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The Strengthening Border Families Research Project is a multi-phase, community based participatory research study being conducted in the New Mexico borderlands. Through this community-based effort, researchers aim to understand the accessibility and quality of services as well as barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in Doña Ana County, NM. On this page, you will find various publications, detailing the findings and recommendations from the first and second phases of the research.
Strengthening Border Families: Frontline Practitioner Perspectives on Service Access for Immigrant Families with Young Children in Doña Ana County, NM
Megan Finno-Velasquez, Sophia Sepp, Vanessa Mendoza, and Anayeli Lopez; Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (December 2021)
This report details the findings and recommendations from the second phase of the Strengthening Border Families study, which elicited the perspectives of frontline practitioners who serve immigrant families across a variety of service settings in the community about the accessibility and quality of services for immigrant families with young children in the Doña Ana County.
Streng thening Border Families: Community and Policy Responses to Serving Immigrant Families with Young Children in Doña Ana County, NM
Megan Finno-Velasquez, Sophia Sepp, Anayeli Lopez, and Michelle Salazar Pérez; Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (May 2021)
This report details the results and recommendations of the first phase of a community-based participatory research project which aimed to explore the accessibility and quality of services as well as barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in the New Mexico borderlands.
Strengthening Border Families Research Brief
Sophia Sepp, Megan-Finno Velasquez, & Vanessa Mendoza; Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (July 2021)
This brief highlights the findings and recommendations from a community-based participatory research study on the accessibility and quality of community services for immigrant families with young children in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
Read the Brief
Research Briefing on Services for Immigrant Families with Young Children in Doña Ana County
Megan-Finno Velasquez, Center on Immigration and Child Welfare; Margie McHugh, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute (July 2021)
This briefing details the findings from our 2020 Strengthening Border Families study, which identified barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in Doña Ana County. We also present preliminary results from a survey of frontline workers serving immigrant families across a variety of community settings. We discussed policy and practice recommendations and next steps for the local community and state of New Mexico. We were joined by guest speaker Margie McHugh from the Migration Policy Institute's (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, who shared new data about the population of dual language learners (DLLs) in NM and opportunities for improving equity in early childhood policies and programs for children in immigrant families. Margie's Powerpoint slides are available below, including links to various fact sheets and data sets on DLLs referenced during the briefing.
Watch the Briefing
View CICW Slide Deck
View MPI Slide Deck & Data

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Building » Bellingham – St Oswald
Bellingham – St Oswald
Bellingham, Hexham, Northumberland NE48
The church dates from 1839, the Catholic mission from 1794. The church is a lancet Gothic design by Ignatius Bonomi and is a valuable 'full-stop' to the village settlement, taking full advantage of its corner site and forming a group with the presbytery and school. The interest is primarily external, the interior plain and simple.
From at least the early eighteenth century, Benedictines served the Catholics of a wide area around Bellingham from Hesleyside Hall, about two miles west of the village and home of the Charlton family since the Middle Ages; or Tone Hall about five miles east. The mission is documented as being founded in 1794 and a chapel was created but abandoned by 1808. The last Benedictine chaplain left Hesleyside Hall in 1833 and a priest only came to live in Bellingham after the church and presbytery were built in 1839. The £1250 cost was mainly funded by the Charlton family but £300 was raised from public subscription by the first priest, Fr Brown. It was opened and blessed by Bishop Briggs on 26 June 1839, but not consecrated until 10 May 1950. The church was built to the designs of Ignatius Bonomi, architect of Durham and is one of six Catholic churches attributed to him – the grandest being St Paulinus at Brough Park, North Yorkshire. He was a distant relative of the Charlton family and worked at Hesleyside in 1847.
The school (with its house, now St Oswald's Cottage?) was opened in 1849, funded by Francis Charlton, the then county surveyor.
In 1869, Bonomi's bellcote sited over the east gable was removed and the present larger west gable bellcote erected to the designs of A. M. Dunn. A report of an undated excursion to the area in the Northern Catholic History Magazine states 'enlarged in 1869' without further explanation or reference to Dunn's work
In 1981 Fr James Costello reordered the sanctuary to designs by David Brown and the altar was consecrated by Bishop Lindsay on 26 January 1982.
The church has a reversed geographical orientation but in this report conventional liturgical points are used. The high altar is therefore described as being at the east end, whereas it is geographically to the west.
The list entry (below) is brief, and does not describe the interior. It has confused orientations, misnames the memorial sculptor and needs to credit A. M. Dunn with the 1869 bellcote.
This simple rectangle building of coursed local stone roofed in blue slates is in the Early English or lancet Gothic style, of three bays externally but divided into six bays internally by the roof trusses. A southwest gabled porch contains a simple memorial tablet of 1841 signed G. Green Newcastle (not John Green as in Pevsner and the list description) and the arms of Pope Gregory XVI are over the door. Sacristies link to the large presbytery on the northeast corner.
The east and west facades are formed of three staggered lancets, with small glazed trefoils above the outer lancets lighting the roof space. The west end bellcote by A.M. Dunn is a very assured piece of 1869, corbelled out and rising to a high gable. The single bell was cast by Taylors of Loughborough. The south wall towards the road is blank, but the north wall has two paired lancet windows separated by a thin buttress.
Internally, the collar tie roof is plastered to form a three sided ceiling with an exposed purlin to each side. The trusses rise from painted stone corbels with stencilled decoration; bizarrely, two trusses rise from corbels in the thin wall separating the north side lancets.
The eastern lancets are linked with arches, probably of timber applied when the lower half of the central lancet of the east wall was infilled with plasterboard, presumably in 1981. The altar brought forward from the east wall has been widened so that the right half of the stone is new but well matched to the old (which must be later then 1839). The supporting marble shafts are re-used (they match the reredos) but the sides and back of the altar are of 1981. The scars of lost wall panelling suggest that these pews are not original and their style is late Victorian. The fourteen Stations 'were erected September 9 MCM in memory of Rev. John George Flint by his faithful housekeeper Margaret Swallow'.
There are a number of modest Charlton memorial tablets, but the family members are mainly buried elsewhere.
LIST DESCRIPTION:
Roman Catholic Church. 1839 by Ignatius Bonomi. Dressed stone and Welsh slate roof. Nave and chancel in one and east bellcote. 3 bays with, on south side, 2 sets of paired lancets under dripstones and a gabled porch with foliated cross finial. North wall is blank. East end has 3 stepped lancets under continuous dripstone, 2 trefoil windows above side lights and fanciful bellcote supported on moulded corbels; gable has a roundel with a pierced trefoil, crocketed pinnacles and a foliated cross finial. Monument by John Green in south porch. Plain interior.
Architect: Ignatius Bonomi
Listed Grade: II


Made some changes to TransferMyEmail yesterday and today – basically I rewrote the parsing routine for folder structure and output of checkboxes. This was needed because originally I had been using "INBOX" as the root folder, which worked to a certain extent, but then had some feedback from Germany, where I found out "POSTEINGANG" could be used too, and also Gmail has a folder structure that is based partly on IMAP and partly on their tags. So you could have a list of folders, then in the middle a [GMAIL] root folder, then some other folders after that.
Long story short, it should handle anything you throw at it to a depth of 3 subfolders, and still iterate through everything properly.
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I ran into an issue with WP E-commerce recently where the shipping options appeared to be unchecked every day that we went to go and look at them. Turns out it was a line in one of the shipping files that reset the shipping array to just "shipwire" which made it appear as if someone was turning off shipping every day (or a cron job, in this case).
Anyways, I created a script to monitor changes to custom_shipping_options and thereby found out what the issue was. Here's the code, hope it helps.
# This script is designed to check a variable in the WordPress Options table and notify you of changes.
# Above is the html5 notification script for desktop notification immediately as it changes.


