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Alec Baldwin to host 'SNL' for record-setting 17th time
In October, Baldwin stole the show in his role as Donald Trump when 'SNL' spoofed the presidential debate
Updated: 8:11 AM EST Feb 11, 2017
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At the dawn of the Donald Trump administration, "Saturday Night Live's" own Trump — Alec Baldwin — will be back as the show's guest host for the 17th time on Saturday. Baldwin has hosted the venerable comedy show more times than any other person. In October, Baldwin stole the show in his role as Trump when "Saturday Night Live" spoofed the presidential debate. Baldwin's deal to play Trump for the remainder of the race was announced by NBC just days before "SNL" began its 42nd season last year and a little more than a month before voters choose between real-life Trump and Clinton. In September, Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, welcomed their third child together. Baldwin said baby Leonardo was born at 6:51 p.m. Monday in New York City. The couple, who wed in 2012, are also parents to a 3-year-old daughter and 15-month-old son. Alec Baldwin also has an adult daughter from his previous marriage to actress Kim Basinger.
At the dawn of the Donald Trump administration, "Saturday Night Live's" own Trump — Alec Baldwin — will be back as the show's guest host for the 17th time on Saturday.
Baldwin has hosted the venerable comedy show more times than any other person.
In October, Baldwin stole the show in his role as Trump when "Saturday Night Live" spoofed the presidential debate.
Baldwin's deal to play Trump for the remainder of the race was announced by NBC just days before "SNL" began its 42nd season last year and a little more than a month before voters choose between real-life Trump and Clinton.
In September, Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, welcomed their third child together.
Baldwin said baby Leonardo was born at 6:51 p.m. Monday in New York City.
The couple, who wed in 2012, are also parents to a 3-year-old daughter and 15-month-old son. Alec Baldwin also has an adult daughter from his previous marriage to actress Kim Basinger.


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Q: How to get nested PHP array in Vue table? I have searched far and wide on the internet because iam trying to get the fields ['id'],['email'] and ['phone'] in to my Vue table.
I cant seem to figure it out. If someone could help me that would mean the world to me.
Is it possible to get this data out of an array and back in to a Json object that i can send to my store and then access it in the Vue table by doing customer.id or customer.phone.
If its easier to access the PHP array from vue then please let me know how to do that :)
Thank you all,
All the help is appreciated!
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Why It's a Big Deal That Half of the Great Lakes Are Still Covered in Ice
Domino effects could include lingering cold water, delayed seasonal shifts, and huge jumps in water levels.
Stephanie Garlock
NASA
This story originally appeared in The Atlantic Cities and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Over the winter, as polar vortices plunged the US Midwest into weeks of unceasing cold, the icy covers of the Great Lakes started to make headlines. With almost 96 percent of Lake Superior's 32,000 miles encased in ice at the season's peak, tens of thousands of tourists flocked to the ice caves along the Wisconsin shoreline, suddenly accessible after four years of relatively warmer wintery conditions.
The thing is, all of that ice takes a long time to melt. As of April 10, 48 percent of the five lakes' 90,000-plus square miles were still covered in ice, down from a high of 92.2 percent on March 6 (note that constituted the highest levels recorded since 1979, when ice covered 94.7 percent of the lakes). Last year, only 38.4 percent of the lakes froze over, while in 2012 just 12.9 percent did–part of a four-year stint of below-average iciness.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
And as the Great Lakes slowly lose their historically large ice covers over the next few months, the domino effects could include lingering cold water, delayed seasonal shifts, and huge jumps in water levels.
Already, the impact of this icy blockade can be felt. On March 25, five days after the official beginning of spring, the Soo Locks separating Lake Superior from the lower Great Lakes opened for the season. But after a long and harsh winter, Lake Superior's nearly 32,000 square miles were still nearly entirely covered in ice. It would be another eleven days before the first commercial vessel fought its way across Lake Superior–with the aid of several dedicated ice breakers–and down through the locks.
The trip across Lake Superior to the Soo Locks, which usually takes 28 hours, took these first ships of the season nine days. A third ship had to return to Duluth after being damaged by the ice. Detroit District, US Army Corps of Engineers Facebook
More than 200 million tons of cargo, mostly iron ore, coal, and grain, travel across the Great Lakes throughout the year. Even a little ice can make a big dent on this total. Only three shipments of coal were loaded up during March–69 percent less, by volume, than last year. Shipments of iron ore from the northern reaches of Minnesota were so low that the US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana, had to scale back production significantly in early April.
A sluggish start to the shipping season is just one of the cascading effects of the Midwest's cold and icy winter. Some are good, and will allow the region to recover from years of historically low water levels. Others, like this delayed shipping season, less so.
Like the shipping troubles, some of the more unexpected things the lakes and their ecosystems could face in the next few months are the direct result of the lingering ice and cold:
Throughout the winter, huge numbers of ducks that feed by diving below the water for fish ended up starving to death. Connie Adams, a biologist in New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, told the AP that the die-off was "unprecedented."
Next in line for concern are a huge number of the Lakes' fish species. Warming water temperature often biologically triggers migration to traditional spawning grounds, and experts expect that Northern Pike, lake sturgeon, steelhead, and rainbow trout could make moves far later this year. As Shedd Aquarium research scientist Solomon David told Michigan Radio, later egg laying could mean younger and far weaker fish come next winter, leading to an even longer impact.
Other changes will come about long after the ice melts, as water levels are predicted to rebound to levels not seen in the last few years. Seasonal shifts in water levels, with winter lows and summer highs, are normal. "If things stayed in sort of a balance, we would see all the lakes water levels going up and then going down. Every year: up, down; up, down," says Drew Gronewold, a scientist with NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. But, "when water levels change a lot over time, something is happening in one of those two parts of the season."
Over the last few years, the summer highs and winter lows have both been well below their long-term average, as climate change produced far more rapid rates of evaporation. In December 2012, the Michigan-Huron system set a new low, breaking a record that had stood since the 1960s, according to Keith Kompoltowicz, the chief of watershed hydrology for the Army Corps of Engineers' Detroit District.
A three-year look at water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron, including a six-month forecast, from the US Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District. The solid red line marks recorded levels, the red vertical lines a range of six-month projections, and the blue shows the long-term averages. The black bars indicate record highs and lows. Detroit District, US Army Corps of Engineers Facebook
Though Kompoltowicz says the usual March and April rise in water levels is occurring later than usual this year, already the lakes are seeing water levels that they haven't had for several years. This past March marked the first time since April of 1998 that Lake Superior had reached its long-term average. And over the next few months, melting snow will feed the lakes and colder water could lower the rates of summer and fall evaporation. The amount of rain could either add to or subtract from this total. The Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration generally forecast water levels six months out, and predicted levels for this September, Kompoltowicz says, range from 10 to 13 inches higher than lake levels were a year ago.
Here's what higher lake levels could mean:
Shippers may be hurting now, but higher lake levels will allow them to load more cargo per boat later this year, according to the Chicago Tribune. These higher water lines also mean that those who manage the Great Lakes' harbors won't have to invest huge sums of money in dredging out the bottom. Ships will carry more, at less of a cost, once the ice melts.
Fluctuations in water levels could also help maintain the diversity of plant and animal species along many coastal wetlands, according to Kurt Kowalski, a wetland ecologist at the US Geological Survey's Great Lakes Science Center. Too many years of consistently low water allows certain species, often non-native plants, to take over.
And even far less large-scale ripple effects will matter. Scott Stevenson, the executive vice president of the company that manages Chicago's harbors, told the Tribune that higher water levels will allow them to rent out 100 expensive slips along the lakefront that shallow water took out of commission last year.
Though water level changes even over a several year period are normal, the rebound from record-low water levels is going to be a relief from the hand-wringing of the last few years. But it will likely be a temporary one. A hot summer with little precipitation could mute the effects of the icy winter. And, even if the lakes have more water this year, 2014 could be nothing more than a blip as climate change continues to wreak havoc. "We don't know, as this winter really exemplified, what's going to happen," Gronewold says. "If we're going to have three more severe winters, or flip back to three more winters like we've had the past few years."
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Xbox Series X Quick Tech Review
Is Xbox Series X worth it in 2021?
Dec 8, 2020·3 min read
The current generation of consoles and with it the era of Microsoft's Xbox One is drawing to a close. And the future is already at the door. Microsoft's next-gen console's Xbox Series X.
In this article, you will find all the essential information about the console, which we have divided into different categories.
Xbox Series X Dimensions
We can tell you the exact dimensions of the Xbox Series X: 29.6 cm x 15.1 cm x 15.1 cm. The weight is about 4.5 kilograms.
What will the Xbox Series X price be?
The Xbox Series X will cost 499 euros to start. The sister model — the Xbox Series S — costs 299 euros.
Xbox Series S: The second model
There have been rumors about this for some time, at the beginning of September 2020 Microsoft officially confirmed the second next-gen Xbox model with the title Xbox Series S, which is a bit more compact and also has a slightly weaker technical equipment.
When the Xbox 360 was launched in 2005, Microsoft had already offered two console models (Xbox 360 Arcade and Pro), which, apart from a few details, did not differ technically. So there is already experience with this concept.
What hardware is in the Xbox Series X?
The specs of the next Xbox models are probably of interest to everyone who deals with the upcoming consoles. For a long time, it was only speculation until Microsoft created the first facts at E3 2019 and published the console's technical data in March 2020. Here are the final hardware specs:
CPU: eight-core CPU with 3.8 GHz each (Custom Zen 2)
GPU: 12 TeraFLOPS, 52 CUs (Custom RDNA 2)
RAM: 16GB GDDR6
Hard drive: 1 TB (Custom NVME SSD)
Additional storage: 1 TB expansion card
External storage: USB 3.2
Drive: 4K UHD Blu Ray Drive
Custom chipset from AMD
The hardware core of the system formerly known as Project Scarlett is a Navi 2 chip specially developed for the console by hardware specialist AMD with a total of eight cores. High-speed RAM and a new form of SSD hard drives (built-in 1TB) should ensure that the Xbox Series X runs significantly faster than the Xbox One (X) — namely up to 40 times.
The Scarlett is said to be four times as powerful as the Xbox One X.
Xbox Series X teraflops, RAM, and CPU performance
The Xbox Series X has the graphics processing power of up to 12 TeraFLOPS, which is a significant leap compared to the previous generation (for comparison: the Xbox One X has a graphics processing power of 6 TeraFLOPS). The Series S model, on the other hand, "only" manages 4 TeraFLOPS, which is roughly on par with the PS4 Pro, even if TeraFLOP values are difficult to compare across generations.
The eight-core CPU of the Series X is clocked at 3.8 GHz, which is roughly four to five times the speed of the Xbox One X. This is mainly due to the significantly better caching and further optimization of the system architecture.
Also, the console has 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM, 13.5 of which are reserved for games and two and a half are available for the operating system. With the Series S, games have access to 10 GB. For comparison: The Xbox One X is equipped with a total of 12 GB of RAM.
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This qualitative research study describes the experiences of a group of Initial Certification Candidates (ICCs) as they participated in explorations of readings and third-party applications (apps) run on touch screen technology devices. The group of ICCs was comprised of two Undergraduate Teacher Candidates (UTCs) and one Graduate Teacher Candidate (GTC) enrolled in an alternate route program. The explorations were designed to augment the ICCs' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) as they progressed through the six-week long study. The researcher found that each of the ICCs experienced some development of their TPACK even though their perceptions differed on whether the readings or the app explorations were most beneficial to their development. Differences were also identified in the experiences of the UTCs and the GTC. Each of the ICCs indicated that they would prefer to use touch technology in their future classrooms. Future directions for further research are given.


