It's National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2018 which provides an excellent opportunity for us to explore how apprenticeships are a great way for businesses to develop talent and invest in future workforce needs.
The government has been driving huge reform to improve the quality and opportunity of apprenticeships. We have seen major changes in the way apprenticeships are funded (through the Apprenticeship Levy) and how they work (moving to Standards driven by employers and end-point-assessment).
Employers all over England are redefining their training and recruitment strategies based on apprenticeships, developing world-class opportunities for existing and new staff.
By utilising Apprenticeships for entry level roles through to senior management positions you can build a skills strategy for your business which will increase productivity and reduce recruitment costs.
A long-term approach to training and development reduces the risks companies have from aging workforce and skills gaps.
Loyalty – research has shown that BT's five-year retention of employees who began as apprentices is 96%.
Young Apprentices in particular bring with them a fresh perspective and insight that is unquestionably good for business.
Social Mobility remains a big challenge for the UK, reports suggest that the gaps in inequality are widening. Apprenticeships can be a real driver for social mobility, allowing people to earn, learn and fulfill their potential.
If you have not yet begun to embrace the new world of apprenticeships then there is no better time. Understanding your current and future workforce needs is key, once you know where the gaps are you begin to identify where apprenticeships can add the most value. There are hundreds of Apprenticeship Standards from level 2 all the way through to degree level so you should be able to find the most relevant apprenticeship opportunities for your needs.
When developing a high-quality programme we would recommend bringing in partners, such as Youth Employment UK who can advise you on best practice and share with you examples of other excellent programmes. Many organisations are way ahead in terms of utilising apprenticeships and you can benefit from that learning. A high-quality programme should ensure that Apprentices are supported by key colleagues and have an excellent balance of off and on the job training. You will need to ensure you work with a provider who sees your vision for your programme and who can support with areas such as "off-the-job-training" and funding.
Think about staff of the future. Linking your work experience and early careers work to your apprenticeship strategy will ensure a Return on Investment for your business.
Already delivery an Apprenticeship Programme?
This is great news and we hope that it is proving to be an excellent investment for your business. Make sure you share your success during National Apprenticeship Week.
A next step for you might be to look at how you can showcase your own best practice or tweaking the programme so that it can become more inclusive, or maybe the next challenge is to be recognised as an employer brand of choice. Keeping ahead of policy reforms such as T-Levels, development of apprenticeship policy might also be something to have on the radar.
Youth Employment UK is a not-for-profit CIC, and is the leading membership body specialising in youth employment. We serve more than 15,000 young people who are 14-24 with free skills and careers support. In addition have over 350 employers, providers and youth organisation members who we support with best practice, policy development, training and networking opportunities so that they can support more young people into employment.
Youth Employment UK is home to the Talent Match Mark, a national kitemark that recognises youth friendly employers. If you are supporting young people with inspiration, experience or employment opportunities you could qualify for the free award.


Lisa: Had a great time at Ford Field watching the panthers pounce on the pirates. So happy for the Nouvel football team!
Lisa: So excited for this Thanksgiving break. The Elders in from VA, Aunt Robin and Uncle David's turkey dinner, Allison and most of hers in from TN, Aunt Cappy and Uncle David in from GA, lots of kissing cousins, and FORD FIELD to see the Panthers in the football state championship! Feeling really blessed.
"...compared to the last set of negotiations, the Democrats moved right and the Republicans moved further right."
Lisa: This is the longest Santa parade ever!
Watching Mr. Mom with the boys.
Lisa: watching old family feuds with the sick elliot - am pretty sure the contestants are tipsy AND that Richard Dawson sure does get lots of on the lips kisses.
RT @JohnFugelsang The Walking Dead's a show about heroic zombies trying to stop self-indulgent humans from having an annoying soap opera.
Lisa: Looking forward to this - comes out the day before my birthday.
Lisa: Panther Football - Panther Band - Panther Fans - yeehaw!
Just posted a 1.00 mi run - strength + run.
Lisa: homemade pea soup, rosemary bread, and chardonnay will make the grading papers and posting quarter grades so much better don't you think?
Lisa: Proud of the Nouvel Panthers. March on!
RT @daveweigel: Cain: "This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother."
RT @ezraklein: The news in Singapore was that unemployment had dropped to 2% http://bloom.bg/vmRUdv. The news here is Herman Cain something something.
Just posted a 1.00 mi run - core strength + run.
Lisa: You're never fully dressed without a smile!
…with the Wanous and Jolly kids.


Three Things You Were Taught About Good Writing That Are Actually Wrong | Write!
The issue between the two camps is the following question: what should govern standards in language?
The first thing that happens when you get to college to get an English degree is that you're told about descriptive and prescriptive approaches to linguistics, and then told to pick a side.
The issue between the two camps is the following question: what should govern standards in language? If you think it's well-established rules and regulations, you're a prescriptivist. You cringe and grumble when you see a split infinitive, and you complain about how no one cares about using the language right anymore. If you think the standard in language is its use by native speakers, then you're a descriptivist. It doesn't mean you enjoy reading error-strewn writing or seeing words misused. It only means you recognize language as a living organism — an organism whose primary function is to facilitate the exchange of information, not adhere to rigid standards.
So what is the 'right' view? There really isn't one.
Standardized grammar exists so that communication is facilitated in a consistent manner. When you use certain words in a certain order, you're betting that the person listening to your words understands what you intend to convey by using them. Think of it like this: have you ever texted a new acquaintance, and found out they don't use emojis in the same way you do? The feeling is a bit unsettling, and the result is awkward communication. This is the problem that standardized grammar is supposed to eliminate.
Except there isn't one grammar, there are several. There are dialects, and jargon, and many other wonderful syntactic and stylistic deviations from the so-called standard English. They all have their separate rules, and they're just as valuable for communication, despite what academic snobs think.
So what about common pieces of grammatical and stylistic advice that people constantly peddle to writers? Should they be taken as gospel? Let's examine.
Here's something that everyone learned in school: ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.
What is she using that for?
Feel free to do any amount of rewrites on that sentence that you like, you won't end up with anything that sounds as natural. Like it or not, ending sentences with prepositions is a part of standard English.
When it comes to prepositions, overuse is the problem. And endings aren't where prepositions are usually overused. Writing littered with prepositions is, a sign of lazy editing, so make sure you're making an informed decision when placing one in your text. Moderation is key.
Is Starting a Sentence With a Conjunction Wrong?
This one is peak snobbery. Everyone's had an earful about this rule in school, and most don't question it. However, as it turns out, it's one of those grammatical old wives' tales.
"But" usage, seems to be pernicious these days. It's not incorrect per se, but using "but" to juxtapose two things in two separate sentences, will oftentimes muddle the comparison. As with all word usage, it should be decided on a case-by-case basis, and the decision should be guided by the author's taste.
Stephen King wrote that as part of an extensive admonition of adverbs in his memoir, On Writing. it's couched into his overall critique of timid writers, and the techniques they use to write without exerting too much effort. The thesis of the rant is that adverbs are lazy, redundant and superfluous. Well, are they?
Like all words, adverbs are instruments for the writer, and these particular words are on the blunt side. That is, they get the job done, but the job can also be done using more intricate and ornate ways.
This sentence communicates two things: 1) someone has a heart condition, 2) because of the condition, they need urgent help. Does the sentence communicate those two things in the best way possible? This is where your judgment as a writer should guide you. If you're on the no-adverbs-ever team, this sense will be blinded by dogma.
Use your taste to guide you. If you notice that you're using adverbs as a crutch, nix them.
How important is sound grammar and style to good writing? Plenty. No matter how good the story, no matter how unique the take, it can all be ruined by bad choices on the writer's part. Know the rules, know which ones to follow, and constantly question them. Don't feel like it's your job to follow any convention. Use your judgment, and trust your taste.
Such a great article! Thank you very much.
that stuff about prepositions, etc. is just how everyone was taught. personally, i think dumb schoolteachers invented that rule.
"I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs" — COSIGN!
You are welcome! Feel free to suggest your ideas for our future articles.
Joan Didion is my favorite writer. Totally agree with her.
"Use your judgment, and trust your taste." – thank you! Perfect article, perfect words!


