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Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo) Tours
Explore the life—and contextualize the legacy—of Mexican surrealist artist and feminist icon Frida Kahlo at Playa del Carmen's Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo). At one of the city's first cultural spaces, learn about Kahlo's work, illness, and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera by way of interactive and sensory exhibits.
Inaugurated in 2017 on the 110th anniversary of Kahlo's birth, the Frida Kahlo Museum takes a fresh approach to documenting the life of the artist in the heart of Playa del Carmen with multimedia animations, interactive exhibits, and reproductions of important paintings. To visit independently, book a skip-the-line ticket in advance. Alternatively, some guided walking and cycling tours—which typically include visits to museums —stop at the Frida Kahlo Museum.
Fans of artist Frida Kahlo appreciate this museum dedicated to her life and work in Playa del Carmen.
Kids under 5 enter for free.
Buy a skip-the-line ticket in advance to save time.
Frida Kahlo Museum exhibits are captioned in both Spanish and English.
Frida Kahlo Museum is conveniently located on Playa del Carmen's central strip, Fifth Avenue (Quinta Avenida), at the corner of Eighth Street. It's within easy walking distance of most other main Playa del Carmen attractions. There is a parking lot about five blocks away if you drive.
Playa del Carmen's Frida Kahlo Museum is open daily, morning until evening. Plan to spend about an hour exploring. Playa del Carmen is perennially popular, but visit in the down season (July through early December) to avoid the largest crowds or stop by in the evening. Alternatively, stop by in the afternoon to escape the midday sun.
Other Things to Do on Fifth Avenue
Round out a trip to the Frida Kahlo Museum by exploring Fifth Avenue's other principal attractions. Watch the flying acrobats perform the Voladores de Papantla rite in the main square, Parque Fundadores, before browsing for souvenirs—such as embroidered clothing, tequila, or artwork—at the many stores on the strip. Then, grab happy hour drinks or a late lunch at a street side restaurant.
Address: Londres 247, Playa del Carmen 04100, Mexico
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Playa del Carmen Frida Kahlo Art Tour
Highlights: • Experience the life and love of Frida and Diego • See the best art pieces in the city • Led by an expert in art What to expect: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera helped to define Mexican modernism while engaged in a tumultuous romance. On this Frida Kahlo Tour we'll get a glimpse into the life of Mexican artists. Our visit will take us to the Frida Kahlo Museum. We will get a sense of how she once lived and worked. We'll engage directly with her history as we surround ourselves by her artwork, her clothing, her photos, and even the prosthetics, and corsets she wore as a result of childhood polio and a horrifying train accident in 1925. The tour finishes with strolling through the streets of Playa del Carmen full of colorful murals
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Long Beach mother was holding her child when…
Long Beach mother was holding her child when she was shot to death, prosecutors say
By Jeremiah Dobruck | jdobruck@scng.com | Press-Telegram
PUBLISHED: January 13, 2017 at 6:19 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 12:15 p.m.
A Long Beach woman was holding her young child when she was shot to death Tuesday night, according to prosecutors who charged the alleged gunman Friday with murder and two counts of attempted murder, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.
John Kevin McVoy Jr., a 35-year-old Corona resident, could face up to life in prison if he's convicted.
Authorities have identified the woman killed in the shooting as 33-year-old Susan Garcia.
Prosecutors allege McVoy was at Garcia and her family's North Long Beach home in the 6300 block of Knight Avenue when he got into an argument with Garcia and her husband around 7:30 p.m.
"McVoy allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the husband in the head and then shot Garcia in the upper torso as she was holding her toddler," prosecutors said in a news release.
It's unclear what sparked the argument.
A neighbor said McVoy was part of a band that played in the couple's garage.
Prosecutors said other people at the home took the gun from McVoy and held him until police arrived to arrest him. Those people were other band members who'd arrived for practice, neighbor Araceli King told the Press-Telegram shortly after the shooting.
Authorities pronounced Garcia dead at the scene. Police said her husband was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
King said the toddler wasn't seriously hurt. Band members brought the boy, who is about 2-years-old, over to King's house where he kept asking for his mother, she said.
Eventually the boy's grandmother arrived to take care of him, according to King
"She was just crying and crying and crying," she said.
McVoy was expected to appear in court Friday afternoon. Prosecutors said they would ask judge to order him held on $5 million bail.
Jeremiah Dobruck | reporter
Jeremiah Dobruck is the public safety and breaking news reporter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram. He's a SoCal native who has covered crime, courts and mayhem at news outlets in Los Angeles, Orange County and New York City since 2011.
