June 19, 2015 - Notice of Change in Key Dates for RFA-MD-15-010. See Notice NOT-MD-15-012.
The overarching goals of the NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Program are to enhance community capacity in research for which they will directly benefit; support collaborative intervention projects addressing health disparities; and accelerate the translation of findings into improved health and health outcomes. The purpose of this FOA is to support promising community interventions using CBPR principles and approaches aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities.
New Date August 18, 2015, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization, per issuance of NOT-MD-15-012. (Original Date: August 3, 2015). All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on this date.
New Date August 18, 2015, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization, per issuance of NOT-MD-15-012. (Original Date: August 3, 2015). All types of AIDS and AIDS-related applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on this date.
The goal of the NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Program is to promote and support collaborative interventions that involve all relevant partners in the translational research process – planning, implementing, evaluating and disseminating community level interventions aimed at improving health and addressing health disparities. In the health disparities framework, this includes partnership approaches that focus on changing the determinants of health or the community conditions and environments, in which their members are born, mature, play, study, work and age. The research approach may begin with a needs assessment to identify a health-related issue for action, or a community-led proposal on an identified need or issue of importance to the community. The participatory research process is such that community members, persons affected or impacted, public health and policy professionals, and other key stakeholders in the community's health have the opportunity to be full participants in each phase of the research (from conception-design-conduct-analysis-interpretation-conclusions-communication of results). CBPR benefits are numerous and include the creation of bridges between the community, scientists and policy professionals to facilitate the bidirectional transfer of knowledge and skills, improved community research literacy and creation of appropriate and effective interventions.
This FOA invites applications for intervention studies using CBPR principles and methods. For the purpose of this FOA, 'community' refers to a population that may be defined by geography, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, illness or other health condition, or to groups that have a common health-related interest or cause. Communities must include significant representation of one or more NIH-designated US health disparity populations, which include Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and rural populations.
In 2012, NIMHD issued RFA-MD-12-006 to invite applications for a three-year planning grant. The first year of the planning grant was devoted to partnership development, community needs assessment, identifying the disease/condition for intervention research, and planning the intervention methodology with substantial input from the community. During the second and third years, a pilot health intervention study was conducted with community participation. This FOA is open to current NIMHD CBPR planning grantees and their community coalitions, and other applicants poised to implement and evaluate promising broad scale interventions using CBPR methods. The intervention study must take place in the United States or US Territories or Possessions.
Dramatic advances in the past decade have resulted in escalating growth in knowledge of the complexity of the interactive factors influencing health across the life course. There is extensive research evidence that still shows poorer health outcomes for socially disadvantaged populations, including low-income and racial and ethnic groups. As such, identifying effective interventions to address these health disparities is important. Despite recommendation for tailored and multilevel interventions, many community health promotion and disease prevention programs fail for various reasons that include the lack of a participatory approach or cultural sensitivity.
The rationale for this program is two-fold: (1) To address the need for improved transdisciplinary and intervention research methods and approaches addressing health disparities; and (2) To strengthen the science of community engagement in addressing health disparities in socially disadvantaged population groups. Effective research intervention science approaches require a comprehensive framework for planning, developing conceptual models, identifying theory-based or evidence-based measures and implementing strategies for change. It also requires an iterative participatory process in all phases of the intervention. There is a relative paucity of effective intervention research methods and participatory approaches addressing population health and disparities. Given current understanding of the determinants of health, (e.g. social, environmental and behavioral) and the biological mechanisms that these determinants operate to influence health status, an elaborate intervention research framework and phased structure are being sought to accomplish the goals of this CBPR Intervention Phase program.
1) Establishment of the health issue, disease or condition or related problem as a need in the community and amenable to the study intervention. The intervention design should include consideration of community preferences, and draw on community strengths, knowledge, resources and capacities. A consideration of the economic costs and benefits to the community is also of importance.
2) Development of an intervention research framework informed by a conceptual or theory-based model of health and synthesis of the evidence supporting the framework. The framework ensures that supporting conceptual and theory-based models guide the intervention in these areas: (a) documentation of the potential cause or etiology for the poor health status or outcomes; (b) identification of biological, behavioral, social and environmental determinants related to the target problem for action, where relevant; and (c) selection of the important and actionable health determinants and community attributes to inform the research design and methodology.
3) Design of an intervention mapping tool, i.e. a phased intervention structure that charts the stages of the intervention (from conception-evidence synthesis to the project design, conduct, analysis, interpretation, conclusions, and communication of results). The phased intervention map should be informed by the intervention research framework and enable the community and research team to build iteratively on findings from each stage and guide subsequent stages of the research. A participatory approach allows for an iterative process and flexibility throughout the implementation process. Preliminary studies demonstrating initial feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of the intervention in the target community are required to include in the structure. Projects are expected to utilize rigorous research methods to determine intervention impact, including but not limited to randomized designs and quasi-experimental designs using appropriate comparison communities or populations, where relevant.
4) Establishment of a community coalition and Community Advisory Board that includes community members, researchers and other stakeholders with relevant expertise to inform the intervention process.
5) While intervention targets may include outcomes for health knowledge change in addition to health behaviors and environmental change, projects that use health knowledge as the sole outcome will be considered non-responsive to this FOA.
Projects are required to involve at least one community-based organization, either as the applicant organization or a partner organization. The individual or representative of the community organization will be named as key personnel in the Notice of Grant award. Projects that involve American Indian Tribal Governments instead of or in addition to community-based organizations are also acceptable. Additional collaborations with other types of partners, including but not limited to academic organizations, healthcare providers, school districts, and Federal or local government agencies, are strongly encouraged.
Interventions to promote preventive behaviors (e.g., vaccinations, health screenings) that lead to the early detection or prevention of diseases/conditions such as colon cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, influenza and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Multi-level interventions that include a combination of individual, group (such as peers, family members, etc.), and/or community-level intervention components.
Interventions that include health information technology applications (e.g. behavior monitoring tools, decision aids, health information portals, etc.) and/or social media elements.
Interventions that draw upon existing community strengths and resilience.
Standardization and Coordination of the CBPR Program. Although the studies supported by this program will not use a common study protocol, whenever possible, investigators will be encouraged to collaborate on the coordination of standardized reporting, community formative assessment measures, evaluation plans, and the development and use of standardized protocols for similar intervention studies.
NIMHD intends to commit $10,000,000 in FY 2016 to fund 20 awards.
Although the size of awards may vary with the scope of the project, direct costs are limited to $350,000 annually (excluding consortium facilities and administrative costs).
Institutions of Higher Education and research organizations are required to partner with at least one community-based organization (or American Indian Tribal Government). Community-based organizations/ American Indian Tribal Governments are not required to partner with higher education institutions or research organizations.
Projects are required to involve at least one community-based organization, either as the applicant organization or a partner organization. However, projects that involve American Indian Tribal Governments instead of or in addition to community-based organizations are also acceptable.
Applications in which the PD/PI is not from a community-based organization, must include at least one person from the partnering community-based organization as key personnel with a minimum of 3 calendar months or equivalent effort for academic calendars or other appointments (compensated or contributed).
Research Strategy: Define the target community or communities using a set of tangible and explicit criteria. The criteria can include a common geography, interest, identity, characteristic, or condition. Specify the representation of US health disparity populations within the target community or communities.
Identify partner organizations and describe their roles and contributions on the project. Identify the role of the Community Advisory Board on the project and the types of experience, expertise, or knowledge that will characterize board members (do not identify board members by name in the application). For effective translation, community stakeholders identified for the project should include individuals or organizations critical to the intervention process. This includes especially those who are likely to be able to use the knowledge generated through the research to make informed decisions about policies, programs and/or practices, and whose level of engagement in the research process as a knowledge consumer or provider may vary in intensity and complexity depending on the information needs.
Describe the intervention research framework with conceptual and/or theory-based model and specify how the intervention will reduce or eliminate health disparities. Applications should describe how community involvement or stakeholder input shaped the proposed intervention approach and study methodology, and how they will be involved in the implementation and testing of the intervention, data analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of findings, as appropriate. Address how pilot data support the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of the intervention. Describe the study design and how intervention impact will be evaluated, including the impact on health disparities.
Describe a plan for community sustainability and how findings from the project will be disseminated to the community at large (not just community partners) as appropriate and consistent with achieving the goals of this program. Describe the potential generalizability of project findings to other populations, health conditions, locations, or settings.
Develop an evaluation plan and a program logic model that describes performance objectives and outcomes (process and impact). Intervention targets may include outcomes for health knowledge change in addition to health behaviors and environmental change.
Letters of Support: Provide letters of support from all proposed partner organizations indicating willingness to participate in the project. If the applicant organization is not a community-based organization, at least one letter of support from a partnering community-based organization indicating willingness to participate must be included.
Identification of a target community that includes significant representation from one or more US health disparity populations (Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and rural populations).
Involvement of at least one community-based organization/American Indian Tribal Government, either as the applicant or partnering organization. In the latter case, a letter of support from the organization clearly indicating willingness to participate in the project must be provided.
Development of an intervention framework and intervention mapping including evidence that proposed intervention was developed with community input and pilot tested with the target community.
An evaluation plan with a logic model that incorporates appropriate performance targets, objectives and intervention outcomes (process and impact.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field? Is an appropriate intervention framework with conceptual and/or theory-based model provided that specifies how the intervention will reduce or eliminate health disparities? Is sufficient evidence provided in the intervention mapping to indicate that the project demonstrates convincing preliminary evidence of feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in the target community or communities?
Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, or in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project? Are the roles of partner organizations clearly described and justified? Is the role of Community Advisory Board clearly defined, as well as the types of experience, expertise, or knowledge that will characterize board members?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project? Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Does the project include a rigorous study design to determine intervention effectiveness that is responsive to community context and preferences? Are appropriate methods used to determine the impact of the intervention on health disparities? Are appropriate outcome measures of health behaviors and/or health status used? Is an appropriate plan to disseminate project findings to the community at large (rather than just community partners)? Are strategies outlined for involving community stakeholders in the implementation and testing of the intervention, data analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of findings? Is the potential generalizability of project findings to other populations, health conditions, locations, or settings described?
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements? Does the application indicate broad community support for the project as indicated by collaborations and letters of support from community-based organizations and other community stakeholders?
Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by NIMHD, in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria. Assignment to a Scientific Review Group will be shown in the eRA Commons.
Coordinating project activities technically, scientifically and administratively at the awarded institution and coordinating project activities at other sites that are to be supported by the award.
Defining objectives and approaches; collecting and analyzing data; and publishing results, interpretations, and conclusions of studies conducted under the terms and conditions of the award.
Ensuring that appropriate Institutional Review Board approvals and certifications for research involving human subjects for all participating sites, collaborators or partners are obtained.
Selecting external members for and participating in the project Steering Committee.
Organizing an annual face-to-face meeting of the project Steering Committee.
Submitting interim progress reports, when requested, to the NIMHD Program Official including as a minimum, summary data on protocol performance.
Serve as the contact point for all facets of the scientific interaction with the awardee. As required for the coordination of activities and to expedite progress, NIMHD may designate additional NIH staff to provide advice to the awardee on specific scientific and/or analytic issues.
Review and comment on critical stages in the program implementation.
Convene meetings/workshops to address emerging areas of high priority.
Facilitate communication between U01 awardees to share project information as appropriate.
Participate in the project Steering Committee meetings as a voting member.
The NIMHD Project Scientist or designee may be co-authors on study publications. In general, to warrant co-authorship, NIH staff must have contributed to the following areas: (a) design of the concepts or experiments being tested; (b) performance of significant portions of the activity; (c) participation in analysis and interpretation of study results and (d) preparation and authorship of pertinent manuscripts.
Interact with the Program Director(s)/Principal investigator(s) on a regular basis to monitor study progress. Monitoring may include: regular communications with the Program Director/Principal Investigator and staff, periodic site visits, observation of field data collection and management techniques, quality control, fiscal review, and other relevant matters; as well as attendance at Steering Committee and related meetings.
Make recommendations for continued funding based on: a) overall study progress, including sufficient participant and/or data accrual; and b) cooperation in carrying out the research (e.g., attendance at Steering Committee meetings, implementation of group decisions, compliance with the terms of award and reporting requirements).
Additionally, the Program Official will be responsible for the normal scientific and programmatic stewardship of the award and will be named in the award notice.
Establishing and participating in a Steering Committee consisting of: 1) the PD(s)/PI(s) (who will serve as Chair(s)); 2) the Chair of the Community Advisory Board, 3) two external members selected by the PD(s)/PI(s), at least one of whom is a representative from a community based organization not involved in the project, and 3) the NIMHD Project Scientist. Each member will have one vote. The Steering Committee will meet in person at least once a year and will convene by telephone or in-person as needed. The Steering Committee has primary responsibility to oversee research activities, establish priorities, review progress, and monitor participant accrual. Major scientific decisions regarding adjustments to the study protocol will be determined by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee will document progress in written reports to the NIMHD Program Official, and will provide periodic supplementary reports upon request.