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A Marker to Measure Drift
On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable. Hypnotic, highly sensual, exquisitely written, and extraordinary in its depiction of both pleasure and pain, of excruciating physical and spiritual hungers, A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss. It is beautiful, lacerating, impossible to put down. A breakthrough work from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Bold, touching, and funny—a debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man
Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice," who is lively fun and holds her own in conversation with his friends.
This absorbing and funny tale is set in a twenty-first century literary world alive with wit and conversation. Here Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a sensitive, modern man—who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down, who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. reveals one particular (though also alarmingly familiar) young man's thoughts about women and love.
It says quite a lot about Jeremy Johnson Johnson that the strangest thing about him isn't even the fact his mother and father both had the same last name. Jeremy once admitted he's able to hear voices, and the townspeople of Never Better have treated him like an outsider since. After his mother left, his father became a recluse, and it's been up to Jeremy to support the family. But it hasn't been up to Jeremy alone. The truth is, Jeremy can hear voices. Or, specificially, one voice: the voice of the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of the infamous writing duo, The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. But when the provocative local girl Ginger Boultinghouse takes an interest in Jeremy (and his unique abilities), a grim chain of events is put into motion. And as anyone familiar with the Grimm Brothers know, not all fairy tales have happy endings. . .
Young adult veteran Tom McNeal (one half of the writing duo known as Laura & Tom McNeal) has crafted a novel at once warmhearted, compulsively readable, and altogether thrilling—and McNeal fans of their tautly told stories will not be disappointed.
An addictive and moving debut about love, fidelity, sports, and growing up when you least expect it, told through the irresistible voices of three generations.
It's the spring of 1994 in Cooperstown, New York, and Joanie Cole, the beloved matriarch of the Obermeyer family, has unexpectedly died in her sleep. Now, for the first time, three generations are living together under one roof and are quickly encroaching on one another's fragile orbits. Eighty-six-year-old Bob Cole is adrift in his daughter's house without his wife. Anne Obermeyer is increasingly suspicious of her husband, Hugh's, late nights and missed dinners, and Hugh, principal of the town's preschool, is terrified that a scandal at school will erupt and devastate his life. Fifteen-year-old tennis-team hopeful Julia is caught in a love triangle with Sam and Carl, her would-be teammates and two best friends, while her brother, Teddy, the star pitcher of Cooperstown High, will soon catch sight of something that will change his family forever.
At the heart of the Obermeyers' present-day tremors is the scandal of The Sex Cure, a thinly veiled roman à clef from the 1960s, which shook the small village of Cooperstown to the core. When Anne discovers a battered copy underneath her parents' old mattress, the Obermeyers cannot escape the family secrets that come rushing to the surface. With its heartbreaking insight into the messy imperfections of family, love, and growing up, Love All is an irresistible comic story of coming-of-age—at any age.
The Moon and More
Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby. Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby? Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going? Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance, yearning, and, finally, empowerment. It could only happen in the summer.
The Astronaut Wives Club
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and quickly grew into fashion icons. Annie Glenn, with her picture-perfect marriage, was the envy of the other wives; platinum-blonde bombshell Rene Carpenter was proclaimed JFK's favorite; and licensed pilot Trudy Cooper arrived on base with a secret. Together with the other wives they formed the Astronaut Wives Club, meeting regularly to provide support and friendship. Many became next-door neighbors and helped to raise each other's children by day, while going to glam parties at night. As their celebrity rose—and as divorce and tragic death began to touch their lives—they continued to rally together, and the wives have now been friends for more than fifty years. The Astronaut Wives Club tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history.
The Blood of Heaven
The Blood of Heaven is the prodigious first novel from twenty-six-year-old Kent Wascom. One of the most powerful and impressive debuts Grove/Atlantic has ever published, The Blood of Heaven tells the epic story of the American frontier in the early days of the nineteenth century. The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young Unite d States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr. The Blood of Heaven brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut.
The Testing
It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for—is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings ("Cia, trust no one"), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. Danger, romance—and sheer terror—await.
This powerful novel, the first in a trilogy, will force you to question your own integrity, your own bravery, and your own society. How far will you go to win?
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls
A lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls'-school rituals, set in the 1930s South. It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls' friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming, dreamlike childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their family's citrus farm—a world now partially shattered. As Thea grapples with her responsibility for the events of the past year that led her here, she finds herself enmeshed in a new order, one that will change her sense of what is possible for herself, her family, her country. Weaving provocatively between home and school, the narrative powerfully unfurls the true sto ry behind Thea's expulsion from her family, but it isn't long before the mystery of her past is rivaled by the question of how it will shape her future. Part scandalous love story, part heartbreaking family drama, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is an immersive, transporting page-turner—a vivid, propulsive novel about sex, love, family, money, class, home, and horses, all set against the ominous threat of the Depression—and the major debut of an important new writer.
An epic multigenerational saga or power, blood, and the taming of the frontier, The Son combines the scope and authenticity of Lonesome Dove with the violence and vision of Blood Meridian. Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with a gripping saga of the Lone Star State and the settlement of the American West that follows the rise of one formidable family, from the Comanche raids of the mid-nineteenth century to the border wars of the early twentieth century to the oil and mineral booms of the modern era.

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Most of the time after we opened a bottle, we just simply throw away the cap. Don't you know that we can still recycle those bottle caps and create them into beautiful bottle cap magnets? Doing so can save our nature as well. These diy bottle cap magnets can be used to hold things on your refrigerator and other metallic surfaces. Creating a bottle cap magnet is as easy as A-B-C.
Step 1: Cut a piece of your card board, typically in square shape. The size of it should fit right in your bottle cap, make sure that is not too small. Attach that piece of board into your bottle cap using your hot glue gun.
Step 2: Glue the magnet and wait until it is dry.
Note: Make sure the magnet is slightly past the edge of the bottle cap so that it won't scratch the surface where you want to place it.


