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The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study
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Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner
A serious difficulty in determining the importance of credit constraints in education arises because standard data sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This has forced researchers to adopt a variety of indirect approaches. This paper differentiates itself from previous work by taking a direct approach for providing evidence about this issue which is made possible by unique longitudinal data that have been collected specifically for this type of purpose. Our results suggest that, while credit constraints likely play an important role in the drop-out decisions of some students, the large majority of attrition of students from low income families should be primarily attributed to reasons other than credit constraints.
Todd R. Stinebrickner & Ralph Stinebrickner, 2007. "The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study," NBER Working Papers 13340, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Ralph Stinebrickner & Todd Stinebrickner, 2008. "The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision: A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(5), pages 2163-2184, December.
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The gizzard or crop may become impacted with litter, grass, string etc. The normal function of the gizzard is to aid in the physical grinding of food materials, to reduce their particle size to aid digestion. Gizzard activity also acts as a pacemaker of intestinal activity and controls the speed at which food is passed to the small intestine.
Most young commercial poultry consume feeds that have a small particle size. Older birds ingest grit to facilitate the grinding activity in the gizzard.
This condition usually affects only a small number of birds, however if young chicks to do not begin to eat feed properly they often consume litter instead. Impacted gizzards are then found in 'non-starter' type chicks or poults. Grit would not be classed as a foreign body, however sometimes free-range poultry consume large stones, and birds of any age can consume nails, staples etc. This usually happens after maintenance activities have been carred out in the housing.
The gizzard is more firm than normal and, and on opening is found to contain a mass of fibrous material. This may extend into the proventriculus and on into the duodeunum.
A foreign body may be found in the interior of the gizzard.
Nails commonly penetrate the lining of the gizzard, and may penetrate the body wall.
None effective in young birds. Obvious non-starters should be culled in this situation.
Good brooding management to encourage early adaptation to the diet and adequate consumption of feed and water. Daily monitoring of the crop-fill is a useful procedure. It allows us to confirm the proportion of chicks consuming feed and can give inexperienced poultry keepers feedback on the effectiveness of their brooding management.
Sweep floors after maintenance activities to remove nails and other potentially dangerous foreign bodies.


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Technology Stock News: GBT's (OTCPK: $GTCH) Wireless Motion Detection System Patent Received Issue Notification
The Intelligent Motion Detection Technology Patent Expected to be Granted on April 12, 2022; Patent #11,302,032
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Q: How to check entries in a column for patterns and calculate the number of patterns? I have a DataFrame:
         Name         Price
0        Dictionary     3
1        Book           4
2        Dict En-Ru     2
3        BookforKids    6
4        Dict FR-CHN    1

I need a piece of code that will check the column 'Name' for patterns that I can specify myself and will count the number of founded patterns in another DataFrame.
For instance, check the number of entries in the 'Name' column with the patterns Dict an Book ignoring the case should give this result:
|  Pattern    | Occurencies |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| Dict        | 3           |
| Book        | 2           |

A: Here's one way using str.extract:
patterns = ['Dict','Book']
df.Name.str.extract(rf"({'|'.join(patterns)})", expand=False).value_counts()

Dict    3
Book    2
Name: 0, dtype: int64

You can make it case insensitive with the flags argument:
patterns_lower = '|'.join([s.lower() for s in patterns])
(df.Name.str.lower().str.extract(rf"({patterns_lower})", expand=False)
        .value_counts())

A: You can define your pattern as a custom function:
# example
def get_pattern(txt):
   if 'Dict' in txt:
       return 'Dict'
   if 'Book' in txt:
       return 'Book'

   return np.nan

Then you apply in your dataframe and use value counts:
df['Pattern'] = df['Name'].apply(get_pattern)
df['Pattern'].value_counts()

Dict    3
Book    2
dtype: int64

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Arthur Linwood Stevenson, 1891-1987
Arthur Linwood Stevenson was born on September 25, 1891 at Cobb's Station, Northampton County, Virginia, to Thomas Edward and Mary Brickhouse Stevenson. At his birth his mother prayed that he would feel the call to ministry. Attending Salem Church with his family, he early heard this call. His mother studied with him, encouraged and inspired him. Setting high goals, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Randolph-Macon College in 1912, Bachelor of Divinity from Vanderbilt in 1914, Master of Sociology at Duke in 1928, and did graduate work at the University of North Carolina. At Vanderbilt he met and married Mary B. Peebles, a student at the Missionary Training School. A woman of great faith, she inspired and strengthened his ministry. The children followed their footsteps, the daughters marrying ministers and the son becoming a minister.
Admitted to the Virginia conference in 1914, A.L. Stevenson served his church with devotion and distinction. Charges included Wachapreague-Dorchester, Allen, Buckingham, Orange, Appomattox, Kenbridge, Crozet, Tappahannock, Montross, Scottsville. He was a man of liberal faith, deep convictions, superb self-discipline, dedicated to a broad spectrum of ministry -- the ministry of all of life. Arthur loved his family, considered life an adventure and problems a challenge, all people as important. He was characterized by rare ambition, remarkable vitality, and keen insights. He also exhibited rare business acumen.
From 1929-1935 he was financial secretary of the Children's Home Society of Virginia. Challenged to help churches with bUilding plans and financial goals, he was instrumental in building Tappahannock Memorial Church. From 1949-1958 he traveled the United States directing financial campaigns for the General Board of Church Extension. Believing that money has great power for good, he established the annual Stevenson Holy Land Travel/Study Award at Randolph-Macon College. He donated a foyer at Smith's Grove Church, Dinwiddie County; a stained glass window at Washington Street Church, Petersburg; a historical highway marker for Salem Church; and aided family members.
After retirement, he reveled in family gatherings and avocations. An avid gardener, he had three gardens yearly -- two in Florida and one in North Carolina. He became a world traveller, mingling with the people, using local transportation rather than planned tours. He gave travel lectures to civic clubs and published travelogs. An author, he wrote "The Story of Southern Hymnology," "Native Methodist Preachers of Virginia" series, and "The Story of the Stevensons."
A.L. Stevenson died on February 24, 1987, second in seniority among the ministers of the Virginia conference. His funeral was conducted at Washington Street Church, Petersburg by the Rev. E.C. Priddy, the Rev. Floyd Carroll, and the Rev. Hudson T. Hornsby. Interment was in Southlawn Cemetery.
He is survived by Mrs. Claude Collins, Charleston, W. Va.; the Rev. Linwood Stevenson, Margate, Fla.; Mrs. J. W. Stonebraker, Riverdale, Ga.; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Arthur Stevenson could have said with the Apostle Paul: "I have fought the good fight... I have finished my course... I have kept the faith."
-- Elizabeth Stevenson Collins


