lock players in rooms full of enemies that will need to be taken down to progress through the levels. There are no new obtainable combat skills or new weapons throughout the game (aside from a light cannon that can be swapped with the handgun). The player can also find some collectibles that give upgrades like more ammo to the handgun.

Also, a great portion of the game's levels requires the players to be jumping from platform to platform, avoiding spikes, learning enemy placement, and projectiles in order to clear each "Chapter". Each one of the levels has multiple checkpoints that will replenish Rayne's life bar when you reach them. The player will be brought back to the checkpoint if all Rayne's health gauge is depleted or the player falls into a hole/acid pit/spikes etc. The health gauge can only be restored sucking the blood of some types of enemies after weakened them, the game does not feature any other item that can replenish health.

Plot
Rayne has to battle and feed in a brand new hack 'n slash adventure. Slay ghastly enemies as Rayne, the dhampir with superhuman strength, speed, and agility, recruited by the vampire hunting Brimstone Society for one last mission. The target is a lavish, yet sinister ball in a secluded castle with plenty of dark and gruesome surprises. With the help of a mysterious friend and members of Brimstone, Rayne must infiltrate the manor, take out the fiendish horde, and stop an evil master plot once and for all.

Development and release

Fresh Bites

Announced at Limited Run Games' E3 2021 show, this version of the game has updated 4K visuals, improved difficulty, and now fully voiced with Laura Bailey and Troy Baker reprising their roles as Rayne and Kagan respectively alongside more from the likes of Todd Haberkorn and Patrick Seitz to "bring new life to the original written dialog."

Reception

The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Whereas some reviewers, such as those writing for Joystiq and IGN, praised the challenge of it, others, such as GameSpot, felt it was too frustrating. Jim Sterling, who at the time was a reviews editor for Destructoid, went so far as putting it on their top 10 worst games of 2011 for its terrible controls and handling and obscene number of enemies thrown at the player.

411Mania gave the PS3 version 8.5 out of ten and called it "a fantastic experience that old-school gamers shouldn't pass up". However, The Digital Fix gave the same console version 6 out of 10 and said it "will appeal to a particular kind of gaming masochist [...] For the rest of us, the imprecise controls, frequent deaths and lack of a difficulty selector make this an experience just too frustrating to be enjoyable". Metro gave the Xbox 360 version five out of ten: "Never has so promising a game been ruined by such a perversely high difficultly level, which is a crying shame given the gorgeous 2D art".

References

External links
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Archived website

