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Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Mood Disorders
Michael Bond
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2006;19(1):40-43.
We can divide the recent research into shorter-term and longer-term therapy studies.
Empirical Studies of Shorter-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Depression
A study by de Jonghe et al.[4*] compared short psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy (SPSP) (n = 106) with combined therapy (SPSP plus antidepressant medications) (n = 85) in ambulatory patients with mild or moderate major depressive disorder diagnosed using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Medical Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria. Efficacy was assessed using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 17-item version (HRSD-17), the Clinical Global Impression of Severity and Improvement (CGI), and the depression subscale of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-D). Patients whose HRSD-17 score was lower than 12 or higher than 24 were excluded. The therapy consisted of 16 sessions within a 6-month period. There were adherence checks for the psychotherapists. Pharmacotherapy followed a reasonable protocol.
From the original 208 participants, one refused randomization to psychotherapy and 16 refused combined therapy. Using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, the mean time to remission on the HRSD was 138 days in the psychotherapy group and 129 days in the combined therapy group (not a significant difference). In the observed cases sample, statistically significant inter-group differences at week 24 (the combined therapy group improved more quickly) are shown by the HRSD (P < 0.046) and SCL-D (P < 0.001), but in the intent-to-treat sample no difference was found at any point by any assessment method (once Bonferroni adjusted). Both groups showed improvement at 24 weeks with success rates of 73% for psychotherapy and 81% for combined therapy, using CGI as an indicator.
An interesting finding was that more patients (99%) agreed to psychotherapy rather than combined therapy (84%). This was a sample of patients with mild to moderately severe depression, however (75% less than 2 years' duration). It is possible that the acceptance rate for combined therapy would be higher for more severely depressed patients because of patients' perceived need for medication and doctors' increased motivation for prescribing it. For this sample, however, the authors concluded that adding psychotherapy to pharmacotherapy improved the feasibility of longer-term adherence. This points to the need for longer-term studies examining the treatment of depression, which is often a chronic or recurrent illness.
Leichsenring et al.[5*] performed a metaanalysis of studies of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP), examining 17 studies which fulfilled their inclusion criteria. They found that STPP yielded significant and large pretreatment-posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90) and functioning (0.80). The effect sizes of STPP significantly exceeded those of waiting list controls and treatments as usual. No differences were found between STPP and other forms of psychotherapy. Only two of the studies, however, looked at depression specifically.
Longer-Term Studies
Bond and Perry,[6*] in a naturalistic study, followed participants in a long-term project of psychodynamic psychotherapy for depressive, anxiety and personality disorders. Thirty-nine of 53 patients had depression and 40 had personality disorders, reflecting a high degree of co-morbidity. Looking at both dynamic and symptomatic changes, they found that those with high initial scores on the maladaptive and self-sacrificing defense styles improved in the direction of more adaptive defensive functioning. For the symptom measures, there was significant change in global assessment of functioning, depression and distress. Changes in defensive functioning added substantially to the prediction of variance in these three measures, reinforcing the notion that the changes that occurred were not just symptomatic but involved psychodynamic changes. Since psychodynamic therapy specifically addresses defense mechanisms, it is interesting to note that they changed and that change in this measure predicted better functioning, less depression and less distress. Since patients' defense styles generally improve as they recover from depression, however, no causality can be inferred. One can only note that patients who were depressed initially improved over time and with psychotherapy and this improvement was sustained as follow-up evaluations were performed.
One must consider the possibility that patients who have recurrent or chronic depression, as well as personality disorders, as did those in this sample, benefit more from a longer-term psychotherapy. (In this study, a minimum of 3 years was offered at onset.) More specifically, patients with borderline personality disorder, who are very abandonment sensitive, might need an offer of long-term therapy to engage in a psychodynamic treatment and STPP could be contra-indicated.
In a follow-up report of the same project, Bond and Perry[7] found that, although long-term dynamic psychotherapy was associated with improvement in symptoms and functioning, personality disorder pathology was associated with less improvement in depression and functioning and being on medication at intake was associated with less improvement in depression.
Wilczek et al.[8*] invited 55 individuals selected for long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (average 3 years) to participate in a naturalistic study. Thirty-six of these individuals completed the therapy (three of which ended their therapy in less than 12 months and were excluded). Ten of the 13 'nontherapy' individuals agreed to participate in a follow-up interview 3 years after the initial interview.
Although the main goal of this group seemed to be character assessment using the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP), which is interviewer rated and the self-report Karolinska Scales of Personality, they did find that there was a significant change in depressive symptoms (t = 6.13, P < 0.001, effect size = 1.23) in the therapy group, as well as significant changes in the anxiety and obsessive-compulsive scales of the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale for Affective Syndromes. The nontherapy group (n = 10) did not show significant changes in diagnoses, global assessment of functioning (GAF) scores or symptoms. Of the 22 patients in the therapy group who met criteria for an axis I or II diagnosis at intake, only five patients met criteria after therapy. GAF scores improved significantly following therapy, from a mean of 68.75 to 75.22 (t = -4.46, P < 0.001, effect size = -0.87).
In the therapy group, eight KAPP subscales showed character improvement. Overall, greater change was found in the therapy group than in the nontherapy group on all measures.
One advantage of this study is that patients can have confidence that experienced therapists have adhered to the long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy model and that the outcome assessments were 6 months following termination of 3 years of treatment. The disadvantages include the small size of the nontherapy sample, the nonrandom naturalistic design and the potential for bias favouring psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Although this was not specifically a study of depression, it does add weight to the literature indicating that long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy helps reduce depressive symptoms and is associated with 'dynamic' changes like increased frustration tolerance.
In a German study[9] the authors were primarily interested in whether interpersonal problems influenced the trajectory of change in symptom distress over 2 years in participants undergoing three types of psychotherapy (psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral or analytic). Only 47% of the sample of 622 had affective disorders.
Of the participants with available data (n = 464), 53% were classified as reliably improved, 43.3% as unchanged and 3.7% as reliably deteriorated. There was no breakdown for improvement in affective disorders specifically. Participants in psychodynamic psychotherapy who showed 'low affiliation' as an interpersonal trait improved more than those showing 'high affiliation'.
Since this study was not designed to examine change in depression specifically, it does not shed much light on the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy for affective disorders. It does lead one to question the folk wisdom that 'highly affiliative' patients are the best candidates for psychodynamic therapy.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2006;19(1):40-43. © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Cite this: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Mood Disorders - Medscape - Jan 01, 2006.
Michael Bond, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and The Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada
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Patents & Technology
THE "25% RULE" FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT DAMAGES AFTER UNILOC
Roy J. Epstein
2012 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 001
The 2011 decision by the Federal Circuit in Uniloc v. Microsoft properly condemned the "25% Rule," which bases a reasonable royalty on 25% of an infringer's profits. Nonetheless, at least one proponent of the Rule continues to argue that the Rule is fundamentally valid and should remain in use. This article analyzes the historical development of the Rule, its conceptual basis, its application in actual cases, and relevant insights from other recent Federal Circuit cases. Each analysis shows fundamental problems and contradictions that demonstrate the Rule can never be a reliable patent damages methodology. There is no reason to change the conclusion in Uniloc.
CHECKING THE STAATS: HOW LONG IS TOO LONG TO GIVE ADEQUATE PUBLIC NOTICE IN BROADENING REISSUE PATENT APPLICATIONS?
