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Checkout The Full Biography & Age Of The Newly Elected Sierra Leone President, Julius Maada
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Brigadier Julius Maada Wonie Bio
Elections has come and gone in Sierra Leone and former military officer, Brigadier Julius Maada Wonie Bio won and have become the Sierra Leonean 5th and current president since April 4, 2018. He was born on May 12, 1964. Aged 53.
Brigadier Bio is a retired Brigadier in the Sierra Leone Military. He was the military Head of State of Sierra Leone from January 16, 1996 to March 29, 1996 under the National Provisional Ruling Council. Bio was the SLPP presidential candidate in the 2012 presidential election, having won the nomination at the July 31, 2011 SLPP national convention held at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown.
Bio led a military coup in Sierra Leone on January 16, 1996, ousting his close friend and the leader of the NPRC junta government, Captain Valentine Strasser, following a division within senior members of the NPRC junta. In his first public speech after the coup, Bio justified his actions as a means to return Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and end the Sierra Leone civil war.
Bio fulfilled his promise to return Sierra Leone to democracy; and he handed power to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the SLPP following the latter's victory in the 1996 presidential election. After retiring from the military in 1996, Bio moved to the United States, where he earned a Masters Degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington, D.C. He also served as the president of International Systems Science Corporation, a consulting and investment management firm based in the United States.
Bio is an ethnic Sherbro and a native of Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone. Bio is a practicing Roman Catholic Christian. His wife Fatima is a practicing Muslim and an ethnic Mandingo from Koidu, Kono District in eastern Serra Leon.
After graduating from secondary school, Bio applied for admission into Fourah Bay College in Freetown in 1985 at age 21. However, Bio ultimately enrolled in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces military academy at Benguema, just outside the capital city of Freetown. He trained as a cadet officer under the command of Major Fallah Sewa, the head of cadet training at the military academy.
Bio graduated from the Military academy as a Second Lieutenant in the Sierra Leone Army in October 1987 at age 23. His first post as a commissioned officer was at the Lungi Garrison in Port Loko District in 1987. Bio was later posted to Kambia District as part of the Economic Emergency Unit, created by President Joseph Saidu Momoh to combat smuggling and other crimes along the Guinean border. In 1988, Bio was again re-posted at Lungi and trained by United Nations forces in aviation security. After the training, Bio was transferred to Benguema as a platoon commander.
In 1990, the Sierra Leone Government contributed military personnel to the West African Peacekeeping Force, ECOMOG, which was mandated to keep the peace in the Liberian civil war. Bio and several other Sierra Leonean soldiers, including Captain (OF-2)|Captain Valentine Strasser, and Lt Solomon Musa were deployed to Liberia as part of Sierra Leone's contingent to ECOMOG. At the time, thousands of Liberians were fleeing to Sierra Leone weekly, exposing the country's fragile security and adding to the economic hardship.
After a year in Liberia as an ECOMOG soldier, the Sierra Leone Government ordered Bio and several members of Sierra Leonean soldiers serving in Liberia to immediately return to Sierra Leone and report to the Military baracks|army barracks in Daru, Kailahun District to populate newly formed 600 man battalion of soldiers set up by President Momoh to repel the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels who had attacked villages on the border between Sierrra Leone and Liberia, in March 1991. The soldiers included future NPRC members Lieutenant Solomon Musa, Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy and Lieutenant Tom Nyuma.
Participation in 1992 military coup
On April 29, 1992, Bio was one of a group of young Sierra Leonean soldiers including Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Lieutenant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma and Captain Komba Mondeh that toppled president Joseph Saidu Momohs All People's Congress (APC) government in a bloodless military coup. The young soldiers formed the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) with Strasser as their leader and Head of State of Sierra Leone.
Bio's first appointment following the formation of the NPRC was as the Secretary of State South, stationed in the country's second capital Bo. He was later moved to Freetown to serve as Secretary of State in charge of Information and Broadcasting. At this point, he was promoted to Captain alongside other junior lieutenants. As a leading member of the coup that kicked out the APC government, Bio served as Supreme Council of State member throughout the NPRC's stay in power and when Strasser's deputy, captain S.A.J. Musa, was sacked and exiled to the UK, Bio was appointed to the position of Deputy Chairman of the NPRC.
1996 military coup
On January 16, 1996, Bio led a military coup, ousting captain Valentine Strasser following a dispute within the governing Supreme Council of State (SCS) over whether to seek peace with the RUF before multi-party elections, planned for March 1996, or go ahead with the election notwithstanding the ongoing war in the country, and the conditions for participation (or disqualification) of junta members in the elections.
The coup was backed by many high ranking NPRC soldiers including Colonel Tom Nyuma, Lt Colonel Komba Mondeh, Lt Colonel Reginald Glover, Lt Colonel Idriss Kamara, and Lt Colonel Karefa-Kargbo. Captain Valentine Strasser then the leader of the NPRC and the military Head of State of Sierra Leone was handcuffed at gunpoint by his own military bodyguards who were supposed to protect him and was immediately flown into exile in a military helicopter to Conakry.
Political career
Bio officially became a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in 2005. That same year, Bio sought the leadership of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) at its national convention in Makeni on September 3–4, 2005; he took third place, with 33 votes, behind Vice President Solomon Berewa , who received 291 votes, and Charles Margai, who won 34 votes.
In the Sierra Leonean press, Bio was quoted in 2007 as saying he would overthrow a new APC government if the APC won the 2007 election . According to Bio, this was taken out of context, and he said that if the "appalling" conditions that existed in 1992 were to return, he would seize power.
On the night of 31 July 2011, Julius Maada Bio won the election to become the SLPP's 2012 presidential candidate at the SLPP convention, which was held at the Youyi Building in the heart of Freetown . He faced off with President Ernest Bai Koroma of the ruling APC and was defeated, winning 37% of the vote, but established the SLPP as the only viable opposition party in Sierra Leone.
Julius Maada Bio was elected President of Sierra Leone in a run-off election held March 31, 2018. He scored 52 percent of the votes according to official results from Sierra Leone's National Elections Commission. He succeeded Ernest Bai Koroma of the APC who has been President since 2007.
Editor's Note:
The questions is, has Sierra Leone made a good choice in electing former military coup planner and executer their current president? Or have they made the wrong choice? Yes he is young, which is commendable but this same Brigadier Maada has been accused of insolence and violence and many other things in the past, (which he is guilty of) and now he is the president.
Most people will argue that his main purpose to plan and execute the coup was to return the government to a democratic rule, which he did, but one needs to exercise caution when dealing with this kind. However, click HERE to read a damaging testimony inditing the Brigadier Maabo as a grossly corrupt entity who uses violence to achieve his objectives.