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Doctor Who: The Krotons soundtrack review
Some fine Doctor Who work from Brian Hodgson gets a CD release in May. Here's Andrew's review of the soundtrack to The Krotons...
By Andrew Blair | April 11, 2013 |
Brian Hodgson: inventor of the TARDIS dematerialisation noise (included on this disc), techbod for the original Dalek voices, and ambient soundscape purveyor to the stars. His legacy lives on in the current iteration of the Radiophonic Workshop, and restoration work by Mark Ayres. YouTube footage of a 'reunion gig' from 2009 can and should be searched for.
For those who aren't curious about the legacy of an old BBC department, old Doctor Who soundtracks are more useful than you might think. Trust me, you haven't Laserquested until you've laserquested to the soundtrack of Caves Of Androzani, and also acknowledged that 'Laserquested' is definitely a word.
What you could do to the soundtrack of The Krotons (the debut Doctor Who story for pipe-smoking extraordinaire, Robert Holmes) is chiefly sit back, relax, and enjoy what sounds like a computer getting stoned out of its box. (Den Of Geek would like to remind readers that this is illegal and impossible, though advances in AI are being made all the time, and Samsung netbooks are a pretty decent placeholder until such a breakthrough finally arrives.)
The work of the Radiophonic Workshop has influenced many contemporary electronica musicians (heading over to the Warp Records label website as research resulted in a startling song being played, which is a terribly example of what I'm talking about but was still a tune, so there you go). Brian Hodgson's soundscapes and scores sound exactly like Boards of Canada shorn of percussion at times, full of repetitive drones, beeps, glitches and burbles that lull you along pleasantly, or shock you from this synth-induced torpor.
After watching The Krotons, you aren't immediately struck by the soundtrack, but listening to the music without the images is certainly evocative. You start seeing things in monochrome, imagining Patrick Troughton's moptop flicking hither and yon as he panics in front of a computer bank. The pieces here aren't obviously emotive, or dynamic (except as a whole, where occasional bursts of drone noise follow some quieter synth sounds), or especially catchy, but Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe is it atmospheric. Shorn of the context of a 60s TV soundtrack, it's excellent ambient background music, but if you've ever watched TV of that era it immediately summons up images of robots and rockets, force fields and lasers. And someone doing an enjoyably crap American accent.
Within the context, it's enjoyable to witness 37-second-long sound effects entitled Door Opens, and imagine people milling around impatiently for half a minute before leaving a room. Some of the shorter tracks, as sound effects, are definitely things that you could update your computer's System Sounds to.
It's an intriguing listen in comparison to contemporary scores. There's little to no chance of the BBC commissioning Autechre or F**k Buttons to score an episode, although maybe a little Carey Blyton homage might crop up in Murray Gold's score. If you're not up for a comparison of then and now, The Krotons soundtrack is definitely worth a look for fans of ambient and electronic music, and fans may wish to look into Hodgson's work between his spells at the Radiophonic Workshop; recordings of synthesised classical music under the name Electrophon with Dudley Simpson, work with Delia Derbyshire, and an experimental synth project called Wavemaker.
However, The Krotons' suitability for providing the soundtrack to a pleasant afternoon's Laserquesting is yet to be verified.
Doctor Who: The Krotons soundtrack is out on the 13th May.
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UPDATE: The winner is…Angie Fournier!
I'm headed out the door to do some fun things with my dd and her 12-year-old. Girls Day Out. So, I don't want to think too hard.
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No I have one more person to buy for… then I am finished.
I am almost done with my Christmas shopping.
With 5 children I hate to even admit this allowed but NO! NO I HAVEN'T!!!!! Lord shoot me now because I know the crowds are just getting thicker and the prices higher!!!!!
Well, I have been thinking about it.
No. Never finish. I will be shopping until Christmas Eve.
Yes, I make my gifts over the year and then as it gets close to the holiday I bake cookies and Treats. I get certain requests for the same things each year, it makes it easy.
No because some relatives have not let me know what is on their lists yet!
not yet but almost done.
Everyone's different! I love seeing this list. I especially loved Buttons' post saying she and hubby went on a cruise in lieu of exchanging gifts! Wonderful!
And Elysian, I like that you make gifts. I still have some pendants and bracelets to put together,too!
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Teens aged 13-17 can have the chance to train with leading professionals in acting, singing and dancing during the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival. Applicants are required to audition and perform a monologue of their choosing and a song from the Musical Theatre Repertoire list. Participants can expect 5 full days of training with industry professionals, the chance to perform at Edge of the Sky's closing night show at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival and a Rush Pass to all 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival productions.
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is accepting applications from visual artists and makers with disabilities, newcomer and indigenous artists to participate in the new Art Encounters Program during the 56th Exhibition on July 14 – 16, 2017 at Nathan Philips Square. Through this program Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition will provide exhibition assistance and free booth space to offset the costs and relieve the economic pressure of exhibiting in the fair to a select group of five artists with disabilities, newcomer and aboriginal artists.
Regent Park Film Festival's call for submissions is now open and free. Regent Park Film Festival welcome films of all lengths and genres that reflect the multitude of experiences that make up our cities and communities. Regent Park Film Festival is especially dedicated to showcasing works by Indigenous filmmakers and filmmakers of colour, as well as works by trans, queer and female identified filmmakers.
Serving as a fundraiser for their new project relating to Latin America (specifically Peru and Ecuador), Sick Muse Art Projects is hosting a Multicultural Night Event that features a variety of music and food. This will also be a great opportunity to network with cultural workers and cultural leaders from different organizations, artists from different disciplines and backgrounds, and arts/culture dreamers and doers. The Multicultural Night Event will be at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education and will run from 7-10 PM.