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It almost seemed destiny that Zingerman's -- that purveyor of fine foodstuffs, that stacker of thick sandwiches, that favorite of Go Blue! college kids and visiting parents -- should turn their highly-flavored fingers to making cheese. Using fresh organic milk from Southeastern Michigan, Zingerman's award-winning cheesemakers carefully craft a variety of both cow and goat milk cheeses.
Zingerman's version of this traditional southern cheese spread features aged raw milk cheddar ground coarsely with slow roasted red peppers, Tellicherry black pepper, mayonnaise and just enough cayenne to make it dangerous. A fan favorite in its native Ann Arbor, Michigan, this Pimento cheese is great on a bagel, cracker or bread, and it also makes amazing macaroni and cheese.


Rationalists Yoda's Hovel: Facebook beginning of month: "Je Suis Charlie!" Facebook Now: "We Don't Offend The Prophet."
Facebook beginning of month: "Je Suis Charlie!" Facebook Now: "We Don't Offend The Prophet."
On January 9, Zuckerberg posted a message under his own name, taking credit for standing up to demands that Facebook censor images of Muhammad.
He ended his post with "#JeSuisCharlie," a show of support for the murdered members of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo who lost their lives in an attack by radical Islamists on January 7.
But now, only 18 days after his initial show of bravado, Zuckerberg and Facebook have agreed to censor images of Muhammad in Turkey. In fact, Facebook is even censoring the very images from Charlie Hebdo that sparked the terror attacks early this month, the very images Zuckerberg made to support his "#JeSuisCharlie" proclamation.


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Look: How sustainability initiatives help Henkel attract candidates
Category: Talent Management
In February 2018, Henkel Singapore launched its Year of Climate Action. This involved various initiatives including 'Bring Your Own Cup', increasing aircon temperatures and daily Earth hour from 12pm to 1pm.
Apart from the workplace initiatives, the German chemical and consumer goods company behind well-known brands including Loctite, Schwarzkopf, and Persil, is also getting its employees involved in corporate volunteering and donations through programmes such as the Sustainability Ambassador programme, and initiatives like Sustainability Week.
To gain further insight on the activities undertaken, Human Resources spoke to Thomas Holenia, president of Henkel Singapore and corporate vice president, global purchasing, Henkel, to find out why and how the company gets employees involved, and the benefits of such activities from a business perspective.
Q A lot of Henkel's sustainability initiatives involves volunteering. What are some of the initiatives you have in place?
Sustainability is one of Henkel's five corporate values and is stated as "We are committed to leadership in sustainability." We want to create more value - for our customers and consumers, for the communities we operate in, and for our company - while, at the same time, reducing our environmental footprint.
Besides creating sustainable value through our business activities, a focal area of Henkel's sustainability strategy is to actively contribute to social progress, where a key initiative is to further develop and boost our employees' engagement in sustainability.
For example, Henkel's Sustainability Ambassador program was launched in 2012 to train and equip our employees to share their knowledge and engage with various stakeholders at work and in the local communities. By the end of 2017, more than 50,000 employees have been certified as Sustainability Ambassadors, and Henkel had reached over 137,000 schoolchildren in 53 countries.
In Singapore, with the support of PUB, our Sustainability Ambassadors have been visiting preschools every year on World Water Day to teach young children simple tips to be sustainable at home. This year, we have also expanded our program with Little Footprints Preschool beyond the classroom with the sponsorship of the 'Be a Bucket Filler' Journal to encourage students to put into practice what they have learnt.
Additionally, we have been supporting the Bukit View Secondary School in its sustainability outreach efforts targeting primary and secondary school children. Overall, since 2016, Henkel Singapore has reached more than 1,200 school children through our school projects.
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During its Sustainability Week from 30 May to 5 June, employees engaged in various activities to learn more about the company's sustainability programs, interact with other sustainability advocates, and contribute to social causes. This year's activities included an 'I ambassador' Special event, which reiterated the company's commitment to leadership in sustainability.
A highlight was Henkel Singapore's switch to 100% solar energy for its electricity use, effective on 15 June. Employees also shared how they contribute to sustainability at work and in their teams. This ranges from developing sustainable innovations for customers and reusing old pull-up banners to using wooden drinking straws and stainless-steel water bottles.
As a supporting partner of the 'From Asia to Antarctica' documentary by the Eco-Business media company, Henkel Singapore also held six screenings of the film during Sustainability Week to create awareness of the threats of climate change and the urgency for action and collaboration.
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Additionally, in the area of corporate volunteering and donations, Henkel Singapore is a strong advocate of an active lifestyle, not only among employees but also within the community. We donated 400 pedometers to Alexandra Health, which distributed them via home visits, medical appointments and its LIVE! Intervention Programme. Additionally, in conjunction with Henkel Day, employees joined residents of Changi Simei community club for its brisk-walk programme and donated 200 pedometers during the occasion.
In 2017, Henkel won first prize in the "Workforce Size Under 200" category of the National Steps Challenge™: Corporate Challenge, which was organised by the Health Promotion Board. To celebrate the achievement and based on the positive feedback of Alexandra Health, we donated another 150 Xiaomi Band 2 fitness trackers to Alexandra Health in March 2017.
Q How do you as a business leader find value in such activities, and how do they affect the bottom line?
From a HR perspective, Henkel's commitment to sustainability and social involvement have strengthened our position as an employer of choice, internally and externally. From informal surveys, our employees have indicated their pride in working for an ecologically and socially responsible company and being able to make a difference.
Other benefits include better teamwork and greater job motivation across the organisation. Furthermore, as volunteers, our employees act as ambassadors for Henkel and our corporate culture, therefore positioning Henkel as a responsible company in the local communities.
Very often during interviews, job applicants have cited our priority on sustainability as a reason for their interest in job opportunities at Henkel.
Q How are the results of such an activity tracked - employee satisfaction improved or more applications from graduates, for example?
Globally, Henkel tracks its social engagement along five indicators:
Total number of projects supported
Number of people supported
Time off from work for employee-initiated projects
Donations (financial and product donations)
Number of people reached by our Sustainability Ambassadors.
In 2017, Henkel provided funding for more than 2,000 social projects, bringing help to more than 1.2 million people worldwide. Our Sustainability Ambassadors also reached more than 42,000 school children. 204 days of time off were granted to employees to work on their volunteer projects.
Henkel has also provided financial and product donations amounting to more than 8 million euros.
Q What are dos and don'ts to getting employees involved and engaged in such activities?
To intensify our employees' involvement, we have adopted an inclusive approach, where our programs are open and accessible for all employees to participate. For example, our Sustainability Ambassador training includes both e-learning and classroom formats in various local languages to cater to our employees worldwide.
To ensure consistency, standardised training materials are used. The materials cover the fundamental principles of sustainability – from concept to key global challenges. It also explains how Henkel is responding to these challenges and implementing sustainability along its value chain.For volunteer activities, employees may also request up to five days off from work per year.
Q With employees spending time on such initiatives, what do you do in case their manager is not comfortable with devoting time away from the core job?
With corporate citizenship anchored in our corporate culture, Henkel encourages and fully supports our employees in their social engagement activities. Notably, commitment to sustainability is an integral part of our company's history of more than 140 years.
Since Henkel was established in 1876, our founder, Fritz Henkel, had the vision of making people's lives easier, better and more beautiful. From the beginning, the company assumed responsibility for its employees, the communities it operates in, and society.
In line with this, on the anniversary of Henkel on 26 September, which we designate as 'Henkel Day', our employees worldwide engaged in various social projects and volunteering activities. In Singapore in 2017, our employees gathered to create dementia kits for the Alzheimer's Disease Association.
This year, Henkel's Sustainability Ambassadors will participate in coastal cleanup and plastic debris sample collection at Tanah Merah beach as part of the NUS‒NParks Marine Debris Monitoring Programme.
Q What advice do you have for organisations looking to do more in terms of sustainability?
Sustainability is a universal challenge and, therefore, a shared task. It is essential to have a holistic perspective in promoting collaboration and dialogue with all stakeholders along the entire value chain. This includes involving employees in playing a key role not only at work but also as members of society.
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2017-2018 Season - Ligue 1 Conforama - Matchday 35 - Angers-OM (1-1): Rudi Garcia shares his thoughts following Sunday's 1-1 draw against Angers.
"These are two lost points, because we started well. We scored quickly and then we continued to play well. To be honest, I did not like the last 15 minutes of the first half. We lost too many balls and we did not manage to hold possession. Suddenly, we took wave after wave of Angers' pressure, which hurt us. Fortunately, Yohann Pelé was watching. In the second half, it was more balanced even though we had big chances and they too. Both goalkeepers were very good. Looking back, unfortunately, the draw is pretty fair. But we did not come for that, so these are two lost points and a missed opportunity to get into the top-3. Nevertheless, it is not finished. There are three games left, and you know we have to win them. Before that, we have a European Cup semi-final to navigate on Thursday to qualify for the final. So we will return to the League for Nice after Thursday."