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Adventures in Babysitting Turns 30
by Sean Patrick 2 years ago in entertainment / movie / review / vintage
A minor 80's gem is now 30 years old.
This weekend a minor 80's gem turns 30 years old with little fanfare but plenty of positive memories, especially for young girls. Adventures in Babysitting is a lovely little 80's nostalgia piece that, though some of its unintended politics haven't aged well, the film's silly little heart was always in the right place and that's more than can be said about most 80's teen comedies.
Adventures in Babysitting casts the winning and refreshing young Elizabeth Shue who gets roped into babysitting for The Anderson family after her no-goodnik boyfriend (Bradley Whitford) breaks off their date to a fancy restaurant. Having nothing better to do, Chris accepts the babysitting money to sit with Sara (Maia Brewton) and Brad (Keith Coogan), a boy two years younger than Chris and nursing a years long infatuation with her.
The plot of Adventures in Babysitting kicks in when Chris' best friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) runs away from home and calls Chris when she realizes what a horrible mistake she's made. Needing to drive to downtown Chicago to pick up Brenda at a bus station, Chris is forced to take the kids with her, with Brad's friend Daryl (Anthony Rapp) inviting himself along by threatening to tell the parents that Chris took little kids downtown at night.
On their way to the bus station, they blow a tire on the expressway and must then find a way to get the car fixed and back to the suburbs by 1 AM, when mom and dad will be home. The group faces several trials including a crazy but sweet tow truck driver, a car thief/magical man who helps them out of not one, not two but three super dangerous hostage situations and even a musical number at a blues restaurant where they get to sing a very silly song about babysitting backed up by none other than the legendary Albert Collins.
Adventures in Babysitting was directed by Chris Columbus in his directorial debut and the shabbiness of the debut feature is charming. Early in his career, Columbus indulged in a fascination with breaking the placid surface of suburbia with wacky hijinks. A child of the Chicago suburbs himself, Columbus has a genuine love of the upper middle-class striver even as he uses their excesses as a weapon when he takes his suburbanites into the cold, scary city or, as in Home Alone, when the cold scary city comes to the suburbs.
Is Columbus saying anything remarkable about the facade of suburbia? No, not really, he's making use of a very old trope about naive white people blundering into a big city they are ill-prepared for but he's good at employing the trope and that at least makes it tolerable and even at times, quite fun. There is no big message in Adventures in Babysitting; it's quite a shallow movie but it never tried to be more than a shallow, silly misadventure and in that the film is quite successful.
I hadn't seen Adventures in Babysitting in several years and I remember thinking that the film did not hold up to my child's eye view back in 87. Watching Adventures in Babysitting on its 30th year anniversary weekend I found myself regaining the child-like appreciation I had for this silly trifle of a movie. The young cast appears to have been having a great time, Chris Columbus's more adult bits of humor are awkward and a little uncomfortable as an adult but mostly harmless and most importantly, Adventures in Babysitting has a good heart.
There is a scene late in the film when Maia Brewton, the youngest member of our child ensemble, as a little girl obsessed with the comic book character Thor, sees a man who looks just like her idol, a mechanic played by Vincent D'onofrio. When he is rude to them the little girl is hurt, but believes she knows why, it's part of his secret identity and he needs his helmet to be a hero so she offers him her cherished Thor helmet. It's a simple and predictable scene but it is also very sweet and genuine. Chris Columbus is pretty great at creating little moments like this in movies and this may be one of the best little comedy scenes of his career.
Sure, I could go into the poorly aging racial and sexual politics at play on the edges of Adventures in Babysitting but is that really necessary? Were Adventures in Babysitting a genuinely ugly movie masquerading as family entertainment I might go after the movie but the reality of Adventures in Babysitting is that is unintentionally harmful, a product of a less understanding time.
Judging Adventures in Babysitting by the standards of its day it is an above average bit of teen fluff with a good heart, a few pretty big laughs strung together by a first time director basking in the joys of having all of the toys to play with. Adventures in Babysitting is silly, stupid fun that resides in a pleasant corner of our popular culture that I don't mind revisiting every now and then.
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Ten years after Georgia tried to seize the breakaway region of South Ossetia by force, RT spoke to survivors about how they have coped with the mental and physical scars suffered in those few days.
From a boy who was born to a cannonade of Georgian shelling in Tskhinval, to a nurse injured while trying to treat Russian peacekeepers besieged by Georgian troops, to a Florida man, whose Ossetian wife was caught in the crossfire – thousands of people were affected by the August 2008 war.
RT's documentary tells the stories of ordinary people, and of the burdens they have been carrying, in an attempt to answer a question: Can there be lasting peace on the war-scarred land of South Ossetia?
Arsen turned 10 on August 8. When he was born, his home city was under heavy shelling by the Georgian troops. Doctors were preparing to assist with the delivery in a basement, which offered some protection from incoming projectiles and debris.
Arsen said he was told a grenade blew up outside the hospital just as he was born.
Maya Bestaeva served as a military medic during the 2008 war. She was at the base of the Russian peacekeepers stationed in South Ossetia, when the compound was attacked by advancing Georgian troops.
"They were shooting everywhere. The drill square across from me was like a death strip. It was too dangerous to cross, but I still made a few trips back and forth to help the wounded," she said.
There were about 50 injured people at the site by the time the attack ended. Maya was among them. A wall collapsed on her. Her son was with the reinforcement, which was trying to reach the peacekeepers and help them. He too was badly hurt in an ambush near the base.
Despite all the shells and bullets that rained down on the city of Tskhinval, there was little doubt in the US mainstream media who should be blamed for the war – Russia. But Joe Mestas of Florida knew what was really happening on the ground, because on August 8, 2008 his Ossetian wife, Zhanna, was visiting her family in Tskhinval with their daughter Sandra. Mestas now recalls the terrifying days when he feared he could lose both.
"In the morning of the 8th she [Zhanna] calls me, and says that they bombed a couple hundred meters away from her mother's house. I remember I was actually crying and afraid, and thinking that if anything happens to my family I'm going to kill Saakashvili, and I meant that," Joe said, referring to the Georgian president, who ordered the attack.
He said the European Union probe confirmed that Georgia was the one who launched the aggression, but that it did little to draw sympathies to the plight of Ossetians.
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The Toughest Kickers in NFL History
By Gunaxin on September 11th, 2012
Most NFL fans take kickers for granted. This is hardly surprising because we tend to believe most kickers are pansies who can't tackle, run, or drink beer without asking mommy dearest for permission to do so.
Thankfully, there have been several tough kickers who have graced the NFL with their ability to tackle, throw, block, pass, overcome adversity and occasionally kick an important field goal. Here are five from the last 60 years.
5. John Hall
John Hall played during the 1990s and 2000s for the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins. He makes this list because he was widely regarded as one of the hardest hitting kickers during his time with the Jets. Hall earned this reputation when he knocked out a defensive end during a preseason game against the Falcons. His career 74.6% field goal accuracy wasn't bad either.
4. Neil Rackers
Neil Rackers has spent the last 11 seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals and Houston Texans. His 80.0% career field goal accuracy is one of the 40 highest of all time since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. He has shown his physical toughness many times during his career by tackling kick returners during kickoffs. His most famous tackle occurred against the Tennessee Titans in 2011.
3. George Blanda
George Blanda enjoyed a 26-year career in the NFL as a quarterback and a kicker for the Chicago Bears and Oakland Raiders. This dual role might you think it's stupid to add him to a list of the NFL's toughest kickers. However, he makes this list because he often displayed tremendous mental toughness while playing both positions under pressure at the same time throughout his career. His most memorable game as a kicker and a quarterback might have been the 1970 AFC title game when he kicked a 48-yard field goal as the Raiders' kicker and threw for two touchdowns as the Raiders' substitute quarterback.
2. Tom Dempsey
Tom Dempsey is one of the toughest kickers to have ever played in the NFL because he overcame being born without toes on his right foot to become one of the best kickers in the NFL during the 1970s. You might remember him for his epic 63-yard field goal that beat the Detroit Lions during a 1970 regular season game. He is now a teacher at a private school in Metairie, La.
1. Lou "The Toe" Groza
Lou Groza was a clutch kicker and a hard-nosed offensive tackle who played 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Many contemporaries consider Groza to be one of the mentally toughest kickers of all time because he could be counted on making an important field goal when it mattered the most. Moreover, he was also known for his hard-nosed blocking techniques that helped the Cleveland Browns establish one of the NFL's most potent running games during the 1950s. As a result, it's easy to see why many football historians consider "The Toe" to be the toughest kicker who ever played in the NFL.


