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Focus, Clarity, and Blogging
Blogging|DannyG|Reflection|Site Info|
Submitted by Danny Grubb
Occasionally I find more turmoil than focus in my world.
For the last nine months my various responsibilities were overlapping to such a large extent that blogging had to drop by the wayside for a while. I won't bore you with any details, suffice it to say that I found there were more things to do than hours in the day. If I dropped the ball on anything I had previously promised, I apologize.
Now that I've found some renewed focus and clarity you can expect the following.
No More Sponsored Posts
No more forced content to meet an imaginary posting schedule. When I write something that I think you guys would like, I will post it. When I do not have a post that I feel you guys will appreciate, you will get nothing.
There's an Amazon banner in the sidebar. Which you can choose to ignore more easily than sponsored posts. How awesome is that?!
Whenever appropriate, GladDads will serve as a tool for good. Like when the decision was made to start re-tweeting amber alerts. All suggestions to this end are welcome!
My priorities remain unchanged. My family, career, and health will always receive most of my time and attention with blogging getting the leftovers. The readers of most blogs probably wouldn't respect that, but I know you guys will. You stuck around through 9 months of silence for goodness sake!
Feel free to tear this post to pieces in the comments :)
Parents, What's Your BHAG?
Advice|Big Picture|Dads|Fatherhood|Goal Setting|JoeBeckman|Parenting|
Submitted by Joe Beckman
Is one of your goals in life to become "a great parent?" I would assume that most people taking the time to read a blog on parenting and fatherhood strive for something like that. I am no exception. But I've got to be honest, there are days when I ask if I am cut out for this. There are days when I can't take another meltdown, or when I can't answer another question, or play another imaginary game of Disney princesses, or hear one more syllable of whining. Days when I truly wonder if I am cut out to be a "great parent."
Recently I listened to the audio book, Built to Last by Jim Collins, a book about creating companies that are not only successful now, but also for generations to come. Collins' book as well as the sequel Good to Great is phenomenal reads (or listens) for anyone with entrepreneurial curiosity.
Collins argues that the companies that want to be recognized for their current success in the present as well as their continued success in the future should have a BHAG. Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
The authors define a BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) as a form of vision statement "...an audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress towards an envisioned future."
A true BHAG is clear and compelling, serves as unifying focal point of effort, and acts as a clear catalyst for team spirit. It has a clear finish line, so the organization can know when it has achieved the goal; people like to shoot for finish lines.
—Collins and Porras, 1996
Microsoft's BHAG way back when was to have a computer in every home in America
Twitter's BHAG is to become the pulse of the planet
Youth Frontier's BHAG (the non-profit I work for) is to change the way young people treat each other in every hallway, every lunchroom, every classroom, every playground, in every school in this country.
As I was listening to this book I couldn't help but think about what my BHAG should be as a parent. Running a family in many ways is like running a business. In order to be successful at either, not only do you need to put in the time and effort, but you also have to have clear goals.
"Being a great parent" is not a BHAG. It's certainly something to strive for but it's totally vague. Just as every small business owner wants to be "successful", every caring parent would like to think they are "great." But it's the BHAGS that are going to keep you accountable, tuned in, and most importantly…present.
BHAGS can be small like making sure you tell your kiddos that you love them at least once everyday, or a sitting down for a family meal at minimum 3 times per week.
BHAGS can be bigger. Maybe you want to send your child to a private school, and you will sacrifice something or pick up a second job in order to pay for the tuition.
I think if we took the time to sit down and start writing out some of the "big picture" objectives we hope to accomplish as a parent, it wouldn't take us long to fill the page. But I would argue that without having goals, and focal points of effort with clear finish lines, we're going to be a bit lost.
Yes I want to be a "great parent" but today I will strive for making sure all electronic devices are shut off when I'm playing princesses.
Yes I want to be a "great parent" but today my goal is to be patient and understanding when my 4-year old melts down and needs my attention during the middle of the football game.
Yes I want to be a "great parent" and in order to get there; I'm going start setting up my BHAGS.
So…what are some BHAGS for you?
We ReTweet Amber Alerts And You Should Too
Posted On Thursday, November 03, 2011
Amber Alert|Child Safety|Crime|DannyG|Shame|Tips n Tricks|Twitter|
I was very disappointed the other night when four tweets about an Amber Alert in Seattle went unmentioned/retweeted by the @GladDads followers (1,430 by last count). A man (allegedly) killed his girlfriend and took off with two kids, including a 9mo and eventually turned himself in later that night. The children were safe.
But seriously… WTF?!
Two Questions
Q: Are our Twitter followers a bunch of uncaring assholes?
A: Surely not! How dare you even think that! We like to think the best of our readers.
Q: What can we do to bring better attention to active Amber Alerts?
A: Find a way to Auto-Retweet Amber Alert Information. Check.
A: Write a blog post shaming followers into taking action the next time they notice an amber alert on their Social Media feeds. Check.
If you're on Twitter and have more than a dozen followers, chances are that one of those followers will know someone in the area. Just because you don't know anyone in the area personally is a poor excuse for not forwarding on an Amber Alert.
This concludes the rant portion of this post. Read on to learn what steps you can take to get the word out about Amber Alerts.
Auto-Retweet Amber Alerts: You Can Do It Too
Using instructions I found for creating a Twitter Retweet Bot and the twitter feed of @Amber_Alert I created a Yahoo! Pipe and automated publish to @GladDads via TwitterFeed.com. You don't have to publish to Twitter though, TwitterFeed lets you publish to Facebook as well.
If you want to use our Yahoo! Pipe's RSS feed, here it is.
You may have noticed a few of the tweets already coming through.
Twitter Dashboards: Add An #AmberAlert Column
If you're already using HootSuite, MetroTwit, or TweetDeck you can easily set up a column to look for hashtags like #AmberAlert. This way, when something pops up you can easily retweet or mention it.
If you have a smart phone your twitter app may have similar functionality.
See It = Share It
If you see an amber alert on any social networking platform you happen to frequent, just share it with your users. Where's the harm in that? Worst case scenario your users will think of you as a caring individual and best case scenario, you can help bring victimized kids home safely.
You don't know where your followers are or what they are doing. For all you know they could be staring at the suspect vehicle right that moment while sitting at a coffee shop.
Please don't be the weak link. Spread the word and help save kids.
If you have more ideas on how to spread the word about Amber Alerts please comment!
Who Is Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury In High School Football? Nobody
Posted On Monday, October 17, 2011
DannyG|Football|Kids|Legislation|Parenting|Parents|Prevention|rant|Sports|Traumatic Brain Injury|
It was sad to read about the death of a New York high school student during a varsity football game this past weekend. It didn't help when I started to research the subject of Traumatic Brain Injury in High School. I came across some surprising facts.
High School TBI By The Numbers
According to this article in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine nearly 30% of High School Football players interviewed reported having a history of concussion, only 47% of those were reported to trainers. Look at that number again… that's less than half. The three main reasons that athletes gave for not reporting their injury was that the player didn't think the injury was serious, they didn't want to be withheld from competition, or they weren't aware that they had suffered a concussion until later.
In addition to the under reporting problem is the fact that TBI is nearly five times as likely to occur in competition than training according to this article from the Journal of Athletic Training.
What Is Being Done About It
The Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act (H.R. 469) currently making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives aims to confront these problems by "making sure school districts have concussion management plans that educate students, parents and school personnel about how to recognize and respond to concussions."