A classic property rights question looms large in the field of patent law: where do the rights of inventors end and the rights of the public begin? The right of inventors to modify the scope of their claimed inventions, even after the patent issues, is in direct tension with the concepts of public notice and the public domain. The Patent Act currently permits broadening of claims so long as a reissue application demonstrating intent to broaden is filed within two years of the original patent issue. Over the years, however, this relatively straightforward statutory provision has sparked numerous disputes over its meaning and application.
On September 8, 2011, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments for In re Staats. In this case, Apple Computer, Inc. appeals the rejection of a continuation reissue patent application. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences rejected the application on the grounds that Apple attempted to broaden the scope of its patent claims in a manner not "foreseeable" more than eight years after the patent first issued. Apple contends that the language of the statute and prior case law permit its interpretation, and the application should be allowed in the interest of innovation. This issue is hardly a new one—this submission highlights nearly 140 years of case law, legislative history, and statutory shaping pertaining to broadening reissues. We analyze the issues raised in the briefs from Staats, as well as the oral arguments. Finally, we discuss from a practitioner's perspective what the Federal Circuit could do—and should do—in the field of broadening reissues.
THE CLASSIC 25% RULE AND THE ART OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING
Fifty years ago, Robert Goldscheider helped pioneer the use of a methodology known as "the 25% Rule," a tool for determining reasonable royalties in intellectual property licensing negotiations. The Rule holds that licensees of intellectual property normally deserve the lion's share of the profit because they usually bear the bulk of the business risk associated with bringing the intellectual property to market. Experts familiar with the art of intellectual property licensing frequently rely on the 25% Rule to rationally determine reasonable royalties in litigation and transactional settings. The Rule's prominence has been accompanied by unfortunate misunderstandings about its form and substance. It is not, as some suggest, intended to be a simple shortcut to determine patent royalties. Rather, it was developed as, and remains, a meticulous methodology inspired by significant private transactions and ultimately refined by brilliant judicial interpretation. As such, it is inappropriate to condescendingly diminish it to a mere "rule of thumb." When properly understood and applied, the Classic 25% Rule is an effective discipline that achieves the high standards of reliability demanded by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Daubert and Kumho Tire cases. On January 4, 2011, the Federal Circuit, in Uniloc v. Microsoft, held that "the 25 percent rule of thumb is a fundamentally flawed tool for determining a baseline royalty rate in a hypothetical negotiation."2 This decision is problematic for a variety of reasons: (1) it assumes that the 25% Rule, as it is classically understood, is a rule of thumb; (2) district courts could interpret it as prohibiting damages experts from applying the Classic 25% Rule as a tool for determining a baseline royalty rate, because of the court's confusion between a baseline royalty rate and a "reasonable royalty" under § 284 of the Patent Act; and (3) it could denigrate the skills of true experts who have utilized, and continue to utilize, the Classic 25% Rule in a way that otherwise meets the admissibility standards of the Federal Rules of Evidence. This article attempts to correct these misunderstandings in the hope of restoring some certainty in an area of jurisprudence that, unfortunately, has become an unpredictable area of the law.
NON-PER SE TREATMENT OF BUYER PRICE-FIXING IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SETTINGS
The ability of intellectual property owners to earn monopoly rents and the inability of horizontal competitors to price fix legally are two propositions that are often taken as givens. This iBrief challenges the wholesale adoption of either proposition within the context of buyer price-fixing in intellectual property markets. More specifically, it examines antitrust law's role in protecting patent holders' rents through its condemnation of otherwise ostensibly efficient buyer price fixing. Using basic economic analysis, this iBrief refines the legal standards applicable at this point of intersection between antitrust and patent law. In particular, the author recommends the limited abandonment of per se condemnation of buyer price-fixing within pure intellectual property contexts. As an alternative, a coarse screen which accounts for both price and innovation effects is proposed. This recommendation represents one example of how antitrust law can better account for the complicated and imperfectly understood effects of the patent system on social welfare.
LIMITATION OF SALES WARRANTIES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF IPHONE WARRANTIES' DETERRENT IMPACT ON CONSUMERS
Apple's success with the Apple iPhone has brought with it certain problems. Its success has engendered a community that has attempted to circumvent Apple's exclusive service agreement with AT&T. Unfortunately for Apple (and similarly situated manufacturers), intellectual property law allows consumers to alter their products so as to circumvent relationships that manufacturers may have with others. The patent and copyright law first sale doctrine allows consumers to manipulate a product after it is purchased. As a result, manufacturers are increasingly turning to alternatives to intellectual property to secure control over the device after the sale. One such alternative is the exclusion of warranty under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. This iBrief considers whether limitation of warranties have the deterrence effect manufacturers desire. Said differently, it considers whether manufacturers can use warranty limitations to prevent consumers from using their products in an unauthorized manner. The iBrief presents a behavioral model based on the Triandis model of planned behavior and enhances the model by accounting for likely and unlikely benefits and detriments. The model suggests that participants weigh the probability and magnitude of the detriment against the probability and magnitude of the beneficial impact when making the decision to engage in technological piracy. This model, considered with other empirical evidence, suggests that Apple's warranty could be a stronger deterrent for consumers than civil liability. The iBrief concludes that manufacturers can better protect their post-sale expectation of profits by raising consumer awareness of their warranty's quality and by raising awareness of the consequences for using the product in a way that is outside the terms of the consumers' authorized use.
STANDARDS × PATENTS ÷ ANTITRUST = ∞: THE INADEQUACY OF ANTITRUST TO ADDRESS PATENT AMBUSH
"Patent ambush" describes certain rent-seeking behavior by the owner of patent rights to a technology that is essential to an industry standard. Two cases, Qualcomm and Rambus, represent attempts of the Third and D.C. Circuits, respectively, to address patent ambushes using federal antitrust statutes. In both cases, antitrust law proves inadequate to the task. Under Qualcomm, licensees gain too much power to extort undervalued royalty rates from patent holders who have disclosed their rights during standard-setting. Under Rambus, coupled with the dearth of other options to combat patent ambushes, non-disclosing patent holders are given free reign over standardized markets, to the detriment of end-users. This iBrief argues that the flaws in each rule inhere from a fundamental inadequacy of antitrust law to address patent ambush.
KEEPING THE LEDS ON AND THE ELECTRIC MOTORS RUNNING: CLEAN TECH IN COURT AFTER EBAY
The recent rise of non-practicing patentees (NPPs) in the clean technology space comes at a time when the international community is debating the role of intellectual property rights in the deployment and implementation of technologies to combat climate change. While the impact of intellectual property rights on the deployment of clean technology has been studied, less attention has been given to the role intellectual property regimes play in maintaining the operation of those technologies already deployed in the fight against global warming. This iBrief focuses on clean technologies that have already achieved substantial market penetration and observes that recent trends in patent law are, to a large extent, allowing those technologies to continue working to reduce carbon emissions. Specifically, the course correction in the law of patent injunctions brought about by eBay v. MercExchange and the endorsement of court-imposed ongoing royalty payments in Paice v. Toyota demonstrate an important shift in patent law that is tempering the impact of clean tech NPPs in Title 35 infringement actions in federal courts. However, these trends have caused a tactical adjustment by clean tech NPPs—namely, filing suits in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), where the remedy of an exclusion order is available. These ITC cases could adversely affect implemented clean technologies.
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ANTITRUST, INNOVATION, AND UNCERTAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS: SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1/27/10
GREEN TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: CREATING ACCESSIBILITY THROUGH A GLOBAL EXCHANGE FORUM 1/15/09
LEGAL APPROACHES TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE 10/10/08
OPERATION RESTORATION: HOW CAN PATENT HOLDERS PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM MEDIMMUNE? 11/27/07
A BUDDING THEORY OF WILLFUL PATENT INFRINGEMENT: ORANGE BOOKS, COLORED PILLS, AND GREENER VERDICTS 10/9/07
THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US–OR IS IT? REFLECTIONS ON COPYRIGHT, THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND GOOGLE'S USE OF OTHERS' CONTENT 6/11/07
WALKING THE LINE: WHY THE PRESUMPTION AGAINST EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF U.S. PATENT LAW SHOULD LIMIT THE REACH OF 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) 4/12/07
WHERE WILL CONSUMERS FIND PRIVACY PROTECTION FROM RFIDS?: A CASE FOR FEDERAL LEGISLATION 3/8/07
IS KELLY SHIFTING UNDER GOOGLE'S FEET? NEW NINTH CIRCUIT IMPACT ON THE GOOGLE LIBRARY PROJECT LITIGATION 3/8/07
DOES INFORMATION BEGET INFORMATION? 2/7/07