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Petals and leaves exhibit several different forms and movements. A few flip, some ruffle, and others curve in graceful rolls. Some artists think roses are difficult to paint, but if you break them down into individual shapes and forms, the enterprise becomes much easier. Granted, addressing the multitude of small shapes and forms found in these flowers requires some patience, but the exercise is well worth the time and effort when you see your painted roses coming to life.
Rose petals roll, and these rolls are basically small cylinders. For both petal rolls and cylinders, the value transitions have a predictable gradation: The values are lightest where the light is strongest; they darken as they move away from the light, and they're darkest where the cylinder (or roll) is farthest from the light.
Part of the beauty of any form is the reflected light on the side opposite the lightest area. Always look for this on flowers because each petal reflects onto surrounding petals. For this reason, you can usually see some reflected light on each rose-petal roll. Some of those areas are labeled A in my photograph. Grading your values to show reflected light is a great way to separate petals, especially in the shadow areas.
Also be aware of how quickly or slowly the values transition from light to dark within a given petal. In rose petals, the transitions all occur quickly because the rolls are small. If these were long lily petals, the cylinders would be larger and the transitions more gradual. Consider the quality of the edges between the values: Are they hard or soft? Hard edges (labeled B) usually appear where a shadow is being cast or where two petals touch each other. On the other hand, all of the petal rolls in this photograph, have soft edges (labeled C).
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All part of the job
By Tom Brady (The New York Times)
The high unemployment rate - a nagging problem of the current crisis in the United States and Western Europe - seems to be hard to solve, though it is pretty easy to see what has happened. Many jobs have migrated to China and other lower-wage countries in Asia.
But jobs started disappearing long before Foxconn assembly lines in Shenzhen started turning out iPhones, or Korean factories assembled flat-screen televisions. In fact, many tasks once performed by various clerks, agents, secretaries and cashiers are now taken care of by people who already have jobs.
This so-called "shadow work," the phrase coined by the Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich in 1981, takes into account all the unpaid labor that takes place in a wage-based society, Craig Lambert recently wrote in The Times. The technology that lets us pay credit card bills online or scan our own groceries also turns us into employees, eliminating jobs and driving up the unemployment rate.
"Airports now have self-service check-in kiosks that allow travelers to perform the jobs of ticket agents," Mr. Lambert wrote. "Travel agents once unearthed, perused and compared fares, deals and hotel rates. Shadow-working travelers now do all of this themselves."
The march of technology is quickening, according to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew P. McAfee, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Digital Business and the authors of "The Race Against the Machine."
"Faster, cheaper computers and clever software are giving machines capabilities that were once thought to be distinctively human, like understanding speech, translating from one language to another and recognizing patterns," The Times reported. "So automation is rapidly moving beyond factories to jobs in call centers, marketing and sales - parts of the services sector, which provides most jobs in the economy."
But masters of the Internet are not likely to go hungry.
These days, "Yield Optimization Manager" and "Director of Platform Marketing" are jobs in high demand, The Times reported. These positions require hard-core quantitative, mathematical and technical skills to analyze Web data for advertising agencies and marketers that want to direct ads to consumers.
"The number of things that you need to know is high," Joe Zawadzki, the chief executive of MediaMath, an ad tech company in New York, told The Times, "and the number of people that have grown up knowing it is low."
Mr. Zawadzki told The Times that it takes two to three months to find the right person for many positions, and those who can write code, create digital ads, develop Web sites and analyze statistics are in high demand, often fetching annual salaries that can reach $100,000.
But even technology workers do plenty of shadow work once taken care of by support staff: writing e-mails, booking flights, making copies and fetching coffee. And all this extra work is wearing down workers. In a 2007 study, 38 percent of Americans said they were fatigued.
"Various mundane jobs were once spread around among us, and performing such small services for one another was even an aspect of civility," Mr. Lambert wrote.
"Those days are over. The robots are in charge now, pushing a thousand routine tasks onto each of our backs."
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Sebastian Gerstner studiert Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) an der VU Amsterdam und berichtet hier kurz über seine Erfahrungen.
There are a lot of different things that make VU Amsterdam so special and unique. First of all, it is located in one of the most beautiful cities of Northern Europe, Amsterdam. And , although there are plenty of things you could say about Amsterdam and VU, the mostimportant one is the way they complete each other. For me, VU mirrors the city of Amsterdam as beeing international, multicultural, modern, and open-minded. Further, both moved together from the traditional spirit of the past to a modern, progressive, and contemporary mindset. This is also embodied in the current environment that allows students and staff to act, think, and speak freely: which is especially important in my multidisciplinary program Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). To conclude, I believe that VU Amsterdam represents a unique and special guiding force towards the realization of my personal goals.