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Riding high
Sarah Colledge explains the difference using an e-bike has made to her.
Sarah's e-cycling tips:
1) Aim to get the best bike you can afford with a long range lithium battery.
2) Do your research and think about what you want to do on your bike – is it for practical purposes like getting to the shops or for more long distance travel.
3) Wear lots of layers! You can feel the cold with PH because you're not exerting much energy if you have the battery on full power.
4) Try to get a bike that has throttle assist. This allows you to do an uphill start purely using the battery with no peddling. (Sarah found this invaluable in Cornwall.)
5) Do short journeys first to get yourself used to the bike and build your confidence if you haven't ridden for a while.
6) Be prepared to expect some comments such as 'that's cheating'. Although, when they see you whizzing up a hill, most people say they want one.
7) Be prepared to feel tired afterwards and you may feel slightly breathless whilst cycling uphill as you're still putting a little effort in. 8) Consider buying a step through bike. It's much easier to get on and off.
9) Most of all enjoy the freedom and sense of achievement you have after a few miles of cycling.
Sarah, who was diagnosed with PH on her 25th birthday, bought an electric bike. Her husband, Grahaeme, is a keen cyclist and they used to ride a lot together before Sarah developed PH.
Grahaeme suggested buying an electric bike after he'd researched them online.
But one of the issues with PH is the tendency to lose confidence in your own abilities and Sarah took a lot of persuading to have go.
"I was really unsure at first as I had not ridden a bike in years, but the test run was a huge success. It was exhilarating and I couldn't stop smiling the whole time."
Sarah eventually purchased a Wisper 705 se, Battery 14ah 36v bicycle in 2011 and hasn't looked back since.
"Getting the bike was a life changing moment for me," said Sarah. "I can't walk too far and the slightest incline feels like I'm climbing Everest. I now do all my short journeys to town and doctor's appointments by bike, weather permitting. Having PH restricts what you can do so my bike symbolises 'freedom' and 'normality' for me."
Sarah's bike has a maximum speed of 15 mph and a range of up to 50 miles depending on level of battery use. She and Grahaeme use their bikes to cycle to local village pubs and out to Burghley House, Stamford, where they live, for picnics. They also cycle around Rutland Water and into town for coffee.
And the bike has done some travelling of its own, going with them down to Cornwall, The New Forest and further afield to Brittany in France. "It's taken me up hills I could never dream of walking up, and without it I would have missed seeing the most amazing countryside, lakes and rivers," said Sarah. "It's truly magical and a lifeline to a world I wouldn't otherwise see. I'm eternally grateful to Grahaeme for pushing me to give it a try."
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Hailed a "firebrand" (IncidentLight.com) and noted for her "supreme panache" (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), Columbian-American cellist Christine Lamprea was the First Prize winner of the 2013 Sphinx Competition. She joined the roster of the Sphinx Soloists Program and, as such, is presented as soloist with with major orchestras worldwide. She has received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Young Texas Artists' Competition, and captured First Prize at the 2013 Schadt National String Competition. A winner of Astral's 2013 National Auditions, Ms. Lamprea has appeared as soloist with the Costa Rica National Symphony, Houston Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi across the U.S., performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her engagements in 2016-2017 season include solo appearances with the Detroit Symphony and Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
As a recitalist, Ms. Lamprea has appeared on pretigious series at Illinois' Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Florida's Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, and the Washington Performing Arts Society. In demand as a chamber musician, she performs regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and has performed with such musicians as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Itzhak Perlman, Roger Tapping, and Carol Wincenc. In addition, she has premiered several works by composers at the Julliard School and the New England Conservatory.
Ms. Lamprea is the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supported her studies at the New England Conservatory and a Sphinx Power Artist Grant, which supports her study with acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz. She studied with Bonnie Hampton at the Julliard School and holds a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory where she studied with Natasha Brofsky. Previous teachers include Ken Freudigman and Ken Ishii.