2011 video games
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Side-scrolling video games
Platform games
Hack and slash games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation 5 games
PlayStation Network games
Video games about vampires
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Video games scored by Jake Kaufman
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WayForward games
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Majesco Entertainment games
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NHL Betting Season Player Props 2021-22 | Cole Caufield
Jake Sennholz
Cole Caufield was drafted 15th overall in 2019 by the Montreal Canadiens. After spending two years with the Wisconsin Badgers, Caufield had his coming-out party during the Canadiens' unlikely run to the Stanley Cup Finals last NHL season. Now, the NHL betting player props are set high for the electric scorer this season.
As the all-time leading scorer for the U.S Junior National team, it was no surprise Caufield was able to jump in the mix and heavily impact the playoffs, with 12 points in 20 games. His success is bound to continue this season, but are the books and NHL betting props slightly overestimating the young forward's powers?
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Cole Caufield Hockey History
As a native of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, my college hometown and current place of residence, I cannot bring myself to actually place a bet against Caufield. Though, I may advise you to. Thankfully, there are two props available, one of which I can confidently take the Over.
All Caufield does is generate points. Regardless of the level of hockey at which he is playing, he finds himself on the score sheet nearly each and every night. These ridiculous, record-setting numbers include 137 points across two years of high school, 88 total points across two years of college and 100 points in a single season for the U.S. National U18 team.
For an in-depth breakdown of Cole Caufield's career path and point totals dating back to age 13, click HERE.
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Cole Caufield NHL Betting Player Prop Analysis
What you'll notice as you look through Caufield's Elite Prospects page, using the link above, is a truly unbelievable amount of goals scored. No matter how much talent is around him, Caufield rises to the top and makes the most of his opportunities with the puck on his stick. He is a goal scorer in the purest form and a playmaker on both ends of the ice.
Despite all of that being extremely true, I still cannot pull the trigger on the over 26.5 total goals this season.
Cole Caufield Under 26.5 Goals (-114) | NHL Betting Props
There are a few factors that are being overshadowed by Caufield's past and the recency bias we carry from his 12 points in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
One thing to consider about the playoffs is that you see the same teams multiple games in a row. You become familiar with matchups, weak spots and goaltenders' style and tendencies and can expose them immediately the next game. The regular-season schedule does not allow for those luxuries, as this year especially, Caufield will be going against different defenders, goaltenders, and defensive strategies every night.
The other big consideration can be seen in breaking down his 12 playoff points. He had twice as many assists (8) as he did goals (4), and I think that trend is likely to continue through his first full NHL season. He will be playing with some extremely good linemates, and the Canadiens have a multitude of guys who can put the puck in net at a high rate, including Tyler Toffoli and Nick Suzuki, among others.
Cole Caufield Over 47.5 Points (-114) | NHL Betting Props
Knowing what we know about Caufield, he could just continue doing what he's always done and absolutely obliterate his goal total with months left to go in the season. I just feel much more comfortable being able to take advantage of all his assists as well. This is why I really like the over his season point total of 47.5.
There is no reason to believe Caufield won't have at least as many assists as he will goals. In fact, it should be pretty easy for him to have more. So, if you believe he can get anywhere near his goal total, you should be running to get this bet placed before 7:00 p.m. est. Tuesday night.
The NHL is obviously a different animal, but Cole Caufield has only gone under that point total one time since 2014-15. I'll be backing him to do it again.
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Jean Wactawski-Wende, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Post-menopausal women who use metformin long-term for the treatment of diabetes may be at lower risk for developing certain cancers and dying from these diseases, reports a large prospective study from researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and the University at Buffalo.
Their analysis was based on data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a series of large studies undertaken to address common health issues in women. The researchers also found that women with diabetes, compared to women without the disease, were more likely to develop cancer. The team's findings were published in the International Journal of Cancer.
The research effort was led by Zhihong Gong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control at Roswell Park, and Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, one of the principal investigators of the Women's Health Initiative and dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo.
The investigators analyzed information from 145,826 post-menopausal women between 50 and 79 years of age from 40 U.S. clinical centers who participated in the WHI between 1993 and 1998.
They found that women with diabetes had a 45 percent greater risk of death from invasive cancer overall when compared to women without diabetes. In addition, among women with diabetes, the risk of cancer death differed significantly between metformin users and nonusers. The researchers noted a trend of decreasing risk of cancer death with increasing duration of metformin use.
Compared to women without diabetes, women with diabetes had a 13 percent higher risk of developing invasive cancer. These women also face increased risk that ranges from 20 percent to nearly double the chances of being diagnosed with the following cancers: colon, liver, pancreas, endometrial and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Results also show that metformin use was associated with better survival in diabetes patients diagnosed with ovarian, colorectal and breast cancer.
"In this large prospective study with long-term follow-up, we examined the association of diabetes and medications to treat the disease with the risk of cancer and cancer mortality overall and by cancer site," says Gong.
"Our findings suggest that diabetes remains a risk factor for cancer overall and increases the risk of certain cancers. But we also found a lower cancer risk for certain cancers among those patients who have used metformin for many years," Gong adds.
"The Women's Health Initiative continues to offer thoughtful, meaningful data to researchers seeking to answer health care questions that impact our understanding of long-term health in older women," says Wactawski-Wende.
The researchers say future studies are needed to further clarify the long-term impact of metformin on cancer risk and survival.
Research for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) has been supported, in part, by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C and HHSN271201100004C). Dr. Gong's research is supported in part by the National Cancer Institute (K07CA178293).