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import React from 'react';
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import { reduxForm } from 'redux-form';
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import { Row, Col } from 'react-flexbox-grid/lib';
import withIntlForm from '../../../../common/hocs/IntlForm';
import AppButton from '../../../../common/AppButton';
import { uploadPlatformGenericCsvFile } from '../../../../../actions/topicActions';
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EditGenericCsvForm.propTypes = {
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const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
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const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch, ownProps) => ({
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injectIntl(
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Holiday | Travelling
Surge in British bookings to the Balearics
Sunshine Saturday appears to have been a success in the UK
Balearic holidays selling well in the UK. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Tourist bookings to the Balearics have risen by 75.2% in the last week, according to the TravelgateX platform, whose data indicate that they have risen by 134.5% compared to the same week last year and by 594.7% compared to the same period in 2021.
The Balearics accounted for 10.6% of the tourist bookings made from 2 to 9 January through TravelgateX and is the fourth most popular destination, behind the Canary Islands (24.6%), Catalonia (17.3%) and Andalusia (16.4%).
The majority of bookings via TravelgateX are for stays of between 2 and 5 days, accounting for 49.11% of the total. In addition, 55% of bookings are made by couples, 18.1% by individuals and 15.9% by groups of more than two people.
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In terms of how far in advance a booking is made through this platform, those made the day before (last second calls) account for 7.2 % of the total, while 34.9 % are made more than three months in advance, 15 % around two months in advance and 12.4 % one month in advance.
In terms of markets of origin, the country is dominated by national tourism, with 49.1 % of bookings, followed by the British market, which is up 3.8 % in one week to a share of 25.5 %, and the German market, with 3.72 % of total bookings, 0.16 % more than in the previous period.
This Saturday was dubbed "Sunshine Saturday" by the travel industry in the UK as it expected its first big surge in bookings and it appears that the forecast was not wrong with some travel agents reporting a fivefold increase in sales with the Balearics proving to be one of the most popular destinations.
Balearics sales
Mallorca UK bookings
Mallorca holidays
Morgan Williams | 20 days ago
Well that's good, I'm sure the British resorts can use the business. But I thought Brits were all going to Turkey and Egypt this year because it's cheap (?)
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Blueberries & Chocolate
An exercise in mindful eating
By Tennille Tracy
I have a blueberry on my plate, and I'll have to think long and hard before I eat it. It'll be three minutes before I pop it in my mouth, another 30 seconds before I send it down the hatch, and I'll spend more time thinking about that blueberry than almost any five-course meal I've ever eaten.
What do I know about blueberries? How are they grown? Is the color blue or purple? Is it firm or squishy? Are blueberries in season? Where did it come from? When was the last time I ate a blueberry?
I put the fruit in my mouth and wait for flavor. I detect a shadow of blueberry taste, but it feels more like an inanimate object. Cool but not cold. Given its firmness, I anticipate a burst or mouth-pinching tartness, but it's surprisingly sweet. The flesh, though, is mealy, and I can feel the difference in textures as the fruit separates from the skin.
This is what eating a blueberry is like when you're practicing the art of mindfulness, setting aside mechanical motions and absorbing the experience with all senses on high alert.
"So what do you think?" asks Kendra Gaffney, founder of Nutritious Thoughts, an Asheville-based consulting company specializing in nutrition and eating disorders. Gaffney has invited me to join her in a mindful eating exercise and holds up her own blueberry to eye level.
The practice of mindful eating is a training exercise, aimed at building a connection between the mind and the body. The pace of eating is slowed, and the mind is focused. It probably goes without saying that the TV is turned off, the laptop is shut, and the phone is left on the charging dock.
Rooted in Buddhist teachings, the act of mindful eating has immediate rewards. We appreciate food in a new way, taking time to acknowledge the people who grew, harvested, and prepared it. We take note of flavors and smells, textures and temperatures. And by slowing down, we give our brain the 20-some-odd minutes it needs to register the feeling of fullness and reduce the odds of overeating.
But the broader aim is to train the mind to be aware of what the body is "saying," to pick up on legitimate hunger cues and perhaps get a read on what it needs to stay healthy.
"There's no right or wrong way to eat," Gaffney says. "It's about respecting your own inner wisdom."
Gaffney and I are sitting at a square table in her Asheville office, working our way around a few morsels on a ceramic plate. We each have two mugs of tea. Large windows welcome a sunny afternoon, anda lavender-scented candle burns in the center of the table. After the fresh blueberry, we turn our attention to a dried blueberry, a dehydrated version of its juicy cousin.
At first, I didn't know what it was. Too small for a prune, too big for a raisin. I pick it up and roll it around my fingers. It has peaks and valleys, ridges where the lack of moisture has shriveled the skin. I don't particularly like dried fruit, and I doubt I'm going to like this.
Once I bite into it, it sends out a blanket of concentrated flavor. Not bad. When Gaffney conducts this exercise with bigger groups, there are at least one or two people who ask whether the dried blueberries have preservatives or added sugars, looking for details on how they're prepared. This sounds reasonable, especially for health-conscious people in an information-driven world. Interestingly, Gaffney says she declines to answer, and not because she doesn't know.
Too often people think of eating as a science, Gaffney says, and their ideas of health are determined by the latest research. She wants her clients to ditch the obsession with dos and don'ts, and tune in to what the body is saying. "I don't want them to think about the rules," she says.
As a former food policy reporter, I spent a long time tracking the latest findings on trans fats, sugar, salt, red meat, etc, and I'm a bit troubled by what Gaffney says. I ask her whether we should ignore the science on health. She shakes her head. Knowledge is important, but there's a difference between being informed and being obsessed. The latter can do more harm than good.
As we move around the plate, we come to a chocolate cluster. It's light brown and has lumps in it, and Gaffney starts the conversation by asking me what I think of its appearance. As the mother of a toddler who just recently moved out of diapers, I'm hesitant to reply. "Um, looks like chocolate," I say for decorum. I think the deep analysis has led me down the wrong path on this one.
"I like to choose something like chocolate for a training exercise," Gaffney says. "It's something that can be a little scary for people. Some people hesitate to eat the chocolate—some say it triggers a binge—but I want them to know they have permission."
While steadily gaining traction across the United States, the practice of mindful eating finds a particularly receptive crowd among folks struggling with weight loss and weight management. Chronic dieters often lose sight of what it means to be healthy, as opposed to thin, and failed diets can lead to feelings of despair.
Gaffney herself struggled with mixed messages about food. As a girl, she trained as a competitive gymnast, a sport known for fixating on body types and weight, and chased a number of food fads. By college, she was altogether confused about what qualified as healthy. A visit to the school's dietician, who espoused a mindful approach, got her started on a career in nutrition. "It was liberating," she says.
The practice of mindful eating aims to repair the relationship with food, stripping away feelings of fear and intimidation, but it also has the added benefit of helping cut calorie consumption through the fine-tuning of hunger cues and feelings of fullness.
In 2010, a group of researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK found that when people stared at a computer screen while eating lunch, playing a digital game of solitaire, they ate more food when offered a snack 30 minutes later than those who didn't play a game. Anyone who's scarfed down a meal at work knows that distracted eating can lead to a quick clearing of the plate. But the study suggests that mindful eating can also help in reining in the appetite throughout the day.
Experts offer tricks to slow down the eating process: use chopsticks, take smaller bites, chew longer, close your eyes, take a few breaths and pause. The key, Gaffney says, is to create habits that work for each individual.
The chocolate cluster held a crunch, but it was a bit rich and heavy. I find my palate struggling to bounce back. I go to take a sip of tea and instantly feel awakened by a crisp cloud of smells. It's fresh, similar to peppermint, and zaps my nostrils alive. I feel an electric charge hit my brain. The tea itself is so much more mild, a lukewarm sip of pleasant herbal mixes, and I reflect on the fact that I've never experienced a sip of tea like that.
The last item on the plate is a chocolate square, wrapped in blue aluminum. I peel off the aluminum and pierce halfway into the chocolate, reaching a gooey pool of salty caramel. I'm an admitted chocolate snob and get overwhelmed with the blast of refined sugar in mass-produced chocolate. But this has a nice flavor, a wonderful way to end the exercise. I chat with Gaffney for a few more minutes and head out just as a group of clients enters the room for a scheduled class.
When I return home, I dig up my copy of Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and Harvard professor Dr. Lilian Cheung. I flip to the chapter on apples, where the authors devote more than 1,000 words on apples and demonstrate what it can mean to eat mindfully.
"Eating an apple consciously is to have a new awareness of the apple, of our world, and of our own life," they write. "As the apple becomes more real and vibrant, your life becomes more real and vibrant. Savoring the apple is mindfulness at work."
Like much in life, the concept of mindful eating can be easy to grasp and hard to implement. Think of how often we eat because we're stressed, bored, or distracted, or just because it's our lunch hour. For some of us, we're prompted to eat by guilt, shame, or trauma.
Mindful eating is like training your body to tune out all of the voices that scream at you to eat—and, of course, have an opinion about what to eat—and to listen instead to the one voice that counts.
"The most challenging part is changing the behavior," Gaffney says. "But the good thing is, you can start at any point." ◊◊
The practice of mindful eating is a training exercise, aimed at building a connection between the mind and the body. The pace of eating is slowed, and the mind is focused.
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import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.example.cdm.huntfun.R;
import com.example.cdm.huntfun.pojo.Evaluate;
import com.example.cdm.huntfun.pojo.User;
import com.example.cdm.huntfun.util.CommonAdapter;
import com.example.cdm.huntfun.util.NetUtil;
import com.example.cdm.huntfun.util.ViewHolder;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

