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Prominent Veterans Organizations Issue Budget Recommendations for VA
Post Date: February 7, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (Feb. 7, 2022) – Leading veterans service organizations (VSOs) – DAV (Disabled American Veterans), Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), and the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) – today released The Independent Budget Recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) FY 2023 and FY 2024. The report serves as a roadmap to ensure VA is fully funded and capable of carrying out its mission to serve veterans and their families, both now and in the future.
The Independent Budget's (IB) recommendations, coupled with the Administration's FY 2023 budget proposal, will be used to guide Congress with its spending decisions for the coming year. Current law requires the President to submit a budget proposal to Congress no later than the first Monday in February, but that benchmark has been routinely missed over the past two decades. Media reports say this year's submission may not come until March.
"As we enter into 2022, COVID's impact remains a challenge for VA, with the spread of the virus and disruptions to health care systems continuing," said Randy Reese, executive director of DAV Washington Headquarters. "In this environment, we made cautious recommendations based on historical trends to ensure the needs of our nation's ill and injured veterans are met."
For fiscal year 2023, the IBVSOs is recommending $121.2 billion for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to meet the full demand for care both within VA's health care facilities and its Community Care Networks. The IB report details specific funding levels and targeted increases for VHA programs, including a $490 million increase for the Caregiver Support Program, $395 million boost for homeless veterans' programs; $288 million more for mental health services and suicide prevention efforts; $160 million increase for health care for women veterans and minorities; and $1.8 billion to close the gap in clinical care and support vacancies across VHA.
"This year's IB recommendations also contain significant plus ups for VA's Home and Community Based Services – something especially critical for our veterans with catastrophic disabilities," said Carl Blake, executive director of PVA. "This includes additional funding to expand the Veteran Directed Care Program into every VA Medical Center and more money towards the expansion of Phase II of the Caregiver Program to ensure it begins on time."
For the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), the IBVSOs recommend a total of $3.9 billion for fiscal year 2023—an increase of approximately $510 million over the estimated fiscal year 2022 appropriations level—and $251 million for the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA). The IB recommendations include
expanding funding for the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) veteran retraining programs and additional information technology (IT) funding for both VBA and BVA to modernize their IT infrastructure, reduce backlogs, and streamline the delivery of benefits to more than four million disabled veterans and their survivors.
"For over 30 years, the IBVSOs have co-authored the IB, offering substantive solutions and policy recommendations to ensure the timely delivery of specialized health care, as well as appropriate earned benefits for the men and women who served," said Bob Wallace, executive director of VFW Washington Office. "While this year's report is now complete, it is now imperative Congress and VA work together, along with veterans service organizations and other veterans stakeholders to put veterans interests on the top of their list."
The IBVSOs believe VA infrastructure projects, including those that present a safety risk to veterans and employees, must continue to be fully funded even as the Asset and Infrastructure (AIR) process plays out over the next several years. To accomplish this, the IB recommends Congress appropriate $3.8 billion for VA's major and minor construction programs in FY 2023 to fund new and existing major construction projects, begin advance planning and design development on VA's highest-priority health care construction projects, and boost support for pending minor construction projects.
To view The IB's full budget and policy recommendations, please visit independentbudget.org.
About DAV (Disabled American Veterans)
DAV empowers veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. It is dedicated to a single purpose: keeping our promises to America's veterans. DAV does this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America's injured heroes on Capitol Hill; linking veterans and their families to employment resources; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life. DAV, a non-profit organization with more than one million members, was founded in 1920 and chartered by the U. S. Congress in 1932. Learn more at DAV.org.
About Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA)
PVA, founded in 1946, is the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal cord injury or disease. For 75 years, the organization has ensured that veterans receive the benefits earned through their service to our nation; monitored their care in VA spinal cord injury centers; and funded research and education in the search for a cure and improved care for individuals with paralysis.
As a life-long partner and advocate for veterans and all people with disabilities, PVA also develops training and career services, works to ensure accessibility in public buildings and spaces, and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities through sports and recreation. With more than 70 offices and 33 chapters, PVA serves veterans, their families, and their caregivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more at PVA.org.
About Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States (VFW)
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is the nation's largest and oldest major war veterans organization. Founded in 1899, the congressionally chartered VFW is comprised entirely of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, Guard and Reserve forces. With more than 1.5 million VFW and Auxiliary members located in over 6,000 Posts worldwide, the nonprofit veterans service organization is proud to proclaim "NO ONE DOES MORE FOR VETERANS" than the VFW, which is dedicated to veterans' service, legislative advocacy, and military and community service programs. For more information or to join, visit our website at VFW.org.

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Big B tweets "All is well"
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who had a fresh bout of pain after undergoing an abdominal surgery, says he is recovering from his illness.
The 69-year-old took to his Twitter account to announce the same.
"A day that brings you to the brink of wellness and pushes you back into the well of uneasy health... the body shall dictate always... Cure can be distasteful till it begins to work.. till that happens, your faith in it diminishes by the minute ..then suddenly AIW : All Izzz Well .. !!," he posted.
The actor, who has a history of stomach ailments since his near fatal intestinal injury while filming a fight scene in 1982 movie "Coolie", was operated on Saturday at the Seven Hills hospital.


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Heterogeneity of single cell cytokine gene expression in clonal T cell populations
R. Pat Bucy, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Guo Qiang Huang, Jimin Li, Laurel Karr, Martha Ross, John H. Russell, Kenneth M. Murphy, Casey T. Weaver
Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS)
Division of Immunobiology
Bursky Center for Human Immunology & Immunotherapy Programs (CHiiPs)
Rheumatic Diseases Research Resource-Based Center
DBBS - Molecular Cell Biology
DBBS - Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
DBBS - Immunology
T helper type 0 (Th0), Th1, and Th2 CD4+ T cell clones derived from a T cell receptor α/β (TCR-α/β) transgenic mouse were activated by antigen presented on 'artificial' antigen-presenting cells that expressed or lacked the costimulatory molecule B7-1, and were analyzed for single cell cytokine mRNA expression by in situ hybridization. There was significant heterogeneity in the frequency of T cells that expressed individual cytokine mRNAs within each clonal population, suggesting that transcriptional control of each of the cytokine genes was not coordinate within an individual cell. The majority of antigen-stimulated Th1 cells expressed mRNA for interferon γ (IFN-γ), but far fewer cells in the same population expressed interleukin 2 (IL-2). Similarly, the frequency of IL-4-expressing cells was greater than that of IL-5- or IL-10-expressing cells in the same Th2 population, but the difference in expression frequencies was more variable between clones. The expression frequencies of each of the cytokines was quite heterogeneous in the antigen-activated Th0 population. The principal effect of increased antigen on the activation of individual cytokine genes in each of the clonal populations was to increase recruitment of mRNA-positive cells, with little or no effect on the level of cytokine mRNA expression in individual positive cells. The effects of B7 costimulation were variable depending on the cytokine gene analyzed. B7 costimulation markedly increased the frequency and the level of IL-2 mRNA expression in individual positive cells in the Th1 and Th0 populations, with less effect on the recruitment and single cell expression level of IFN-γ. IL-4 frequencies were modestly increased by B7 costimulation of the Th2 clones, but there was no detectable increase in single cell IL-4 expression level. The observed patterns of cytokine mRNA expression favor a model of T cell activation in which all-or-none, rather than graded, responses of cytokine genes are dominant.