(1)Which of the following are the benefits of e-governance system?
1. Simplicity, efficiency and accountability.
2. Quality service to citizens.
3. Better access to information.
4. Expanded reach to governance.
2. Lord Rippon had lowered the age limit for Indians for the ICS from 21 year to 18.
3. Lord Lyton had uppered the age limit for Indians for the ICS from 18 year to 21.
4. Satyendranath was the first Indian Civil Service officer in 1863.
(4)What is the correct sequence of the rivers–Godavari, Mahanadi, Narmada and Tapi in the descending order of their lengths?
"Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)?


A troubling series of revelations about German failures to prevent Islamic State operations within the country raise questions about their ability and willingness to effectively combat terror. The string of intelligence fiascos in 2016 comes as documents from Wikileaks show that Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had a policy of admitting migrants who were a known terror risk with the intention of recruiting them as informants over a decade and a half ago.
In the aftermath of the recent December 2016 Berlin truck attack, reports have emerged that German intelligence received prior warnings about the likelihood that an incident was due to occur but failed to take action. On December 22nd, 2016, Moroccan World News revealed that Morocco had warned German intelligence officials in September 2016 that Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri had jihadist tendencies and was known to have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. On October 11th, they gave German intelligence a second tip that Amri had been residing in Germany illegally for 14 months and that he was regularly meeting with two known members of ISIS who were described as "dangerous." German officials do no appear to have acted on either tip from their Moroccan counterparts.
The article further explained that Spanish and French authorities have successfully dismantled terror cells based on information passed to them by Moroccan intelligence in the past. Why Germany failed to heed a tip from an intelligence source which had a proven track record of assisting anti-terror operations in other European states is unknown.
This series of failures to properly investigate Anis Amri and prevent the Berlin truck attack came on the heels of November 2016 reports that an intelligence officer working for Germany's internal intelligence agency, the Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) was arrested for taking part in a plot to bomb the BfV's headquarters in Cologne, Germany. This news was given little to no attention by U.S. media.
German news source Der Spiegel reported that the 51 year-old intelligence officer made a "partial confession" to his role in plotting the attack following his arrest.
These failures to properly respond to warnings about the Berlin truck attack and the infiltration of intelligence organizations by ISIS operatives seem to indicate either a troubling level of incompetence or complicity within German intelligence and anti-terror bureaus.
They were specifically looking for Taliban defectors from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan as well as civilians born in Afghanistan and Egypt as well as a few other Middle Eastern countries.
Tier 1: Males with the following personal features: Aged 18-45, single, lower-middle-class to poor background, lived in refugee camps for a while, poor occupational and societal prospects, sketchy CV, Muslim belief, doesn't support UMMA (collective community of Islamic peoples).
Tier 3: Individuals that resided in or have knowledge about Al-Azher University, Cairo, or the El-Haramein Institute of Culture which is founded by Saudi Arabia and used to promote Wahabbism, the Islamic sect that most jihadist groups draw upon for their ideology.
This is highly alarming, because it proves that German intelligence has in the past been aware of the fact that there are individuals among the refugee population that have knowledge of terror organizations, are "defectors" from them or have been exposed to radical Islamic ideologies at certain educational institutions. Why have they not simply been arresting these people and preventing them from 1) committing attacks and 2) radicalizing even more males from the refugee population? Does the BAMF continue to have a similar policy towards migrants today? A basic assumption is that German intelligence would not admit any migrants they felt they could not maintain control over. Given their string of failures to tackle extremists that confidence can no longer be extended to them.


