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package com.google.cloud.securitycenter.v1p1beta1.samples;

// [START securitycenter_v1p1beta1_generated_SecurityCenter_UpdateSource_async]
import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
import com.google.cloud.securitycenter.v1p1beta1.SecurityCenterClient;
import com.google.cloud.securitycenter.v1p1beta1.Source;
import com.google.cloud.securitycenter.v1p1beta1.UpdateSourceRequest;
import com.google.protobuf.FieldMask;

public class AsyncUpdateSource {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    asyncUpdateSource();
  }

  public static void asyncUpdateSource() throws Exception {
    // This snippet has been automatically generated and should be regarded as a code template only.
    // It will require modifications to work:
    // - It may require correct/in-range values for request initialization.
    // - It may require specifying regional endpoints when creating the service client as shown in
    // https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/setup#configure_endpoints_for_the_client_library
    try (SecurityCenterClient securityCenterClient = SecurityCenterClient.create()) {
      UpdateSourceRequest request =
          UpdateSourceRequest.newBuilder()
              .setSource(Source.newBuilder().build())
              .setUpdateMask(FieldMask.newBuilder().build())
              .build();
      ApiFuture<Source> future = securityCenterClient.updateSourceCallable().futureCall(request);
      // Do something.
      Source response = future.get();
    }
  }
}
// [END securitycenter_v1p1beta1_generated_SecurityCenter_UpdateSource_async]

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Climate Change Froze the Vikings Out of Greenland, Say Scientists
80beatsBy Valerie RossMay 31, 2011 8:19 PM
What's the News: Climate change may have sparked the demise of early Viking settlements in Greenland, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, when temperatures cooled rapidly over several decades. Around the time the Vikings disappear from the island's archaeological record, temperature appears to have plunged. Nor were the Vikings the only people in Greenland whose fortunes rose and fell with the average temperature, the study suggests. Earlier cold spells may have played a role in the collapse of two previous groups on the island. How the Heck:
To reconstruct the area's climate, the researchers took mud cores from two lakes in western Greenland. Then, they measured the levels of alkenones, fats made by algae, left behind in the mud. Since how much algae blooms depends on the water temperature, and the water temperature varies with the air temperature, this measurement lets scientists work backward to figure out what the past climate was like.
Over the past 5,600 years, the researchers found, the arrivals and departures of three groups coincided with major, rapid temperature changes.
The Saqqaq people, who first came to Greenland about 4,500 years ago, disappeared around 850 BC, when temperatures quickly cooled. At the same time, the Dorset people came to the island. As Inuits from the Canadian Arcitic, the Dorset were prepared for the cold, with a technological arsenal that included snow-cutting knives for building igloos.
About 2,000 years ago, the Dorset, too, left the island, though the reason remains unclear. It could have something to do with the climate quickly warming then rapidly cooling at about that time. "It is possible that it got so cold they left, but there has to be more to it than that," climate change researcher William D'Andrea, the study's lead author, said in a prepared statement.
The Norse Vikings arrived in Greenland around 980 AD, during a 300-year-long warm period. Starting around 1100, however, the climate cooled rapidly. Average temperature dropped 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in only 80 years. Since the Norse—Viking fame aside—were largely farmers, this drop in temperature likely hit them hard. They began to leave Greenland shortly thereafter, and by the mid-15th century their settlements lay abandoned.
What's the Context:
While the archaeological record has shown when these cultures came and went from Greenland, it has provided relatively little information as to why. This study backs up the archaeological finds and shows that climate could be a major factor in the rise and fall of these groups.
It's likely that other events and circumstances played a role, too. The Vikings, for instance, were grappling with isolation from European trade (and the much-needed resources it supplied), soil erosion, and competition from Inuit peoples.
The Future Holds:
Greenland today is undergoing rapid climate change as the Arctic warms. This warming will likely have a range of effects, from a longer growing season to a more quickly melting ice sheet. "The Arctic is undergoing major changes," D'Andrea told Scientific American. "Just like in the past, some people will benefit and others will lose out."
Reference: William J. D'Andrea, Yongsong Huang, Sherilyn C. Fritz, & N. John Anderson. "Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland." PNAS Early Edition, May 30, 2011. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1101708108
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LED Sabre – Is the Force strong with this one?
By faisalmian on 28th November 2018
Fencers, have you come across our LED lightsabre yet? In case you're wondering why a fencing manufacturer is selling a gadget like this: if made from the right materials (ours is made from polycarbonate and suitable for controlled sparring), a lightsabre is not a just a toy, but a fantastic opportunity to bring a unique take on martial arts. We've asked Faisal Mian, the London instructor of UK-based "Silver Sabres" Combat Academy, to outline the principles and development of what could become a new type of combat sports.
In his first contribution today Faisal explains the leading idea behind the art of LED sabre combat. Read his full report after the jump.
The development of foil (part 2)
By malcolmfare on 21st November 2018
Fencers! It's time for another bit of fencing history on this blog. The second half of our two-part series about the development of foil, to be precise. Written by our usual expert in the matter: Malcolm Fare. So, let's continue where we left off and go back to the late 19th century. 1896 was going to be a special and decisive year for modern foil fencing in more than one regard....
Which is the best fencing shoe for you? A comparison between the Hi-Tec x Leon Paul London Razor and the Nike Ballestra fencing shoes
By Johanna on 14th November 2018
The shoeholic is back! (You remember the confessions of Johanna, our footwear-addicted employee, from last week, right?) We obviously couldn't leave it at a report about her first impression of our new Hic-Tec x Leon Paul London Razor fencing shoe, but also asked her to weigh up the Razors against the Nike Air Zoom fencing shoes (also known as "Nike Ballestra") in order to help you choose the style which suits you best. Read on for the full comparison, including size and fit of both trainers. Continue reading →
Confessions of a shoeholic: My first impressions of the Hi-Tec x Leon Paul London Razor fencing shoe
By Johanna on 7th November 2018
When you're looking for good trainers specifically designed for fencing, the market doesn't really seem to offer much choice: a few models proposed by the two giants of sportswear brands (recognisable either by an emblematic swoosh or iconic three stripes), and that's it, right? Well, not quite: Since 2018, there is also the Razor fencing shoe, a style developed by Leon Paul in cooperation with the Anglo-Dutch brand Hi-Tec. We had them tested by Johanna, one of our employees, who is a (very active) fencer and also nurtures a deep passion for shoes. The perfect human guinea pig for the task. Read on to know all about her first impression of our new shoes.
From fencing mask making to record stores – an unusual London City Guide by Alex Massialas (part 2)
By alexmassialas on 31st October 2018
From London-Hendon to a district where the British capital feels a lot like San Francisco, from making fencing equipment to buying music albums... here's the second part of our not-so-ordinary London city guide, written by Olympic Silver medalist (and big rock'n'roll lover!) Alexander Massialas. If you want to know where London's best record store is (no, it's not in one of the more touristy boroughs!) or how Alex tackled the challenge to make a fencing mask in our factory (fans of our #FactorytourFriday series on Instagram, this is for you!), then we recommend you read on!
FoilGuard - the story and people behind the latest addition to your (foil) fencing kit
By Johanna on 24th October 2018
You might know the reasons behind its development, you might have received a newsletter promoting it and you might even have purchased it already…but do you really know the story of FoilGuard, the new EVA soft cover mandatory for all fencers wearing a chest protector in official FIE competitions (and domestic events in many countries *)? We've gathered some insight with our supplier when the product just came out last spring – read on for our background story about Richard Shearer and his company QP sports.
(Spoiler: even if you don't know it , you might already own one of their products! )
From a fencer and music lover to fencers and music lovers. An unusual London city guide
By alexmassialas on 17th October 2018
After more than five years, when you come back to the city where you fenced your first Olympics, it is always a special occasion that it's worth highlighting by some unique experiences. But when world class foil fencer Alex Massialas, the then youngest member of the US delegation in the 2012 London Olympics, got back to the British capital in 2018, he had a very specific plan for his visit: he didn't want it to be just any sightseeing trip, but one that fell perfectly in line with his interests. That the latter involve fencing won't come as a surprise to anybody (and for good reason, Alex earned an individual Silver medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics and is a regular in the world's top 10), but did you know that our favourite member of the US foil team is also very fond of music, especially rock'n'roll? So what else could we do except ask him to write down his experience in a travel diary...in order to offer you an unusual, yet incredibly compelling city guide to our brand's hometown? Read ahead for all the details of Alex's itinerary – the results of this have been ratified and tested by international Leon Paul employees, take our word for it.
By malcolmfare on 6th September 2018
Just when and where the lightweight foil emerged as a weapon in its own right remains an intriguing mystery in the history of fencing. Purpose-made practice swords with buttoned tips had been available since the rapier became a popular civilian sword in the 16th century. So how did the foil develop?
A Leon Paul Fencing Centre Wedding
By jonwillis on 23rd August 2018
December 2016, Emily & I were chasing the Northern Lights on a holiday in Iceland when I asked her to marry me. While the aurora borealis might have escaped us, she said yes. We had to wait to set the date, I didn't want any clashes with the European or World Championships but following the publication of the international fencing calendar a suitable date was found and the challenge of finding a venue was next.
Olympic & Paralympic Fencing Mascots
By Bill Murphy on 11th July 2018
Having been an organizer at the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, I understand what it feels like to have the whole world focused on the city I have lived in all my life. It makes a person feel really proud. It's kind of like having a big party and inviting the whole world. A good mascot adds to the energy and enthusiasm for the Games, especially among volunteers and organizers. A bad mascot detracts from this energy and enthusiasm.