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The iconic Segway will end production in July
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business
MEMBERS AND OTHERS WALKED BESIDE HIS CAR TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT WHEN IT WAS THOUGHT IT WAS A RACIST MESSAGE AGAINST HIM. CHERISE: SEGWAY IS LAYING UP TO ANYONE EMPLOYEES. THE COMPANY SAYS IT WILL SHIFT FOCUS TO OTHER PRODUCTS, INCLUDING -- WHILE LAW ENFORCEMENT DID USE THE SEGWAY PT, THE COMPANY SAYS IT NEVER TOOK OFF AS A PERSONAL VEHICLE. >> IT WAS A UNIQUE PRODUCT PEOPLE HOPED WOULD TAKE OFF, BUT IT HAD A HIGHER PRICE. WE DO NOT THINK ANYTHING OF SEEING A SEGWAY GOING DOWN THE ROAD. WE DO ALSO DO NOT THINK ANYTHING OF A KID RIDING A HOVER DEVICE. THAT DID NOT EXIST WHEN THIS CAME OUT. CHER
The Segway PT, which earned a place in pop culture but never realized its creators' world-changing ambitions, will come to an end this summer.China-based Ninebot, which acquired Segway in 2015, will halt production of the PT, short for Personal Transporter, on July 15. Twenty-one staffers will be laid off at its Bedford, New Hampshire plant. Fast Company first reported the news.The Segway PT made a splash on Dec. 3, 2001 when it was unveiled on Good Morning America. Inventor Dean Kamen said that an urban transportation revolution was coming and cars would be obsolete. Kamen felt it was absurd to use 4,000-pound cars and trucks for short trips.But last year the Segway PT accounted for only 1.5% of Ninebot's revenue, according to Tony Ho, vice president of global business development at Segway. With a price tag starting at $6,000 and sometimes reaching $10,000, only police departments and tour groups could afford it, he said."It was a great invention 20 years ago," said Ho. "Now it seems a bit outdated."He added that some police departments have shifted to Ninebot's cheaper electric scooters. Ninebot is also ending production of a three-wheeled Segway device that was designed for community policing.Ho said that recent discussions about police department funding in the wake of George Floyd's death did not impact Ninebot's decision.Before the Segway, Kamen made a name for himself as an inventor of medical devices such as a portable insulin pump. The Segway PT project grew out of his work in the 1990s on a self-balancing wheelchair.The Segway PT was ahead of its time, but not just in a good way. The price tag was a major barrier to adoption, coming in at $4,950 when it was first released. Batteries, which initially cost more than $1,000, were too expensive to make a more affordable version. For years, the company struggled to reduce the price. Prices actually increased, likely due to inflation and new off-roading features, according to Ho. Since 2001, 140,000 PTs have been sold, according to a Segway spokesman.The Segway PT found a place in news headlines and Hollywood. President George W. Bush drew attention after falling off one in 2003. Earlier that day, Segway employees had visited the Bush compound and taught other members of the Bush family how to ride. The Segway PT appeared in Hollywood TV shows and movies, like Mall Cop.Rather than being cool and world-changing, the Segway developed a nerdy reputation.Related video: The most embarrassing gadgets everAs former Segway employee Matt Gelbwaks told CNN in a 2018 profile of the company, "There was a significant dork factor."Kamen, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, told CNN Business in 2018 that Segway continues to be the project that most people know him for."No matter what else I do in life," he said, "I'm the Segway guy."
The Segway PT, which earned a place in pop culture but never realized its creators' world-changing ambitions, will come to an end this summer.
China-based Ninebot, which acquired Segway in 2015, will halt production of the PT, short for Personal Transporter, on July 15. Twenty-one staffers will be laid off at its Bedford, New Hampshire plant. Fast Company first reported the news.
The Segway PT made a splash on Dec. 3, 2001 when it was unveiled on Good Morning America. Inventor Dean Kamen said that an urban transportation revolution was coming and cars would be obsolete. Kamen felt it was absurd to use 4,000-pound cars and trucks for short trips.
But last year the Segway PT accounted for only 1.5% of Ninebot's revenue, according to Tony Ho, vice president of global business development at Segway. With a price tag starting at $6,000 and sometimes reaching $10,000, only police departments and tour groups could afford it, he said.
"It was a great invention 20 years ago," said Ho. "Now it seems a bit outdated."
He added that some police departments have shifted to Ninebot's cheaper electric scooters. Ninebot is also ending production of a three-wheeled Segway device that was designed for community policing.
Ho said that recent discussions about police department funding in the wake of George Floyd's death did not impact Ninebot's decision.
There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means
Before the Segway, Kamen made a name for himself as an inventor of medical devices such as a portable insulin pump. The Segway PT project grew out of his work in the 1990s on a self-balancing wheelchair.
The Segway PT was ahead of its time, but not just in a good way. The price tag was a major barrier to adoption, coming in at $4,950 when it was first released. Batteries, which initially cost more than $1,000, were too expensive to make a more affordable version. For years, the company struggled to reduce the price. Prices actually increased, likely due to inflation and new off-roading features, according to Ho. Since 2001, 140,000 PTs have been sold, according to a Segway spokesman.
The Segway PT found a place in news headlines and Hollywood. President George W. Bush drew attention after falling off one in 2003. Earlier that day, Segway employees had visited the Bush compound and taught other members of the Bush family how to ride. The Segway PT appeared in Hollywood TV shows and movies, like Mall Cop.
Rather than being cool and world-changing, the Segway developed a nerdy reputation.
Related video: The most embarrassing gadgets ever
As former Segway employee Matt Gelbwaks told CNN in a 2018 profile of the company, "There was a significant dork factor."
Kamen, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, told CNN Business in 2018 that Segway continues to be the project that most people know him for.
"No matter what else I do in life," he said, "I'm the Segway guy."


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Q: custom cutting lumber or custom cut lumber or custom lumber cutting I know custom picking strawberry, to a certain extent, as I think ,is right. I have confirmed it in google. But here comes the problem: when I try to apply the same structure to "customers can cut the lumber the way the want it to be", it goes wrong. Just tracing the structure above, I would say custom cutting lumber, but I found it to be like"custom cut lumber" and "custom lumber cutting".Which is right?
so I am badly confused. I think this is a worthy question to be discussed.

A: I don't see any results for "custom picking strawberry" in Google, so I don't see why you think it's acceptable English. In the U.S., places where you pick the strawberries yourself generally use the words "pick your own strawberries".
The past participle of "cut" is "cut". So we have the correspondence:

custom picked strawberries →  custom cut lumber,
custom strawberry picking → custom lumber cutting.

If you want to talk about the process of cutting lumber to a customer-specified size, it's "custom lumber cutting". If you want to talk about the results (in other words, about the lumber after it's been cut), it's "custom cut lumber".
However, for both these terms, what is implied is that the lumber is cut to the customer's specifications, but not necessarily that the customer cuts it himself.