Journal of Experimental Medicine
10.1084/jem.180.4.1251
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Bucy, R. P., Panoskaltsis-Mortari, A., Huang, G. Q., Li, J., Karr, L., Ross, M., Russell, J. H., Murphy, K. M., & Weaver, C. T. (1994). Heterogeneity of single cell cytokine gene expression in clonal T cell populations. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 180(4), 1251-1262. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.180.4.1251
Bucy, R. Pat ; Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela ; Huang, Guo Qiang et al. / Heterogeneity of single cell cytokine gene expression in clonal T cell populations. In: Journal of Experimental Medicine. 1994 ; Vol. 180, No. 4. pp. 1251-1262.
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Publication - Minutes
Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare minutes: June 2016
Social Security Directorate
Work and skills
Date of meeting: 16 Jun 2016
Date of next meeting: 11 Oct 2017
Location: Atlantic Quay, Glasgow
Minutes from the Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare held 16 June 2016
Attendees and apologies
David Mundell MP, Secretary of State for Scotland (Co-chair)
Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities (Co-chair)
Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy Jobs and Fair Work
Stephen Crabb MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Anne McVie, Scottish Government
Martin McDermott, Scottish Government
Katherine Peskett, Scottish Government
Stuart McLean, Scottish Government
Richard Cornish, Department for Work and Pensions
Alison Evans, Department for Work and Pensions
Michael Allison, Department for Work and Pensions
James Dowler, Scotland Office
Jessica Niven, Scotland Office
Julie Humphries, Scotland Office
Keelan Carr, Scotland Office
Items and actions
Note of last meeting and review of actions
1. The note of the last meeting of 12 October 2015 was agreed. There were no outstanding actions. The Secretary of State for Scotland (SoSS) welcomed members. SoSS also said that the group has a significant role in taking forward the transfer of welfare powers procedure.
2. The Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities (Cab Sec CSSE) introduced her role and emphasised the importance of the newly established Minister for Social Security role which was important given the scale of challenge and complexity of the social security provisions.
3. The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work (Cab Sec EJFW) commented that he is keen on a smooth transition of powers. It was agreed that the service provided to benefit recipients will be the primary focus for both Governments.
Terms of Reference of the Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare
4. The revised Terms of Reference were tabled given the responsibility for implementation of powers to be with this group. The SoSS and the DFM had previously given an undertaking to the Scottish Parliament's then Devolution (Further Powers) Committee to publish the Terms of Reference of the group. SoS DWP confirmed that he is keen to interact with Scottish Parliament in relation to these issues.
5. It was agreed that any Minister who had an interest in the agenda would be able to attend.
6. The Terms of Reference were agreed and the importance of joint working was emphasised. It was agreed that the Terms of Reference would be shared with the Scottish Parliament's Social Security Committee and the Scottish Affairs Committee. [Action: SO]
7. It was agreed that future dates for meetings should be agreed in line with need. [Action: SO/SG]
Scotland Act 2016 Commencement - Tranche 1
8. SoS DWP reiterated his commitment to both Governments working together and noted the excellent engagement at official level to date. Both needed to be mindful of the potential human impact of changes to service delivery.
9. SoS DWP spoke about arrangements for commencing some of the the Welfare Benefit and Employment sections in part 3 of the Scotland Act. It was agreed that 11 of the 13 sections, including Universal Credit and Employment Support, should be commenced in an initial tranche. Once provisions had been commenced, both Governments would need to work together on timescales for deliver y.
10. The SoSS noted that he planned to take the Commencement Order forward next month, along with a companion Written Ministerial Statement. [Action: SO]
11. It was agreed that it was important to have a common understanding of practicalities and timetabling of commencement.
12. Cab Sec CSSE noted that she was content with the detail and powers proposed for Tranche 1. Cab Sec CSSE was keen that we take forward work on Tranche 2 in a timely manner.
13. It was agreed that a joint communique would be agreed between members and issued following the meeting. [Action: SO]
14. Cab Sec EJFW gave a summary of the portfolio of Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for the Economy and Jamie Hepburn, Minister for Employment who will work to Cab Sec EJFW and DFM.
15. The group agreed to task officials to start a detailed discussion on Tranche 2. Cab Sec EJFW commented that pace needs to be kept behind this work, particularly in relation to Memorandum of Understanding on the use of IT systems. [Action: DWP / SO]
16. It was agreed that a paper on the practicalities of delivering the flexibilities provided for in the Scotland Act 2016 in relation to Universal Credit would be submitted to SoS DWP and Cab Sec CSSE. It was also agreed that Universal Credit would be on the agenda for the next meeting. [Action: DWP / SO]
17. It was agreed that the Scottish Government and DWP, working with Scotland Office as necessary, would produce a joint paper on employability plans, for discussion at the next meeting. [Action: DWP / SO]
JMWGW 16 Jun 2016.pdf
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Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/complex-laws-confuse-immigrant-fishermen/)
Complex laws confuse immigrant fishermen
By Matthew Trammel, Holy Angels High School () | July 29, 2009
Photo by Julie Nguyen. Ge Xiong, 22, is a resident of St. Paul who emigrated from Laos three years ago. He tries to yank sunfish from the south shore of Phalen Lake
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has done a lot to reach out to immigrants who like to fish and hunt. But some immigrants still find state rules and regulations confusing.
State officials have translated the rules and regulations into different languages, hired Hmong officers and stocked lakes with ample numbers of white bass, a popular catch among Hmong fishermen.
Even with significant efforts to educate immigrants, following state fishing rules and regulations can still be confusing.
Many immigrants don't have fishing licenses, and often misunderstand the rules of catching verses possessing fish, DNR officials say. There are different regulations for how many fish people can keep, and how many fish people can catch and release.
In all, Minnesota's fishing regulation book runs 84 pages long.
Trespassing, littering, and fishing in large groups also are problems among immigrants, DNR officials say.