As you may have noticed, I am no longer concerning myself with the Hours project. Took too long, obviously.
I really want to finish my album before the end of the year; before Christmas if possible. So I'm going to try giving myself a deadline of October 31st to finish all the music for the album. October 31st 2011 that is! No, no, the end of this October. Part of me hates to give myself a deadline because I would much rather work at my own leisure, composing when I feel like it. On the other hand, I really want to finish the album. And I want to get working on other albums. I've got so much music flowing through my head lately that I really want to get out.
Fortunately I only have about 15 more minutes of music to write for the album to be at least 60 minutes long. So if I can write at least 5 minutes of music a week, I should be set to go. So for now I'm giving myself until Sunday, October 4th, to write 5 more minutes of music. I'll let you know if I succeed or fail.
Then when (or if) I finish the music at the end of October, November will involve getting everything else ready to go, ordering the CD replication, and getting it out there (mostly to CD Baby and Amazon). I am hoping it will also be the first album of The Worlds Inside series I'm starting.
For a little while, I became a bit interested in trying to replicate some mini CDs. I thought they might be cheaper since they're smaller. After researching around and asking for some quotes (since it seems not that many companies want to publish prices for mini CD replication), it seems it's actually more expensive, I suppose because it's just less popular. It would save on postage though, but not quite enough to make it worthwhile, at least not for a first album.
When you ask for price quotes from a bunch of different companies, some will just email you back a price, others will email your three times before they give you a price letting you know that you will soon be receiving a price, some fill their quotes with guarantees and promises and statistics of how many customers they've pleased, and some treat you as if you've already signed a deal with them.
Anyway, I haven't really been up to much [that is not super top secret] lately. So I won't write anything else in this post.
I haven't worked on any music since I finished Across the Kingdom. My friend and I finished another O'Really animation here.
The other day, I bought some watercolor supplies so I could begin learning the art of watercolor painting. Because, you know, I'm always trying something new, I'm such a renaissance man. So far my efforts are horrible. But I suppose that's to be expected when one just starts. There's a lot one must get a feel for: how the colors mix, how much water to mix with it, how wet the paper should be before applying paint, how to apply the paint, etc. Years on down the road, I think it'd be awesome to be able to paint (good looking) pictures of castles and dragons, blah blah blah, and be a millionaire too.
Firstly, I'm not really sure that's at all a "new" way to think about creativity. Secondly, there seems to be an unspoken assumption that she makes. Not just her, actually, but I think the audience is making it too. In fact, I think most people in general make it because it's a natural way of thinking. That assumption is: a good product will be met with praise, fame, and acclaim, while a bad product will fail. In other words, if you write a book, or a piece of music, or whatever, you yourself don't know how "good" it is until it either succeeds (by becoming popular) or fails. If it succeeds, congrats! You done good! If it fails, you failed.
But I disagree with that assumption. I believe how "good" something is (well, in the world of art at least) is entirely subjective. Elizabeth Gilbert's book may have been very popular, but to me that doesn't imply that it's any good. I might think it's terrible! What does the success of her book mean? Nothing! And it really shouldn't mean anything to anyone else either (except perhaps it means a good amount of money for her and the publisher). And I believe there is a ton of brilliant work out there that's not popular. And I might love it if only I could find it. I tend to find popular things the most because that's what makes them easier to find.
In that way, popularity is an emergent property. What makes something popular or not is a complex collection of millions of decisions by millions of people. Should I read this? Should I publish this? Should I talk about this? Should I invest in this?
Movie producers are always making assumptions about why this or that movie succeeded or failed. Shut up, you idiots! You don't know! "Ah, this Disney animation film failed because people want computer animation now." "This film succeeded because Tom Hanks was in it." "This film failed because of the competing films that came out at the same time." "This film succeeded because it had a strong central hero character and a villain that represented the evils of our times very well." And blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever they can say to themselves to make their investments not seem so risky and more predictable.
"If it is popular, it is because it is really good!" I completely reject the assumption. When I experience or create a piece of art, I make up my own mind.
Not that I don't care what other people think. If I write a piece of music and someone on YouTube comments that they like it, I find it flattering and encouraging. But it doesn't change my initial thoughts about my own work.
In conclusion, what is "good" and what is popular are two completely different things. You shouldn't let what is popular influence your creative decisions too much, because you actually have no control over what becomes popular. So stop thinking you do!
And read The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable , it's a good book.
Just a quick post here to mention that I've uploaded another YouTube video of my latest piece, Opus 52, an orchestral piece called Across the Kingdom. For some reason, I ended not using the harp at all. Amazing, huh? Much of the piece consists of the chord progression I-vi-IV-V (or sometimes vi-iii-IV-V). In fact, the second half was almost entirely about seeing how many melodies I could compose to the progression, while not completely overdoing it or making the melodies sound too distant from each other. Kind of makes the bass line a bit boring, but the focus doesn't always need to be on you, you bassists!
So that makes 6 pieces for my upcoming album: White Castle Waltz, On the Edge of a Dream, The Dragon King, Voyage of the Dream Maker, Dance of Fools, and now Across the Kingdom.
I have at least 4 other pieces started that need finishing, some of which will surely be on the album as well.
Last Friday my mom and I went to Wolftrap to see a Lord of the Rings concert. They have an orchestra play all the film music (choirs and soloists included), while projecting the film The Two Towers in HD on a huge screen. We went to the same concert last year for first Lord of the Rings film, The Fellowship of the Ring, and I blogged about the experience here.
The brass was quite loud. In the soundtrack recordings, I'm sure they can mix the orchestra sound a bit so the strings have more of a voice, and perhaps the acoustics of Wolftrap's Filene center have an effect, but when it came to the brassy action parts, the brass was quite loud, drowning out a lot of the orchestra, and sometimes the character's voices. The percussion could be quite loud at times too, especially instruments like the bass drum. But this is not complaint; I love the sound of a booming bass drum.
The speakers popped every now and then a little before and after intermission, which was really annoying.
The choirs were amazing. I really loved the elvish choir music. The strings and choirs sounded especially dynamic and full and rich when hearing them live.
There were many moments in the film in which the story was so engaging that I forgot that the music was live. This is both a testament to how well the music was played and just what a good story it is.
As I mentioned last year, it was a lot of fun to watch the film with a huge audience that also loved the film. Hearing them laugh and cheer at moments was kind of exciting (though I myself kept silent the whole time).
Actually, watching the crowds made me kind of want to be a film composer; there's just such a huge audience out there. It's easy to forget how big the world is.
Lastly, I kind of wish the Filene Center allowed popcorn and soda inside. It would of course make a mess that they'd have to clean, but I do quite enjoy munching on popcorn while watching a film.
Next year I hope to see The Return of the King in a similar manner!
A few days ago, all the applications on my laptop, from Firefox to Microsoft Office programs, kept crashing. Then I'd often get the bluescreen of death saying something about a physical memory dump and then restarting the computer. I was sure it was a RAM issue, and thought one of my sticks of RAM was bad and needed to be replaced. So I took out one of the laptop's RAM modules and, voila, it worked! Though I was out 2 GB of RAM. I wanted to go buy some more RAM just for the quick fix of it, but my father insisted that I call Dell support. So I did (well, actually, he did, and then handed me the phone) and, by switching the working RAM into the other slot as support told me to, I discovered the problem wasn't with the RAM, but with the motherboard; it couldn't communicate with that RAM port for some reason.
So sometime this week or next week or whenever, a Dell guy should come to my house and replace the motherboard, which will hopefully go smoothly. In the meantime, I'll only have 2 GB of RAM, but everything should at least run smoothly without crashing. My music composing might be impaired a bit, since I often do use up a lot of RAM loading up virtual instruments, but 2 GB should still be manageable.
Last week, I finished reading Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More . It was written in 2006, and in the computer world, that makes it outdated already. (Though there is now an updated and revised edition that I haven't read, but I'm linking to it anyway.) YouTube wasn't as big when the book was written, and it mentions Google Froogle every now and then. But, overall, the ideas in the book are very good.
That said, I'm not sure reading an entire book on the subject was worth it. It's a short book, only around 230 pages, but it certainly seemed repetitive. The idea of the "Long Tail" isn't too hard to understand: there's a definite market for niche products, so if you can offer a lot of choices to buyers (without, obviously, spending too much money yourself), you can definitely make a profit. Great subject for a magazine article (which is what I believe it started as), but for a book it seems just a bit stretched. Makes for easy reading at least.
I also recently started some projects with a friend. The first idea was to create cartoony shorts, similar to PowerPoint presentations we used to give in high school. You can see our first animation here on YouTube.
Some problems with this project are: the animation is very rough and the recent-event subject is time-sensitive. I think such shorts could find an audience if we could keep them up, but with just two people creating them, neither of which are quick or experienced animators, it would probably be infeasible, unless we had a lot more time to dedicate to it each week.
What I'd like to do eventually is use this similar method of animation (creating animation frames in PowerPoint, since I know how to draw best in it) to create something longer, and non-political. Two years or so ago, my sister and I planned out a kid-friendly comedy-fantasy story with the hope of one day turning into a series of cartoons. At the time, I had just bought Flash and had high hopes of gaining awesome animation skills with it. Using PowerPoint didn't cross my mind, because I am stupid. But now that I am reminded, maybe it will be something to try in the future. I especially like the idea of writing music to it, and being able to take a long time polishing an animation.
Anyway, the other project we started was the writing of a novel. But I can not yet say anything about it due to a non-disclosure agreement.
I don't go to school anymore, so I don't have any.