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Can we Escape Political Brands? The Problem with 'Vote for Policies'
22/02/15 24/02/15 Simon Kaye	2 Comments
At this point in the British electoral cycle (informally known as the "holy crap, there's an election really soon!" point), social media get filled up with various websites and applications designed to quiz your political views and then tell you which political party you're closest to. There are the usual suspects – the always-interesting Political Compass assesses the main parties' electoral platforms and places them on its classic grid, while VoteMatch asks you to agree or disagree with a series of statements to give you a sense of who you agree with.
Vote for Policies works slightly differently. It simply puts up each party's own description of its policy platform in a series of key areas – "from the political parties themselves – in their own words", the website says – and fully anonymises them. You are asked to read each description of policies and pick your favourites. At the end, you get told who you actually ended up supporting.
Commentators are taking notice of the fact that there are some interesting outcomes emerging from people's usage of the site. Craig Ling at Grayling describes how a quarter of the tens of thousands of respondents found themselves agreeing most with the Green Party (currently setting up lasting residence at about 6% support in most national polls).
In general (and somewhat like Political Compass and the rest), these findings may not indicate much more than the existence of a left-wing bias around politically interested internet users. But Ling describes a different virtue to this approach. By removing these stated policy positions from the 'brands' of the parties that produced them, we might get closer to actually finding out about people's political beliefs, and who they would support in the absence of such biases:
Now of course, there is no guarantee that users of the site are entirely representative of the UK population, but 400,000 is a hell of a sample and frankly puts the Ashcroft Polling to shame. And it's interesting to see what happens to people's voting intention once the party leaders are removed from the equation and the public are forced to look beyond Ed Miliband's bacon sandwich incident, David Cameron's Eton image, and Nick Clegg's U-turn on Tuition Fees. Is there a case to be made for online voting in this model?
But there is a deeper problem revealed by Vote For Policies' approach, and shared to some extent by the other sites and apps that try to give people a sense of which party they should be voting for. Simply put, it relies too heavily on the idea that an attractive policy can provide sufficient grounds for the formation of a political preference. The truth is that stated policy objectives will often never be realised in government, or may involve complexities in terms of funding and trade-offs in other areas.
In other words, the realism of these political platforms is not taken into account, or even presented as a relevant consideration, while people are choosing between manifestos on 'Vote for Policies'.
It's a bit like someone buying products in a supermarket based simply on what's written on the back of their packets, or choosing which supermarket to visit based on the claims set out in their advertising. Like it or not, 'brands' can communicate far more information than advertising bumpf, and allows us to consider our own understanding and existing knowledge about the products in question.
Brands send certain signals, and allow us to access our experience and memory about a certain product. These associations can be positive or negative – nasty party seems to be an inescapable association for the Conservatives, years after that descriptor was first applied – but they nevertheless are important parts of the reasons we have to vote the way we do. What's the point of finding myself in strong agreement with the policies of a Green Party that has literally no incentive to take political realities into account while writing its manifesto? Isn't it important to bear in mind what I've learned about the competence and capability of a given party when assessing their positions?
'Vote for Policies' and other sites are providing a service, and may encourage more (and more thoughtful) voting overall. But they also operate from the assumption that policy platforms are the most important of the reasons to cast our votes, and this may be a mistake.
Political Ignorance and the British Public
14/02/15 16/03/15 Simon Kaye	1 Comment
This is the draft of a piece whose definitive, considerably better final version has been published on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog as On the Complex Relationship Between Political Ignorance and Democracy.
Public ignorance is a central consideration in my academic work, which encourages the idea that politics, at least in part, is best understood as throwing up considerable 'knowledge problems'; problems that are pervasive at every level of participation and administration in contemporary democratic states. The justification of democracy must, if it is to have meaning, take the political ignorance of democratic citizens seriously.
The media occasionally pick up on and discuss the depth and significance of the most obvious kind of political ignorance – that displayed by would-be voters. Naturally enough, these concerns can make for attention-grabbing headlines as our minds are concentrated by the rapid approach of a general election. The Independent's buzzfeed-imitating 'i100' site recently pointed out some recently-accumulated evidence:
46% of respondents were unaware that a general election is taking place this year
57% of respondents were unaware of what a general election is
59% of respondents could not name the current British Prime Minister
How trustworthy is this evidence? Well – not very trustworthy at all, methodologically. As i100 noted, the 1900-odd respondents were an unweighted sample, quizzed via email by a voucher codes website. We're learning a lot about the political ignorance of the savings-savvy with a bit of time on their hands, perhaps, but should be wary of extrapolating such information into a generalised indictment of the state of public political knowledge.
But are these statistics outliers? Do they fail to correspond with existing (more sound) empirics on similar questions? Would an expert on public opinion be surprised by these findings?
Absolutely not. While most research around public ignorances arises from surveys conducted in the USA, there's a growing body of work concerned specifically with the UK context as well, and the majority of such evidence confirms the realism of the statistics set out above.
For example, Denver & Hands have found that 77% of British 18-year-olds cannot reliably differentiate between the policy platforms of mainstream political parties. When the survey is limited to those who are students or former students in politics, this figure only improves to 50%.
More recently, a survey for the Royal Statistical Society and KCL provided a widely-reported embarrassment of riches in this area, including:
the general belief that under-age pregnancies are 25x more common than they actually are
the over-estimation of the severity of benefit fraud by 24x
29% of those surveyed thought that Jobseekers' Allowance is more expensive to the taxpayer than pensions, when the latter costs about 15x more
The generalised belief that crime and violent crime rates were rising, when in fact they have been falling for decades
The systematic over-estimation of immigration rates
These findings are particularly interesting in that they seem to indicate a kind of pessimistic bias in British political ignorance. Is it possible that many of these areas imagine things to be worse than they actually are because of the media and cultural landscape in which we find ourselves? In a more balanced informational environment, would we cease to be wrong, or simply cease to be wrong in a systematically pessimistic way?
For now, we can at least say that there's no need to turn to i100's dodgy sources if we want to get a sense of the 'knowledge problems' at work in British democracy – but we needn't dismiss those findings as unrealistic, either.
The next, fascinating challenge is to offer meaningful and relevant political theory in response to such evidence. Cynicism – or, at least, simplistic cynicism – need not be the only response available to us. Within the British context, the extent of public ignorance may even have the surprising effect of helping us to make peace with the various systemic and electoral features of our political establishment that make the public far less influential than they might imagine or prefer themselves to be. After all, what's the value of a more responsive electoral system – of more democracy – if the wider citizenry is incapable of voting well?
My own research strikes a more positive note than this, and tries to offer a more encouraging justification of democracy. More on that in future posts.
Just as most empirical work on public ignorance comes from the USA, so too does most of the theoretical consideration of its implications. To those interested in reading a critical perspective on democracy due to the extent of political ignorance, I'd say that this (plentifully controversial) book by Ilya Somin is a really great starting point.
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On almost any boat there will be a plaque denoting the maximum capacity requirements of that particular boat. This safety standard cannot be ignored.
There are two main concerns with exceeding maximum capacity: Georgia boat injury lawyer describes below Boat capacity requirements. Boating laws in Georgia state that the owner of a boat is liable for injury due to negligent operation.
1. Most boats will have a maximum capacity of a certain number of people or a certain weight. It's important to understand that you are over capacity if you exceed either number or weight, even if you are under on the other. A common error is not counting children in the number of people. Everyone counts on capacity, whether they are an adult or a child. It is also important to estimate weight. For example, if the capacity is 10 people or 1,700 pounds, if you have 10 people on the boat, the average weight must be 170 pounds or less per person. This also includes any items you bring on board, including coolers.
2. If the boat is overloaded, you run the risk of capsizing or swamping the boat which, of course, can be a very dangerous situation.
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Blubber Bay (Powell River Approaches), British Columbia Tide Chart
Blubber Bay (Powell River Approaches), British Columbia
2019-07-17 Wed 12:53 PM PDT    2.4 feet  Low Tide
2019-07-17 Wed  8:21 PM PDT   16.1 feet  High Tide
2019-07-17 Wed 10:08 PM PDT   Moonrise
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2019-07-18 Thu  8:54 PM PDT   16.2 feet  High Tide
2019-07-18 Thu 10:38 PM PDT   Moonrise
2019-07-19 Fri  2:36 AM PDT   10.7 feet  Low Tide
2019-07-19 Fri  7:10 AM PDT   13.5 feet  High Tide
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2019-07-19 Fri  9:26 PM PDT   16.1 feet  High Tide
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2019-07-20 Sat  9:57 PM PDT   16.0 feet  High Tide
2019-07-21 Sun  4:01 AM PDT    9.8 feet  Low Tide


The names of some of the victims of Friday's mass shooting at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida have been revealed.
Omaha, Nebraska's KMTV , along with the Omaha World-Herald , confirmed the identity of two local victims: Kari Oehme and Michael Oehme, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Michael Oehme, 57, was killed, while his wife Kari Oehme, was shot in the shoulder and is expected to recover, according to the Associated Press.
CNN identified two other victims who were killed on Saturday: Olga Woltering of Marietta, Georgia and Terry Andres of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
According to the Associated Press, Woltering was "in her 80s" and was an active part of her Atlanta-area church for nearly 40 years.
The Oehmes were in Florida for the start of a cruise vacation, according to KMTV. Woltering was also there for a cruise, along with her husband. Andres was on vacation with his wife, celebrating his 63rd birthday.
Five people were killed in the mass shooting, which also injured six people. Investigators have yet to release a list of victims' names.
The suspected shooter was taken into custody and investigators are still looking into a motive for the attack .


A remarkable gastropub menu (garlicky grilled artichokes, wings with fennel-infused hot sauce and blue cheese) makes this comfy pub, ensconced in a handsome Prohibition-era bank building, reason enough to venture to the Valley. An intriguing lineup of craft and specialty bottled beers, along with its own cocktail recipes and wine by the glass, are reasons to linger. Check the website to see what's in store that night—it might be live jazz or rock, a DJ, a trivia contest, or a burlesque show. (Some require a cover charge).


Asperitas. The global move to cloud based infrastructures and the Internet of Things (IoT) generate high demand for datacentre capacity and high network loads. The energy demand of datacentres is rising so quickly that it is causing serious issues for energy grid operators, (renewable) energy suppliers and governments. Grid operators and energy suppliers can hardly keep up with the demand in the large datacentre hubs let alone ensure enough renewable energy generation is available where we see the demand.
Not only does this raise questions of sustainability on all levels, the demand for flexibility and high loads requires a different approach to the business model of the datacentre. With the ultimate challenge of becoming an energy neutral industry.


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Q: Cannot scroll downwards, cannot select and scroll downwards for all browsers, cannot scroll down dota ), I noticed i cannot select text and scroll down in any browser (not just chrome - from other Ubuntu questions) but scrolling up is fine. This same thing occurs during DOTA, where moving the mouse top /left/right scrolls, but bottom is unable to scroll.
Any help would be appreciated :)
Tried: FIrefox, chrome. Even webstorm the IDE scrolling down is impossible while selecting text or very very slow.
EDIT: DOTA scroll works correctly on full screen, suspect its a unity /gnome issue


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DEET (CAS# 134-62-3) é um composto químico que serve como repelente de insetos (Nome químico: N,N-dimetil-meta-toluamida ou N,N-dietil-3-metilbenzamida ou Benzamida, N,N-dietil-3-metill-; comercialmente indicado como Diethyl Toluamide, no Brasil). É fabricado para ser aplicado diretamente na pele ou nas roupas, tendo como principal função proteger contra picadas de insetos, carrapatos e outros artrópodes. Em particular, o DEET protege contra picadas de carrapatos (que transmite a Doença de Lyme) e picadas de mosquitos (que transmitem a dengue, malária e febre amarela), entre outros insetos, como formigas.