The Australian Department of Education have reported that childcare centres are seeing a rise in enrolments. The biggest growth can be seen in the Australian Capital Territories, where federal government figures show a meteoric rise of almost 70 per cent since 2003.
The government report, published in 2014, states that more than 23,000 children were enrolled in childcare in the ACT as of September 2013. Compare this to six years previously when the figure showed fewer than 14,000 enrolled children and the size and speed of the growth comes into perspective.
Nationally, the number has also risen, with nearly 40 per cent more children now being entrusted to childcare services.
The skyrocketing numbers have led to a reduction in the amount of hours parents are using childcare services for, however. Service hours fell by 7 per cent between 2007 and 2013, showing that parents, although responsive to the offerings of childcare, perhaps found it difficult to fund.
What childcare centres don't want is irregular income as more families find it difficult to afford their services. It is important for childcare centres to adapt when they can, and using simpler and smoother method of income control is a good option to benefit parents and business.
Setting your business up with direct debit integration has many benefits. Here are three ways it can improve the running of childcare centres and future-proof their business.
If the Department of Education statistics show anything, it is that those working in childcare services have a constantly growing workload and less time to dedicate to chasing income. By integrating direct debit for business purposes, childcare centres can save precious time that they can put to better use elsewhere.
Direct debit services offer a hassle free way of receiving a steady flow of income that can be managed online in one location.
By encouraging parents to use an automated payment method, mangers are not chasing individual payments, leaving them the time to care for children and continue to improve their overall service.
There is no greater trust than someone putting their child's welfare into another person's hands. Childcare is a personal service, usually established in localised communities, so it is not uncommon for childcare professionals to get to know their customers on a more personal level.
How awkward it can be, then, to chase a parent you have a good relationship with for late payment? In reality, one of the main reasons a parent may need childcare services is that they have a busy schedule. For that reason, managers may find it difficult to get in contact with parents for any overdue payments, causing an organisational nightmare of sticky notes and payment spreadsheets.
Direct debit eliminates the concern. What's more, it makes keeping track of your income easy, so you can reduce your own payment stress.
Setting up a direct debit is incredibly easy. Parents complete a direct debit form and after authorisation of a credit card, debit card, or bank account, payment will begin to flow.
What makes a direct debit service so constructive to small business is the flexibility of how those funds can be used and managed. Payments can be transferred into a bank account on a daily basis, meaning managers can plan for an increase in funds when it is most necessary.
With Ezidebit, users also have 24-hour online access to their account seven days a week. Meanwhile, daily reporting ensures centres remain in complete control of their income.
As employment figures rise, childcare becomes more necessary. As child enrolment figures rise, the necessity for childcare centres to adopt a sustainable cash flow method becomes more and more important. Find out today how Ezidebit can help your business adapt.


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Is my puppy happy, angry, scared or sad?
Donna Coutts, August 20, 2020 6:45PM
media_cameraA new app called happy Pets uses AI to report the breed of your dog or cat and the likely emotions it is experiencing. Picture: iStock
A new app uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tell you what your pet is thinking.
It's called Happy Pets and it analyses an animal's facial features, tells you what breed it is and indicates which of the five most common animal emotions — happy, angry, neutral*, sad and scared — it is feeling.
The free app, which launched this week, works on Apple iOS or Google Android.
It was developed by a team including Professor Uwe Aickelin, Yunjie Jia, Pei-Yun Sun and Rio Susanto who work in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Victoria.
The Happy Pets app uses AI, or machine learning. It's technology that's used for vision in robotics and self-driving cars and it works by taking in images and assigning* importance to them.
One common use for AI is in facial recognition technology. Many of us can unlock our mobile phones with an image of our face and it's an important part of security processes in, for instance, airports.
But this is the first time this kind of technology has been used for animals.
The researchers had to teach the technology to recognise that an image was an animal — instead of, for instance, a blueberry muffin.
It then had to learn to recognise facial features. This is complicated because photos can be taken in so many different ways: from the side, above, below, in bright light. And different animals can have such different facial features. Think about how different the snouts of a border collie and a bulldog are, for instance.
media_cameraThe technology had to first learn that this was a dog and then to detect emotions based on facial features associated with each emotion. Picture: Victoria Nielsen
Once the AI behind Happy Pets had learned all this, it then had to be able to detect emotions based on specific facial features that are associated with each emotion, which it has learnt from thousands of examples. For instance, if a dog tightens its eyes and mouth while changing the position of its ears in a particular way, it's a sign of being scared.
media_cameraKids News tried the Happy Pets app with this photo of a cat. The app suggested the cat was 95 per cent unsettled and there was 0 per cent chance it was happy.
Scientists know that human faces tell us a lot about what someone is feeling or thinking — that facial expressions are an important part of human communication.
They also know that some emotions (like happiness, fear or surprise) seem to have biologically 'hardwired' human expressions that are consistent across ethnicities* and societies, rather than being learnt.
How accurate are the results?
In an online article for Melbourne University's Pursuit, the researchers write they're happy with how the app performs.
"Well, we think they are pretty solid (results), having extensively tested the app, but you should judge for yourself," the researchers wrote.
"At the moment, we only have a limited number of breeds available, so if yours isn't there, it might get approximated* to the nearest one."
media_cameraTwo dogs taking a selfie. The Happy Pets app will work best if a human takes a photo of just one pet at a time — a dog or a cat — to analyse.
TESTING THE APP
The Kids News team tested Happy Pets.
We used both photos from the internet and those we took of animals we know.
As expected, it didn't recognise a photo we took of a lamb — it's not designed to recognise sheep, only cats and dogs.
We took a photo of a border collie dog we know very well and we were pretty sure was happy at the time. The app was 100 per cent certain it was a border collie and 71 per cent certain it was happy.
We also tried a photo of a cat from the internet and the app correctly identified that it was a cat and the breed (Egyptian Mau) and was 75 per cent certain it was scared. As we don't know the cat, we can't know if this was accurate.
The researchers would love feedback about how they could develop the app further. There are contact details in the About section of the app.
neutral: neither one nor the other: good nor bad, fast nor slow, happy nor sad
assigning: allocating to a particular group
ethnicities: groups of people that have a common national or cultural tradition
approximated: was similar to something else
Body language study translates dog talk
Real reason we have eyebrows
Posties using whistles to keep dogs away
Pigs are here to help
Siba the standard poodle named best in show
Name the five common animal emotions.
What is AI?
Describe how a dog's face could look if it is scared?
What might happen if the app hasn't yet learnt about your breed of dog?
What dog breed did Kids News use to test the app?
1. Pet's Point of View
Imagine that you are a pet dog (or cat, or sheep!). Write a story for Pets News. Your headline is: 'Is Happy Pet a Good Thing for Us?'
Time: allow 30 minutes to complete this activity.
Curriculum Links: English, Science
What other features do you think the app developers could include to make Happy Pets even better and more helpful for pet owners?
Time: allow at least 20 minutes to complete this activity
Curriculum Links: English, Science, Design and Technologies
Aside from this, there is also this!
Brackets are a great literacy tool for adding aside comments, or comments that could be covered over and the sentence still makes sense. What's inside the brackets is extra information.
They can be used for a variety of effects: to add more detail, to add humour, to connect with the reader etc.
My little brother, (the funniest kid I know) got himself into big trouble today.
Select 3 sentences from the article to add an aside comment to using brackets. Think about not only what you want to add to the sentence, but also what effect you are trying to create.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Without an app, describe how you judge an animal's emotions.
Extra Reading in technology
Mystery object spied on the moon
3D printer pumps out a pizza
Robotic bird feet designed for drones
Fibs all over your face