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So I've been back in England for the past year and a bit and, if I'm honest, it hasn't been the greatest time of my life... After spending 2 years in Japan and absolutely loving it, I decided heading out east was the best course of action. I'm moving to South Korea this time, on the outskirts of Seoul. I'll be updating the website with photos and other general Korean shtuff. I'm eating right now and I'm sooo full. I'll be leaving the country at the end of February. I'm as excited as I am nervous. I haven't taught a class for quite a while, so I'm pretty much as rusty as a bowl of tetanus.


Ask any Polaroid fan about their mood swings in the past 12 months, and I bet it'd go something like this: oh no, Polaroid is doomed. Oh yay, it got bought. Oh no, that fell through. And so on.
Thankfully all looks good again—except for the fact that Lady Gaga has been hired as their creative director. They've even got a brand new product being shown off at CES, the PIC-1000. It'll come in either metallic plastic, or a '70s wooden throw-back, and while pricing and availability hasn't been announced, it's enough to get my heart fluttering again.


You are currently on several boards for esteemed artists, scholars and researchers. You have also written essays and appeared on programmes throughout Africa, Europe and Scandinavia. What has been the highlight of your career so far?
Being able to keep at it. This moment, this is the highlight.
What challenges does one face as an artist in the South African art industry?
The phrase "you are only as good as your last show" defines the realisation that artists need to keep on making and exhibiting their works to make sense of their own practice. It is the inability of many artists to make the works they imagine, and when they do make the work, the inability to exhibit. If they are fortunate, or have good press agents, their exhibitions will not be ignored. These are the major challenges that artists face in South Africa. These challenges can be listed as limited funding, limited exhibition venue types and, crucially, limited critical engagement. These limitations have the consequence of moulding artists into 'types' that generate work to meet preset requirements. Genuine broad-based support for artists that acknowledges the possibility of failure might be a good beginning. Appreciating that artists need time, space, community and resources to produce good work should have some impact on the ideas of what the resourceful choose to do when they consider supporting the arts.
My many cultural and critical ascendants, and they are too many to list. Nor would the list do anyone else any material good.
A quintessential approach to the works submitted for the competition.
Know that what you do is important, whether you win an award or not. Because of this knowledge, keep on making your work, keep on believing in yourself and remember that artworks always exist within a discourse.
How do you feel about the current state of the art industry in South Africa?
Akin to the hopes the troupe had on the way to see the Wizard of Oz.
Apart from the PPC Imaginarium, what platforms or avenues contribute to the growth of art and design in South Africa?
The belief that artists have in themselves.
How is art shaping South Africa in terms of the social, cultural and political landscapes?
The real production and consumption of artworks is not by the majority of the nation. It is only when this claim can be made honestly that one can imagine that artworks shape social, cultural and political landscapes. That there are occasional public debates centered on myopic controversies does not do much shaping of ideological landscapes; however, they do bolster the tendency to be self-congratulatory.


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"Nation's Report Card" On Education Proficiency Levels Released; NM's Proficiency Test Scores Last In Math And Reading; Virtually All State Education Systems In Country Suffered Plummeting Test Scores Because Of Pandemic; Governor MLG's Efforts At Public Education Reform
Posted on December 9, 2022 by
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects. NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The first national administration of NAEP occurred in 1969. NAEP is known and referred to as the "Nations Report Card".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assessment_of_Educational_Progress
On October 24, it was reported that NAEP released its 2022 Proficiency Test Scores in Math and Reading. Results for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 26 participating districts were released. Students' academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic was compared to pre-pandemic performance on the 2019 NAEP mathematics assessment as well as to previous mathematics assessments dating back to 1990.
No state improved in 4th or 8th grade math, and only a few states improved in reading. Those that did, did so by a maximum of two points
https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
This blog article reports on NAEP's 2022 proficiency test scores with an emphasis on New Mexico's test scores.
NATIONAL MATH PROFIENCY TEST SCORES
Between January and March 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment was administered to representative samples of fourth- and eighth-grade students in the nation.
Quoting the report:
"In 2022, the average fourth-grade mathematics score decreased by 5 points and was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005. the average score was one point higher compared to 2003. The average eighth-grade mathematics score decreased by 8 points compared to 2019 and was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2003. In 2022, fourth- and eighth-grade mathematics scores declined for most states/jurisdictions as well as for most participating urban districts compared to 2019. Average scores are reported on NAEP mathematics scales at grades 4 and 8 that range from 0 to 500."