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Q: Update android view upon changing child view visibility immediatelly I have an view, that is a RelativeLayout. Inside that layout, there is an image, that has visibility set to gone by default. What I want to achieve is to change visibility to visible programmatically and after that make a view snapshot, draw it to canvas.
    View icon = v.findViewById(android.R.id.icon2);
    if (icon != null) {
        icon.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        v.invalidate();
        v.forceLayout();
        icon.invalidate();
        icon.refreshDrawableState();
    }

....
    v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    mFloatBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getDrawingCache());
    v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

The resulting bitmap does not contain changes icon.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);. How should I invalidate the view immediatelly? Neither of the methods I used after icon.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); did not work.

A: It won't actually become visible until after it has gone through an onMeasure and an onDraw.  Until onMeasure it doesn't know its height, until onDraw it doesn't have a cache.  You're going to have to do this after the draw occurs.  There's no way to make it happen immediately.

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Also, in 2015, 7.63% could hit over 320 yards. Three years later, that number has doubled. Imagine if that trend continues over the next ten years.
But he discounts how many golfer-athletes will defect to the NFL or NBA given those numerical expressions of athleticism.


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Q: Topological Quantum Field Theories I've asked this on Math.SE, but with no avail. So, I decided to ask it here.
I was wondering about the following after reading the Wikipedia article on TQFTs.
It is said that TQFTs have vanishing Hamiltonians $\hat{\mathcal{H}}$. Firstly, I would like to ask:

Why is this so?

Secondly, consider the Schroedinger equation:
$$i\hbar\dfrac{\partial}{\partial t}\Psi=\hat{\mathcal{H}}\Psi=0$$
So, there are no dynamics or propagation. This leads to my second question:

What does one mean by "nontrivial dynamics/propagation" (as mentioned in the Wikipedia article)?

I've understood the TQFT must be invariant under time reparameterizations, the reason being pretty obvious.
Thank you!


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namespace xls {

// Holds the results of generating a JIT wrapper (see below).
struct GeneratedJitWrapper {
  std::string header;
  std::string source;
};

// Generates a header and source file for a class that "wraps" JIT creation and
// invocation for the given function.
// Args:
//   function: The function for which to generate the wrapper.
//   class_name: The name to give to the generated class.
//   wrapper_namespace: C++ namespace to put the wrapper in.
//   header_path: Path to the eventual location of the class header.
// TODO(rspringer): 2020-08-19 Add support for non-opt IR.
GeneratedJitWrapper GenerateJitWrapper(
    const Function& function, std::string_view class_name,
    std::string_view wrapper_namespace,
    const std::filesystem::path& header_path,
    const std::filesystem::path& genfiles_path);

