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Aid agencies should take note of how displaced people in Nigeria survive
The unpaved road is badly damaged, full of pot holes. At some point along the road, you find an open refuse dump, where a few young children can be found openly defecating. The rest of the path is bounded by thick bushes on both sides. We soon arrive at the settlement. There are between 150 and 200 people living here. They have constructed makeshift shelters from tree trunks, used planks and old clothes for covering. Needless to say these roofs cannot stand a drizzle, let alone a full downpour of rain. For good measure, mosquitoes are an ever-present threat.
In short, these settlers are not thriving. Nevertheless, they are not wallowing in self pity. They are mobilising all the resources they can muster, first to survive and then regain their livelihoods. It is an uphill task, but they are giving it a good go.
These households are survivors of terrorist insurgency in northeast Nigeria. They have lost loved ones, suffered physical injuries, and lost their properties and livelihoods in tragic circumstances. Ultimately, they had to flee for their lives, travelling hundreds of miles to this camp in outskirts of Abuja, where a private individual provided the land.
The Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in Nigeria has precipitated humanitarian tragedy on a scale comparable only to the Nigerian civil war (1967- 1970) and arguably the worst in Nigeria's history. At one point, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre estimated that up to 3.3 million people were internally displaced due to the insurgency. This is one of the largest displacements of people within one country in the world.
Forced displacement is a pressing, and worsening, global problem. The United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) reports that there are 25.4 million refugees and 68.5 million forcibly displaced people.
Displaced people are desperately in need of help. However, what sort of help is best suited to achieve more effective, long term outcomes? This is the question at the heart of our current research in northern Nigeria.
Social and human capital
Musa (not his real name) arrived the camp on the outskirts of Abuja with his family a little over a year ago from Maiduguri, the biggest and capital city of Borno, the largest state in Northeastern Nigerian. Maiduguri is the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
In time, Musa was able to establish a new contact with a farming community in Nasarawa, about 40 miles from Abuja. With this new network he was able to get a parcel of land loaned to him for farming. They also provided him with a start-up capital of 20 000 naira (about US$55) to support his farming. His repayment is in the form of a proportion of the harvest.
This form of traditional lending is used in many communities, mainly rural, across Nigeria. Usually it takes the form of host communities and traditional chiefs providing lands for visitors from other areas and regions to settle among them, farm the land and pay the rent annually in kind. The payment is often modest, but in other places the so-called "settlers" are charged more. Oftentimes these "settlers" go on to become landowners.
The arrangement, like every arrangement driven by social networks, works on the basis of norms of reciprocity and mutual trust. It is by no means perfect, but it does work for many households like Musa's. Indeed for many, this social capital makes the big difference between starvation and survival, between hopeless destitution and recovery.
Musa's story is just one of many we came across during our recent study in northern Nigeria.
We also found that entrepreneurship training is more effective in helping otherwise unemployed youth to provide for themselves, generate income and support their families. This underlines the important role of human capital, complimenting the contribution of social capital in the recovery strategy of displaced households.
Traditional approaches
Traditional approach to humanitarian action is rooted in top-down interventions characterised mainly by supply of relief materials and provision of funds to meet urgent existential needs such as medical treatment, food and shelter. These are definitely needed. However, can, and should, humanitarian action be designed to do more, especially in the long term?
One big downside to top down interventions is that they can have the unintended impact of creating a pattern of dependence on the part of affected people. This can undermine their own agency, especially in the long term. But, given that displaced people are naturally driven by the sheer force of necessity to find ways by which they can help themselves cope and recover, there is a scope for humanitarian action to do more to, in effect, help people to help themselves.
Forced displacement can be quite a traumatic experience for affected households. Nevertheless, as in Musa's case, it can also present new opportunities to generate new stocks of social capital that can be critical for long term recovery and re-settlement. This is especially the case when it comes to bridging social capital, defined as ties between individuals across social divides or between social groups.
Of course, it also helps when affected people have certain skills - such as vocational or technical - they can use to create value and generate income. This combination of social capital and human capital can make a big difference in the design and implementation of more effective interventions in humanitarian crises.
Therefore, rather than going to communities with a prescriptive, and often paternalistic, top-down approach that effectively set out to solve problems for the communities, development agencies can co-opt affected peoples as co-creators of solutions, and as principal agents of implementation. They can, among others, facilitate capacity building, encourage community-based psycho-social support systems, support the expansion of existing entrepreneurial ecosystems. They can also link micro and small enterprises with bigger markets. This approach can more effectively set affected peoples off the course of aid dependency, and on the way to full livelihood recovery and long term settlement.
Author: Seun Kolade - Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, De Montfort University
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Quite a few months ago I designed some new key rings and they all sold and then I got busy and never made any more, which is sad because making them is fun! I started making these a week or so ago & put the finishing touches to them at the weekend, took the photos yesterday and managed to website list them today! phew-ee!
The new ribbons are all on the website! It's taken hours and hours of computer work ... I've already corrected some spelling mistakes and *think* I've checked all the links, but if you take a peek and see something that you don't think should be there please let me know!
I always forget how long it takes me to add new products to the website...from waiting for a sunny/bright day to take photos, to cropping and editing and filing them (I'm bad at filing them...but getting better) to re-jigging the website & adding new pages...I'm nearly there and after a few hours more work tomorrow there should be ribbons galore...it's a good job that just looking at the ribbons makes me happy in my work!!
I had a lot of fun choosing which fabrics and buttons to use for my new colour selection of drawing pins...there are now 8 colours to choose from and you can see then all by clicking here!
They are wooden and have had the floral design laser cut into them so they are smooth to touch.
I can't decide if I'm going to make mine into ornaments or a mini garland...decisions, decisions!
If you'd like some too you'll have to be quick, I only managed to snap up 8 packs and once they are gone then they are gone!
...and filled them with lovely lovely ribbon... ..I made 'drawers' out of some of my kit boxes and it makes finding the right ribbon very easy indeed! I'm hoping the sun will come out tomorrow so I can get started on the photos!! I also filled up all of the findings and updated the website and the out-of-stock swivel clips are back!
This pile of cut out owl pieces is for another secret project...you know I'll spill the beans as soon as I can, right? ... There are enough pieces here to make 100 owls...it doesn't look like that many does it?
The Big website re-stock has begun!
Christmas busy-ness left a lot of gaps in my stock and first on the list for me to fill up was Iron On Flowers...now available individually rather than in packs of 3 so you can create your own colourful crafts.
hurrah! I now have a fully functioning packing room...the room is teeny tiny and very hard to photograph...I stood in the middle and turned round to take these but they aren't good!!
in between all the moving and re-organising orders have been packed & dispatched and felt has been chopped...two boxes of orders to stitch (above) and funny little piles of felt which will be key rings soon (below) I'll be back tomorrow with photos!
my little room (soon to be renamed The Packing Room) is hard to photograph...here are some before-the move-around shots.... before :: from the door looking right. before :: behind the door. before :: from the door looking left. during :: from the door looking toward the window. during :: behind the door.
A lot of sewing has been happening round these parts...just look at this pile of boxes I've made since yesterday! My sewing machine certainly knows the holidays are over!
In amongst all the New Year plans I'm still stitching and sending out orders, although I have to admit I wasn't expecting to be making Christmas Decorations for a few months yet!!
WOW! 2011 was deifinitely a good year for paper-and-string...I've been re-reading my blog over the past few days and I have compiled some highlights...so many that it's taken 2 blog posts!! HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my friends, blog readers & customers ... here's to a fantabulous 2012!...I'm excited to see what it brings!
January was spent planning and waiting to move into my new workshop...the Ikea book got a lot of use!! I soon learnt that Solicitors are SLOW and I finally moved in in MARCH!!! but the delays did mean I had time for sewing.... ...on my new sewing machine! February...was the month of the box!...I made loads of sample boxes :: ...took loads of photos and voila! introduced made-to-order items to my Not On The High Street Shop To mark the launch I advertised my alphabet boxes in the Not On The High Street Catalogue and had my boxes photographed by a professional photographer!
..and I could share all the felt cutting... ...and ribbon cutting that was filling my months!
June my workshop was bulging at the seams ... ...all the printing arrived and was stored on the stairs!... ...the kit felt had a whole room to itself!!...and the fluff, ginormous bags of fluff that just sat in the middle of the floor!! But it wasn't all about BIG things...there were new teeny tiny polka dot buttons ...and a huge box FULL of pom poms!!