Icecream Ebook Reader is a special app that can be used to manage ebook libraries and make reading a wide range of different types of ebooks a breeze. Users will be able to use the software to read their ebooks on their computer and there are lots of different customisable features that can be customised to make the experience of reading a book on the computer better than ever before.
One of the great things about Icecream Ebook Reader is that with a single click of a button users can change the size of the font of the ebook they have selected to make it bigger or smaller than standard. This is ideal for older readers who struggle to see smaller text. It is also possible to convert the format of the ebooks that users own so that they can be read more easily, while the background can be changed along with a number of other features so that users can truly gain the reading experience that they have always dreamed of.
People who are looking for an easy way to read ebooks on their laptop should make sure that they take a look at Icecream Ebook Reader. While the software is easy to use and customise, it should be noted that it is only currently compatible with certain versions of Windows.
Icecream Ebook Reader helps organize ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, FB2, CBZ and CBR formats into a digital library and read books the way you like it.
The program lets you systematize the books within the library and have a quick access to any of them whenever you need. Thus, you can switch from Bookshelf mode to Table view to check detailed information about the file. If your library appears to be too large to find a necessary book manually, you can use special filters and sort the books out by the following categories: All, Recently read, Favorites, and Formats. You can also create custom categories within the Library.
The program aids the users tremendously when it comes to reading. Particularly, it features special options like Full screen and Window modes, bookmarking tool, font size adjustment, etc.
-	Profiles ("Day" for reading in good lighting, "Night" for reading in low or no light, "Sepia" – for reading in average lighting conditions).
The program would be absolutely irreplaceable if you love reading books on your PC but don't have a special program for managing it . Icecream Ebook Reader is easy to use, and highly effective even when it comes to loads of ebooks. Unlike other basic readers, this program allows you to customize the process and make it as convenient as possible.


A medical laboratory is a place where the tests for the clinical specimen will be done in order to get the information needed for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of a disease on a patient. Clinical laboratories focus on applied science mainly on the production-like basis not like the research laboratories that focus on basic science on an academic basis.
There are two departments when it comes to laboratory medicine and each department will be subdivided into different units. You can read more about the two departments below.
Anatomic pathology – this department will include cytopathology, electron microscopy, and histopathology. A person can study each unit in a single course, academically. The other courses related to this section are histology, pathophysiology, pathology, and physiology.
Hermatology – the manual and automated analysis of blood cells are under this section. The blood bank and the coagulation are the other subunits included in this section.
You should know that it would vary from different places when it comes to the distribution of clinical laboratories in different health centers. An example for this is some facilities might not have a laboratory for microbiology but will have separate labs for each unit, while some health institutions will have one laboratory intended for microbiology.
You should know that any clinical specimen can be received by microbiology like the possible infected tissue, synovial fluids, cerebrospinal fluid, sputum, blood, urine, feces, and swabs. That main task here involves the main concern with cultures, looking for the possible pathogens that will be identified more based on biochemical tests if found. A sensitivity test will also be done in order to know if the pathogen is resistant or sensitive to a prescribed medicine, simply check this company. Results will be reported together with the determined organism or organisms, and the type and quantity of drugs that will be given to a patient.
In a lot of countries, there are two main types of medical laboratories that will process most of the medical specimens. The laboratories that are attached to the hospitals will perform different tests for the patients. Private laboratories will analyze the samples from insurance companies, clinical research sites, health clinics, and general practitioners. You can look into a website if you want to know more about medical laboratories.


Speaking to a meeting of The Arts Education Partnership last spring, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said: "The arts can no longer be treated as a frill. Arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow."
The augment Duncan makes is simple: arts education stimulates creativity and innovation, critical for young Americans competing in a global economy.
Neither he nor President Obama have yet put this notion into law. Nor has "The Race to the Top", Obama's new school challenge putting pressure on state legislatures to allow more charter schools and holding teachers more accountable, reflect their interest in the arts.
Maybe that's too much to ask.
But it is not too soon to talk about the arts, and about changing our nation's curriculum. Unfortunately, the arts are seen by many leaders in business, politics and yes, even education, as lacking certain "masculinity".
More than two years ago, former President George W. Bush signed into law a bill called the America Competes Act — also know as the STEM initiative for Science Technology Engineering and Math.
The bill authorized $151 million to help students earn a bachelor's degree in math or science as wells as help graduates get teaching credentials in these fields. It also allocated additional money to help align K-12 math and science curricula to better prepare students for college.
In truth, we need a huge infusion of capital and a change in attitude about the relationship between art and music and math and science in education. We need to define a well-rounded education and to make the case for the importance of the arts, and an art infused education.
According to the Americans for the Arts in Washington, D.C., this is the only sector where the growth of arts jobs in publishing, television, graphic design and related fields is a bright spot in the present day dismal economy.
Importantly, the potential for truly creative and innovative jobs represent a strategy to lift America to a new level in the world. Most analysts studying the new global economy agree that growing a "creative and innovative" economy represents America's salvation.
Today, in the rush to confront the wave of outsourcing and off-shoring caused by the globalization of the economy, it is math and science that are urged upon our young, an emphasis, that is to our peril.
After a decade of studying the human brain we know the arts enhance math and science comprehension. We know that where art-infused education is used to redesign the curriculum, one that is truly integrated, collaborative and interactive, students' attendance dramatically improves, as does performance.
Our local communities leaders — in government, business and education — all talk a good game. But are we really an arts town? A place where we can walk the talk? Can we make things happen?
There is simply no excuse for not reinventing our schools to meet the challenges of this new global knowledge based age.


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Herman Valentiner (8 May 1850 – 17 September 1913) was a Danish mathematician who introduced the Valentiner group in 1889.

Valentiner earned his Ph.D. in 1881 from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on space curves, and took a teaching position. However, soon afterwards he moved to a Danish life insurance company.

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1850 births
1913 deaths

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By Gedalia January 7, 2009 January 7, 2009
Today's editorial in the West Australian was right on the mark by laying the blame for the current crisis clearly in the domain of Hamas. Some very insightful letters to the editor also show that there is a level of understanding and appreciation of the war that confronts Israel. Full credit to the West for their effort. Some of the internationally syndicated coverage continues to portray Israel as an aggressor against innocent victims, but it is evident to most people what is now happening, and why.
The headline on Fairfax's WA Today website (no link provided because I don't want the satisfaction of the company getting more web traffic) is "Israeli UN School Massacre Kills 45 people." What actually happened, according to the reports in the Israeli newspapers is that Hamas terrorists fired at Israeli troops (a violation of international law, as they were shooting from a UN school site). Israel responded with return fire aimed at killing the terrorist shooters. It was alleged that the building had been booby trapped and there were secondary explosions. It was also implied that Hamas filled the building with civilians in order to manufacture the so called "massacre".  More context here from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The UN Secretary General has called Israel's strike "Unacceptable". Â
Mr Ban Ki-Moon: What is unacceptable is that UN sites are used as launch bases for terrorism. What is unacceptable is that Hamas place the Palestinain population in harms way by crowding the areas from which they attack. What is unacceptable is that at least 40 more missiles have been sent into Israel by Hamas in the last 24 hours.  What is unacceptable is that the global world body has no moral outlook to distinguish between a free society and a subjugated society, between defenders and perpetrators, between good and evil.
Update:Â Confirmation that terrorists were firing from a UN school
Some of my best friends….
Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel


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Have you ever been confused by the alphabet soup of pacemakers? This post will serve as a pacemaker basics reference.
Definition: A dysfunctional condition in which removal of baclofen, an inhibitory neurotransmitter, from the central nervous system (CNS) causes CNS excitation.


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activities, skateboarding and recreational water use.
will be subject to citation.
and the penalty for noncompliance.
unspecified duties imposed under existing law.
people between the ages of 10 and 24.
in the US wore helmets in the 2008-09 season.
7,700 injuries annually, could be addressed by helmet use.
on the Slopes," published in February 2006, quoted Dr.
that half of all skiing deaths are caused by a head injury.
about the need to wear helmets when skiing or snowboarding.
rights of the parent to make decisions for their children.
monitoring and who will hand out the violation ticket.
of being hit by a moving vehicle."
"I am returning Senate Bill 105 without my signature.
skis or snowboards without a helmet.
state.  Not every human problem deserves a law.
make good choices for their children."