According to the legislation, they will accomplish this by providing student athletes with information about how to prevent and manage concussions, inform and empower student athletes, parents and school personnel about concussions by requiring schools to provide relevant information, and finally to support students' health and recovery by implementing policies like "when in doubt, sit it out."
So… They're Doing Almost Nothing
This bill does nothing to prevent Traumatic Brain Injuries for student athletes. Basically they're just going to hold an assembly, put up some posters with a snappy catch phrase and attempt to take care of students after they have already suffered a TBI.
There's something about being on a field of play that makes athletes forget they are made of flesh and bone. These are kids who are staying relatively safe during practice, but then pummel each other during games to the point where they suffer serious injuries and even die.
Prevention On The Field
Clearly there is a weakness in the way the rules are set up for this age group. Granted, you can't take away a million dollars for a High School line backer that's throwing his weight around too aggressively, but injuring someone should have consequences. Sitting out a game or two does not seem unreasonable to me and I suspect that it would make someone think twice before delivering a devastating blow to his opponent.
The bottom line is that there is a family in New York waking up every morning for the rest of their lives without their son, and someone else's son is waking up knowing that he was on the other side of that hit.
It's time to re-evaluate the rules of High School Football and at least attempt to keep these kids safe. High school is hard enough without having to worry about dying during a game.
Posted On Sunday, October 02, 2011
Daddy Stories|DannyG|Diapers|Failed|Health|Parenting|Potty Training|Program|Toddlers|
Yes, I admit it. I fell for the promises of one of those "Potty Train Your Child in Less Than a Week" programs. I paid for the eBook and after reading it I was convinced that we had made the right choice. "This person knows what they're talking about" I thought.
At this point you should know that I never get caught flat-footed by telemarketers, infomercials or fast talking sales people. I know what things are worth and I can smell trouble a mile away.
This time my purchasing sense abandoned me. "Well if it works, that would be awesome. If it doesn't, we're out (an embarrassingly large amount of) bucks." I was optimistic as only a consumer of a newly discovered widget could be.
As it turns out I should have toned down my enthusiasm... a lot.
U-Day (Underwear)
Things were going ok, the twins threw away their own diapers (into a clean bag because we wanted to donate it to the daycare) and were quite happy to be wearing underwear. We praised them "Look at our big girls in their new underwear!" we said repeatedly.
We also kept reminding them to tell us if they felt like they had to go potty... over and over again we told them this as per the eBook.
So it went, one of the girls would start peeing on the floor and we would rush her to the potty to try and get at least a few drops in the bowl before she was done. This happened successfully only once.
But they wanted to practice for themselves. They were very excited with the whole idea of potty training so they would say that they had to go potty and then sit on the bowl for a few minutes looking genuinely happy but with no results. We would thank them for their efforts, flush and wash our hands.
Then It Happened
We didn't see it coming; we didn't even know it could from the eBook we had been reading. One of our girls literally didn't know what to do with herself. She started crying, wouldn't allow us to take her out of the bathroom and was going between the potty and the sink crying her eyes out.
At first we tried to help her out, telling her how good she was to go and wash her hands or sit on the potty, but things just got worse. She would be in front of the potty ready to get on and all of a sudden yell "No! No! No!" and walk back to the sink where she yelled "No! No! No!" again. We managed to remove her from the bathroom a couple of times to try and calm her down, but this went on for more or less 2 hours.
I didn't want her to hate potty training so we aborted. We got the diapers back out of the bag the girls dumped them in earlier. Trying to put the diapers back on the girls was also a challenge, but the tears subsided eventually. Our confused twin didn't leave our arms for most of the day that day.
Firstly I learned that my gut needs a refresher course when it comes to the definition of "Too good to be true." Secondly I learned that these boot camp style programs, although likely successful for some kids, are not a one-size-fits-all solution (although they are clearly marked as such).
We are taking a slower approach now, less pressure and more pull-ups. A family member who is a pediatrician told me "It works better if going potty is their choice."
Have these programs worked for you or did you have a similar experience to ours? Please Comment!


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Address: 8039 Beach Blvd
Buena Park, CA 90620.0
Take a bite out of this quintessentially Southern California amusement park that has its humble roots as a family-owned 1920s berry farm.
Located in Southern California's Orange County, this iconic theme park was inspired by the history and culture of the Golden State. Originally a working berry farm, every boysenberry in the world can trace its roots to Knott's Berry Farm. As it evolved from roadside stand to world-class theme park, beloved classic attractions like the Timber Mountain Log Ride and the Calico Mine Ride were added that still thrill today.
Guests can still experience Ghost Town and even Mrs. Knott's famous fried chicken dinners that were the original draw! But there are plenty of modern thrills too, including Hang Time, the first dive coaster in California and Xcelerator the Ride, the fastest coaster at Knott's that clocks in at 82 mph! Attractions and shows like the interactive 4-D ride Voyage to the Iron Reef, and the world-famous Snoopy ice skating shows make Knott's a must-do for locals and tourists from around the world.
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Los Angeles 1 Day Go Card
Child 3 - 12
Valid for two (2) years from the date of purchase. This ticket is non-refundable.
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All-Inclusive Visit to any or all of the included 35+ attractions.
Visit as many attractions as you want, 9am to 5:30pm.
Save Money Up to 55% off gate prices.
More Fun Unlimited visits to many top theme parks.
Click here: GoCard LA Attractions to see a list of participating attractions. (note: attractions can change without notice)
Los Angeles 1 Day GoCard is valid for 1 calendar day between 9am and 5:30pm.
*Note: 'calendar days' are not 24-hour periods. For example, if you activate a 3-Day pass on a Monday evening, it is valid for the remainder of Monday (1st calendar day) and any 2 additional calendar days within two weeks of activation.
Now it's easier than ever to get hoppin' with your attractions card. Just follow the easy instructions below to receive your digital card and away you go!
Please follow these steps to download and/or print your card:
Forward a copy of your Undercover Tourist E-ticket (not your Order Confirmation) to passes@leisurepassgroup.com. Within 6 hours, you'll receive a reply email from Smart Destinations/Leisure Pass Group containing your digital card + digital guidebook.
Upon receipt, your card will be available for immediate use at the various attractions included on the card – simply print or display on your mobile device.
Printer-friendly: download the PDF and print your card and guidebook. Show your printed card at participating attractions for admission.
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And don't worry, be hoppy - downloading or printing your digital card will not activate it – your card will activate when you visit your first attraction.
E-ticket expires upon redemption. If unused, E-Ticket will not expire for one (1) year from the date of purchase.
Child (3 - 12) $68.35
Save $11 vs. Adult gate price
Los Angeles 2 Day GoCard is valid for 2 calendar days between 9am and 5:30pm.
Adult (13+) $144.44
Child (3 - 12) $112.24
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With your Go Los Angeles Multi Attraction Pass, you'll get access to 35+ attractions for three (3) calendar days within two weeks of first use. Plus, you can skip the line at top sights and save big with special discounts.
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Los Angeles 3 Day GoCard is valid for 3 calendar days. Guests must enter the park between 9am and 5:30pm.
Los Angeles Go Card can be used for admission to Universal Studios on any day but must be redeemed at the gate by 5:30 pm. Valid for two (2) years from the date of purchase. This ticket is non-refundable.
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Click here: GoCard San Diego Attractions to see a list of participating attractions. (note: attractions can change without notice)
San Diego 1 Day GoCard is valid for 1 calendar day between 9am and 5:30pm.