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Imec.xpand raises EUR 117 million to invest in innovative, early-stage ideas leveraging imec's knowledge, expertise and infrastructure
Leuven (BELGIUM), September 12, 2018 – Imec.xpand, an independent early-stage and growth fund that was initiated by imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology, today announced the closing of its first fund at EUR 117 million in committed capital. The amount raised exceeds the initial target of EUR 100 million and positions imec.xpand as a major player in the deep tech venture capital ecosystem.
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The fund is managed by Peter Vanbekbergen, Frank Bulens, Cyril Vančura and Tom Vanhoutte who each bring a wealth of entrepreneurial, venture capital and/or business expertise to the table. The combination of this independent management, corporate as well as financially driven investors, universities and imec, who are all committed to contribute to the success of the fund, sets imec.xpand apart from other venture capital initiatives.
The fund was launched in 2017 with the strong support of imec and the Flemish government. Since then, imec.xpand attracted renowned international strategic and institutional investors like Samsung Electronics, BNP Paribas Fortis, Applied Materials, SK Hynix, Philips, the Brabant development company BOM, KBC Insurance, the Belgian federal investment company SFPI-FPIM and several high net worth individuals and universities. Belfius Insurance, the Flemish investment company PMV and KPN Ventures joined most recently.
About imec.xpand
Imec.xpand is an early stage and growth venture capital fund with a game-changing approach to turn hardware driven nanotechnology innovation into successful global companies. The fund is independently managed by a team of entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists and business experts and is targeting ambitious tech start-ups that meet all the criteria to become a successful, scalable venture with the potential to change the world. Imec.xpand will boost those ventures by supporting them operationally and financially from seed to exit, by enabling capex light innovation in a capex heavy environment and by giving them access to the unique imec knowledge, expertise, network and state of the art infrastructure.
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Die Sinfonie A-Dur Köchelverzeichnis 114 komponierte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart im Jahr 1771 in Salzburg. Nach der Alten Mozart-Ausgabe trägt die Sinfonie die Nummer 14.

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Im Vergleich zu den meisten von Mozarts früheren Sinfonien zeichnen sich die für 1771 sicher überlieferten Werke Köchelverzeichnis (KV) 110 (komponiert in Salzburg vor der zweiten Italienreise), KV 112 (komponiert in Mailand) und KV 114 (komponiert in Salzburg nach der zweiten Italienreise) dadurch aus, dass es sich um "ausgewachsene" Konzertsinfonien mit einem Menuett und Wiederholungen der Hauptteile in den Ecksätzen handelt (vgl. bei KV 110).

Das Autograph der Sinfonie KV 114 ist vom 30. Dezember 1771 datiert. Kurz vorher, am Tag nach ihrer Rückkehr aus Italien (16. Dezember 1771), war der Salzburger Erzbischof Sigismund von Schrattenbach gestorben, der Mozarts "Wunderkind" – Laufbahn wesentlich unterstützt hatte. Möglicherweise wollte Mozart mit KV 114 – auch vor dem Hintergrund der bevorstehenden Wahl des Nachfolgers des verstorbenen Erzbischofs – eine "Visitenkarte" ablegen. Das Werk war bei Zeitgenossen vermutlich relativ populär, da mehrere deutsche und böhmische Abschriften existieren. Bernhard Paumgartner (1957) spricht von einer "zarte(n), manchmal verträumte(n)" Sinfonie. Auch mehrere andere Autoren heben die Bedeutung der Sinfonie hervor, z. B. den "Ideenreichtum" im Eröffnungssatz.

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Besetzung: zwei Querflöte, zwei Oboen (diese nur im zweiten Satz), zwei Hörner in A, zwei Violinen, Viola, Cello, Kontrabass. In zeitgenössischen Orchestern war es zudem üblich, auch ohne gesonderte Notierung Fagott und Cembalo (sofern im Orchester vorhanden) zur Verstärkung der Bass-Stimme bzw. als Generalbass-Instrument einzusetzen.

Aufführungszeit: ca. 20 Minuten.

Bei den hier benutzten Begriffen der Sonatensatzform ist zu berücksichtigen, dass dieses Schema in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts entworfen wurde (siehe dort) und von daher nur mit Einschränkungen auf die Sinfonie KV 114 übertragen werden kann. – Die hier vorgenommene Beschreibung und Gliederung der Sätze ist als Vorschlag zu verstehen. Je nach Standpunkt sind auch andere Abgrenzungen und Deutungen möglich.

Erster Satz: Allegro moderato
A-Dur, 2/2-Takt (alla breve), 139 Takte

Der Satz beginnt mit einer liedhaften Melodie: im Vordersatz zunächst nur von den beiden Violinen piano vorgetragen, dann im Nachsatz vom ganzen Orchester forte wiederholt. Der dem Thema zugrunde liegende Achttakter ist nochmals in zwei deutliche Hälften gegliedert: Der erste Viertakter ist durch fallende Intervalle (Quarte und Quinte) gekennzeichnet, die dann im zweiten Viertakter von aufsteigenden Intervallen (Quinte und Oktave) "beantwortet" werden. Als "Anhang" des Themas spielen die Bläser ein kurzes fanfarenartiges Solo (Takt 16/17). Die Überleitung zum zweiten Thema (Takt 18–36) beginnt mit Tremolo und gebrochenen Akkorden auf A-Dur, greift dann mit charakteristischen Oktavsprüngen aufwärts die Motivik vom ersten Thema auf: ab Takt 22 als eintaktige Einheit zunächst in den Violinen, ab Takt 26 dann zweitaktig im Bass, hier rhythmisch unterstützt von den Hörnern.

Das zweite Thema (Takt 36–46), ein "weit ausladender Gedanke von betörender Eleganz" in der Dominante E-Dur wird nur von den Streichern im piano mit imitatorischem Beginn (1. Violine – 2. Violine – Viola) vorgestellt. Die zweite Hälfte des Themas ist durch den Dialog der Violinen mit kurzen, abgesetzten Floskeln gekennzeichnet, der über Tonrepetition auf E in einen Fis-Dur – Septakkord mit Fermate mündet. Das Fis-Dur wirkt dominantisch zum H-Dur, mit dem die Schlussgruppe (Takt 47 ff.) in einer Figur mit großen Intervallsprüngen einsetzt. Nach zwei aufsteigenden "Anläufen" der 1. Violine und der Schlusswendung mit Triller endet die Exposition in Takt 59.

In der Durchführung wird ein neues, zweitaktiges Terz-Motiv, das etwas an den "Anhang" vom ersten Thema (Takt 16/17) erinnert, im piano imitatorisch durch die Instrumente (Flöten, Viola, Hörner) geführt. Über die anschließende Synkopen-Passage im forte erfolgt dann die Rückführung zur Reprise. Diese (Takt 80 ff.) ist wie die Exposition strukturiert. Exposition sowie Durchführung und Reprise werden wiederholt.

Zweiter Satz: Andante
D-Dur, 3/4-Takt, 62 Takte, Oboen anstatt der Flöten, ohne Hörner

Das erste Thema das sanglichen Satzes mit "elegischen Charme" wird im Vordersatz – ähnlich wie beim Allegro – nur von den Violinen im piano gespielt, wobei die Quarte abwärts zu Beginn auffällig ist. Im Nachsatz geben die Bläser mit Vorhalten in Terzen charakteristische "warme" Farbtupfer. Über eine Triller-Floskel wechselt Mozart zur Dominante A-Dur, wo nun zwei weitere Motive (mit Auftakt und Echo: "zweites Thema"; mit Tonrepetition: "Schlussgruppe") vorgestellt werden.