Rather than detaining individuals and holding them at the border until proper security screening measures are completed, Canada simply RELEASES THESE MIGRANTS INTO THE COMMUNITY. Even if they're found to be INADMISSIBLE, it's incredibly difficult to make them leave.
How is it that jihadi Justin has not personally greeted his illegals at the borders. Why hasn't he given the illegals the same treatment as he gave to legal immigrants?
Justin Trudeau knows that he broke the law by bringing illegals without due process therefore, he doesn't want to look bad so he stays far away from his illegals.
BTW, the legal immigrants you see Justin greeting were already process by the previous conservative government.
Imagine you inviting guests into your home and left them to their own devices while you welcomed those who broke in into your house at the back door.
why are we bringing in people from Afghanistan & Pakistan. they still have cases of polio there. why are bringing their diseases here??? are they paying for their immunization???? ….. or do we have to pay for that too …..


Starting from today, the price of our licenses decreases significantly; in these first months of sales we have spoken with many of you, we tested different solutions and received tons of feedbacks. The enthusiasm you showed us is overwhelming and drives us to do better, starting from the price: making the software more accessible is part of this process. Our aim is to enable you to produce digital books more interactive, more beautiful and engaging; we would like digital books to be accessible to all, on any platform even from visually impaired to autistic children. We want more quality at a lower price; we like challenges.
It's a long journey, we want to make it together with you.
Paolo brings his extensive knowledge of the publishing industry and leads the team making sure everyone adhere to the company's vision. Before co-founding PubCoder Paolo was a Partner at H-Farm Ventures, and spent more than 11 years in senior roles within the Espresso Group, one of the the biggest media companies in Italy. Among others, he was the general manager for the Radio and TV business, and CFO of Kataweb, the group's Internet unit. He is also investor in a few startups: Timbuktù, MiSiedo, Responsa, Henable, Curious Hat, Conversa.


Advocates say with no valid preventative legislation, greyhounds have no protection from drugging and the state can't hold offenders accountable.
An administrative law judge ruled Friday that Florida's regulations for drug testing racing greyhounds are invalid.
It's a concerning development for greyhound advocates, because racing dogs throughout the country have tested positive for drugs like cocaine metabolites and anabolic steroids.
With no valid preventative legislation on the books, greyhounds have no protection from drugging, and Florida has no mechanism for holding offending trainers accountable, according to Carey Theil, executive director of the nonprofit greyhound protection organization GREY2K USA.
"It's now the Wild West," Theil said.
The ruling stems from a case where two greyhound trainers, Charles McClellan and Natasha Nemeth, had their licenses suspended because dogs in their care allegedly tested positive for illicit substances.
Instead of arguing the results of the drug tests, the trainers instead argued the enforcing body — the Department of Business and Professional Regulation Division of Para-Mutuel Wagering — was using drug testing protocols from a 2010 manual that were never formally adopted or approved.
It was an easy argument to make, because another trainer, Robert Dawson, had successfully made the same case a few years before. As a result of Dawson's case, an administrative law judge barred Florida officials from using the manual in early 2015.
Nevertheless, the DPBR has continued to use the manual's policies and procedures with no significant alterations for nearly the past three years, the judge determined.
On Friday, Administrative Law Judge, Lawrence P. Stevenson, issued an order invalidating any post-Dawson DBPR actions that were based on the barred manual or its policies.
Theil fears the ruling means McClellan and Nemeth — who Grey2K reports were cited for a combined 24 greyhound cocaine metabolite positives at a Jacksonville-area dog track in 2016 and 2017 — and other trainers accused of doping their dogs will face no consequences for their alleged violations.
"It's a bad ruling — a little bureaucratic and a little boring — but the implications are huge," Theil said. "...This is an invitation to corruption."
Theil said in addition to the health risks drugs cause in greyhounds, the absence of valid rules opens up the greyhound industry to race-fixing. He said his hope is that the DBPR will adopt emergency rules to protect dogs and gamblers, and the agency would quickly work toward developing a new testing regimen.
The popularity of greyhound racing has waned over the decades, and where greyhound tracks once dotted the nation, they are now mostly concentrated in Florida. According to data from the National Greyhound Association, 12 of the 16 active tracks are in the Sunshine State.
Currently, a proposed amendment that would ban greyhound racing in Florida is working its way through the Constitution Revision Commission, an appointed body with the authority to place amendments directly on the 2018 ballot.
The proposed amendment was co-endorsed by current CRC member and former Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, who along with his wife, Vicki, has been a longtime advocate for greyhounds.