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*Note: 'calendar days' are not 24-hour periods. For example, if you have a 3-Day pass and visit your first attraction on a Monday evening, it is valid for the remainder of Monday (1st calendar day) and the two days immediately following it: Tuesday (2nd calendar day), and Wednesday (3rd calendar day).
With your Go San Diego Multi Attraction Pass, you'll get access to 40+ attractions for two (2) consecutive calendar days. Plus, you can skip the line at top sights and save big with special discounts.
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Your 3-day Go Card also includes a choice of a FREE admission to one (1) of the following premium attractions: SeaWorld San Diego (enter once per day for 3 days, the same amount of days as your Go Card), Speed Boat Adventures (reservations required) or a 3-Day Hop-on Hop Off San Diego Trolley by Old Town Trolley.
With your Go San Diego Multi Attraction Pass, you'll get access to 40+ attractions for five (5) consecutive calendar days. Plus, you can skip the line at top sights and save big with special discounts.
Your 5-day Go Card also includes a choice of a FREE admission to one (1) of the following premium attractions: SeaWorld San Diego (visit once per day for 5 days, the same amount of days as your Go Card), Speed Boat Adventures (reservations required) or a 3-Day Hop-on Hop Off San Diego Trolley by Old Town Trolley.
With your Go San Diego Multi Attraction Pass, you'll get access to 40+ attractions for seven (7) consecutive calendar days. Plus, you can skip the line at top sights and save big with special discounts.
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I dabble in unit studies. I don't dwell there, though, because I can't seem to find a way to teach all that's necessary for Norah to know without using textbooks and worksheets. But I do like to dabble in unit studies. They make home school life worth living, I think.
I build our units around what we will be doing, what we are doing and then once we've done it, I keep building on what we did. We are in the midst of the makings of a unit on New York City's landmarks and the unit study is practically building itself. Here's how.
I knew we were going to NYC for doctor's appointments. Norah has 101 things to see before she's twelve. I knew that there were bound to be some things on her list that were in the city.
I look at her list of 101 things and find out that "a little country" and "an ethnic restaurant" are on there. So we decide to go Chinatown when we are in NYC. That's a little country. We'll eat something there, maybe lots of things. That will be food from ethnic restaurants.
I also see that riding "a subway" is another one of the things on her list. We'll have to park our car near my doctor's office and get over to Chinatown anyway, so riding the subway will be an easy thing to add to our plans.
I read about Chinatown online and find out that there's a big Buddhist temple open to tourists. "A place of worship" is another thing on the list. We'll go there, too! Are you kidding me?! This is awesome! And so, our first day in NYC plans itself, practically.
The next week, we have to go back to the city. I look at the list again to plan some more stuff. I see that "an amazing architectural achievement" is on her list. So I think about seeing the Empire State building, but only tentatively. I'd like Norah to be excited about what she sees and appreciate it. Will she appreciate a tall building she knows nothing about?
A day later, I come across this book at the thrift store, so I buy it for .65 cents, give it to Norah who reads it to herself and then wants to read it with me. She's interested now.
The book led her to the idea of making a scale model of the Empire State building with Legos. Enter her dad because he's better at math. That evening, he figures out that if Norah is as tall as a Lego figure, the model would need to be forty feet tall! Obviously Norah can't build a tower that tall so her dad does some more math with Norah's help. She helps measure the Lego pieces since that's something she can do. Dwayne figures out that if the small, round, black Lego at the bottom of the Lego tower in the photo below is twice as tall as Norah, then this tower is about as tall as the Empire State building. The green block represents our house. Our unit study has included some math and a building project now, too! How fun is that? We're all excited about the Empire State building at this point and the decision is made for me by the rest of the family. We're definitely going to see it.
When we go back to the city, we visit the Empire State building and take a picture and Norah blogs about it. Norah gets to check one more thing off her list.
We also visit Grand Central. "A marvel of engineering" is another thing on Norah's list and Grand Central is still a marvel of human ingenuity after all these years, still shuffling the most trains of any terminal anywhere, serving hundreds of thousands a day, getting them where they go with 98 percent of them on time.
From there, we walk to Times Square. Norah is supposed to see "a people watching place" and as far as people watching goes, you can't get much better than Times Square.
Wait. Don't I have a book about Times Square? Yes, I do. It's called The Cricket in Times Square. It's even a Newberry winner. Oh goodie. I read about the story line online. A cricket from Connecticut (We're from CT!) gets on a commuter train accidentally (We have a commuter train that goes to NYC right here in Waterbury!) and the cricket ends up in Times Square. The cricket also visits Chinatown!
What?! We've seen all those places on our visits to NYC! This book will be a perfect fit for all we've seen! Norah will relate to the story so well. I plan to start reading it in the next day or two, as soon as I finish reading another book I'm reading out loud right now.
We're going to the library again soon. Norah really enjoyed the book about the Empire State Building. She's read it two more times since the first go through. Maybe there are other books about the Empire State Building that are on her reading level. Maybe there are books about NYC or Chinatown, too. I look at the catalog on line and find twenty books that match those topics and they all seem good! We head to the library right away.
I do a Google search on the Empire State building and find this puzzle. I find this one for Times Square. Those might be fun, but they are expensive and too difficult for Norah to do on her own, so probably not. But I keep looking. Next I find a Dover coloring book with NYC landmarks. I love Dover coloring books. And they're affordable. We may order that in the next day or two.
And so, a unit study on NYC has begun. It's building itself, practically. I'm not sure where it will end or even when. But, like I said, unit studies are the most fun way to learn. Studying things we are interested in makes all the other, necessary grammar and arithmetic and handwriting seem so much less dull. Thank goodness for unit studies!


A number of species in this genus contain asperuloside, a substance that produces coumarin and gives the scent of new-mown hay as the plant dries. Asperuloside can be converted into prostaglandins (hormone-like compounds that stimulate the uterus and affect blood vessels), making the genus of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Plants are doubtfully native in Britain but are well established in arable fields in Essex and in a few other scattered localities.
Leaves - raw or cooked. A famine food, used as a last resort.


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How can I save the optimal values of a certain variable X that appears in one model, and reuse in another model that is otherwise unrelated, i.e. the save/restart facilities are not appropriate.
Another approach is to use the savepoint option. Just add a line "option Savepoint=1;" or" "option Savepoint=2;" to your first model before the solve statement. In your second model add the line "Execute_loadpoint 'name_of_the_first_model_p.gdx';". The McCarl Users Guide, which is included in the GAMS distribution, contains some more advanced examples.
The only thing to worry about is that the sets I and J are identical for the first model and the second one. One way to make sure they are in sync is to the put these set declarations in an include file.


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'I'm not committed to love, I'd be fine with war'
I return to the Tallis Hug. For new readers, this quite a feature. Students here hug each other desperately as if waving goodbye to an émigré, when they part for a lesson. They hug when they reconvene in sheer relief that the loved one is safely returned to whichever draughty part of concourse or canteen is home. This is inexplicable to the northerner for whom a raised eyebrow is an embarrassingly gushing show of affection. And they come pre-programmed.
Directing canteen traffic in the early hours of the term small child rushed up to me with a story of lost bag, shoes and bus before leaving home, followed by confusion and excitement in school. 'Now I'm FINE!' she squeaked. 'Can I get a hug?' 'No!' I squawked, rearranging her outstretched arms and backing into a dinner lady. 'We don't do that here!' Which, as explained above, is patently untrue. What I meant was - you'll find plenty people to hug here, but not adults and certainly not me. The exuberance of youth.