Der Durchführung ist durch ihre weit ausholende Melodielinie in gleichmäßiger, fließender und teilweise imitatorisch einsetzender Achtelbewegung gekennzeichnet, anfangs noch begleitet von der Quarte des ersten Themas. Die "Reprise" (Takt 47 ff.) ist gegenüber der Exposition verkürzt: Das erste Thema wird nicht wiederholt und geht gleich in das Auftakt-Motiv ("zweites Thema") über. Beide Hauptteile des Satzes werden wiederholt.

Dritter Satz: Menuetto
A-Dur, 3/4-Takt, 26 + 24 Takte (zweite Fassung)

Das Autograph der Sinfonie enthält zwei Menuette: das erste mit Oboen wurde durchgestrichen – "möglicherweise wegen der motivischen Nähe zum Beginn des Andante" und durch ein neues, etwas längeres und "harmonisch wie satztechnisch" anspruchsvolleres mit Flöten anstelle der Oboen ersetzt.

Das Menuett der zweiten Fassung beginnt mit einer kräftigen, aufsteigenden Melodie im Forte. Zu Beginn des zweiten Teils spielen nur die Violinen und die Viola, wobei die 2. Violine die 1. Violinstimme imitiert.

Das "phantasievolle" Trio (in beiden Menuettfassungen beibehalten) steht in a-Moll und wird nur von den Streichern im Piano vorgetragen. Die stimmführende 1. Violine spielt eine Melodie mit "klagender" Tonrepetition, begleitet von durchlaufenden Triolen der 2. Violine und stützenden Vierteln in Viola / Bass. Neal Zaslaw (1989) sieht hierin ironische Züge in Richtung auf Kirchenmusik.

Vierter Satz: Molto allegro
A-Dur, 2/4-Takt, 174 Takte

Der schwungvolle, lebhafte Satz eröffnet mit drei Akkordschlägen im Forte, gefolgt von einer Trillerfloskel der Violinen im Piano. Diese viertaktige Phrase wird wiederholt, wobei die Trillerfloskel eine Terz nach oben verschoben ist (erstes Thema, Takt 1–8; ähnlicher Satzanfang beim Finale der kurz darauf komponierten Sinfonie KV 124). Der anschließende Abschnitt enthält eine wiederholte kadenzartige Abfolge von Akkorden (Tonika A-Dur – Subdominante D-Dur – Dominante E-Dur – A-Dur) mit Tremolo und virtuosen Sechzehntel-Läufe aufwärts. Möglicherweise besteht in dieser Akkordfolge eine Anspielung auf eine sog. "Bergamasca" (ein Tanz oder Lied, bei der die Melodie über einer ständigen Abfolge dieser vier Akkorden gelegt wird). Das zweite Thema (Takt 28 ff., E-Dur, piano) mit wiegendem Charakter mit ist periodisch aufgebaut, wobei der viertaktige Vorder- und der sechstaktige Nachsatz jeweils wiederholt werden. Es ist damit deutlich länger als das mehr motivartige erste Thema. Die Schlussgruppe (Takt 48 ff.) wechselt wieder zum forte und stellt zwei kleinere Motive vor (das zweite im Dialog Flöten – Violinen), die durch eine Tremoloeinlage getrennt sind. Die Exposition endet in Takt 73.

Die Durchführung (Takt 74–101) enthält wie im Allegro neues Material: Zunächst ein Thema mit viertaktiger "Frage" und dreitaktiger "Antwort" sowie zweitaktigem Bläseranhang, das in E-Dur und A-Dur vorgetragen wird, gefolgt von einem viertaktigen Motiv mit großen Intervallsprüngen und Synkopenbegleitung. Die Reprise (Takt 102 ff.) ist ähnlich der Exposition aufgebaut mit leichten Veränderungen z. B. im zweiten Thema. Exposition sowie Durchführung und Reprise werden wiederholt.

Einzelnachweise, Anmerkungen

Weblinks, Noten

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia in la, K. 114.  P. R. 629, Ricordi-Verlag, Mailand 1955 (Taschenpartitur).

Siehe auch
 Liste der Sinfonien Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts

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BY JARED BREY
Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming.
FROM THE JANUARY 2022 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
The Lodge at Gulf State Park is built directly into the dunes, so when you walk from the parking lot into the spacious lobby, you're looking straight through the glass back wall of the hotel, across a stretch of white-sand beach, and out into the seemingly endless Gulf of Mexico.
For Alabama, whose precious few miles of beaches all but carry the state's tourism economy, this was the essential goal of the Gulf State Park Enhancement Project: A view of the sea for visitors and, says Matt Leavell, the director of design and planning at the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, "an experience of being in the dunes."
But being in the dunes can mean a lot of things. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan swept across the dunes and destroyed the original lodge, which was built in the 1970s. In 2010, tar balls washed onto the beach as oil gushed from an underwater well operated by BP after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 workers. The night before the ribbon-cutting at the new lodge in 2018, as dune-grass plantings were still taking hold, strong winds blew about two feet of sand into an area between the lobby and the restaurant, and crews scrambled to shovel it away before the governor arrived at 8:00 a.m.
"There is something really unique about designing in a dynamic dunescape," says Kate Tooke, ASLA, a principal at Sasaki, which did the landscape architecture work for the lodge while completing a master plan for enhancements throughout the state park. "Every other landscape you design in, you can sort of assume that the landscape is going to stay mostly where it is. But a dunescape is constantly changing. Dunes are growing, they're shifting, wetlands are forming, and swales are forming in different places, and that's part of a healthy dunescape, to have that growth and change over time." (more…)
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Photo by Billy Pope, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
From "Roll, Tide" by Jared Brey in the January 2022 issue, about Gulf State Park in Alabama, where compensation from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is flowing into coastal remediation projects.
"A new dune view."
SWINGS AND SWALES
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Pashek + MTR works with two public agencies to design a heavy-hitting stormwater park in Pittsburgh.
One bright-blue Friday afternoon in October, I was paused at a stoplight in Squirrel Hill, a residential neighborhood about five miles from downtown Pittsburgh, when I saw a young woman with a red backpack try to summit a steep slope on her bicycle. She approached the hill with good momentum and no shortage of confidence and was halfway up the block before she started losing speed. Two thirds of the way, she began to wobble. Pedaling a few more yards, she surrendered to the inevitable and finished the journey on foot.
At the bottom of the hill sat Wightman Park, recently redesigned around the very force the young woman was trying to overcome. In Pittsburgh's Hill District, stormwater accumulates in the valleys. In 2014, the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) began a master-planning process for the low-lying, two-acre park, with its small baseball field, half basketball court, and aging playground, through which a long-since channelized stream used to flow. In the process of collecting community input for the master plan and redesign, the landscape architects at Pittsburgh-based Pashek + MTR heard from neighbors that basement backups during storms were getting worse.
"And so we thought, 'Oh, this would be a great place to really bump up the stormwater capacity and start to try to capture water from the surrounding streets,'" says Sara Thompson, ASLA, a principal at the firm. (more…)
WHEN STARS ALIGN
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As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
How many things can a river do? The people of the Tennessee Valley have not finished asking.
For 10,000 years the Tennessee River has both sustained human civilizations and attended their demise. One of the biggest rivers in the United States, the Tennessee is also among the most biodiverse, with some 230 species of fish and 100 species of freshwater mussels. In the 18th century, Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw tribes flourished in East Tennessee. Later the river was used to expel Indigenous people from the land along the Trail of Tears after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Its bridges were burned during the Civil War, its soils stripped of nutrients, its banks eroded. After the federal government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1930s, the river was asked to do ever more: to stop flooding, first and foremost; to generate electricity for thousands of unlit rural miles; to navigate boats and barges along its U-shaped course; to produce nitrates for war munitions and fertilizer for its depleted soils; to host landscapes of leisure and recreation; to make one of the country's poorest regions prosper.
Now the Tennessee River is asked to be a park from its source to its mouth. (more…)
ART DIRECTOR'S CUT, MARCH 11
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Stewart.
From "The Big Deal" by Jared Brey in the March 2021 issue, about Stewart's mixed-use plans for an 800-acre, 19th-century hospital district in North Carolina.
"Broughton sketchbook."
PAINED PLAZA
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As the pandemic slows projects, Philadelphia has a chance to rethink a difficult public space.
Most of Philadelphia was still asleep when city workers pulled the nine-foot-high statue of Frank Rizzo off the concrete steps of the Municipal Services Building across from City Hall, loaded it into a truck, and carted it off to an undisclosed storage locker. It was early June, and by then, the Rizzo statue, which depicted in monumental proportions the racist former mayor and bully cop, had been a target of protesters for years. They had tugged on it with ropes and chains, tried to set it on fire, yarn-bombed it with a pink bikini, and covered it in a white Ku Klux Klan hood. In late May it became a focal point of protests again. Long lines of police began standing guard in front of the statue daily. Officially, they were guarding the Municipal Services Building, but as the police presence grew, it began to seem like they were there to protect the statue or the very legacy of Rizzo himself.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney had previously said the statue would be removed as part of an eventual redesign of Thomas Paine Plaza, the elevated public podium that surrounds the Municipal Services Building. But in a statement that day, explaining the sudden overnight removal of the statue, he acknowledged that tying its removal to the long-term plans for a plaza makeover, rather than the immediate and repeated demands of protesters, was "a mistake."
"The statue is a deplorable monument to racism, bigotry, and police brutality for members of the Black community, the LGBTQ community, and many others," Kenney said.
Still, for days after the statue was removed, police officers and military service members remained stationed at Paine Plaza as if they were occupying a hill, looking down on the surrounding sidewalks from the high corners of its concrete walls. Pennsylvania National Guardsmen holding rifles and dressed in fatigues blocked access from the street. "Why are the cops being paid to watch this?" someone wrote in chalk on the west wall. Long after the military left town and the police force on site dwindled—up until the time this story went to print—loose security fencing remained around the entire perimeter of the plaza, vaguely suggesting that passersby shouldn't enter the space, even as city workers and skateboarders nonchalantly passed through the gaps in the fencing. With the provocation of the Rizzo statue gone, Thomas Paine Plaza was exposed: an overbuilt space with no apparent purpose, overpoliced for no discernible reason. What was it supposed to be? (more…)
TEACHING AND LEARNING ONLINE, BY FORCE
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Robert Hewitt, FASLA, at Clemson University leads students and colleagues through a studio project where they designed a satellite city outside Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began. Image courtesy Robert Hewitt, FASLA.
Even before the latest round of social distancing efforts and shelter-in-place orders began to shut down American communities, colleges and universities were making plans to finish their semesters online. And for some courses, the transition is trickier than for others. Students and teachers in landscape architecture design studios are facing the same day-to-day meeting and communication questions as everyone else. But they're also facing challenges to the long-standing culture of the studio, where casual interactions are encouraged and friendships are formed, professors give in-person feedback to students in real time, juries convene to evaluate student projects that take months to complete, and students experiment with materials and fabrication techniques. At the same time, educators at nearly a dozen schools of landscape architecture in the United States say the technology needed to carry out the most critical functions of design studios is largely available, and most schools are well-positioned to switch to online learning, at least temporarily.
"The conversation around the shift to remote instruction has always found this uncomfortable relationship with how you do that for a design studio," says Roberto Rovira, ASLA, an associate professor and the chair of landscape architecture at Florida International University. "In some ways, I see this as an opportunity to really test that, and see how we can bring about a paradigm shift that is no longer really a choice but rather a need. That is something we all saw coming, but now we have to respond to it." (more…)


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Legendary Acquires Rights To Dark Horse Comic Black Hammer
By Mike Floorwalker/Nov. 13, 2018 5:23 pm EST
It's time for a Dark Horse to get back in the cinematic race.
Legendary Entertainment has purchased film and television rights to Black Hammer, co-created by prolific comics writer Jeff Lemire. The scribe will serve as an executive producer on any projects to come out of the deal, along with series illustrator Dean Ormston, according to Variety.
First published by Dark Horse Comics in 2016, Black Hammer was hailed as a complex deconstruction of the superhero genre along the lines of Watchmen. The series has won two Eisner Awards, including Best New Series the year after its debut, and hails from the same imprint that Legendary mined for big box office bucks with Zack Snyder's 300.
Black Hammer explores the fate which befalls the titular hero and his allies after they repel an attack on the fictional Spiral City by an ultra-powerful villain known as the Anti-God. The heroes are successful in defending their city, but are all seemingly killed in the process. All is not as it seems, however. In a Twilight Zone-esque twist, the band of do-gooders are in actuality transported to the mysterious, tiny town of Rockwood — a place lost in space and time, and from which there seems to be no escape.
The cerebral premise is ripe for exploration on both the big and small screens, and Legendary appears interested in both. The production house has enjoyed a respectable amount of success with comic book adaptations, beginning with its very first release — 2005's Batman Begins. Legendary also brought the 2009 adaptation of Watchmen to the screen, and was responsible for inaugural DC Extended Universe effort Man of Steel.
As for Lemire, he's widely considered to be comics royalty. After working on the acclaimed series The Nobody and Sweet Tooth for DC's Vertigo imprint, he went on to work on a variety of DC titles such as Green Arrow and Teen Titans: Earth One before jumping ship to Marvel. There, he penned the acclaimed All-New Hawkeye, the revamped Moon Knight, and the Old Man Logan series, which served as inspiration for the 2017 feature film Logan.
Black Hammer has spawned a number of spin-off books expanding on its universe, and with the acquisition, Legendary hopes to build a comics-based Cinematic Universe of its very own. This is no idle speculation; Legendary Television Studios president Nick Pepper admitted as much in a conversation with the New York Times. "With our development team, one of our big initiatives was to bring in a superhero universe," said Pepper. "We were lucky enough that this was available."
Lemire is similarly optimistic about the possibilities, forecasting "multiple projects for film and television" to spring from the deal. With the patience Legendary has shown in establishing and building on its cinematic MonsterVerse, it seems like an ideal pairing of studio and creator.
We'll have more details on Black Hammer-related projects as they become available.


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Shooting with Infrared Film
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph"—Alfred Stiegletz
Or not. Infrared radiation has some of the same properties as visible light. It can be focused and reflected like visible light and can be aligned and even polarized. Infrared film is sensitive to IR radiation, some ultraviolet radiation and to all wavelengths of visible light but is not as sensitive to green light.
Eastman Kodak previously offered a black and white infrared film called High Speed Infrared (HIE) and Ilford still offers its SFX 200 film, a medium-speed film with peak red sensitivity to 720 nanometers, which can be extended to 740 nanometers by using a deep red filter (25A) to produce infrared-like results. It has a nominal sensitivity of ISO 200 along with a wide exposure latitude and tonal range. More about nanometers (nm) and how that unit of measurement relates to infrared photography can be found here.
How I made this shot: The image at left was originally captured on a snowy day in my former Baltimore neighborhood, the 200-year old village of Dickeyville, using Kodak's black and white high-speed infrared negative film. Film was processed in my old darkroom. This film frame was scanned as a positive image and converted into what you see here. No exposure data was recorded back in those pre-EXIF days.
The downsides: Infrared film must be loaded into your camera in complete darkness to prevent fogging. You will also have to unload it in total darkness too and, most likely, process it yourself. Historically infrared films had the reputation that they could not be processed in plastic tanks but the JOBO tanks that I used back in the day have been tested to be compatible with IR films and worked just fine. Since many film changing bags are not opaque to IR radiation, your biggest problem will be loading the film onto the reels before processing which is best done in a proper darkroom to adequately assure against fogging.
You can read about photographer Barry Staver's experience shooting infrared film for a People magazine assignment here.
I've found that Life Pixel does a great job with IR conversions and they've done conversions for some of my Canon DSLRs as well as all of my Panasonic Lumix G-series cameras, including a GX1 that uses their new Hyper Color conversion. This is not a paid nor sponsored endorsement, just my experience.
My book, The Complete Guide to Digital Infrared Photography is available from Amazon for with used copies selling for $18.31, as I write this. Creative Digital Monochrome Effects has a chapter on IR photography and is available from Amazon with new copies at $33.65 with used copies starting at a little more than two bucks, as I write this.