Imagine being in a high-pressure profession in which you're encouraged to put other people's well-being above your own, are required to have a near-perfect success rate, and any mistakes you make could literally kill someone. And if the stress gets to be too much, you're expected to push it aside and get on with your day.
This experience is the reality for many physicians.
While stress and burnout among medical practitioners were once swept under the rug, this attitude has been changing recently, thanks to a strong industry outcry. As a result, many organizations are rethinking their approach to physician health and well-being.
One of these organizations is Indiana University (IU) Health Physicians, an Indianapolis-based healthcare group serving 33,000 employees and 18 hospitals across the state. WellRight recently spoke with Tammy Smith, director of Healthy Results, the organization's employee wellness program, and Mandy Bates, IU Health Physicians' vice president of human resources, to learn how they're tackling mental health and employee wellness head on.
Q: How prevalent is burnout in the physician community?
TS: Burnout has long been identified as a problem among physicians and is currently at epidemic levels. Most physicians aren't taught about stress management or personal resiliency during medical school or their formal training. So concepts like mindfulness, deep breathing, and cognitive reframing of toxic thoughts may be foreign to them.
Physicians also experience a significant amount of organizational stress, especially when it comes to fitting in many patients daily and managing patient records and new technology. Electronic medical records (EMRs) make it seem like charting should become easier for physicians, but in some ways, it's become more complicated and time-consuming. The burden of charting has increased significantly, with practitioners expected to track more and more data. It's made the EMR a significant contributor to burnout because physicians have had to work after hours to complete all required documentation.
The leadership of IU Health Physicians recently began watching physician burnout, using the Mayo Clinic Well-being Index to establish burnout baselines and track how the numbers are improving as changes are implemented.
In the process of research, the leadership group learned that several factors contribute to physician burnout, such as organizational, cultural, and government regulation. Only a small portion is related to personal resiliency, but it's vital to address both when looking at solutions. Personal resiliency and self-care are important, because it's the part individuals can control.
MB: We've seen an uptick in physician turnover of two basis points in the last four years. While we're still below the national benchmark, we've been moving in the wrong direction. Although not all of this turnover is due to burnout, some of it is. And it's an issue we need to address.
Q: What are you doing to help people take control over these feelings of stress and burnout?
MB: To tackle the burnout ascribed to organizational and environmental stress, we've put together a Practice Improvement Team—our PIT Crew—that's working on improving overall efficiency of our practice. We're trying to improve the flow of patients through our clinics, and our system IT team is working to improve the efficiency of EMRs. Our goal is to reduce the work hours and workload of our physician teams while increasing their efficiency.
To help accomplish this, we're monitoring on-site work activity and also what we call "pajama time," or the time physicians spend on the EMR outside normal business hours. For example, we often see a spike in EMR activity between 9-11 p.m. during the week and again on Saturday night. What we want to do is drive down both total EMR time and pajama time.
And while we're working on improving efficiencies and workflow, Tammy and her team are working on self-care.
TS: We've launched a pilot program that addresses self-care and resiliency in two important ways.
First, we're focusing on decreasing isolation. Researchers discovered physicians tend to be very isolated—they don't often have a lot of time to collaborate with others and get support from their peers. So, we've been working with the EAP (IU Health Employee Assistance Program) to develop workshops that start with a 30-minute lunch to facilitate interaction among physicians. We follow that lunch with an interactive workshop that engages participants in an experience while also teaching them resiliency skills.
Second, we're teaching employees what resources they have access to within the workplace. Sometimes, it can be hard to know where to find support or to understand what health coaches or EAP counselors do. So, we developed an intranet page that is dedicated to provider well-being and links to resources.
Q: Tell us what IU Health Physicians does to better serve physicians.
TS: We use health coaches, a variety of programs, and biometric screenings. We've developed and run a variety of wellness challenges—including challenges on gratitude, sleep, and knowing your strengths—running at either the system or the departmental level.
Many of these challenges have been for physical health, but we also realize emotional health and well-being is very important, especially for physicians.
Because we understand there's sometimes still a stigma around the topic of mental well-being, we added a mental well-being app, and we only receive aggregate data on participation. Thanks to this confidentiality, we hope participants will feel more comfortable about exploring sensitive topics like burnout, depression, and suicide.
We also believe it's really important for wellness partners to collaborate across the system and deliver webinars from experts on topics like depression, anxiety resilience, and mindfulness. That's why we've been working closely with the IU Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to build on mindfulness resources. We also have a great resource here at IU Methodist: John Shepard. He's a registered nurse who's gained a lot of traction with his work on mindfulness and using meditation to build focus and friendship. In 2017, John was even honored as nurse of the year in structural enhancement by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Q: Is there a reason you chose to offer this program to only physician providers rather than to everyone in IU Health?
TS: For physicians in this competitive field, being a workaholic is almost a badge of honor. These physicians have had to work very hard to get where they are, and admitting they're burned out could be viewed as a weakness. There's also the mistaken view that physicians never fail, so any perceived failure can be a hit to their reputation and self-esteem.
But we do hope to expand the program to other care givers in the future.
Q: What feedback have you received on the pilot program?
TS: Nearly 40 physicians have attended the lunch and workshop so far, and they've given us positive feedback and are willing to recommend the workshops to their colleagues. They're coming away with new skills they can apply in their lives.
We've also seen improvement in the Mayo Clinic Well-Being Index scores, which leads us to believe we're addressing the right issues.
Q: What are other ways organizations can tackle physicians' mental well-being and burnout?
TS: As concern grows over physician burnout, leaders are tackling the issue from multiple angles, like efficiency of practice, self-care, resiliency, the culture of wellness, and environment.
So, for example, we talked about the stress associated with EMRs. IU Health leaders are looking at ways to make the charting process more efficient and reduce the time needed to spend on updating records.
Managers have also begun examining ways to increase collaboration and reduce isolation and administrative work, which once again circles back to the time being spent on EMRs.
Q: How does IU Health's approach differ from the way other organizations address mental well-being issues?
TS: Many of them focus solely on the 20 percent of things the employee can control. Every little bit helps, of course, but if your organization doesn't address what's within that 80 percent, your improvement is going to be marginal at best. Employers simply have to get feedback from employees about what's happening in these other areas of the business and how the context of the workplace is affecting personal resiliency.
Access is also huge. It doesn't matter how many amazing wellness resources you have at an employee's disposal—if employees can't find them or don't know they're available to them, those resources might as well not exist at all.
Employers simply have to get feedback from employees about what's happening in these other areas of the business and how the context of the workplace is affecting personal resiliency.
Q: What have been the results of this program?
MB: We measure results by department, and I meet with each of our 20 departments quarterly to discuss their metrics and to see how we can better support them.
For the physicians who have used our coaches, they're spending an average of 5 minutes less in the EMR per patient—which is a big improvement.
We've also reduced our burnout numbers by 27 basis points since starting our program—and that's a great accomplishment. But we're not done yet.
Q: How do you plan to improve upon the program?
TS: We've found the best way to identify areas of improvement is to ask the participants what else they need from us. We're their sounding board to pass their ideas and suggestions to a larger committee.
We've already identified a need to increase opportunities for collegiality. Even though we've built some of that in already, physicians are definitely looking for ways to socialize and collaborate more.
MB: We're all trying to identify the things that will make a difference. We want to figure out how to return the joy back to the practice of medicine. We need to find ways to reverse the statistics about how much time a physician spends on administrative duties versus direct patient care.
We know that we'll drive more successes by improving our work environment, improving the workplace culture, and having support and resources available.
Q: What advice can you offer organizations that are experiencing similar struggles?
MB: Don't sweep it under the rug. As an employer, you have a duty and a responsibility to pay attention to your employees' well-being. Develop a strategy for engaging physicians in conversations about what really matters to them. Find ways to improve efficiency, teach resiliency tools, and improve the culture of well-being.
And really, just listen. When our physicians know that we really hear them and that we're working on their issues, that's the start of big change.
Work and personal stress can have a significant impact on any employee's health and performance, regardless of the industry they're in. On Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, at noon CST, Laurie Warren and WellRight will discuss lifestyle choices and tactics for managing stress and will explore teaching stress resilience to employees. It's a free webinar you won't want to miss, so register today.