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How do touch-sensitive screens work?
With a little electrical help from the human body, touchscreens can tell where our fingers are pointing…
By Sajan Saini
Touchscreens have used a variety of techniques over the last two decades to detect the placement of a finger on a screen — ranging from mechanical, optical, and electrical sensing. Today's capacitive electrical touchscreens have proven to be the most versatile and efficient way to sense human touch.
A capacitor is an electrical circuit that, in its simplest form, is composed of two conductive electrodes separated by an insulating gap. A direct current (DC) of electricity can't straddle this gap, but an alternating current (AC) can induce a charge to flow from one side to the other. The surface of a touchscreen is blanketed with a grid of electrodes. Wherever our finger comes to rest, a capacitive contact is formed and the AC current generated within the device induces a corresponding current within our body — which helps span the gap and complete the circuit.
"Human beings are good conductors," explains Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, so using our fingers to close an electrical circuit makes it very easy to detect human touch with high fidelity. If a grid location on the touchscreen is to sense the AC current, "there has to be a return [electrical] path," says Gershenfeld. For a touchscreen on a handheld device such as a smartphone, "you're holding it with the other hand," and this completes the electrical loop to the backside of the device, which is electrically grounded. If the touchscreen is part of an installation, such as an ATM, some part of our body is most likely in contact with an electrical ground. "It's very hard (for our bodies) to avoid making a ground contact," stresses Gershenfeld, which virtually guarantees that humans (or their fingers) can close an electrical loop for capacitive screens.
If it sounds alarming to have electricity passing through your body, worry not. The AC currents in touchscreens are within levels for natural charge conduction in our bodies — and the true revolution and utility of modern touchscreens lies in the rapidity of their responses. "The unsung hero is the microcontroller," notes Gershenfeld. Behind every electrode on a touchscreen grid lies "an embedded microcontroller that has a clockspeed of nanoseconds." It is this fast response time that enables modern smartphones to have such smooth interaction with human touch, and it is this progress that has driven the growing appeal of touchscreens in recent years.
Capacitive sensing has led to unexpected new innovations, such as the leading sensor used in auto safety systems for cars to detect the location of their occupants, commercialized from Gershenfeld's laboratory and based on a kind of imaging, that uses electric fields. With a little cooperation between man and machine, touch-sensitive screens have opened the doors to a host of new interactive technologies.
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Reg has a got a new tiller. All shiny new and varnished. It was the first item up for renovation on the little red boat that we adopted late last year. It still bears the name Red Endeavour, a title we plan to change (suggestions welcome), although I'm beginning to think the current name is rather apt. It is proving very much to be an endeavour and progress has been a little slow. But that's no surprise.
The Christmas holidays were a mad rush to get her surveyed, registered, drop a mooring and get her seaworthy to sail round to Botany Bay where she has been bobbing up and down ever since. Sadly I couldn't join Reg for the sail, which is why there are no photos of this momentous occasion. Her previous owners took a stroll along the Esplanade at Cronulla and waved the beloved little red boat goodbye from the cliff tops.
We'd love to keep her in Port Hacking but there's a long wait list for moorings. Gwawley Bay is on Botany Bay and is a 15 minute drive from where we live. It's also just a stone throw from Endeavour Marine who we'll probably get to know a little better as we work through the list of jobs required to be done before she's ready for a jaunt up or down the coast with a crew of under-fives.
Despite this slow progress it's been pleasing to see how getting kids on boats is not just about the actual act of sailing (although that's the goal). There are so many opportunities for them to learn and explore before they've even left the wharf. Miss Four spent at least two afternoons accompanying Reg on a maintenance mission. Threading new halyards, learning about running a mouse line (a four year old girl actually really gets the concept; it's like hickory dickory dock, except in a mast instead of a clock). The new tiller needed to be fitted and the more boring jobs like fitting a manual bilge pump were endured by sitting in the cockpit singing away, doing some colouring in whilst happily licking an ice cream.
Top of my list is a working galley, although this will have to wait until we have replaced the egg beaters with a diesel donk as I don't like the idea of naked flame and petrol engines in the same vicinity. The galley will be closely followed by some new lockers so we can stow a few items permanently and keep things ship shape down below (a challenge with toddlers on board).
So, we have a deadline to get her sorted by the summer. We have family coming to visit and after an anticipated hard year at work I am already dreaming about a couple of weeks on Pittwater or Jervis Bay, simply messing about on boats, come Christmas. Will keep you posted.
Muddy, brown swirling flood waters. Semi submerged flotsam and jetsam from way upstream. Deceptive currents invisible on the surface but strong enough to sweep away the humble tinny. Best head to the coast then, beyond where the rivers expel their coffee coloured dregs and where the magnitude of the Pacific surf has the power to wash away and dilute the murky masses of water that empty into it. Floods punctuated the close of a Sydney summer that never really was. Thank goodness for Rock pools, their crystal clear waters renewed daily by a fresh tide that inundates it. Perfect for exploring whatever the weather.
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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging field so new that the technology, a pair of Bose augmented reality (AR) glasses, wasn't even available to the participants.
The upcoming Bose AR technology will enable developers to superimpose sound on top of the real world based on location or head gestures, creating opportunities for novel experiences with learning, music, travel, and more.
Despite not having access to a pair of the Bose AR glasses, Rayna Allonce (MHCI '19), Ritu Parekh (MHCI '19), Michael Rivera (HCI Ph.D., '22) and Siyan Zhao (HCI Ph.D., '22), four human-computer interaction students, creatively prototyped and demonstrated a solution with the technology given to them, winning the Bose Challenge.
"Bose provided participating teams headphones (Bose QC 35 II) and a neck-worn speaker (Bose Soundwear Companion) that together can support most of the functionality and interactions enabled by their sound AR glasses," said Rivera.
During the course of the two-week, extracurricular competition, participants were charged with exploring a problem or opportunity and building a solution using the Bose hardware. The team of HCI students identified the need for a more secure and efficient way of communicating patient information to healthcare professionals prior to patient interaction.
"In our first brainstorm session, we listed potential users (some examples are children, elderly, students, healthcare providers) for the technology and areas of interest (some examples are assistive technology, entertainment, transportation). We each had prior knowledge in some of the user groups and areas and jointly discussed what are the known pain points among the identities users and areas. From the brainstorming session, we narrowed down on healthcare as a general area to explore because it contains many critical issues that can benefit from Bose hardware," Zhao said.
Team members researched issues in healthcare and narrowed their list to two problems: mishandling of medical information and fall prevention among the elderly. After competitive analysis of these two areas and semi-structured interviews with a doctor and a nurse, they turned their focus to preventing medical information mishandling.
According to the team's project video (also embedded below), "We demonstrate an augmented reality medical assistant that leverages Audio Fencing to accurately localize medical professionals and relay patients' information. With Bose Wearable technology, our solution enables timely access to key patient information, empowering healthcare providers to better and more securely serve their patients."
Similar to the virtual boundaries of geofencing, audio fencing will allow the glasses to deliver just-in-time patient information to the medical professional based on their precise location.
The students learned of the campus Bose Challenge, organized by Real Industry and Bose, via an email invitation from the CMU School of Computer Science.
"I had never heard of or designed for sound based augmented reality before so it really piqued my interest as a design challenge," said Allonce. "So often when we think of interfaces we think of things you can touch and see. Designing for audio AR was a really cool experience."
Zhao had not heard of sound AR either until it was introduced to her during the challenge.
"One selling point of sound AR is that it is hands free and unobtrusive (purely audio and open ear). I really enjoy its unobtrusiveness as nowadays, much of the technology relies on us seeing and interacting with them. And they are taking away a lot of our attention," Zhao said. "Sound AR is different in that sense. It only delivers information to you when it's relevant (based on where you are or where you are looking at) and it doesn't require you to interact with it."
Parekh added, "Augmented reality really excites me because it is an opportunity to blend the best of both our physical and virtual worlds. The most loved technologies integrate seamlessly into our lives, enhancing our abilities and experiences - in essence, augmenting our lives. In a world that bombards us with visual information, audio AR takes advantage of the comparatively underutilized auditory channel. Most auditory information is currently delivered passively, whereas audio AR takes context into account to provide information in a more active manner. Though it may require some creativity, I think audio AR presents opportunities to solve modern problems in new, perhaps more efficient ways."
The glasses haven't been released to the public yet, but the student winners will be among the first to have a pair.
"Bose and Real Industry will send us the sound AR glasses in January 2019 when they are released. The four of us will be one of the few (and first) to get them," said Rivera. "I'm personally looking forward to using them, and have some ideas I'd like to explore. It's not very often you get the chance to play with a new technology before it becomes widely available."
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For years, HR has been talking about becoming a strategic partner, but is it enough to calculate employee turnover as the main component of it's value-addition strategy?
According to a new study by Michael Page, to determine the success of the HR department, the main KPI used in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) is staff turnover (78%), followed by employee engagement scores (72%).
Employee performance, ranked third at 71% in the region, is the number one indicator used globally, by 72% of organisations.
Other indicators used in Southeast Asia included measuring recruitment efficiency, employee competencies, and managerial performance, with organisations in the region more likely to track recruitment efficiency as compared to their global counterparts (54% vs 43%).
Employee mobility was the indicator used least to measure HR's success, in both Southeast Asia and globally (9% and 16% respectively).
The report also notes that while KPIs are being measured, "HR performance measurement reviewing still seems to be in its infancy", with 64% of organisations tracking three or fewer HR KPIs.
Interestingly, there was a correlation between the size of the organisation and the amount of effort invested into reviewing the efficiency of the HR team.
Organisations with a larger HR team size were found to be more likely to track more than 3 HR KPIs (52% in organisations with more than 100 HR staff vs 31% in organisations with up to nine HR staff).
Despite this, senior HR leaders in Southeast Asia are getting closer to the boardroom, as almost half (45%) directly report to the highest levels of management (CEO, CFO etc.).
The report also found what India, Southeast Asia, and Turkey have in common – half of the organisations in these locations rate talent management among their top three HR priorities for the next 12 months.
In Southeast Asia, talent acquisition and succession planning followed, as the other two most pressing HR priorities, as stated by about one in every three HR leader.
Nearly half (45%) of HR leaders in Southeast Asia expect their workforce to expand over the next 12 months, while more than a quarter (27%) have increased their recruitment budget.
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Fritz's Polka Band is truly proud to be a member of the Jagermeister Family. Just one of the many perks that Jager provides bands is the opportunity to check out the Jagermeister Music Tour (in a VIP way!) when it's in-action. On Saturday, April 2, 2005, Fritz went to a club called Northern Lights, in Clifton Park, NY to check out the Jager Spring Music Tour, featuring Alter Bridge as the headliner. Below are a bunch of pics taken that festive evening.
The band, Waiting For Never hit the stage first on April 2, 2005, as the Jagermeister Spring Music Tour '05 (with headliner, Alter Bridge) ripped into Clifton Park, NY. Fritz is all smiles with Nicole, (a Jagerette). Fritz is pictured here at Northern Lights, with Nick, bassist of Waiting For Never.
Fritz with some of his Jager Family, Heather, Cindy, and Sara, during the Jager VIP Party on April 2nd. Fritz, wearing his Jager VIP pass, is shown here with one of the many Jager drinks he consumed, on April 2nd. Nick from Waiting For Never is pictured here with Sara and Cindy, during the Jagermeister Tour stop in Clifton Park, NY.
Fritz and some of the guys from Waiting For Never are shown with some of their fans during the Jager VIP party. Fritz is pictured here with Alter Bridge, in their dressing room after Alter Bridge ripped it up on-stage at Northern Lights. Prior to heading home after seeing yet another great Jagermeister Music Tour gig, and taking part in one great Jager VIP Party, Fritz gets a pic with Jager Tour Manager, Jimi Ellis....the guy that sure knows how to throw a great party!


