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NBA star J.R. Smith shares moving photo after baby daughter's preterm birth
"Today is one of the greatest days of my life."
Image: JR Smith, instagram
By Sam Laird 2017-02-07 01:49:39 UTC
J.R. Smith is known as something of a lovable knucklehead among NBA fans, and for pretty good reason.
But no one was laughing when Smith and his wife, Jewel Harris, shared some sad news last month.
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Smith and Harris, who were married just last summer, after his Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA championship, posted a tough video online on Jan. 7. In that video, Harris looked into the camera and told the internet that the couple's baby girl, Dakota, had been born five months early.
Dakota was alive, but five days after birth she weighed just one pound.
.@TheRealJRSmith and his wife share difficult family news. pic.twitter.com/efNsDANUo8
— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) January 7, 2017
Smith and Harris didn't provide much more information then, but the situation was clearly dire.
A preterm berth occurs when a baby is born after less than 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC says about about 1 in 10 babies born in the U.S. in 2015 was affected by the condition, which can cause serious health issues and even death.
That's bad enough, but worse still was that little Dakota was on the extreme end of that spectrum; being born five months early would indicated Harris was pregnant for little more than 20 weeks.
The Jan. 7 announcement by Smith and Harris was a somber moment for basketball fans. The news was doubly crushing because it struck Smith, who has seemed to mature a bit in recent years, just after he and Harris had been married, and just after he'd won his first NBA title.
On Monday, though, Smith updated the world with a bit of good news.
"Today is one of the greatest days of my life," he wrote to caption a photo he shared on Instagram. "Today I get to hold my youngest for the first time! GOD is GREAT! #DakotaStrong"
Today is one of the greatest days of my life. Today I get to hold my youngest for the first time! GOD is GREAT! #DakotaStrong
A photo posted by JR Smith (@teamswish) on Feb 6, 2017 at 9:10am PST
This does not mean the family is out of the woods yet — but it's definitely a dose of good news for Smith, Harris and interested NBA fans who have followed their tumultuous journey of late.
Here's wishing Smith, Harris and baby Dakota the best going forward.
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Princess Eugenie 'scared' about wedding
Photo: Bang
Published Friday, October 12, 2018
Princess Eugenie admits she is "scared" about her wedding to Jack Brooksbank, which will take place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on Friday.
The 28-year-old royal is set to tie the knot with fiancé Jack Brooksbank at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on Friday and admits she is hugely nervous about the big day.
She shared: "It's nerve-wracking and a bit scary and all the things that come with getting married, but at the end of the day you get to marry the person you love. And you're [Jack] going to be at the end of the aisle, and I'm going to be running towards you!"
Eugenie and Jack met at exclusive Swiss ski resort Verbier in 2010 and she admits it was "love at first sight" when they locked eyes on each other.
Speaking about how she felt at the time, she added: "I think I rang my mum that night and said, 'I've met this guy Jack.' I remember being like 'I really, really like this guy. I really want him to like me too', and then you gave me this huge windscreen wiper wave and that was it, 'right, he likes me.'"
And Jack thinks Eugenie has been "incredible" with all the wedding planning.
He told Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford: "She's been incredible, she has the ability to do a million things at once in her brain, including working as well as organising everything to do with the wedding."

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Dazzling, defiant, but disappointed: Lancers lose at Diablo Valley
Michael Watkins/ Courier Jocelyn Jo of Pasadena City College competes in the Womens 100 Yard Butterfly at the SCC Double Dual at Rio Hondo College on Friday, March 16, 2018.
By: Ethan Axtell Posted on March 19, 2018
Last Friday, the Lancers were unable to secure victory in their swim meet against Diablo Valley College, but tasted some redemption on Saturday at De Anza College.
Despite winning only 8 of the 27 races in a losing effort against Diablo valley College on Friday, the Lancers did defeat De Anza college, and on Saturday, won the the College of Marin Invitational. Over the course of the two meets, the Lancers also acquired some valuable information about how to compete in Northern California.
The most formidable opponent at the meets was the triumphant Diablo Valley College, who secured victories in the men's and women's divisions. Last year, the Lancers confrontation with Diablo Valley had yielded the reverse result. "We won the men's meet against Diablo Valley and we hoped to do the same this year. Unfortunately we had two people not at one hundred percent. One stayed at home ill and another was injured," said Lancers head coach Terry Stoddard.
Despite these disadvantages, the Lancers still provided some stiff competition, and a number of athletes won their events in dominant fashion. Defending State Champion Melissa Cienega reminded her competitors of her incredible command of her events, winning at the mile and 500 yard freestyle races. Fellow defending State Champion Samuel Jo scored victories in the 100 yard backstroke, 200 yard freestyle, and the 200 yard backstroke.
In addition Sydney Odent reigned supreme in the 500 yard freestyle, the mile, and the 200 yard individual medley. Coach Stoddard remarked about Odent's performance. "To take on a formidable a foe as Diablo Valley and win is excellent." Another exemplary Lancer performance came courtesy of Jocelyn Jo who won the 200 yard breaststroke against Diablo Valley.
Coach Stoddard said, reflecting on the team's performance on Friday against Diablo Valley that "we came to compete and were able to do so," but added that "we'd like to come back in full strength and swim them again." Regarding the team's redemptive performance on Saturday, Coach Stoddard called the meet, "a good experience," and stated that looking forward in the season, the team aims to, "swim faster than we did last year, place higher at conference, and qualify higher at state."
Despite the mixed results incurred at last weekend's meets, the Lancers are prepared, confident, and hungry to take on Rio Hondo College and Mt. San Antonio College this Friday at 12:30 a.m. at Rio Hondo College.