No Brasil os produtos acessíveis no comércio, que são vendidos como repelentes para uso na pele, tem seu nome de princípio ativo indicado na embalagem como Diethyl Toluamide (o nome correto em português é Dietiltoluamida) e sua concentração varia, geralmente, entre 5% e 15%.

Segundo o Centro de Controle e Prevenção de Doenças (CDC) do governo norte americano a eficácia e duração do DEET como repelente varia segundo os seguintes parâmetros: concentração do princípio ativo (concentrações inferiores a 10% duram até 2 horas), espécie animal a ser repelida, temperatura ambiente, nível de atividade física do usuário, quantidade de transpiração, exposição à água, remoção por atrito, entre outros. No caso de carrapatos a recomendação é que sua concentração seja próxima de 20%. Já para o uso junto com protetor solar deve-se antes aplicar o protetor solar e após alguns minutos aplicar o repelente. Considerando que o repelente sempre irá reduzir a eficácia da proteção solar, mesmo quando os dois produtos são encontrados numa mesma formulação, exigindo uma aplicação mais frequente dos dois produtos.

História
O DEET foi desenvolvido pelo exército norte-americano durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Originalmente testado como pesticida em áreas rurais passou para o uso dos militares em 1946 e em 1957 para o uso civil.

Precauções no Uso
Tal como todos os quatro repelentes indicado pelo CDC (DEET, Icaridina/Picaridina, OLE-Óleo de Eucalipto Citriodora fabricado para repelente e IR3535) a sua aplicação deve ser feita com os seguintes cuidados:

- aplicar apenas nas partes de pele descobertas e nas roupas conforme as indicações do fabricante, nunca devendo ser aplicado sobre a pele coberta por roupas;

- não aplicar sobre ferimentos, alergias e irritações da pele;

- nunca aplicar diretamente no rosto (aplique nas mãos e espalhe na face) nem aplicar nos lábios, olhos e mucosas;

- lavar as mão após aplicar para evitar contatos com os olhos e ingestão acidental;

- crianças não devem manipular repelentes. Os adultos devem antes aplicar em sua próprias mãos e depois espalhar delicadamente na pele das crianças. Nunca aplique repelentes nas mãos da crianças para evitar ingestão ou contato com os olhos acidentalmente. Apenas use produtos indicados pelo fabricante para aplicar em crianças (com menor quantidade do princípio ativo entre outras características da fórmula);

- aplique apenas o necessário para cobrir a pele exposta ou roupas. Aplicar em excesso é geralmente inútil, mas caso os insetos continuem a picar aplique apenas um pouco mais;

- após sair da área de exposição às picadas é recomendado lavar os locais de aplicação na pele ou se banhar e lavar as roupas que receberam o repelente, principalmente se haverá uso contínuo por vários dias;

- em caso de alergia lave o local da aplicação e pare de usar o repelente. Para alergias mais graves procure auxílio médico e apresente a embalagem do produto utilizado;

- nunca aplique repelente em crianças menores de dois meses de idade. Prefira usar um mosquiteiro;

- sempre guarde os repelentes fora do acesso de crianças; e

- no caso de se usar repelente em spray faça-o em ambiente ventilado evitando respirar o produto.

Referências

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A 50-year-old man who claimed he was the victim of an anti-gay bias attack outside Madison Square Garden has been arrested — not only for making up the incident, but also for attacking the man who was arrested for the bogus crime, officials said Friday. Curtis Campbell told police that 26-year-old Grant Leach kicked him in the groin and hurled anti-gay profanities at him and two friends on Seventh Ave. near W. 33rd St. about 8 a.m. on March 12, authorities said. Cops arrested Leach nearby and charged him with assault and harassment, police said. The charges were ultimately dropped when detectives looked over surveillance cameras in the area and learned that the clash never happened. That's not all; Campbell allegedly grabbed a metal object and swung it at Leach, according to court papers.


How Much Money Have You Spent On Your Wii U?
The Wii U has taken roughly $300 from your wallet already, but chances are you've purchased more than a few games for Nintendo's newest home console. Just how much money depends on who you are.
We've already asked you about how much money you've sunk into your Xbox Ones and PS4s, so now it's time to do the same for the last of the big three. Don't forget about all the comfy chairs and extra controllers you bought to accommodate this gaming experience.
How Much Money Have You Spent On Your PS4?
Let's see what you got! And feel free to add any necessary context to your list, if you feel it needs it.


Via Entertainment Weekly, Penguin Publishing is rolling out a fantastic new cover for Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice with imagery from the movie.
I have a feeling this will be the final poster for the movie.
JP looks a little out of sorts ..
who's legs are poking out behind doc and penny?
I generally dislike actors from movie adaptations being placed on book covers... stifles the imagination.
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Here's something - Robert Elswit interview on Inherent Vice and Nightcrawler.
Anyone with a Netflix account has to watch Portlandia Season 4 Episode 8 "Late in Life Drug Use," there's a hilarious PTA reference at 18:30 that's just great for any fan!
I love Inherent Vice novel and I used the showbox app to publish a new free movie release brought by showboxvpn.com.


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The landslide
Meadows in the Sky remains closed as Parks Canada awaits engineers report
The Meadows in the Sky Parkway remains closed beyond the 15-kilometre mark almost two weeks after a landslide compromised road stability near Bridge Creek.
Alex Cooper
Jul. 7, 2011 5:00 a.m.
A stretch of the Meadows in the Sky Parkway will be re-aligned by 1.3 metres into Mount Revelstoke in order to stabilize a stretch of the roadway that was compromised by a landslide.
"We have decided that the road will need to be re-aligned, or moved over, by about four feet, away from the failed area, and then a support structure put in place," Parks Canada spokesperson told the Times Review in an e-mail Thursday afternoon.
The parkway remains closed beyond the 15-kilometre mark almost two weeks after a landslide compromised road stability near Bridge Creek, at kilometre 15.5 of the road. The landslide occurred down slope of the road along an unnamed creek that passes through a culvert below the road. Pictures provided by Parks Canada show the slide washed away a swath of land below the road, including a chunk of the shoulder, but the roadway itself remains intact.
Work such as clearing brush in the area surrounding the landslide began on July 5, said Daniluck. What remains to be figured out is how the road will be supported. She said several options were being looked at, including building a rock wall, driving support posts into the ground with heavy machinery, or installing a gabion wall along the parkway.
Daniluck said the latter option, which involves building a support wall by filling large cylinders with soil or sand, was being seriously considered but Parks Canada was awaiting an engineers report on slope stability to arrive before proceeding further. The report is due next week.
"They're looking at that 200 metres that's been impacted so re-alignments would be small," she said in an interview. "They just have to fix it and realign it to make it safe."
The parkway is currently open to vehicles until the Internment Camp lookout at kilometre 14. Cyclists and pedestrians can continue to kilometre 15; the landslide is at kilometre 15.5.
Daniluck said Parks Canada did not know how long the closure would be in effect and the engineering report needed to be completed before setting a timeline for repair work.
"That's the big question and that's the big question that we want to answer," she said. "The engineer's report is not done, they still need to finish it."
The landslide is visible from Arrow Heights and Johnson Heights and can be seen stretching more than 100 metres down the mountain side.
Currently the snow line sits at the 20-kilometre mark of the parkway, between 1,500 and 1,700 metres in elevation. The summit area sits under more than a metre of snow, Daniluck said.
"It's still snowbound so there's nothing to see up there anyway," she said.
Hikers are allowed up the summit trail, which crosses the parkway at kilometre 14.5.
The Meadows in the Sky Parkway is a major tourism draw in Revelstoke in the summer. According to Parks Canada, about 35,000 people visit the summit area each year in the short period during which it's open.
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"We design biomaterials to better understand how cells interpret signals from their environment during disease progression and tissue regeneration."
Steven joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in August 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining UVa he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Steven completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida and received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lab designs, synthesizes, and characterizes new biomaterials to explore the dynamic interplay between cells and their microenvironment, applying these platforms to address fundamental human health challenges in understanding disease and engineering tissues.