You should note that there is the vulnerability of fatigue especially after a tiring week. That is why people have devised various ways to unwind. One of them is to take a rest of home or opt to get massage services. If you decide to get physiotherapy and massage services, it is important you pick the right experts. I will walk you through the main aspects to scrutinize when making this decision.
The first one is to consider the pricing of the experts. This is because the fees charged by the clinics vary across the board. If you are not meticulous with these services then you may end up overspending. To be on the safe side, you are encouraged to evaluate the amount of money to be used here. This gives you the best opportunity to research on the market prices. Remember, affordability is key when it comes to this aspect.
Additionally, you are encouraged to scrutinize the customer services provided by the experts. This is because there are teams that have an exemplary track record. At the same time, there are destinations that have yet to prove their worth in the market. It is up to you to associate yourself with the information shared here. In the long run, you should confirm that there are sufficient customer services. Subsequently, you should ensure that these services have been extended to the online platform. It is wise that you get customer services that are convenient for you.
When it comes to physiotherapy and massage services, it is important that you figure out the location. This is because the services are spread in different parts of the country. It is important that you realize that this affects the flexibility of getting these services. It is important that you choose a physiotherapy clinic that is around you. The merit of making this choice is that you incur fewer expenses when it comes to these services. Furthermore, you should reduce the time spent when getting to the clinic.
Before getting the best clinic for these services, it is important that you look at the credentials. This is because there are entities that are operating without the required paperwork. Having said this, you should confirm that the clinic has been licensed by the authorities. Remember, there are quacks that are out there to con you off your hard-earned money. However, if you validate the credentials with the authorities then you minimize the risk of this happening.


LANSING, Ill. (February 8, 2019) – On January 23, about 100 people gathered at Jack's Sports Pub for the Village Voice Party's press conference, marking an unofficial start to Lansing's 2019 campaign season. Those in attendance heard from the party's leader, Mayor Patty Eidam, and her slate of three Trustee candidates—Saad Abbasy, Mike Fish, and Jerry Zeldenrust. The various presentations lasted approximately 45 minutes, but the mingling, food, and socializing before and after extended the event to about two hours.
A fourth candidate—Larry Thomas—has focused his time on one-on-one or small group conversations with residents. Working alone, he doesn't have the resources or synergy that the party has, but he plans to share his enthusiasm, involvement, and ideas with residents in upcoming events before April 2.
The Lansing Journal met with all four Village Trustee candidates in late January in order to learn about their background and relevant experience, their values, and their hopes for Lansing. Below, in alphabetical order, we provide links to the summary created for each candidate. Those links will open up a separate post for each candidate.
We also hope Lansing residents will subscribe to our daily online newsfeed in order to stay informed about upcoming campaign developments.


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Salix ernestii is a species in the genus of willow (Salix) and grows as a shrub. The leaf blades are about 11 centimeters long. The natural range of the species is in China.

Description
Salix ernestii grows as a shrub. The twigs are initially hairy gray and shaggy and later bald. The buds are long downy-haired. The leaves have a filamentous, hairy petiole up to 1 centimeter long. The leaf blade is elliptical or obovate-elliptical, about 11 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is whole-edged or serrated to the tip inconspicuously glandular, the leaf base is rounded to wedge-shaped, the leaf end rounded, pointed or blunt. The upper side of the leaf is hairy down, the underside with fibrous velvety hairs, later rarely balding. The leaf veins are raised on both leaf sides. Nine to eleven lateral wire pairs are formed per leaf.

The male inflorescences are 4 to 5 centimeters long and about 1 centimeter across catkins . The inflorescence stalk is 1 to 3.5 centimeters long and has normal leaves. The inflorescence axis is hairy shaggy. The bracts are obovate or obovate-oblong, about 2.5 millimeters long, shaggy hairy underneath and have a rounded tip. Male flowers have two nectar glands , the adaxial is wider than the abaxial. There will be two stamensformed with shaggy hairy stamens at the base. The female catkins are thinner than the male and up to 13 centimeters long when the fruit is ripe. Female flowers have an oval, elongated adaxial nectar gland, the abaxial nectar gland is very small or may be absent. The ovary is hairy down. The stylus is about 1.5 millimeters long and divided into two parts. The scar is hairy and usually twisted. The fruits are about 6 millimeters long and finely hairy capsules. Salix ernestii flowers when the leaves shoot in May and June, the fruits ripen from July to August.

Range
The natural range is in Tibet and the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan. There it grows on mountain slopes at altitudes of 2700 to 3500 meters.

Taxonomy
Ernestii Salix is a kind from the kind of willow (Salix), in the family of the pasture plants (Salicaceae). There, it is the section Psilostigmatae assigned. It was in 1916 by Camillo Karl Schneider scientifically first described. The epithet honors the English botanist Ernest Henry Wilson. Synonyms of the species are Salix daltoniana  var.  Franchetiana  Burkill, Salix ernestii  f. ernestii, Salix ernestii  f. glabrescens   Y.L. Chou & CF Fang, Salix ernestii  var.  Wangii (Goerz) N. Chao , Salix franchetiana (Burkill) Hand.-Mazz. , Salix pseudoernesti Goerz and Salix wangii Goerz.

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Paul Wraith is the man who led the design team on the Daewoo interior concepts. Here we take a look at Paul's work over the years and talk to him about the way he believes automotive design will develop in the future.
After training in general Art and Design at the Cheshire School of Art Paul gained a place at Coventry University in 1990 to study Transportation Design. For his industry placement as part of the Coventry MDes, Paul went to the P.S.A. (Peugeot/Citroen) Advanced Design Centre outside Paris. In 1994 Paul graduated and won the IBCAM/British Steel Student Automotive Designer Award for his final year project - 'Maelstrom'.
From Coventry, Paul went on to the RCA to study the Masters in Vehicle Design and graduated in 1996 after a time spent at the Ford Medium Vehicle facility, Dunton, Essex. During these two years, Paul centred his attentions on interior design and won the IBCAM/British Steel Student Automotive Design Award for a second time, for his final project - 'Oddessey'.
In 1996 Paul began work for the Hyundai Europe Design office in Frankfurt and was the sole designer of the well received 1997 Hyundai EURO-1 Geneva Show car interior. With this, Paul further developed the ideas and concepts he had initialised during his time at the RCA with the Oddessey project; particularly the 'twist-grip' steering wheel rim mounted gear changer.
Whilst the RCA project was a proposal only, the EURO-1 was a fully running and powerful racing car. The twist-grip controls being an efficient alternative to the conventional paddle and button shifters seen now in a number of road and racing cars. The EURO-1 technical work was completed by Anthony Dodworth, an ex-formula 1 and McLaren engineer of repute, the exterior by David Cutcliff.
After this spell in Germany Paul returned to the UK and to the energetic Daewoo Worthing studio under the then Head of Design, Ginger Ostle. In his first year there, Paul contributed significantly to the Daewoo Mirae in concept and execution of the interior as team leader. In this project Paul continued his investigation into driver systems, proposing in this case the use of drive-by-wire and advanced seating systems. Unlike EURO-1 which was a pure sports car, this was a complex hybrid. The fusion of family car and supercar, the VSC (Versatile Sports Car).
A year later Paul further developed the Mirae concepts and systems in the Daewoo Musiro, launched at the 2000 Birmingham Motor Show. The Musiro followed on from the Mirae but took the ideas and concepts closer to production reality. The Musiro was based on an existing platform and was designed to utilise current production technologies. As Wraith puts it: "I believe I managed to achieve 90% of the versatility of the Mirae in a more realisable proposal that, if wished for, could be taken to production in a little over a year. The V.S.C. concept has value, as witnessed by the number of hybrid or cross-over concepts at recent shows."
Certain ideas and characteristics can be seen to be carried from the Paul's work at Coventry and the RCA through to the motor show concepts: "It shows that these young ideas have value and this should be of interest to others wanting to work in this industry". Wraith's outlook on the future of design in the context of changing World markets is positive. "The process of car design and development is changing. Use of digital working mediums is opening up design and allowing it a more global base - in the future a 'virtual' studio should be able to function more efficiently than today, the designers and engineers, located around the world bringing with them the daily experiences of living in diverse cultures in a pure and unaffected way; whilst their global location diversity could allow 24 hour operation. As yet the technology inhibits this practically, but more importantly nobody has done it yet, the precedent that others might follow isn't there.
"The inclusion of issues and disciplines from outside the automotive sector, often motivated by the rapid changes in society, technology, and behaviour, are making this a richer and more diverse environment in which to meaningfully extend creativity. More and more the automotive designer must be aware of trends in all the creative an emergent arenas as the automobile is a fusion of so many disparate technological, physiological, and emotional issues. In the past it may have been acceptable to have just a passion for the car, now the designer must have equal enthusiasm for product, furniture, and web design. Understand media, culture, be well traveled, predict or be aware of trends, but most of all be motivated.
"The future of automotive design is challenging. So much work has already been done, but it is clear that so much more is yet to come. The future is bright."