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Francis Ford Coppola thought 'The Godfather' would be a failure
In an intimate and vulnerable chat with Variety, Francis Ford Coppola opened up about The Godfather and the legacy of what is generally considered to be one of the best films of all time.
On March 21, Coppola will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the monumental occasion brought up one of his most renowned films and the impact it had on viewers and on himself. He also shared with Variety that he initially thought that The Godfather would fail — and he explained why.
By: Ashley Marie
Title: Francis Ford Coppola thought 'The Godfather' would be a failure
Sourced From: wegotthiscovered.com/movies/francis-ford-coppola-thought-the-godfather-would-be-a-failure/
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Alexander English (* 5. Januar 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler, der von 1976 bis 1991 in der NBA für die Milwaukee Bucks (1976–78), Indiana Pacers (1978–80), Denver Nuggets (1980–90) und Dallas Mavericks (1990–91) aktiv war.

English gehörte in den 1980er Jahren zu den dominierenden Spielern und ist einer der besten Punktesammler in der NBA-Geschichte. Von seinen 25.613 Punkten erzielte er 21.645 für die Denver Nuggets (Nuggets-All-Time-Scoring-Leader). Seine Karriere-Statistiken liegen bei 21,5 Punkten, 5,5 Rebounds und 3,6 Assists pro Spiel. Er wurde dreimal ins zweite All-NBA Team berufen, war achtmal All-Star (1982–1989) und warf sich mit 28,4 Punkten pro Spiel in der Saison 1982/83 sogar zum Topscorer der Liga. 1988 wurde Alex English außerdem mit dem J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award für soziales Engagement ausgezeichnet.

English war Präsident und später interimsmäßiger Geschäftsführer der Spielergewerkschaft National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).

1997 wurde English für seine Karriereleistung als Spieler in die Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Mitglieder der Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Weblinks

 NBA-Biographie Abgerufen am 4. Juli 2017 (in Englisch).

 Alex English in der Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (englisch)

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Mitglied der Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Basketballspieler (Indiana Pacers)
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Alan Turing broke the Nazis' Enigma code, almost invented the computer, and was persecuted to a painful suicide by the ungrateful authorities. A tortured genius and a modern martyr, Turing posthumously received an official government apology from Gordon Brown in 2009.
Sixty years earlier, in 1948, Alan Turing discovered to his chagrin that mathematicians at Manchester University had beaten him into devising the world's first programmable computer. He contacted the department and had little difficulty convincing them he should be hired, for he had had an excellent war, heavily involved in cracking the supposedly uncrackable codes that the Nazis had encrypted into their Enigma machine.
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Your Daily Phil: Former head of Golda Och Academy takes helm at CIE + Hazon joins global faith environmental effort
Good Thursday morning!
The Jewish environmental group Hazon has signed on as the first Jewish participant in the Faith Plans Programme, an initiative to organize religious communities in response to the Oct. 4 statement issued by Pope Francis, faith leaders and scientists calling for urgent measures on climate change, a Hazon spokesperson told eJewishPhilanthropy. Two Jewish groups, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and the American Jewish Congress, signed the pope's statement and helped write it.
The Faith Plans Programme is led by FaithInvest, a nonprofit membership association for faith groups that are investors and owners of assets, and the World Wildlife Fund's Beliefs and Values Programme, in which the WWF engages supporters by connecting its conservation efforts to people's spirituality and beliefs.
Hazon and the other groups, such as the World Evangelical Alliance, that have signed on as participants will try to help other groups commit to faith action plans, which could include such measures as divesting from fossil fuels, planting trees and creating greener forms of transportation for pilgrimages, which are among the world's biggest travel events.
"By partnering with the Faith Plans Programme, we are able to elevate our work to an international stage while simultaneously learning from and supporting new partners across many faith backgrounds," Hazon said.
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The founder of the Center for Israel Education taps a mentee and colleague as his replacement
The Center for Israel Education (CIE) has appointed former day school leader Adam Shapiro as its new president, replacing founding president Kenneth Stein, who will become the organization's chief content officer, Stein told eJewishPhilanthropy's Helen Chernikoff. The center's core mission of creating educational materials will not change, Shapiro said, adding that he will focus on gaining wider digital distribution for that content, and on securing funding for the organization.
A long-standing relationship: "I'm not a millennial. I'm not in Gen-Z," said Stein, a professor who has taught contemporary Middle Eastern history at Emory University since 1977. "So bringing in someone who's 35 years younger than I am makes all the sense in the world. It's our reach that's the major target." Shapiro and Stein have known each other since Shapiro, who graduated from Emory in 2001, visited the school as a teenager to help decide where he wanted to attend college. Shapiro was most recently the head of the Golda Och Academy in West Orange, N.J., where he created a course on the history of modern Israel using CIE sources that became a study-abroad program in Israel. When Stein founded CIE in 2008 to create resources, workshops and presentations about the modern State of Israel for students, educators and adult learners, he invited Shapiro to join the board.
Internet-fueled growth: Initially, CIE saw itself mainly as a creator of curriculum and a trainer of teachers. A day school initiative brings CIE materials into schools and helps train teachers to use them. The center's growth on the internet, however, has broadened Stein's vision of its audience. "We started with educators, then started serving students, young adults, rabbis and then people on the internet," he said. "We're probably doing more work now with the general public than we've done with any other group." Israel education was a new field in 2008, which was also the year Anne Lanski founded the Chicago-based iCenter with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Marcus Foundation and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. The funders had noted the disconnectedness of American Jewry to Israel and the sometimes disconnected nature of Israel curricula and envisioned a field of Israel education with a shared philosophy around Jewish identity and standards of practice, according to a 2018 iCenter impact study.