In telling this rocket-propelled putative hugger something about the Tallis way I was – rather magnificently – following my own instructions. My theme for the year is Tallis as usual. We don't want to invent any new ways of doing things this year, just to do everything we already do better, and more consistently. That's not to say that we won't have some creatively eccentric new ways of teaching, but we want our running procedures to be reliable, predictable and better.
Which subtle segue leads me into the general state of our education system. Not enough money, 40 000 fewer teachers that we need, exam system that can't bear the weight put on it, financial scandals etc etc. My solution to most worries is reading so I've just finished Melissa Benn's Life Lessons. Benn is a tireless campaigner for community comprehensive schools but in this little piece she also turns her attention to the state of adult education and the universities, as well as schools, proposing a National Education Service. (Before you reach for the pen to report me to the Secretary of State for contravention of Staffing and Advice for Schools September 2018 para 5:33 (expressing political views) this is not quite the same as the one that Labour talked about a bit at some point.) It's well worth reading, not least for this.
Why do we still know so little and celebrate even less the successes of comprehensive education? That a new generation of educational activists and administrators, including anti-grammar [conservative MPs] and many in the academy and free school movement now adhere to its principles so hard fought for half a century ago but rarely give it credit is not merely a form of disguised tribalistic discourtesy: it is also the result of a long-standing distortion of the historical record
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It should not be forgotten that today's widespread commitment across the political spectrum….to the idea of all children getting a shot at an 'academic education is the direct result of comprehensive reform. It changed our attitudes for the better and should be built on, not dismantled.
One of the things we often say at Tallis is that the comprehensive dream is a vision every bit as precious as the NHS, and every bit as complicated. Model communities of local young people taught with expertise and equity is a blueprint for a better society. There are other barriers, mind, and I'll talk about my next reading book, Robert Verkiak's Posh Boys next time.
Reading was on the agenda in year 7 assembly too. 'Reading makes you kinder' said Ms R. 'You all need to read more'. Perhaps the year 11 boy who bizarrely told Sir in English that he wouldn't need English after leaving school could be persuaded that he might need kindness? Not that the conversation I had with Sir didn't have its odd turns. It was in discussing the choice of poetry for GCSE that he gave me the title of this piece. Which poems would you rather read?
We are committed to love at Tallis in that we are committed to kindness and service. Part of that is to be reliable, predictable and better. War and love, love and service, expertise and equity, creativity and eccentricity: Tallis as usual, hold us to our promises.
A thousand things to do
Two year sevens career towards me lugging a bag big enough for two more. 'This is too heavy, Miss, can we use the lift?' 'No'. They whoop as they lurch off up the stairs. I'm not worried about the bag. Its OAA time (Outdoor and Adventurous Activities) so they've got their survival gear in it: camping, skinning rabbits and suchlike. I encounter more near the block five loos where a young chap who obviously knows a thing or two makes a point:'That's not a camping mat'. The girl flounces a bit 'I know! It's a yoga mat! It's all I've got! Don't judge me'. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Tallis life. Let's see how the double French plaits survive the night.
Thursday brought a visit from Anthony Horowitz. He held a crowd of 300 sitting on the sports hall floor for 2 hours, not an easy gig, captive. He talked about his awful boarding school experience and how villainous versions of his teachers die gruesomely in his novels. He said: what if the ghosts of the RAF pilots and the cold war spies once based here appeared in school?
I'd like to see them. I think they'd wonder what the hell was going on. I wrote the last blog after London Bridge and before the election. Since then, the election, Grenfell Tower and Finsbury Park mosque. I've never known what to do about angry men loving violence except to try to educate them out of it and encourage girls to walk away. I do know a bit about public services, though, and I'm up to my neck in compliance. Throw me a rope, would you?
Housing is difficult because no-one's making any more land and the public's assets were stripped a generation-and-a-half ago. It's expensive to build, takes skill to manage and relies on assumptions about the common good that appear to be fading into the past. When Beveridge fought the Five Giants of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease housing was a key solution. We decided that people should have safe homes to live in and that the state would provide them. After that, we sold off loads of the stock, stripped councils of the money and the powers they needed to keep it safe and available and lauded those who reduce council tax so that the stock and the staff crumble.
And piling Pelion upon Ossa, compliance. That cladding might have been cheaper, but it was OK because it ticked a box, and another box marked 'value engineering', no doubt. And the response: it looked like chaos but it probably ticked its boxes. And the fire escape plan? Well, there was one. And the PM's visit? Best described as a box left unticked. Good job the Queen knew what to say. On which part of planet Conservative and Unionist does that make sense?
Public services can't be replaced by box-ticking. Targets are important, perhaps even necessary, but never sufficient. When you strip away all professionalism, all respect for the job and most of the money, and leave civic institutions with compliance matrices rather than public values then we're all, literally and terrifyingly, at risk. Literally in schools where the cheapest and easiest exams became the system's calibrations, terrifyingly in tower blocks where no one's job was to worry about the welfare of the people. The strongest survive such blinkered negligence but the vulnerable suffer. Children always suffer.
Schools are model communities where we look after society's young until they're old enough and clever enough to fend for themselves. We have to chug along regardless while the world outside falls apart, so we've been entertaining ourselves in the mornings. One of the problems in exam season is that the big spaces are full of desks and anxious young people with see-through pencil cases and you can't assemble for weeks. Assembly is the glue of a big school and things fall apart without them. So, brainwavingly, assembly in the dojo. Notwithstanding the awkward access, potential bottlenecks and the matter of the shoes, we're loving it. Half a year squash up on the seats and the others sit barefoot and bootless on the mat. All facets of assemblies (uplifting thoughts, Byzantine instructions, the Reading of Lists, expressions of grave disappointment) are delivered in socks. Normal, even with year 9. We stand together and think about the lives of others. We did it on Thursday last, in assembly, because that's what's best to do. We didn't need to be told.
Beveridge's last words were 'I have a thousand things to do' but I worry that we've replaced symbolism with action. I worry that declaring a minute's silence is intended to hide a tragedy of negligence in the clothing of a natural disaster. I worry that crowdfunding and selfless volunteering are expected to fill a vacuum left by an austere and individualist state. I worry that we value economy over responsibility and I worry all the time about the example set our children. I wouldn't be surprised if the pilots and the spies decide to haunt us all.


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Luxoft is an international custom software development company founded by Dmitry Loschinin and operating in 20 countries in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, and South Africa. Luxoft company solves complicated software tasks in a number of industries, starting from agriculture and to healthcare. The latest technologies combined with talented and highly skilled workforce from all over the world count for its main strengths. In this Luxoft review we will examine strong and weak points of the company for you to be able to choose IT partners wisely.
Financial services include four main directions: technology services, consulting and transformation, system integration, and advanced technologies, some of these will be listed as separate services in the Luxoft review owing to the special value these add to client's business. Generally, this group of services is provided by a company from the luxoft family called Excelian.
Application development is at core of the Luxoft software development solutions. The company's software engineering process collects and translates business requirements into innovative technology solutions that become reality with custom software development. A full spectrum of development services, including core business applications and back-office IT solutions, are offered by the Luxoft company helping client to gain competitive advantage.