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Watch out, Ironman, jet pack is coming to Beijing
Meng Jing
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Despite regulatory questions about its large-scale commercial future, the Martin Jetpack, with which users can suit up and travel like Ironman, is expected to make its maiden flight in China on Dec 6.
Liu Ruopeng, chairman of Shenzhen-based Kuang-Chi Science Ltd, the largest shareholder in the jet pack's producer, said the company will hold the event to demonstrate some of the Martin Jetpack's capabilities.
The jet pack, created by New Zealand's Martin Aircraft Co, is said to be able to fly nonstop for 30 to 45 minutes at altitudes of up to 1,500 meters. It is powered by a gasoline engine and has two ducted fans.
Liu, who introduced the fantasy-film-like technology at a tech conference held by Tencent Holdings Ltd on Sunday, said they hope to make the device the world's first commercialized personal aircraft.
The company has been selling the jet pack on e-commerce site jd.com for 1.6 million yuan (S$354,808) since late July, and he said it has secured about 1,000 people in China who are very interested.
"Our potential buyers can be divided into two categories. One is the emergency services sector, such as ambulance officers and firefighters, and the other is flight enthusiasts," he said.
Liu, whose business is built on the potential of flight equipment, is a firm believer that the future of human beings lies in getting their feet off the ground.
"Mega-cities are all gridlocked with traffic. Imagine on a rooftop one or two people wearing jet packs. They can simply fly from one building to another, saving all the time they would be trapped in terrible traffic," he said.
Hong Kong-listed Kuang-Chi Science became a major shareholder in Martin Aircraft after striking a deal to buy US$21 million (S$30 million) worth of shares in its initial public offering on the Australian Security Exchange in February.
According to Liu, the jet pack has customers worldwide, mainly from the United States, India, China and Eastern Europe. "Just like with any new product, the demand for the jet pack has largely exceeded our production capacity at this stage," he said, adding that they expect to deliver the first units in the third quarter of next year.


When we eat beef, pork, lamb, chicken, or other foods from animals, our bodies take in proteins that may be rich in sulfur. That's unlike the proteins in plant foods—fruits, veggies, nuts, grains, or legumes like peas or dry beans. As we digest animal proteins, the sulfur in them forms acid. A slight, temporary acid overload—called acidosis—may result.
borrow from our bones—the body's main storage depot for this essential mineral.
Though calcium phosphate is an effective buffer and neutralizer, taking it from bones might increase our risk of osteoporosis. This unhealthy increase in the porosity of bones, and resultant thinning, leaves those afflicted with this disease especially vulnerable to fractures of the spine, hips, and wrists.
Estimates from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) indicate that 10 million Americans, mainly women, already suffer from this disease. Another 28 million Americans are at risk. Other NIH analyses suggest that one in every two women and one in every eight men over age 50 in this country will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime.
Does Animal Protein Play a Role?
The cause of osteoporosis is unknown. In exploring possible links between osteoporosis and what we eat, some researchers have developed a hypothesis and a model that point to sulfur-containing animal proteins as a culprit in the bone disease.
The theory has commanded the attention of nutrition researchers, including scientists at the ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, California. They have teamed up with university colleagues to crack some of the secrets of osteoporosis. In a novel study, they recruited women who eat both animal and plant foods—the omnivore regimen typical of most Americans—and women who only eat plant-derived foods. What better way to monitor the possible effect of sulfur-containing proteins than by comparing the bone health of vegan volunteers, who don't eat animal proteins, with that of omnivore volunteers, who do?
ARS physiologist Marta D. Van Loan of the Western Human Nutrition Research Center collaborated in the investigation with Anita M. Oberbauer of the University of California, Davis, and with Lydia-Anne Stawasz, formerly at the Davis campus and now at the University of California, Irvine.
Forty-eight healthy, nonsmoking women, aged 18 to 40, volunteered for the 10-month study. At three intervals during the experiment, the women submitted records of the types and amounts of foods they had eaten during the previous 3 days. The records gave the researchers an indication of the amount of protein each volunteer had eaten.
The volunteers gave blood and urine specimens at each lab visit. The samples were analyzed for any of several standard indicators of bone health. These included bone formation, as indicated by the amount of a chemical called osteocalcin; and bone resorption, or the amount of calcium removed from bone and reabsorbed into the bloodstream, as measured by another biochemical, N-teleopeptide. Other measures included renal net acid excretion and urinary calcium—both indicators of how much calcium was excreted from the body.
The model that other scientists developed predicts that to maintain the correct balance of calcium in the blood, or homeostasis, renal net acid excretion and urinary calcium increase as intake of sulfur-containing animal proteins increase.
But preliminary results suggest that osteoporosis may in fact be more complicated than the model predicts. The Davis scientists applied a statistical procedure—multivariate regression analysis—to determine the relative impact of each of the variables, or factors, they examined. As expected, they found that the vegan volunteers ate less protein than the omnivore volunteers. Also, as predicted by the model, renal net acid excretion and urinary calcium were higher in the volunteers who ate more protein (the omnivore women) than in those who ate less (the vegan participants).
But two findings were unexpected. First, bone resorption—in which calcium is taken away from bones via the bloodstream—was the same for omnivore women as for vegan women.
"The current model predicts increased bone resorption for people who consume large amounts of animal protein, so it was somewhat surprising that bone resorption was the same for both groups of our volunteers," Van Loan notes.
Using the model as a basis, "one would not have predicted a significantly greater amount of bone formation for vegan volunteers than for omnivore volunteers," Van Loan adds.
The implication for people who eat high amounts of animal protein may be important: Specifically, over time, the net effect of a lower amount of bone formation would likely be a decrease in bone density. Explains Van Loan, "If you have less bone formation, the result is the same as if you had an increase in bone resorption. So, even though bone resorption was the same in both groups of volunteers, the lower amount of bone formation in the omnivore women could lead to a decrease in their bone density."
The findings, if borne out in larger studies, may lead to a modified model. What's more, the investigation may lead to other useful lines of inquiry for other studies.—By Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
Marta D. Van Loan is with the USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616; phone (530) 752-4160, fax (530) 752-5271.
"Boning Up on Osteoporosis" was published in the March 2003 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


Finally! And what a great and massive debut this is.
And it's out on all channels t-o-d-a-y you can stream it on Spotify, Deezer and wotnot, you can buy it on iTunes and on CD and Vinyl. But first of all now is the time for you to enjoy this beast of a noise rock album. Some call it shoegaze, some call it metal. Somebody said it sounds like The Melvins and Bikini Kill had a baby. But that's for you to decide.
Mind you there's also a collector's edition vinyl limited to only one hundred copies. It comes in an equally limited tote bag and we'd love to show you a picture of it but as fait has it it's not finished yet. It will be ready for the record release show though.
We've released this in co-operation with Czar Of Crickets Productions and are rather pleased about that.


Can anyone provide information on the loss of Uffz. Peter Saller who was killed on the 31st July 1941?
He was an experienced flier with the EK I. He was killed in the East.
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If you're been following me for longer than a minute, you'd know my favorite past time is trying out the myriad of amazing foodie spots Cape Town has to offer. So, when I heard there was a new kid on the Southern Suburbs block aka Phantom at Purple Rayn, I was too excited to try it out! When I heard it was Asian-inspired (my all time favorite) and the chef is Warren Carney (previously having worked at Madame Zingara and Kloof Street House) I was pretty weak at the knees.
We joined Purple Rayn on a perfect summer evening for a media dinner. It was sunset so it was just perfect timing for us to fully appreciate the gorgeous view this restaurant has to offer. The decor is different from what I expected- it's energetic and eclectic. Actually it makes for a nice change from what you're used to!
The food at Phantom is separated into cold, hot and sweet (namely, starters, mains and dessert). So, naturally we started off with cold, and it was with a bang by serving us bread with mayo. Sound predictable? Ah, think again! However, this was mayo with a twist! The mayo wasn't made yet! The ingredients were served in a bowl and as you stirred your bread in the bowl, the mayo was made. It was an experience on its own and quite possibly the best bread I've eaten in forever! #ILoveCarbs.
Next up they served up oysters. Now, your girl is unfortunately not an oyster lover. However, based on presentation alone they were gorgeous. At any rate I only heard positive feedback about the oysters from those that ate them.
The last starter was my ABSOLUTE fave. In fact, it might have been my dish of the night. And that had to be none other than the ostrich tataki. Could someone deliver another portion to my house, please?! In case you're not familiar with what tataki is, it's when the meat is seared very briefly over a hot flame or in a pan and served with a marinade or sauce. This one was served with ginger, coriander, coffee (I know, but totally delish!) and crispy carrot. Honestly that dish knocked it out the park!
We finished off the cold section with some sushi, which you can never go wrong with. Plated beautifully, super pretty. Your next date night is sorted!
The mains section has a great diversity in that it offers duck, quail, chickpea dhal, ramen and more. There is a lot of variety! I'd be doing you an injustice if I didn't start off with the totally drool worthy yakitori quail. Honestly, between the quail and the tataki everything else was just the cherry on top. The quail was perfectly tender and soft with a slight crispy skin. Continuing on from the experience of mixing our own mayo, the quail came with a ginger, cucumber, pickled daikon and salmon roe in a pestle and mortar for us to grind and add to our liking. The ginger was sublime with the quail and a combination I've never tried before.
Other standouts were the sweet and sour chickpea dhal (R55) which was a firm favorite amongst the tasters in the room. I loved it too and thought the portion size was generous, but the quail dish stole my heart and the other dishes had to compete pretty fiercely. I really love it when a restaurant does a good vegetarian dish. (And no, not just taking the patty off a burger, but rather creating a delish dish such as this!).
All good things come to an end but luckily not without a sweet goodbye. We were treated to a trio of desserts. Now, you guys know I'm a really plain gal when it comes to dessert (AKA chocolate, chocolate cake, ice cream) but this girl loved the bold combinations that came through with the desserts. Think white chocolate, miso, sesame and orange together. Well, it was delicious I tell you. Another standout was the coconut combined with passion fruit, mango and raspberry. The coconut was pretty strong on it's own, but when combined with the mango and raspberry it was just so refreshing and light. The third dessert had a strong ginger thread and I don't enjoy ginger in a sweet context but the ginger lovers raved about it.
Sorry to harp on here, but you have to go there to try the ostrich tataki and the quail alone. When it's good, it's good. 🙂 It's great to have a new kid on the Constantia block and one that isn't trying to be like every one out there, but rather bringing their own unique flavour and style!
Their offering doesn't just end with food, but rather Purple Rayn is a full boutique guesthouse! Perfect for weddings or intimate get togethers, this guesthouse nestled in the majestic Cecelia Forest of Constantia will make the perfect venue.
Let me know if you've given Purple Rayn a try and what your favorite dish was!