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. assert.sh/assert.sh

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/hello.js" "hello phantom.js"

assert "node bin/cmd.js ./test/hello.js" "hello phantom.js"

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/async.js" "Oh, hi!"

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/async-long.js" "1
2
3
4
5"
assert_end basic

assert_raises "echo '' | node bin/cmd.js --brout" 1

assert_raises "node bin/cmd.js < test/hello.js"

assert_raises "node bin/cmd.js < test/logerror.js" 1

assert_raises "node bin/cmd.js < test/error.js" 1

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/logerror.js" "Whoups!"

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/logerrors.js" "1
2
3"

assert_end error

assert "node bin/cmd.js --port 42000 < test/error.js | head -n 2" "Error: Ouch!
    at http://localhost:42000/js/bundle:2"

assert "node_modules/.bin/browserify test/browserify.js | bin/cmd.js" "hello emitter"

assert "node_modules/.bin/browserify --debug test/sourcemaps-console.js | node bin/cmd.js" "      at test/sourcemaps-console.js:3"
assert "node_modules/.bin/browserify --debug test/sourcemaps-uncaught.js | node bin/cmd.js | head -n 2" "Error: oups
      at test/sourcemaps-uncaught.js:2"

assert_end debugging

PHANTOM=$(which phantomjs)
NODE=$(which node)
assert "PATH=; $NODE bin/cmd.js < test/hello.js" "Cannot find phantomjs. Make sure it's in your \$PATH, or specify with --phantomjs."
# Don't know why this fails. Running this command from the command line works as expected
assert "env PATH=$(dirname "$NODE") $NODE bin/cmd.js --phantomjs $PHANTOM < test/hello.js" "hello phantom.js"

assert_raises "node bin/cmd.js < test/web-security.js" 1

assert "node bin/cmd.js --web-security false < test/web-security.js" "--web-security=false"

assert_raises "node bin/cmd.js < test/ignore-ssl-errors.js" 1

assert "node bin/cmd.js --web-security false --ignore-ssl-errors true < test/ignore-ssl-errors.js" "--ignore-ssl-errors=true"

assert "node bin/cmd.js --viewport-width 888 --viewport-height 999 < test/viewport.js" "888 999"

assert_end "cli flag"

assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/navigation.js" "no navigation"

export TZ='Europe/Berlin'
DST=$(date +%Z)
if [[ $DST == CEST ]]; then
  OFFSET_EU="-120"
  OFFSET_US="240"
else
  OFFSET_EU="-60"
  OFFSET_US="300"
fi
assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/timezone.js" $OFFSET_EU
export TZ='America/New_York'
assert "node bin/cmd.js < test/timezone.js" $OFFSET_US

assert_end miscellaneous

# Verify SyntaxError is caught and logged
assert "echo 'const modern = () => {}' | node bin/cmd.js --port 42000" "SyntaxError: Unexpected token ')'
    at http://localhost:42000/js/bundle:1"
# Verify ReferenceError is not logged twice
assert "echo 'unknown()' | node bin/cmd.js --port 42000" "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: unknown
    at http://localhost:42000/js/bundle:1"

assert_end "JS error"

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In the sixth grade I left my sketchbook behind in the gym during my very first middle school dance. Back then, leaving my sketchbook was nothing more than a minor inconvenience, but strangely enough, I'd have to say this was the beginning of my experience in Robotics. About a week after this incident, a science teacher named Ms. Bandy approached me. She had seen the sketchbook I left behind, and was fairly impressed. She told me the team could really use my help with designing and how I should really consider joining the school's Robotics team.
At the time, I had no idea what she was talking about. I couldn't fathom the thought of me being on a Robotics team. I had no interests in robots, computers, or even in science. To be honest, I was terrible at all three of those things. Besides, what would they have me design? I dismissed this idea quickly, as flattered as I was. Three years later, I find myself staying up past midnight making button designs.
The first time I attended a Robotics meeting, I was completely surprised. I thought it'd be boring, despite how fondly my friends had spoken about it. Actually, it was quite the opposite. Immediately, I was told that I didn't have to do anything but draw. There were a few guidelines here and there, but I wasn't bombarded with strict requirements or restrictions. I was given the most creative freedom that I could ask for. Naturally, I continued to attend these meetings every week. In fact, Robotics started to become the only club that I'd go to, despite having signed up for five.
The first time I saw my design be made into a physical button, I decided that Robotics had become more important to me than my 6th grade self could ever anticipate. It was a big team that was composed of people that you'd never expect to see in a Robotics club, and they didn't just sit around and talk about robots. To me, this team has become a way to share my creativity with others who might not know anything about art, but it works out since I don't know a lot about robots either. It genuinely makes me happy to see that my work is being appreciated in a place other than art class. For that reason, I've decided that I'd be sticking around for as long as possible.