}  // namespace xls

#endif  // XLS_JIT_JIT_WRAPPER_GENERATOR_H_


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Vandalism mars Hanukkah in Ind. college town
BLOOMINGTON, IN But in the days since, authorities have recorded several other incidents of vandalism aimed at the city's Jewish community, including someone taking Hebrew books from two libraries -- one at the university and one off-campus -- and placing them in toilets and urinating on them.
"When you go after the books, it's a much more severe act, much more premeditated. It cuts much deeper, I think, too," said Corenblum, a 22-year-old psychology major from Alabama and one of about 4,000 Jewish students on the campus of 40,000 about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
Authorities have no suspects in the incidents that began before Thanksgiving and marred the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah. But as the vandalism has increased since that first rock was found Nov. 23, so has the response from a community that prides itself on its diversity but also has dealt with hate crimes in the past.
"Rather than creating any bad feelings about people, it created good bonds," said Islamic Center president Faiz Rahman.
In a recent act of solidarity, about 200 people of various races and faiths braved temperatures in the low 20s as Mayor Mark Kruzan lit the central candle of a 9-foot menorah at Chabad House. The base of the menorah was the rock that had broken the center's window. Students and community volunteers stood watch overnight throughout Hanukkah -- the Jewish Festival of Lights -- to make sure the menorah wasn't vandalized.
The attacks have included rocks being thrown through a kitchen window at a Jewish student center a few blocks from Chabad House, at a Christian church where a Jewish group meets and at a display case at a university building housing a Jewish students program.
Another rock was hurled through the window of an upstairs apartment at Chabad House, narrowly missing a woman who lives there. Someone drew swastikas on a dry-erase board in a student dorm.
The attacks have startled students who were used to a peaceful campus atmosphere, where residents say diversity is celebrated. "I feel safe here, but it does alarm me that there are people who will go this far," said 19-year-old Emily Scott, a freshman from Madison, Ind.
Yet community leaders acknowledge Bloomington has long had a fringe element that can fuel such attacks.
The city is about 18 miles south of the nearly all-white city of Martinsville, which has struggled to distance itself from its image as a hotbed for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the place where a 21-year-old black woman who was selling encyclopedias door-to-door was killed in 1968. In Bloomington, Beth Shalom synagogue was firebombed in 1983 by members of a neo-Nazi group who were passing through southern Indiana, said Lana Ruegamer Eisenberg, who wrote a history of the congregation. In 2005, the FBI investigated an arson at a Bloomington mosque and the burning of a Quran as a hate crime.
Some of the support for the Jewish community -- including downloadable pictures of menorahs that residents can put in their windows to show solidarity -- has been orchestrated by Bloomington United. The group took root around 1999, when a white supremacist who had placed white power leaflets on cars and doorsteps around in the area went on a two-state shooting spree and killed a Korean graduate student at Indiana University.
The university's provost issued a statement condemning the vandalism, and both Jewish centers have been overwhelmed by hundreds of letters, e-mails, visits and other expressions of support from the community, from Christians, Buddhists and Muslims. A group of Muslims, for example, came to Thanksgiving dinner at the local synagogue.
"There's kind of a global sense of understanding in this community ... that there may be some problems in other places, but it doesn't have to transpire here," said Rahman, from the Islamic Center.
Police investigating the vandalism have contacted the FBI, which is reviewing whether the case should be investigated as a hate crime. Although no arrests have been made, police have released a description of a man seen near one of the rock-throwings -- a white man with grayish blond hair and a gray beard between the ages of 40 to 50.
"We are a community that has suffered in the past ... and we want to stand up now," said Kruzan, the mayor. "People said we will never forget. And it certainly has held true."
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Many people speculate that the ACA will shift medical care from being paid for by workers' compensation insurance to being paid for through health insurance. This shifting care could increase health insurance premiums and result in firms neglecting safety since they will have to pay less for work-related injuries. A new working paper by Institute economist Marcus Dillender studies the effect of workers having health insurance on the likelihood that they file for workers' compensation by examining Texas workers' compensation claims to see how the Affordable Care Act's expansion of dependent coverage to age 26 has affected whether young adults file for workers' compensation.
Adults under 35 years of age make up more than half of noninsured, nonelderly adults. Although they tend to be healthier than adults as a group, young adults are more likely to work jobs with greater physical demands and harsher environmental conditions than older worker. Because of this, they are more likely to be injured on the job. For example, between 2005 and 2013, people under 35 accounted for over one-third of workers' compensation claims in Texas.
Dillender compares the numbers of workers' compensation claims filed between 2011 and 2013 by young people between the ages of 24 and 27 and finds that whether or not a young worker had health insurance mattered in deciding whether to bill workers' compensation for medical services. In fact, a 10-percentage-point decline in the numbers of young adults with health care was associated with a 15 percent increase in workers' compensation bills.
Although workers' compensation received more bills once young people lost health insurance, the additional cost to the system was surprisingly small, since most claims came from small bills. For example, bills for physical therapy and office visits were both responsive to health insurance.
The results suggest that ACA's health insurance expansion could result in workers' compensation insurance paying for less medical care. However, because cheaper services are more responsive to health insurance, the cost savings to workers' compensation systems and the impact on employers' safety incentives will likely be small.
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Tennis World no. 1, Novak Djokovic has made Tennis history by beating Andy Murray at the French Open finals! His back-to-back victories have left the world amazed by his talent. With this, the 29-year-old has completed his career grand slam, becoming the eighth man in the world to do so. Here's more about the tennis pro... Image Courtesy: Image Procured via Google Search
Djokovic was born on 22 May 1987 in Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to parents Sr?an and Dijana.
Djokovic's two younger brothers, Marko and ?or?e, are also tennis players with professional aspirations.
Residing in Monte Carlo, Djokovic has been coached by former Slovak tennis player Marian Vajda since 2006.
Similar to Roger Federer, Djokovic is a self-described fan of languages, speaking Serbian, English, German, Italian and French.
Djokovic has been dating Jelena Ristic since 2005 and the two became engaged in September 2013.
On 24 April 2014, Djokovic announced on his Twitter page that he and Jelena are expecting their first child.
Djokovic began playing tennis at the age of four.
When the Yugoslav tennis player Jelena Gencic spotted the six-year-old Djokovic playing tennis, she stated: "This is the greatest talent I have seen since Monika Seles."
Jelena Gencic worked with young Djokovic over the following six years before realizing that, due to his rapid development, going abroad in search of increased level of competition was the best option for his future.