Pitch a tent along the wooded trails while nature surrounds you. Located on 6.5 acres of woods, meadows and pastures, the place allows you to do bird watching, exploring nature or simply observing the goings on at the farm.
We are a working family farm raising chickens, pigs and goats all on pasture! Children giggle while playing with the dogs or jumping on the trampoline. Don't hesitate to explore the growing food forest, gardens or pastures.
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Kali and her family were so welcoming, greeting us when we arrived, showing us around the property, and telling us about local native plants. The tent location was right by a stream, which made for a beautiful location to pitch a tent and cook hot dogs and s'mores over a fire. I cannot recommend this place enough. Thanks Kali for a wonderful stay!
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Q: Convert Objective-C code to Swift: delegate I'm now learning a function which is written in Objective-C. But I don't know Objective-C language. When I'm converting the code to Swift, I got stuck at the delegate functions.
The code in .h file is:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@protocol SCPopViewDelegate <NSObject>

@optional
- (void)viewHeight:(CGFloat)height;
- (void)itemPressedWithIndex:(NSInteger)index;

@end

@interface SCPopView : UIView

@property (nonatomic, weak)     id      <SCPopViewDelegate>delegate;
@property (nonatomic, strong)   NSArray *itemNames;

@end

and I'm trying to convert the code as:
protocol popViewDelegate: class {
    func itemPressedWithIndex(index: Int)
    func viewHeight(height: CGFloat)
}

but for the three last sentences, i don't know how to deal with them, especially the one with id and delegate.
Can I get any help, please? I will do more effort to learn Swift. Thank you very much!

A: Swift 4.2
Converted Code for Swift 4.2
protocol SCPopViewDelegate: class {
    func viewHeight(_ height: CGFloat)
    func itemPressed(with index: Int)
}

extension SCPopViewDelegate {
    func viewHeight(_ height: CGFloat) {}
    func itemPressed(with index: Int) {}
}

class SCPopView: UIView {
    weak var delegate: SCPopViewDelegate?
    var itemNames: [Any] = []
}

This code is based on code converted by an online code conversion tool, the link to the original generated code.

A: The definition of the protocol ends with the first @end statement.
The @interface after that is the definition of an Objective-C class, SCPopView.
You don't need to care about the latter part if you're just trying to define the protocol in Swift.
FYI:
@interface someClass: NSObject

is equivalent to
class someClass: NSObject

In Swift.

A: import UIKit

@objc protocol SCPopViewDelegate{
    optional func viewHeight(height: Float)
    optional func itemPressedWithIndex(index : Int)
}

class DGViewController: UIViewController {

    var delegate:SCPopViewDelegate! = nil

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        delegate?.viewHeight?(Float(self.view.frame.size.height))
    }

And in the class that implements the delegate
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    var vc = DGViewController()
    vc.delegate = self
    vc.view.frame = self.view.frame;
    vc.view.backgroundColor = (UIColor.redColor())
    self.presentViewController(vc, animated: true) { () -> Void in}
}