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Q: Send TCP SYN packet with payload Is it possible to send a SYN packet with self-defined payload when initiating TCP connections? My gut feeling is that it is doable theoretically. I'm looking for a easy way to achieve this goal in Linux (with C or perhaps Go language) but because it is not a standard behavior, I didn't find helpful information yet. (This post is quite similar while it is not very helpful.)
Please help me, thanks!
EDIT: Sorry for the ambiguity. Not only the possibility for such task, I'm also looking for a way, or even sample codes to achieve it.

A: As far as I understand (and as written in a comment by Jeff Bencteux in another answer), TCP Fast Open addresses this for TCP.
See this LWN article:

Eliminating a round trip
Theoretically, the initial SYN segment could contain data sent by the initiator of the connection: RFC 793, the specification for TCP, does permit data to be included in a SYN segment. However, TCP is prohibited from delivering that data to the application until the three-way handshake completes.
...
The aim of TFO is to eliminate one round trip time from a TCP conversation by allowing data to be included as part of the SYN segment that initiates the connection.

A: Obviously if you write your own software on both sides, it is possible to make it work however you want. But if you are relying on standard software on either end (such as, for example, a standard linux or Windows kernel), then no, it isn't possible, because according to TCP, you cannot send data until the session is established, and the session isn't established until you get an acknowledgment to your SYN from the other peer.
So, for example, if you send a SYN packet that also includes additional payload to a linux kernel (caveat: this is speculation to some extent since I haven't actually tried it), it will simply ignore the payload and proceed to acknowledge (SYN/ACK) or reject (with RST) the SYN depending on whether there's a listener.
In any case, you could try this, but since you're going "off the reservation" so to speak, you would need to craft your own raw packets; you won't be able to convince your local OS to create them for you.
The python scapy package could construct it:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
from scapy.all import *
sport = 3377
dport = 2222
src = "192.168.40.2"
dst = "192.168.40.135"
ether = Ether(type=0x800, dst="00:0c:29:60:57:04", src="00:0c:29:78:b0:ff")
ip = IP(src=src, dst=dst)
SYN = TCP(sport=sport, dport=dport, flags='S', seq=1000)
xsyn = ether / ip / SYN / "Some Data"
packet = xsyn.build()
print(repr(packet))

A: I had previously stated it was not possible. In the general sense, I stand by that assessment.
However, for the client, it is actually just not possible using the connect() API. There is an alternative connect API when using TCP Fast Open. Example:
    sfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    sendto(sfd, data, data_len, MSG_FASTOPEN,
                (struct sockaddr *) &server_addr, addr_len);
        // Replaces connect() + send()/write()

    // read and write further data on connected socket sfd

    close(sfd);

There is no API to allow the server to attach data to the SYN-ACK sent to the client.
Even so, enabling TCP Fast Open on both the client and server may allow you to achieve your desired result, if you only mean data from the client, but it has its own issues.
If you want the same reliability and data stream semantics of TCP, you will need a new reliable protocol that has the initial data segment in addition to the rest of what TCP provides, such as congestion control and window scaling.
Luckily, you don't have to implement it from scratch. The UDP protocol is a good starting point, and can serve as your L3 for your new L4.
Other projects have done similar things, so it may be possible to use those instead of implementing your own. Consider QUIC or UDT. These protocols were implemented over the existing UDP protocol, and thus avoid the issues faced with deploying TCP Fast Open.

A: TCP Fast open do that. But both ends should speak TCP fast open. QUIC a new protocol is based to solve this problem AKA 0-RTT.