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Cecil Clarke, a Gaithersburg-based real estate investor owns the row of remaining properties on the 1000 block of West Baltimore Street. According to a 2015 Baltimore Sun article on the founding of the Southwest Partnership, Clarke stated that the Commercial Property and Business Owners Association, which represents firms on West Baltimore Street, should have a stake in any plan calling for facade improvements, code enforcement, or targeted demolition. Clarke also supported the Poppleton $58.6 million tax increment (TIF) bond for the New York-based La Cite housing development, telling a journalist, "The community is desperate for this project to see a new birth." Clarke recently sold the Lord Baltimore Theater (1110 W. Baltimore St.) to the Southwest Partnership, which plans to turn the historic theater into a community cultural arts center as part of the revival of West Baltimore Street.
In 2018, the dozen properties that Clarke owns on the 1000 block of West Baltimore Street received facade improvement grants from the Baltimore Development Corporation. A beauty salon and a pharmacy have already moved into the storefronts and Clarke has renovated apartments above taking the block back to its historic roots where small independent businesses were located in storefronts along the streets and residential space above.
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Need stressed for boosting Pak-Iran economic cooperation
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Balochistan Governor Amanullah Khan Yasinzai has underlined the need for boosting economic cooperation between Pakistan and Iran.
Presiding over the concluding session the 8th Pak-Iran Joint Border Trade Committee meeting here on Wednesday, he said that people of both countries were enjoying cordial and close relations, adding the decisions taken by the committee would be implemented for enhancing bilateral trade.
The governor said the present government was giving special attention to strengthening economic relations with all neighbouring countries.
He said the governments, as well as people of Pakistan and Iran, were enjoying close bilateral trade relations.
Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Governor of Sistan-Baluchestan for Economic Affairs Coordination Mandana Zanganeh, who was leading the Iranian delegation, said that the meeting discussed difficulties faced by the traders of both countries in the bilateral trade and participants from Pakistan and Iran have given suggestions to resolve these issues.
"The meeting would prove fruitful for achieving the trade target fixed by both sides," she said.
Ms Zanganeh said she was feeling great while visiting Quetta and enjoying the hospitality of the Pakistani officials and business leaders.
The committee discussed various issues pertaining to enhancing bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
Both sides agreed to continue negotiations at government level.
The meeting decided to take steps for discouraging entry of illegal immigrants in Iran and stopping drug smuggling.
The committee decided that the difficulties and hurdles affecting the trade between Iran and Pakistan would be removed and in this regard committees would be set up which would work to enhance trade and economic relations.
Balochistan Customs Collector Abdul Waheed Marwat, who led the Pakistani side, said that as a result of fruitful meeting bilateral trade and economic cooperation would be further enhanced.
He said that the hurdles pointed out by both sides would be removed with mutual understanding and consultation.
President of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry Abdul Samad Musakhail and President of the Zahidan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Abdul Rahim Regi also spoke at the meeting and suggested various steps for increasing bilateral and barter trade.
Pakistan's Consul General at Zahidan Mohammad Rafi and Iranian Consul General at Quetta Hasan Darwesh and other officials concerned also attended the two-day meeting
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The Time I Couldn't Yell at a Thai Kid Properly
May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 Matt Haines
In order to make a living while I work on this book, my work life is a combination of writing-related pursuits (I have a piece being published in The Advocate for the first time later this month!) and random gigs around town (I worked security at Jazz Fest from Thursday through Sunday, which included spending an entire day guarding Aerosmith's guitars).
My friend of forever (starting when we first met in Junior High and further strengthened when we went to college together) recently asked me to write a quick story for his podcast, My First Gig, (it's a fun podcast, especially if you're interested in the gigging life!) and that reminded me this year isn't my intro experience with weird jobs. Back in my 20s, I'd take semesters off from grad school and teach marching bands in Asia.
Teaching the Siamyth Drum Corps in Thailand. Also, I'm terrified of heights, so this is problematic.
It was an amazing, eye-opening time — really my first time traveling, with the exception of a couple of trips to London — and it was humbling as it taught me how important the way we communicate is, especially when it comes to different cultures (which can include different nationalities, but also as local as different neighborhoods).
Celebrating the end of a season with the Tuba section.
It also gave me the chance to meet friends I wouldn't have met otherwise — that I still think about often, and miss.
In any case, it was fun to remember a quick example of a communication mishap from my time in Thailand, so I figured I'd share it here!
Hey My First Gig!
I love listening to the show and am looking forward to the next episode.
I taught overseas a bit. Basically, I got a gig with a marching band in Japan, which turned into a gig with one in Thailand, which turned into a gig with one in Singapore. Thailand was where I spent the most time — two seasons of marching band, probably for a total of about a year there.
I was doing my 100% best to learn the language while also teaching a marching band, but Thai is a pitched language, and — despite me having a BA in Music Performance — this was a challenge for me.
In Thai, words can be said in one of five "pitches." Three of them have to do with the register in which you say them. So one would be high-pitched. One would be in a middle-register. And one would be low. The other two pitch options would be rising from low to high, and falling from high to low.
Learning another language on the fly is hard enough. Now add this shit to it, and it's fucking impossible. Especially since no introductory language course is teaching you marching band vocabulary. "I don't care how to buy groceries. I need to know how to tell Bing to stop being a jackass and get in a straight fucking line. How do I say THAT?"
So I think — though I can't be sure because I don't understand the language in which my students were speaking — they got to the point where they were like, "Ok, when this American oaf says THAT, he really means THIS." And, honestly, that was okay with me. We were getting things done.
But there were still problems from time to time. One of the shittiest students (I really liked him, but God bless him, he sucked at marching band) was a kid named Mai. This kid was a dweeb. Lanky. Thick glasses. Always in the wrong spot on the field.
At first it was like, "Dude, you're on the wrong side of the field. Like, 60 years from where you're supposed to be." But by the end of the season, after months of practice, it was more like, "Mai, move a few inches to the right."
But the final show was the next day and Mai had to get this correct, and we did this one part over and over and Mai kept getting it wrong. I was getting frustrated with him. I wanted to tell him, "No, you're wrong! But the problem is "No" also is the world Mai, just pitched differently. But I don't know in what inflection.
Also, the word "right" — as in move to the right — is also Mai, just with a DIFFERENT inflection.
And, also, ALL questions end with the word, Mai. It's like a question mark, and, again, it's pitched differently, but I have no idea in what way it's different.
My vocabulary was still pretty sparse, so I have to be efficient. For example, if I wanted water, I didn't really know how to say, "Can I have water?" I just hold up an empty water bottle, make a mouth motion like I'm a hamster sucking the silver part of its upside down water bottle and say the Thai word for, "Water?"
So, in all of these thoughts I'm trying to tell Mai, I only know how to say a few of the words, and all of those words happen to be "Mai."
Ok, so you know when you yell at someone and you want to be like, "John?! Hello, are you there? I love you, but are you really this stupid?"
Well, that's what I wanted to say to Mai, but all I could say was, "Mai?"
So what I was capable of saying in Thai was "Mai? Wrong! Move right!" And that would have gotten the desired outcome.
Except I was foiled, because the way to say that in Thai is, "Mai, mai?! Mai-mai!!"
And, for some reason I still don't understand about myself, I always tried to add pitches in, even if they weren't the right pitches. So I was kind of just like [high pitch] Mai. [rising pitch] Mai?! [low pitch] Mai. Mai.
And nobody had any idea what I was saying. They were just looking at me like "Uh oh, we've never heard this one before. He looks mad. The American might die."
Realizing words could not bridge this gap in understanding, I just went on the field, lifted him up and moved him to the right myself.
The good news is he got it right at the final show the next night, and the world lived happily ever after. That's what we in the biz call "good teaching."
I wonder what Mai is doing right now. Probably on a podcast, telling the story about the time an American marching band director yelled unintelligibly a bunch and then lifted him off the ground and placed him back down six inches to the right.
With the full Siamyth Drum and Bugle Corps after a performance in Bangkok.
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Ruth Wasserman says:
Any mother worth her salt knows about the pitch in calling to her child : high is hysterical, very low is angry, and don.t even ask about the flat even pitch;
you are in deep trouble XO u