The DNR manages the state fish and wildlife resources. State officials began dealing with cultural and historical differences and reaching out to the new communities after noticing more fishing regulation problems in the 1980s with increasing immigrant populations, said Josee Cung, a program manager for the DNR's Southeast Asian Outreach Program.
Southeast Asian communities are the fastest growing segment of the state's population, according to the DNR. The group mainly includes Hmong, Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodians.
With the dramatic increase of Asian immigrants, Minnesota has experienced droughts of fish, Cung said.
Many immigrants come from countries where there aren't fishing and hunting seasons or game limits.
Tong Vang, a community liaison for the DNR's Southeast Asian Outreach Program, said he's been a fisherman for 32 years, and he still gets confused about the rules.
"When I see an officer coming, I'm really nervous, and say, 'Maybe I'm doing wrong?'" Vang said.
Subtle cultural differences are even tougher to manage.
Dymanh Chhoun, a 21-year-old Cambodian immigrant, said he and two buddies had just finished fishing for sunfish recently at Prior Lake when a DNR officer asked to check their bucket of fish. The officer dumped the catch on the ground, counted 57 fish – just under the 60-fish limit (20 per person)—and handed it back to Chhoun.
In Cambodian culture, dumping fish on the ground is disrespectful and makes the fish unfit to eat, Chhoun said. He and his buddies refused to eat the catch.
"The cops need to learn the culture," Chhoun said.
While the DNR has no specific policy how to count a catch, it is better not to dump it on the ground, Vang said.
The DNR also is training its officers to better understand a range of cultures.
"Education on both sides, not just the Asians.," Cung said. "We educate our officers about who these people are, how to talk to them, how to interface with them."
The state agency also is urging longtime Minnesota fishing sportsmen to learn about Southeast Asian cultures through its outreach program, which it started in 1993. Longtime sportsmen often view immigrant fishermen as competition, Cung said.
She said the program has helped reduce fishing and game law violations.
"It's actually almost non-existent compared to when we start[ed]," Cung said.
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You can grab all the bits and pieces from here and/or read the release notes.
The part that interested me the most is the Queues feature and that is what I'm going to be exploring in this post.
Message Queues are not a new concept allow for more reliable and scalable communication between distributed systems than pure request/response. Solutions like MSMQ, NServiceBus already exist to solve this problem for locally connected systems. What the Queues API provides is that it provides similar features but the messages are being transported across the internet and persisted in the cloud.
The Queues API addresses a number of these issues by adding.
To start testing out the Queues feature you need to first Login to the AppFabricLabs portal and create a test Service Namespace.
Before starting on the implementation I'm going to define a simple interface around the ServiceBus bits and also add an IMessage interface which all Messages will need to implement.
Although not required by the API it's good practice to have a unique identifier for each message.
When architecting message based systems you need to allow for idempotence meaning that an operation should be able to be executed multiple times without changing the result. Most message queue systems guarantee that the messages will be delivered "at least once" so you need to allow for this in your code and having an unique identifier on the message makes implementing this a trivial exercise.
The service namespace is just the name which you created in the portal, in this example it's "appfabricdemo1".
The issuer name & key can be found under the Default Key section in the Portal.
There is a little bit of ceremony in setting up the correct objects but I've put this into a single method called InitClient which is called from the Send and Receive methods.
Before we can start sending and receiving messages you first have to create a queue. The API doesn't currently have a method to check if a queue exists already so it has to be hand rolled as calling CreateQueue throws an exception if it already exists.
As the GetQueues method needs to make a remote call I keep an in-memory collection of the Queue objects so that it only calls the first time.
Note: Queue names are converted to lowercase when created.
In order to send a message you need to create a QueueClient, MessageSender and then convert the message to a BrokeredMessage.
Receiving a message is much the same as sending a message in that it requires a QueueClient & MessageReceiver.
There are two different modes when receiving a message.
ReceiveAndDelete which deletes the message immediately after reading or PeekLock which only locks the message and leaves you to manage the delete.
I wanted to pull this together and so created an example application which is two console apps one being the client and one being the server. The server sends a message to the client on one queue and when the client receives the message it sends a reply message on another queue.
If you're curious you can see what's going on under the covers using Fiddler.
Having played around with the API it's pretty good and much better than the MessageBuffer API which is really awkward.
Currently MessagingFactory, ServiceBusNamespaceClient, QueueClient do not implement interfaces which makes it much harder to Unit Test. Creating an abstracting around these classes would be a big win IMO.
All in all the Queue API is a much needed and welcomed addition to the Azure offerings and greatly simplifies messaging communication between not always connected clients and the server. It also appears to be very fast as well.
In my next post I'm going be looking at the Publish/Subscribe (Topics) features.
Hi There, I have created an xml file that I am pushing into a que its not that big, its a 100kb XML file that I convert to a string, but it doesnt make it to the recievers, if I keep the string length lower (sorry not tested how long exactly) then its recieved fine, do you know what the correct way to do this is with a package say 500kb - 1mb message.
All the documentation states that 64KB is the maximum message size.
If you're trying to pass around messages bigger than this then you would need to use a different mechanism. Why not pass a lightweight message with a Key that can be used to callback to a Web Service from the client to get the full payload?


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Yukio Hatoyama dreams of an Asian union, a utopia free of rapacious American capitalism, a region bound together by fraternity and a common currency. Were Hatoyama a soapbox orator his fantasizing could be dismissed as twaddle, but he isn't. He's about to become the next prime minister of the world's No. 2 economy, following his party's victory Sunday in a general election.
In an op-ed piece, "A New Path for Japan," that ran in The New York Times recently, the leader-in-waiting revealed his vision of Asia's future, one that has Japan hand-in-hand with China at its center as American economic and military power wanes. He describes his country as being "buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism," a nation "damaged" by an unfettered global economy. There is, Hatoyama boldly states, "danger inherent in freedom," although he doesn't specify what variety of liberty he finds most hazardous.
There's no suggestion he would want to go as far as rounding up Japan's beleaguered free marketeers and locking them up and throwing away the key, but his public musings suggest Japan is in for a heavy bout of re-regulation that will swaddle the unviable and stymie the fit. Hatoyama is right when he notes the relative decline of America vis-à-vis China, but chooses to overlook the more precipitous decline in Japan's power and influence. As the rest of the world economy grew over the past decade and a half, Japan's stood still, its corporations hobbled by the kind of regulation and bureaucracy seemingly advocated by Hatoyama's brand of economic nationalism.


Perspiring pilots aside, the aircraft propeller is a complex whirling wonder that has evolved over the history of aviation to match and enhance the improvements in engines and airframes. Early attempts at propeller construction were crudely twisted metal akin to lawn mower blades bent to angles based more on whim and luck than science.