func viewHeight(height: Float) {
    println(height)
}

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Notes on loose coupling and tight coupling in java with example. Example of tight coupling and loose coupling in java will be demonstrated with same program and outputs for better understanding between their difference.
Tight coupling will be implemented using concrete implementation of classes and loose coupling will be achieved by using class and interface.
Loose coupling means reducing dependencies of a class that use different class directly. Tight coupling means classes and objects are dependent on one another.
Let's understand loosely coupled code and tightly coupled code by example and their advantages and disadvantages with this example only.
Let's consider a very simple example scenario. There is a Manager and he wants to manage work of his workers. There are two workers, smart worker and lazy worker.
Below are the classes for Manager, Smart worker and Lazy worker and complete program for this scenario. Code is self-understandable. Manager class have created objects of smart and lazy workers classes and have call them in ManageWork() method.
So for sounds good. But let's say requirement changes and we want to add one more worker that is Extraordinary Worker.
And we can add one more object in Manager class. We will change the constructor code and in method ManageWork(), we will add code to make a call for Super worker like below.
We notice that the source code is tightly coupled and that's the reason we had to modify the existing manager class. You saw that Manager class was modified at three places. Add extra object of extraordinary worker, modified constructor and manageWork() method too. It violets OPEN CLOSED PRINCIPLE ( A class should be open for extension and closed for modification). You can read open closed oops design principle . The code is in C++ but concept is same for oops and easily understandable.
NOTE:Note that loosely coupled code should not be modified or has minimal modification.
Disadvantage of above tightly coupled code is that it required modification and testing. In other words, it took effort, testing and time. This is the simple program, but, consider it is in large project and Manager class is very complex and have tons of operations to perform. In real time no product is released without testing.
As a conclusion, tightly coupled code takes maintenance time and huge efforts.
Loosely coupled code reduces the cost of maintenance and efforts. Below is the same example implemented as a loosely coupled code using interface. I will recommend to read Interface example in java oops.
Notice that we are not going to touch the Manager class when we want to extend with Extra ordinary worker class.
Just we will write new extra ordinary worker class and implement the interface. And in client program, we will call him.
We will create an interface IWorker and every worker will implement it.This program follows open-close principle and dependency Inversion.
Short definition of loose coupling and tight coupling in java is that loose coupling means reducing dependencies of a class that use different class directly. Tight coupling means classes and objects are dependent on one another.
Disadvantage of tightly coupled code is that it took effort, testing and time that is reduced by writing loosely coupled coupled code.
tightly coupled code takes maintenance time and huge efforts.
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Get your blood flowing and adrenaline pumping with indoor karting for your Bristol stag do.
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Oratory School
11-18 Exam, School report
www.oratory.co.uk
Founded in 1859 to meet the educational needs of the Catholic laity, it now educates both Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic boys in equal ratio. The Venerable John Henry Newman was very much responsible for establishing the school and his views and beliefs about education are still its driving force. It was originally founded in Birmingham and settled at Woodcote during the Second World War. It has a beautiful rural site with spacious grounds and purpose-built accommodation. Facilities are excellent. Religious education is an important part of the curriculum. Sunday mass and daily house prayers are compulsory. Academic standards are high and examination results very good. European links are exceptionally strong. It is strong in music (a well-equipped music studio) and there is a considerable commitment to drama and art. A big range of games and sports is available (a lot of representatives at county level). The sports centre includes a real tennis court and the school has a golf course and indoor shooting range. There is a wide variety of extra-curricular activities and a strong CCF. A promising record in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.
Scholarships, bursaries & extras Some scholarships including academic, art, music and sport, value up to 50% fees. Variable number of bursaries. Parents expected to pay a termly flat-rate charge for books.
Parents 15+% in the armed services; 15+% are doctors, lawyers, etc; remainder are professional, commercial and industrial. 10+% live within 30 miles; up to 10% live overseas.
Head Master: Clive Dytor MC, in post from 2000. Educated at Cambridge University (Oriental studies). Previously Housemaster at St Edward's Oxford and taught at Tonbridge. Also served in the Royal Marines (fought in Falklands War).
Teaching staff: 48 full time, 6 part time. Annual turnover 6%. Average age 37.
GCSE: In 2003, 57 pupils in fifth: 83% gained at least grade C in 5+ subjects. Average GCSE score 52 (55 over 5 years).
A-levels: 46 in upper sixth. Average final point score achieved by upper sixth formers 264.
University & college entrance 100% of 2003 sixth-form leavers went on to a degree course (15% after taking a gap year). 3% took courses in medicine, dentistry & veterinary science, 22% in science & engineering, 33% in humanities & social sciences. Others typically go on to non-degree courses eg art foundation.
Curriculum GCSE, AS and A-levels. 22 GCSE subjects offered, 21 AS/A-level (no general studies).
Sixth form: Most sixth formers take 4 subjects at AS-level, 3 at A-level. 36% take maths/science A-levels; 50% arts/humanities; 14% both. Key skills are not taught.
Special provision: Specialist tuition for mildly dyslexic children only.
Languages: French (from age 11), German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish offered to GCSE and A-level.
ICT: Taught both as a discrete subject (1 lesson week) and across the curriculum, eg report writing and research. 80 computers solely for pupil use (15 hours a day), all networked and with e-mail and 30 with internet access. Most pupils take ECDL.
Music: Over 30% of pupils learn a musical instrument; instrumental exams can be taken. Some 8 musical groups including orchestras, choirs, string quartets, jazz and rock bands, various ensembles. Majority of pupils are involved in school and house/other productions.
Art & design: On average, 45 take GCSE, 15 A-level. Design, pottery, photography also offered.
Sport: Rugby, cricket, soccer, rowing, lawn tennis, athletics, cross-country, real tennis, squash, swimming, sailing, canoeing, table tennis, badminton, basketball, windsurfing, shooting, volleyball, weight training, fencing and golf all optional. RLSS, RYA exams may be taken. British and US U14 real tennis champion; 2 England U18 cricketers, 1 regional, 4 county cricket players, 10 rugby.
Activities: Pupils take bronze, silver and gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award. CCF compulsory for 2 years at age 13, optional thereafter. Community service optional. Up to 15 clubs, eg debating, cultural affairs.
Uniform: School uniform worn, suits in the sixth form.
Houses & prefects: Competitive houses. Prefects, school captain, house captains and house prefects, appointed by the Headmaster with housemasters.
Religion: Catholic Sunday Mass and twice-termly house mass compulsory; weekday masses optional; daily house prayers compulsory.
Social: Debates, dances, other social/educational ventures with other local schools. Organised ski trips, sailing trips, sports tours (eg tennis, rugby, rowing), some exchanges (Spain, France, Germany). Pupils allowed to bring own bike to school. Meals self-service. School tuck shop. Smoking is not permitted. Boys over 18 may visit local inns; some social functions and informal occasions where boys between 16 and 18 may be allowed alcohol under staff supervision.
Discipline Pupils failing to produce homework once might expect additional work to be set; those caught taking drugs, on or off the premises, would be asked to leave.
Boarding 25% have own study bedroom, 35% share double studies; 20% share with 2�C4 others; 20% are in dormitories of 6+. 5 houses (1 junior, 4 senior) of some 60 boarders (and 15 day). 2 resident qualified nurses, 5 house mothers, doctor lives very close. Central dining room. Pupils can provide and cook own food. Exeats to suit parental convenience. Occasional visits to the local town allowed for sixth form for specified reasons.
Former pupils Gerard Manley Hopkins; Sir Michael Levey (National Gallery); Mgr V F J Morgan (ex-Vicar General of Royal Navy); Michael Berkeley (composer); Christopher Hurford (Australian government minister); Joseph Co
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Q: How can I tell a curl request vs browser request I have a webserver, and certain users have been retrieving my images using an automated script.I wish to redirect them to a error page or give them an invalid image only if it's a CURL request.
my image resides in http://example.com/images/AIDd232320233.png, is there someway I can route it with .htaccess to my controller index function to where I can check if it's an authentic request?
and my other question, how can I check browser headers to distinguish between most likely authentic ones and ones done with a cURL request?

A: Unfortunately, the short answer is 'no.'
cURL provides all of the necessary options to "spoof" any browser.  That is to say, more specifically, browsers identify themselves via specific header information, and cURL provides all of the tools to set header data in whatever manner you choose.  So, directly distinguishing two requests from one another is not possible.*
*Without more information. Common methods to determine if there is a Live Human initiating the traffic are to set cookies during previous steps (attempts to ensure that the request is a natural byproduct of a user being on your website), or using a Captcha and a cookie (validate someone can pass a test).
The simplest is to set a cookie, which will really only ensure that bad programmers don't get through, or programmers who don't want to spend the time to tailor their scraper to your site.
The more tried and true approach is a Captcha, as it requires the user to interact to prove they have blood in their veins.
If the image is not a "download" but more of a piece of a greater whole (say, just an image on your site), a Captcha could be used to validate a human before giving them access to the site as a whole.  Or if it is a download, it would be presented before unlocking the download.
Unfortunately, Captchas are are "a pain," both to set up, and for the end-user.  They don't make a whole lot of sense for general-purpose access, they are a little overboard.
For general-purpose stuff, you can really only throttle IPs, download limits and the like.  And even there, you have nothing you can do if the requests are distributed.  Them's the breaks, really...