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Mobile devices and applications have become more prominent in the classroom, as BYOD and 1-1 initiatives have enabled students to bring their smartphones, tablets, and laptops to school for educational use. This influx of wireless devices has made the performance, reliability, security, and cost of managing wireless networks ever more paramount. As a result, schools now require "enterprise-grade" wireless networks – those that are managed centrally, locally secured, and offer sophisticated features for scaling the network throughout their buildings, campuses, and districts. However, these features tend to be scarce or altogether absent in most of the consumer-grade wireless APs that many schools have installed in the past because of their low, sticker costs. In this session, you'll learn how to prepare for the diversity and explosion of mobile devices and applications in education in terms of scalability, service survivability, integration, application control, and Simpli-Fi-cation with Aerohive's distributed Wi-Fi and routing solutions.
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Burlington Student Help Desk - Panel Discussion
This panel discussion will highlight our student run technology help desk that was proposed two years ago as a new course to help support the 1:1 iPad initiative. Attendees will learn the steps needed to build a student technology help desk course, how to build the curriculum to align with common core standards, and receive a first hand account of our course from our students. Attendees will leave this session with a comprehensive understanding of how to find in house resources to support a large scale 1:1 initiative, how to integrate a student technology help desk, and how to use students as a resource for professional development.
Andrew P. Marcinek
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Blue Level 27 East Side Putnam Investment Clubhouse
Audience Administration, Assistant Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, Curriculum Director, IT Staff, Principals, Tech Director
Tools for Empowering 21st Century Education Leaders
Creating a 21st Century learning environment that is student centered requires new visions and meaningful collaboration. How do superintendents and principals play an active part in setting the vision in your district and school and enabling a digital conversion? Of all the challenges you face as an education leader, technology leadership may be the one that leaves you feeling the most unprepared, uncertain, and vulnerable. You are not alone and there is help available from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). In this session we will explore the resources included in the Revised Superintendents Toolkit developed by the CoSN. Learn more about the Teaming for Transformation initiative that focuses on Leading a Digital Conversion for Student Learning.
Annamaria Schrimpf
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Audience Administration, Assistant Superintendents, Principals, Superintendents, Tech Directors
Education Data Warehouse - Soon to be a component of Edwin Analytics New Resources and Enhancements
Come see the new and improved EDW and why over 2,000 users ran 172,814 in the first 13 days after the release of 2012 Official MCASresults.In addition to speed new reports and standards are available. No longer limited to the State, District, School and Student levels the EDWnow has classroom-level disaggregation. Analysis via the new Common Core Standards is also available.
Jeff Comenitz
Data Analyst\nEducation Data Warehouse
Wally McKenzie
Manager\nEducation Data Warehouse
Wednesday October 24, 2012 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
Theater B West Side West Side
Audience Administration, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum Director, Principals, Superintendent, Tech Director
Room Capacity 110
Introducing Edwin and Enhancements
ESE is launching Edwin, Massachusetts' new, comprehensive teaching and learning platform. Edwin will provide educators with quality resources to continue to promote high-levels of student achievement and help reduce persistent achievement gaps among the state's most and least-advantaged student groups. This system will support educators and foster teaching and learning at every level—classroom, school, district, and state—by providing on-demand access to instructional resources, curriculum planning tools, model curriculum units, and a variety of assessments including curriculum embedded performance assessments.
Thursday October 25, 2012 11:30am - 12:25am EDT


In my Victoria dental office, I see a lot of sleep apnea patients. Even though many have had a sleep study and often been given a CPAP, its surprising to me how little they have been educated on the subject. They understand that sleep apnea is unhealthy and that they may be tired, but usually very little beyond that.
There are 3 categories of sleep apnea recognized: Mild, Moderate and Severe. Just because a patient has mild apnea does not mean that they are not at risk for serous health consequences. In fact, the category just before mild is called Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. These patients can easily have the same symptoms of exhaustion and health consequences as the"apnea patients". Even someone with diagnosed with "benign" loud snoring who does not have apnea is at risk of health consequences since studies have shown that the vibration from the snoring can cause damage to the carotid arteries in the neck. So, the take home message here is that any upper airway disorder should not be dismissed since they can cause negative life altering health consequences. And they are easy to treat with a CPAP or in my Victoria, TX dental office with a Mandibular Advancement Appliance. Lets talk a little bit more about the negative health consequences of not treating sleep apnea or undertreating it.
A study from the Mayo Clinic that I reviewed recently discussed how sleep apnea is a risk factor for cardiac, neurologic and operative complications. It is more often than undiagnosed by the medical profession, hence the reason why these complications are so widespread. The most common health effect of sleep apnea that patients might be aware of is its effect on the heart.
Resistant hypertension, that which isnt responding properly to medications is often a result of sleep apnea. Once the apnea is treated with a dental sleep apnea appliance, in my case, the hypertension typically lowers on its own. One study showed that cardiac events both fatal and non are increased by nearly 3 times in those with untreated sleep apnea. The risk of afib and irregular heart rhythms are also increased 3 to 4 fold in untreated sleep apnea patients. So there are numerous heart diseases that are a consequence of untreated sleep apnea, which underlies the importance getting treatment, such as a dental oral sleep apnea appliance.
Untreated sleep apnea also appears to be a risk factor in insulin resistance and the development of diabetes. Two different independent studies showed this correlation. More is needed but sleep apnea is clearly a player in possible diabetes etiology.
The operatory implications of untreated sleep apnea have to do with difficulties for the anesthesiologist with intubations and exaggerated respiratory responses to medications associated with surgery. Not enough studies have been done on this yet, but it is very clear that sleep apnea can have negative consequences on surgery, especially on the sedation part.
Sleep apnea is very undiagnosed and as discussed, the negative health consequences are severe. Treating it is critical to health and well being. The first step is recognizing or screening for it. As dentists trained in sleep dentistry, I can see the signs in my patients mouths and in their morphology. Many of my previously diagnosed sleep apnea patients have had a CPAP administered. Some wear it, but many have become frustrated with it and have stopped the CPAP and were unaware that there is a CPAP alternative, a dental device that treats sleep apnea. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine's guideline for CPAP success is a patient wearing it 4 hours a night for 4 nights per week. I'll let you draw your own conclusion as to why the bar is set at that seemingly low level to declare success. The low adherence level to CPAP is another reason why we need to increase patient awareness of dentists trained in sleep dentistry who can treat their apnea with an oral sleep appliance. Look for a dentist who is a member of the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and has extensive training in dental sleep apnea treatment. If you are near Victoria, TX I would more that glad to help you with you dental sleep apnea needs.