The Wright brothers figured out early on after testing wings in their makeshift wind tunnel, that propellers must follow the same concepts as airfoils. They were greatly disappointed to find very little concrete scientific data even when they researched marine propellers and so the seemingly black art of propeller design began.
With a wing or airfoil, efficient lift requires a somewhat narrow angle of attack (the angle in which the leading edge meets the airflow). This optimum angle can be controlled by the pitch inputs the pilot chooses with his control column. Too much angle and the wing stalls destroying the lift and potentially the aircraft! Propellers however live in a much more complex combination and variation of airflows. Simply put, the speed of the rotating propeller blade creates one angle of attack and the forward speed of the aircraft creates another variable angle. The resultant vector angle is constantly changing with engine speed and aircraft speed.
Add to all this that blade tip speeds must be kept to subsonic speeds requiring a constraining check of blade length and max rpm. This in turn requires relatively low prop rpm (max 2500, give or take) and/or multiple shorter blades and the whole scenario becomes an engineering whirling dervish!
The bottom line is that even a modern well engineered wooden or metal, fixed-pitch-propeller is a compromise by its very design. Ideally an aircraft would like a finer pitch for take-off and climb and a coarser pitch for cruise flight. Once the pioneers figured this out many weird and wonderful moveable pitch propellers began to appear, some more successful than others.
Hamilton Standards solution was simple and elegant. Their two position counterweight propellers were a revolution. Engine oil pressure drove the blades to fine pitch and counterweights drove the blades to coarse pitch. By controlling the oil flow to the propeller via a selector valve the pilot now had the best of both worlds. Add to this the ability to fine tune the high and low pitch stops within the counterweights and it was propeller bliss.
The Second World War was a watershed for aviation design. The large radials and high horsepower V-12 engines required a more sophisticated solution to greater thrust and faster aircraft speeds. The Constant Speed propeller was the next logical step. By using a governor to sense engine rpm the prop could now maintain a large variation of blade angles constantly changing to optimise aircraft performance. In essence it was akin to moving from a car with a two speed manual transmission to one with a modern CVT.
Again Hamilton Standard produced the state of the art Hydromatic Propeller. Using a governor with boosted oil pressure working against the constant of engine oil pressure within its instantly recognized metal dome, it was reliable and efficient with the added benefit of feathering the propeller in flight. A feature that saved many air crews lives while returning from bombing runs with damaged aircraft and engines out of service.
The Hydromatic became the propeller of choice when hostilities ended and the golden age of piston powered airliners began and flourished. Its roots and concepts soldier on today with state of the art composite blade propellers mated to modern turbo prop aircraft. While high bypass turbine engines reign supreme at high altitudes for long transcontinental flights, turbine driven propeller aircraft still rule the low to medium altitude skies. They are also more efficient at slowing an aircraft on landing roll with the use of reverse pitch, another modern propeller enhancement that greatly improves STOL performance.
Propeller technology continues to improve. Just as in the latest airframes, modern composite materials are making them lighter, quieter and more efficient. Evolution is a wonderful thing, which brings to mind another propeller memory from my early days at Nordair.
As a young apprentice mechanic, I was getting an FH227 ready for departure at a gate at Dorval Airport. Its Rolls Royce Dart engines and large Dowty Rotol propellers were notoriously noisy as many regular passengers knew. The ear-bleeding, high pitched whine of the props at takeoff rpm could be quite uncomfortable. As the passengers filed past me on the open tarmac one of them begged to purchase my ear defenders. Unfortunately for him, I declined.
Fast forward to today, as a modern Bombardier Q-400 climbs skyward from Toronto's Island Airport, its passengers are barely aware of the rubber band-quiet composite propellers churning away just outside their window. A testament to how good they have become and yet another technology that modern travellers quietly take for granted.


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Portland, Ore. - May 23, 2017-Olababy, Inc., a Portland-based baby product company, specializing in feeding products, has been granted the 2017 Mom's Choice Gold Award, The Family Choice Award and The Tillywig 2017 "Parent's Favorite Product" award. These prestigious recognitions are awarded to products that enhance the quality of daily life for parents and children.
Olababy is a company founded on the idea that products should be safe, innovative, aesthetically pleasing, and designed to benefit both babies, toddlers and parents. The GentleBottle, Training Spoons, Trimmo, and BellyTunes, seamlessly incorporate these ideals and have continued to impress parents and industry leaders, and are now among an elite group of award winners.
The 2017 Mom's Choice Award Winning GentleBottle, is designed to mimic the feel and experience of breast-feeding, allowing for a seamless transition to bottle-feeding. The nipple is designed to encourage latching and reduce bottle rejection to keep baby full and healthy. The bottle features a dual venting design as an anticolic system, an off-center nipple, which allows for less leftover formula, wide mouth design with dishwasher safe medical grade 100% silicone, and is available in three colors: mint, coral and frost. The Mom's Choice Award sets the benchmark for excellence through a proprietary method of evaluation utilizing expert and objective volunteers to conduct analysis. As a globally recognized program, the GentleBottle underwent strict evaluation to be considered for this award and can now be found on The Mom's Choice Award Shop, a webstore featuring all of the program's winning products.
Family Choice Award Winning, Olababy Training Spoons are made from 100% silicone and designed to be babies' first self-feeding spoon, while doubling as a teether. With the silicone material allowing for the spoon to flex, babies can perform various motions such as scooping, cutting and slicing. The Family Choice awards recognize the best products, services and resources for all members of a family. The award program is the most coveted, family friendly consumer awards program in the nation. The Training Spoons can now be found on the website's award product page.
Other Olababy award winning products include the Trimmo, for the Tillywig Toy and Media Award, and the Bellytunes and Trimmo for the Family Choice Awards. These award winning products can be purchased on Amazon, Giggle, and Olababy.com.
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Improving Education for Migrant-Background Students: A Transatlantic Comparison of School Funding
By Julie Sugarman, Simon Morris-Lange and Margie McHugh
Challenges in Accessing Early Childhood Education and Care for Children in Refugee Families in Massachusetts
By Jeff Gross and Christine Ntagengwa
How Well Are Young Children of Refugees Integrating into the United States?