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Brian Goldman on 'The Power of Kindness,' health care and compassion
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Brian Goldman on The Power of Kindness, Healthcare and Compassion
Where does our sense of compassion and empathy come from? Is it a natural genetic trait or do we need to develop and foster it in a variety of creative and life affirming ways? Is compassion fatigue a real thing and can we choose to be empathetic or is it more of an imperative? All good questions worth exploring as cities tend to lean towards cocooning and insularity. In an age where budgets are often being cut and patient loads are on the rise and people are asked to do more work for less are there things we can do to ensure we don't lose our compassionate and kind edge.
In The Power of Kindness, Goldman leaves the comfortable, familiar surroundings of the hospital in search of his own lost compassion. A top neuroscientist performs an MRI scan of his brain to see if he is hard-wired for empathy. A researcher at Western University in Ontario tests his personality and makes a startling discovery. Goldman then circles the planet in search of the most empathic people alive, to hear their stories and learn their secrets.
Brian Goldman and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his book The Power of Kindness, healthcare and shame, threats and anxiety, the big reveal, bonding with others and why empathy is a choice.
Brian visits a boulevard in São Paulo, Brazil, where he meets a woman who calls a homeless poet her soul mate and reunited him with his family; a research lab in Kyoto, Japan, where he meets a lifelike, empathetic android; and a nursing home in rural Pennsylvania, where he meets a therapist at a nursing home who has an uncanny knack of knowing what's inside the hearts and minds of people with dementia, as well as her protégé, a woman who talked a gun-wielding robber into walking away from his crime.
Powerful and engaging, The Power of Kindness takes us far from the hospital and into the world at large, and investigates why kindness is so vital to our existence.
About the author: Dr. Brian Goldman has been an ER doctor, radio host of White Coat, Black Art and healthcare pundit. As a veteran emergency room physician, Brian has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He has been an award-winning medical reporter for CBC Television's The Health Show as well as The National. He's known across Canada as CBC Radio One's 'house doctor'. Brian has a proven knack for making sense of medical bafflegab.
He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians, but time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He wondered what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others.
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Starwood Hotels Introduces Tribute Portfolio
Promising owners, Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG®) members and guests the ability to "Stay Independent," the Tribute Portfolio brand will be comprised of outstanding independent hotels and resorts. With a firm focus on four star, upper upscale hotels, Tribute Portfolio will complement Starwood's The Luxury Collection brand and further solidify Starwood as the world's most global high-end hotel company. The brand will make its debut today with its first featured hotel, the iconic Royal Palm South Beach Miami (pictured above) and will soon open new hotels in Asheville, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
"With Starwood's history of brand innovation, design leadership and our leading global high-end footprint, we believe Tribute Portfolio will be an exciting solution for hotel owners of distinct properties who wish to maintain their independent spirit, yet benefit from Starwood's powerful distribution, loyalty and sales platforms," said Adam Aron, Starwood's Chief Executive Officer. "Our mission with Tribute Portfolio is very simple: bring great hotels in great destinations to our loyal SPG members, who make up more than half of all Starwood stays."
Aron continued, "We recognize that independent hotels also attract guests who are not already affiliated with SPG. Tribute Portfolio will provide a clear opportunity for us to grow our SPG member base and deliver more loyal guests across all of our Starwood hotels worldwide."
With a long runway to grow, Starwood expects 100 Tribute Portfolio hotels by 2020
Aron said Starwood's goal is to have 100 Tribute Portfolio hotels and resorts over the next five years. Initial focus on growth of this new brand will be in North America and Europe, and travelers can expect to see Tribute Portfolio properties in global markets within the first year.
"Nearly 50% of upper upscale hotels in the U.S. are independent, and likewise, 60% of four star hotels globally are not affiliated with a brand flag. This provides Starwood with a vast landscape to grow Tribute Portfolio," said Dave Marr, Senior Vice President of Brand Management, North America and Global Brand Leader for Tribute Portfolio. "In speaking with many owners, it is clear that they welcome the opportunity to partner with Starwood to enhance the performance of their independent hotels. They are attracted to the benefits that will come from the power of SPG and our high-end Starwood sales customers coupled with the flexibility of minimal brand specific standards."
Starwood's The Luxury Collection, the hotel industry's original "collection brand," featuring some of the world's most iconic independent luxury hotels, is in the midst of its most prolific growth spurt in its 21-year history. In the last decade, The Luxury Collection brand has tripled its footprint, growing more than 60% in the last five years alone. Marr continued, "Starwood has meticulously handpicked the luxury hotels featured in The Luxury Collection, and we will just as carefully select independent, upper upscale properties for Tribute Portfolio, ensuring a consistent high-end experience that meets guest and SPG member expectations around the world."
Tribute Portfolio Answers SPG Members' Demand for More Hotels in More Destinations, Plus Offers 10,000 Point Bonus
Tribute Portfolio properties will be located in high-demand destinations and markets where SPG members travel but today Starwood has little or no footprint.
"Our SPG members constantly tell us they want more choices in more destinations, and we see Tribute Portfolio as a nod to our members who have been front and center as we developed this brand," said Mark Vondrasek, Starwood's Senior Vice President, Distribution, Loyalty and Partnership Marketing. "They have told us they would like to stay with us whenever and wherever they can, and now we can reward them as they 'Stay Independent.'"
According to a recent survey of SPG members conducted by Communispace in the SPG Advisory Community, 89% said they are interested in staying in independent hotels, particularly for leisure travel and special occasion trips to unique destinations. Additionally, nearly 70% of members said they have already stayed at an un-branded hotel property, representing a strong opportunity for the company. SPG members identified a diverse North American hotel wish-list that includes more Florida and Caribbean resorts as well as locations in California wine country, Las Vegas, and boutique markets like Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. The list of "most wanted" global destinations features Alpine ski markets, African safari retreats, Southeast Asia resorts and Northern Europe, especially the Nordic countries. Demand is also on the rise for more hotels in South America, led by Rio, São Paulo and Buenos Aires as well as across Asia in primary markets such as Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Vondrasek continued, "SPG is the world's richest hotel loyalty program. Our concentration of high-end hotel brands plus partnerships with companies like Delta, Uber, American Express, and Emirates Airline continue to raise the stakes in loyalty and make it very compelling for mega travelers to choose to stay with Starwood. With Tribute Portfolio, we are thrilled to offer members access to some of the world's most exciting independent hotels."
As with Starwood's other nine brands, SPG members will be able to earn and redeem Starpoints® at Tribute Portfolio hotels and enjoy in-hotel elite tier benefits, such as upgrades, welcome amenities, late check-out and more. In celebration of Starwood's 10th brand, SPG is offering members up to 10,000 bonus points for stays at Tribute Portfolio hotels through July 15, 2015. For more information and to register, visit www.spg.com/tributeportfolio.
From Miami to Nashville, Tribute Portfolio on Track to Reach 10 Hotels in First Year
The Tribute Portfolio brand's debut property, the iconic Royal Palm South Beach Miami, boasts direct beach access to world famous South Beach and is ideally located on Collins Avenue, steps from Ocean Drive and the area's luxury retail shopping and entertainment district. Owned by Chesapeake Lodging Trust and managed by HEI Hotels & Resorts, the Royal Palm South Beach, a Tribute Portfolio Resort, has been recently restored by Lauren Rottet of Rottet Studio as a modern homage to the hotel's rich history. Dating back to 1939, the Royal Palm features 393 guestrooms, including more than 100 suites, two swimming pools surrounded by contemporary cabanas, a fully equipped gym, and more than 10,000 square feet of modern meeting and event space. Signature dining options include Florida Cookery Patio, an outdoor dining experience with approachable, local fare; South Shore bar and lounge, featuring a small plates menu and extensive cocktail list; and The Coffee Bar, providing all day coffee, juices, teas and pastries set in the hotel's original green glass reception desk. A new destination restaurant, Byblos, will open this summer and feature Eastern Mediterranean fare by Executive Chef Stuart Cameron. Designed by Canadian design firm Munge Leung, this will be the first US outpost of the Toronto favorite.
Tribute Portfolio also launches with four soon-to-open hotel properties. In Asheville, North Carolina, the well-known BB&T Bank building, which draws inspiration from renowned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, will open in 2017 as the Vandre Nouveau Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel. The property is a partnership between McKibbon Hotel Group and Tower Associates and will include 150 guest rooms and suites, a destination restaurant and lobby bar, and more than 4,000 square feet of modern meeting and event space.
Starwood is also working with Rockbridge to open three Tribute Portfolio hotels. Debuting in 2016, the historically significant Noel Place Hotel in the Printers Alley area of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, will undergo a comprehensive renovation and feature 166 guestrooms and suites, a destination restaurant, rooftop bar and speakeasy. Also slated to open in 2016, a new build hotel in Savannah, Georgia, will be perfectly situated on River Street in the city's Historic District and include 173 guestrooms and suites, an 11,000 square foot indoor/outdoor rooftop bar, outdoor swimming pool, and destination restaurant. In 2017, Tribute Portfolio will debut in the Historic District of Charleston, South Carolina, with a 100 guestroom hotel featuring a rooftop pool and bar, signature restaurant, and 11,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting and event space.
Hotels are Hero in New Marketing Campaign Launching Tribute Portfolio
In connection with today's Tribute Portfolio announcement, Starwood will run full-page advertisements that prominently feature the brand's tagline of "Stay Independent" in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, showcasing the first hotel to join the brand. Simultaneously, the company will launch an extensive global campaign to promote Tribute Portfolio in digital, social and traditional media channels, including advertising in both consumer and B2B print and digital outlets and event activations in key global markets. Starwood has also partnered with Instagram, the most engaged channel for SPG members, as one of the first brands to utilize the photo sharing platform's new ad carousel format. As new hotels and resorts join the Tribute Portfolio brand, the campaign will continue to expand to further fuel excitement around the brand.
Tribute Portfolio will also launch with a digital initiative that will zero in on extraordinary independent moments found at hotels throughout the brand. Dubbed #OurLikes, the campaign will celebrate the captivating features and experiences that travelers love about staying independent. Going beyond the typical hotel brochure, these socially sourced vignettes from guests will unveil the secret spots, must-sees and can't miss experiences of Tribute Portfolio hotels, such as the dimly-lit Edison bulbs that lead the way to an underground whiskey bar, the off-the-menu cocktail with ingredients the bartender will never disclose, or the undiscovered corner of the rooftop lounge that offers an uninterrupted view of the sunset.
"What makes Tribute Portfolio stand out is its simple focus on great independent hotels in exciting places that we know will absolutely delight our SPG members and guests," concluded Marr.
Visit website: www.tributeportfolio.com