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Mar 25, 2019 11:00:19 AM | by Barb Szyszkiewicz
Photo credit: By Molly Belle (2016), Unsplash.com, CC0/PD[/caption] I won't name names because it doesn't matter. On any other day, it could have been someone else. Or you. Or me. But that particular day, it was a high-profile Catholic with a follower count to match and a big social-media footprint who got the whole thing started. User 1 mocked someone — a stranger — who was in no position to defend herself, and several hundred more users piled on with likes and comments, maybe hoping for a coveted sign of approval from User 1, such as a like, a retweet, or maybe (gasp!) even a personal response. That's how these pile-ons get started, after all. One person tosses out a tweet and we all jump into the fray. Why do we do this? Why are we taking a page from "Mean Girls" in our use of social media?
Is this how Catholic women support each other?
We jump in. We pile on. Maybe we even make that statement that starts it all. We do this out of our own desire to be heard. To be seen. To be acknowledged. Can't we find ways to be seen by modeling kindness? Can't our voices be heard more clearly when we offer a positive word? A compliment? A cheerful greeting? A joke that isn't at someone else's expense? I'm not saying there's never any room to be snarky, but I am saying you need to be careful about your target. That target is a person too. Probably at first, kindness won't get you too far in growing your follower count. But if you get (or keep) followers because you tweet mean stuff, you need to re-evaluate your social-media strategy.
Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more. (Luke 12:48)
Use the power of your platform for good. Please. Otherwise, you scandalize the rest of us — at best — and hurt others. And if you're going to use the power of your platform to exclude those who don't fit in with the rest of your tribe, then that's a tribe I wouldn't want to join.
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Kelli Cummings
Ph.D., NCSP
Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
kellic@umd.edu
3942 Campus Drive, College Park, MD, 20742
data-based decision making, formative assessment, implementation science, intensive intervention, disability policy, school improvement, assessment, special education, Learning disabilities
I am an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). My research interests lie at the intersection of data-based decision making and intensive intervention planning. I conduct studies to evaluate and improve the reliability, validity, and accuracy of assessment tools that are used to evaluate student progress. I also focus on areas of school improvement (e.g., MTSS) in academics and behavior. All of my work is guided through the lens of implementation science, which is the "...scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based [interventions] into routine practice" (Eccles & Mittman, 2006). Even efficacious practices that do not take into account school need, education policy, or the infrastructure required to implement the practice at scale are likely to result in low levels of adoption (Horner et al., 2014). Additionally, interventions without formal mechanisms for data-based decision making are less likely to be sustained and reach students from diverse backgrounds. Given recent shifts in policy, funding, and practice-based educational research priorities, I believe it is critical that special education leaders are equipped to conduct research, develop practices that are scalable, and lead to socially important, sustainable outcomes.
As a faculty member at UMD, I adhere to a strong-student, strong-advisor model of graduate student preparation coupled with a gradual increase of responsibility (Collet, 2012). What this means in practice is that I frontload the graduate experience with coaching and modeling of various stages of the research process. For the first two years you will build your skills as a researcher and critical consumer of the scholarly literature. In Years 3 and beyond, the individual student will primarily direct his or her graduate experience.
In addition to my academic appointment at UMD I also affiliate and conduct research within the UMD's Language and Literacy Center (LLRC). The LLRC brings together faculty and students to focus on language and literacy issues in education from different perspectives. This center is part of a larger campus initiative, the Language Science Center (LSC), which focuses on advancing language science at the University of Maryland and beyond, through integrated research and training that links fundamental science with applications in education, technology, and health. Through the LLRC and the LSC, I foresee the faculty and students at the University of Maryland having a major impact on improving language and literacy education at the state, national, and international levels.
Prior to my appointment at Maryland, I worked as a Research Associate and Director of Measurement and Evaluation (University of Oregon) and an Assistant Professor of School Psychology (University of Montana). I have also worked in the field as a special educator in reading and math (Grades 3 – 5) and a school psychologist (certified from birth – Age 21). I bring the practical experience gained in these roles to my work at UMD.
Notice to Applicants for the Ph.D. Program in Special Education
It is an exciting time to be entering the field of special education. The role of the special educator has evolved dramatically over the past decade, and I work actively with my graduate students to address current needs and issues related to those research-to-practice demands.
I will be accepting a Ph.D. student for mentorship in the 2018-2019 academic year. Applicants with an interest in data-based decision making, formative assessment, implementation science, and developing intensive interventions are especially encouraged to apply. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any specific questions. Applications for the doctoral program are due December 1. For more information visit, https://www.education.umd.edu/academics/programs/graduate/special-educat...
Collet, V. (2012). The gradual increase of responsibility model: Coaching for teacher change. Literacy Research and Instruction, 51, 27-47. doi: 10.1080/19388071.2010.549548
Eccles, M. P. & Mittman, B. S. (2006). Welcome to Implementation Science. Implementation Science, 1(1), 1–3. Retrieved from http://www.implementationscience.com/content/1/1/1
Horner, R.H, Kincaid, D., Sugai, G., Lewis, T., Eber, L., Barrett, S., . . . Johnson, N. (2014). Scaling up School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: Experiences of seven states with documented success. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 16(4), 197-208. doi: 10.1177/1098300713503685
Faculty Affiliate in the Maryland Language and Literacy Research Center
Faculty Affiliate in the Maryland Language Science Center
2017 - present, Principal Member, Institute of Education Sciences, Reading, Writing, and Language Development Panel
2016 - present, Associate Editor, School Psychology Review
2016 - present, Editorial Board Member, Learning Disability Quarterly
2015 - present, Editorial Board Member, School Psychology Review
2014 - present, Editorial Board Member, The Elementary School Journal
2015 - 2019, Research Committee Chair, Council for Learning Disabilities: https://www.council-for-learning-disabilities.org/
2014 - 2019, Editorial Board Member, Assessment for Effective Intervention
Selected Recent Refereed Publications (see CV for all publications)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-9852/print
*denotes publications with graduate students
Cummings, K.D., Smolkowski, K., & Baker, D.L. (2019). Comparison of literacy screener risk selection between English proficient students and English learners. Learning Disability Quarterly. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0731948719864408
Reed, D.K., Cummings, K.D., Schaper, A.D., Lynn, D.*, & Biancarosa, G. (2018). Accuracy in identifying students' miscues during oral reading: a taxonomy of scorers' mismarkings. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal . Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11145-018-9899-5
Smolkowski, K. & Cummings, K.D. (2016) Evaluation of the DIBELS (6th Edition) diagnostic system for the selection of native and proficient English speakers at risk for reading difficulties. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. doi: doi:10.1177/0734282915589017
Cummings, K.D. & Smolkowski, K. (2015). Bridging the gap: Selecting students at risk for academic difficulties. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 44(1), 55-61. doi: 10.1177/1534508415590396
Smolkowski, K. & Cummings, K.D. (2015). Evaluation of diagnostic systems: The selection of students at risk for academic difficulties. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 41(1), 41-54. 10.1177/1534508415590386
Park, Y., Chaparro, E.A., Preciado, J., & Cummings, K.D. (2015). The importance of early mastery of basic reading skills. Early Education and Development. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2015.1015855
Cummings, K.D., Biancarosa, G., Schaper, A.*, & Reed, D.K. (2014). Examiner error in curriculum-based measurement of oral reading. Journal of School Psychology, 52(4), 361-375. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2014.05.007
Biancarosa, G. & Cummings, K.D. (2014). New metrics, measures, and uses for fluency data: An introduction to a special issue on the assessment of reading fluency [Special issue]. Reading and Writing, 28(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s11145-014-9516-1
Cummings, K.D., Stoolmiller, M., Baker, S.K., Fien, F., & Kame'enui, E.J. (2014). Using school-level student achievement to engage in formative evaluation: Comparative school-level rates of oral reading fluency growth conditioned by initial skill for second-grade students [Special issue]. Reading and Writing, 28(1), 105-130. doi: 10.1007/s11145-014-9512-5
Reed, D.K., Cummings, K.D., Allen, E.A., Weiser, B.L., Hott, B.L., & Smolkowski, K. (2014). Synthesis of research symposium at CLD's 35th international conference on learning disabilities: Must reads for 2013. LD Quarterly, 37, 230-240. doi: 10.1177/0731948714523435
Smith, J.L., Cummings, K.D., Nese, J.F.T., Alonzo, J., Fien, F., & Baker, S.K. (2014). The relation of word reading fluency initial level and gains with reading outcomes. School Psychology Review, 43(1), 30-40. Retrieved from http://www.nasponline.org/publications/spr/index.aspx?vol=43&issue=1
Reed, D.K., Cummings, K.D., Schaper, A.*, & Biancarosa, G. (2014). Assessment fidelity in reading intervention research: A synthesis of the literature. Review of Education Research, 84(2), 275-321. doi: 10.3102/0034654314522131
Reed, D.K., Weiser, B., Cummings, K.D., & Shapiro, E. (2013). Synthesis of research symposium at CLD's 34th international conference on learning disabilities: Must reads for 2012. LD Quarterly, 36(4), 195-202. doi:10.1177/0731948713480788
Nese, J.F.T., Biancarosa, G., Cummings, K.D., Kennedy, P.C.*, Alonzo, J., & Tindal, G. (2013). In search of average growth: Describing within-year oral reading fluency growth across Grades 1 – 8. Journal of School Psychology, 51(5), 625-642. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2013.05.006
Petscher, Y., Cummings, K.D., Biancarosa, G., & Fien, F. (2013). Advanced (measurement) applications of curriculum-based measurement in reading. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 38(2) 71-75. doi: 10.1177/1534508412461434
Cummings, K.D., Park, Y., & Bauer Schaper, H.A. (2013). Form effects on DIBELS Next oral reading fluency progress monitoring passages [Special issue]. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 38(2), 91-104. doi: 10.1177/1534508412447010
Atkins, T.A., & Cummings, K.D. (2011). Utility of oral reading and retell fluency in predicting proficiency on the Montana comprehensive assessment system. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 30(2), 3-12. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1jo1Vpv
Cummings, K.D., Dewey, B., Latimer, R., & Good, R.H. (2011). Pathways to word reading and decoding: The roles of automaticity and accuracy. School Psychology Review, 40(2), 284-295. Retrieved from http://www.nasponline.org/publications/spr/index.aspx?vol=40&issue=2
Cummings, K.D., Kaminski, R.A., Good, R.H., & O'Neil, M.* (2010). Assessing phonemic awareness in preschool and kindergarten: development and initial validation of first sound fluency. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 36(2), 94-106. doi: 10.1177/1534508410392209
Cummings, K.D., Atkins, T.A., Allison, R., & Cole, C. (2008). Response to intervention: Investigating the new role of special educators. Teaching Exceptional Children, 40(4), 24-31. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/TBvmhd
Cummings, K.D., Kaminski, R.A., & Merrell, K.W. (2008). Advances in the assessment of social competence: Findings from a preliminary investigation of a general outcome measure (GOM) for social behavior. Psychology in the Schools, 45(10), 930-946. doi: 10.1002/pits.20343
Journal Special Issues
Cummings, K.D., & Biancarosa, G. (2015). Special issue: New metrics, measures, and uses for fluency data. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 28(1).
Petscher, Y., Cummings, K.D., Biancarosa, G., & Fien, F. (2013). Special series: Measurement issues in the assessment of reading fluency. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 38(2).
Cummings, K.D. & Petscher, Y. (Eds.). (2016). The Fluency Construct: Curriculum-Based Measurement Concepts and Applications. New York: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2803-3
Project Title/Funding Source
Cummings, K.D. (2017). Investigation of Quality in Reading Instruction (INQUIRI) for Reading Disability Identification
University of Maryland, The Graduate School Research and Scholarship Awards (RASA)
Cummings, K.D. (2016) Linking Outcomes to Practices (Project LOOP).
University of Maryland College of Education
Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration (SPARC)
Silverman, R.D., Cummings, K.D., De La Paz, S., Taboada Barber, A., & Wexler, J. (2016-2020). Project ProPELL: Preparing Practice-based researchers with Expertise in Language and Literacy to support high-need students with disabilities.
Co-I
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education (H325D150062)
Cummings, K.D. & Shin, R.Q., Understanding Disproportionality in Education: Assessing Implicit Racial Bias in
Academic Decisions (Project AIR)
William T. Grant Foundation
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Fall, 2019:
Comparative Approaches to Behavior and Classroom Management in Special Education (EDSP 413/613; 3 credits)
Reading Diagnosis and Assessment (EDSP 417, 3 credits)
Previous courses taught:
EDSP 415/616: Assessment in Special Education (3 credits, with field experience)
EDSP 451/652: Curriculum & Instruction—Elementary (3 credits)
EDSP 670: The Use of Single-Subject Designs in Education (3 credits)
EDSP 872: Theory and Empirical Design in Educational Research (3 credits)


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