Architecture development falls into the consulting and transformation category and stands for the development of the agile IT architecture, relevant to the business needs of the client. By looking for the best practices and success stories from global digital leaders like Google and Amazon, the Luxoft company adapts their philosophies in ways that suit its clients.
Technology transformation at Luxoft is principally important as it leverages the best technology and implementation approach for clients to achieve their growth objectives and address the existing pressures of ongoing technological advancement. As an experienced technology partner, Luxoft software development company delivers complex transformation projects, while shortening time to market, and successfully establishing resilient, flexible technology infrastructure.
User Experience and Front End Technologies are keys to enhancing customer engagement. Therefore, Excelian combines a deep understanding of client's business with market knowledge to propose the best possible solutions.
DevOps at Luxoft company help clients to control, manage, and optimize delivery pipelines, ensuring higher quality, compliance, and enabling speed and scalability which are of vital importance nowadays.
Automotive services is another broad category of services offered by Luxoft software development company as it aims to bring Stunning User Experiences to road. These activities include development of digital cockpits, navigation and ADAS, Under-the-Hood practices, Diagnostics, and advanced software development and verification.
Digital transformation is managed by Luxoft digital and includes advisory, acceleration and engineering to achieve a higher aspiration of enabling monumental changes to established patterns through the application of innovative technology.
Specialization in the financial services manifested through an independently established entity Excelian counts for the company's advantages, as it allows its management and professionals concentrate on one field and develop expertise in it.
For application development, the company actively participates in worldwide quality standards like ISO 9001 and 27001, and also applies the development methodologies including Agile, XP, Scrum,and CMMI Level5. This showcases its professional competence.
Combination of technology areas, like HTML5, mobile and front-end technologies, Big Data and NoSQL, Grid Computing, Cloud, Agility and DevOps allows for a more efficient architecture building, and thus is definitely an advantage of Luxoft software development solutions.
Approaching the technology transformation challenges holistically, Luxoft software solutions enable the realization of high complexity projects, making the best use of existing systems and applications, while bringing a depth of innovation to each technology framework.
Nearshore team set-up allows for a cost-effective but quality User Experience, and Front End Development are among the company's strengths, as such approach enables clients to have greater flexibility with engagement type and cost.
A range of services offered within the DevOps capacity, including Automation assessment, DevOps assessment, Toolchain advisory and DevOps integration into an organization ensures matching of client's needs in the most effective way.
Presence of automotive services in the set of Luxoft software solutions is of value owing to its rarity and complexity in realization.
Alignment of technology, research, and innovation being at the core of the Luxoft software development solutions in digital transformations is likely to accelerate transformation processes, and thus add significant value to the client's business.
Excelian being situated in London and Frankfurt is less manageable for clients from other companies, as intercultural differences and time differences pose serious threats to effective software development.
Absence of app development in concert with website development makes its usage not of ultimate value, since companies usually have a number of different platforms and seek to ensure their effectiveness in combination with each other.
The company's approach to architecture development is not innovative enough to ensure the ultimate software architecture, since it is built on the existing software solutions of global companies.
Technology transformation not being a core competence of the company, but rather a manifest of adaptability in the age of technologies, is quite a risky service to buy from the company.
Even though nearshore teams are rather efficient, the offshore team working on distance and with drastic time differences may pose several management risks for the company and its clients.
Due to the fact DevOps team excessively focus on time to market, it is not focusing on unification of software development and software operation for the internal efficiency of the client's business.
Perils of autonomous driving and its development on the level of software is among the top disadvantages of such services.
Again as in the case with technology transformation, field of digital technologies is not the company's core competence, and thus brings up doubts as to its efficiency.
All in all, there are reasons for Luxoft to belong to the top software development companies in the world. Its core competence in financial services and innovative approaches in the automotive industry impress. However, according to the Luxoft company review, there are also several disadvantages of the services offered by the company which primarily lie in the too wide range of specialisations with the core being only financial services. Still, as Luxoft company review states, this company is worth working with for its tremendously skilled employees and eighteen-years long experience on the global markets.


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The SMUS production of West Side Story debuted this week at the McPherson Playhouse and our students astounded audiences with their mastery of complex choreography, vocals, acting skills and musical precision. Accompanied flawlessly by our student orchestra, the cast gave a compelling performance of a heart-wrenching tale.
Set in a city divided by two rival gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, West Side Story follows Tony, who belongs to the Caucasian gang and falls in love with Maria, the sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican gang. Though originally set in 1950s, the SMUS production of West Side Story is slightly modernized.
As the romantic Tony, Vaughn Stokes gave a beautiful performance, lending his lovely voice to solo songs such as "Maria" as well as sweet duets with his Maria, played by Emily Reid. Soprano Emily Reid reached new heights and delivered spirited renditions of well-known songs, especially "I Feel Pretty." In their roles as the star-crossed lovers, the two young actors created incredible chemistry.
As Tony's best friend and the leader of the Jets, Andy Erasmus put his powerful vocal abilities to impressive use. A classical vocalist and opera singer, Andy not only managed to assume the posture and attitude of a rough and tumble gangster, but he also enjoyed a rare opportunity to dance, which he did brilliantly.
Playing Andy's Shark counterpart was Samuel Simons, another classically-trained vocalist. In the role of Bernardo, Samuel was intimidating, an impressive feat standing up to Andy Erasmus, who is well over 6 feet tall. With a masterful accent, Samuel delivered each line and song right on key. As his girlfriend Anita, Rachael Baptiste captivated the audience in every scene with her remarkable vocals and a commanding stage presence.
The entire cast should be commended for an excellent performance, including some incredibly intricate choreography and challenging vocal numbers. Also deserving of much praise is our student orchestra, who played an extremely challenging score to near perfection. The stage crew was swift and professional and were a huge part of the production's success.
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Drop the trumped-up charges against Indigenous Kinipan land rights defenders in Indonesia!
Amid the pandemic, six Indigenous villagers, including Kinipan community leader Effendi Buhing, and two Indigenous youth, were arrested by the Central Kalimantan Police, in Indonesia, for defending their customary forest against the expansion of PT Sawit Mandiri Lestari (PT SML), a palm oil company. Buhing was arrested on August 26, while the other five were arrested on August 15.
All of them were released, but are now facing criminal charges for the alleged theft of chainsaw owned by the palm oil company. This chainsaw was confiscated by the villagers to stop the PT SML from further destroying their customary forest.
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) and Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara – AMAN (National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago – Indonesia) strongly condemn these recent arrests and criminalization of the Kinipan villagers, which violates their internationally recognized right to their lands, territories, and resources.
The unwarranted act by the police was in retaliation to the protest actions and growing resistance of Kinipan villagers against the forcible eviction from their lands by palm oil company.
In response to the encroachment of PT SML into Laman Kinipan customary territories, the community registered their customary territories to the Customary Territory Registration Agency in March 2017. A certificate for the land was also given to the Laman Kinipan Indigenous Peoples community on July 27, 2017.
According to AMAN, the Laman Kinipan community found out that their forest was being taken over by PT SML in April 2018. Consequently, the community imposed customary sanctions against the company after it destroyed their customary territory, and filed complaints to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, National Human Rights Institution Komnas HAM, and the Office of the Presidential Staff (KSP).
The complaints of the Laman Kinipan people are yet to be acted upon. However, when PT SML filed unwarranted charges of theft against Indigenous leader Buhing and the other five villagers, the police were quick to make the arrest and file the charges.