Young Children of Refugees in the United States: Integration Successes and Challenges
By Kate Hooper, Jie Zong, Randy Capps and Michael Fix
Providing a Head Start: Improving Access to Early Childhood Education for Refugees
By Lyn Morland, Nicole Ives, Clea McNeely and Chenoa Allen
Federal WIOA Plan Requirements Ignore Opportunities to Support Equitable Access for Immigrant/LEP Adults
Deferred Action for Unauthorized Immigrant Parents: Analysis of DAPA's Potential Effects on Families and Children
By Randy Capps, Heather Koball, James D. Bachmeier, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Jie Zong and Julia Gelatt
Relief from Deportation: Demographic Profile of the DREAMers Potentially Eligible under the Deferred Action Policy
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By Donald J. Hernandez
A Demographic Profile of Black Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
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Diverse Streams: African Migration to the United States
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The winners of the Migration Policy Institute's 2013 E Pluribus Unum Prizes, honoring exceptional immigrant integration initiatives in the United States, discuss their work at an award ceremony on December 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Mexicans in Hawaiʻi: Challenges and Prospects
This briefing at the State Capitol in Honolulu, organized in conjunction with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, marked the formal release of a Migration Policy Institute report that presents key demographic and socioeconomic information about the Mexican-origin population in Hawai'i.
A Year In: A Review of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
During this online chat, MPI researchers discuss their findings in an MPI brief, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals at the One-Year Mark: A Profile of Currently Eligible Youth and Applicants, that provides the most up-to-date estimates of the current and prospective DACA population by educational attainment, English proficiency, state of residence, country of origin, age, gender, labor force participation, poverty, and parental status.
Margie McHugh Testimony Video: Illegal Immigration and Children
Testimony of Margie McHugh, Co-Director of MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, U.S. House of Representatives.
Critical Immigration, Health, and Education Policies Affecting Young Children of Immigrants
MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy convened a major public policy research symposium focused on young children of immigrants in the U.S.
This report sheds light on supplementary funding mechanisms targeted to migrant-background students in four countries—Canada, France, Germany, and the United States—and some of the key challenges and strategies decisionmakers face as they attempt to ensure that additional resources are used effectively to remedy the achievement gaps that immigrant and refugee students often confront.
Get all the latest and historical facts and figures on immigrants and immigration in the United States in this handy resource. With immigration often surfacing in public and political debates, learn the answers to such questions as: How do current immigration flows compare to earlier ones? How many unauthorized immigrants live in the United States? How many refugees are admitted annually? And get answers to many more questions.
This report examines how refugee families in Massachusetts access early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for their children through the refugee resettlement system. It examines how working parents in refugee families navigate and make use of ECEC services and looks at the institutional and systemic challenges that refugee families face in accessing stable, high-quality ECEC options.
MPI analysts discuss the findings of a report comparing young children of refugees to other U.S. children on several key indicators of well-being.
In an attempt to fill the knowledge gap on integration outcomes for children of refugees, this report presents a demographic and socioeconomic data profile of the 941,000 children ages 10 and younger with refugee parents living in the United States in 2009-2013.
This study reveals the challenges and successes of collaboration between refugee resettlement services and Head Start, and demonstrates that increasing the Early Head Start and Head Start enrollment of young children in refugee families is possible through intersectoral collaboration. The report focuses on study sites in Phoenix, AZ and Syracuse, NY.
As states move to implement the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which provides the national framework for workforce training and adult education services, the Obama administration recently missed a prime opportunity to ensure that immigrants and refugees receive equitable access to the law's services, as this commentary explores.
This MPI-Urban Institute report examines the population of 3.6 million unauthorized immigrants potentially eligible for the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, finding that work authorization and relief from deportation could boost their incomes, decrease poverty, and mitigate harms of parental unauthorized status for the 4.3 million minor children living in these families.


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Above: Calvin Alexander Ramsey and his award-winning children's book (Photo by Roy Speller Sr.)
CALVIN ALEXANDER RAMSEY Co-Producer
… acted on his life-long dream to become a writer in 2001 when he was laid over in Boston's Logan Airport, several days before the 9/11 bombings. Having a revelation that "dreams are really desires" and time was short to accomplish his dreams, the world changed a few days later and so did Calvin. That moment launched him into researching his first play and becoming the writer he'd always wanted to be.
Born in Baltimore MD where his father worked in the steel mills, Calvin's family moved when he was young to Roxboro, North Carolina in a kind of "reverse migration." As an adult, Calvin took tentative steps along the writer's road before 9/11, soaking up experiences and stories while living in Martha's Vineyard MA, New York City, Santa Monica CA, and St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He attended writing workshops during his travels and took writing classes at UCLA.
Settling down in Atlanta in 1988, his career in insurance sales led to serving on the Advisory Board of Special Collections at Emory University's Woodruff Library for five years, a virtual writer's playground of inspiration, even if he wasn't yet ready to define himself as a writer until the turning point in 2001.
Ramsey's creative journey with the Green Book began in June 2004 when he completed a fictional stage play by the same name that became a finalist in the 12th Annual Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska where it was critiqued by theatrical luminaries including Edward Albee and Patricia Neal. Readings of the play were presented at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York, directed by George Ferencz, as well as Baltimore Hebrew University, co-sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP, the Baltimore Jewish Council and the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Civil Rights leader, Julian Bond, was cast in a cameo role as Victor Green when the play moved on to a reading at the restored Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC. "The Green Book" premiered to sellout audiences as a fully staged production in 2011 at Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit (www.theatricaloutfit.org). To date, Calvin has also written more than a dozen other plays, ranging in subject matter from Parisian nightclub owner, Bricktop, to one of Georgia's favorite sons, Johnny Mercer, to the stark realities of Ku Klux Klan rallies in Stone Mountain GA to 1930's American actor and early civil rights activist, Canada Lee, with others currently in development.
Translating challenging material for a younger audience, in 2010 Ramsey wrote his award-winning children's book, "Ruth and the Green Book", with Gwen Strauss and illustrations by Floyd Cooper, and has been regularly invited to give readings at museums, libraries, and events ever since. Then in 2012 and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jon Ludwig, Artistic Director of Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts, collaborated with Calvin to turn the children's book into a theatrical production, combining live actors, puppets, and animated projections, along with original music by S. Renee Clark and a video-taped afterword by Georgia's Congressman John Lewis (www.puppet.org/perform/ruthgreenbook.shtml). In 2011, Calvin wrote a second children's book, "Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story" about the humble mule who pulled the wagon for Dr. Martin Luther King's funeral. Ramsey served for three years on the Georgia Council for the Arts Theater Panel and is a recipient of both the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award and the BLACK MEETINGS AND TOURISM MAGAZINE APEX Award for Distinguished Service.
Above: "Ruth and the Green Book" at the Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta GA featuring live performances with visible puppeteers as well as animated projections (2012) / Adapted from Calvin's children's book by Artistic Director Jon Ludwig (Photo by Clay Walker)
BECKY WIBLE SEARLES Director / Co-Producer
… grew up in northern Ohio, hearing that family ancestors from the 1800's had owned a stop on the Underground Railroad in Painesville OH near Lake Erie, Rider's Inn (see below), sparking a life-long interest in Civil Rights stories. She owned her own production company in New York City for 14 years, One Eighty One Productions, specializing in clay, stop motion, and mixed-media animation, often combining it with live action for clients such as Nickelodeon, National Geographic, AT&T, Showtime, and Kool-Aid and can be seen on camera in two episodes of the PBS series "Reading Rainbow".