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Almost all waste contractors will provide you with a receptacle for waste, at a suitable size for your premises and the amount of waste you create.
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Many waste companies add a separate line on waste bills to cover the cost of legal compliance in the collection of your waste. This charge implies that they will cover all paperwork for the transfer of waste from you to them. However, you should ensure that this is the case before committing to any contract.
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Have you ever been on a cruise holiday? If not it's high time that you take to a cruise trip since the cruise holidays are meant to ensure an unforgettable vacation for the travelers. No wonder many couples today plan their honeymoon on board and here is a highlight on the benefits of cruise holidays.
The great part o taking to cruise holidays is the number of entertainment provisions you are offered with. Apart from an amazing sea view the cruises come up with a great range of luxury facilities for the travelers. You will have a versatile range of eateries to choose from and many of them are headed by celebrity chefs and diverse cuisines. Then there are fantastic wining destinations and some of the cruises even have poolside bars.
What more, the cruises also offer the travelers with electrifying dance floors, spa facilities, gym provisions etc. There are even gaming zones inside the cruise to keep the little ones engaged all through.
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Bullfighting is back on Spanish TV
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BULLFIGHTING enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that TVE will be showing their favourite fights.
This is only the second time, in six years, that the spectacle has been shown live. The fights were taken off air in 2010, due to them being inappropriate viewing material during children's viewing hours.
However, the people of Merida will be switching on, on September 1.
Broadcaster TVE had adhered to the rules, and banned events from being filmed – due to animal cruelty. However, it changed its policies to be able to show the occasional bullfight.
Last year's free-to-air event attracted some 1.2 million viewers, an audience share of 12.7 percent audience.
Spain's animal rights group PACMA on Tuesday issued a statement denouncing the decision by TVE to broadcast the Merida event.
In the statement, the group said bullfights were an act of gratuitous violence with a negative influence on children, and that the events had no place in Spanish society or on Spanish public television.
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Mr Stevens 29 Aug, 2013 @ 17:04 at 17:04
Fantastic news. Live programs featuring camp ballet dancers trying to act as manly as possible whilst torturing dying animals. What's the difference between cheering bulls being tortured, and something like animal rights footage of people laughing whilst playing baseball with chickens. They're having a great time enjoying killing animals too?!
Fred 29 Aug, 2013 @ 17:59 at 17:59
Of course it's back, the government needs as much distraction away from their total mess of an economy lol.
Lenox 30 Aug, 2013 @ 13:19 at 13:19
I doubt many Britons will be affected – they all watch Sky!
Christine 30 Aug, 2013 @ 16:24 at 16:24
LOL! good one Lenox.
stefanjo 30 Aug, 2013 @ 23:25 at 23:25
Of course they watch Sky. Who wants to face up to the reality around them?
Trevor 7 Sep, 2013 @ 15:58 at 15:58
Jesus! remind me not to go for a drink with you stefanjo..
What are you having anyhow.. a glass half empty? ha ha
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Marijuana is made from parts of the cannabis plants – it is often rolled like a cigarette or stuffed into a pipe and smoked, though it can also be ingested, releasing the chemical THC, into the body. THC floods the brain and connects to receptions in regions responsible for mood, coordination and problem solving. The presence of THC in these regions prevents normal brain communication, leading to attention and memory impairment, loss of balance and coordination and psychotic episodes.
Along with alcohol and tobacco, marijuana is one of the most commonly used drugs among teens – 42% of U.S. 12th graders have tried it at least once. Frequent marijuana use in young adults has been shown to permanently affect the brain, reducing connectivity among brain receptors responsible for learning and memory and lower IQ scores.
Marijuana also is the most common illegal drug to be found in drivers who die in car accidents, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
K2 and Spice are common forms of synthetic cannabis with effects similar to marijuana. Their ingredients bind to the same cannabinoid brain receptors as THC; however, they may produce an even more potent reaction, depending on the ingredients used. K2 and Spice are illegal in the U.S. as of 2010.
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Stuart, Kaz (Karen) (2016) Cultural historical activity theory to illuminate leadership practices in a group of children's centres. Educational Action Research . (Submitted to Publisher) Item availability may be restricted.
The context of leadership in children's centres is described as complex and high-pressured. One group of children's centres is introduced that are enacting high quality leadership despite these pressures. This paper uses cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to understand what comprises these practices in order to render them visible and to promote further organisational development. Further, the analysis of different levels of CHAT leadership practices enabled leaders to understand tacit lived-experiences.
This paper was substantially revised and developed into: Stuart, Kaz (Karen) (2017) Value-based relational leadership practice in children's centres: an action research project. Educational Action Research, 26 (5) pp.716-735, published online 6 December 2017 (see http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3423/).