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Fernando Ávalos may refer to:

Fernando Cuéllar Ávalos (1945–2008), Peruvian footballer and coach
Fernando Horacio Ávalos (born 1978), Argentine footballer
Fernando Ávalos (governor), Governor of Querétaro, Mexico, 1923

See also
Fernando d'Ávalos (1489–1525), Italian-Spanish military commander
Francesco Ferdinando d'Ávalos (1530–1571), Italian-Spanish military commander and governor


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View from the shore in the direction of the site. The stakes are indicating the extent of the protected zone of the reed growth © MC - DRASSM, Yves Billaud
 Saint-Jorioz |  Les Marais de Saint-Jorioz
The site was discovered in 1989, and partially excavated until 1994. As part of the ongoing monitoring program the site was re-inspected in 2016. It extends along about a 160m long strip in the shallow water zone. The archaeological layer is 16m at its widest, and 2m at its thickest point. During a small excavation of about 3 square meters, in 1992, the archaeological layer was only 10cm thick, but produced stone artifacts and pottery that indicated influences by the Chasséen and Cortaillod cultures. Across a 2000 square meter area, 1123 prehistoric piles were recorded topographically. The study of this map showed an area in the very north-west of the pile field with comparatively few piles that the archaeologists interpreted as two small dwellings with semicircular recesses.
	Neolithic
	Middle Neolithic
 Lake Annecy
Size of the site	0,49 ha / nearly 1 soccer pitch
Size of the bufferzone	4,3 ha / approx. 6 soccer pitches
Unfortunately, the site is only partially preserved. But there are still some anthropogenic organic layers of sediment left that give us valuable information about one of the oldest settlements in the Savoyan Lakes.
Despite its small size, the Californian River Crab is a huge problem for the prehistoric sites, because of its extensive burrowing © MC - DRASSM, Yves Billaud
The location of the site provides some degree of protection, because it is part of a restricted watershed area and it is partially overgrown by protected reeds. But it has to be monitored regularly, because the shallow water reacts strongly to waves and currents, especially during dry spells, when the water levers become even lower. Another serious threat are the invasive Californian River Crabs (Pacifastacus leniusculus) that burrow deep holes into the sediment.
The site is not visible. Entering the site is prohibited.


Limited to 5000 serially numbered copies.
Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit. Enter Starman.


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Die Wayne State University ist eine staatliche Universität in Detroit im US-Bundesstaat Michigan. Zu der Hochschule gehört die drittgrößte medizinische Fakultät der USA.

Geschichte
Die Wayne State University wurde 1868 als Detroit Medical College gegründet. Mit dem Zusammenschluss verschiedener Colleges 1934 erhielt sie ihren heutigen Namen.

Zahlen zu den Studierenden, den Dozenten und zum Vermögen
Im Herbst 2021 waren 24.919 Studierende an der Wayne State University eingeschrieben. Davon strebten 16.839 (67,6 %) ihren ersten Studienabschluss an, sie waren also undergraduates. Von diesen waren 59 % weiblich und 41 % männlich; 13 % bezeichneten sich als asiatisch, 16 % als schwarz/afroamerikanisch, 6 % als Hispanic/Latino und 55 % als weiß. 8.080 (32,4 %) arbeiteten auf einen weiteren Abschluss hin, sie waren graduates. Es lehrten 721 Dozenten an der Universität, davon 631 in Vollzeit und 90 in Teilzeit. Mit 33.137 Studierenden war die Wayne State 2006 die drittgrößte Hochschule in Michigan, 2010 waren es 27.825 Studierende eingeschrieben gewesen.

Der Wert des Stiftungsvermögens der Universität lag 2021 bei 519,9 Mio. US-Dollar und damit 29,5 % höher als im Jahr 2020, in dem es 401,6 Mio. US-Dollar betragen hatte. 2009 waren es rund 204 Mio. US-Dollar gewesen.

Organisation

Fakultäten
 Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften
 Ingenieurwissenschaften
 Medizin
 Pädagogik
 Pharmazie und Gesundheitswissenschaften (Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
 Pflege
 Rechtswissenschaften
 Schöne-, Darstellende- und Kommunikationskünste
 Sozialarbeit
 Wirtschaftswissenschaften
 Graduate School

Weitere Standorte
 Harper Woods High School, Harper Woods, MI
 University Center at Macomb Community College, Clinton Township, MI
 Lamphere High School, Madison Heights, MI
 Oakland Center, Farmington Hills, MI
 University Center at Saint Clair County Community College, St. Clair, MI
 Wayne County Center, Detroit, MI

Sport
Die Sportteams der Wayne State University sind die Warriors. Die Hochschule ist Mitglied in der Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Persönlichkeiten
 Bess Bonnier, Jazzpianistin
 Patricia Boyle, Bundesrichterin
 Kenny Burrell, Jazzgitarrist
 Larry Joe Campbell, Schauspieler
 John Conyers, Kongressabgeordneter
 Thomas B. Cooley, Professor für Kinderheilkunde und Erstbeschreiber der β-Thalassämie, auch Cooley-Anämie genannt
 Ernie Hudson, Schauspieler
 Peter Karmanos junior, Unternehmer
 Casey Kasem, Radiomoderator
 Crystal Reed, Schauspielerin
 Tom Sizemore, Schauspieler

Honorary graduates
 Carl Levin, US-Senator
 Jessye Norman, Sopranistin
 Lily Tomlin, Schauspielerin
 Sixto Rodriguez, Musiker

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Universität in Michigan
Organisation (Detroit)
Gegründet 1868