As a mixed-media artist, Becky's work has been shown in galleries, including the Whitney Museum in New York City (2017), and she often collaborates with her husband, Jimmy E. Searles, recently forming Piktoglyph LLC for a variety of art, film, and writing projects. GSUTV in partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting / PBS and coordinated by Robert Judson, featured her in their half hour "Indie Filmmakers" series focusing on Becky's background as a mixed-media artist / filmmaker and her collaboration with Calvin Alexander Ramsey to develop THE GREEN BOOK CHRONICLES / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaw3kfYzIw
For nearly four decades, Becky has taught animation and related arts in a variety of settings for all ages and experience levels, including higher education, public schools, community events, and senior citizens centers, serving as a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, the New School, and Marymount College, NYC as well as the Art Center Design College, Tucson AZ/Albuquerque NM (now known as Southwest University for the Arts) and visiting artist for "Young Audiences" NYC. She was a professor of animation at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), first for 7 years in Savannah and then for a decade on the Atlanta campus through spring 2019, frequently in the role of graduate mentor and leading student short film collaborations that have screened at festivals including the London Experimental Film Festival, Athens ANIMFest (Greece), and World Animation Celebration (LA).
Becky had never heard of a Green Book until 2012 when she saw "Ruth and the Green Book" at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, met Calvin, and invited him to come speak to students at SCAD about being an author and playwright. Eventually Calvin asked Becky, "Any interest in making a short documentary together interviewing people I know who have used the Green Book?" and she happily answered, "Sure, as long as we can include some animation!"
THE CREW, CAST, and CONTRIBUTORS
THE GREEN BOOK CHRONICLES team has been very fortunate to work with a diverse production crew, initially in 2012 as a short film collaboration with over 30 students and professors from the Animation, TV Producing/ Film/Video, Motion Media, and Illustration departments at Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus. In 2014 we expanded the project to a one hour production, transitioning to local professional crews in Atlanta (some of whom had previously been on the student crew), New York City, Myrtle Beach SC, and Birmingham AL. We are very grateful for everyone's contributions, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes to help bring these Green Book stories to the screen! (Partial crew photos below followed by a full credit/crew list in process).
FULL FILM CREDITS LIST (in progress as of January 2020):
This film would not be possible without the generosity of our interview cast who shared their stories with us:
Patricia Burgess
Mike Chestnut (Myrtle Beach City Council)
Keith Cromwell (Red Mountain Theatre)
Leah Dickerman (Museum of Modern Art)
Howard Glener
Curtis Graves
Ramona Green
Shirley Henderson (Coleman)
Gloria Herbert (Black Meetings and Tourism Magazine)
Solomon Herbert (Black Meetings and Tourism Magazine)
Phillis Holliday
Wellington Cox Howard III
Gary Kirksey
Maira Liriano (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
John Maloney
Herbert Riley
Winter Shepherd (Red Mountain Theatre)
Marie Sutton
Candacy Taylor
Dino Thompson
Dr. Joyce Verrett
Wilbert Verrett
Dr. Albert Volmer
Bishop Calvin Wallace Woods
Charles Woods III (Birmingham Civil Rights Institute)
Paula Wynter
Charles Yarbrough
Director: Becky Wible Searles
Co-Producers: Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Becky Wible Searles
Assistant Producer / Research / Photography: Jimmy E. Searles
Funding Support in part from:
The Len Ragozin Foundation / Mary Lonergan
UAW Region 8 / Raymond Curry
Associate Producers: Dr. Michael R. Ragan and Dr. Deborah V. Payton George
Curtis Graves and Kay Bryant
Editors: Kelly Rose Magnusson and Zach White
Cinematographer / Audio (NYC, Newark, Washington DC): Rob Niosi
Cinematographer / Audio (Myrtle Beach): Jay Burgess
Cinematographer / Audio (Birmingham): Drew Francis
Production Assistant (NYC): TJ Jones
Production Photographer (ATL): Marty McPherson
"Mapping Jim Crow" Direction, Design, and Animation: Kelly Turner
"Mapping Jim Crow" Score: Hank Roberts and Tenzin / Lyra Music
Trailer Audio Sweetening: Beau Jimenez
Trailer Colorist: John Peterson
SCAD Atlanta Student Teams:
TV Producing / Interviews (ATL)
Video Camera / Audio Engineer: David Howell
Research, Logging, and Preview Video Development: Bernard Jackson
Additional Research, Logging, and Video Shoot/Audio Assistance: Eolyn Arnold, Morgan Dixon, Layla Harleston, Chris Johnson, Kelly Rose Magnusson, Alejandra Morales, Ben Tincher, and Lance White
Supervised by Professor James Arnold
Animation / Illustration
"New York Postcard": Ammar Nassri and Zhou Quan
"Florida Postcard": Seungbin Ahn
"ESSO" and "Crosby's Motel": Kodi Bobo
Motion Media
Preview Video Edits: Reggie Harrison, Evleen Huang, Injae Lee, Britt Lyle II, and Sarah Shipman
Supervised by Professor Alessandro Imperato
"Billie Holiday" Mariel Cartin
"Muddy Waters" Rick Lovell
"Ella Fitzgerald" June Brigman
"John Coltrane" Ju Wang
"The Green Book Chronicles" Yohey Horshita
"Duke Ellington" Rick Lovell
Supervised by Professor Rick Lovell and Professor Mike Lowery
SPECIAL THANKS to the following for their support and permission to shoot on location:
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NYC / Jacob Lawrence "Migration Series"
Leah Dickerman, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Margaret Doyle, Director of Communications
Meg Montgoris, Publicist
Stephanie Katsias, Communications Intern
Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, NYC
Maira Liriano, Associate Chief Librarian
Erika Paul, Pre-Professional
Adenike Olanrewaju, Senior Publicist, The New York Public Library
MINTON'S PLAYLAND / HARLEM JAZZ ENTERPRISES
Rosa Brito, Manager
Julia Collins, Vice President
Randall Burkett – Former Curator of African American Collections, MARBL, Emory University, Atlanta GA
Friedrich Hamer – Curator of Published Materials, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC
Eleanor Hunter – Librarian, Auburn Avenue Library of Research on African American Culture and History, Atlanta GA
Karen L. Jefferson – Records Manager, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta GA
Adam Watson – Photographic Archivist, Florida Memory, Division Of Library and Information Services
ADDITIONAL THANKS
Eve M. Kahn, New York Times
Jim Bowhall, Resolution ATL
SCAD Atlanta:
Tina O'Hailey
Matthew Maloney
Carmen Taylor
Kevin Moss
(Complete Additional Donors List to come)
For more information about this film: greenbookchronicles.com
For related information:
Jacob Lawrence "Migration Series" at the Museum of Modern Art: http://moma.org/onewayticket
The Green Books Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about


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When marketers dig into the psychographics of their target customers, they're learning about behaviors, values, interests, opinions, attitudes and activities. This approach often augments traditional demographics-based audience personas.