"In 2022, average mathematics scores at fourth grade declined in all four census-defined regions of the country—Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. Scores were lower by 7, 3, 5, and 4 points, respectively, compared to 2019. Looking at state/jurisdiction performance for fourth-graders in public schools in 2022, average scores were lower in 43 states/jurisdictions and were not significantly different in 10 states/jurisdictions. This is the largest number of states/jurisdictions with score declines in fourth-grade mathematics going back to 2003. Among the states/jurisdictions with score declines, 13 scored lower than the national average score for public school students in 2022; 17 had average scores that were not different from the national public average; and 13 scored higher."
Nationally, this year's math test results yielded the largest drop in mathematics in the history of NAEP.
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/mathematics/2022/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20average,13%20scored%20higher.
NATIONAL READING PROFIENCY TEST SCORES
Between January and March 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment was administered to representative samples of 4TH and 8TH -grade students in the nation.
"In 2022, the average reading score at both fourth and eighth grade decreased by 3 points compared to 2019. At fourth grade, the average reading score was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005 and was not significantly different in comparison to 1992. At eighth grade, the average reading score was lower compared to all previous assessment years going back to 1998 and was not significantly different compared to 1992. In 2022, fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores declined for most states/jurisdictions compared to 2019. Average scores are reported on NAEP reading scales at grades 4 and 8 that range from 0 to 500.
In 2022, average reading scores at fourth grade declined in all four census-defined regions of the country—Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. Scores were lower by 5, 3, 3, and 2 points, respectively, compared to 2019. Looking at state/jurisdiction performance, average scores were lower in 30 states/jurisdictions and were not significantly different in 22 states/jurisdictions compared to 2019. This is the largest number of states/jurisdictions with score declines in fourth-grade reading going back to the initial assessment in 1992. Among the 30 states/jurisdictions with score declines since 2019, seven scored lower than the national average score for public school students in 2022; twenty had average scores that were not different from the national public average; and 3 scored higher."
NAEP NEW MEXICO PROFIENCY TEST SCORES
According to education officials, the NAEP tests were conducted in 29% of elementary schools and 42% of middle schools. The highest possible score on the NAEP test is 500.
In 4th and 8th grade reading and math, New Mexico students came in shy of dead last in proficiency out of the over-50 states and jurisdictions where the testing was administered. According to the report, New Mexico 4th and 8th graders lost ground in both math and reading. This was the case across the country. National and New Mexico education officials attributed the declines in large part due to the corona virus pandemic and when there was widespread school closings and remote learning was instituted.
According to the 2022 NAEP report, New Mexico's 4th graders fell upwards of 14 points behind national public school student averages overall. It was the same for 8th graders in math, but 8th graders lagged about 11 points behind in reading.
In math, New Mexico 4th and 8th graders dropped about 10 points from state scores in 2019. They lost less ground in reading, where fourth graders dropped about five points and eighth graders dropped four.
That came out to 21% reading proficiency and 19% math proficiency rates of and among 4th graders which was 3% and 10% points lower than in 2019.
A little more than 18% of eighth graders were proficient in reading and about 13% were proficient in math – a drop of five and eight percentage points, respectively.
UNDERSERVED STUDENTS
It was on July 20, 2018, Santa Fe District Court Judge Sarah Singleton ruled in the landmark public education case Yazzie v. State of New Mexico that the state of New Mexico violated the constitutional rights of at-risk students by failing to provide them with an education. The Court ruling centered on the guaranteed right under the New Mexico Constitution to provide a sufficient education for all children. The lawsuit alleged a severe lack of state funding, resources and services to help students, particularly children from low-income families, students of color, including Native Americans, English-language learners and students with disabilities. The Court found that the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) under Republican Governor Susana Martinez did not do the best it could with the funding it was given by the legislature to the education system.
On September 1, 2022, the Legislative Education Study Committee was told that despite more than $1 billion of investments responding to the findings in the Yazzie-Martinez consolidated lawsuit, it was unclear if students named in the lawsuit are "any better off." According to a Legislative Finance Committee report, much of the responsibility for the failure falls squarely on school districts with the districts having problems implementing remedies to a judge's findings that New Mexico wasn't providing a sufficient education system for "at-risk" students. The state Public Education Department has also had issues making sure districts are doing what they need to do.
According to the 2022 NAEP proficiency test score report, the student groups identified in the landmark education case Yazzie-Martinez fell behind their national and statewide peers. They also almost all had lower scores this year than in 2019 with a few exceptions.