Sound Canada Magazine, 1975. This is a free sample issue to entice new readers. I don't know how long it lasted! Deep Purple Mk 4 photo on cover.
Special Spanish poster magazine devoted to Deep Purple Mk 4. The exact date is not known, it may be 1975 or 1976.


No time and yet I feel I need to record somethings here, and I am finding that I am adapting.
Politically if you are cynical which I am not, but enough are, they will suspect Heng played it safe, make no big mistakes so that he can be PM. I prefer to think the better of him. When things are clearer the measures will take advantage of those insights. As usual I wished we were more able at comprehending what is developing in the world today.


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My 14 year old nephew LOVES video games. He would rather play them than eat. (This is NOT an exaggeration) So,…where could he apply his skills when he grows up while still receiving a nice paycheck? The military of course! I spent 4 years in the Army and am better for it. I'm looking forward to showing him this video so he can have something to refer to when people say "You can't make a living by playing video games!". Uh…yeah…you can.
We have all seen the UAV drone videos, but you never get to see who is behind the control and what is going on. All of it is controlled from Nevada. In this simulation they demonstrate their ability to control dozens of these units at the same time. The video looks almost all real except for the explosion at the end, I always thought the military video simulation looked pretty weak compared to more modern PC games but this one looks good. These Controllers are non-pilots but they are each flying a drone thousands of miles away in the combat zone. This mess is awesome!


The Kontakt 5 Pack is our top of the range pack on offer for this kit. It is designed exclusively to work in the latest version of the full version of Kontakt 5 (not Kontakt Player) and comes with the Drumdrops Kontakt instrument. The instrument provides the user with absolute control over each of the mics with the inbuilt mixer. It allows you to add convolution reverbs that have been sampled from a variety of the studios and outboard we use. To increase the realism of the overall sound we have included multiple round robin samples and included a randomisation tool. On each channel there is a 4 band equalizer and transient master and the stereo buss comes with its own buss compressor making this a great production tool. The instrument also includes a great 8 channel step sequencer, a collection of MIDI grooves and a new mic blend features for controlling each mic. The instrument also ships with MIDI templates for V-drum compatability.
We have included convolution reverbs of four studios - The Ironworks, Sofa Sound, The Garden Studios, the Square and the Pool in London where the kit was recorded. We have also included convolutions of some of our favourite reverbs found in the studios we use. Included convolution reverbs are - an EMT 262 Plate, AKG BX-20 Spring Reverb, EMT 240 Plate, Fairchild 659A Spring. A Grampian 636 Spring, an Orban 106C Spring and the Fisher K-10 Space Expander Spring. These wonderful old units will enhance the overall sound of the kit even further.
For added realism on top of the round robin samples that have been added you can also manipulate subtle parts of the sound to make the drums sound really life like. We have included around 6800 samples to reduce this risk but the randomisations make it even harder to tell that there is not a real drummer in your studio. You can vary the tuning, velocity, timing and EQ and also dictate how much each control can be varied.
Here you can control the mix between the microphones on each channel. You can vary the amount of the close microphone with the overheads and room microphones. This gives you even more flexibility to change the sound of each drum. On the snare drum on this kit you can also change the mix of the top and bottom microphones. Even each cymbal can have the balance of the overhead and room microphones changed.
So if you want to cut the snare and kick completely out of the overheads and rooms but keep them on the Toms and cymbals you can. This is a great feature which will help you change the sound of the kit over and over again.
The Slingerland Kit ships with a number of mix presets included. A number of engineers have saved their own mixes of the kit which you can access by using 'load preset'. This is a great starting point if you want to quickly and easily get a different sounding kit and tweak it. You can save your own mixes using the 'Save Preset' button. Why not save your own mixes and email us the preset? If we like what we hear we may add your preset to the kit.
There are 1500 MIDI loops included in the Groove Player that are taken from various grooves played by a variety of Drumdrops drummers and cover three different time signatures and a range of tempos. Double click a file from within the Groove player and press the play button to audition loops. The groove player can work in either stand-alone mode or can be synced to your DAW. Your selected loop can be exported directly from the "Selected Groove" box onto a track of your DAW to be used immediately in your current session.
Also included in the Drumdrops Kontakt instrument is a step sequencer. The sequencer has eight channels allowing any eight of the articulations of the Slingerland Kit to be selected and played. The sequencer contains 32 steps for each channel and clicking on a certain step in the sequencer window allows you to draw in a trigger. You can adjust the velocity of the trigger and adjust how often it will trigger. There is also a move function which will move the sequence randomly back or forth and a groove delay feature that allows you to delay each of the 32 steps in you sequence. Combining all of these features together means that the sequencer becomes much more than a straight forward sequence player but really allows the user to create moving, fluid, ever-changing drum patterns quite effortlessly. The Sequencer can be played in stand-alone mode or synced to your DAW and your patterns can be saved and reloaded at a later stage. This is a great step sequencer.
To activate this pack an activation code will be dropped into your online Drumrops account when you purchase the pack. You will need to enter the activation code and then save the NKI as a new default NKI and then continue. This activation process will have to happen for both the full version and lite version.
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Q: Print Probabilities from CoreNLP Pipeline I'm aware of the functionality of using printProbs from a classifier to print the probabilities that a particular token is a particular ner type. However, how can I access the CRFClassifier used by the CoreNLP pipeline in the bottom code to actually call the printProb method?
    // create an empty Annotation just with the given text
    Annotation document = new Annotation(text);

    // run all Annotators on this text
    pipeline.annotate(document);

A: One possible approach I would say is to have your own custom ner annotator which resembles very closely the CRFClassifier and add that to your pipeline instead of ner. So basically start with a copy of that code and then from within there you can access the CRFClassifier methods which contain the cliques and the probabilities

A: One could also use reflection (hahaha)
NERCombinerAnnotator nerAnnotator = (NERCombinerAnnotator) StanfordCoreNLP.getExistingAnnotator(Annotator.STANFORD_NER);
Field field = nerAnnotator.getClass().getDeclaredField("ner");
field.setAccessible(true);
NERClassifierCombiner classifier = (NERClassifierCombiner) field.get(nerAnnotator);
Field field2 = ner.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredField("baseClassifiers");
field2.setAccessible(true);
// one of these will be the CRFClassifier used
List baseClassifiers = (List) field2.get(ner);

You should also realize that a number of the usual reflection exceptions could be raised using this code.