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Donna Faske (Born October 2, 1948), better known as Donna Karan is a fashion designer from New York.
Karan, nicknamed The Queen Of Seventh Avenue, began working for Liz Claiborne at a very young age. In 1974, she began working with Anne Klein, with whom she lasted as one of her top designers for ten years. In 1984, she first showed her own collection. She had her first baby that year, but she kept on working as a designer throughout her maternity leave period. Karan won the Coty Award in 1977 and once again in 1981. She was inducted into the Coty Hall Of Fame in 1984.
Now, she owns a company named the Donna Karan Company, which is involved in marketing, production and design of clothes.
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How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day this book investigates the changing landscape of class and reveals how it has become populated by a host of classed figures including the Essex Girl, the 'squeezed middle', the 'feral underclass', the 'selfish baby boomers' and others. Steven Harkins finds one of the most concise, well written and researched overviews of the 'underclass' available in scholarly literature.
Class and Contemporary British Culture. Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. Palgrave Macmillan. April 2013.
A renewed focus on social class has been one of the features of contemporary political debates in Britain since the financial crash of 2008. Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn's new book Class and Contemporary British Culture makes a well-researched contribution to the topic. The book is described by the authors as 'an account of the haves and have-nots' in contemporary British society. This review focuses on two chapters that examine the inhabitants of two poles at the farthest extremes of the British class system. Chapter 3 of this study examines the 'revolting underclass' and chapter 6 looks at the 'upper classes' and these chapters are the focus of this review.
The aftermath of the 2011 London Riots saw the resurrection of 'underclass' discourses from Conservative politicians like Michael Gove, Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith. Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, linked the growth of an 'underclass' to Britain's 'corrosive welfare system'. Social critics from the left also accepted this terminology with Naomi Klein linking the riots to the growth of a 'ballooning underclass'. This study also examines racial explanations for the existence of an 'underclass' by pointing to a David Goodhart article for Prospect Magazine, where he argued that 'underclass attitudes have emerged and hardened via an Anglo-Jamaican tragedy'. Biressi and Nunn argue that historian David Starkey represented a 'small minority' who argued on Newsnight that 'black culture had somehow contaminated a white probably underclass population'.
Biressi and Nunn's examination of the riots provides the jumping off point for a comprehensive review of scholarly literature on the topic of the 'underclass'. The review traces the usage of 'underclass' terminology in the 1980s when it was used by journalists and policymakers to resurrect Victorian discourses of social Darwinism. The existence of an 'underclass' was linked to social degeneration, most notably articulated by Keith Joseph who argued in 1974 that their existence meant that 'our human stock is threatened'. Throughout this period the theory of the 'underclass' focused on the 'trans-generational transmission of social dysfunction'. In the New Labour era of the late 1990s, 'underclass' terminology was replaced by discourses of 'social exclusion'. However, in policy terms the Labour government 'sought to attack welfare dependency' which they linked to 'moral deficiencies'. This period also saw the implementation of 'zero tolerance measures against homeless people, who allegedly represented a public protection issue due to their tendency towards criminality'.
'…if the neoliberal context of the marketised society one of lifestyle choice sustained through consumerism then the welfare participant, the irredeemably poor and the "fatalistic" underclass all become an offence and a near-outrageous contravention of the prevailing social ideal. In a society of consumers "they are people with no market value…they are failed consumers"'.
This chapter provides the best overviews of the 'underclass' available, although a few features could have been developed more fully. Early discourses of the 'underclass' in the United States focused heavily on race and this is only fleetingly referenced in this chapter through the work of Ken Auletta. This feature deserves more attention, especially considering Charles Murray's previous work on race and his role in propagating the 'underclass' theory in the British media. The other feature missing from this study is the role played by conservative think tanks in promoting the idea of the 'underclass' which is almost exclusively linked to the issue of welfare reform. For example Charles Murray's work was funded and promoted in the U.S. by the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and in the UK by the Institute for Economic Affairs. There are two clear reasons for the promotion of this idea by conservative foundations: firstly they justify welfare cuts because welfare is seen as funding the 'lifestyle choices' of the 'underclass'; and secondly they justify the privatisation of state welfare systems through workfare schemes. U.S. journalist Thomas Frank describes the privatisation of the welfare state as the 'shimmering dream' of Conservatives. The 'underclass' concept is regularly promoted by elite interests and it has been described by Bagguley and Mann as 'the ideology of the upper class' who are the subject of the next chapter in this review.
Chapter 6 of this study focuses on the 'upper classes' and the most striking thing about this chapter is how little is known about the people who occupy the upper echelons of British society. This chapter describes how 'the upper classes (such as financiers, bankers and captains of industry) are largely invisible unless they choose not to be'. The chapter focuses on the monarchy and the aristocracy, and is the weakest chapter in the book. The central argument of this chapter is that 'in these times of austerity it is the middle and upper classes who have been approved to train, educate and guide us in life skills and personal values'. The evidence for this claim is the spate of reality television programmes like From Ladette to Lady (ITV 2005-2010) which take George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion as a 'source of inspiration'. A series of similar examples are produced where '"experts", often from very privileged and even aristocratic backgrounds, work to instruct others in the attainment of social skills, self-presentation, diet and lifestyle'.
This review of the upper classes seems superficial compared to some of the excellent and in depth research contained throughout the rest of the book. The seminal work of Texan sociologist C. Wright-Mills in studying elites provides a far more in-depth way of studying the 'upper classes' in society. In 2006 Hywel Williams used Mills' intellectual framework to produce a study of Britain's Power Elites which focused on political, professional and financial elites and provided a more convincing account of Britain's upper classes than Biressi and Nunn's chapter on the subject. Despite these shortcomings, the chapter does provide an interesting discussion on the reflection of 'upper class' values in the British media which constructs a reality where 'social inequalities seem to be smoothed over with good intentions'.
This book examines a range of issues relating to British culture and class with chapters focusing on social mobility, the underclass, education, celebrity culture, the upper classes, immigration and austerity. The chapter on the 'revolting underclass' is one of the most concise, well written and researched overviews of the 'underclass' available in scholarly literature although more attention could have been paid to racialized constructions of the 'underclass' in the U.S. and the role played by conservative think-tanks in promoting the theory. The chapter on the upper classes offers an interesting critique of media values however it does feel slightly superficial and could have been improved by examining the upper class through the conceptual lens of elite studies.
Steven Harkins is an ESRC funded PhD candidate based in the Journalism Studies Department at the University of Sheffield. He is also a tutor and occasional lecturer in the same department. His PhD research focuses on reporting poverty and inequality in the UK press with a particular emphasis on the relationship between journalists and their sources. He holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Politics from the University of Stirling and an MSc with distinction in Media and Communication research from the University of Strathclyde. Read more reviews by Steven.