"The students who were in families impacted by poverty had a greater negative impact because of the pandemic," Steinhaus said, noting that Yazzie-Martinez students represent over 70% of New Mexico students. "So the pandemic impacted us harder than a lot of other states."
Math scores for New Mexico students identified in the lawsuit this year were worse for both grades than they were before the pandemic as was the case with fourth grade reading. APS Yazzie-Martinez students also almost universally lost ground in their scores in both subjects.
For the most part, students identified in New Mexico's lawsuit also fared worse around the country this year than in 2019.
One bright spot among New Mexico's data was that eighth graders in those student groups almost universally improved their reading scores from 2019, even if only by one point. Nationally, that was also true for 8th grade English learners, and 8th graders with disabilities' scores didn't change.
APS fourth graders with disabilities improved in math and reading, and 8th grade students with disabilities and English learners improved in reading.
Gaps between APS Yazzie-Martinez student test scores and those collected from those student groups in large cities around the country also didn't tend to widen dramatically over the pandemic, and in many cases improved.
APS SCORES
Students at Albuquerque Public Schools, the largest district in the state, mostly held steady in their proficiency levels. While there were drops in both subjects for eighth graders, the NCES found they were "not significantly different" from 2019 scores.
However, fourth grade math proficiency, at about 24%, was around six percentage points lower than it was in 2019.
Overall APS student scores also dropped across the board from their pre-pandemic levels, though not as much as statewide numbers did. The largest declines came in math, where both fourth and eighth graders lost roughly seven points each.
APS students suffered from the pandemic, Superintendent Scott Elder said. Still, he noted that Albuquerque was in a "much better place" than a lot of other places in New Mexico when it comes to accessibility to things like the internet. And while APS students were still behind other large cities in both grades and subject areas, those gaps didn't widen as some thought they would, he pointed out. Elder told the Albuquerque Journal this:
"You don't look at the scores and think 'OK, great. … We lost a little bit, but we didn't lose as much as I think people were afraid [we would. … We [did] see a significant decline in the math, but that's similar to what we see nationally."
SOLUTIONS OFFERED
Teachers this year said they felt more overworked, according to surveys given to them in conjunction with the test, and some said they felt less confident that they would be able to help their students close pandemic-related gaps. To address that problem, Steinhaus said the state is continuing an ongoing effort to bolster its mental health support for teachers and students alike.
New Mexico is also rolling out more tutoring for students and families, particularly those in schools with high populations of economically-disadvantaged families.
In January, Steinhaus added, the state Public Education Department aims to roll out more high-dosage tutoring – focused, small-group tutoring three times a week – which will also emphasize math. Steinhaus said this:
"We've got to continue improving literacy. But this year, our primary focus is going to be on mathematics. "
The link to the quoted news source is here:
https://www.abqjournal.com/2542915/nms-national-test-scores-not-acceptable.html
REACTION TO LOW SCORES
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in reaction to the 2022 NAEP report said this:
"The results in today's Nation's Report Card are appalling and unacceptable. … But let's also be very clear here – the data prior to the pandemic did not reflect an education system that was on the right track. The pandemic simply made it worse."
National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner Peggy Carr said that each state's varying response to the pandemic, especially in terms of when students returned to in-person learning, was an influential, but not the deciding factor in test performance results. Carr said this:
"There's nothing in this data that says we can draw a straight line between the time spent in remote learning … and student achievement."
New Mexico Education Secretary Kurt Steinhaus had this to say:
"This is what we expected [because of the pandemic. the scores are] not acceptable and not OK."
GOVERNOR LUJAN GRISHAM'S EFFORTS TO DEAL WITH EDUCTION CRISIS
In response to the Yazzie v. State of New Mexico landmark public education decision that ruled the state of New Mexico violated the constitutional rights of at-risk students by failing to provide them with an education, Govern Lujan Grisham undertook to fully fund the state's efforts to reform the State's public education system and she was highly successful. It has taken a full 4 years to get the job done.
Lujan Grisham succeeded in securing over $1 Billion dollars for public education during the 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 legislative sessions. In addition to the dramatic increases in public education funding, Lujan Grisham administration created the Early Childhood Department, issued mandates to the Children, Youth and Families and Public Education departments, and increased the number CYFD social workers by at least 125.
An Early Childhood Trust Fund of $320 million was also created. The base pay for teachers was increased by upwards of 20% and have risen to $50,000, $60,000 and $70,000 depending on the level of years of teacher experience. During the 2022 New Mexico legislative session, more than $70 million was allocated to tribal entities to help offer culturally relevant lesson plans and access to virtual and after-school programs for those students. The money will be used to create culturally relevant learning programs, including Native language programs, for students in the K-12 system.