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Renegade Women in Film & TV
A conversation with film critic Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman is a journalist, film critic, and the author of more than two dozen books for children and young adults. She currently covers movies for the Wrap, and was a critic for the New York Daily News for 15 years. She has interviewed hundreds of celebrities, and written about entertainment for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, and many others.
In 2015, she was named one of the top critics in New York by the Hollywood Reporter. She holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from NYU, and is a longstanding member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
ZINE RAVE
Join curators of the Writers House Zine Library — Alyson del Pino (C'21) and Quinn Gruber (C'22) — for a collective zine-making event. After a quick workshop on single-sheet book forms, participants can spend all night making zines to their heart's desire. Bring material to cut up and transform (magazine, printed material, other clip art)
Lunch with Christine Gross-Loh
Hosted by Al Filreis
Christine Gross-Loh is a journalist and author. Her most recent book is The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, coauthored with Professor Michael Puett. The Path, an international bestseller, has been published in nearly 30 countries. She is also the author of Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Things Parents Around the World Can Teach Us. Christine has written on history, education, philosophy, and parenting for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and other outlets. She has a Ph.D. in East Asian history from Harvard University.
An Evening With Cecilia Corrigan
RealArts@Penn
Cecilia Corrigan is a writer, actor and comedian. Last year she was commissioned by Bedlam Theater Company to write and act in a contemporary, queer adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope, with a production slated for Spring 2020. Recent work includes Le Balm, an essayistic video series of makeup reviews, about a beauty vlogger turned aspiring political radical. She was Issue Project Room's 2016 Artist in Residence, where she developed Motherland, a play Corrigan wrote, directed, and starred in. Her first book of poetry, Titanic, won the Madeleine P. Plonsker prize in 2014. Her work has been featured in such publications as The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The New York Times, 周末画报 (Modern Weekly), n+1, Interview Magazine, and BOMB.
Writing Obituaries for The New York Times: lunch with Katharine Seelye
Obituaries are one of the best-read features in The New York Times, which is why Katharine Q. Seelye signed up to write them. Before taking on her new beat, "Kit" covered national news and politics for The Times since 1994. She has served since 2012 as the paper's New England bureau chief, based in Boston. Before moving to Boston, Ms. Seelye worked in the Washington bureau for 12 years and covered multiple beats, from Congress to the White House, and she slogged along "on the bus" on six presidential campaigns. She pioneered The Times's online coverage of politics, and in 2007 became the paper's first online political writer.
City Planning Poetics 8: Urban Ruins
Dan Biddle and Donna Stonecipher
hosted by: Davy Knittle
sponsored by: Creative Ventures
City Planning Poetics is a semesterly series that invites one or more poets or more planners, designers, planning historians, or others working in the field of city planning to discuss a particular topic central to their work, to ask each other questions, and to read from their current projects.
Donna Stonecipher is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Transaction Histories (2018), which was cited by The New York Times as one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018. She has published one book of criticism, Prose Poetry and the City (2018). Her poems have been published in many journals, including The Paris Review, and have been translated into eight languages. In 2018 she won a Working Grant from the Berlin Senat. She translates from German, and her translation of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker's études, for which she received an NEA fellowship, is forthcoming in 2019. She lives in Berlin.
Daniel R. Biddle, the Philadelphia Inquirer's former politics editor, has worked as a journalist for four decades. His Inquirer stories on the courts won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. As an editor he helped direct Inquirer investigative projects, regional news coverage, and reporting on elections. He and Murray Dubin co-authored Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America (Temple University Press, 2010; paperback ed. 2017). Biddle previously worked as a reporter for the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, O. He has a BA in history from the University of Michigan and has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He teaches journalism at the University of Delaware and at Penn, and lives in West Philadelphia.
What is XFICMagazine?
rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 746-POEM
Students interested in joining XFIC, an experimental nonfiction journal sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Penn, are invited to an information lunch with faculty adviser, Jay Kirk. XFIC will count for course credit in ENG 145 (Spring 2020). Students must submit a story pitch to be admitted. The deadline for story pitches will be announced soon. For more details, check out xfic.org.
XFIC is an experimental nonfiction journal for writers who want to test the boundaries of longform. The type of stories we most want to publish are ones where the writer is in pursuit of immediate experience. Reality as it is unfolding before your eyes. Then, in workshop, we will take the raw material of experience and transform it into compelling narrative through radical and experimental techniques. Xfic seeks writers seeking new ways to discover meaning, who seek to be more daring, more performative, more pretentious, more excellent, more virtuosic, funnier and weirder, and, most of all, who seek to directly engage reality and invent it at the same time (and who are capable of inhabiting such paradoxical spaces).
Jay Kirk has been dismantling and recreating the art of literary recreation over the past seven years in a project called AVOID THE DAY (to be published by Harper Perennial in 2019), a book that evolved out of his years as an award-winning longform journalist for magazines like Harper's, GQ, the Chicago Reader, and The New York Times Magazine. He received a Whiting Fellowship for AVOID THE DAY in 2017, and an earlier excerpt of the book appeared in Harper's Magazine as "Bartok's Monster." While reinventing his own path as a writer, Jay has been cataloging his theories which he will be using to generate questions for the writers who join XFic 145. How do we make more radical choices? How is reality supposed to appear? How is narrative like a controlled crash? How can we generate new kinds of meaning? How can the nonfiction writer invent their own world and then, once invented, perform in that reality?
A poetry reading by Ahmad Almallah
Introduced by Al Filreis
listen: to an audio recording of this event.
Ahmad Almallah's first book of poems is Bitter English, published this fall in the Phoenix Poets Series from the University of Chicago Press. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems "Recourse," won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Some of his poems appeared in Jacket2, Track//Four, All Roads will lead You Home, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees and forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from IUB and an MFA in poetry from Hunter College.
A celebration of "Plagued by Fire"
featuring Paul Hendrickson
introduced by: Al Filreis
Paul Hendrickson — an eminent writer, Penn faculty member, and longtime friend of the Writers House — has written an extraordinary new book about Frank Lloyd Wright. Plagued by Fire is a pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Washington Post has praised Hendrickson for the "tremendously rigorous research" and "persistent and expansive curiosity" he puts toward his subject. The American Scholar calls the book "dazzling" and "ingenious." Join us for a talk by the author, followed by a celebratory reception.
Paul Hendrickson is the author of the New York Times best seller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, and Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (1992 finalist for the NBCC award) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons, both of whom work in media, and he lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, in Washington, D.C., and outside Philadelphia.
Lunch with Zaina Erhaim
Journalist at Risk Program
Co-sponsored by: The Povich Journalism Program, Perry World House, and the Center for Media at Risk
Zaina Erhaim is an award-winning Syrian journalist, working as the Communication Manager with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Zaina received the first Annita Auspurg Award: Rebel Woman For Peace By WILFP. She was named Journalist of the Year by Reporters without Borders in 2015, one of the '100 Most Powerful Arab Women' according to Arabian Business and one of the Unsung Heroes of 2016 by Reuters Thomson.
Edible Books Party
Our annual EDIBLE BOOK PARTY, held in memory of Blaze Bernstein, celebrates edible works of art inspired by books and created in kitchens. Do you like to bake? Are you a master of literary puns? This event is for you. Anyone is welcome to make or bake a book for our party. All entries should be edible (or made of food) and should, in one way or another, represent a book or book title, like: "Jane Pear" (a pear in a bonnet), "A Raisin in the Bun" (which was exactly as it sounds), "The Life of Pie" (depicting several pies in various states of being made), and "Fifty Shades of Earl Grey" (50 cups of tea, brewed to different shades). Prizes will be awarded in a number of categories (Most Delicious, Punniest, Best Use of a Single Ingredient, Most Literary, Most Literal, Best Breakfast, and Blaziest).
To enter a book or to find out more, please email wh@writing.upenn.edu.
"And she was loved": In Memory of Toni Morrison
Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies
Organized by: Imani Davis (C'20) and Ashley Codner (C'21)
Join us for an open forum in memory of Toni Morrison, with time for speaking, reading, and other sharing.
A celebration of Lorene Cary's Ladysitting
Introduced by: Sara Albert, Associate Editor of SafeKidsStories.com; Sonali Deliwala; and Samira Mehta
Sponsored by: the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the Center for Africana Studies
The Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the Center for Africana Studies present a celebration of Senior Lecturer Lorene Cary's new memoir, Ladysitting (Norton, 2019). In addition to hosting a reading by Cary from the book, we are delighted to present an excerpt from the opera based on the memoir, The Gospel According to Nana, by Lorene Cary and Liliya Ugay, commissioned by the American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program and performed by Summer Hassan, soprano; Megan McFadden, mezzo; and Grant Loehnig, piano.
Lorene Cary's non-fiction includes magazine articles and blogs as well as her best-selling memoir Black Ice, and a collection of stories for young readers, Free! Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad. Novels include The Price of a Child, chosen as the first One Book One Philadelphia offering; ; and If Sons, Then Heirs.
Cary has written scripts for videos at The President's House exhibit on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Her new memoir, Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century, will be published by W.W. Norton Books in May 2019. An audiobook recording is planned for this summer, too. Cary is in her second year of a residency in American Lyric Theater's Composer & Librettist Development Program. In 2018, she wrote a libretto that takes off from Ladysitting. Composer Liliya Ugay set the book and has produced her own recording of The Gospel According to Nana, planned for release this Spring.