import org.xutils.common.Callback;
import org.xutils.common.util.DensityUtil;
import org.xutils.http.RequestParams;
import org.xutils.image.ImageOptions;
import org.xutils.x;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import butterknife.ButterKnife;
import butterknife.InjectView;
import butterknife.OnClick;

public class EvaluateActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @InjectView(R.id.back)
    ImageView back;
    @InjectView(R.id.rl_top)
    RelativeLayout rlTop;
    @InjectView(R.id.line)
    TextView line;
    @InjectView(R.id.lv_evaluates)
    ListView lvEvaluates;

    CommonAdapter<Evaluate> evaluateyAdapter;
    List<Evaluate> evaluates = new ArrayList<>();
    List<Evaluate> newEvaluate = new ArrayList<Evaluate>();

    List<User> userList = new ArrayList<>();
    CommonAdapter<User> userCommonAdapter;

    int pageNo = 1;
    int pageSize = 4;
    int getActivityId;
    String resultPage = "";

    private Boolean flag = true;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_evaluate);
        ButterKnife.inject(this);
        getData();
    }

    public void getData() {
        Intent intent = getIntent();
        getActivityId = intent.getIntExtra("activityId", 0);
        RequestParams requestParams = new RequestParams(NetUtil.url + "QueryEvalateServlet");

        requestParams.addQueryStringParameter("activityId", getActivityId + "");
        requestParams.addQueryStringParameter("pageNo", pageNo + "");
        requestParams.addQueryStringParameter("pageSize", pageSize + "");

        x.http().get(requestParams, new Callback.CommonCallback<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(String result) {
                System.out.println("onSucess" + result.trim());
                if (result.trim().equals("false")) {
                    resultPage = result.trim();
                    System.out.println("已加载全部数据:" + resultPage);
                }
                if (!result.trim().equals("false")) {
                    Gson gson = new Gson();
                    Type type = new TypeToken<List<Evaluate>>() {
                    }.getType();
                    //List<Activity> newActivity=new ArrayList<Activity>();
                    newEvaluate = gson.fromJson(result, type);
                    if (flag) {
                        evaluates.addAll(newEvaluate);
                    } else {
                        evaluates.clear();
                        evaluates.addAll(newEvaluate);
                    }

                    if (evaluateyAdapter == null) {

                        System.out.println("ok");
                        evaluateyAdapter = new CommonAdapter<Evaluate>(getApplicationContext(), evaluates, R.layout.activity_evaluates_item) {
                            @Override
                            public void convert(ViewHolder viewHolder, Evaluate evaluate, int position) {
                                TextView tv = viewHolder.getViewById(R.id.evaluater_name);
                                tv.setText(evaluate.getUser().getUserName());
                                TextView phone = viewHolder.getViewById(R.id.joiner_phone);
                                phone.setText(evaluate.getUser().getPhone());
                                ImageView head = viewHolder.getViewById(R.id.evaluater_head);
                                ImageOptions imageOptions = new ImageOptions.Builder()
                                        .setSize(DensityUtil.dip2px(50), DensityUtil.dip2px(50))//图片大小
                                        .setCrop(true)// 如果ImageView的大小不是定义为wrap_content, 不要crop.
                                        .setLoadingDrawableId(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)//加载中默认显示图片
                                        .setUseMemCache(true)//设置使用缓存
                                        .setFailureDrawableId(R.drawable.activity_fm)//加载失败后默认显示图片
                                        .build();
                                x.image().bind(head, NetUtil.url + evaluate.getUser().getImageUrl(), imageOptions);

                                TextView tv_content = viewHolder.getViewById(R.id.eva_content_detail);
                                tv_content.setText(evaluate.getEvaluateContent());
                                SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm");
                                TextView tv_time = viewHolder.getViewById(R.id.create_time);
                                String creatTime = sdf.format(evaluate.getCreatTime());
                                tv_time.setText(creatTime);
                            }
                        };
                        lvEvaluates.setAdapter(evaluateyAdapter);
                    } else {
                        evaluateyAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    }
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onError(Throwable ex, boolean isOnCallback) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(CancelledException cex) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onFinished() {

            }
        });

    }

    @OnClick(R.id.back)
    public void onClick() {
        finish();
    }
}


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In Hindu mythology KRITIKA refers to the six damsels or 'gandharva-kanyas' who adopted Lord Shiva's son as the fruit of their worship to the lord as Kumar was cared and brought up by six kritika he was popularly called Kartikeya. Kartikeya was a great warrior and at the same he was an even greater scholar and Kritika's are the mothers of this scholar and so they are also scholars. Another story from the mythology refer to kritikas are the 7-learned sages called the saptarishis who reside in the sky as stars or kritikas. In either of the case kritika means the literary star or scholars.We here at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT University) consider all our writers our stars and hence a magazine published by them is aptly christened KRITIKA.
KIIT & KISS University and its Founder Dr. Achyuta Samanta are not just household names of Odisha but also a global brand of education in India. As the mouthpiece of this university Kritika-the annual student's magazine is pledged to show-case our literary talent to the world. Kritika in its previous editions have had the privilege of being associated with some of the best authors of our time starting from Padmashree Dr. Ruskin Bond to the new youth authors like Mr. Ravinder Singh. This society has been able to promote its writer giving them the best of best platforms to showcase the power of their pen. The university has produced many young authors who have gone up to achieve national fame as upcoming youth authors. KIIT best known worldwide for its educational and skill development activities is constantly encouraging the budding writers to express the feelings of their heart through their pen. Thus Kritika as we call it "dil ke kalaam se" is the display of our students creativity. We here at kritika are not just publishing stories(fiction and nonfiction),essays, poems and personal accounts but here we are publishing jokes, shayaris, sketches,photos,screenplays,newsletters, and anything and everything that is a sign of literary creativity. The magazine is containing articles in English,Hindi and Odiya exhibiting a perfect balance of international, national and regional appeal. Our writers are blessed with god's grace and their thoughts will make you think about it for a while. through kritika we try to cover the diversities of life in the most creative way that can stay for ages to come.


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Tea Talk: For Women's History Month, 3 Fermilab employees discuss their career journeys
April 6, 2021 | Maura Barone and Dawn Staszak
On March 24, in honor of Women's History Month, about 90 participants tuned in virtually to hear short talks from three outstanding employees about their career journeys.
The theme for the Tea Talk event was #ChooseToChallenge and was inspired by this year's International Women's Day campaign theme.
The three speakers, who have diverse backgrounds and roles at the lab, recounted their stories and gave advice valuable to all lab employees.
From left to right: Martha Michels, Ketevan Akhobadze and Shaorui Li.
Martha Michels, deputy chief operating officer, talked about her over-30-year career with Fermilab and the various technical and management positions she has held. Michels joined Fermilab in 1990 as a student and has since moved between divisions and sections, as well as projects, providing Environment, Safety and Health support and evolving business practices. Most recently, she moved into the deputy COO role to assist with improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the business operations more broadly at the laboratory.
Ketevan Akhobadze, education facilities coordinator, shared how Fermilab's welcoming environment helped her when she moved to the U.S. from the country of Georgia, at a time when she had just started her family. Her message to anyone who considers a career at Fermilab is that they will find a home here, even if far away from their home country and family. Akhobadze, who holds a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics, encourages young girls to pursue STEM careers.
Shaorui Li, principal engineer and quantum ASICs group leader, is new to Fermilab. Having had experience working as an engineer both in the private sector and at another national laboratory, she enjoys the broad-range and innovation-oriented aspects of the research carried out at national labs, compared to the more product- and task-oriented engineering work in industry. Her advice is that it is important to publish and make contributions with good impact in collaborations for career advancement.
Valerie Higgins, Amanda Early, Maura Barone, Eileen Beno, Monika Lasota, Shaorui Li, Laura Rogas, Julie Saviano and Dawn Staszak organized the event. The Tea Talk was hosted by the Fermilab Women's Initiative, or WI, and Fermilab Society of Women Engineers, or fSWE.
If you are interested in subscribing to mailing lists of the WI, fSWE or other lab resource groups, please email Dawn Staszak or Valerie Higgins. Please reach out to the Women's Initiative Board if you have suggestions for future Tea Talk speakers.
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Home > News > Georgia Techs Alumni Entrepreneurship and International Presence Showcased European Innovation
Georgia Tech's Alumni Entrepreneurship and International Presence Showcased at European Innovation Forum
Oct 8, 2019 | Atlanta, GA
By Paul DeMerritt, Ivan Allen College Communications
On September 7, roughly 70 Georgia Institute of Technology alumni, entrepreneurs, speakers, and guests from Europe and the U.S., including School of Modern Languages Chair and Professor Anna Westerstahl Stenport ,convened in Munich, Germany for Georgia Tech's third European Innovation Forum.
The forum was created by Georgia Tech's International Initiatives to share the breadth of the Institute's international culture of innovation. This year's forum focused on three distinct themes:
What Drives Innovation: Nature or Nurture?
New and Traditional Careers
Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This year was also notable as it was the first iteration to include targeted corporate meetings with representatives from Adidas, BMW, General Electric, Google, IBM, Siemens, and the State of Georgia's Europe Office.
The first two panels of the day centered on the global reach of Georgia Tech's alumni entrepreneurship and the role that Artificial Intelligence plays driving industries of the future. Stenport closed the forum with a special presentation entitled "The University of the 21st Century and Languages at Georgia Tech."
"I represented the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U), the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the School of Modern Languages and spoke about a number of educational innovations that integrate priorities in the Creating the Next in Education Commission's emphasis on lifelong learning, whole person-skills, and the principles of T-shaped professionals, who demonstrate deep expertise in a technical field while simultaneously leveraging cross-communication and leadership competencies," Stenport said.
She also highlighted the School of Modern Languages' recent innovative graduate programs, such as the Master of Science in Global Media and Cultures and the Master of Science in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, in addition to its international summer offerings in Europe such as the Languages for Business and Technology in Germany, France, and Spain.
While the focus on Artificial Intelligence grounded the day's entrepreneurial conversations in an explicitly technological context, Stenport highlighted the role that language and the humanities play in fostering global communication competencies.
"Humanities skills are critical to successful entrepreneurship as well as Artificial Intelligence. For instance, the School's collaboration with Georgia Tech Lorraine-Metz in for a semester-long immersive sustainability-oriented program offered in French and in partnership with Serve-Learn-Sustain and the School of Modern Languages's French program, which includes both community-based engagements and projects, as well as a course that is part of Georgia Tech's CREATE-X entrepreneurship program. In terms of successful Artificial Intelligence, integrating cross-cultural understanding will be critical; this is a complex form of communication interaction, where knowledge of cultural assumptions and idiomatic language use is highly significant."
Stenport believed the Innovation Forum was an effective showcase for the disciplinary breadth of Georgia Tech's research and public engagement, and for the innovative academic programs in the Ivan Allen College and the School of Modern Languages.
Anna at Munich
Anna European Innovation Forum
Rebecca Keane
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu


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Justice, safety and the law
Handling the COVID-19 outbreak
National Disinfection Programme
Completion of National Disinfection Programme
Update - National Disinfection Programme (as of 30 May 2020)
New timings for the National Disinfection Programme from 20 May and during Eid Al Fitr
Update - National Disinfection Programme during Ramadan
On 24 June 2020, National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) announced the completion of the National Disinfection Programme with immediate effect.
Accordingly, all members of the society will be able to move freely during the day without restrictions.
Meanwhile, the UAE Government urged the public to continue to follow the healthy practices and the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Children below 12 years old will be allowed to enter commercial centres and restaurants across the emirates.
However, the following restrictions regarding COVID-19 are still standing:
prohibition of public gatherings
avoiding family visits
maintaining physical distancing
wearing masks and gloves when leaving home
not exceeding the limit of three passengers per vehicle for non-family members.
Those who violate the precautionary measures will be subject to fines and penalties.
Entry to the emirate of Abu Dhabi remains in place, except for pre-exempted categories. Abu Dhabi Government has allowed public to move freely within the emirate. Exiting Abu Dhabi is also allowed and does not require a permit.
Government of Dubai has allowed free movement of public all day and night, subject to compliance to precautionary measures including wearing masks and physical distancing.
National Disinfection Programme which started on 26 March 2020, in collaboration with relevant federal and local authorities, has completed the sterilization of all utilities including means of public transport nationwide.
As of 30 May 2020, the timings of the National Disinfection Programme are set to be from 10pm to 6am. The change in the time was announced by Ministry of Health and Prevention, Ministry of Interior and National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority on 29 May 2020.
Food retail outlets, cooperative societies, groceries, supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to operate 24 hours.
People must stay at home unless absolutely necessary to go out to get essential food supplies and medicine, or for work in vital sectors specified by authorities in previous statements.
Public gatherings or family visits must be avoided. The general public must maintain physical distancing and wear face masks and gloves when stepping out from their homes for work or necessities.
Note: The decision does not affect the emirate of Dubai, which announced earlier on 25 May 2020, that movement in Dubai is restricted from 11pm until 6am.
On 18 May 2020, the UAE government represented by National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) issued a statement amending the timings of National Disinfection Programme.
Starting from Wednesday, 20 May 2020, corresponding to the 27th day of Ramadan in the Hijri calendar, and during the Eid Al Fitr holiday, the timings of the National Disinfection Programme will be from 8pm to 6am until further notice.
As of 20 May 2020, the National Disinfection Programme in the industrial and workers' residential areas nationwide will be from 6 pm to 6 am.
In addition, it was announced that mosques and places of worship will continue to be closed and Eid Al Fitr prayers and all prayers will be performed at home.
New precautionary guidelines for shopping centres and malls, social visits and exercising were also announced.
Guidelines for shopping centres and malls
These are the rules establishments must follow:
As of 20 May, shopping centres and malls will continue to operate partially from 9am to 7pm. The opening hours for malls will be announced after Eid Al Fitr.
Cafes and restaurants will continue to operate with a maximum occupancy of 30 per cent
Food outlets, cooperative societies, groceries and pharmacies will continue to be allowed to operate 24 hours
Vegetable and fruit shops, roasteries, pastry and chocolate shops, and tea and coffee shops will be allowed to operate from 6am to 8pm.
All outlets that are authorised to operate should implement health and safety measures which include:
maintaining 30 per cent of the store's capacity to handle shoppers
maintaining a distance of at least two metres between customers
limiting the time for shopping for each customer to two hours
·not allowing elderly people, above the age of 60 and children below 12 inside the malls.
Guidelines for social visits and exercising
These are the rules people must follow during Eid Al Fitr holidays:
Abstain from going out unless absolute necessary
Avoid social gatherings and family visits
Use virtual communication tools to communicate with family members, relatives and friends to exchange Eid greetings
Avoid giving Eidiyah (gift in the form of money to children during Eid) and withdrawing money from banks and ATMs for this purpose and use electronic means instead
Refrain from visiting pregnant women, children and those vulnerable to diseases, like the elderly and people with chronic illnesses.
In addition, those below 12 years or above 60 years or those who are pregnant or are afflicted with chronic health conditions may not leave their houses. Domestic helpers may not meet anyone outside the house.
People can exercise near their houses for a maximum of two hours. People should not exercise in groups of more than three people. They have to maintain a distance of two metres between them and wear masks and gloves.
Keep your hands sanitized. Wash them frequently for at least 20 seconds and avoid touching your face.
Read more about the National Disinfection Programme during Eid Al Fitr.
As from the first day of Ramadan 1441, corresponding to 24 April 2020, the new timings of the National Disinfection Programme is set to be from 10pm to 6am every day. The decision is effective across the UAE.
During Ramadan, food outlets, cooperative societies, groceries, supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to operate around the clock. However, fish, meat, vegetable and fruit shops, mills, roasteries, slaughterhouses, nuts, pastry and chocolate shops, as well as tea and coffee shops, may operate only from 6am to 10pm.
Outlets permitted to operate must adhere to all health and safety guidelines issued by the relevant authorities. Guidelines include:
limiting the entry/occupancy of customers to 30 percent of the establishment's capacity of occupancy
maintaining a distance of at least two metres between two customers
avoiding any type of crowding.
The public needs to continue to comply with all precautionary and preventative measures such as,
observing physical distancing
wearing face masks and gloves while going out
not leaving the house except to buy food or medicine or to obtain medical care
not leaving the house except for those working in vital sectors identified by the relevant authorities
following medical advice issued by relevant authorities
People over the age of 60 and children below the age of 12 are prohibited from entering shopping malls and retail stores
following the directives issued by Emirates Fatwa Council, particularly on performing prayers at home
Following the guidelines lines on visits, exercise during Ramadan in compliance with National Disinfection Programme.
Read about easing movement restrictions in Dubai.
In a further precautionary measure to protect the community from the spread of COVID-19, the UAE Government represented by Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHaP) and Ministry of Interior (MOI), in coordination with other relevant authorities, are undertaking a 'National Disinfection Programme'.
Under the programme, public facilities, public transport and streets will be disinfected every night from 26 March to 5 April from 8pm to 6 am.
During the sterilisation period, traffic and public movement are restricted, and public transport and metro services will be suspended.
Those who wish to step out of the house need to get a movement permit. Anyone, who is out during the sanitisation drive without a movement permit will attract penalties.
Those working in vital sectors such as: energy, telecommunications, health, security, military and police sectors, postal, pharmaceutical, water and food, airport and aviation and passport sectors are exempt from restriction of movement during the sanitisation drive.
Read more on National Disinfection Programme.


Brits heading to La Torre Resort over the May bank holiday weekend will find no shortage of exciting activities to enjoy during their stay.
Located on the sun-soaked Costa Calida, it is the ideal destination for watersports enthusiasts. The nearby Mar Menor lagoon attracts thousands of bathers and sailing fans due to its warm, shallow waters.
Known as the Little Sea, it is around six degrees C warmer than the Mediterranean Sea that surrounds it.
Once dinner is out of the way, guests holidaying at La Manga Club can enjoy a relaxing drink by heading to the Piano Bar.
Located at Hotel La Manga Club Principe Felipe, the venue is home to a modern and stylish lounge area where visitors can unwind and socialise at the end of the day.
The bar opens nightly from 19:00, with live music beginning at 23:00.
As well as international cocktails and a selection of fine wines, guests can enjoy Asian-inspired tapas dishes.
Holidays are a great time to try new activities and develop your skills.
One resort where families will find a wide range of sports on offer is La Manga Club in Murcia, which is renowned for the quality of its facilities.
The resort is home to 28 tennis courts, as well as an academy that runs courses throughout the year.
Guests keen to master the basics can sign up for the five-day programme, which involves two hours of on-court coaching each morning and covers everything from singles and doubles tactics to drop shots and match play.
Brits planning to take a holiday in Spain have been advised to shop around in order to get the best currency deals.
According to the Post Office, travellers can end up paying over the odds by changing their cash at the airport.
Sarah Munro, head of travel money at the organisation, said people taking holidays to Spain and elsewhere often mistakenly believe that exchange rates are the same everywhere.
"UK tourists who don't check the rate offered for the currency they need could end up with less money to spend on holiday," she explained.
Thousands of British families will be packing their bags this weekend and jetting off on holidays to Spain, it has been revealed.
According to flight search site Skyscanner, Malaga and Alicante are the most popular destinations for people travelling abroad over the May bank holiday weekend.
Other hotspots include Tenerife, Belfast and Amsterdam, with Dublin also proving popular.
Skyscanner co-founder and market development director Barry Smith suggested that people are keen to stay close to home after the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland, which led to widespread delays and flight cancellations across most of Europe.