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Make sure watch and phone has the same time!
Bubble Cloud has a safety timeout of 3 minutes for commands between watch and phone. This is to prevent unwanted actions (calls, find-my-phone, wifi/ringmode toggles etc.) if there is substantial delay because of connectivity problems.
This timeout will prevent normal operation if the clocks of the two devices are not synced. Some people like to keep their watch in a different time zone, or a few minutes ahead for personal preference.
You can now enable this expert option in these cases, but be aware of unexpected behavior, such as a phone call being made hours after you initiated the function from the Wear Contact Cloud (when the connection to your phone gets restored).


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The riwaayah of is distinguished by the use of , in that there are many times two voweled letters meet and are either , or and makes idhgaam of the first letter into the second. This means that the first letter which is voweled obtains a sukoon and merges into to the second letter, which of course is read with a shaddah on it as a result of the merging.
(Al-Muddaththir 42), which are then read as: and respectively. All other occurrences of within one word are read without idghaam in the riwaayah of , and both letters are read with their written vowels.
If two of the same letters meet between two words, and both are voweled, the general rule for the riwaayah of is idghaam. In all the below examples, idhgaam takes place with the two same letters. This is done by the first letter of the two same letters acquiring a sukoon and then merging into the second, which then is read with a shaddah.
In the above example, the medd al-silah is dropped when the idhgaam takes place.
The idhgaam takes place regardless whether there is a sukoon before the letter that is being merged into the second or not. If there is a medd letter before the first letter of the idhgaam, then there is lengthening of two, four, or six vowel counts and the reader's length of ا determines how long this medd before the idhgaam al-kabeer is made. If a reader lengthens two vowel counts, then the medd letter before the ighaam is lengthened two vowel counts, if the reader lengthens ا four vowel counts, then the medd letter before the idhgaam al-kabeer is lengthened four vowel counts, etc.
There are conditions which must be met though, for an idhgaam to take place.
1. The two letters must meet in writing, meaning there should be no written letter in between them.
5.There is no idhgaam with the two kaaf in the two words because of the ikhfa' of the noon saakinah before them.
There are places where two of the same letter meet between two words due to the last letter being dropped of the first word due to grammar, such as in: .
In cases like this, there are two allowed ways of reading the in the riwaayah of ; the first way is with and the second allowed way withإ . Other examples of this special case in which there are two allowed ways of reading are: and .
The next lesson will be of two lettesr which are or , Insha' Allah.


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The Electric Excitement series comes from the National 4-H Council. See my general overview of 4-H curriculum guides here.
For the Electric Excitement series, as with others, a homeschooling parent can serve as a helper, but some prior familiarity with electricity and circuits is likely to be helpful.
I reviewed Level 1, Magic of Electricity, but other guides are similar in design. Magic of Electricity has 14 lessons, and all except the first two lessons begin with an experiment. (The first two lessons lay the groundwork and direct students in obtaining their own supplies.) Students begin by building a simple circuit with a battery, a light bulb, and aluminum foil, but by the time they reach Lesson 14, they will be able to build a small motor. Along the way they learn about different types of circuits and magnetism, and they also build a compass and an electromagnet.
Materials required should be relatively easy to find. Some items such as nails, string, tape, and Styrofoam cups are likely to be on hand already, but they will probably need to purchase items such as battery holders, light bulb holders, insulated wire, copper wire, and flash light bulbs. A Materials Kit for Level 1 has resources for five students. If you've got a group class, this might be a good investment.
All four guides follow the 4-H experiential learning model described in my overview. For the Electric Excitement series, there are additional optional "research" activities such as to research different sizes of batteries and their uses and report to the helper what they discover.
At the beginning of a lesson, students are frequently encouraged to figure out how to make something work given only certain materials to work with. If they get stuck, they can look ahead to the step-by-step instructions. This makes students at least attempt to think creatively about how to accomplish a given task. Unlike some experiment books, these guides include extensive explanations of how and why things work so that students build knowledge with broader usefulness.
Some activities in the guides include charts or fill-in-the-blanks lines for students to complete, but they should also keep a journal for recording other information such as their own hypotheses that they will test, experiments, written responses, and research.
4-H requires leadership and presentation activities in addition to completion of a certain number of projects form a guide. Two pages at the front of the book provide planning and record-keeping pages for students who want to complete those requirements. A guide for the series, Electric Group Helper's Guide, might be helpful, but it seems to me that it while it is very useful for a group class, it isn't essential for homeschoolers working individually or within the family.
There are other experiment books on magnetism and electricity, but it's hard to beat 4-H's combination of high-quality learning material at very low prices.


How Cool Do Meetings Really Need to Be?
Many companies want employees to be more collaborative, and have the flexibility of teleworking -- but those two initiatives aren't always complementary.
Between this writing (early Thursday morning) and tomorrow noon, I have seven business meetings on my calendar. Next week, I have 20 meetings, to date. Some I'll attend in person, others via phone, and maybe one or two via video. The experience won't always be perfect... but not because of whom I'm meeting with, or the agendas. It's the vagaries of the meeting experience overall that will make the difference.
At Enterprise Connect and No Jitter, we're pretty low tech in our approach to our internal meetings. We have an audio conferencing bridge, of course. Nothing fancy. We have a video conferencing system. I think I've seen it turned on only three times in my tenure, one of those more or less accidentally. We have a whiteboard, and not the digital sort. Internally, we can share our desktops via our UC client. When we're working remotely, we have our smartphones, laptops, and our audio conferencing and UC services at our disposals. We've dabbled with persistent team collaboration capabilities. From time to time we get video meeting requests; sometimes we accept them, other times not.
I suppose you could call us unsophisticated, technology wise. We have no cutting-edge interactive or immersive digital workplace systems a la Cisco Spark Board, Microsoft Surface Hub, or Oblong Mezzanine. Our calls don't follow us as we move from our cubicles into the conference room... or out into the hallway. Maybe we're simple folks, using yesterday's meeting technology, but somehow or other we manage to get the job done (and not too shabbily, I might add).