Caring for clergy while they care for us
"A year ago, I wrote an article for eJP about clergy pain. I spoke about the experiences of empty sanctuaries, Zoom fatigue, funerals with no mourners, Viddui over the phone and the quiet desperation of needing to uplift communities when you yourself are simply spent. None of us expected to be here again this year," writes Betsy S. Stone, an adjunct faculty member at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in an opinion piece for eJewishPhilanthropy.
Learnings: "In my work with rabbis over the past 18 months across North America, I've learned a lot. I've learned that they are resourceful and giving. I've learned that they may be incredibly sad, often despairing. I've learned how creative they may be. I've learned how often they feel unappreciated. I've learned that they are willing to share with their colleagues. And I've learned that many of them feel like they are alone and unsupported. The relationship between rabbi and congregation is a sacred partnership – a mutual experience of support and challenge. We expect our clergy to push us to grow and to help us grieve. But what can they expect from us?"
Pushed to the limit: "Our Jewish professionals are spent. I know what you're thinking. We're all spent. And that's true. Everything I'm saying here applies to all of us. I think we could focus on doctors, nurses, teachers, federation staff, therapists and grocery workers. But I want you to know the hours I've listened to clergy in tears. I've heard stories of clergy undermined by congregational leadership – through neglect, public criticism and disrespect. Others tell of micromanagement or intrusions into their personal lives. We may be reaching a point where too many clergy are giving up, want out."
Read the full piece here.
MENSCHING UP
Men must hold each other accountable over the disrespect of women
"How often have we men joked with each other at the expense of women, laughing it off as no big deal? How often have we heard a male coworker interrupt and speak over women as if they are invisible?" asks David Cohen, manager of strategic advancement at Shalom Bayit in Berkeley, Calif., in an opinion piece for eJewishPhilanthropy.
Jewish orgs, too: "How often have we shrugged it off because we weren't the instigator, or forgotten about it because we didn't deem it significant?… This also happens in the Jewish organizations we love and support. That our organizational leaders and boards allow this to go on is unacceptable. It is time for men to change that culture of silence… We hesitate to name or believe allegations of abuse when the perpetrator is our friend or colleague or an esteemed community leader. That should not let them off the hook."
Taking responsibility: "A report from Leading Edge, a think tank that conducts research on Jewish organizations, showed that 70 percent of the Jewish professional workforce is female but 70 percent of the leadership is male. No wonder we still have a problem. Men are usually the perpetrators of sexual harassment. In heterosexual relationships, 90 percent of domestic violence is perpetrated by men. Those numbers suggest clearly that men need to take responsibility for change. Asking those questions about our own behaviors — then holding ourselves and each other to a standard of respectful behavior in accordance with our Jewish values — is both a Jewish imperative and the real meaning of mensch."
High-priority item: "It seems simple: Men need to treat women with respect. We must believe women when they seek help or support in the face of sexual harassment or domestic abuse. Perhaps most importantly, men must step to the plate and speak out publicly. For any meaningful sea change to occur, a multitude of men — including the most prominent and powerful — need to make this a priority. By doing so, we can choose to be on the right side of history."
Worthy Reads
Ties That Bind: While social distancing is essential to combat the spread of COVID-19, it's also important to acknowledge and try to mitigate the damage the practice wreaks on social bonds, writes Ilana Horwitz, who holds a chair in the study of contemporary Jewish life at Tulane University, in The Conversation. A study she conducted of low-income Jewish parents in the Philadelphia area, some of whom were involved in the Jewish community, revealed that those who had those connections were able to receive much-needed help as a result. As the pandemic persists, those relationships are weakening due to a lack of physical interaction. "If human interactions are hindered for long periods of time, social capital could break down," Horwitz concludes. "This could profoundly unravel the social ties that bind Americans together and motivate them to transcend their self-interests to help others." [Conversation]
Drop In The Bucket: Philanthropic giving to the cause of marine conservation has doubled in the past 10 years, but at $1.2 billion in 2020, it's still not enough to mitigate climate change and heal the world's oceans, reports Jennifer Roche in InsidePhilanthropy. The increased giving is coming from foundations that have long been interested in the issue, such as the Packard Foundation and Japan's Nippon Foundation, and new donors including Bloomberg Philanthropies and Benioff Ocean Initiative. "To have doubled the amount of resources going into ocean work is really a tremendous, exciting feat that I expect to continue," said Meg Caldwell of the Packard Foundation, "despite the fact that it's still not enough." [InsidePhilanthropy]
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Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis announced 190 grants totaling $9 million through two Lilly Endowment 2021 clergy renewal programs that help congregations support their pastors by providing funding for a respite from ministerial duties and a period of extended reflection and renewal… The Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania launched the Executive Program in Faith and Social Impact… A traveling exhibition about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opened at the New York Historical Society… After 30 years as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's director of pan-European programming, Mario Izocvich is leaving the organization to focus on his consultancy practice…
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On Monday, third-grade students from Lehrman Community Day School in Miami Beach, Fla., practiced their Hebrew letters during a lesson that combined Hebrew and Jewish studies with art.
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Forbes names PATH one of America's top charities
January 13, 2023 by PATH
PATH was named in the Forbes Top 100 Charities in America in December 2022.
This notable list highlights America's largest charities based on support and donations, and features categories of health care, domestic and international needs, and animal welfare. PATH scored 98 percent in fundraising efficiency, and 89 percent in charitable commitment. Rankings are based solely on private contributions.