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Apple Maps and Google Maps: Which's The Best Maps?
Apple Maps and Google Maps are two of their very well-known sat nav programs, and lots of folks will have placed the navigation abilities of both of these into the test.
Neither is ideal, nor like the best sat as we have tested, but they are free and come as standard on Android telephones or iPhones, are incredibly common.
If you are purchasing a smartphone and the built-in mapping is a significant consideration, it is worth understanding that although Google Maps is available as a download to get iPhones, Apple Maps can only be employed within an iPhone. Both have their features, so keep reading Colorfy's following article to discover which sounds appropriate for you.
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What are a few of the features of Google Maps?
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Apple Maps and Google Maps Comparison
It's possible to change your departure time. If you are arranging a trip through Chicago and are taking a look at your map at 10 p.m., it will reveal to you the present traffic. But if you are considering departing at 7:30 a.m., this traffic will seem much different.
Let Google make hints on the best way to proceed. This is just another one that's useful when traveling. Or if attempting to reply that never-ending debate of the place to go for supper.
Utilize the "Commute" tab that will assist you with your daily commute.
Want to use a map, and you are not positive whether you have mobile service in a specific location? Download it until you want it.
Add stops for your excursion. This can be super useful on road trips.
Locate parking in your destination.
Permit Google Maps tells you how busy your train is.
Reserve an Uber or even Lyft ride.
Check to see how busy your favorite restaurant is.
Got turned about while you're walking? No worries. Google may use your camera along with augmented reality to reveal to you the ideal thing to do.
Like Google, it is possible to alter passing times. However, Apple will tell you whether the bus or train you want to take will be delayed or explain to you where it's. It is also going to show you outages.
Send your ETA to friends or family. As soon as you send it, they will even be advised if there's a traffic delay.
Get notifications on your flight status, gate location, and adjustments or cancellations.
Seeing a brand new mall? Utilize the indoor map.
Do you not like the robotic aisle of your map program? Siri currently uses "Natural Language Advice" to provide you simpler to comprehend directions.
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If Street View has been a deal-breaker for you, Apple currently has its very own edition.
Both Google and Apple have their own privacy policies. Apple has privacy policies to restrict the data collection, and the company intends to improve privacy with iOS 14 further.
Google also has controls and customization to improve privacy, for example, Incognito style, which keeps searches and location confidential. On the other hand, Apple has several features that make it hard for programs to accumulate data and not list your search history or moves.
The port for Apple Maps and Google Maps is very similar. You can look for certain places on Apple Maps with the search bar at the bottom of the display and change preferences such as satellite, map, or transit by simply hitting the data button, which takes you to another display to make alterations.
Google Maps also has a search box and various view modes and many more choices to control your maps, such as satellite, transit, driving, researching, terrain, biking, and visitors. The "Current Location" button on display on both map programs. Additionally, Apple's'Look Around' attribute relies on Google's Street View feature, which lets you look around like you're walking down the road.
If it has to do with the true navigation display, the two programs are rather similar. Google Map's satellite perspective has a more realistic appearance, although the satellite perspective Apple Maps includes a more photographic look because it uses vector graphics. If you zoom into Google Maps, it poses a direct sidebar with information regarding neighboring places, while zooming into Apple Maps, you may see more places pop up on the road.
The two map software base birth estimate on traffic requirements at the moment. Both Apple and Google use different colors to indicate that the traffic amount on the street. Also, you see alarms from street closures to mishaps.
Google Maps also enables several users to record an accident or traffic jam in a specific spot. Google provides users a much better idea regarding how visitors will affect a sail. Google also provides more choices on the primary display, while added choices on Apple Maps might need to be dragged up in the display's bottom area.
Supported devices: Google Maps can be obtained on iOS and Android and online through any web browser. The Apple Maps online version isn't published yet; neither is the only for Android. Therefore Apple Maps is just on the macOS and iOS apparatus.
Data precision: In the past couple of decades, Apple has spent a good deal in improving the standard of its maps, either by prioritizing it and purchasing other location-centric startups outright. Gone will be the days when Apple could mislabel buildings lead folks to incorrect destinations.
Local research: When it comes to navigating your city, the two Apple Maps and Google Maps instructions will rarely let you down. Information about and reviews of local companies also tend to be put on because Google has been collecting its data for more than ten years and Apple Maps decided to rely on professionally trusted sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp.
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Navigation: Running anywhere new sounds almost impossible today with no navigation feature at a few of the mapping programs turned on. How can we get it before? Regardless, now both Apple Maps and Google Maps thankfully supply you with turn-by-turn directions, where you may have to go. Design-wise, Apple includes a little ahead by revealing the map in 3D, making it a lot easier to obtain the proper address, and telling you that lane on the street you need to remain on not to miss your departure.
Data use One of the wonderful things about a sat nav program is the ease of using it on the move – ideal if you choose a wrong turn or meet an unexpected diversion. Nevertheless, this may affect your mobile data utilization. Our evaluations have shown remarkable differences in how much information different programs utilize, together with the worst with a whopping 5MB along with also the best with just a couple of kilobytes.
If you are a normal driver, the advice's caliber will be the essential element. However, you will also need to have a program with traffic information to assist you in traffic jams. Both Google and Apple sat nav apps screen traffic information at no cost. However, you'll require a constant mobile data link in your smartphone to take advantage of it.
The fantastic thing is that both programs are free. Apple Maps comes preloaded on all iPhones and iPads, even though it's possible to download Google Maps in the App Store. (Apple Maps will stay the default map support, and iOS will probably continually by taste load an address because of the program. But tons of third-party programs don't create this assumption and will ask that you would prefer).
As a preinstalled program, Apple Maps is subject to updates when a new variant of iOS comes out: public-transport instructions were inserted as a member of this iOS 9 upgrade in 2015, for example, while iOS 12 introduced an entirely revamped support.
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But, Apple Maps is still playing catch up to Google Maps. Concerning ease of use and interface, Google Maps' decade and a half expertise give it a definite advantage over its iOS competition. It's worth noting, however, that both map programs are free and provide fundamental mapping features. We believe "solitude" is the only place in which Apple has the edge over Google Maps.
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China.
Multiple frequencies constraints and analytical sensitivity methods were used in the structural optimization design of the side plate of 4YK1860 vibrating screen to reduce the damage of side plate caused by high dynamic stress. The mass of side plate of the vibrating screen was taken as object function, mode frequencies were regarded as state parameters, size of the plate was used as the constraint parameter and an optimization criterion which is applicable to solve this kind of problem was given. Meanwhile, sensitivity characteristics of variable parameters were considered during the process of optimization. The results show that the optimization program with embedded analytical sensitivity calculation methods is of a higher solving precision and with a more stable calculating process. After structure optimization, the thickness of side plate to withstand large impact is increased, the thickness of stiffener and peripheral angle is decreased, the mass of side plate is reduced by 7.75% and a better optimization effect is achieved. The analysis of the optimal vibrating screen presents that the mass of vibrating screen decreases by 3.5%, elastic deformation frequency which is close to the working frequency increases by 8.8% and the dynamic stress decreases by 48%. The natural frequencies of vibrating screen are improved and modal frequency is far from the working frequency of the exciting motor, stress concentration of vibrating screen is weakened and thus the structural stiffness and reliability of vibrating screen are enhanced.