The arrest of Kinipan Community Leader Buhing clearly shows the double standards of the police forces. The arrest is used as a tactic to criminalize legitimate dissent so as to push for the illegal operations of PT SML into Laman Kinipan Indigenous Peoples customary lands. This tactic is being used globally to silence Indigenous Peoples in the face of the onslaught against their rights.
Even during Covid-19 pandemic, several Indigenous Peoples communities have become targets of criminalization and violence to give way to the operations of large-scale projects involving agribusiness and extractive industries.
If PT SML will have its way, 190, 000 hectares of forest will be lost; thereby reducing one of the biggest rain forests in Southeast Asia and causing severe damage to climate, biosphere, and ecosystem.
Laman Kinipan Indigenous Peoples have long been protecting their forest and environment from total destruction, yet they constantly face threats and violence, arrests and detentions, and criminalization for defending their lands, forests, and territories.
We call on President Joko Widodo, the Minsitry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning, the Indonesian Parliament, and the Indonesian Police:
To drop the trumped-up charges against Kinipan community leader Effendi Buhing and the other five villagers, and to ensure their safety against any further attacks;
For the police and the PT SML to stop the criminalization of Indigenous peoples for their legitimate actions to protect their right to their customary forest;
For the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to revoke Decree on Forest Release for PT SML;
For the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning to revoke the concession of PT. SML in Laman Kinipan's territory;
For the immediate and proper implementation of the Constitutional Court decision number 35/2012 to recognize customary territory in accordance with the provisions of the 1945 Constitution; and
For the Indonesian Parliament to enact the law on the rights of Indigenous Peoples to ensure the full implementation of the provisions contained in the 1945 Constitution and the the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
If you are interested to be a signatory, please sign on this petition or send your FULL NAME, TITLE/POSITION, and ORGANIZATION/AFFILIATION to ipri@indigenousrightsinternational.org or IPRIsecretariat@gmail.com.
You can sign on as an organization or as an individual, please indicate which options you are amenable to. Sign ons will close on September 15, 2020 at 16:00 (GMT +7), 05:00 (EST), 02:00 (PST), 17:00 (GMT +8).
NOTE: You are not required to donate to this petition.
(Photo credit: Laman Kinipan Community)
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I'll cut right to the chase: I'm so over changing your nappy, I'm done with the diapers, it's time for your tush to meet the toilet.
Fancy new big girl pants that you loved? Tick.
Schedule cleared and staying home for a week? Tick.
A potty on each floor for speed and ease? Tick.
Reward chart made, stickers bought and a small 'you did it!' present planned? Tick.
A week of relatively warm weather forecast, meaning we could spend our days in the garden, thus easier to deal with any little accidents? Tick.
What else did we need? Oh yes: a child who was ready to train and actually gave a crap about using the loo. Nope, didn't have one of those. Quite the opposite in fact.
So five days from hell later, it became apparent that you just weren't ready. You didn't care about being wet or dirty. You couldn't care less about reward stickers. And you clearly did not recognise that feeling that you were about to go. You just weren't ready and actually, we were just fine with accepting that now was not your time.
I kept reading and discovered that many professionals felt two was still young, and that I shouldn't worry at all – every child is different and every child gets there in their own time. So I stopped worrying, and decided to wait and take cues from you.
Fast forward to now, almost a year later and quite frankly my dear, I do give a damn, and I'm done! You're too tall and big to lift onto our changing table at home, let alone those flimsy cantilevered pull downs you get in public places. So we now change nappies standing up (though it's close to impossible to pull the sticky tabs around a moving toddler properly enough to secure said nappy). We change you lying on the floor of public toilets which as we all know is never going to be the cleanest of spaces (albeit you lie on that cocktail-napkin-sized travel-changing-mat that came with the nappy bag. Though not wishing to offend makers of said nappy bags, I do concede that the mat didn't seem so napkin-sized when you were a newborn…). I have crouched and knelt and squished myself into cubicles that my ageing knees and very un-yogic inflexible body can no longer squish itself into. I changed you on the passenger seat of our car the other week, while parked in a car park. In the rain. Bent over at the waist: the worst possible angle for that aforementioned ageing body of mine. And please don't get me started on the physiological, chemical (magical?) ability of toddler poo to seep into the skin, where the smell seems to remain, despite vigorous and continuous hand washing.
So I am done. My darling: I want out from this age of nappies.
But. As with everything, as I learn about being a parent, I will wait until you are ready. I will wait until it is your time. I will not force my timetable, and my needs onto you: that's not my job. My job is to be ready when you are. And so my sweet, I'll wait. And in the meantime, I'll go and do some stretches for my worn out body. Or maybe just make another coffee. And wash my hands again.


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Josh Hamilton Leaves Practice to Have Knee Evaluated
By Todd L. Davis and Tim Ciesco • Published February 22, 2017 • Updated on February 23, 2017 at 4:08 am
Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton left practice Wednesday after he "felt something" in his knee while running, according to officials.
The 35-year-old Hamilton left the team's Spring Training facility in Surprise, Arizona, for Houston for evaluation. Assistant General Manager Mike Daly said the team's doctor and trainers contacted that specialist, Dr. Walt Lowe, who felt that Hamilton should see him in person.
"We want to make sure Josh is healthy," Daly said. "We just have to see what Dr. Lowe says later today before we know what's going on."
The 2010 American League MVP signed a minor-league contract with the Rangers in January and is competing for a roster spot as a first baseman.
Spoke to Josh Hamilton yesterday & he was in good spirits, said he was excited to compete for a @Rangers job. A day later, bad news. @NBCDFW
— Pat Doney (@PatDoneyNBC5) February 22, 2017
Josh Hamilton talks about competing for a roster spot in Rangers Spring Training and how much baseball he has left.
Knee injuries sidelined Hamilton for the entire 2016 season.
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#1—Choose the correct fabric for each design. Should the fabric be soft or crisp? How much drape do you want?
#2—Sewing machine maintenance is essential. Clean and oil your machine regularly.
#3—Change the needle on your machine when necessary. A good rule of thumb is to install a new needle after every 6-8 hours of sewing.
#4—Read through all of the pattern instructions several times before beginning a garment.
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Large-scale bridges are among the most important infrastructures whose safe conditions concern people's daily activities and life safety. Monitoring of large-scale bridges is crucial since deformation might have occurred. How to obtain the deformation information and then judge the safe conditions are the key and difficult problems in bridge deformation monitoring field. Deflection is the important index for evaluation of bridge safety. This paper proposes a forecasting modeling of stepwise regression analysis. Based on the deflection monitoring data of Yangtze River Bridge, the main factors influenced deflection deformation is chiefly studied. Authors use the monitoring data to forecast the deformation value of a bridge deflection at different time from the perspective of non-bridge structure, and compared to the forecasting of gray relational analysis based on linear regression. The result show that the accuracy and reliability of stepwise regression analysis is high, which provides the scientific basis to the bridge operation management. And above all, the ideas of this research provide and effective method for bridge deformation analysis.


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Miller, Arthur; Washburn, Stan (Illustrator)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Washburn, Stan. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 196 of 300 copies, quarto size, 111 pp., signed by Arthur Miller and Stan Washburn, with original publisher's white paper wrapping. Fine. Item #CNRD03
Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) was seminal figure in twentieth-century American Theatre. A prolific writer of over thirty plays, which won him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards, he questions "death and betrayal and injustice and how we are to account for this little life of ours"; for nearly six decades, Miller created characters that wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, the repercussions of past actions, and the twin poles of guilt and hope (n. b., info from The National Endowment for the Humanities website). In "The Price", Miller details familial conflict and relationships through the pull of memory and the past as they collide with the present.