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Ice Sheet
jb November 8, 2014 DailyLife, Photography, Seascapes
The rising tide as it spread across the rockshelf at Long Reef.
Cattle Jetty
jb July 29, 2014 Black and White, Seascapes, Travel
The remains of the Cattle Jetty built in 1879 to land cattle at the Quarantine station can still be seen today at Observatory Point with the Point Nepean National Park. Point Nepean played an important role in the early settlement, quarantine and defence of Victoria.
In the Wash
jb February 9, 2014 Photography, Seascapes
The golden glow of a sunset at Fishermans Bay in Port Stephens, NSW.
jb July 20, 2013 Black and White, Photography, Seascapes
A sunrise shoot at Forresters Beach. There was too much cloud cover to let the morning sun light up the sky, but this little rock caught my attention.
Weekends Await
jb July 19, 2013 Seascapes
jb July 11, 2013 Black and White, Seascapes


Hi everyone! Time for another newsletter. I'd planned to write about something else, but this came out instead.
I'm putting together a writing course for people who want to write but find it difficult to get started. More details to come, but feel free to send me an email if you have any questions or would like to know more now.
Words don't care what you look like. Words don't care what you wear, where you come from, your age or your job. Words don't care if you don't have a diploma. Words don't care if you do.
Words don't care if you're sad, happy, bored, excited, curious, lazy, studious, energetic, laid-back, loud, quiet, scared or mean. Words don't care if you were rude to a stranger or if you were nice to your kids, or the other way around. Words don't care if you think you're a good person, a bad person or somewhere in between.
Words don't care what other people think of you.
Words have a pretty carefree existence. All they want is for us to write them down. If you don't feel like writing at the moment, then the words will stay on your mind, patiently going round and round in your head, until you're ready to get them out.
Words don't mind being moved around and rearranged. They don't even mind being erased or crossed out – words know that they'll simply be placed somewhere else when the time is right.
Sometimes, people ask me to write something for them, or ask me to help them with something they've written. Words are my bread and butter.
You can use words to do anything you want. Want to go to another planet? You're there. Want to go back in time? Done. Want to tell the world how you truly feel? You can. Want to reach someone on the other side of the world? Easy. Want to reach lots of people all over the world? Go online and it'll happen in a flash.
Words bring you comfort; words bring you joy. Words can destroy you. Words can ruin your day. Words are weapons and shields and the stuffed toy you had as a child that was your whole world.
Arrange words in the right way and you can accomplish miracles.
I was asked recently if I could think of a moment when everything flowed; when I was so engrossed in what I was doing that time didn't fly by, it stood still. My answer was immediate – yes, when I'm writing. When I'm immersed in words, time does more than stand still. Time doesn't even exist.
We can lose ourselves in writing because words will always be there for us. Because there are so many words that we will never run out of them. Because there is so much for us to say. Because words will make sure we never truly lost and that we will always find our way home.
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A new study from Accenture looked at corporate board members serving on over 500 companies pulled from Forbes Global 2000 and found that women were nearly twice as likely to have a professional tech background than their male counterparts.
Tech savvy is one of many factors that go into selecting for positions of corporate prominence, but it is one that will dramatically increase in importance over time. And women are ahead of their peers.
"As technology disrupts virtually every industry, companies need to think more broadly about the type of skills and experience needed for their boards, including getting more technology acumen into the boardroom," Accenture chief marketing and communications officer Roxanne Taylor told Fortune in a statement.
Interestingly, tech experience at c-suite level was pretty low on the whole: only 10 percent of all board members had professional experience in a key tech position, such as chief technology officer, chief information officer, or chief digital officer. On boards within the tech industry, the figure was higher, naturally, with 51 percent of women and 37 percent of men having worked in such positions.
Boards in the U.S. featured higher percentages of members with tech experience than the worldwide average but remained consistent with global trends on gender balance — women bring greater tech chops to the table. Canada was the only country where male board members had more professional tech experience than female board members.
The report indicates that women — who fill only 18 percent of board positions at Fortune 1000 companies according to 2020 Women On Boards — may be held to higher standards of tech experience within the selection process. While women remain underrepresented in the tech industry in general and face significant gender-specific obstacles breaking into careers in STEM, the fact that they're bringing more tech experience to the boardroom may also be a sign of the narrowing gender gap associated with digital fluency.