I couldn't find a recent topics mod that did everything I wanted, so I built my own (Note: this is only on the light skin at the moment. I will be porting it to the dark skin this evening). Hope you guys like it. There is work being done on new logo backgrounds. Hopefully we will have something up soon. If you have any other suggestions to make the place better let me know.
Not seeing the side bar on the dark theme.
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13 - Position or the People - Dustin Smith & James Galbraith
Today's podcast is a sit down with the hosts of All About Worship, Dustin Smith & James Galbraith, talking about the important of valuing people, over the titles or positions we hold. God has asked us to be responsible - able to gauge a response - for the people we lead. Enjoy!
12 Finding A Rhythm of Rest - Cody Carnes
On this week's podcast, we interview worship leader and songwriter, Cody Carnes, about leading worship from the bass, the importance of being intentional about finding rest each week, and what it's like to be married to Kari Jobe!
11 People Over Platform - Krissy Nordhoff & Amanda Blankenship
On today's podcast, we're sitting down with some powerful women in the faith - Krissy Nordhoff and Amanda Blankenship. We're talking about an important subject for church leaders in general, but especially Worship Leaders, the motivation of ministry. Enjoy!
Wed, 8 August 2018
10 How A Muslim Became A Worship Leader - Rezwana Derbyshire
On this episode, we're joined by Rezwana Derbyshire, who is a former muslim and now a worship leader. Hear her powerful testimony of God's grace.
09 The Last 50 Years of Worship - Malcolm du Plessis
Malcolm du Plessis has quite an incredible resumé when it comes to worship. He talks about his background in this episode of The Worship Podcast. However, he also talks about something - we believe - that is critical for every worship pastor, leader and song writer to understand.
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Horde mode Z update launches for PS4 zombie shooter World War Z tomorrow
With World War Z, our popular four-player co-op zombie shooter, we've added several free updates after launch, including new modes, missions, weapons, Special Zombies, cosmetics, and more. The most player-requested feature by far however, is coming out tomorrow – Horde Mode Z.
With this big milestone, it's a great time to step back and see what makes World War Z stand out from the crowd as a unique and thrilling experience, and how this will extend to the new mode. In this article, we'll share development insights into how we distinguished ourselves and the challenges that came with it.
World War Z throws a crazy number of zombies at players. Up to 500 on-screen at a time, sprinting full speed at you. The game was created from the ground up with this goal in mind, and having our own Swarm Engine was a big reason why we succeeded, since it allowed us to adapt and tailor it to what we needed.
We had one very simple and effective rule: The more screen space the swarm fills, the more impressive it looks.
The hordes needed to be huge and dangerous, while maintaining excellent performance and graphical quality. When we started testing the game, players often didn't shoot at the swarms because they thought they were decorative background scenery until it was too late. The pyramids that zombies create – climbing over each other to create a growing pile-up of undead flesh – are also not there because it looks cool; if you don't topple them, they'll pile high enough to reach any high ground you've managed to secure.
The main technical challenge of having so many zombies was making the game perform smoothly over a typical internet connection. When the swarms are distant their AI is simplified but, as they get close, each individual zombie can emerge from the swarm to become independent in its actions. It took a lot of work to make this transition as seamless and unnoticeable as possible.
To combat the zombie hordes, players are given extremely powerful tools: heavy weapons, explosives, and environmental features such as cars that can be blown up. Many of these defenses will be accentuated in the upcoming Horde Mode, since there is a more distinct preparation phase in between each increasingly more difficult wave. Players will make use of mortars, electrified fences, barbed wire, claymores, and more.
The six classes allow players to split into roles with different strengths. The Exterminator excels at killing swarms, but is weak to special zombies, the stand-out enemies with special behaviors. The Slasher is good at covering teammates, especially from up-close special zombies. We originally had doubts about the Slasher, since the melee combat isn't a focus of the game, but it turns out the class is fun and viable due in part to its other complementary features, such as the Stun Gun. With Horde Mode Z, these roles will be pushed to their limits, and we're excited to see which combinations come out on top.
In terms of the stories we wanted to tell, we were excited to create original character stories within the World War Z lore and worked with our writers from the start of the process. We decided to be closer to the original book by telling the story of regular people caught in these extreme situations. For this reason we tried to limit the amount of military characters.
Since we would be telling stories from various corners of the earth, we got a diverse cast of characters with completely different backgrounds. In the game, we show their personalities in two ways: how they look (the way they dress, their expressions and features), and what they say during missions (what we call "battle chatter").
Having a unique universe like World War Z definitely helped in setting us apart from other zombie shooters, but we believe our dedication to create compelling stories with a diverse cast of characters has gone a long way. The huge swarms and technology that went into creating World War Z's massive swarms made us visually stand out, and we can't wait to show off how well this translates into tomorrow's Horde Mode Z.
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Silverstein: Packers' options plentiful to replace Dom Capers
Packers coach Mike may never have as many outstanding defensive coordinator options the rest of his career as he will in the coming week or so.
Silverstein: Packers' options plentiful to replace Dom Capers Packers coach Mike may never have as many outstanding defensive coordinator options the rest of his career as he will in the coming week or so. Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/2CmhyBx
Tom Silverstein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 4:42 p.m. CT Dec. 30, 2017 | Updated 11:26 a.m. CT Dec. 31, 2017
The guys give their predictions for Sunday's season-ending showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers watches during practice at the Don Hutson Center on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Ashwaubenon, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin(Photo: Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi)
GREEN BAY – Some things pertaining to the failure of the 2017 Green Bay Packers defense were out of coach Mike McCarthy's control.
But the day after the Packers conclude their season with a division contest against Detroit at Ford Field, McCarthy is back in charge. What he does in January, and what expectations he sets for his players after they complete exit interviews Tuesday, are completely in his control.
Believe it or not, the Packers have the makings of a solid defense, but a couple of things have to happen.
First, McCarthy must – and most likely will – part ways with defensive coordinator Dom Capers. ESPN, citing league sources, reported late Saturday night that Capers "is not expected to return next season."
It's possible Capers will step down or retire so both sides can part amicably and avoid the indignity of a flat-out firing.
Capers deserves that much for all the time and effort he has put into his job, all while having to endure the fickle disdain of Packers fans, some of whom over the years have called for McCarthy, offensive line coach James Campen and anyone who coaches special teams to be fired immediately.
These are the same people who want Kevin Greene to be defensive coordinator even though he only knows how to coach one position.
D'AMATO: The Packers' offense has plenty of holes, too
SILVERSTEIN: Packers must move on from Don Capers
Regardless of how McCarthy handles business with Capers, his next order of business is moving fast to replace him. He needs to hire someone from outside the organization to give the defense a fresh start.
He may never have as many outstanding options the rest of his career as he will in the coming week or so.
He should move fast because these available defensive coordinator candidates are going to have options elsewhere if head-coaching turnover is as great as all indications are it will be. If he moves quickly, he could find someone who could turn his defense around in short order.
So, who might be available? Here are a few names:
» Vic Fangio, Chicago Bears defensive coordinator: Regardless of what happens to the team's head coach, Fangio will be available. His contract ends this year and he's going to be pursued heavily. He coached those great defenses under Jim Harbaugh in San Francisco and turned the Bears group into a stingy unit despite holes everywhere. He's a 3-4 guy who doesn't blitz as much as Capers, but his track record is excellent. It's probably going to cost a lot of money to beat out other teams.
» Gregg Williams, Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator: If Hue Jackson is fired or leaves for Cincinnati, Williams might be available. McCarthy reportedly offered Williams the job before he hired Capers, but Williams wanted to stay in the South near his family and joined Sean Payton in New Orleans. Williams still has the stigma of Bountygate attached to his name and he is a high-risk strategist. But he did a nice job in Cleveland and knows his stuff.
» Steve Spagnuolo, New York Giants defensive coordinator: It's likely Spagnuolo won't be hired as head coach and will be let go. He developed his blitz-heavy system under Philadelphia Eagles legend Jim Johnson and won a Super Bowl with the Giants under Tom Coughlin. However, his defenses have been mostly poor ever since, finishing 32nd in 2015 and ranking 32nd heading into this weekend.
» Teryl Austin, Detroit Lions defensive coordinator: It's likely that Jim Caldwell will get fired, but the big question is whether Austin will replace him or take over as head coach somewhere else. He has had nine head-coaching interviews the last three seasons and with so many openings, it might be his time. The Lions ranked 25th in defense, but they created a lot of turnovers. He worked under Chuck Pagano and Dean Pees in Baltimore and knows 3-4 schemes.