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Sisters of Mary School Boystown Holds JPD Coaching Fun Run
Some 2,000 runners will be seeing action early today, Saturday, April 1, 2017, via the JPD Coaching Fun Run to be held inside the premises of the Sisters of Mary School Boystown located in Tungkop, Minglanilla, Cebu.
Distances to be contested are 5K for the 14 years old and under and 10K for the 15 years old and above. There will be a girls and boys divisions for the 5K and only boys division for the 10K.
Aside from the 1,600 students of the SMS Boystown, also seeing action are 50 students from the SMS Girlstown, and some teachers and sisters of the SMS.
JPD Coaching headed by Cebu's very own Olympian, Mary Joy Tabal, the first Filipina to have competed in the Marathon event of the Rio Olympics, and her head coach, John Philip Dueñas, decided to organize the fun run at the suggestion of the SMS Boystown local superior, Sister Emelan Lee.
Lee wanted to promote marathon or long distance running among their students because Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz, the founder of the Congregations of the Sisters of Mary and Brothers of Christ, which runs the Sisters of Mary schools, was an avid marathon enthusiasts.
According to Lee, she wants the students, who come from underprivileged families in and outside Cebu, to embrace marathon because through the sport, they can learn life lessons.
"Life is like a marathon, it is a long way, there's challenges and U turns, detours, uphills and downhills, but you need to finish," said Sister Lee.
Cebu's Olympian Mary Joy Tabal sharing her experiences to the 1,600 students of the Sisters of Mary School Boystown in Tungkop, Minglanilla.
Lee also wanted their students to realize that marathon is indeed a sport and not merely a jogging and a running activity that they are made to do for penance.
JPD Coaching has been handling running clinics at the school as part of the sports clinic project initiated by the University of the Visayas (UV) scouting coach Van Halen Parmis last January.
Trophies will be given to the top 3 winners while medals will be handed to the second up to the 10th finishers. Winners will also get certificates while Milo will be giving out Milo energy drinks for the finishers.
Aside from Milo, also making the event possible is Motorace-Kawasaki, which is taking care of the 2,000 race numbers, trophies and medals; Flame It for the water bottles which will be given to the first 120 finishers; and Smart Communications.
This is not the first time that the SMS Boystown has held a fun run as they had organized a 21K last year.
This time however, the participants will get to experience Tabal's preparation as she will run them through how she prepares for a running event before the race.
Preparing for the race.
The Parmis' Project
Parmis started the sports clinic initially as a birthday project back in the second weekend of January wherein he introduced basketball with the help of varsity coaches of the Cebu universities led by UV; and football with the help of coach Eleazar Toledo and the University of the Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF) Kicking Panthers.
The next weekend, it grew to include running under the JPD Coaching; swimming under coach Roland Remolino and his children Mary Joana, Icyy and Andrew Kim, who is currently one of the Philippines's top junior triathletes; table tennis under University of Cebu's Val Stephen Jaca, one of Cebu's bemedalled paddlers; and volleyball under coach Jordan Paca, who has led several Cebu universities to various wins.
The National University (NU) Bulldogs men's football team, who is now currently ranked 4th in the UAAP Season 79 Men's Football Tournament, had also visited the Boystown to share their knowledge with the students as part of the project.
Parmis' project gained so much traction that it prompted the Cebu Provincial Sports Commission to lend assistance to the project. Initially, the CPSC donated 50 soccer balls for the training. Now, they have donated other sporting equipment and is giving allowances from March to August to some of the coaches helping out in the training.
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Q: Bai and Silverstein's "Lemma on Quadratic Forms" - question about the constant $C_p$ In the book "Spectral Analysis of Large Dimensional Random Matrices" by Bai and Silverstein, there is the following lemma:

Lemma B.26 (pg. 530) Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an $n\times n$ nonrandom matrix and $X = (x_1,\dots, x_n)$ be a random vector of independent
   entries. Assume that $\mathbb E x_i = 0, \mathbb E|x_i|^2 = 1,$ and
   $\mathbb E|x_j |^l\le \nu_l.$ Then, for any $p\ge 1$:  $$\mathbb{E} |
 X^*AX - \text{tr} A |^p \le C_p \left( (\nu_4\text{tr}(AA^*))^{p/2}
 + \nu_{2p}\text{tr}(AA^*)^{p/2} \right).$$

Though not stated explicitly in the lemma, a look at the proof suggests that $C_p$ is given as at least exponential in $p$.
Question: Is there a more refined understanding of what $C_p$ is as a function of $p$? It seems to depend on several inequalities, including the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund inequality, whose constants have been studied at least to some extent.

A: It seems that it should be at most exponential in p. You could start to get an estimate on its size by following the lines of appendix B in this paper of Erdos, Yau and Yin: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3453 (and references therein for the precise constants in the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund and Burkholder inequalities). The proof is a little simpler than the Bai-Silverstein argument due to their assumption of sub-exponential tails, which implies an estimate on the growth of the moments $\nu_{2p}$.
Their objective is to obtain the Hanson-Wright inequality. If you are after sharp tail estimates for $X^*AX$, you might be interested in this work of Rudelson and Vershynin: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2872 where they obtain a Bernstein-type tail bound involving both the Frobenius and operator norms of $A$.