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Paula Barreiro López
Head researcher of the international platform MoDe(s) and professor of Contemporary Art at the Art History Department of the of the Université Grenoble-Alpes/Laboratoire LARHRA UMR 5190.
María Ruido
Artist, filmmaker and researcher. Professor at the Visual Arts Department of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Barcelona.
Juan Albarrán Diego
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of History and Art Theory (UAM). Coordinator of the Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (UAM / UCM / Reina Sofia Museum).
Julián Díaz Sánchez
Professor of Art History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is interested in recent art and the study of criticism as a source for the History of Art.
Olga Fernández López
Assistant professor at the History and Theory of Art Department (UAM) and visiting lecturer at the Curating Contemporary Art Department (Royal College of Art).
Mª Dolores Jiménez-Blanco
Director of the Department of Art History at the UCM. Coordinator of the Master's Degree in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Complutense University.
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez
Professor and coordinator of the Art History program at Saint Louis University, Madrid. Terra Foundation Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Miriam Basilio
Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at New York University. She is author of Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Ashgate, 2013).
Óscar Cambra-Moo
Assistant professor in the Biology Department at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. Ph.D in Paleontology, expert in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Lee Douglas
Postdoctoral research fellow in the Collections Department at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, where she is examining the production, circulation and display of Latin American conceptual art.
Professor and Head of School of Arts at the Birminghan City University. Director of the Centre for Global Futures in Art, Design and Media.
María Íñigo
Researcher with a postdoctoral Fellowship in University of São Paulo. Ph.D in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid.
Beatrice Joyeux Prunel
Professor of contemporary art history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2007, she received the qualification to direct research (HDR) in 2015.
Giulia Lamoni
Visiting Assistant Professor at Nova University in Lisbon and a FCT Researcher at the Art History Institute at the same university.
Fabiana Serviddio
Associate Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. Associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.
Jaime Vindel
Postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Member of the Southern Conceptualisms Network.
Sonia Kerfa
Catedrática de español en la Universidad de Grenoble-Alpes. Miembro del laboratorio del ILCEA4 (EA 7356), miembro asociado de Pasajes XX-XXI (EA 4360).
Jacopo Galimberti is post-doctoral Fellow of the British Academy at the University of Manchester and Director of the Collège International de Philosophie.
Gal Kirn is an Open Topic Fellow at the TU Dresden (Slavonic and Cultural Studies).
Juliane Debeusscher
PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona, with a fellowship from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia. Her research focuses on Central European unofficial culture between 1970 and 1989.
Pablo Santa Olalla
Bachelor degree in Arts. Master degree in Advanced Studies of Art History. Workin in a thesis about the networks between Latin American and Spanish art conceptualisms
Marcin Franciszek Rynkowski
Has a BA in Philosophy and Interdisciplinary European Studies from Marie Curie Skolodowska University in Lublin (Poland).
Anita Orzes
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written statement – made on 18th January 2021.
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Dominic Raab The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The UK is extremely concerned about the state of good governance in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
A consistent and deeply troubling array of concerns have been put to the Governor by local institutions and the community. The Governor has set out these concerns to me, they include, but are not limited to:
- Allegations of political interference and coercion in relation to appointments in the public service and statutory boards, the criminal justice system and individual criminal cases;
- Claims that people in public service, media and community leaders have been intimidated to such a degree that they describe living in a climate of fear;
- Allegations that funds set aside for struggling families during the pandemic may have been re-allocated to political allies;
- Concerns around spending on Government contracts without any proper procurement process;
- Misuse of taxpayers' money on infrastructure and transport projects.
Against this backdrop, we are also concerned about the potential vulnerability of the islands to serious organised crime. The scale of this was made clear in November 2020, with the seizure of more than two tonnes of cocaine, worth just under £190 million.
Successive attempts have been made to address these concerns through local institutions, many of which have done commendable work to bring them to light. However, the scope and seriousness of the concerns are now beyond local capacity to address.
The UK Government is responsible for ensuring the security and good governance of BVI. We have a constitutional and moral duty to protect the interests of the people of BVI. We cannot ignore such serious allegations.
With this in mind, on Monday 18 January, the Governor of BVI, supported by the UK Government, announced an independent Commission of Inquiry.
The Commission will inquire into whether there is information to substantiate claims that corruption, abuse of position and serious impropriety has taken place in public office in recent years, and it will make recommendations. The Commission will be led by the Right Honourable Sir Gary Hickinbottom, who will have the powers of a High Court Judge within the territory with respect to gathering evidence. The BVI Commission of Inquiry Ordinance makes provisions for the scope of the inquiry to be adjusted or extended should it prove necessary.
The Government expect the Commissioner to deliver his report to the Governor within six months. At this point, we hope that the UK and BVI will be able to consider the recommendations together in a constructive manner that best serves the people of BVI.
This Government's aim is to build stronger governance for the people of BVI and uphold our commitment to our Overseas Territories and their people.
Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 18 January 2021, cWS)