» Paul Guenther, Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator: If McCarthy wants to counter what the Vikings are doing, he might want to go after Guenther. It's possible the Bengals will hire him as a head coach or keep him as defensive coordinator, but if not, he's a definite candidate. He learned at the feet of Vikings coach Mike Zimmer and his defenses are tough.
» Chuck Pagano, Indianapolis Colts head coach: It's practically a certainty the Colts will fire Pagano, who before taking over at Indianapolis was defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, a year in which they finished third in fewest yards and points allowed. Pagano worked under Rex Ryan and Vic Fangio in Baltimore and knows 3-4 defenses. However, he has two years left on his contract and might just collect his salary.
» Vance Joseph, Denver Broncos head coach: There has been speculation Joseph will be fired. If he is, he might get some head-coaching interviews, which would delay his decision whether to return as a defensive coordinator somewhere. He was defensive coordinator in Miami in 2016 (29th in yards, 18th in scoring), and worked under Wade Phillips in Houston and Guenther in Cincinnati. He runs a 3-4.
» James Bettcher, Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator: If head coach Bruce Arians decides to step down as has been rumored, Bettcher probably would be available. He learned under New York Jets head coach Todd Bowles in Arizona and Washington defensive coordinator Greg Manusky in Indianapolis. Bettcher likes players who can play multiple positions and has shaped his scheme to fit the talent. After struggling earlier in the season, the Cardinals' defense ranks sixth in yards and 17th in points.
» John Fox, Bears head coach: He has one more year left on his deal and may just sit out a season and get back into it in 2019 should he get fired. He has been a head coach for 16 straight seasons, so there's little reason to think he'd step back to being a defensive coordinator. But if he wants to get back at the Bears and not have to take on all the stress of being a head coach, Green Bay might be the place for him. He and McCarthy get along well.
» Marvin Lewis, Bengals head coach: Lewis' 15-year run is about to end. At age 59, he probably never will go back to being an assistant. But he and McCarthy talk often and have great mutual respect. Lewis reportedly wants his next job to be in the front office, so it would take a lot of convincing – and money – to lure him to Green Bay.
Whomever McCarthy chooses to run his defense next season, he must convince some of his defensive players from the 2017 draft to have the kind of offseason Kenny Clark, Blake Martinez and Kyler Fackrell had. All three set out to improve their bodies and minds for their sophomore seasons.
McCarthy needs cornerback Kevin King, safety Josh Jones, defensive tackle Montravius Adams and linebacker Vince Biegel to do the same thing. King and Biegel need to get stronger, Jones needs to learn the defense like the back of his hand and Adams needs to hang on Clark's hip and do everything he did to make himself one of the most valuable players on defense.
With a decent draft and some free-agent help, McCarthy might not be that far away from having a capable defense. He just needs to find the right guy to run it.
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The cows in your herd may have less space than you even realize.
By Paul R. Biagiotti, D.V.M.
The author is a large-herd veterinarian based in Jerome, Idaho.
While some overcrowding may be unavoidable, broken stalls, piles of bedding, and even commotion in the barn can unintentionally reduce the space available per cow.
Overcrowding has become a negative buzzword in the dairy industry. To admit that you intentionally overcrowd is like admitting you cheat on your taxes. It is widespread and sometimes unavoidable, yet generally agreed to be harmful in its effects. Often times, though, it is intentional or at least recognized, rationalized, and ignored.
Ask a dairyman to define "overcrowded," and he'll likely answer that it is "too many cows in a space designed for fewer." This definition is deceptively simple and, I believe, insufficient.
It is generally agreed that a freestall pen of cows should have adequate feedbunk or manger space (one lockup or sufficient rail), generous water trough access, and a bed for each cow. But concrete, a roof, and lockups are expensive and, therefore, bankers encourage that you make maximum use of your facilities.
"Publish or perish" is an uncomfortable reality in academia; it is "produce or perish" on the dairy farm. That means that the average dairy that is attempting to be profitable will have at least one cow for every bed, feed space, or water space.
Overstocking at least some part of the operation has thus been the case on just about every dairy where I've practiced. There is much current research looking at how much a dairyman can "fudge" or overcrowd and get away with it. This appears to depend on parity, stage of lactation, and even breed.
Most times, this is a willful, conscious, and deliberate decision to overstock made by the dairyman. However, I've observed that there also exist unconscious and, to be mildly sarcastic, "creative" ways in which dairymen unintentionally overcrowd their cows.
Open or "dry" lot dairies are in theory perhaps the most difficult to overcrowd. The typical "pen" is often a spacious square or rectangular corral that is defined by fences constructed of steel posts with festooned steel cables or solid rebar rods placed horizontally to act as rails. The "roof" overhead is the famous Western Big Sky, although often there are one or two rectangular metal shades held aloft by steel poles to provide shelter from the hot sun and infrequent heavy rain and snow.
One side of the pen, facing the feed alley, has a row of self-locking head gates or stanchions. Corner pens may have locks on two sides. There are no beds per se; in dry weather the cow "pats" are harrowed to encourage fragmentation and desiccation of the manure, creating in effect a large bedded pack.
Cows do not appear to mind bedding down in this material when it is dry. It is when it becomes "reconstituted" by rain, snow, and urine that trouble begins. Bacteria levels in the bedding can skyrocket, overwhelming teat end defenses and frequently causing environmental mastitis.
To help keep cows clean and dry, straw beds are laid down in wet weather. Like any other bedding material, straw beds must be managed. Cows like to rest in straw and the beds quickly become dirty and wet from use. Infrequent "pushing up" or removal of soiled bedding can eliminate any benefit that the straw was supposed to provide.
The soiled bedding is most frequently pushed to the center of the pen and piled. Without adding a cow, it is here that stealth overcrowding is created; by letting manure accumulate into a growing "mountain," the cows are deprived of lying space it covers.
While I have observed intrepid cows scaling the sides of such man-made natural wonders, they rarely are able to comfortably rest there. I've observed these piles grow so large that cows are confined to a narrow lane that remains between the pile and the fence. This loss of lying space for the cows is often considerable.
Temporarily maintaining a manure pile in an open lot pen may be a minor "demerit" in the book of cow comfort. But on some dairies they are a perpetual, year-round feature. Letting "manure mountains" remain year-round, including during the dry months when they are easily removed, is inexcusable and a major infringement of the cow's time budget.
Freestalls can have the correct cow/headlock/bed ratio and still be "creatively" overcrowded. I once had a client who kept a trimming chute, long unused, smack in the middle of his close-up pen. It took up the space of several cows, interfered with pen cleaning, and formed a painful obstacle to get pushed against when chasing cows around the pen. It had been there so long that it was "off the radar" and no longer mentally recognized.
I also commonly observe freestalls with broken or missing partitions or loops, creating double-wide "duplex" stalls that allow a cow to take a bed parallel, rather than perpendicular, to the alley. While very comfortable, this cow is denying another cow a bed.
Another way to unintentionally overcrowd is through feed management. A cow in a lockup or at a feeding rail can only stretch its neck so far to reach feed. If the feed just in front of it has been eaten, the cow cannot reach the feed that has been pushed forward and to the side.
I am constantly witness to an empty bunk within reach of the cow and a nice pile of enticing TMR just out of reach. Someday, scientists will be able to insert the giraffe neck gene into the bovine genome, but until then, do your cows a favor and feed and push up frequently so that feed is within reach.
We can provide cows with all the beds and pen space in the world for resting, and it will come to nothing if the cow is not able to use the space. As just described, we can physically exclude the cow from usable space with piled manure and unused equipment. We can also deny it use of the beds with excessive and unnecessary activity in the pens.
In Idaho, we are proud of our cowboy heritage. And cattle dogs are often, and productively, used when working beef cattle. Yet, I often encounter dogs around dairy cattle as well. It is the rare dairy cow that appreciates being barked at or intimidated by any canine.
The very sight, sound, and smell of a dog instinctively gets a cow's attention, puts it on alert, and gets the cow onto its feet. A cow on high alert is not chewing its cud and most certainly not lying down and making milk.
It is perhaps a conceptual stretch, and even seems absurd, but you can overcrowd your feed supply as well, leading to deleterious effects just as significant as overcrowding your cows. Due to a lack of suitable space to store this year's new corn silage or haylage, I've seen it piled over the remains of last year's pit or pile. The result is a layer-cake of silages in varying states of fermentation. When a vertical face is cut into such piles, the resulting feed is a smorgasbord of silages.
While potentially exciting to amateur archeologists, who would view the layers stretching back into the past with appreciation, they are a nutritionist's and cow's worst nightmare. Do your cows and nutritionist a favor and avoid overcrowding or "stacking" silages. Create enough storage area to isolate different years and cuttings of forages.
It's often beneficial to look at problems from a different perspective or to have new eyes look at an old problem. Try to think outside the box on your dairy and see if you can find areas where you are unintentionally being creative about cow overcrowding.