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Alireza Alavian (, * 17. Dezember 1979 in Tehran, Iran) ist ein iranischer Filmtonmeister und Sound Designer.

Seine Karriere im Kino hat in 2001 als Tonassistent begonnen. Seit 2003 war er Tonmeister bei "Salade Fasl" unter der Regie von Fereydoun Jeyrani. Er hat mit vielen anderen bekannten iranischen Regisseuren zusammengearbeitet. Er hat viele Soundpreise gewonnen, darunter den Ersten Internationalen Soundpreis im iranischen Film für Sounddesign und Soundbearbeitung des Kurzfilms "An Sooy e Bonbast (2012)" beim Best Short Competition - California Film Festival.

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen

Auszeichnungen
 2010: Crystal Simorgh vom 28. Fajr International Film Festival für den besten Sound-Mix und Tonbearbeitung für den Film "Anahita"
 2011: Preis der Jury des Jam-e-Jam Television Festival für die beste Tonbearbeitung für den Film "Stories and Varieties"
 2012: Preis von Merit für die beste Tonbearbeitung für den Film "An Sooy e Bonbast"
 2013: Golden Jasmine für die beste Tonbearbeitung für den Film "Drei Fische"
 2014: Jurypreis der iranischen Vereinigung der Filmkritiker und Schriftsteller für die beste Leistung im Bereich Sound Mixing "Che"
 2014: Crystal Simorgh vom 32. Fajr International Film Festival für den besten Sound Mix & Editing für den Film "Che"
 2014: Goldener Preis des Internationalen Teheraner Animationsfestivals für die beste Tonbearbeitung für den Film "They alive"
 2017: Crystal Simorgh vom 35. Fajr International Film Festival für den besten Sound Mix & Tonbearbeitung für den Film "No Date, No Signature"
 2018: Crystal Simorgh vom 36. Fajr International Film Festival für besten Sound Mix & Editing für die Filme "Damascus Time" und "Sheeple"

Nominierungen
 2007: Nominierung der Preis der Jury der 12. Iran Cinema Celebration für den besten Sound Mix & Editing für den Film "Miss Iran"
 2009: Nominierung vom Crystal Simorgh vom 28. Fajr International Film Festival für den besten Sound Mix & Editing für den Film "Bidari-e Royaha"
 2015: Nominierung vom Crystal Simorgh zum 33. Fajr International Film Festival für den besten Sound Mix & Editing für den Film "I Am Diego Maradona"

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Tip Two--Have Role Models
How do you become the musician you've always wanted to be? Of course there's the old Practice Practice Practice route. You've heard that before. But are there some hidden strategies that can make you better, besides putting all those hours in the wood shed?
Last time we talked about cultivating enthusiasm. Today the secret is...have a role model.
Sure you want to be a good piano (or something else) player. But that's a pretty vague goal. Here's a more targeted goal: Who do you want to sound like?
Pick a person, and start striving.
Hopefully you're not going to choose Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson if you're a beginner. Their stuff is really hard to approach. But there's got to be someone out there whose piano stylings resonate with you. I cannot tell you who to pick. But I can give you an example from my own life.
I was in my early twenties, fresh out of college, when I decided to learn to play piano. (No, music was not my major in college.) I happened to have a chance meeting with a guy who played bass in a band that was playing regularly, once a week, in Berkeley, California. It was a six piece western swing outfit that had a piano player. At the time I had no idea what western swing was. But I immediately fell in love with the sound the band had and found myself coming to their gigs every Thursday night at the Longbranch Saloon on San Pablo Ave.
I loved the sound of the piano player so much that I decided I wanted to learn how to play like him. Yes, I found a role model. So one evening during a break I introduced myself to the guy and asked if he gave lessons. The answer was no.
OK. So I asked him again the following week. Same response. And then I asked again and again until he finally relented. I showed up for the first lesson. He gave me a book of Hanon exercises to play. I thought he was pretty sure I wouldn't show up the following week.
But I did. And I kept coming back every week for a year, until the band finally moved to Austin, Texas to find their fame and fortune. So I had my mentor in Floyd. I was his only student for one year, and I had one year to find out everything I could from him during that time.
Over that period I acquired several role models to emulate. The first, I believe, was Jerry Lee Lewis. You could spend a lifetime learning to play like Jerry Lee perfectly, but his music was simple enough to understand and to try and mimick. Sometimes it was just three chords per song. At least that's what it was in his early rock n roll days.
I soaked up all those old rock n roll songs from a Jerry Lee Greatest Hits LP, with guidance from Floyd. Then I bought everything by him that I could lay my hands on. By then Jerry Lee was doing mostly country. OK, so now we had songs with four or five chords. But I voraciously devoured the music. I listened to the recordings morning, noon, and night.
I played along with them. I asked Floyd how to do certain stuff, and figured out certain stuff on my own. But I'm positive that just by listening to the records, some of Jerry Lee's playing style crept into my playing style.
Months later in a similar fashion I latched on to the music of Count Basie. It would be folly to imagine that I could acquire Basie's technique (chops) in my first year. But after buying tons of Basie records and soaking them up, I was starting to pick up his nuances a little bit. A few months later I got to see the Count and his orchestra in person with special guest Ella Fitzgerald. Wow. Even more incentive.
As an interesting side light, my teacher's band recorded a Count Basie song on their second album and Floyd picked up his first Grammy Award for his effort.
So on it went. I've had a lot of these role-model/mentors over the years. Some of whom really influenced my playing. Others (such as Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson) I've listened to a LOT and unfortunately never picked up anything from. (Or if I did, it's subtle. Very subtle).
But whether or not you learn directly from your CD mentors, just surrounding yourself with the music as much as possible can give you some incentive to hit the piano every day and dare to play along. And if you're playing, you're learning.
So who do you want to sound like? Whoever it is, try to soak up as much of that one artist as you can. Listen, listen, listen. Get ahold of the charts to their songs, and spend equal amounts of time learning from the paper and learning just by listening to what they play. At the end of the day, all of us use the same basic chords, chord progressions, forms, rhythms, and melodic structures. It's all learnable. It's just that learning by listening can be a lot more fun than from sheet music. Try it.
Loved your suggestion about selecting a role model. JLL is a totally awesome role model and has been one of mine forever. Floyd Cramer is also the greatest....and your Cramer Chords have been so helpful!!! Now if I could only play like JLL-- I've enjoyed all the various books and CD's and DVD I've received from you. THANKS!!! CR


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One of King Herod's most glorious remaining palaces.
On top of a mountain on the edge of the Judean Desert, King Herod built a summer palace where he wanted to be buried. This architectural marvel continues to inspire and stun visitors today with its beauty, which remains from the first century BCE. Herodium contains a complex with the ruins of the palace, a large pool, bath house, remains of Herod's tomb, a small theatre, towers and escape tunnels. Although King Herod was a ruthless ruler, he is responsible for many of Israel's greatest ancient works of architecture. Guided tours are available in Hebrew on Fridays, and English tours can be booked in advance for Saturdays.
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Mera peak is one of the most popular trekking peaks in Nepal. The walk from Lukla through the Sherpa regions of the remote Inkhu valley is an unforgettable experience. This peak is located south of Everest in the Hinku valley and is relatively easier to climb than most other peaks. You will witness superb scenery and abundant wildlife, possibly catching a glimpse of the legendary yeti. It takes about six days to reach base camp where climbers stay for two nights. From there, the climb takes about three to four days, depending on weather conditions. Although the climb is not technically difficult, it requires a strong physical condition and good mountaineering skills. Climbing Mera peak requires mountaineering skills and a special permit from the Nepal Mountaineering Association.