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SNL Transcripts: Vince Vaughn: 04/13/13: A Message from the President of the United States
Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 38: Episode 17
12r: Vince Vaughn / Miguel
A Message from the President of the United States
President Barack Obama…..Jay Pharoah
Sen. Joe Manchin…..Jason Sudeikis
Sen. Patrick Toomey…..Bill Hader
Announcer: [ over Presidential Seal ] And now, a message from the President of the United States.
[ dissolve to President Barack Obama at podium ]
President Barack Obama: Uh — Thank you! Thank you very much. Uh — Good evening, my fellow Americans. As you know… over the past few months… I have made gun control legislation… a top priority for my administration. Which is why I am so excited to annouce that, this week, the Senate voted 68 to 31… to begin debating… the IDEA… of discussing un control! Uh — uh — uh, let me say that again: They've agreed to THINK ABOUT… TALKING about gun control! Amazing! Nowwwww… with me tonight are Democratic Senator Manchin and Republican Senator Patrick Toomey.
[ the two senators appear next to Obama ]
Sen. Joe Manchin: They both worked very hard — TOGETHER! — to bang out a bipartisan agreement. These men risked EVERYTHING… for this bill. I mean, Senator Manchin represents West Virginia! And he's proposing gun reform? He's gonna lose a job! And Senator Toomey… This man is a Republican who is willing to make just the slightest compromise on gun control? He's gonna lose a job, too! But that's what it takes to achieve COMPROMISE! So… why don't you tell the folks at home, uhhh, what you've accomplished?
Sen. Patrick Toomey: We — we'd rather not.
Sen. Joe Manchin: Ohhhh, no! Go ahead! Tell them!
Sen. Patrick Toomey: Uh, well, uh — First of all, most Americans agree we need stricter background checks. If our bill passes, no individual can purchase a handgun from a private dealer without being asked: "Are you a good person?" As well as the follow-up question: "Seriously, are you?"
Sen. Joe Manchin: Uh, we're also hoping to limit the amount of ammunition you can carry in magazines. Uhhh — we did not do that. No.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: But, uh — we HAVE to agreed to limit the number of guns you can shoot at once… to two.
Sen. Joe Manchin: Mmm-hmm.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: Anyone caught shooting more guns at the same time, we prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
Sen. Joe Manchin: Mmm-hmm. Unfortunately, the punishment os we give you a fourth gun.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: [ shaking his head ] I don't know how that happened…
Sen. Joe Manchin: It was a compromise, I think… yes.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: Also — We're very proud of this — We were able to ban AK-47s from all coin-operated vending machines. And the Papa John's promotion — Buy 2 medium pizzas, get a free gun — has been COMPLETELY outlawed!
Sen. Joe Manchin: Mmm-hmm. That's right. Oh — except on weekends! And, uh, during the Super Bowl.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: Of course, this might go without saying, but… none of these restrictions would apply to Florida. Uhhhh… we don't know why.
Sen. Joe Manchin: Yeah.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: It definitely should…
Sen. Patrick Toomey: But they just don't. I don't know, it's a weird…
Sen. Joe Manchin: It is weird!
Sen. Patrick Toomey: It's weird.
Sen. Joe Manchin: Yeah, it's weird! 'Cause I know we typed, you know, Florida, into the bill, but when we printed it out, you know, I mean, it's just not there!
Sen. Patrick Toomey: It's spooky!
Sen. Joe Manchin: Yeah!
Sen. Patrick Toomey: A spooky thing.
Sen. Joe Manchin: So, is this bill what we wanted? No. Is it what the NRA wanted? No. But does it at least help in some small way?
Sen. Patrick Toomey: No.
Sen. Joe Manchin: No. Probably not.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: It doesn't. We are confident that this bill will pass the Senate, and will then go to the House of Representatives where it will IMMEDIATELY get shot down.
Sen. Joe Manchin: That's right. And that is not a metaphor. They will literally THROW the bill up in the air and SHOOT it with a gun! I've seen it done.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: Yeah!
Sen. Joe Manchin: C-Span gets a little rowdy sometimes.
Sen. Patrick Toomey: It's a sight! So, in summary, uhhhh… [ he shrugs his shoulders ] You're welcome?
Sen. Joe Manchin: Yeah, I guess…
Sen. Patrick Toomey: So we turn it back to you, Mr. President.
[ they step aside ]
Sen. Joe Manchin: You see? That's what I'm up against, America. Plus: Jay-Z keeps rapping bout how I let him go to Cuba. I thought that guy was on my side? Allow me to re-intoduce myself: I'm the President! [ he shakes his arms and shoulders ] And "Live from New York, it's Saturday Niiiiiiiiiighttttt!!!"
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Q: Driving mosfets when supply is greater than Vgs Limit I have an application where I need to drive a 24V load with PWM, and high side switching via a P Channel Mosfet.
Most mosfets appear to have a Vgs limit of +/-20V.
This feels like a well established problem, and I am trying not to re-invent the wheel.
I can see the direct solution of a pullup on the gate to 24V and an NPN BJT + Zenner to pull it down without violating the Vgs limit, but this doesn't seem like a particularly quick switching method (slow to switch off).
Is there a special gate driver chip that solves this standard seeming problem.

A: Here is the basic idea. I don't think this will switch super fast or anything, but it should be a bit faster than the most simplistic approach because the BJT will not be saturated, and so it should turn off a bit faster than a saturated switch. The current through the Zener will be around (VCC-0.6) / R1. So if the PWM is a 3.3V signal, it will be around 2.7 mA through the Zener. I have never done this and didn't even simulate it, but it seems like it could work.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
The base resistor does not have to be large because the emitter resistor limits the base current.
Best of luck.