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Here's The Ultimate Bucket List For Ohioians Who Are Obsessed With Nature
Do you enjoy being out in nature? There's nothing like being able to hear yourself think and capturing the perfect photo of wildlife. From well known parks and waterfalls to little-known nature preserves and state forests, the following are 12 of our favorite destinations to visit in Ohio nature. See which ones you've explored and which ones belong on your bucket list for future adventures:
1. Edge of Appalachia Nature Preserve (West Union)
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The Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County is best known for its biological diversity, steep cliffs and the Wilderness Trail; a 2 1/2-mile loop that's perfect for a one-day hike.
2. The Wilds (Cumberland)
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Nomad Ridge at The Wilds in Cumberland is arguably one of Ohio's best kept secrets. It's a hidden gem tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the city and miles away from the small town life. This glampground features several private yurts that provide all the comforts of home just steps away from open pastures, breathing views and exotic animals.
3. Hocking Hills State Park (Logan)
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If you've yet to hike the Old Man's Cave trail at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan, you're truly missing out. It's arguably the most beautiful hiking trail in Ohio—and it will make you feel like you're temporarily living in a "Lord of the Rings" film. At approximately one mile in length, this gorgeous trail takes about an hour to complete, so it's perfect for a day hike you can take your time exploring.
4. Shawnee State Forest (West Portsmouth)
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Ohio's largest state forest is known as "The Little Smokies of Ohio," and covers 63,747 acres. It features 60 miles of bridle and hiking trails, 60 miles of backpacking trails, 58 horse camp sites and an 8,000-acre wilderness.
5. Holden Arboretum Canopy Walk (Kirtland)
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The Judith and Maynard H. Murch Canopy Walk at Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio features a 500 ft. long elevated walkway suspended 65 ft. above the forest floor. It gives visitors a truly unique perspective of the forest and the animals that live among the trees. And as an added bonus, there's an observation tower on site that takes you up even further up—so much further that you end up above the trees.
6. Oak Openings Metro Park (Swanton)
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Close to Toledo you'll find what's considered to be Ohio's rarest ecosystem (and one of the world's rarest ecosystems) where rare plants and animals, oak forests, sand dunes, savannas, tall-grass prairies and swamp forests all thrive in harmony—and it will truly make you feel like you're not in Ohio anymore.
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Once a sacred spot to the Shawnee and Iroquois tribes, this 2,200-acre tract in Ross County is one of only a few privately owned state nature preserves in Ohio. Peaceful and serene, this is a rare spot where you can hear yourself think.
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Magee Marsh Wildlife Area is arguably the state's top bird-watching spot—featuring more than 300 species of birds. You can find this peaceful refuge along western Lake Erie, between Toledo and Port Clinton. It's a peaceful refuge and a bird watcher's paradise.
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Have you ever wondered where the most remote, isolated spot in Ohio is? Southeast Ohio is home to some breathtaking scenery and Ohio's only national forest. Encompassing more than a quarter million acres of Appalachian foothills, Wayne National Forest stretches across 12 counties in southeast Ohio.
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Ohio's second largest state forest covers 26,827 acres. For the advanced hiker who can backpack through the woods overnight, Zaleski State Forest trails are a must-do. Along the way, the trails feature vacant farms, abandoned mines, beautiful views, Indian ceremonial grounds and an old mining town. (The North Loop is approximately 18.4 miles, and the South Loop is approximately 11.7 miles.)
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Marie Dorin Habert (born 19 June 1986) is a retired French biathlete.

Career
She became junior world champion in relay (2004 and 2005).

She represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was also on the bronze medal-winning French relay team at the Biathlon World Championships 2009.

Dorin won a bronze in the women's 7.5 km sprint on 13 February 2010 and a silver in the relay. She won her first individual world cup victory at the 2015 world championships in Kontiolahti, Finland, in the sprint event, which was her first World Champion title as well. The next day she won the world championships pursuit, making it her second individual world cup victory and second gold medal in the world championships.

At the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, she claimed gold with the French Team in the Mixed relay and took bronze in the Relay.

After the Olympics, she decided to end her career at the World Cup in Oslo.

She won her last women's relay with the French team on 17 March 2018 and ended her career with a 20th place in pursuit the next day.

Personal life
Dorin is married to retired French biathlete Lois Habert. She gave birth to their daughter Adele in September 2014 and returned to the Biathlon World Cup in January 2015. She had a second daughter Evie in January 2019.

Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games
4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)

*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.

World Championships
17 medals (5 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze)

World Cup

Individual victories
7 victories (3 Sp, 2 Pu, 1 In, 1 MS)

Relay victories
8 victories (Victories at Winter Olympics are not counted as World Cup victories, but are listed here. )

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lyon
French female biathletes
Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic biathletes of France
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in biathlon
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic silver medalists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Holmenkollen medalists
21st-century French women


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Luis Miguel Madrid (Madrid, 3 de julio de 1960 - 18 de abril de 2020) fue un poeta, dramaturgo, crítico literario y promotor cultural español, director de la revista de cultura Babab.com.