September 20, 2017 0 comments on "Digital India Calling – Easy E-Payments by NPCI"
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is an important body for all retail payment systems in India, which aims to allow all Indian citizens to have open access to e-payment services. It was founded in 2008 and is a not-for-profit organization registered under section 8 of the Companies Act 2013. The organization is owned by a group of major banks and has been promoted by the Reserve Bank of India.
NPCI, during its journey for last over eight years, has made a significant impact on the retail payment systems in the country. The Company is focused on bringing innovations in the retail payment systems through the use of technology for achieving greater efficiency in operations and widening the reach of payment systems.
RuPay is an Indian domestic card scheme launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It was created to have a domestic and multilateral system of payments in India. In India, 90 per cent of credit card transactions and almost all debit card transactions are domestic; however, the cost of transactions was high due to monopoly of foreign gateways like Visa and Mastercard. RuPay enables electronic payment at all Indian banks and financial institutions. RuPay cards are accepted at all automated teller machines (ATMs) across India under National Financial Switch. In addition to the ATMs and PoS terminals, RuPay cards are accepted online on most domestic payment gateways with the same PIN which they use for ATM transactions. To enable this, RuPay has certified 29 major banks in India to accept the RuPay card at their respective PoS terminals located at different merchant locations.
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is a Mobile App developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payment Interface (UPI). It was launched by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, in New Delhi on 30 December 2016. It has been named after Dr. Bhimrao R. Ambedkar and is intended to facilitate e-payments directly through banks as part of the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation and drive towards cashless transactions. The app supports all Indian banks which use that platform, which is built over the Immediate Payment Service infrastructure and allows the user to instantly transfer money between bank accounts of any two parties. It can be used on all mobile devices. BHIM allow users to send or receive money to or from UPI payment addresses, or to non-UPI based accounts (by scanning a QR code with account number and IFSC code or MMID (Mobile Money Identifier) Code).
Unlike mobile wallets (PayTM, MobiKwik, mPesa, Airtel Money etc) which hold money, the BHIM App is only a transfer mechanism, which transfers money between different bank accounts. Transactions on BHIM are nearly instantaneous and can be done 24/7 including weekends and bank holidays.
BHIM also allows users to check the current balance in their bank accounts and to choose which account to use for conducting transactions, although only one can be active at any time. Users can create their own QR code for a fixed amount of money, which is helpful in merchant — seller — buyer transactions. Users can also have more than one payment address.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a payment system propelled by National Payments Corporation of India and regulated by the Reserve Bank of India which facilitates the instant fund transfer between two bank accounts on the mobile platform. UPI is built over Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) for transferring funds using Virtual Payment Address (a unique ID provided by the bank), Account Number with IFS Code, Mobile Number with MMID (Mobile Money Identifier), Aadhaar Number, or a one-time use Virtual ID. An MPIN (Mobile banking Personal Identification number) is required to confirm each payment.
UPI is also being provided as a USSD service. Users could access the service by dialing the code *99#. The various services provided are categorized as follows: Financial Services, Fund Transfer, Send Money, Request Money, Non-financial services, Balance Enquiry, Change MPIN, etc.


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Q: How long does it take to change xlarge AMI to large AMI?
I created an AWS/EC2 Instance based on Instance ID i-44f81021, which is an EC2 Instance Type
M3 Extra Large (m3.xlarge).
How long should it normally take to reduce the EC2 Instance Type to m3.large?
Thanks,
Ron.
P.S.: the Change instance type from m3.xlarge to m1.large notification is already shown for 30 minutes, and it's still declaring "Working".

A: usually changing instance type wont take much time ,for me its taking hardly 2-3 seconds .

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Why Healthy And Balanced Diet Is Important For Our Body?
The "keto" in a ketogenic diet comes from the fact that it makes the body produce small fuel molecules called "ketones".This is an alternative fuel for the body, used when blood sugar (glucose) is in short supply. Ketones are produced if you eat very few carbs(that are quickly broken into blood sugar) and only moderate amounts of protein (excess protein can also be converted to blood sugar).
Ketones are produced in the liver , from fat. They are then used as fuel throughout the body, including the brain. The brain is ahungry organ that consumes lots of energy everyday and it cannot run on fat directly. It can only run on glucose..or ketones.
On a ketogenic diet your entire body switches its fuel supply to run almost entirely on fat. Insulin levels become very low and fat burning increases dramatically. It becomes easy to acess your fat stores to burn them off. This is obviously great if you are trying to lose weight, but there are also other less obvious benefits, like for example less hunger and a steady supply of energy.
When the body produces ketones it is said to be in ketosis.The fastest way to get there is by fasting-not eating anything-but obviously it is not possible to fast forever. a ketogenic diet, on the other hand, can be eaten indefinitely and also results in ketosis. It has many of the benefits of fasting-including weight loss-without having to fast.
Ketogenic diets increase levels of HDL(good cholesterol) and also lower tryglyceride levels in the blood which are major risk factors in heart disease.
When you eat a low carbohydrates and high fat diet your blood sugar levels reduce dramatically as does the insulin you produce to deal with it. On high carb diets many people develop a condition called insulin resistance, ketogenic diets have been shown to reverse this. There is eveidence to suggest ketogenic diets can reverse Type 2 diabetes.
A properly implemented ketogenic diet has the added benefit of curbing hunger pangs through its unique action in suppressing the hunger hormone ghrelin. Hunger is by far the biggest obstacle in most weight reduction diet plans.
Not only do you experience the dramatic weight loss in the first few weeks of a ketogenic diet, but you will also see a constant steady loss of fat thereafter due to the appetite suppressing and muscle sparing factors of a ketogenic diet.
The ketogenic diet has been used for a century in treating epilepsy, more than 50% of people treated see a reduction in seizures and over 15% become completely seizure free. It is also being studied as a treatment for Alzheimers, Parkinsons Disease, Bi -polar and more.
It is no secret if you feel a child sugary treats and beverages that you can expect a degree of hyper behaviou and mood swings followed by a sudden crash. This is no different with adults .Though by the time a person has aged somewhat the physical aspect of this spike has turned purely mental. No such thing on a keto diet.
Fat has the benefit of giving our bodies a longer lasting and sustained energy than that of carbhydrates. This is probably have turned to a higher fat lower carb way of eating to fuel thier bodies.
The key to start a new habit successfully is doing everything that you can do within your power, with active mind and dedication to reduce your weight by following a ketogenic diet.
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More on Affordable Care Act and did you know Congress-folk will participate in exchanges too?
Last week I looked at the timeline for the Affordable Care Act and focused only on the year in which the Act became law: 2010. Now here's a look at what has happened since, and what's to come in the years ahead.
-2011. Beginning on Jan. 1 last year, seniors who reached the prescriptions coverage gap on their drugs began receiving a 50 percent discount when buying Medicare Part D covered brand name drugs. Additional savings on brand name and generic drugs will go on until 2020 when that coverage gap is closed.
Last year also saw the beginning of some free preventive services, like annual wellness visits, for those on Medicare.
-2014. On Jan. 1, Affordable Care Insurance Exchanges will begin. These exchanges were created to offer insurance to employees whose employers, and to individuals, as well. Bigger still, members of Congress will receive their health care insurance through these exchanges, too.
Also beginning on day one of 2014, individuals who can't afford to pay for basic health insurance must pay a fee. There are, however, exemptions to that fee, i.e. penalty.
Plus, beginning in this year the law that prohibits new plans and existing group plans from placing annual dollar limits on the amount of coverage a person receives begins. And, insurance companies will no longer be able to refuse covering an individual because of any pre-existing health conditions or charge higher rates based on gender.
And, the second phase of the small business tax credit for small businesses and small non-profit organizations begins. Those tax credits for small business can amount to as much as 50 percent for an employer's contributions to provide health insurance to their employees and 35 percent for small non-profits.
-2015. Physicians will see payments to them based on their quality of care and not volume of care.
Ongoing, the Act will continue to crack down on health care fraud and waste found in any Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP programs and services.
The Timeline source in this blog was:healthcare.gov/law/timeline/.