"It's an honor to be included among such prestigious and impactful organizations," said Ankita Aras, PATH's Director of Philanthropy. "Our global team is at work in 70 countries, improving access to lifesaving health technologies from COVID-19 vaccines and medical oxygen generators to affordable diagnostics and essential medicines. We are so grateful to the many generous donors who make our work possible."
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'Soul Queen of New Orleans' Irma Thomas
Soul Queen of New Orleans named honorary Muse for Krewe of Muses parade
by: Raeven Poole
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — "The Muse of Music" are the word used by Muses Krewe Captain Staci Rosenberg, to describe their honorary pick for the 2023 Carnival season.
Captain Rosenberg announced Thursday that NOLA's very own Grammy award-winning jazz and blues singer Irma Thomas is serving as the Krewe's 2023 Honorary Muse.
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"On 'Muses Thersday', February 16th, Thomas will lead the parade riding in the 17-foot-tall fiber optic encrusted red high-heel shoe float." Rosenberg says, "We are absolutely thrilled to have Irma Thomas as our 2023 Honorary Muse. We refer to her as our 'Sole Queen.' She is an inspiration and a role model to all of the Muses."
With gospel roots, Thomas got her start singing in the church before making the switch over to the jazz and blues genre with her hit single "You Can Have My Husband, But Please Don't Mess With My Man" in 1960. Through the years she's worked with legends such as Allen Toussaint and Dr. John and earned herself the title of "Soul Queen of New Orleans".
The Krewe of Rex gives back with over $1.6 million in grants
Throughout her over 60-year career, she is still the city's favorite for festivals such as the ever-popular annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
The Krewe says they are excited to gift Irma Thomas this special honor because the parade rolls two days before she celebrates her 82 birthday.
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Today is the last day of 2012, so it is only fitting to end the year looking forward to the future!
While I have been accused of being a historian, I consider myself a bit of a futurist. Since 2006, I have been blogging about the future of technology, including Cloud, Big Data, and the explosion of information. As a consultant for the IBM Executive Briefing Center, I present to clients IBM's future plans, strategies, and product roadmaps.
What exactly is a futurist? Biologists study biology. Techologists study technology. But a person can't simply time-travel to the future, read the newspaper, make observations, take notes, and then go back in time to share his findings.
There is only one past. There are many possible futures.
Only six percent of humanity are alive today, so historians must study history through the writings, tools, and remains of those that have passed on. Futurists study the past and the present, looking for patterns and trends.
Search for insight. Search for foresight.
Framework to explain what happened and why. Framework to express what is possible, probable, and perhaps even preferable.
Around 200,000 years ago, in the middle of what archaeologists refer to as the [Paleolithic Era], man walked upright and used tools made of stone to hunt and gather food. Humans were nomadic and travelled in tribes to follow the herds of animals as they migrated season to season. The History Channel had a great eight-hour series called [Mankind: The Story of All of Us] that started here, and worked all the way up to modern times.
About 10,000 years ago, humans got tired of chasing after their meals, and settled down, growing their food instead. Grains like wheat, rice, and corn became staples of most diets around the world. Civilization evolved, and people traded what they grew or made in exchange for items they needed or wanted.
About 300 years ago, humans developed machines to help do things, and even to help build other machines. While farmers harnessed oxen to plow fields, and horses to speed up travel and communication, these were all based on muscle power.
Machines like the steam engine were powered by coal, petroleum, or natural gas. Today, one gallon of gasoline can do the work of 600 man-hours of human muscle power, or [move a ton of freight 400 miles].
Cities grew up with skyscrapers of steel, connected by trains, planes and automobiles. Communications with the telegraph, telephone, radio and television replaced sending message on horseback.
The forces that drove humanity to the Industrial age clashed with the culture and identity established during the Agricultural age. I highly recommend futurist Thomas Friedman's book [The Lexus and the Olive Tree] that covers these conflicts.
One of my favorite TV series was Connections, where historian [James Burke] pieced together a series of events that led to another, connecting things from the past to modern day. His latest book Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture] looks to be an interesting read.
When exactly did the Information age begin? Did it start with Guttenberg's muscle-powered [Printing Press] in the year 1450, or the first punched card in 1725?
Futurist [Alvin Toffler] published his book The Third Wave in 1980. He coined the phrase "Third Wave" to describe the transition from the Industrial age to the Information age.
While IBM mainframes were processing information in the 1950's, many people associate the Information Age with the IBM Personal Computer (1981) or the World Wide Web (1991). Over 100 years ago, IBM started out in the Industrial age, with business machines like meat scales and cheese slicers. IBM led the charge into the Information Age, and continues that leadership today.
In any case, value went from atoms to bits. Computers and mobile devices transfer bits of data, information and ideas, from nearly anyplace on the planet to another, in seconds.
Ideas and content are now king, rather than land, buildings, machines and raw materials of the Industrial age. In 1975, less than 20 percent of a business assets were intangible. By 2005, over 80 percent is.
I recommend two books on this: Chris Anderson's book [The Big Tail], and Clay Shirky's series on the [Cognitive Surplus].
While the Industrial age was dominated by left-brain thinking, the Information Age requires the creativity of right-brain thinking. I highly recommend Daniel Pink's book, [A Whole New Mind] that covers this in detail.
The problem with looking back through history as a series of "Ages" is that they really didn't start and end on specific days. The Agricultural age didn't end on a particular Sunday evening, with the Industrial age starting up the following Monday morning.
There are still people on the planet today in the Stone age. On my last visit to Kenya, I met a nomadic tribe that still lives this way. Huts were temporarily constructed from sticks and mud, and abandoned when it was time to move on.
A short-sighted charity built a one-room school house for them, hoping to convince the tribe that staying in one place for education was more important than hunting and gathering food in a nomadic lifestyle. Some stayed and starved.