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using Dropcraft.Runtime.Core;
using FluentAssertions;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using Xunit;

namespace Dropcraft.Runtime.Configuration
{
    public class JsonCustomConfigurationTests
    {
        [Fact]
        public void EmptyJsonParsedAndReturnsEmptyConfig()
        {
            var obj = JObject.Parse("{}");
            var config = new JsonCustomConfiguration(obj);

            var customConfig = config.Get();
            customConfig.HasChildren().Should().BeFalse();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void JsonWithPropertiesOnlyIsParsed()
        {
            var obj = JObject.Parse("{\"x1\":\"1\", \"x2\":\"2\", \"x3\":\"3\"}");
            var config = new JsonCustomConfiguration(obj);

            var customConfig = config.Get();
            customConfig.HasChildren().Should().BeTrue();

            customConfig.GetChild("x1").Key.Should().Be("x1");
            customConfig.GetChild("x1").Value.Should().Be("1");

            customConfig.GetChild("x3").Key.Should().Be("x3");
            customConfig.GetChild("x3").Value.Should().Be("3");
        }

        [Fact]
        public void JsonWithObjectsIsParsed()
        {
            var obj = JObject.Parse("{\"x1\" : { \"x2\" : { \"x3\" : \"3\", \"x4\" : \"4\" } } }");
            var config = new JsonCustomConfiguration(obj);

            var customConfig = config.Get();
            customConfig.HasChildren().Should().BeTrue();

            var x1 = customConfig.GetChild("x1");
            x1.Key.Should().Be("x1");
            x1.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

            var x2 = x1.GetChild("x2");
            x2.Key.Should().Be("x2");
            x2.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

            x2.GetChild("x3").Key.Should().Be("x3");
            x2.GetChild("x3").Value.Should().Be("3");

            x2.GetChild("x4").Key.Should().Be("x4");
            x2.GetChild("x4").Value.Should().Be("4");
        }

        [Fact]
        public void JsonWithArrayIsParsed()
        {
            var obj = JObject.Parse("{\"x1\" : { \"x2\" : [ \"3\", \"4\", \"5\" ] } }");
            var config = new JsonCustomConfiguration(obj);

            var customConfig = config.Get();
            customConfig.HasChildren().Should().BeTrue();

            var x1 = customConfig.GetChild("x1");
            x1.Key.Should().Be("x1");
            x1.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

            var x2 = x1.GetChild("x2");
            x2.Key.Should().Be("x2");
            x2.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

            var i = 3;
            foreach (var child in x2.GetChildren())
            {
                child.Key.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();
                child.Value.Should().Be(i.ToString());
                i++;
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public void JsonWithAllFeaturesIsParsed()
        {
            var obj = JObject.Parse("{\"p1\":\"1\", \"x1\":{\"x2\":{\"x3\":\"3\"}, \"x4\":[\"5\", \"6\"]} }");
            var config = new JsonCustomConfiguration(obj);

            var customConfig = config.Get();
            customConfig.HasChildren().Should().BeTrue();

            var p1 = customConfig.GetChild("p1");
            p1.Key.Should().Be("p1");
            p1.Value.Should().Be("1");

            var x1 = customConfig.GetChild("x1");
            x1.Key.Should().Be("x1");
            x1.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

            var x2 = x1.GetChild("x2");
            x2.Key.Should().Be("x2");
            x2.Value.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();
            x2.GetChild("x3").Key.Should().Be("x3");
            x2.GetChild("x3").Value.Should().Be("3");

            var x4 = x1.GetChild("x4");
            x4.Key.Should().Be("x4");

            var i = 5;
            foreach (var child in x4.GetChildren())
            {
                child.Key.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();
                child.Value.Should().Be(i.ToString());
                i++;
            }

        }
    }
}


Buying presents for keen walkers this year? If you're struggling to find gifts for your adventurous family or friends, follow EasyWays' guide for some gift ideas for outdoor lovers!
No matter what their purpose, everyone loves to receive socks as a stocking gift. Walking socks are essential for any adventure enthusiast. We guarantee that if your relative or friend is an avid long distance walker, they will definitely appreciate a good quality pair of walking boot socks!
Track down a buff and a beanie hat and you have yourself another great stocking filler! Though it may seem not all that exciting to gift someone a hat, we can guarantee that well-made outerwear is always a good gift route for anyone outdoorsy.
Trying to find something a bit different? Go for a hand warmer! You'll always need something to warm you up after walking in Scotland. So, hand or foot warmers are a very valuable piece of kit. And we believe the perfect treat for your adventuring loved ones this Christmas.
Impress family and friends with outdoor equipment gifts this Christmas!
For those with parents, children or close friends with an outdoor obsession you may be looking for a larger present!
Boots are obviously an essential for any walker. If you are looking to gift some walking boots, you'll need to do your research! Think about where your loved one walks the most, what kind of terrain these routes are and the distance. You can always take a look at the pair they already have to gauge what they like.
Another pricier item you may be thinking of investing in is a jacket. Like walking boots, there are so many styles out there. Choose something waterproof and of high quality. As we mentioned in our last post we are continuing our campaign for sustainable travel year on year. And so we encourage you to go for a jacket made from an eco-friendly, ethical brand. Of course, no matter which one you choose, we are sure that your recipient will be grateful!
If you are thinking of giving a gift that everyone can enjoy, a walking holiday is one of the most thoughtful gift ideas for outdoor lovers! With routes all over Scotland, anyone adventurous will love a walking holiday from EasyWays. In 2019, plan for a trip where your friends and family can spend time together and enjoy the beautiful Scottish scenery! Whether you choose the West Highland Way or the Isle of Skye Spectacular, EasyWays will take care of your group and ensure you have the best time possible.
Surprise your friends and family with a walking holiday with EasyWays in 2019.


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The Birth Control Council of America (BCCA) was a short-lived organization that was established  1937 to reconcile the activities of the American Birth Control League (ABCL) and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB).  The goal was to reduce redundancy, improve cooperation, and discuss the future of the birth control movement in the United States.  The BCCA was created following the 1936 United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries federal court case, effectively removing legal obstacles limiting the ability of doctors to import, disseminate and prescribe contraceptives.

Margaret Sanger was the chairman of the BCCA, and under her leadership, it held several meetings in 1937.  Topics addressed included   clinic affiliation and the possible merger of the two birth control publications: The Birth Control Review and The Birth Control News.  The members of the BCCA failed to reach agreement.   In 1937, Sanger resigned her role as chairman due to the lack of progress and effectiveness.   The BCCA was terminated in late 1937.

The Council
The Council consisted of nine members who met periodically in 1937:

 Margaret Sanger - Chairman
 Henry Pratt Fairchild - Vice-Chairman
 Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein
 Frederick C. Holden
 Eric M. Matsner
 Allison Pierce Moore
 Abraham Stone
 Hannah Mayer Stone
 Ira Solomon Wile

Notes

References
 "Birth Control Council of America", NYU Margaret Sanger Papers Project, "Birth Control Council of America"
Engelman, Peter, History of the birth control movement in the United States, p 171.

Birth control in the United States

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Sarb Akal Music Society of Calgary
SAMS was founded in 2014 and upholds and educates Indian Classical Music in Calgary. They also created the Indian Classical Music Festival in 2016.
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Music with Mandy
Music with Mandy has been inspiring the next generation of jazz fans since August 2017. Mandy Morris uses her training to entertain and educate children and their families.
Music 2 Di Soul Productions
Music 2 Di Soul Productions is not just another production label but rather an ambassador for anything and everything that is considered within the art of music.
Sled Island Music & Arts Festival
Since 2007, Sled Island's thoughtful, eclectic programming and independent spirit have produced a one-of-a-kind festival experience.
Westwinds Music Society
Westwind Music Society is a non-profit organization, offering concert band, jazz and choral learning and performing opportunities for adults of all ages and skill levels.
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Youth Singers of Calgary (YSC), one of Calgary's largest not for profit performing arts companies is a comprehensive choral education and performance program.
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The Alberta International Band Festivals are dedicated to providing a performance platform for outstanding junior high, high school, and community bands.


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Q: What is the shape of the distribution when the sample mean > the population mean? What is the shape of the distribution when the sample mean is greater than the population mean?

A: Observing a sample mean larger than the population mean doesn't really restrict the shape of the distribution enough to collectively describe it.
The only restrictions that immediately come to mind are that the population mean must be finite and the variance must not be 0. Essentially any distribution with a mean and positive variance will have some chance to observe a sample mean greater than the population mean (perhaps there could be some odd exceptions but none occur at present). That really doesn't give us enough information to characterize the shape. It could have essentially any shape.

A: The sample mean isn't fixed to the distribution, just to the sample. Given a particular distribution, you can evaluate a new sample mean for an arbitrary number of samples of the same or different sizes as the first sample and get a different sample mean each time. The law of large numbers tells us that as the size of the sample grows, the sample mean converges to the population mean.