Mexico: Tulum, Chichen-Itza and Campeche (8th to 13th February) | I should have turned left!
Tulum It took me 3 seconds in Mexico to realise that when a Mexican says ''no it is not hot spicy at all'' that it will blow the roof of my mouth clean through the top of my head. DAMN the food is spicy 🙂 However the food is soooooo good that even I am enjoying the milder (not as head blowing) spicy food. I have also discovered the non spicy food like Chicken breast in Mango sauce ohhh yum.
The other thing about Mexico is that it is a tad chilly. I have finally reached the northern hemisphere winter and was wondering when that would happen and how cold it would be. However when I say chilly, I mean a slight chill in the air especially in the early mornings but NOTHING like any winter I've ever experienced. In fact generally the temperatures are just great especially for riding, gone are those hot sweaty days when I need to drink 3 litres of water just to keep sane.
My first stop in Mexico was Tulum and it's a nice place. Somewhat touristy but not over the top. The beaches are lovely and the Tulum Mayan runes nice but a little crowded. I only stayed 2 nights just enough time to see the runes and beachs and eat some good food.
Cake and coffee on the beach, what more could I want?
Chichen-Itza Next I headed to Chichen-Itza one of the most famous Mayan rune site with one of the largest Mayan pyramids. I loved seeing this place as I just love seeing ancient runes, however I have to say it pales in comparison to Tikal in Guatemala. One of the reasons is that Tikal is in the jungle and has very few visitors so it kind of feels a little Indiana Jonesy. It is easy to go find a rune in the jungle with no people on it to explore at your leisure. The runes at Chichen-itza are in great condition but all roped off which makes sense due the number of visitors. So there is no climbing on or exploring the runes. The place is also packed with vendors selling tourist trinkets, they are however very friendly and not pushy or abusive like those at the Egyptian pyramids so it is not at all unpleasant. The town of Chichen-itza itself is not worth seeing so I only stayed one night as I arrived early enough to go see the Mayan runes in the afternoon. I did also however find time to go see the Ik Kil Cenote which is stunning. I was staying very close to it and sine I arrived in Chichen-Itze very early I decided to stop off before going to the hotel. What a good idea as I arrived before the large tourist buses. There must have been about 15 people there already but as I left 2 large tourist buses and 3 mini vans just pulled up. I am not quite sure how they all fit in the Cenote but guess they must regulate how many people can swim at once. The Cenotes in the Yucatan region of are amazing and there are hundreds of them and hundreds of Mayan runes. It was quite amusing to see a couple right in the middle of the motorway they literally just build the road around them.
Campeche So far I am really enjoying Mexico, the sites, the people and the food. The roads are in very good condition and there is not much traffic, well in the Yucatan region that is. After Chichen-itza I headed to the Gulf of Mexico to a town called Campeche which is a UNESCO heritage site and just lovely. The whole town in painted in vibrant colours and it is just a pleasant place to visit, also touristy but not at all overcrowded or unpleasant.
The street dogs in Latin America break my heart and I want to take them all home. This little girl nearly got a forever home from me, but I could not catch her. She was so young she had clearly not had a litter yet and she was so scared and limping. It really broke my heart to leave her.
Heading towards Palenque after Campeche I rode along the coast and had one of those amazing riding days where I remembered why I do this. I just love the feeling / experience / adventure of going from one interesting / exotic place to another on my motorbike. Seeing the people and villages along the way and how the scenery changes. I had such a super cool experience riding along the coast right alongside a pelican for quite a few seconds. I cannot begin to describe how awesome this was. I kept on having to remind myself to look at the road, which was fortunately dead straight. Once I passed one pelican I'd come across another flying level with my bike it was something surreal and I felt like I was in a commercial or something as it felt just too good to be true … only it wasn't. It was one of those stand on the foot pegs and punch the sky moments.
I have never seen so many pelicans in one place in my life as in the small fishing village of Champoton. It's days like this that make me feel happy, wonderful and just downright alive.


Home › Thoughts and Perspectives › Summer 2018 Class Pictures!
This summer has been so much fun and so, so very busy. I ended up teaching three classes that I had never taught before. I had some of the best classes and students I've ever had. Teaching (and the accompanying learning) is an absolutely joy. Nothing would have made my summer more enjoyable.
What good looking kids, and a good looking professor as well!


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RPMI Limited
People Director
RPMI Limited is a subsidiary of Railways Pension Trustee Company Ltd, which is the Trustee Company of the Railways Pension Scheme (RPS), serving around 350,000 members, who are either current or former railway workers. RPMI provides tailored administration solutions for a diverse range of pension schemes and benefit structures. RPS has c.£30bn in assets. RPMI has a complex governance structure comprising: a Main Board; a Board of Trustees; and RPMI Railpen (Railpen Investments - responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around RPS assets). Main Board membership comprises an Independent Non-Executive Chairman, four Trustee-nominated Non-Executive Directors, and four Executive Directors (Chief Executive, the Managing Directors for Investments and Benefits, and the Chief Finance Officer).
We trust Warren Partners and we know they are excellent at what they do. They also have a particular ability to find excellent diverse candidates and that was a priority for us.
RPMI was seeking to appoint a second Independent Non-Executives Director to join the Main Board; and with the possibility of the individual Chairing one of the Boards Committees. The brief was deliberately wide ranging, tailored to attract individuals with experience in three primary areas, namely: digital/technology and/or reward schemes; and/or business transformation programmes. As an employer, RPMI operates with strong values at the core of everything they do. Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) in all aspects of its business are fundamental to delivering their mission. Their biggest challenge remains unchanged - to increase the number of women at more senior levels in RPMI in an industry that has historically been male-dominated. Building and maintaining a reputation as a great place to work is critical to RPMI for attracting and retaining talent from a broad demographic. ED&I was therefore high on the search mandate's agenda.
Warren Partners presented a shortlist comprising four individuals with developing plural careers; each with significant previous (Executive/Non-Executive) transformation experience delivered through either digital or people agendas. All four individuals offered a choice of diversity; all four individuals were considered appointable by RMPIs selection panel(s).
Mark Martin, People Director at RPMI commented further on Warren Partners' work with RPMI:
"Warren Partners, and Rupert Gibb in particular, have led our last two Board appointments. We know the world is changing and therefore our demand was for more than just the skills and experience required in the role. We also needed the right people, the right leaders and greater diversity, including diversity of thought. They helped us find an outstanding Chair of our Railpen Investment Board and as a result we trusted them to recruit our latest iNED. We trust Warren Partners and we know they are excellent at what they do. They also have a particular ability to find excellent diverse candidates and that was a priority for us. They did such a great job that all four candidates on the short list were women. To find four such talented candidates in our industry that were both the best available and also interested in the Railpen opportunity, was an outstanding job by Warren partners. I could not recommend them more strongly."
Our team operates across a broad range of sectors, with a depth of market expertise in the major sectors listed below:
Business Services covers a wide and diverse range of industries; here at Warren Partners our executive recruitment team focuses their expertise on partnering with clients who specialise in outsourcing, business process management and integrated support service provision.
Energy, Mining & Utilities
Warren Partners' Energy and Utilities team has experience of working with FTSE 100 organisations through to Private Equity backed start-ups to find the very best talent both within the sector and across complementary markets.
Our expertise in executive and non-executive director recruitment and delivering Board Review services within the retail financial services sector extends across retail banking, with a particular depth of experience in working with challenger banks and mutuals, to general and life insurance, asset and wealth management.
The industrial executive search team at Warren Partners truly understands the mix of skills, both professional and behavioural, that leaders need in order to thrive. Indeed our team thrives on recruiting the very best talent in the sector, to meet the needs of our industrial clients.
Our ability to access the very best talent for this complex and socially aware sector, has led to a particularly strong track record for delivering executive and non-executive recruitment and board review to membership and not for profit based organisations.
Whether the solution is pure search or proactive talent pipeline development our expertise spans management consulting, legal services, accountancy, strategy and outsourcing.
Retail, Consumer & Leisure
We have a long track record of working with leading UK and international retailers, FMCG and e-commerce companies in addition to serving the global travel, leisure and sport sectors. Our team thrives on identifying, staying connected to and accessing the very best talent for our clients.
At Warren Partners, we understand how to win the highly competitive war for talent in this dynamic market; moving swiftly to identify and attract talented and gifted executive and non-executive directors.
We work in partnership with our transport and infrastructure clients, offering leadership counsel to help shape and deliver executive recruitment, as well as board reviews and specific coaching needs.