There are still people on the planet today in the Agricultural age. Until this century, there were [fewer people living in cities and towns than rural areas].
In the United States, about 2 percent of Americans grow food for the rest of us, with enough left over to make ethanol and give food aid to other countries.
Sadly, the Standard American Diet continues to be foods mostly processed from wheat, rice and corn, even though our human genetic make-up has not yet evolved from a "Paleolithic" mix of [meats, nuts and berries].
There are still people on the planet today in the Industrial age. American schools are still geared to teach children for Industrial age jobs, but still take "summer vacation" to work in the fields of the Agricultural age? Seth Godin's book [Stop Stealing Dreams] is a great read on what we should do about this.
Even though we have been in the Information age for several decades now, not everyone is there yet. In my lifetime, the human population has doubled to 7 billion, but [only 2.4 billion are connected to the Internet in 2012].
Every company that wants to stay in business needs to make some predictions about the future. IBM has made bold predictions that led to the [Globally Integrated Enterprise] and building a [smarter planet]. IBM's latest "Five in Five" (five predictions of things that will impact us over the next five years) explains how [Computers will enhance our five senses of touch, taste, sight, hearing and even smell]!
As a member of [Generation X], I have seen the Information age from its early beginnings, and am excited for what lies ahead in the next three decades! Happy New Year, everyone!


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The Ponderosa episode I have been waiting for is online. Cochran has joined his former tribe-mates Jim, Keith, Dawn & Whitney at the Ponderosa camp, & the reception was just as chilly as you'd imagine. I was as surprised as Cochran was with Dawn's reaction (& I already thought she was awful!), Keith & Whitney continue to be nauseating, & Jim has now taken ownership of that hideous green skirt. Hey CBS, where's the footage explaining the skirt?
Poor Cochran has to deal with being ostracized again, even eating at the far end of the table away from the cool kids - he says he's happy about getting time to himself, but I feel sad...until he makes a friend with the cutest piglet since the Telus pig.
As always, if you're located in the US, you can watch at www.cbs.com. For the rest of us, you can watch it here in 3 parts.


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One challenge we faced at Twitter was understanding how much time it took to complete an epic. Our hypothesis was that across 300+ teams we could discern a pattern and understand how long a chunk of work took to complete on average.
Of course each team chunked work differently and epics may represent experiments, projects, or even part of a customer journey as is the case with an agile user story map. We hoped that understanding the cycle time better would enable us to improve the effectiveness of the organisation.
Unfortunately JIRA Agile/Software decoupled the status of an epic from the actual workflow using a custom field called "Epic Status". This meant we could not check cycle time for epics on a kanban board as the epic was never moved to the In Progress or Resolved state.
In this whitepaper I detail how we synced the epic status field with the workflow and understood the cycle time of epics in our organisation.


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Like a lot of schools, the University of Maine was getting by with a pair of stainless steel tubs for both heat and cold. And like a lot of Head Athletic Trainers, Paul Culina was spending time every day hauling ice, filling tubs with water, scrubbing them clean, and disinfecting them, only to do it all over again the next day.
After five years of that routine, he was ready for a change. "I told the Head Men's Ice Hockey Coach that we really needed to get a PolarPool™," says Culina, MEd, ATC, CPO, who provides primary coverage for men's and women's ice hockey. "He immediately added it to the top of his wish list, and it arrived about a month ago. Two folks from the company slid it off the truck, rolled it into place, plugged it in, filled it up, and added a little salt. Since then, I've tossed in a chlorine tab once a week, but that's all I've had to do."
With the old tubs, which only fit two or three athletes at a time, players had to wait in line–or give up and go home. With the PolarPool™, which fits five or six, cold water immersion has become a regular part of post-practice recovery, and most of the hockey players use it for 15 minutes a day.
"They love it," says Culina. "They feel invigorated when they get out, their legs feel better, and they know they can work even harder at the next practice session. Our coaches are big supporters, too, because they know the players really believe in it, and after a really demanding workout, they make sure everyone takes a turn before they leave the rink."
In the first month of using his new cold tub, Culina has seen positive results from treating ankle, knee, thigh, and groin injuries with cryotherapy. The cold water acts as an anti-inflammatory, and the hydrostatic pressure helps flush out cellular wastes that are the natural byproducts of muscle exertion, helping speed recovery from the microtrauma of daily exercise.
Culina recommends a PolarPool™ to every athlete and athletic trainer who has the chance to use one. "As an athletic trainer, the last thing you want to do is take time maintaining your modalities when you could be treating athletes," says Culina. "The 20 minutes I used to spend every day on the old tubs has become less than five minutes a week. The alkalinity is stable, the tub is generating its own chlorine, and the water is crystal clear.
"I have colleagues who raved about their Polar Pool™, so I knew it was going to be low-maintenance," he continues. "But there's even less work than I thought."
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Life at Grant Thornton
Stories of our diverse workforce
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Reward and benefits
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Building an inclusive culture
At Grant Thornton we have a "bring your whole self to work" mind set.
Don't leave anything at the door. Who you are and where you've come from are important to us. Bring it all with you.
Make work work for you. We all have commitments outside of work. Be flexible and agile to meet the demands of work and life.
Being different, creates a difference. Everyone brings something different to the table. Diversity in thought, background and experiences is good for business.
Every day we work to help people find out how they can bring their whole self to work. Our flexible and agile working practices and policies allow people to balance their work with things that are most important in their life. Whether it's taking care of your family or taking care of yourself, everyone needs the flexibility to manage what life and work may require. We know that there's still work we need to do to create a fully inclusive working culture, but we are ready for the challenge and continue to strive for excellence.