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Neighbours at War
Television, 2005–2015
Neighbours at War was a popular reality show that ran for 10 years and eight seasons on TV2. Narrated by long-serving director Bill Kerton, it offered a quirky Kiwi take on a UK concept: take a seemingly unsolvable dispute over a boundary/ fence/driveway, and get a famous Kiwi to mediate the neighbours who can't agree. Mediators included Mark Sainsbury, Tom Bradley, Police Ten 7's Graham Bell, and John Key. The purposefully cheesy music, and emotion worn on the sleeve, helped make the Greenstone TV show a "much-loved New Zealand staple" (The Spinoff's Duncan Greive).
Neighbours at War - Series One, Episode Four
Every story in this popular TV2 reality show saw warring neighbours each give their side of a border dispute, before a well-known local tried to mediate. In this first season episode the affray is over Parakai willow trees, accused of blocking sun and busting sewer pipes (narrator Bill Kerton calls them the "herbaceous equivalent of herpes"). The mediator is Helensville MP John Key. Struggling to sit on the fence, and amid accusations of racism, the future Prime Minister is unable to forge a driveway détente: "sometimes people just don't want to see eye to eye".
Neighbours at War - Series Two, Episode One
Neighbours at War was a popular and long-running TV2 reality show. In this opening episode from the show's second series, an Otara fence is a battle line in a bitter territorial dispute between Lois and Alec. The mediator is Labour MP for Otara Ross Robertson, who draws on Winston Churchill, General Douglas MacArthur and aroha in an effort to broker peace — amidst allegations of rubbish and porn mags on one side, and swear words and brown eyes on the other. Narrator Bill Kerton's puns and some choice sound effects punctuate the neighbourly nastiness.


Lieu, Samuel & G. Mikkelsen (eds.). 2016. Between Rome and China: History, religions and material culture of the Silk Road (Silk Road Studies 18). Brepols Publishers.
This book contains a key study on sericulture as well as on the conduct of the trade in silk between China and the Roman Near East using archaeological and literary evidence.
The eight studies in this volume by established and emerging scholars range geographically and chronologically from the Greek Kingdom of Bactria of the 2nd century BCE to the Uighur Kingdoms of Karabalgasun in Mongolia and Qočo in Xinjiang of the 8th-9th centuries CE. It contains a key study on sericulture as well on the conduct of the trade in silk between China and the Roman Near East using archaeological as well as literary evidence. Other topics covered include Sogdian religious art, the role of Manichaeism as a Silk Road religion par excellence, the enigmatic names for the Roman Empire in Chinese sources and a multi-lingual gazetteer of place- and ethnic names in Pre-Islamic Central Asia which will be an essential reference tool for researchers. The volume also contains an author and title index to all the Silk Road Studies volumes published up to 2014. The broad ranging theme covered by this volume should appeal to a wider public fascinated by the history of the Silk Road and wishing to be informed of the latest state of research. Because of the centrality of the topics covered by this study, the volume could serve as a basic reading text for university courses on the history of the Silk Road.