The year 2015 is going to be a year of endless opportunities. It's a year of change. I know it has been said the year before and the year before that. But this time it's true because I had a dream when I was visiting my mistress.
Unlike other companies which focus on thinking we will focus on rethinking. 2015 is all about rethinking. Rethinking the strategy. Rethinking the rethought strategy. Rethinking the rethought rethought strategy. But it's also about rethinking email signatures. Rethinking the menus in the canteen. Rethinking the trousers we wear to work. Rethinking is like going in circles but in a positive way.
As your CFIO it is my duty to rethink by example. Hence I'm going to rethink this email and get back to you after my lunch break.


Maybe it is time to give your dining room a fresh look, it is spring and soon will come the summer after all, the seasons of change! Modern Dining Tables is here to tell you about the easiest and coolest summer trends to follow, from the colors to the finishes.
Artisan textures always make your room design a bit cosier! On your dining area, a bit of natural wood and handmade accessories will bring a fresh vibe, very casual and relaxed.
Ice cream color palette is my favourite trend to follow! Change your furniture, paint your walls, choose the perfect ice cream color palette and go for it! Ice cream rose and mint are the most used colors but you can go for yellow or orange, be bold! It is fancy, modern, perfect for your dining area design.
Metallic accents are always a trend but they are stronger this summer. With rose gold and dusty silver, this seems like a nice choice for your contemporary interior design. It is modern, elegant and easy to find on furniture and accessories. Brings class and sophistication to any room!
Retro touches is a trend coming back strong. Usually it fits more the industrial style, but now people are going mad looking for the perfect retro piece to give their dining design a bit of uniqueness and feel nostalgic about it. You may find that vintage and retro look on artwork, lighting pieces, furniture.
Go tropical! Tropical accessories are the super trend for 2018! Use bold and strong colors on your walls and complete the look with tropical patterns, on your ceramics, cushions, blankets, glasses, nevermind where, just go tropical!


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Manchester graduate raisies awareness about rare esophageal disorder
Eric Poston Eric Poston IndeOnline.com correspondent @ericposton
NEW FRANKLIN Paige Mobley has had her fair shares of ups and downs over the past 10 years.
When Mobley was 10-years-old, she was diagnosed with a rare esophageal disorder known as Achalasia. The disease causes the upper and lower esophageal sphincter muscles to no longer function correctly. There also is a loss of all peristalsis or motility after swallowing.
Mobley, a 2016 graduate of Manchester High School, first came down with an illness when she was 10. At first, it was thought to just be an eating disorder.
"The symptoms were very reflective of that of an eating disorder so needless to say I was misdiagnosed many times over before they finally gave me the Achalasia diagnosis," Mobley said.
She had an upper GI done, which confirmed she had Achalasia. Going through school with this disorder was a challenge for her because it is so rare she couldn't relate to anyone else going through it.
Mobley said she would often eat a certain food early in the week only to throw that same food up later in the week. She has been to three different hospitals in Ohio having several different surgeries. Her first surgery only lasted a year when she was told it would last 10 years.
When she was 14, she spent 21 days in the intensive care unit and had four surgeries in three weeks. Her family didn't know if she would survive and after being bedridden for so long she had to teach herself how to walk and function again.
She said Achalasia is like an invisible disease and those suffering from it are often overlooked.
Some of the procedures she has had during the last 10 years include upper endoscopies, dilations, two Heller Myotomies, two fundoplications and has been placed on many different medications.
One of the most frustrating aspects is knowing the surgeries are only temporary relief Mobley said.
Most recently in May, Mobley took a major last resort step having an esophagectomy performed. During this procedure, the esophagus is removed and then the stomach is pulled up to reconstruct the digestive system. This is a common surgery utilized for those with esophageal cancers.
Before this surgery, she said her esophagus was three to five times the size as normal. Also, her esophagus was dead and no longer had functional use.
Soft diets and liquid diets were very common for her but now she is starting to eat meat again and is expected to be able to have a full diet by Thanksgiving.
"The last 11 years eating and the social part of my life has been a struggle," Mobley said.
Doctors believe how she got Achalasia may have something to do with when she had scarlet fever when she was two-years-old. There is no permanent cure to the disease, but she is thankful to be doing better.
Mobley's mother, Allyson, said it has been a challenge to get through all of this.
"To see your kid go through this and struggle is so hard," Allyson Mobley said.
Facebook has been a great tool, Mobley said. She started a support group on Facebook in 2018 where she has been sharing her journey and also helping those dealing with the same disease.
She and her mother said they cannot thank the community enough for all the support.
"The saying it takes a village to raise a child is so true," Allyson Mobley said. "And that village has been very good."
Through her Facebook group, she has met several people in her community who have the same disorder as her or a very similar disorder. Mobley said a woman from Cuyahoga Falls found her page who has the same disorder and Mobley was able to direct her toward the doctor she sees to help her.
"I want people to learn about the disease since it is so rare and understand the extent of what those who fight it have to go through," Mobley said.
Her group on Facebook is called Paige's Patriots and has 649 members, some of whom are in Germany and South Korea.
Mobley has been attending Ohio State University, which some of her classes she had to do from home at her computer because of her illness. She plans to return to campus this fall and will graduate with a degree in Speech-Language Pathology following the fall semester.
In the future, she hopes to continue to spread awareness as she would like to speak publicly about her disease and help others in need. She is also considering in the future starting a scholarship for seniors at Manchester or a non-profit type organization.


I had breast cancer 17 years ago. I had a complete hysterectomy 1 yr ago and feel I need HRT. Can I use hormone therapy because of the past cancer?
I am in Tulsa, Ok 74119, can you reccomend a Dr?
Thank you for your inquiry. Bioidentical HRT can still be an option, even if you do have a history of breast cancer. We usually give the doctor referral names out during the consultation part of the Patient Empowerment Program, which I will send you at the end of this note. Please keep in mind we can often times make a recommendation that you can present to your current physician, and have ordered from our pharmacy. We can also arrange saliva testing if that is needed to determine hormone levels, which can be covered by certain insurance policies for only a copay.
To learn more about how we can possibly help you get started on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and feel better through our "Patient Empowerment Program" click here http://www.bpharmacysolutions.com/hormone/overview.asp or post this in your web browser. We provide physician referrals, as part of our program.
The patient empowerment program is a full in-depth consultation with a consultant pharmacist whereby we evaluate your symptoms, lab work of your hormones (if performed), and any other pertinent laboratory results via phone consult. We then make an assessment and write a clinical consult note that includes recommendations for natural bioidentical hormones that you can provide to your doctor.
To participate in the "Patient Empowerment Program", please fill out the women's history consultation form which can be located from the link above or directly at the following link http://www.bpharmacysolutions.com/hormone/patienthistory.asp and you will be contacted by one of our consultant pharmacists within 2 business days to set up a consultation. Alternatively, to get started you may call 1-800-728-0288 and request to schedule a consultation with one of our pharmacists.


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