Read stories of our diverse workforce
We've been curious and asked our people to open up and share their stories with us. These stories touch on many important topics such as living with disabilities, taking care of loved ones, LGBT+, parental responsibilities, flexible working and more.
Positive action interview scheme
We are an inclusive employer and committed to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We therefore make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. As part of our positive action interview scheme, we will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as stated in the job advert. This interview will either be with the hiring manager or the recruiter responsible for the role and we can adjust the format of the interview to suit the needs of the individual.
If you wish to apply in a different format, please contact us on experienced.hire.resourcing@uk.gt.com and we will respond using your preferred method of contact, to discuss your application.
We are a Disability Committed employer and we work very closely with the Business Disability Forum to ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and open to all. If you would like to speak to anyone about making a reasonable adjustment or our positive action interview scheme, please contact us on the above email address.
More on our diversity and inclusion commitments
We know that building a diverse and inclusive workforce is not just one person's job. This is why we must work together to drive change and grow. We've teamed up with some of the leading industry experts to help guide us in building a more inclusive work culture and society.
Empowering the LGBT+ community
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This project examines the roles of the media on enhancement of urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nigeria. It also examine the environmental management problems with its implications on human health. The objectives of the study is to examine the causes, effects and solutions of urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nigeria, especially Nsukka urban of Enugu State. The method of research used was survey method as it is relevant in testing the opinion of the public in a matter of this kind. It is therefore expected that the background, literature review will help to know how to protect the environment from urban degradation and reduce urban sanitation to the barest minimum.
The study of the media and the society has no limit as it is an already occurrence. According to Agbo (2003); mass media have contributed a lot in the development of our country. This background of study covers a wide range of issues in the society. Nwogbunyama (2010:76) adds that "the media are interwoven with the society that neither of them can exist without the other.
i. Information: This is the constant stream of information about events in the society. Among the positive consequence of this function is the guidance which it gives to the individual in the his/her daily lives.
ii. Socialization: The media through socialization, help people to operate as an effective member of the society and fosters social cohesion and awareness thereby permitting active involvement of the individuals in public life.
iii. Education: Mass media help in transmission of knowledge so as to foster intellectual development, the formation of character and the acquisition` of skills and capacity at all stages of life.
iv. Entertainment: The media do entertain through the diffusion of its sounds and images of drama, dance, Arts, literature music, comedy, cartoons, sports, games etc for personnal enjoyment.
Socialization of individuals into the cultural setting.
Therefore, the mass media changes the perception of the society towards enhancing urban degradation and environmental sanitation especially to the peop0le of Nsukka Urban of the state. According to Ugorji (2004:18), "the respect for the life and good health imposes on us the service obligation of promoting a healthy environment, taking adequate care of our economy that, sustains life and consequently avoid or minimize environmental pollution and degradation which endangers life and health.
Ugoechi (2000), under education and enlightenment campaign of the media, the hazards associated with environmental pollution should be given extensive and wide publicity through the media. The government on the other hand, should embark on service enlightenment campaign to ensure that information on how best to dispose waste are handy, particularly among the dwellers of the Nsukka urban areas. Ugoechi stated again that laws should be put in place to catch up with defaulters that litters the environment. Incinerators and dustbins are to be provided and put in strategic positions so that wastes and refuses are not littered in our environment. To him, environmental workers and their staff are to be regularly paid to prompt speedy evacuation of these wastes.
Osogbu Stephen (2007:62), said that "due to rapid urbanization in the past three decades especially in Nsukka urban, water management has become a major problems, mans unguided development and ineffective. Waste management in also a problem and so result in a degraded environment and outbreak of diseases such as cholera, diahoearr, dysentery, malaria etc.
As it stands, effective waste management in Nsukka urban needs to be addressed urgently to achieve a sound sustainable environment. In order to achieve this, the environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban will through the media involve the government and other NGO's in the campaign against indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the environment, illegal erection of buildings in approved sites and other activities of man in the environment. In order to achieve this environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban will through the media involve the government and other NGO's in the campaign against indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the environment, illegal erection of buildings in unapproved sites and other activities of man in the environment.
Nsukka Urban is fast loosing its long held prestige as the cleanest city in the state as almost all its well constructed roads and streets are now being littered with refuse dumps and as a result, poses threat to health and life of the citizens and also affect its aesthetics values.
The problems of urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban have led to atmospheric pollution, water pollution, offensive odour, accidents and traffic congestions and general degradation of the environment. This is an eye sore to our prestige as waste dumps are becoming homes for armed robbers and other street urchins and finally gives rise to global warming. The regimes of Nsukka LGA chairmen in 1999-2003,2003-2007,2007-2009 failed to provide avenue for refuse disposals in the urban city of Nsukka. This failed effort by the local government bosses enabled our streets to be unpassable as heavy dumps of refuse are heaped at every corner. the council failed also to provide a constructed abattoir meat sellers ,construst well graded roads with gutters. These areas, includes, the UNN second gate, Onuiyi axis of Nsukka, the Ugwuawarawa link road to Alor and host of other unkept portions of Nsukka with heavy refuse dumps.
The main abattoir in Nsukka was situated at the centre of the Ogige market thereby constituting health hazards to the marketers.
In Nsukka, there are unapproved building being erected at every nook and cranny of Nsukka and the council chairmen under such regimes failed to issue order for demolition of such illegal buildings as these buildings deface the entire look of Nsukka Urban and again block the free flow of running water during rainfalls. There are uncleaned gutters that are being filled up with refuses which the environmental workers do overlook in performing their functions. The council boss also failed in actualizing the dreams of Nsukka in becoming the cleanest city in Enugu State. They did more harm than good to Nsukka urban in maintaining cleanness of the city.