Stan Washburn (b. 1943), a painter and printmaker who has collaborated with the Arion Press on publications such as "The Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard and "Tono-Bungay" by H. G. Wells, illustrates this edition with stark drawings of antique furniture; Washburn's bold mark making and high contrast depicts the isolation between the characters and their environment.
___DESCRIPTION: Full brown cloth, cream paper label with brown illustration by Stan Washburn inset to the front board, cream paper spine label with brown lettering, fore- and bottom edges uncut, full-page black-and-white illustrations by Washburn throughout; Goudy Old Style type, Zerkall paper, quarto size (10.25" by 7.25"), pagination: [1-6] 7-110 [1 colophon], one of 300 copies, this number 196, signed by Arthur Miller on the half-title page and by Stan Washburn on the colophon. Housed in a slipcase covered in brown cloth with cream paper paste-downs with a pattern of dollar signs in brown, with cream paper spine label with brown lettering. With the original publisher's white paper wrapping.
___CONDITION: Volume is very fine, with clean covers, straight corners with no rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings. The slipcase is fine also, strong and sturdy, clean and without wear. Clean and as new, volume came to us in the unopened publisher's wrapping, which we opened in order to catalogue.
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The Imminent Approval of a COVID-19 Vaccine
by quick | Dec 1, 2020 | COVID 19 Vaccine Progress, medical billing and coding, medical billing texas, News & Info | 0 comments
When the COVID-19 global pandemic settled like a dark cloud over the world at the start of 2020, a race to find effective treatments for the disease began. Vaccination is generally considered to be a top method of protection against infectious diseases—a vaccine helps one's immune system to create antibodies to fight infection or prevent disease if exposed at a later time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "[i]mmunization with a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is a critical component of the United States strategy to reduce COVID-19-related illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths…." Hundreds of vaccine candidates have been created and studied since the start of this unprecedented public health crisis, so the news that there are now two extremely promising vaccines that are close to becoming available is a good sign.
Moderna and Pfizer both have submitted approval requests for their vaccines to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The hope is that emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccines will be authorized by the FDA, as the most recent results from each company's studies seem to confirm that both vaccines offer strong protection against the disease. Pfizer applied for authorization on November 20, two days after their data showed its vaccine to be 95 percent effective against COVID-19 about 28 days following the first dose. Moderna followed, applying on November 30 upon confirming that their vaccine is more than 94 percent effective. Both companies are seeking regulatory clearance to produce the vaccine and provide millions of doses in time to start the United States vaccinations in December.
If the FDA allows emergency use, Pfizer is planning to produce 50 million doses of their vaccine by December 2020 for use globally, with enough for 12.5 million people in the US. And Moderna hopes to have 20 million doses available for use in the US by the end of the year—enough for 10 million people to each receive a two-dose treatment. Shipments of each vaccine would begin immediately within 24 hours of its authorization for use by the FDA, with doses to be distributed according to a scheme created by a CDC-established panel of US experts, most likely starting with essential workers. The hope is that the vaccine will be available to the greater general population by the spring.
Experts understand that to stop the global pandemic in its tracks, there needs to be greater production of vaccines than what Pfizer and Moderna will be able to handle. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have also been working to develop COVID-19 vaccines, as well as some other companies in countries around the world. Each continues to test their vaccines; each is aiming to complete their studies as quickly as possible to contribute to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus and the development of COVID-19. With the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, as well as any developed by these other companies in the coming months, the hope is that there will be enough to positively impact public health and to end the pandemic sooner rather than later.
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RIM picks up Samsung phone support
The companies agree to bring Research in Motion's Blackberry always-on wireless e-mail features to Samsung cell phones.
Richard Shim
Jan. 29, 2004 11:41 a.m. PT
Research In Motion and Samsung Electronics are working together to bring always-on wireless e-mail features to cell phones as the companies attempt to increase interest from wireless carriers and build momentum for their respective products.
Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion announced Thursday plans to make its BlackBerry wireless service available on Samsung cell phones. Initial efforts will target large businesses using RIM's server software to wirelessly access corporate networks and data, including e-mail, on Samsung phones. Later the company plans to provide individuals and small businesses with such features as Web-based e-mail on Samsung phones.
"BlackBerry connectivity support on Samsung handhelds will provide carriers and customers with a wider choice of devices to satisfy different needs and preferences," RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in a statement.
By making its service available on phones from Samsung--one of the top three cell phone makers in the world--RIM increases the pool of devices that could potentially use its BlackBerry service. It's not clear how many Samsung handhelds will offer the service.
The companies also hope to catch the attention of wireless carriers, which have been looking for features--such as e-mail and remote access to wireless networks--to differentiate their services and drive use of their next-generation wireless data networks.
As part of Thursday's agreement, Samsung has signed up for RIM's BlackBerry Connect licensing program, which is part of that run its software and messaging service
Further details of the relationship were not disclosed.
Symbian, Microsoft and are also working with RIM to make BlackBerry service available on devices using their operating systems.
In related news, Good Technology, a RIM rival, is set to make announcements about its business next week in an event to be attended by representatives from PalmOne, Microsoft, Dell, PalmSource, VeriSign, Starbucks and Electronics Arts.
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Photo by Marie Dirle/New Jersey Herald- Peter Both, of Sussex, awaits the start of the Friends Forever Motorcycle Awareness Foundation Bike Run and Fundraiser at Skylands Stadium on Saturday.
Posted: Oct. 18, 2014 11:25 pm Updated: Oct. 22, 2014 1:00 am
By JOE CARLSON
jcarlson@njherald.com
FRANKFORD — The road is for everyone, not just cars.
That is what the organizers of the Friends Forever Motorcycle Awareness Foundation Bike Run and Fundraiser want everyone to know.
"It is up to us (motorcycle riders) to let the public know that we have the rights to be on the roads well," said Toni Caserta, one of the event's organizers.
The event was created to honor Caserta's son Mark Khoury and Denise Arcykiewicz's son Jeremy Ramirez — lifelong friends who died in separate motorcycle accidents seven weeks apart in 2010.
More than 400 people took part in the fundraiser Saturday, with close to 300 of them participating in the motorcycle run.
The ride passed the homes and elementary and high schools of both men, before finally passing the sites of the accidents.
Khoury died in a crash Sept. 3, 2010, on state Route 94 in Lafayette.
Ramirez died in a crash Oct. 28, 2010, on county Route 623.
Both were 21 years old at the time of the accidents.
"This is a good event to raise awareness for motorcycle safety," said Laura Deutsch, of Wantage.
"These boys were loved in the community," Arcykiewicz said.
"It means so much that people have come out to support the foundation."
Caserta said it meant a lot to her how many people showed up for the event.
"There are so many of us (motorcycle riders), and we really are a big family," she said. "It's really emotional to see that so many people came to support us and our vision."
The foundation is aimed at promoting motorcycle safety awareness.
Its motto is "Look Twice, Save a Life."
This year the foundation is producing a video, Caserta said, that can be show in schools to teach kids about motorcycle safety and being sure to share the roads with motorcycles.
"When I am in my car and see a motorcycle, I make sure that I give them room and know where they are," Caserta said. "If we all keep an eye out for them and spread the word to make sure we pay attention, we can make a difference."