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I question this generous, and somewhat misguided approach, which does seem rather odd – cutting the price of seeing a non-league game for fans accustomed to paying extortionate amounts to watch their regular club.
If the clubs think that by doing this, the average football fan of a league club will decide to rip-up their prized season ticket and turn to the modest world of non-league, then there's little hope. The best they can anticipate is if the fans enjoy the experience so much that they'll come again when they're having a night off of being an Arsenal fan.
Making it half or concession price if you produce your season to the Emirates is a kick in the teeth for regular fans. Why continue to squeeze the die-hard who stands on empty terraces every other weekend while handing generous offers to the fan who knows where the ground is but has rarely ventured through the rickety old turnstiles of the local "United"? Clubs sometimes behave like they have a captive audience, but they don't – non-league fans choose to watch their team not because of the quality, but because it is convenient, on their doorstep and accessible. Making it cheaper for people who have not made that commitment reflects a lack of care and attention on an audience that should be greatly valued.
Frankly, non-league clubs should be more confident of their proposition. By discounting, there's a suggestion that "£10 is too much so we'll make it a fiver for those who don't know too much about us". Given a season ticket at a top club is expensive, the Chelsea fan on a blank Saturday is hardly going to flinch at the price of two pints of craft beer to see the local step 3 outfit.
Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of throwing carrots to people in order to lure them to non-league football, but I don't think it's necessary to pander to fans who are firmly embedded in the ludicrous world of Premier League football that's been fiercely supported by its clientbase. Far better to underline the positives of the non-league game such as friendly and enthusiastic crowds, community and honest endeavour than to sell it short as some form of curiosity.
Deep down, the clubs must realise they're actually reaching out to people that can afford non-league prices, because they're quick to raise admission if they are playing a top club, even in pre-season friendlies, with the caveat – "their fans are used to paying higher prices". So why go in the opposite direction in the pursuit of drawing fans in on a blank Saturday? – it is quite possible that those in need of their football fix will go along to see non-league anyway – and gladly pay £10.
But do clubs feel that £10 is actually too much? I sense the public may have that opinion, hence "pay what you want" games are usually well attended – because £10 is not the asking price. Non-league's future depends on winning new fans, people who don't normally come to games, but it won't necessarily be taking them from a higher level – i.e. Football League clubs – it will be from younger people marginalised by the cost of big-time football and those who have yet to discover the pleasure of watching something that's part of the neighbourhood. Surely, non-league clubs should be doing their best – and some do it very well – to make it more affordable for these segments of the community?
Such a scheme was tried out at Bradford Park Avenue for a recent home game. Bradford City were at home the same day and as their game was postponed, a number of their supporters took up the offer. With fans from Huddersfield Town, South Shields? and Halifax Town there, it put another sixty or so on the gate and they witnessed a cracking 3-3 draw with a few saying they would be back.


A rehabilitated Florida panther is released back to the wild in Okeechobee County, Fla., in January 2015. The Florida panther is an endangered subspecies of cougar; cougars were the only big cat species native to Alabama.
Big cats prowling Alabama? Not likely!
Every year, hunters and other outdoorsmen report seeing large cats in Alabama and other eastern states where none should exist.
Cougars, also called mountain lions or pumas, once ranged from northern Alaska to the tip of South America. The eastern subspecies roamed over most of North America east of the Mississippi River, but allegedly went extinct in the 1940s. About 100 Florida panthers, another cougar subspecies, still live in extreme southwestern Florida.
Fearsome predators, cougars can weigh more than 200 pounds and easily bring down deer, elk, cattle and other large animals, even humans! Since the earliest colonization of North America, people tried to exterminate cougars and other predatory threats to themselves and their livestock. As the human population grew, forests became croplands and pastures. By the early 20th century, few large cats remained east of the Mississippi River.
In 1961, a cougar track was confirmed in Clarke County. In the late 1960s, another track was found in the same general area. Also in the late 1960s, an Alabama conservation enforcement officer found a cougar den with cubs in northern Baldwin County.
The Endangered Species Act placed big cats in most states under federal protection. For decades, known cat populations in protected areas began increasing. Expanding populations may force young cougars to spread out to find their own home ranges. A solitary and incredibly elusive adult cougar might call several hundred square miles home.
In November 2008, a man shot a healthy 140-pound fully clawed male cougar on the Georgia side of West Point Lake, which straddles the Georgia-Alabama line near Roanoke, Ala. DNA evidence confirmed it as a Florida panther, which possibly wandered up from Florida.
Each year, people report seeing not just big cats, but black panthers. "Panthers" never existed as a distinct species, but people often call cougars, South American jaguars and African leopards "panthers." No documented cougar in history ever had black fur, although bobcats sometimes occur in black or melanistic phases. The scientific name for cougar, Puma concolor, means "cat of one color." Leopards and jaguars can occur in black phases.
People reporting "black panthers" usually see something else such as Labrador retrievers, raccoons, small bears, big house cats, coyotes, foxes, feral pigs or dark-colored bobcats. People could possibly see a genuine cougar in silhouette, dark shadows or caked in mud. Many big cat reports occur at night or during low-light conditions when distinguishing colors becomes extremely difficult. Sometimes, people might see an actual tan cougar, but remember it as black because that's what they wanted to see.
One afternoon, my son and I drove through a wildlife management area. Canals paralleled the road. We spotted a large dark animal crossing the road about 75 yards ahead of us. Both of us immediately thought "cat," because of how it moved, its size and long tail. I stepped on the gas. Seconds later, we reached the spot where the "black cat" disappeared and saw a very large, but normal, brown otter swimming in the canal. We didn't expect to see an aquatic otter crossing the dry road in mid-afternoon. In the distance and because of the way light filtered through the trees, the silhouetted otter looked black.
Another long-tailed cat, a jaguarundi, resembles a small cougar. About the size of a large house cat, a jaguarondi at 25 yards could look like a lion 100 yards away. These South American felines range as far north as southern Texas, but have been released in Florida.
Anyone shooting a cougar in Alabama could face severe penalties. People who think they have spotted a cougar, tracks or other evidence should contact Harms or the nearest district wildlife office.
Contact Harms at 251-626-5474 in the wildlife office in Spanish Fort.


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U.S. geopolitical and nuclear nonproliferation objectives are on a potential collision course as Saudi Arabia seeks to join the Middle East's growing nuclear power club by soliciting bids for the construction of two reactors. An agreement between the two countries to allow U.S.-supplied nuclear technology to flow to the kingdom must limit nuclear weapons potential and serve geostrategic objectives.
This article was written by Kenneth Luongo, President of PGS, and was first published in The Hill.


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The Running of the Steers
By David Rapp
Pamplona, Spain, is known for its annual encierro, or running of the bulls, as famously portrayed in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. This Tuesday Denver will be the site of a somewhat similar spectacle: 30 longhorn cattle—followed by 100 sheep, driven by trained stock dogs—will barrel through the downtown streets of the Mile High City. And that's just a small part of the kickoff for the 100th anniversary celebration of Denver's massive National Western Stock Show, which begins tonight.
The 16-day show is the world's largest exhibition of seedstock, the elite cattle used for breeding. And in addition to hosting 20 different breeds of cattle in its sprawling stockyards, it is also home to the world's second-largest horse show—as well as a showcase for sheep, pigs, poultry, rabbits, goats, llamas, bison, and even yak. More than 12,000 entries from exhibitors from all over the world are converging on the 95-acre site.
Not far from the stockyards, the Denver Coliseum is holding some 40 rodeo events, as 700 competitors brave bucking broncos for cash prizes—the fifth-richest rodeo jackpot on earth. And there's more: a Wild West show, inspired by Buffalo Bill Cody's turn-of-the-century spectacles; a Western Art Exhibit, displaying paintings and sculptures of cattle and cowboys; and even a "Super Dogs" show, with canine acrobatics. In all, the National Western Stock Show is expected to attract more than 600,000 people at about $7 a head.
It's difficult to imagine that the event's founders, in 1906, could have foreseen how massive it would become over the next century. At the time, there were only about 200,000 people in all of Denver. Cattlemen and ranchers wanted to establish a local market center for livestock, instead of having to expensively ship cattle to the meatpacking centers of Chicago and Kansas City. An annual show was seen as the best way to put Western livestock on the economic map.
The organizers—the future Colorado governor Elias Ammons among them—angled to hold their event in January, one of the slowest times of the year for livestock sales. On January 29, 336 livestock entries were exhibited—and thousands of Denverites, looking to alleviate their winter boredom, showed up to see them. It was a smashing success by any measure. By 1913 the show was bringing in $2 million to Denver's economy each year. (The figure is now about $80 million.) And it has gone on ever since, even through all the years of the Great Depression—which hit agriculture particularly hard—and two world wars. The only year it was ever cancelled was 1915, when an epidemic of hoof-and-mouth disease prevented animals from crossing state lines.
In 1907, a horse show was added, and in 1931, a rodeo, helping make the show an event with wider-ranging [it still wasn't exactly "wide-ranging"] public appeal. Over the years it has even created local celebrities, some of whom, including the 1970s rodeo announcer Bob Tallman, are returning for the 100th anniversary. And what does the future hold for the National Western Stock Show? Even after a century, more expansion seems likely. Indeed, show officials may start looking at other locations in the area, as it's simply running out of space where it is.
Events over the two weeks include a Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, a Catch-a-Calf Contest, a Beef Heifer Wrangle, the Super Dogs acrobatic presentation, and the International Open Sheep Shearing and Junior Sheep Shearing Contests. For full information, go to www.nationalwestern.com/nwss/home/index.asp
—David Rapp has written about American history for American Heritage and Technology Review, among other magazines