In 2003, the council boss started the beautification of the areas which he did not accomplish and this has made Nsukka to look odd and defaced due to failed effort of the boss. There are unfinished road projects, markets and other social amenities which have helped in making the Nsukka urban look so dirty. The failed efforts by the past council chairman did more harm than good in enhancing urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban. This contributed immensely on the poor condition that the Nsukka urban is facing in terms of urban cleanness.
i. Examine the issue of Urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban and negative effects on human health.
ii. To identify challenges facing environmental management and proffer solution.
iii. To examine the gains, in having a good and effective urban sanitation.
This research work is done in order to alert the society through the media on the degradation and environmental sanitation especially in Nsukka Urban and the impact it has on the healthy and well being of the state in particular and the country in general.
The study or research will also enlighten the people through the media and its practitioners, the government and the ESWAMA on their roles in maintaining urban and environmental cleanness.
The cleanness of the environment will improve the living standard of the people by avoiding the spread of communicable diseases which includes cholera chicken pox, dysentery, diarrhea etc to residents of Nsukka urban. There will be proper maintenance of the environment if these requires are not dumped or littered indiscriminately in the environment. This will equally reduce the rate of defacement of the environment in Nsukka urban.
Finally, the cleanness will increase or improve the free flow of traffics as there will be low or little dumps of refuse in our environment.
The beneficiaries of such cleanness includes market women, children, residents of Nsukka urban, students, artisans, drivers and environmental managers.
i. How do you view the role of the media in the enhancement of urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nsukka?
ii. Are you aware of the mass media messages on the enhancement of urban degradation and environmental cleanness.
iii. What are the implications of health hazards of a dirty environments to lives of Nsukka urban?
iv. To what extent do citizens support the improvement of environmental cleanness by paying their taxes or sanitation levies.
v. Can the problem of indiscriminate refuse dumps in Nsukka urban be solved through the mass media campaign.
The research hypothesis of this study will be based on the research questions.
H1: The mass media play significance role in enhancing urban degradation and environmental cleanness in Nsukka.
H0: Mass media do not play any role in enhancing urban degradation and environmental, sanitation in Nsukka urban.
H2: The health implication of dirty environments to the lives of Nsukka urban are not dangerous?
H0: The health implication of dirty environments to the lives of Nsukka urban are dangerous?
H3: Are people aware of the media messages on the need to enhance urban degradation and environmental sanitation.
H0: Are People not aware of the media messages on the need to enhance urban degradation and environmental sanitation.
H4: Citizens support the urban cleanness through the payment of taxies.
H0: People do not support sanitation through their inability to pay their sanitation levies and taxes.
H0: Media campaign cannot solve the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Nsukka urban.
According to Agbo and Ukozor (2004:40) a theory can be said to be a formed set of ideas that intends to explain why something happens or exists.
Bower and Contright (1984:13) defined theories "as set of statements asserting relationships among classes of variables".
Little John, (1996:3) defines theories as a scholars best representation of some of affairs based on systematic observation" Griffin (1994) also takes this broader view writing that a theory is an idea that explains an event or behaviors'.
i. Social Responsibility Theory: According to Agbo and Okoro (2003:23) this theory of mass communication states that the media should fulfill certain obligation which are to be met by their new reports and interpretation on some important issues in the society. Here, healthy living of the people is not left out of this social responsibility of the media therefore, the media should sensitize the people on how best to manage their waste in their immediate surroundings.
ii. Agenda Setting Theory: The agenda setting theory is mass media will be the foundation stone in assessing the role of mass media in enhancement of urban degradation and environmental sanitation in Nsukka urban.
Agenda setting according to Agbo and Okoro (2003:31) is that the media has the power to set and determine what we are thinking about by pre-determining what issues are regarded as important in our society. Therefore, the media has the power to change people behavior and attitude towards the issues of urban sanitation enhancement and environmental degradation by frequently reporting and interpreting the issues of enhancement of urban sanitation and degradation and how it affects human health.
The agenda setting theory is based on the study conducted by walter Lippaman in 1992. He stated that the media are responsible for the picture in our head.
According to Ndolo (2005:39) "agenda setting theory explain the effects of mass communication on culture and society. It describes the power influence of the media, the ability to tell what issues are important that the media help put picture in our heads.
Baran (1999:327) states that "in choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff and broadcaster, play an important part in shaping the important issues that are related to the society. It could be said that through, agenda setting theory, public related is used as a channel to mobilize, sensitize, socialize, create awareness as well as inform residents of Nsukka Urban on the enhancement of urban degradation and environmental sanitation.
The agenda setting theory proposes that the public agenda or what kind of things people discuss, think and worry about and sometimes press for legislation is powerfully shaped and directed by what the new media choose to publicize (Lavson 1988). This mean that if the broadcast media decide to give the most time and space to coverage of developmental programmes in the community, the issue will become the most important item on the audience agenda.
The study or research covers mostly areas in Nsukka Urban and its surrounding environment which includes Alor Uno, Obimo, Opi, Ede-Oballa Nguru, Edem and Obukpa, Lejja Communities.
i. Role: The proper function or behavior of something or somebody.
ii. Mass Media: The means of communication that reaches large number of people such as newspaper, magazines, radio/TV.
iv. Degradation: The eye-sore condition of something or environment.
vi: Environment: The areas surrounding an organism which have an impact on their development and survival.
Vii: Enhancement: To increase or further improve the good quality value or status of something.
ii. Mass Media: This includes the print and broadcast media in Nsukka which through their news programmes and documentaries, environmental enhancement can be sustained. (Lion Fm UNN, News today, starlite).
iv: Sanitation: The process of ensuring proper waste management in Nsukka.