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Daniël Wynand Steyn (né le  dans le district de Heilbron en Afrique du Sud et mort le  à Pretoria) est un ingénieur et un homme politique sud-africain.

Il a été membre du parti national, membre du parlement sud-africain (MP) pour la circonscription de Wonderboom (1974-1989), ministre-adjoint aux finances, aux industries, au commerce et au tourisme (1980-1982), ministre de l'éducation et de la formation (1982-1983), ministre des affaires minérales et énergétiques (1983-1989), ministre des affaires économiques et des technologies (1986-1989) au sein des gouvernements de Pieter Botha.

Biographie
Ingénieur électricien qualifié, diplômé de l'université de Stellenbosch (1946), Danie Steyn commence sa carrière militante en 1953 au sein de la section du parti national de la circonscription de Wonderboom à Pretoria.

De 1953 à 1966, il est employé de la municipalité de Pretoria puis, de 1967 à 1974, directeur des télécommunications au sein de la direction informatique du Conseil de l'armement.

Danie Steyn est élu au parlement en 1974 comme député de la circonscription de Wonderboom. Il entre au gouvernement 6 ans plus tard, le 6 octobre 1980, en tant que vice-ministre des finances et de l'industrie, du commerce et du tourisme. En 1982, il est promu ministre de l'éducation et de la formation puis ministre des affaires minérales et énergétiques (1983-1989), fonctions qu'il cumule ensuite avec les affaires économiques et les technologies (1986-1989). Il se retire de la vie publique en 1989 pour se consacrer avec son épouse Hermana à son domaine viticole de Morgenzon, acquis en 1977.

En 2011, lors d'une réception médiatisée à Centurion, il célèbre ses 88 ans à l'occasion de la journée des vétérans, au côté d'autres personnalités sud-africaines du  tels l'ancien ministre Willem Cruywagen (90 ans) ou le plus ancien joueur international de l'équipe des springboks encore en vie, Piet Malan (93 ans).

Il meurt en juin 2017 à l'âge de 94 ans.

Notes et références

Source
 Shelagh Gastrow, Who's who in South African Politics, Ravan Press, 1985, p. 293

Naissance en mai 1923
Étudiant de l'université de Stellenbosch
Steyn
Décès à 94 ans
Décès à Pretoria
Décès en juin 2017

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Pati Patni Aur Woh song Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare: Another 90s chartbuster ruined
Pati Patni Aur Woh song Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare, rearranged by Tanishk Bagchi, is neither a good watch nor is it an earworm.
Written by Arushi Jain | New Delhi | Updated: November 21, 2019 9:19:34 am
Pati Patni Aur Woh song Akhiyon Se Goli Maare features Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday.
Another chartbuster is spoiled! Until when will we, the 90s kids, have to listen to the horribly re-done versions of our favourite songs. Pati Patni Aur Woh song "Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare", featuring Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday, is yet another example of T-Series' disregard for original compositions.
The song, rearranged by Tanishk Bagchi, is neither a good watch nor is it an earworm. Bhumi looks a complete misfit in the song. Watching Kartik and Ananya dance half-heartedly made me miss Govinda and Raveena Tandon who featured in the original song in the 1998 film Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan.
Vocals by Mika Singh also cannot save the rehashed song. The only few seconds when you get groovy is when the hook line, which has been retained from the original song, plays.
You might feel the urge to watch the original song starring Govinda and Raveena Tandon after watching this rehashed version of "Akhiyon Se Goli Maare". So here it is:
Farah Khan, who has choreographed the song, said, "Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare is an iconic song and I agreed to do it because Juno is a dear friend. Hope this new foot-tapping version appeals to the audience the way the original song did back then. We have tried to make it different and interesting but at the same keeping the essence of the original intact."
Kartik Aaryan, who claims to be a Govinda fan, said he loved dancing on "Akhiyon Se Goli Mare" in Pati Patni Aur Woh. "This song used to be one of my favourite Govinda tracks during my growing up years. We all have been an ardent admirer of his dancing style. I am so happy that I got an opportunity to dance to it in my film," he said.
Directed by Mudassar Aziz and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Renu Ravi Chopra and Krishan Kumar, Pati Patni Aur Woh is a remake of the 1978 film of the same name. It is scheduled to release on December 6
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