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Hwaeomsa Temple Is Renowned For Its Lantern Festival
Hwaeomsa Temple in South Korea History will lead you to exploration of Korean Buddhism. Buddhism as a religion and philosophy has left deep imprints on the Korean society and its traditions through its long time presence so much so that Korean history and culture remains practically incomplete without the mention and tracing of this religion.
As you tour the country, you will notice that the Buddhist heritage embalms event he buildings, sculptures, paintings and handicraft works spread across the topography. Here you will be offered the right perspective to delve into the recesses of this religion blended into the niches of the Korean society.
This temple houses the four National Treasures of the Country - that of the Stone Lantern and a Three-Storied Pagoda supported by four Stone Lions. You can spot the temple on the slopes of Jiri-san in Masan-myeon of Gurye County in the province of Jeollanam-do.
Hwaeomsa Temple with its ancient pagodas to impress you was built under the Silla Dynasty in 544 but reconstructed after it was gutted in a fire. Come here to visit a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism.
Do you know that the lantern festival is the most important festival in the country as it celebrates Buddha's birthday through the "Feast of Lanterns" organized on the boulevards and this temple is renowned for its lantern festival.
You will find many tourists flocking to the Hwaeomsa Temple during the lantern festival.
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Corporate Governance > Governance and Nominating Committee Charter
Governance and Nominating Committee Charter
The Governance and Nominating Committee is appointed by the Board of Directors to:
identify individuals qualified to become board members,
select, or recommend that the Board select, the director nominees for the next annual meeting of shareholders; and
oversee governance matters.
The Committee will be comprised of not fewer than three directors, all of whom satisfy the definition of "independent" under the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq).
The Committee members will be appointed by the Board and may be removed by the Board in its discretion.
The Committee shall have the authority to delegate any of its responsibilities to subcommittees as the Committee may deem appropriate, provided the subcommittees are composed entirely of independent directors.
The Committee shall meet as often as its members deem necessary to perform the Committee's
The Committee shall:
Consider periodically the desired composition of the Board of Directors, including such factors as expertise and diversity.
Establish any qualifications and standards for individual directors.
Review periodically the composition of the Board of Directors, taking into account the desired composition of the Board of Directors and the qualifications and standards for individual directors.
Identify candidates for election to the Board of Directors. The Committee identifies candidates for election to the Board of Directors on its own as well as by considering recommendations from shareholders, other members of the Board, officers and employees of the Company, and other sources that the Committee deems appropriate. Shareholder recommendations for candidates for election to the Board of Directors shall be made in accordance with the Company's Bylaws. The Committee may retain a third-party search firm to assist in the identification of possible candidates for election to the Board of Directors.
Evaluate candidates for election to the Board of Directors. The Committee will evaluate all candidates for election to the Board of Directors, regardless of the source from which the candidate was first identified, based upon the totality of the merits of each candidate and not based upon minimum qualifications or attributes. In considering the individual nominees, the Committee will take into account the qualifications of other Board members to ensure that a broad variety of skill sets and experience beneficial to the Company and its business are represented on the Board of Directors. The Committee also will ensure that the Board is composed of a sufficient number of independent directors to satisfy the Nasdaq listing requirements. In addition, the Committee will seek to assure that at least three of the Board's independent members satisfy the Nasdaq financial and accounting experience requirements and the heightened independence standards of the Securities and Exchange Commission and that at least one of such three members qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" (as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission).
Nominate qualified individuals for election to the Board of Directors.
Recommend to the Board of Directors the composition of the Committees of the Board of Directors.
Review periodically the Company's Corporate Governance Policies and recommend to the Board of Directors governance issues that should be considered by the Board.
Review periodically the Company's Code of Conduct.
Obtain confirmation from management that the policies included in the Code of Conduct are understood and implemented.
Evaluate periodically the adequacy of the Company's conflict of interest policies.
Consider other corporate governance and related issues.
Consider with management public policy issues that may affect the Company.
Review periodically the Company's Committee structure and operations and the working relationship between each Committee and the Board of Directors.
Consider, discuss and recommend ways to improve the effectiveness of the Board of Directors.
Report its activities regularly to the Board of Directors.
Perform such other functions as may be requested by the Board of Directors.
The Committee shall have sole authority to retain and terminate outside advisors to assist in the performance of its functions, with sole authority to agree to fees and other terms of engagement.
The Secretary of the Committee shall be the Corporate Secretary or his or her designee. The proceedings of all Committee meetings shall be documented in minutes. At the next regular Board meeting following any Committee meeting, the Chairman of the Committee shall report to the Board of Directors on behalf of the Committee.
The Chairman of the Committee shall discuss the Committee's performance with each Committee member, following which discussions the Chairman shall lead the Committee in an annual review of its performance. The annual evaluation shall include a review of the Committee's charter.
The Committee shall cause to be provided to Nasdaq appropriate written confirmation of any of the foregoing matters as Nasdaq may from time to time require.
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Preparing for the Journey
How do we begin to identify as changemakers?
What are a changemaker's core skills?
What are the tools that will help you to become a changemaker?
Why empathy as a starting point?
How can we apply different thinking?
What's already being done?
How do we start to generate solutions?
How do we refine our goals?
How do we make sure we're on the right track?
Reflect & Share
Reflect & Interpret
Guides / Curriculums
Ashoka Fellow Youth Programs
Well-Being Resources
"Our visions of tomorrow are most vital when they emerge from the concrete circumstances of change we are experiencing right now."
- bell hooks
Welcome to the Ashoka Canada Changemaker Pathway.
This site is an exploration of the culture that helps to advance changemaking – a different set of teaching and learning principles than those of the status quo. Society's values are embedded in every detail of a school environment: from how the space is organized to who gets to speak and when. Shifting culture and systems is not easy. But the rate of change is increasing and the ability to adapt to change and outrun the world's problems will be one of the most essential skills in the world ahead. Young people can act on their desire for change, but they require trust and guidance. When supported, young people do extraordinary things; when trusted, educational spaces come alive. How do we let go and invite young people to take their place on the world stage at a time when their perspective is desperately needed?
The purpose of this pathway is to provide teachers, club leaders, and students with a sense of direction in creating new conversations and shifting the culture of your learning community.
The Pathway does not have to be used in a linear fashion, although it has been designed to bring users through a changemaking journey using the most relevant and cutting-edge tools and techniques at hand. If you feel you have already covered territory on the Pathway, you are welcome to move on to another room.
Clicking on the Ashoka Canada logo at top left will bring you back to the site map. We trust you to use the Pathway as best meets your needs.
We have tried to keep the activities broad and applicable to all ages and have also noted the length of time for each activity for ease of use.
Your class can work on a project as a whole, in teams, or individually – whatever you feel makes the most sense given your objectives. You may want to move through this material quickly on a focused project, or apply these lessons throughout a semester or year.
Teachers and club leaders: we recommend that you investigate the Ashoka/Ted Ed portal early on in the process, as that may help guide the outcome.
The Pathway contains two survey prompts: one toward the beginning and the other toward the end. Please help us increase our impact by filling out the two, very brief surveys when prompted. No individual information is collected in the surveys.
"Changemaking" is not limited to those born into privilege – nor can it be, if we hope to build a better future together. We are redefining academic success to include a strong moral compass, sense of human connection, and commitment to the common good. The time is now for all educators and students to reclaim our roles as change leaders and give ourselves the permission to drive transformation in the education system. We cannot do this alone – it is time for us to come together. Our world needs a transformative mindset, now.
Changemakers,
Educating with Purpose
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END?
The end of the Pathway is the beginning of your life as a changemaker. To stay connected, inspired, and to inspire others, we invite you to:
Share your story. We guide you through this process toward the end of the Pathway.
Request to be on our mailing list
Share this Pathway with others to spark a movement!
Think Outside the Trash
Pathway Resources by room
Entire Guides / Curriculums
Ashoka Canada Fellow Youth/K-12 Programs.
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Co-creating a space where people feel that they can speak out in spite of their fears is a vital step in the process of learning how to become a changemaker. Empathy researcher Brene Brown explains that being empathetic requires that we be present and wholly engaged without our 'protective armour'. People wear armour to try to become invisible or fit in with others to hide what they consider to be defects or embarrassing qualities for fear of being judged, labeled, or bullied. It is difficult to feel empathy for others when you are cut off from yourself.
For this reason, we're starting the change closest to home. Everyone in the changemaking process needs to feel valued, seen, and heard. Because of the culture we inherited and the way our brains work, all of us carry biases. This isn't wrong or bad, it's what we do with them that matters. Being humbled can lead to personal transformation.
The exercises below will help you to:
Examine your physical classroom and the environment it creates
Co-create a classroom contract
Learn how to be a better listener
Notice your biases
Become aware of diversity in your environment
Understand power and privilege
Once the principles of the safe space have been defined and agreed upon by all, they can be used, reinforced, and referred back to as needed throughout the time you share together.
Design Thinking & the Deskless Classroom(Exercise, Time will vary)
Create a Classroom Contract(30-45 minutes)
Learn how to listen: Are you a good listener? (video 5 min + opportunities for deeper thinking)
Empathy & Equity: From the Stanford D.school, this exercise gives designers to an opportunity to pause and notice their biases(15 min daily over the course of week).
Cross the Line: (30-60 min.) We live in a diverse world. In this exercise we will explore the diversity among us by thinking about our values, our backgrounds, our teachers, and our experiences.
CCDI: Explore Power and Privilege (Toolkit with various exercises)


How gratifying it can be to be surrounded by people who are literate. You can't underestimate the impacts of being literate. And so, you will invest in every measure that will boost the literacy levels of your people and your loved ones. You dot want to live anything to chance. You are dedicated to realizing the goals that you have.
You see, one's success is highly impacted by the levels of the literacy. What is more, it also affects how people manage their daily life issues. Your loved ones deserve to navigate life issues with ease. Here are great insights that will help you ensure that your loved ones attain the literacy levels that they deserve.
First, you need to ensure that you help your loved one by loudly reading to them. And you need to do this, irrespective of the age of your love – you should help them improve the growth of literacy. You will come across a lot of recommendations out there that campaigns for literacy at stages such as infancy. If you can read to your child, you will have boosted healthy brain development. What is more, you will be able to bond with your kind.
Be sure to create space for reading and writing. It is very appealing to your child. Create an inviting place for reading for them. Be certain to buy a desk and load it with pens, paper, pencils, markers – it is ideal when it comes to offering your loved one a chance to perfect their writing abilities. What is more, a small bookshelf that is filled with books, as well as a comfy beanbag; all these will encourage reading.