Historical UFOs, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio.
In ancient Greece the leader Timoleone, according to Diodoro Siculo, in 343 BC he saw a flying torch on a cruise ship between Corinth and Sicily.
Some Latin authors have reported news of artifacts clipping ardentes in the skies of the territory of ancient Rome, including that in Apulia in 217 BC. and that which occurred in Tarquinia in 100 BC Other alleged UFO sightings were reported in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Annales Laurissenses reports that 776, during the reign of Charlemagne, appeared in the sky of Sigiburg (now Hohensyburg) two fire red shields. Among the sightings of the sixteenth century are the celestial phenomena of Nuremberg in 1561 and the celestial phenomenon of Basel in 1566.
On August 12, 1883, professor and astronomer José A. Bonilla at the Zacatecas station in Mexico reported that he had observed a long and long formation of opaque objects lurking between his telescope and the disk of the sun. The photograph taken by the scholar is considered by the asserts of the existence of flying objects as the first photographic testimony of history.
The spaceships are a kind of historical anticipation of the phenomenon that only from the 1950s will be commonly called "UFOs". Some sightings of alleged flying ships were reported towards the end of the nineteenth century across the west coast of the United States of America. Many spaceships were in all probability straightforward, but some doubts were not loosened. Also other parts of the world were spotted by other unidentified flying boats at certain times: after the US spaceships, the most famous case is that of the late 19th century ghost aeronautics of Scandinavia.
Already during the Second World War there are several testimonies of allied military aircraft pilots claiming to have been flying in flight by strange light phenomena, initially exchanged for hypothetical enemy secret weapons. These optical objects or phenomena, unknowingly revealed and nicknamed "Foo fighters" by the pilots, as well as manifest behaviors that can be traced back to some (non-human intelligence forms), often showed incredible speed and amazing maneuvers, to the limits of physical, impossible laws for pilots of the time.
Battle of Los Angeles: At the end of February 1942, there were several airborne alarms in the skies of California, which were attributed to Japanese planes. At the end of the war it was known that the Japanese had not launched any attacks. False alarms were explained with meteorological sightings, but some UFOs suspect that it could be extraterrestrial vehicles.
Ghost Rockets: In 1946, many rocket-shaped objects were scanned in Skies of Scandinavia. It was hypothesized that it could be meteor or experimental rockets launched by the Soviet Union. The hypothesis that could be extraterrestrial vehicles was also advanced.
Modern UFO was born on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold, a wealthy US businessman, said he saw nine fleet-like objects hovering in tight formation near Mount Rainier, without identifying them, without identifying them. State of Washington. This sighting brought the UFO phenomenon to the attention of world public opinion, giving rise to the popular phenomenon of ufology.
In the weeks following Kenneth Arnold's sighting, there were numerous UFO sightings in the United States. These include the sighting of the July 4th by the sailor Frank Ryman, who made the first official UFO photo and the 7 July sighting by Vernon Baird, who, accustomed to being followed by a flying object disk shape, he made his plane fly out of sight and saw the UFO lose its share and plummet. The search on the ground made by Bozeman's air base did not find anything.
On July 8, 1947, the local Roswell Daily Record reported that the 509th Bomber Group announced in Roswell in New Mexico that it had recovered a (flying) fly. The famous Roswell case was born, where an UFO crashed to the ground and the recovered parts would be taken to Wright Patterson's air base.
UFO's first UFO sighting occurred on January 7, 1948, when at 14 in Maysville (Kentucky) dozens of people saw a circular object that emitted a red light over the city. From the Fort Knox military airport, a team of P-51 fighter jets led by Captain Thomas Mantell to chase the object. However, the aircraft did not have oxygen and Mantell, who pursued the object to a high altitude, was reportedly a victim of the maneuver after the official version of the report that he was in front of a huge metal object.
On July 24, 1948, in Alabama, two commercial pilots saw an UFO passing close by from their plane. The case was studied by investigators of the Sign Project.
On October 1, 1948, pilot George Gorman spotted an UFO above the skies of Fargo and conducted an airplane track without being able to reach it. The case was studied by investigators of the Sign Project.
It is considered one of the first sightings after the postwar period outside the American territory. On October 15, 1948, a US night fighter Black Widow was flying on the island of Kyūshū in Japan at a height of about 1500 meters. At 23.05 on the Fukuoka sky the radar picked up the echo of an object, about 8 km away. Hunting increased the speed to reach it, but the object did the same and disappeared. After a while it reappeared again on the radar and the plane made a new attempt to intercept it, but unnecessarily. The object reappeared for the third time on the radar, but this time it was also seen by the pilot, who in the light of the full moon could see that it had a length between 6 and 9 meters and a cylindrical shape with the truncated tail. The object disappeared and reappeared three more times, while the hunt tried unnecessarily to pursue it. After the sixth and last attempt to intercept, the unknown object accelerated to a speed estimated by the pilot of about 1900 km / h and disappeared in 15 seconds. The sighting lasted for a total of 10 minutes. Ground radar stations, unlike radar radars, did not detect anything. The case was studied under the Sign Project and was classified as (unexplained). Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, director of the Blue Book Project, later said that this was one of the first instances where an UFO was detected by a radar.
Between 1948 and 1951, in the sky of some states of the South of the United States (especially New Mexico and Arizona), green bullets were spotted, much larger than normal meteors and unusual color. It was hypothesized that it could be unknown natural phenomena, secret weapons or extraterrestrial vehicles.
Audited in 1951 in Lubbock, he had extensive publicity. It is considered one of the first massive UFO sighting cases that occurred in the United States. Named Lubbock sighting.
In July 1952 a series of UFO sightings took place in the sky of the United States capital. Called Washington Carousel.
On August 16, 1954, on the town of Antananarivo in Madagascar. It is considered one of the first collective sightings outside of America and Europe. Named Antananarivo sighting.
Arrived in Greenland on August 28, 1954 by the crew of a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, which on the Prins Christians Strait saw in the sky 3-4 dark-colored, lens-shaped objects flying in formation. Witnesses reported that the objects changed position by turning north. The case was studied by the Blue Book Project and classified as (unpublished). Named the Prins Christians.
In the fall of 1954 numerous UFO sightings occurred, which occurred mainly in Europe. The nation most concerned was France. There were also several sightings in Italy, including the famous sighting of Florence.
In September 1957, a Brazilian journalist received an envelope containing a letter and three pieces of metal. The author of the letter, who appeared as a newspaper reader without revealing his name, stated that he had witnessed an UFO explosion over Ubatuba's beach and had collected three metal fragments, which he had sent to the newspaper together with letter. One of the samples was analyzed by some Brazilian laboratories, which came to the conclusion that it was made of pure magnesium. Since at that time the technology still did not produce pure magnesium, we hypothesized an extraterrestrial origin of metallic fragments.
This sighting took place in January 1958 by the crew of a Brazilian Navy ship. Named Trindade's sight.
This sighting, also known as Father Gill's sighting, took place on June 26, 1959 in the Papua and New Guinea Territories and witnessed the Anglican priest Father William Gill. For UFO Jacques Vallée is one of the greatest classics in UFO sighting history.
In 1964, in New Mexico, by a policeman, sighting was being investigated by the Blue Book Project.
In July 1965, Argentine technicians saw a large disk-shaped UFO on the Deception Island in Antarctica. Two photographs of the object were taken. The object was also observed by Chilean meteorologists located in the same island. In the following months, other sightings were reported in the same area.
It is a alleged UFO crash that would take place on December 9, 1965 in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Named Kecksburg incident.
Happened in April 1966 by students and teachers at a school located in a suburb of Melbourne. It is one of the best-known collective sightings in Australia. Named Westall School sighting.