Biografía
Luis Miguel Madrid se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde se especializó en poesía latinoamericana mientras escribía poesía y teatro. En 1994 ganó el Premio Internacional de Poesía Arcipreste de Hita (Alcalá la Real) con su poemario Rua das janelas verdes que se publicó a la vez que se estrenaban y publicaban sus primeros textos teatrales. Más tarde escribió La caja italiana, Bomarzo y María de los demonios. En ese tiempo fundó además la revista cultural online Babab.com, de la que fue director desde entonces.

A la vez que continuó su producción poética con El sacrificio de ganar, El cine de las sábanas blancas y Un gol en la frente, completó sus trabajos literarios como dramaturgo, cuentista, letrista y crítico literario, siendo colaborador del Centro Virtual Cervantes (CVC-Instituto Cervantes), donde comisarió algunos monográficos sobre autores como Gabriel García Márquez o Juan José Arreola. Además, fue invitado a diversos festivales nacionales e internacionales.

Sus poemas han sido publicados en diversas antologías y revistas españolas y de varios países de Latinoamérica como Alpialdelapalabra, Casa de Poesía Silva o Arquitrave. También escribió varios prólogos y cartas de amor casamenteras. Al margen de su actividad como escritor, Luis Miguel Madrid ha dirigido en Madrid El Teatro de las Aguas y la Sala Madragoa. Desde 1995, fue director de María Pandora, librería-café/sala cultural del centro de Madrid. En 2013 participó además como actor en la segunda película de Jonás Trueba, Los ilusos. En 2017 fundó junto a su pareja Eva Contreras la editorial El Blanco de tus Ojos.

Estilo
La poesía de Luis Miguel Madrid ha sido descrita como sencilla, coloquial e imaginativa, con versos cercanos capaces de llegar incluso a los menos habituados al género. De acuerdo al periodista Alejandro Luque, su lenguaje es «lo más llano y fibroso posible, de tal suerte que todo el aparato verbal vaya encaminado a lograr un efecto poderoso sobre el lector». Luque señala además que «Luis Miguel Madrid no va de virtuoso del lenguaje, pero lo manipula como un orfebre. Tampoco va de filósofo, pero algunos de sus versos pueden dejarte cavilando tres días». La aparente sencillez de sus poemas encierra profundas reflexiones muchas veces cargadas de ironía y en más casos aún de humor. Sus libros suelen tener un tema que enlaza todos los poemas que los componen y que a la vez sirve de excusa para hablar de las virtudes y miserias los afectos y emociones del ser humano. Unas veces esa excusa es el teatro (La caja italiana), otras el fútbol (Un gol en la frente) y otras la fortuna (El sacrificio de ganar), ofreciendo diversos niveles de profundización.

Obra

Poesía
 Rua das janelas verdes. Con prólogo de Núria Perpinyà. Delegación de Cultura del Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real, Jaén, España, 1994.
 La caja italiana. Finalista en el Premio Antonio Machado de Sevilla y publicado en antologías y revistas literarias.
 Bomarzo. Publicado «por entregas» en la revista Babab.com.
 María de los demonios. Con prólogo de Zalín de Luis. Archione Editorial, S.L. Madrid, España, 2004.
 El cine de las sábanas blancas. Con prólogo de Guadalupe Elizalde. El Zahir Editorial. Bogotá, Colombia, 2009.
 El sacrificio de ganar. Con prólogo de Jonás Trueba. LápizCero Ediciones. Madrid, España, 2011.
 Un gol en la frente. Con prólogo de Armando G. Tejeda y dibujos de Ras de Rashid. Bohodón Ediciones S.L.. Madrid, España, 2014.
 A la vejez viruelas. Las hojas del baobab. Pliegos de cordel n.º 6.
 Moscas tres. Con prólogos de Mercedes Serna y Alejandro Luque. La Única Puerta a la Izquierda. L.U.P.I. Bilbao, España, 2017.
 Bomarzo. Con prólogo de Sigfrid Monleón y fotografías de Eva Contreras. Colección Laleñe (El Blanco de tus Ojos y La Única Puerta a la Izquierda). Madrid, España, 2019.

Teatro
 Coño (inédito). Estrenada en la sala El Montacargas de Madrid por la actriz Chiqui Fernández en 1994.
 Dulce desazón. Estrenada en la sala El Montacargas de Madrid y publicada por la editorial Archione Teatro en Madrid, 1995.
 El día que me hice caca (inédito). Inspirado en las vivencias del actor Santiago Nogués, que protagonizó su estreno en la sala Galileo-Galilei de Madrid y numerosas representaciones en otras salas españolas.
 Tripa de Guanajo con música de Lola de Cea, estrenada en la Sala Triángulo de Madrid y publicada por la editorial Archione Teatro en Madrid, 1997.

Ensayos
 El mundo sin Macondo. Monográfico sobre Gabriel García Márquez. Centro Virtual Cervantes. Comisario, coordinador y autor de los artículos:
 «Gabriel García Márquez: El mundo sin Macondo»
 Prosa en verso largo
 «Cien años de soledad: tristeza por entregas»
 «Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado»
 «Entrevista a Laura García»
 Roberto Arlt. Monográfico sobre Roberto Arlt. Centro Virtual Cervantes. Coordinador y autor de los artículos:
 «Roberto Arlt: y que el futuro diga»
 «El juguete rabioso»
 «Los siete locos»
 «Los lanzallamas»
 «Aguafuertes porteñas»
 «Camilo José Cela: El que resiste, gana». Un estudio sobre la vida y obra del premio nobel, publicado como homenaje póstumo del Centro Virtual Cervantes.
 «Acerca de Hernández. Pensamientos largos». Sobre Felisberto Hernández. Centro Virtual Cervantes.
 «El fox-trot de las sombras blancas». En el monográfico Luis Cernuda. Por este amor tan hondo que te tengo, especial sobre Cernuda en Babab.com.
 «Nos queda la palabra. De la "Poesía social" a la "Canción de autor" en España». Ponencia de Luis Miguel Madrid durante el seminario-taller «Poesía y educación: crítica, pensamiento y sensibilidad» de las VI Jornadas Universitarias de Poesía Ciudad de Bogotá, presentada en diversas universidades bogotanas en octubre de 2014 y publicado en la revista Ulrika 51, Bogotá, 2014.

Prólogos de libros
 Presentación, en el poemario Hotel de Paola Cadena Pardo. Editorial Ulrika, Bogotá, 2008.
 El pasillo, en el poemario 49 habitaciones de Darío Sánchez Carbalho. El Zahir Editorial, Bogotá, 2009.
 Gotas de tinta, en el poemario Vaso de tinta, de Liliana Gastelbondo. Editorial Torremozas, Madrid, 2010.
 Bogotá con verso, en Ríos paralelos -7 poetas latinoamericanos contemporáneos-. Ulrika editores, Bogotá, 2013.
 Soledad criminal, en Soledad criminal, disco-libro de Fernando del Castillo Matamoros, fundador de la banda 1.280 almas. Publicado por Ulrika editores, Bogotá, 2014.
 A guiño de pájaro, en el poemario Entresábanas -de selvas y sábanas- de Jairo Bernal. Visión editorial, Colombia, 2014.
 Latido caminante, en Caminos de Viento, crónicas de la Ruta Inca, de Óscar Jara-Albán. Gania ediciones, Ecuador, 2018.