Now all the nonatomic attributes are move to the front as this is the most common attribute. You'll also notice that for the active property we added the atomic attribute that was not in the original source code. This is because atomic is the default unless nonatomic is specified, however atomic is rarely needed unless dealing with multiple threads, more often than not people simply forget to add nonatomic. By adding it, it makes the behaviour more explicit.
To run the script you simply supply a list of source files. It will work with both header and source files. The script will create a copy of the original source file prior to modifying it, this will have the same name as the original but with .orig suffixed on the name.


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Power Morcellators were developed to remove large amounts of tissue during a laparoscopic type surgery. It is a surgical instrument that minces or "morcellates" the large tissue into smaller bits that can be easily removed through a small incision.
Power morcellators have been in use since 1993 and have been used for thousands of hysterectomies. They were designed to perform hysterectomy and uterine fibroid removal through a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure. When power morcellators mince or morcellates the tissue, cells from the morcellated tissue may be spread throughout the abdominal cavity. The use of power morcellators has been linked to the spread of a rare, malignant type of cancer that is often fatal.
Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is the manufacturer of a line of power morcellators marketed for the women's health field is currently the subject of a number of lawsuits regarding cancer in female patients following hysterectomy with a power morcellator.
Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of Ethicon is the largest medical products manufacturer in the world and has estimated yearly revenue of over $71 billion.
Ethicon and several other manufacturers of power morcellators have been accused of failure to adequately warn patients and healthcare professionals of the dangers of power morcellator use and the increased risk of development of rare uterine cancer including leiomyosarcoma which is often fatal.
A safety alert was issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April of 2014 which discouraged health professionals from using power morcellators in fibroid removal and hysterectomy. Ethicon has withdrawn their line of power morcellators from US sales and has issued a voluntary recall of the machines; however it is not known how many may be still in use.
Cancer is caused by an uncontrolled cellular division process that results in development of a tumor. Uterine cancer is the number four cause of cancer in women and approximately 95 percent of those cancers are endometrial. Endometrial cancer is a cancer of the lining of the uterus and has survival rates of 80 percent at five years, if the cancer is treated while still in the uterus. The remaining five percent of uterine cancers are sarcomas, or cancers of the musculature of the uterus. They are much more difficult to treat and the risk of death goes up dramatically if the cancer spreads. Power morcellator use has been shown to spread uterine cancer.
A leiomyosarcoma is a soft-tissue cancer that develops from smooth muscle cells located in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract. It is a very aggressive type of cancer and uterine leiomyosarcoma is most common in women ages 40 to 60. Uterine leiomyosarcoma accounts for only 1 percent of uterine cancer cases but is metastatic (spreading). Nearly 70 percent of women with the cancer will see a recurrence or regrowth of the cancer within 8 to 16 months after treatment, even if the cancer is removed surgically or treated while still in the uterus. Localized cancer, or cancer that has not metastasized is classified as Stage I or II and has a 5 year survival rate of 50 percent.
When a cancer metastasizes, it infects another organ such as the ovaries, liver or lungs. Metastasized leiomyosarcoma is classified as Stage III or IV and has a much higher fatality rate of 4 to 16 percent at 5 years.
Use of a power morcellator will dramatically increase the chance of metastasis as cancer cells have been spread throughout the area. Each place that a single cancer cell attaches can form a new cancer on a different organ. According to the FDA, nearly 1 in 350 women who undergo power morcellation myomectomy procedures may suffer uterine sarcoma after the procedure.
Leiomyoma is a benign tumor which often makes up fibroid tumors. It is not malignant but rupture of the leiomyoma may spread cells which begin to grow on other tissue. Diffuse leiomyoma is not treatable with surgery and can cause significant pain. Leiomyosarcoma may closely resemble the less deadly leiomyoma or the cancer may be obscured by the fibroid mass making the use of a power morcellator that much riskier in spreading a previously unidentified cancer.
Women who have fibroids or uterine enlargement will have cancer screening before removal to identify any cancer types that may be present. Though most cancers are identified, leiomyosarcoma is often missed as it closely resembles the non-cancerous fibroid mass. Leiomyosarcoma is not often diagnosed until after the mass is removed and examined by a pathologist.
Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, along with other manufacturers of power morcellators are facing several lawsuits for failure to warn patients. Documents show that Johnson & Johnson had been warned about the increased risks by at least one surgeon years prior to the recall but have been accused of not acting appropriately to prevent harm to patients.
At least three lawsuits have been filed in the US regarding power morcellator use in Florida, Pennsylvania and New York. Additional lawsuits are expected against Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson and other manufacturers.


Rationale: to allow students to use an authentic publishing site that allows them to provide and receive feedback from other students and to showcase student work for families and the world.
Students work to design and publish video games on a variety of topics. Some years, our themes are science-based. In other years, we use the Hero's Journey as our story-frames.
Students use images, voice and technology to transform narrative paragraph writing into the script for a video.
Rationale: to allow students to use a collaborative wiki in order to build a multi-year dictionary of made-up words (and integrate podcasting).


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How to watch David Hasselhoff's daughter, Shaq's son on reality series 'Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules'
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022, 4:00 p.m. | Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 4:00 p.m.
"Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules" premieres on E! January 12, 2022. (E!/ YouTube)
By Victoria Priola, eCommerce writer
The children of celebrities are sent to live and work together on a ranch in a new series coming to E! this week.
"Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules" premieres on E! on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT). You can also watch the show on FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV and Sling.
Accustomed to lavish lifestyles, these youth are put to work at a ranch in Colorado and taught to strength their work ethics by the property's managers. The cast includes E.B. Wright (daughter of the late Eazy-E), Hana Giraldo (mom Pat Benatar), Austin Gunn (dad Billy Gunn), Myles O'Neal (parents Shaquille and Shaunie O'Neal), Taylor Hasselhoff (dad David Hasselhoff), Redmond Parker (dad Ray Parker Jr.), Harry James Thornton (dad Billy Bob Thornton) and Jasmin Lawrence (father Martin Lawrence).
As the cast prepares the ranch to open for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, they learn lessons about themselves and how to "look beyond the surface" of their comfortable lifestyles.
What channel is E! on?
You can find which channel it is on by using the channel finders here: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV and Dish.
Where can I watch 'Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules' if I don't have cable?
You can watch it on FuboTV (free trial). You can also watch "Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules" on Sling with their Blue plan, or on Hulu + Live TV (free trial).


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