Overall this film challenges traditional gender roles regarding masculinity and femininity to an extent; however, the film does little to engage in other marginalized cultural identities.
A superhero family must work together to defeat a villain who is trying to eliminate the superhero do-gooders of the world.
While there are many positive messages about friendship and living your dream, the film does little to engage with any type of cultural identities.
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All Hands on Tech: A look at the Meta augmented reality glasses
Right now the divide between the real world and the digital world is pretty clear cut.
You're either looking around your physical environment, interacting with people and objects. Or you're staring at a screen. It's sort of a mutually exclusive relationship.
Meet the company that could change that. Meta has created an augmented reality headset.
Unlike virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, which totally immerses you in a digital world, augmented reality glasses allow you to view the physical world around you with a virtual overlay.
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Here's how it works: Two different cameras – one colour, and one infrared – map out the real world in front of you. The lens contains two transparent glass screens that sit right in front of your eyes. Meta's software projects the digital content onto these screens. Stereo microphones and an inertial measurement unit round out a suite of sensors that record your environment and track your movement through it.
Meta was founded just last November. It already has a developer's kit out on the market. And it's completed a Series A fundraising round. Meta might be based in California, but it's got a Canadian connection.
"Steve Mann is out of the leading luminaries in this space," says Brendan Works, product manager for Meta. "A lot of students were inspired by him, including our CTO Ray Lo… he was one of the founders of the company and he just started walking around the streets of Toronto wearing a headset he made himself. He inspired some of the company co-founders and the rest is history."
Meta is moving quickly, but this hardware is in its early stages. It's focused on building a developer community that can help create solutions for specific markets. One early adopter of the AR headset is likely to be manufacturers in the aerospace industry. When the margin for error on the parts you're designing is zero, having the ability to simulate a part before you make it could save a lot of time and money.
Any other profession that requires a lot of tinkering in Auto CAD will probably be interested in this.
"It would be a way to show a client what a building would look like, but also during the construction process you could render different systems, show the HVAC systems, show the sheathing, show the building in a way that wouldn't be possible otherwise," Works says.
It's great to think about the useful applications of augmented reality. But I just have to say that wearing this thing was really cool. I was manipulating floating holograms while interacting with the real environment around me. I felt like Tony Stark in Ironman.
And that's no coincidence, since Meta actually hired the guy that made the graphics for that movie to create its user interface.
"When we realized we were going to design a 3D user interface that no one had ever seen before, it was obvious we were going to go with someone like Jayce Hansen," Works says. "So users will no longer just see it in movies, it'll be something you can have and experiment with on your own."
Sign me up. Now I just need a flying suit and I'll be ready to join The Avengers.
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White Man Can't Breathe
Mike Adams, Cary Aspinwall and Dave Boucher are investigative reporters for The Dallas Morning News. They deserve a Pulitzer Prize for an article written last summer that apparently no one in America has read, which is why I am summarizing it here today. It was about a man named Tony Timpa who cried for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his neck to the ground. Before he died, Timpa shouted repeatedly, "You're gonna kill me!"
And kill him the police officers did. After Timpa became unconscious, the officers who had him cuffed assumed he was asleep. As the minutes passed, the officers joked about waking him up for school and making him waffles for breakfast.
Body camera footage shows first responders waited at least four minutes after Timpa became unresponsive to begin CPR. Even worse, the police officers pinned his handcuffed arms behind his back for nearly 14 minutes and zip-tied his legs together. Shortly after he was loaded onto a gurney and put into an ambulance, Timpa was pronounced dead.
This culminated an incident that began when Timpa called 911 from the parking lot of a Dallas porn store. He told a dispatcher he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off his prescription medication. Later, police incident reports falsely claimed Timpa's behavior that night was aggressive. In stark contradiction, the police video shows Timpa struggling to breathe and asking the officers to stop pinning him down.
In another contradiction, contained in a portion of a custodial death report submitted to the state of Texas in 2016, the department answered "no" to questions about whether Timpa resisted arrest or otherwise behaved aggressively. Indeed, a private security guard had already handcuffed him before police arrived.
Shockingly, footage from the police video shows officers mocking Timpa as he struggled to live. Shortly after one officer ridicules Timpa's cries for help, an officer observes that he appears to be "out cold." Nonetheless they joked that he was merely asleep and tried to wake him saying, "It's time for school. Wake up!" One officer mockingly says, "I don't want to go to school! Five more minutes, Mom!"
One of the medical responders to the scene falsely claimed, "I was unable to assess the patient due to his combativeness." However, police video footage shows that the responders attempt to take Timpa's blood pressure while he is still conscious, about five minutes before administering a powerful sedative.
Timpa died within 20 minutes of police arriving at the scene. An autopsy ruled Timpa's cause of death sudden cardiac death due to "the toxic effects of cocaine and the stress associated with physical restraint." Nonetheless, a criminal case against the police officers that were present never made it to trial.
The three officers — Kevin Mansell, Danny Vasquez and Dustin Dillard — were indicted by a grand jury in 2017 on charges of misdemeanor deadly conduct. After two days of testimony, the grand jury's indictment stated that the "officers engaged in reckless conduct that placed Timpa in imminent danger of serious bodily injury." However, in March, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot dismissed the charges.
The Dallas Police Department's internal affairs investigation resulted in Dillard, Mansell and Vasquez being disciplined for "conduct discrediting" the department. However, those allegations were later dropped. Vasquez and another officer present at Timpa's death also received written reprimands for "discourtesy" and "unprofessionalism."
Mansell and Vasquez were placed on administrative leave in December 2017. Dillard was also placed on leave in March 2018. But the officers returned to active duty in April after Creuzot dropped the criminal case against them.
The police video shows that Dillard pins Timpa to the ground with his knee in his back for more than 13 minutes. When the officers first arrived at the scene, they told Timpa he would be OK. "We're going to get you some help, man," one of the officers tells him. But within 15 minutes, Dillard can be heard saying: "I hope I didn't kill him." Finally, Dillard turned to someone before shutting off his camera and said, "Sorry. We tried."
This is how three police officers presided over the death of Tony Timpa. There were no George Soros funded protests. There were no Antifa riots. He was only 32. And he was only white.
Nonetheless, it is time to re-open this case in the court of public opinion, if not a court of law. Only then will we learn whether current outrage over the death of George Floyd is based upon righteous indignation or political opportunism.
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If You Support Alternative Energy, You Support Enormous Tubs of Ocean Lard
Seals have far surpassed Americans in their support for offshore wind energy:
The scientists observed eleven harbor seals outfitted with GPS tracking tags in the North Sea frequenting two active wind farms, Alpha Ventus in Germany and Sheringham Shoal off the southeast coast of the United Kingdom. One seal even visited 13 times, according to a report published this week in the journal Current Biology.
The wind turbines make up a grid. When foraging for food, the seals moved "systematically from one turbine to the next turbine in a grid pattern, following exactly how the turbines are laid out," says study author Deborah Russell of the University of St. Andrews. "That was surprising to see how much their behavior was affected by the presence of these artificial structures and how they could actually adapt their behaviors to respond to that."
If the Republicans nominated a seal for president in 2016, it would be an improvement over the current possible candidates.
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Nobody tell N__B.
N__B
Nom nom nom.
Excellent. This will make it easier to harvest and render the seals for biofuels. Now if only we could train the few remaining whales to do the same.
R. Johnston
If a chatbot beats all the Republican Presidential candidates in a primary debate, does that mean that the chatbot passed the Turing test or that the Republican candidates failed? How long before a Republican tries to cheat in a presidential debate by getting a well programmed chatbot to feed him answers?
Snarki, child of Loki
"How long before a Republican tries to cheat in a presidential debate by getting a well programmed chatbot to feed him answers?"
Negative 10 years.
wjts
The technology's been around longer than that.
grouchomarxist
I think a tweaked version of ELIZA — with keywords echoed along with random selections from Newtie's List of words to describe Democrats — would do the job. (Ah, what fond memories of my Kaypro II …)
cpinva
"(Ah, what fond memories of my Kaypro II …)"
wow, haven't seen that mentioned in over 20 years. for what it was, it was actually a decent machine. beat the trash 80. kind of heavy though.
Yeah, the Family Linguist broke a toe when she dropped hers (presently residing in our barn…) on her foot at an airport once. "Luggable", not portable, was the watchword.
Herr doktor bimler
I see your Kaypro and raise you an Osborne 1.
My kids told me an apocryphal story about a Chatbot – that an engineer programmed the thing to agree with the second person to speak, and use random facts to support its agreement with the second person, and to attack the first person who spoke. Then, they claimed, the engineer used the Chatbot in a meeting with Sales so he could get some work done.
I have zero knowledge on the truth of this story, but it was cool, so I share. Perhaps the strategy could be fruitfully employed on some comment streams?
I'm very nearly serious when I say that's how George W Bush did well enough in 2000 – that he was very well trained with a library of set-piece mini-speeches timed to the debate rules, and when given a prompt would deploy the most closely related prepared speech.
witlesschum
That's basically what Palin was trying in her debate, but she was really, really bad at making it seem natural. Bush was pretty at good at making things sound natural.
NonyNony
Bush was raised in an aristocratic political family and had a lot of examples of how to speak a lot of bullshit without actually saying anything real around him for his entire life.
His mother was an expert at it and she wasn't even a politician, let alone what he would have picked up from his father and his brothers. And that's before we get to the people he would have been to school with at Yale. Plus he had an MBA from Harvard which you're not going to be able to get without learning out to speak a lot of bullshit without actually saying anything.
Palin, on the other hand, was mostly self-taught given that her family background was more middle class. I'm not surprised that her ability to catapult the propaganda wasn't up to par with someone who was a second generation propaganda catapult.
StellaB
Third generation propaganda catapult.
Most of her "education" in that regard would have come from her evangelical church, where you can get away with chanting nonsense as long as you use the right words and tonal emphasis.
joe from Lowell
I remember a gag in which someone approached public figures as if a member of the press and gave them the Turing Test from Bladerunner. My favorite was a candidate from San Francisco.
"You're in the desert and see a tortoise. It's on it's back, and it can't turn over. It's baking in the sun. Why aren't you helping it?"
"Um…because I'm a Republican?"
DrDick
A seal would certainly be smarter and more articulate than any of the Republicans.
Left unsaid is how cruel this would be to the seal.
no kidding. seals are, by nature, caring creatures. they look out for each other, don't hurt other creatures just because they can, and don't knowingly destroy the environment they live in. in short, the antithesis of your average republican.
Malaclypse
There's nothing in the rules that say the seal can't switch parties post-election.
They're slippery that way.
They are notoriously leery of clubs.
The prophet Nostradumbass
If you like oceanic mammals, vote Dwight F. Munroe, for a sense of porpoise.
i am constantly surprised by the length and breadth of rowan Atkinson's career. the first thing i ever saw him in was "Black Adder", and have been a confirmed fan ever since. even bad stuff he's been in, make someone like jim carrey look like a bumbling, rank amateur, by comparison.
Jewish Steel
the seals moved "systematically from one turbine to the next turbine in a grid pattern, following exactly how the turbines are laid out,"
This is a good short term strategy, but those seals are never gonna survive unless they get a little crazy.
sibusisodan
Oh, well played.
I thought this was Campos' territory.
My thought as well. Fat-shaming language. Google informs me that 130 kg is well within the healthy weight range for a 1.85-m Phoca vitulina.
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