An alleged UFO crash occurred on October 4, 1967 at Shag Harbor, a fishing village in Nova Scotia. This is one of the best-known cases of UFOs in Canada. Named Shag Harbor incident.
An alleged UFO crash occurred on October 4, 1967 at Shag Harbor, a fishing village in Nova Scotia.
In 1969, the future US President Jimmy Carter, while serving for Georgia as governor, saw an UFO at Leary as he was attending a Lions Club conference.
On June 30, 1973, the supersonic Concorde performed a flight in Africa with scientific aims aimed at observing a solar eclipse; on that occasion in the heavens of Chad was observed by astronomers aboard the aircraft an unknown object, which was photographed.
An alleged UFO crash that would take place on January 23, 1974 in Great Britain, in particular on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, North Wales. Named Berwyn Mountain incident.
On September 19, 1976, in the sky of the capital of Iran, it is considered one of the most documented military sightings in the history of the ufology. Named the sight of Tehran.
One of UFO's videos, considered by the most significant ufologists, is a film dating back to the 1970s, where the first flights of the supersonic Concorde passenger aircraft were produced, produced by British Aerospace along with the Aerospatiale. The film, which resumed a Concorde of British Airways flying in southern England, was shot in June 1976 for promotional purposes. In a sequence you can notice a small moving blade at the height of the wing attachment: the quality of the film is low and has several defects; the same object is small and unobtrusive, but a fairly circular and light color is distinguished and at some point disappears because it is covered by the plane. According to some ufologists, this would be an object of unknown origin with a metallic surface approaching the airplane from the right side, then floating around the cabin as you want to (peep) inside, then rotating around the plane , as if he was doing a scan, indicated by experts as a maneuver impossible even for today's aircraft, to support this hypothesis.
In October 1978, young pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared while in flight with a tourist plane after announcing that he had sighted an UFO behind his plane.
In December 1978, a series of UFO sightings occurred in New Zealand. The sighting of December 30 saw the star of a plane on which was a television crew, who made a movie. Named Kaikoura lights.
Verified on August 27, 1979 in Minnesota and involved Val Johnson, Marshal County vice sheriff. Named Marshall County Crash.
Involved a forest guard, who reported that on November 9, 1979, during a patrol tour, had a meeting with a UFO landed in the forests of the Livingston area in Scotland.
On November 11, 1979, he involved a scheduled airplane, forcing him to carry out an emergency landing at the Valencia airport at Manises. It is considered the most famous sighting UFO event in Spain.
A series of inexplicable observations and a supposed landing of unknown aircraft in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk (England) at the end of December 1980, just off the Woodbridge RAF base, currently used by US Air Force. Dozens of USAF people were eyewitnesses of various events over a two to three-day period. Some ufologists believe that it is perhaps the most famous UFO event in Great Britain. Named the Rendlesham Forest Incident.
In January 1981, a farmer reported having seen an UFO landing in his property near Trans-en-Provence, France. The case is reported because it is one of the few instances where an UFO would leave physical traces on the ground. Named Trans-en-Provence sighting.
A alleged UFO crash that would take place on January 29, 1986 in the Soviet Union in the Russian RSSF. Named Dalnegorsk's incident.
Arrived in November 1986 in the heavens of Alaska by the crew of a Japanese cargo plane. Named Japan Airlines Flight 1628.
From the end of 1989 to the middle of 1991, some 3,500 UFO sightings were recorded in Belgium. Most of the sightings were concentrated between November 1989 and April 1990. Named (Belgian wave) 1989-1991.
On August 24, 1990, at about 20:30 in the city of Greifswald, in East Germany, 7 Y-shaped lights were spotted in the sky, moving slowly. The phenomenon lasted half an hour and was seen by hundreds of people, including technicians at the nearby nuclear power plant; photographs and movie clips were taken. Called Greifswald sighting.
A complex UFO case occurred in Brazil in 1996 involving a UFO sighting, alleged UFO crash and some alleged close-ups with extraterrestrials; there were voices in the city about the capture of some humanoids by the Brazilian Army, but there is no evidence of this and these rumors are judged as a metropolis legend. UFO Kevin Randle wrote that (this case is as complicated as anyone else in the UFO field).
Verified in Phoenix on March 13, 1997, it is considered one of the sightings with the largest number of documented testimonies. Named Phoenix sighting.
On March 5, 2004, a Mexican military aircraft plane spotted some UFOs in the skies of Ciudad del Carmen, in the state of Campeche.
A series of four UFO sightings at Tinley Park near Chicago in 2004, 2005 and 2006. On the evening of August 21, 2004, October 31, 2004, October 1, 2005 and October 31, 2006, three spherical and color lights from the red to the red orange, which were arranged in a triangle and moved slowly into the night sky without making any noise. Named Tinley Park lights.
A series of four UFO sightings at Tinley Park near Chicago in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
On the evening of January 5, 2009, between 8:15 and 9:00, five lights were seen in the sky of Morris County, New Jersey, with sightings concentrated in the cities of Morristown, Morris Plains, Madison, Hanover and Florham Park . The case was widely reported by newspapers and televisions.
On July 7, 2010, Hangzhou-Xiaoshan Airport, located near Hangzhou City in the People's Republic of China, was closed for a few hours following a UFO sighting at 9:00 pm by pilots of two planes. The news was given by the New China Agency. An investigation was opened on the case.
According to astronomer Carl Sagan, exobiology scholar and former consultant of the Blue Book Project, the UFO problem should be tackled with scientific skepticism, avoiding the extremes of those who accept the letter any report on the UFOs and those who refuse even to consider the " arguing that it is anti-scientific to deal with it. The scientist has seriously examined the available UFO documentation, noting first of all that the variety of UFO-related events suggests that they do not have a common origin and that this category is grouped without any relationship between them. The pioneer of deep psychology Carl Gustav Jung has dealt with the UFO phenomenon many times in his writings and in particular in the famous essay A modern myth: the things that are seen in the sky, interpreting them as unconscious psychic representations linked to events of collective relevance.
Another very debated issue among ufologists is the supposed cover-up or burial operation which, according to various authors of ufology, would have been systematically implemented since the 1950s by the military and government authorities of different states ( and in particular the United States), with the will to hide the alleged reality on sightings to the public. These ideas have been found in a plot theory that has some variants depending on the authors.
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I've spent several days this week talking to kids about writing and story. What makes a great story? Why is revision so important? How do we capture the good stuff and convey it as a word picture for the benefit of others?
It's no wonder that while continuing my reading of G.K. Chesterton, his thoughts on story pulled me in.
Recently, a friend of mine attended a play that left her feeling unsatisfied. It didn't bring the resolve she was expecting. Not that we should always expect a happy resolve, but there seems to be something deep within us that yearns for a satisfying conclusion.
I believe these things are all connected, and Chesterton brings home the point. We, like he, experience life as a story. We are all, by our nature, storytellers. We can't help ourselves. Stories are in everything. Music tells a story. So does a painting. And a photograph. "A picture says a thousand words." Indeed.
We are a people of story, and this life is our great drama. And within the Christian life is a promise that our story will be like the stories we know and love. Yes, there will be drama. There will be conflict. There will be good and bad guys. There will be tension and resolve. We will learn and grow, laugh and weep.
Those stories that are well-fashioned beg for a sequel. Readers want to know what's next, and they'll stand in line waiting for Part II, rising early and missing breakfast to be the first to get a peek.
This week I helped kids learn ways to bring vividness to their stories, of bringing their writing alive for their readers. I tried to help them find ways to make their stories more alive and life-giving.
If we do this story well, when we reach that last chapter and it's time to close the book, we can be assured, as Christians, that the best is yet to come.
Q4U: What chapter remains unwritten in your life story?