Publicaciones en revistas
 Babab. Director desde el 2000. Diversas publicaciones de poemas y artículos de crítica y opinión listados en su página de autor.
 Ulrika. Diversos artículos y antologías poéticas. Miembro colaborador en España desde 2003. Colombia.
 Hojas universitarias, Revista de la Universidad Central de Bogotá, n.º 55, pp. 162-163: Poemas. Bogotá, 2004.
 Casa de Poesía Silva n.º 23: XVII Festival Internacional de Poesía de Bogotá, publicación de poemas. Bogotá, Colombia, 2009.
 Arquitrave n.º 42, pp. 52-56: Poemas. Colombia, 2009.
 Alpialdelapalabra. «Luis Miguel Madrid: El sacrificio de ganar». Argentina, 2011.
 Arquitrave n.º 53, pp. 47-57: Poemas con prólogo de Alejandro Luque. Colombia, 2012.

Antologías
 Desde la otra orilla -Visita a la poesía española contemporánea-, editado por el Festival Internacional de poesía de Bogotá con el apoyo de la Embajada de España en Colombia y el Centro Cultural y Educativo Reyes Católicos, Bogotá, 2003.
 Memorias del XI Festival Internacional de poesía de Bogotá, editada por CORPOULRIKA - Corporación de las artes y las letras Ulrika - con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. Bogotá, 2003.
 20 poetas españoles/colombianos: una exposición. Números 39/40 de Ulrika y Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.
 Antología 30. Antología del premio de poesía Arcipreste de Hita, Alcalá la Real, 1979-2008. Editorial Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2009.
 Museum, la pintura escrita. Antología de la relación de la poesía con la pintura desde los orígenes de nuestra civilización hasta nuestros días. Litoral. Málaga, 2015.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 «"Coño", tres historias de mujer en un monólogo». Reseña en El País, 1994.
 «Perder es cuestión de denuedo». Crítica de El sacrificio de ganar por Alejandro Luque, 2012.
 Entrevista al escritor Luis Miguel Pérez Madrid para Crossroads Radio. Por Paz Mediavilla, para la sección «Lunes de teatro», 2013.
 «Luis Miguel Madrid: Poeta», en Periodista Digital, 2015.
 «¡Hala Madrid!». Crítica de Un gol en la frente por Alejandro Luque, 2015.
 Página en la web del Festival Internacional de Poesía de Bogotá, 2017.
 Para recordar a Luis Miguel Madrid, por Harold Alvarado Tenorio. Periódico Debate, Colombia, 2020.
 «Luis Miguel Madrid: un poeta de todos nosotros», en Poesía Bogotá, 2020.
 «Luis Miguel Madrid, in memóriam», por Daniel Gascón en la revista Letras Libres, 2020.
 Homenaje a Luis Miguel Madrid, en Babab.com, 2020.

Escritores de Madrid
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Escritores en español del siglo XXI
Dramaturgos de España del siglo XX
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Q: How to handle chained promises I'm a little bit confused how should I handle the promises in my situation.
This is my factory:
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In my factory I try to avoid doing like this:
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Because the $loaded() returns a promise itself.
And this is my controller:
var categoryId = 'abc';
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What I want to achieve is to get the category first, and then whether there are some errors or not, get the entry respectively. The data is coming from a Firebase database.
This is kind of working, however I'm not really sure how should I handle the promise when I want to do a next .then and don't nest them one in the other like this:
MyFactory.getCategory().then(function(category) {
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For now I'm getting an error in the console (it's type error entry undefined) when for example the category expired or does not exist.
I think I did something wrong in the controller when I return but I'm not really sure and hope you can help me dispel all doubts.
So the real question is how should I handle this correctly, to work as expected?
Thanks.

A: You should return a rejected promise when there is an error.
Look at the following example:
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    .catch(function (error) {
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Do not forget to inject $q to your controller.
Edit
I would also suggest you move the "error logic" to your service, so the controller would always received either data in .then(data => { ... }) or an error string in .catch(error => { ... }). This would make your controllers cleaner and if you use those service method in a different controller, you would not have to replicate your logic there as well.
Service
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Merritt College is a public community college in Oakland, California. Merritt, like the other three campuses of the Peralta Community College District, is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The college enrolls approximately 6,000 students.

History

Merritt College (named for physician Dr. Samuel Merritt) was opened as a general campus in 1954. Merritt College was originally located on Grove Street in North Oakland but later moved to Campus Drive in the hills of East Oakland.

Grove Street

The original Merritt College was located at what is now 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (then called Grove Street) in the flatlands of North Oakland. In 1923, the campus of University High School was built for children of faculty of the University of California in Berkeley. The campus closed during World War II, but was reopened as the Merritt School of Business in 1946. In 1954, the Oakland Unified School District, then operating the Merritt campus and the Laney Trade and Technical School, formed Oakland Junior College (later renamed Oakland City College). In 1960, the same year as the opening of Skyline High School, OUSD decided to relocate Merritt College from Grove Street to the hills of East Oakland.

Although the demographics of North Oakland changed throughout the 1950s and 1960s, it was not until the mid-to-late-1960s that the student and faculty population began to change. After the 1960 California Master Plan for Public Higher Education, more Black students began to attend Merritt. In the early 1960s, the Afro-American Association began recruiting Merritt students. By 1964, students formed the Soul Students Advisory Council, predecessors to the Black Student Union (BSU). Merritt Community College was the meeting place for prominent leaders of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. The two met in September 1962 and shortly after began organizing the Black Panther Party. There were many public displays of unrest on the campus during this time, speaking to the Cuban blockade, the black experience, and other political topics. The two leaders also attended many politically charged classes at the school such as experimental sociology, Black History, and Negro History. This occurred in September 1966 and started as Huey and Bobby brainstorming a ten-point platform. As the two grew closer, they first became involved in local organizations in Oakland only to eventually create their own.

Against numerous protests by students and community members, Merritt was relocated from Grove Street to the hills of East Oakland in 1971. Merritt was renamed North Peralta Community College but was commonly known as Grove Street College. In 1975, a judge ordered the physical plant closed for seismic issues. The Grove Street campus was used as the primary filming location for the 1987 film, "The Principal."

This site, now rehabilitated and serving as the north campus of the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Campus Drive

The present campus was opened in 1971. Funding came primarily as a result of a 1965 bond issue which also established a new downtown Oakland ("Civic Center") campus building for Laney College and the founding of the College of Alameda.

Occupational programs

Merritt College's occupational programs include nursing and health professions, community social services/substance abuse counseling, environmental management and technology, cybersecurity, computer information systems, landscape horticulture and environmental management, paralegal studies, real estate and restoration technology. A one-year Microscopy Certificate is also offered.

Notable alumni

Oakland City College, Merritt campus

 Richard Aoki, Black Panther Party official and civil rights activist
 Saundra Brown Armstrong, district judge
 Chauncey Bailey, journalist
 Wendell Hayes, National Football League player
 Elbert Howard, Black Panther Party co-founder
 Judy Juanita, poet, novelist and playwright
 MacArthur Lane, National Football League player
 Ted Lange, actor
 Joe Morgan, Major League Baseball player
 Gerald Nachman, journalist
 Huey P. Newton, Black Panther Party co-founder
 Patricia Rodriguez, artist
 Pharoah Sanders, jazz musician
 Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party co-founder
 Ron Silliman, poet
 Marvin X, poet and playwright
 René Yañez, artist and community activist

Merritt College

 John Bailey, actor
 Glenn Burke, Major League Baseball player
 Percy Robert Miller (Master P), rapper, record producer, actor

See also

 Berkeley City College
 Laney College
 College of Alameda

References

External links
 Official website.

Education in Oakland, California
California Community Colleges
Universities and colleges in Alameda County, California
Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Educational institutions established in 1954
1954 establishments in California
Modernist architecture in California


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