And I would suspect that if I were to ask for a virtual show of hands, I'd see that most readers find themselves in a similar situation, meeting wise. So I don't know about you, but when I read about the latest meeting technology or app -- that must-have for creating the perfect meeting experience -- I always wonder, how much of a difference might it really make?
I thought about this again last week, in hearing about the efforts Plantronics has been making to create a pristine office work environment -- one that allows meetings to take place in the same space as desk work without either being negatively impacted (read the No Jitter post, "'Habitat Soundscaping': You Didn't Know You Needed It"). The development came out of frustrations Plantronics employees themselves were having in dealing with their open offices (and you know those folks had access to some pretty good headset technology to cancel out conversations and other environmental background noise).
Plantronics promises that its intelligent acoustic management service transforms "distracting, dysfunctional, open office spaces into peaceful environments where people can focus, collaborate, and thrive." Fascinating stuff, as contact center expert Sheila McGee-Smith wrote in that No Jitter post I mentioned above.
But is it over the top? Perhaps for some, but Plantronics tells me it has several large enterprises beta testing the service. In-office environmental improvements such as these, as well as development of next-generation, interactive room systems, aim to improve the overall meeting experience. We see a complementary force enabling that great meeting experience on our mobile devices as well -- a la your video meeting apps from cloud-native companies like Highfive and Zoom, or team collaboration apps like Cisco Spark, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and so on.
The speed of digital technology has allowed workers to be mobile and flexible, and more employers continue to embrace remote work policies.
But it has also created demand for continuous updates and real-time collaboration. And that change has driven some companies -- including IBM, Best Buy and Yahoo -- to recall some of their remote workforces back into the office.
As part of the episode, NPR interviewed Robert Martin, identified as a software consultant and early advocate of the agile work method. In his estimate, "collocation is a key part of collaboration." Agile is collaborative in nature, he went on to say, and that means "people need to be in the same room." In large part, it's about speed of iteration -- "Because we're making many rapid changes in sequence, we have to be able to communicate those changes quickly."
So it may make sense for this handful of companies to pull back on remote work. But telework is going to continue as a viable option -- if not a selling point -- at many companies, even as they attempt to become more and more collaborative. And that means they'll want those cool mobile meeting capabilities, too.
So if you could only invest in one sort of meeting technology, which would it be? Are you going to invest in optimizing the physical space and in-room experience, or in making the meeting experience seamless for the mobile employee? Maybe that's not a fair question, cost wise -- a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison -- but budgets aren't infinite, so in practice, the decision may very well be an either-or for many enterprises.


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the Jewish shtetl of Polonnoye, Ukraine, 50°07'/27°31'.
Polonnoye is located in Khmelnyts'ka Oblast (formerly Kamenets-Podolski Guberniya).
Nearby shtetls are Poninka, Novalabun, Baranovka, Lyubar, Sudilkov, Shepetivka, Rogachev, Kamennyy Brod, Chudnov, and Starokonstantinov.
Famous Jews from Polonnoye included the poet Peretz Markish (1895-1952) and a number of prominent rabbis.
Many descendants of Jews from Polonnoye continue to research this shtetl and live in the United States, Israel, Canada, Russia, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain.
Organized landsmanshaften included the Independent Poloner Kranken Unt. Verein, Poloner Independent Aid Society, Inc., and the Poloner Relief Society. Cemeteries, photos, and records from these expatriate groups survive.
There are genealogical resources and historical references including two yizkor memorial books that document the Jewish history of Polonnoye. The pre-Holocaust Jewish population was approximately 5,500. Nearly all were murdered by the Germans during World War II. As of 1999, approximately 100 Jews lived in the community.
Records show that Jews settled in the area as early as the 14th century and that 10,000 people, including Jews and Poles, were killed during the Chmielnicki massacres in 1648.
Perhaps the best and most personal historical accounts are from individuals who have provided personal memoirs and memorabilia about their ancestors.
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WASHINGTON — A parole-style panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has decided to recommend that the military continue to hold a Yemeni man in indefinite wartime detention without trial, according to a military document. The decision is the first of its kind for the Obama administration's new Periodic Review Board system.
The board, which began operating late last year, examines whether it remains necessary to keep holding at Guantanamo several dozen detainees who have been deemed too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.
The Yemeni man, Abdel Malik al-Rahabi, was the second detainee scrutinized by the board, and it found that his continued indefinite detention was necessary to "protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States," according to an unclassified summary of its final determination that the military released Wednesday. Rahabi had appeared before the board at a hearing Jan. 28.
Rahabi told the board he harbored no ill feelings toward the United States, planned to work at a "milk and honey farm" or work for his father's tailoring business, and wanted to return to his family, including a 13-year-old daughter, Ayesha, according to a transcript.
But the board said it was concerned "about his susceptibility to re-engagement" if he were repatriated, citing allegations including "significant ties" to al-Qaida and his possible selection to participate in a hijacking plot before his capture by Pakistani forces in December 2001, as well as the "marginal security environment" in his home region.
The board did note that Rahabi had "strong family support awaiting his return, including house, employment opportunities, and a wife and daughter ready to support him," and it said it found his claim that he wanted to return to his family sincere, although it had questions regarding his credibility on other issues.
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Boyfriend Bi-Mothly — Rosie The Riveter Style
Well hello friends! How are we all today?
It's Saturday and it's been a difficult week for me. Hopefully you guys are doing better! For today's post, we're revisiting the Boyfriend Bi-Monthly for some Rosie the Riveter style!
If you're confused what The Boyfriend Bi-Monthly is, you can find the last one here. It's basically where my boyfriend dresses me! But it's a fun way of playing with my wardrobe in a new way, instead of constantly wanting more clothes I can't afford.
Rosie The Riveter Style
Whereas last time The Boyfriend® had a bad gal vibe going on, this time he had a clear idea in mind. Rosie The Riveter style. Ever the feminist icon, it was quite an interesting exercise to recreate her look with what I had in the house. It's slightly less factory-standard than Rosie's outfit, but the essence of it is pretty clear, don't you think?
Of course, I had to add a little feminist flair in the styling — have I ever mentioned how much I adore this Punky Pins pin? I have a coaster on my bedside table like this, too, which reminds me to empower other women on the daily.
I realised whilst editing these photos just how great this little feature was — mostly because I'd realised that this is how my boyfriend sees me. Rosie was a sign of female strength in the war, and has spent the last few decades inspiring new waves of feminism and women's rights activism. And is, in his words "a straight up badass". And he chose a recreation of this strength and badassery for me because he thinks I embody it, right? There's nothing more flattering than that.
What do you guys think of his choice?
Let me know in the comments, as always!
Bag; Zatchels
Earrings; Bow and Crossbones
Pin; Punky Pins
Shoes; Rocket Originals
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