V: Degradation: The loss of respect of environment by people.
Vi: Environment: Places or things that surround Nsukka like roads, streets, markets, churches, play grounds etc.
Vii: Enhancement: The improvement of waste management in order to ensure healthy environment.


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You really have to see a video of a Ned Kahn sculpture to understand its mystical genius. A photo just won't work.
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His most spectacular piece so far is a huge, water vortex skylight in a Singapore shopping mall. Jets of water kick up a powerful whirlpool in a huge acrylic bowl. Then the water hurdles through a hole at the bottom of the bowl and drops down two floors into another pool.
Kahn, who grew up in Stamford, Conn., has made more than 100 pieces around the world, though none in Connecticut yet. The closest example is a kinetic skin that resembles shark skin that wraps about the New York Aquarium's new building on Coney Island.
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Residents in Brent Knoll fighting controversial plans for 18 new homes say they are "gutted" by a decision to give the scheme the go-ahead.
Sedgemoor District Councillors granted approval on Tuesday (January 22nd) despite 56 households objecting to the scheme.
Coln Residential wants to build 18 new homes at the junction of the A38 and Brent Street in the village, as Burnham-On-Sea.com first reported here.
The plans were considered by district councillors at Tuesday's Sedgemoor Development Control meeting.
Some of the Brent Knoll residents who opposed the plans travelled to Bridgwater to hear the committee approve the scheme.
This, the latest scheme proposed by Coln Residential for a field outside the village development zone and alongside the busy A38, provides 18 houses – seven of which are to be designated 'affordable'.
The Development Committee debated the application for more than an hour, with many councillors voicing concerns about consultation and the proximity to the dangerous junction of the A38 and Brent Street. Nonetheless, the final vote was overwhelmingly in favour of approval, with just two councillors voting against.
Residents who attended Tuesday's meeting heard that the Parish Council's decision to submit a 'no observations' verdict would normally be read as being in favour of consent. The tipping vote at the Parish Council meetings was cast by Cllr Bob Filmer, who is also the village's District and County Councillor, as well as being Chairman of Sedgemoor's Development Committee, however he did not vote during this week's district council meeting.
Both objectors and applicants were allowed just one speaker each at Tuesday's committee meeting – with a strict limit of three minutes to address the committee.
Coln Residential's application was on a P4 basis (ie the rules for a site that is outside the permitted development area), which demands that it is either community-led or community supported.
"The Sedgemoor committee was told that it would be seen as a T5 application under new planning rules that have yet to be adopted, which reduces public support from 'vital' to 'encouraged'. That's like changing the rules half-way through a match – and before those new rules have been agreed", David claims.


The Gujjars will not hesitate from resorting to another round of agitation in Rajasthan if their demand for reservation in jobs was not met soon, chairman of the Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti Kirori Singh Bainsla said on Tuesday.
Bainsla has called for a Mahapanchayat at Samogar village in Bharatpur on May 21 to decide the future course of action on the issue. The Gujjars had launched a Nyay Yatra on the issue on May 11 which would culminate at Samogar. He said the government would be responsible if anything untoward happened, as such "hum takrav nahin chahte (we don't want a confrontation with the government on the issue).
District magistrate Ravi Jain said eight duty magistrates had been asked to keep a coordinated vigil along the course of the yatra and the superintendent of police to keep adequate forces ready to meet any eventuality. Jain has also written to the divisional railway managers of western and north-central railways to remain alert in view of Bainsla's call.
The cause of preparedness is that the Gujjars had staged a 17-day agitation across the state in 2010 which was accompanied by angry rail and road jams which left many trains cancelled and disrupted the inter-city transport.
Bhainsla said the yatra would also route through Pilupura where about 16 people of the community had lost life in police firing during the agitation in 2008.
During the yatra, prominent leaders, Kirori Bainsla, Shri Ram Bainsla, Harprasad and Roop Singh are visiting the villages and inviting the people to the mahapanchayat with yellow rice, requesting them to turn up in large numbers to build pressure on the government.
The demand for quota in job was first raised in 2006. Several commissions had been set up between 2006 and 2013 to find out a solution, but nothing concrete has been done in this regard, said another prominent leader Bhoora Bhagat.
About 72 Gujjars have lost their life during various agitations since 2007 in this connection. Five BJP MLAs also quit to show their solidarity with the Gujjars in 2007 but the demand was still pending.
In May 2010, Bainsla had reached an accord with the Congress government with the later agreeing to 1% reservation to Gujjars in the special backward class category within the 50% quota. The remaining 4% was put on hold as the issue was pending in a court.
Bainsla renewed the quota stir in December 2010 and sat on the Delhi-Mumbai rail track. He had even claimed then that a kind of naxalism was taking root among the Gujjar youth as the quota issue was still to be decided.
Later, he ended the agitation after former chief minister Ashok Gehlot assured the Gujjars that the government was serious about resolving the matter.
Additional advocate general of the state GS Gill on Tuesday filed an early hearing application in the matter. Government wanted to pre-pone the hearing which is scheduled for July 16.
Sources said state government has filed this application because Gujjars have threatened to intensify the agitation. In 2012, the government had given 5% reservation in jobs to special backward classes comprising Gujjars, Rebaris, Gadia Luhars, and Banjaras and 14% to economically backward classes, taking the reservation from 49 % to 68%.
But this was stayed by the division bench of Rajasthan High Court on the ground that more than 50% reservation without any valid justification is unconstitutional.
This was a big setback to the Gujjars and the state government had challenged this order.