In addition to the bike run, the fundraiser featured food, live music, a tricky tray, a 50/50 raffle and vendors.
Money raised goes toward scholarships for graduating High Point Regional High School seniors who participated in youth and high school sports; an award for two graduating eighth-grade Lafayette students who are best friends; assistance for local fire and emergency squads; and assistance for injured riders and their families.
For more information about the foundation, visit www.foreverfriendsmotorcycleawareness.org.
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Hope Solo, of the USA national team: "It was a club of bad, white and rich girls"
Posted by Melissa Galbraith January 13, 2021
Last Updated:January 13, 2021
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Hope Solo reveals her beginnings in the United States women's team, current two-time World Champion and with four World Cups in total in their showcases. The legendary former American soccer player detailed in The Players de la BBC He was surprised by the costumes he found when he first entered the Stars and Stripes team. "You run into a bad girl club. Most of the players come from wealthy white families. That's the culture of the women's national team. It is a very privileged white culture, "he said.
The historic exporter is very critical of this 'culture'. "I remember Carli Lloyd and I always said 'We have to change this culture. She and I were very welcoming, we were not bully. We were very nice to the girls who came. "The same did not happen for them. She only relates that both Carli Lloyd and she had a difficult start in the US National Team and that they even suffered intimidation. "People weren't nice to us. They weren't welcoming, they didn't invite you to sit at the table. It was difficult to grow up in the national team in the social aspect, "says the former player.
"Before, you fought with claws. But that made the team great."
In this sense, Solo makes a distinction with the current United States National Team and considers that the environment he experienced in his beginnings as an international helped him to be tougher. "It's a much more open and welcoming environment, it's an easier transition. Now the young women have the way paved most of the time. You can't push them in the same way you used to push before to be really competitive. It's a completely different environment and I don't think it's always a good thing. I think it creates softer athletes. "
In Solo's conversation, who made these statements through a podcast, Carli Lloyd also intervened, historic USWNT captain. The forward, who is still active, supported the statements of her former teammate in the US team and also pointed out that the harshness of that dressing room helped her to be stronger. "Now it is a much more welcoming environment for them. Before, you fought with claws. But that's what made the team great for so many years. It was not easy".
On the other hand, Hope Solo also addressed the problem of equal pay, a great fight that several international players have led with the United States for years. "I think you have to work, and when I say work, I mean legal documents, I mean meeting with politicians in Congress or the Senate. I'm tired of talking about it. Things have to change. Look at the black vote, look at the rights of women to vote, they had to fight for it. It was never simply given"said the exporter, who believes that not" enough is being done "to achieve equal pay.
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Peter Lio, MD: Atopic Dermatitis and Integrative Therapies
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A dermatologist discusses alternative and complementary options for the treatment of atopic dermatitis.
While new therapies for atopic dermatitis are on the horizon, clinicians can still look to complementary treatments to help mitigate disease or medication-related symptoms.
In an interview with HCPLive®, Peter Lio, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology & Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, touted the utility of such integrative therapeutic options.
"I do think in atopic dermatitis there are a number of places where we can leverage an integrative approach," he said. "And I stress that it's integrative because I'm not trying to say don't use any conventional medicine."
In fact, he stressed, unconvetional therapies can be brought into a treatment regimen in order to fully optimize the patient treatment experience. Certain therapies can work to address side effects or augment the effects of a primary treatment course.
Some examples he mentioned were topical coconut oil as a potential antimicrobial agent, topical sunflower seed oil as an addition to moisturizers, and oral hempseed oil as a potential antiinflammation and skin barrier treatment.
"Another thing I do like as well is L-histadine," Lio said. "There's some data to show that, [when administered] in vitro and in vivo in patients, [...] their filaggrin production goes up. And we know that many patients with atopic dermatitis are filaggrin deficient, and so this may be able to bolster it."
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Spider-Gwen cosplay by Mina Kess – AiPT!
Mina Kess is one of the best (and most adorable) Spider-Gwen cosplayers we've ever seen.
We've seen some great Spider-Gwen cosplays in our time (Hendo Art and Enji-Night's renditions instantly sling to mind) but none which so accurately capture the youthful, rebellious, punk-rock spirit of the character like cosplayer Mina Kess Shadrick.


Reflections on how the use of solar photo-voltaic technology can reduce operational costs in the delivery of safe water by water enterprises.
This guest blog is by Jonathan McGrath, Communications & Engagement Manager at Safe Water Network.
Safe Water Network uses innovative technologies in our mission to ensure millions gain access to safe, affordable water—and solar power is no exception. In Ghana, we are demonstrating how the use of solar photovoltaic technology reduces our energy costs by up to 80%. The payback period for incremental investment in solar panels is approximately 11.5 years through energy cost savings.
Operational and financial sustainability have been primary concerns since our organization's inception. Founded in 2006 by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and a group of prominent civic and business leaders, Safe Water Network is advancing the potential for small water enterprises: locally owned and operated water treatment businesses that meet consumers' safe water needs. Working in over 250 communities in Ghana and India, we're demonstrating the affordability, effectiveness, and sustainability of this enterprise approach.
However, we know that affordability, effectiveness, and sustainability is tough to come by in the rural and peri-urban communities that need water the most. Ghana, for example, has been experiencing an energy crisis in recent years—a product of rising petroleum product costs, climate change (which impacts hydropower), and other factors. As a result, electricity tariffs have escalated by an average of 80% per year between 2012 and 2016. The financial viability of our stations is highly susceptible to the increasing rates, as energy presently accounts for approximately 20% of our water enterprises' operating costs.
Intermittent power supply is also an issue in Ghana, which can damage not only our equipment, but also our brand of reliability among consumers. For many Ghanaians, however, the true energy crisis lies in the fact that a substantial portion of the country lacks electrical grid infrastructure altogether. How can we hope to power small water enterprises at scale in a country with such expensive and unreliable power?
This question led us to consider solar power as a means to enable safe water access to off-grid communities, insulate our small water enterprises from electricity rate escalations, and protect our operational equipment from grid power quality fluctuations. We started testing the technology in an off-grid community, Ananekrom. After three years of operation, the Ananekrom water enterprise has run almost entirely on solar with minimal use of a generator, leading to a 95% reduction in energy costs, compared to the average grid-powered water enterprise.
The Stone Family Foundation took an interest in our solar initiative early on. In 2015, Safe Water Network's Ghana team hosted the Foundation on a field visit to water enterprises in the Ashanti region. During the visit, the opportunity for photovoltaic technology became clear, and we mapped out how solar power could be used to provide water to rural and peri-urban communities in Ghana.
Now, thanks to a grant from the Foundation, and in partnership with Water Mission, we are retrofitting a significant portion of our water enterprises in Ghana with solar panels. The results are promising: based on the first few months of post-solar retrofit data, stations with solar experienced 50% less downtime compared to stations running on grid power. We're also anticipating up to a 20% reduction in operating expenses at retrofitted water enterprises.
As Safe Water Network continues building solar-powered water enterprises throughout Ghana, we're sharing the results of our work with the sector to improve understanding on how solar power boosts operational and financial viability. In the latest edition of our Field Insight publication series, "Improving Station Viability with Solar", we describe how investment in solar power is already having a meaningful impact: solar power fulfills the majority of equipped enterprises' electricity requirements and lessens the need to purchase electricity from the electric utility.
Based on these promising results, we will continue to use solar power as a primary power source for all our water enterprises in Ghana.


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