For 20 years Cary has taught fiction and non-fiction at UPenn; now she invites her students to publish on SafeKidsStories.com on Medium.com, which she created to focus on children's safety and wholeness.
In 1998 Cary founded Art Sanctuary to enrich urban Philadelphia with the excellence of black arts. To create an intentional transition, she stepped down as director in 2012. She served as president of the Union Benevolent Associationß; and from 2011-2013 as a member of Philadelphia's School Reform Commission, where, as chair of the Safety Committee, she worked to rewrite the Student Code of Conduct to eliminate zero-tolerance discipline.
Honors include: UPenn's Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching, The Philadelphia Award, and honorary doctorates from Swarthmore, Muhlenberg, Colby, and Keene State Colleges, and Arcadia and Gwynedd Mercy Universities. In March 2017, she was featured in a Philadelphia Airport exhibit that commemorates 100 of Philadelphia's African American history makers of the 20th century.
The Infatuation: A conversation with Hillary Reinsberg
Applebaum Editors and Publishers Program
RSVP: wh@writing.upenn.edu or (215)746-POEM
Hillary Reinsberg is the Editor in Chief of The Infatuation and Zagat. The Infatuation's first hire, Hillary has overseen the editorial expansion of the restaurant review platform and its signature voice into cities across the U.S and U.K. With The Infatuation's 2018 acquisition of the legendary restaurant guide Zagat from Google, Hillary is now also working on developing content around that brand and platform. Previously, Hillary was an early member of BuzzFeed's news team, and as a writer and editor there covered everything from New Hampshire's election of the first all-female state delegation to viral trends on YouTube. While a student at Penn, Hillary was the first editor of Under The Button and also worked on 34th Street. Last year, she was recognized on the Media section of Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
A reading by Carole Bernstein and Patrick Donnelly
sponsored by: the Anonymous Endowed Fund for Poetry
Carole Bernstein is the author of three poetry collections, Buried Alive: A To-Do List (Hanging Loose Press, 2019); Familiar (Hanging Loose Press)—which J. D. McClatchy called "an exhilarating book"—and And Stepped Away from the Circle (Sow's Ear Press), winner of the Sow's Ear Chapbook contest. Her poems have been widely published, including in Antioch Review, Bridges, Chelsea, The F-Word, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and Yale Review, and in anthologies such as American Poetry: The Next Generation and Unsettling America. She is an original member of KWH's Suppose an Eyes poetry group. A Penn graduate (C'81), she studied poetry with Daniel Hoffman and William Zaranka, and won second place in a university-wide poetry contest judged by Elizabeth Bishop (who corrected her grammar).
PATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, Robert Frost's old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts. Donnelly's awards include the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at www.patrickdonnellypoetry.com
WXPN radio show
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration of the people of the Kelly Writers House and of WXPN (88.5 FM). Six times annually between September and April, the Writers House records a one-hour show of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art for broadcast by WXPN. "LIVE" is made possible through the generous support of BigRoc and is produced by Alli Katz.
Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco and Pablo Landeo Muñoz, with Américo Mendoza-Mori
Indigenous Languages Week: Quechua Writers
Co-sponsored by: The Quechua Program, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Natives at Penn
PABLO LANDEO MUÑOZ is a Peruvian writer, translator, and teacher of language and literature. He is currently a Quechua teacher at INALCO in Paris, and director of the literary magazine Atuqpa Chupan ("The fox's tail" in Quechua), which is published annually and written entirely in Quechua. In 2011, his collection of poems Los hijos de Babel appeared in Spanish. He published a collection of stories from Huancavelica in Quechua Ayacucho under the title Wankawillkain 2013, complemented by translations into Spanish and a study in Quechua. His novel Aqupampa, which appeared in 2016, is the first Quechua novel published in Quechua without translation into Spanish.
Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco is a Quechua poet and language activist from Haquira, in Peru's Apurímac region. She is a former fellow of the Artist Leadership Program at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. In 2018 she presented her first short-film Runasimpi Qillqaspa, about the efforts to promote literacy among Quechua native speakers in the Andes. Additionally, she has been involved in projects about the use of Quechua language in radio, software, and programmers in Peru and the United States.
What does it mean to reclaim a language?
Indigenous Languages Week: Panel Discussion
Join us for an informal conversation, led by Connor Bard (Lumbee Tribe) about language reclamation. What does it mean to reclaim a language? How might we understand the historical legacy of not being able to speak the language of our ancestors? How can individual language users and cultural activists contribute to the celebration and recognition of Indigenous Peoples? Stephanie Mach (Navajo/Diné) and Janice Llamoca (Quechua) will help us address these and other questions about the politics and personal experience of language reclamation. Lunch will be served.
Janice Llamoca is an award-winning journalist and producer at NPR's Latino USA. She began her career as an entertainment digital journalist and over the past five years, Janice has shifted her focus to audio sharing narratives about communities of color. During her time as a radio producer, she has done stories about history, language access, and culture, and humanizes her stories with compelling voices. As a proud Peruvian American, Janice (in her spare time) attempts to convert the English-speaking world to pronounce "llama" as "Yama" and not "Lama." Because no one says "tortiLa." She is currently taking Quechua language classes at the Quechua Collective of New York.
Stephanie Mach (Navajo/Diné) is a Collections Coordinator in the Academic Engagement Department at the Penn Museum. Mach facilitates university faculty and student access to collections and manages the Summer Internship Program. Mach has a BA in Archaeology, MA in Museum Studies, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Museum Anthropology. Mach's research interests include museum policy, the history of museums, decolonizing and restorative methodologies, and settler colonialism.
Connor Beard (moderator) is a Junior in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Connor is a Communications Major and a Native American Studies Minor. The Undergraduate Chair of Natives at Penn (NAP), he is a proud member of the Lumbee Tribe. Outside of NAP, Connor is involved in the performing arts community as the Community Service Chair for the Performing Arts Council Executive Board, performing in the University's Glee Club, and a director for Manahatta, an upcoming play that is centered around Indigenous issues.
Dizhsa Nabani – Lengua Viva – Living Language
Indiginous Languages Week: Film Screening
Presented by: Felipe H. Lopez, Brook Lilehaugen, Eddie Oggborn, Sabea Evans, and Kathryn Goldberg
DIZHSA NABANI – LENGUA VIVA – LIVING LANGUAGE is a web-based documentary film series, supported by DocuLab at Haverford College, that explores the relationship between Zapotec identity, language, and daily life. The series traces efforts of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya community members, including farmers, artesans, and public officials, to sustain and re-invigorate their Zapotec language.
FELIPE H. LOPEZ is originally from the Zapotec town of San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca. He currently serves as advisor to the Oaxacan State Commission on Human Rights. At the age of 16 he migrated to Los Angeles, California, speaking no English and little Spanish. By 2007 he had earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in urban planning. It was at UCLA that he began working with linguists to document his language, resulting in a trilingual Zapotec-Spanish-English dictionary (Munro & Lopez et al. 1999). His poetry can also be found in the Latin American Literary Review. His short story Liaza chaa 'I am going home' was awarded the 2017 Premios CaSa prize for the creation of literature in Zapotec and will be published in the Aug 2018 volume of Latin American Literature Today. This poem, Gyec Muly, has been set to music in an art song by composer Kathryn Goldberg. This music and more of his writing can be found at http://felipehlopez.weebly.com/. https://twitter.com/DizhSa
BROOK DANIELLE LILLEHAUGEN is a linguist specializing in Zapotec languages in both their modern and historical forms. She is an assistant professor of linguistics at Haverford College and previously worked at the Center for Indigenous Languages at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 2006 from the University of California, Los Angeles and has been doing fieldwork with speakers of Zapotec languages since 1999. Lillehaugen's research profile includes technical grammatical descriptions as well as collaborative language documentation and revitalization projects. She has found combining linguistic fieldwork with tools from the digital humanities to be a productive way to collaborate with both Zapotec speaking communities and undergraduate students. She is co-director of Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec texts, and leads several teams in developing online Talking Dictionaries for Zapotec languages. For more information on her research and teaching, visit her website at http://brooklillehaugen.weebly.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @blillehaugen.
EDWARD OGBORN is a senior at Haverford College hailing from Littleton, Colorado. He is majoring in Comparative Literature with a focus on visual media production and cinema. He co-produced a short film which was selected for the Director's Sidebar at the 2018 Tri-Co Film Festival. Edward's other passions include language (he is a speaker of Spanish and French) and comedy (he is a student leader of the Bi-Co's sketch and comedy group, The Lighted Fools, and runs open mic nights at Haverford). He spent the Spring 2018 semester studying abroad in Paris, France. Edward is thrilled to work with this DocuLab team and to create media that will support the goals of Zapotec language activists.
SABEA EVANS is a recently graduated Linguistics major and Religion minor with a concentration in Africana Studies. She was born and raised in Bronx, NY. Sabea has been a member of the Sneetch Ultimate Frisbee team, a co-head and board member of the Black Students League, and has lived in Quaker House community housing for 3 years. She has participated in Customs as a Peer Awareness Facilitator, an Ambassador for Multicultural Awareness, and an International Student Resource Person. She was also recently a Community Outreach Multicultural Liaison. Sabea's senior thesis was on racialized language ideologies of speakers of Dagbani, a non-dominant indigenous language, and mother-tongue education in Dalun, Ghana. She's currently an incoming Haverford House Fellow with the Center for Hunger-Free Communities.
KATHRYN GOLDBERG is a recently graduated Linguistics and Music double major at Bryn Mawr College. She is from Damascus, Maryland. She wrote her senior theses about three popular songs in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, and recently won "Best Descriptive Linguistics Thesis" for her research on the realization of lexical tone in those songs. Kathryn recently composed two art songs setting Zapotec poetry by Felipe H. Lopez. At Bryn Mawr, she was musical director of the Night Owls, the official a cappella group of Bryn Mawr. Kathryn is excited to be a part of this team and to contribute to the existing efforts to valorize Zapotec.
Indigenous Languages Week: lunch with Pablo Landeo Muñoz
11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe


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Уолтер Фрэнк Рафаэль Уэлдон () — английский биолог и один из основоположников биометрии.

Ранние годы и образование
Рафаэл Уэлдон родился 15 марта 1860 года в семье журналиста и промышленного химика Уолтера Уэлдона () и его жены Энн Коттон (). Он был старшим сыном и вторым из трех детей в семье. Отец Уэлдона часто менял место жительства и поэтому сыновья не посещали школу регулярно.

В 1873 году Уэлдон отправился в школу Уотсона () в Кавершем, неподалеку от Рединга, где он провел три года.

В 1876 году Уэлдон поступил в Лондонский университет. Затем, осенью того же года поступил в Университетский колледж в Лондоне с целью получить медицинскую карьеру.

После года обучения в университетском колледже он был переведен в Королевский колледж в Лондоне, а 6 апреля 1878 года поступил в колледж Святого Иоанна в Кембридже. Там, под влиянием Фрэнсиса Мейтленда Бальфура () Уэлдон увлекся зоологией.

Карьера

В 1884-1891 годах Уэлдон читал курс в Кембридже по морфологии беспозвоночных.

В 1883 году Уэлдон женился и отправился  со своей женой в путешествие, где у него появилась возможность изучать морскую зоологию.

В 1887 году Морская биологическая ассоциация открыла лабораторию, посвященную морской биологии в Плимуте и Уэлдон с женой проводили там исследования в течение всех отпусков.

До 1888 года Уэлдон занимался морфологическими и эмбриологическими исследованиями, которые, по мнению современных зоологов, наиболее способствовали выяснению проблем эволюции животных.

В мае 1890 года Уэлдон был избран членом Королевского общества.

В конце 1890 года Уэлдон стал профессором зоологии в Университетском колледже в Лондоне. Там он познакомился и начал плотно общаться с математиком и биологом Карлом Пирсоном.

В 1894 году Уэлдон стал секретарем комитета Королевского общества «для проведения статистических исследований в измеримых характеристиках растений и животных».

В 1900 году Уэлдон был назначен на пост председателя в Оксфорде и занимал этот пост до своей смерти.

В период с 1901 по 1906 год Уэлдон был соредактором научного издания «Биометрика» (), в котором он опубликовал 12 статей.

В январе 1906 года Уэлдон опубликовал «Заметку о потомстве чистокровных каштановых кобыл». Это было его последнее научное издание.

Смерть
В пасхальные каникулы 1906 года, когда Уэлдон с женой находился в гостинице Вулстон, он заболел пневмонией. Вероятно болезнь обострилась из-за переутомления. Он вернулся в Лондон и был принят в дом престарелых, где вскоре умер.

Примечания

Ссылки

Биологи Великобритании
Биологи XIX века
Биологи XX века
Члены Лондонского королевского общества
Зоологи Великобритании
Зоологи XIX века
Зоологи XX века
Выпускники Лондонского университета
Выпускники Королевского колледжа Лондона
Преподаватели Университетского колледжа Лондона
Профессора Университетского колледжа Лондона
Профессор зоологии и сравнительной анатомии Джодрелл (Университетский колледж Лондона)


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The Great Recession Continues for Unemployed Boomers
My June column for StayThirsty.com:
Since the declared end of the Great Recession almost two years ago, the outlook for unemployed boomers in the United States has continued to evolve and become more complicated, but it has not brightened.
On the positive side of the picture, the unemployment rate for older workers is 6.3 percent, which compares favorably to the national average of 9.0 percent. More ominously, the length of time that older workers are jobless has been climbing since 2008 and now exceeds 12 months, three months longer than the average time for all unemployed workers.
Moreover, although the number of Americans who are 50-plus and jobless remains around three million, this figure does not take into account: workers who have dropped out of the labor market due to discouragement; individuals forced to claim disability payments or Social Security at the earliest possible date because they cannot find jobs to support themselves; and, lastly, the growing numbers of boomers who are seriously underemployed.
For the past 15 months, Over 50 and Out of Work has been using video to chronicle the stories of older unemployed Americans, and we have now reached our goal of documenting 100 Stories. We have traveled to 16 states, focusing on the states suffering from the highest unemployment rates and interviewed people who have worked in all major industry groups in a diverse array of occupations.
We continue to stay in touch with our interviewees and track the progress of their job searches. Here is a brief summary of their outcomes to date:
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