Governor Lujan Grisham partnered with sovereign nations, tribes, and pueblos to make long-awaited investments in education in tribal communities and because of the Governor's efforts, New Mexico is now leading the nation in setting aside funds for bilingual and multicultural education.
A PROMISE MADE A PROMISE KEPT TO EDUCATORS AND OUR CHILDREN
In her campaign for governor, Governor Lujan Grisham promised to be a champion for New Mexico's educators, and she has kept her promise. Under Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's leadership, New Mexico teachers received the most significant back- to-back raises for educators in 15 years and has successfully reduced teacher vacancies by nearly 25% in 2019. This year, the Governor delivered a 7% salary increase and a base pay increase for every New Mexico educator, making New Mexico teacher wages the highest in the region. Governor Lujan Grisham also put tens of millions of dollars toward scholarships for educator training programs, helping more than 3,000 New Mexico teachers this year alone.
New Mexicans have long called for universal pre-k and affordable childcare. Governor Lujan Grisham delivered by expanding affordable, high-quality childcare to thousands of New Mexico families and secured permanent funding to ensure New Mexico will continue to provide families with affordable options for their children's education for decades to come. Lujan Grisham established universal pre-k for four-year-olds and greatly expanded pre-k for three-year-olds.
Governor Lujan Grisham has made New Mexico a national leader in guaranteeing 100% tuition-free higher education for all New Mexico students. The Governor is eliminating barriers to higher education like student debt and burdensome fees that keep too many students, no matter their age, background, or family situation, from getting the training and the job they want and deserve. By creating and funding the Opportunity Scholarships and restoring the promise of the Lottery Scholarships, Lujan Grisham expanded scholarships for 2-year, 4-year and certificate programs, helping tens of thousands of New Mexico students attend college for free.
PASSAGE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
On November 8, the New Mexico Constitutional Amendment 1 that will provide funding for Early Childhood Programs passed by a landslide on 70.34% YES vote to a 29.66% NO vote. A "yes" vote supported allocating 1.25% more in funding from the Land Grant Permanent Fund (LGPF) to early childhood education and the public school permanent fund. Passage of the constitutional amendment makes New Mexico the first state to guarantee a right to early childhood education while directing substantial, steady funding to child care and early education. The funding will not be a one-time infusion, but a steady stream of about $150 million a year for early childhood programs. It could very well allow New Mexico to achieve a system of free child care and preschool for all state residents.
"New Mexico voters didn't just approve the allocation of more dollars. They changed their constitution so that it now enshrines a right to education for children ages zero to five alongside the previous guarantee for children in grades K-12, making it the first state with such a guarantee."
Links to quoted news sources are here:
https://ballotpedia.org/New_Mexico_Constitutional_Amendment_1,_Land_Grant_Permanent_Fund_Distribution_for_Early_Childhood_Education_Amendment_(2022)
https://earlylearningnation.com/2022/11/new-mexico-is-the-first-state-to-guarantee-a-right-to-early-childhood-education-universal-child-care-could-come-next/
In the 2022 New Mexico's Governor race between Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Republican Mark Ronchetti, as well as all other states where elections were held for Governor, the debate was hot and heavy about how quickly and when to reopen the schools during the COVID 19 pandemic. It turns out that no one was right on the issue on whether to delay school openings or to open the schools quickly.
The results of NAEP report revealed that student performance across the board between "early opening" schools and "delay opening" of schools suffered across the board and that the test scores went down dramatically. The test scores for 4th graders and 8th graders in reading declined nation wide in reading. The test scores for 4th graders and 8th graders in math showed the biggest drop in scores since the testing bagan in 1990.
Republican Governor's Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abott of Texas made a big deal out of opening their state's schools in the fall of 2020. Democrats New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and California Governor Gavin Newsom moved more slowly in reopening the schools. The NAEP report based on the testing revealed student performance suffered equally despite the early opening of the late opening of the schools.
New Mexico can take very little comfort that New Mexico is not alone and the most of the United States suffered similar setbacks. New Mexico's 2022 standardized tests provides a grim reminder of the lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, and of the status of the education system across the state.
Now that Governor Lujan Grisham has been elected to a second 4 year term and that the pandemic has subsided, she needs to finish the job of public education reform that she once called New Mexico's Moonshot. With all the funding she has secured over the last 4 years for public education along with the approval of the constitutional amendment, there will be very little excuse for failure at public education reform. If she in fact accomplishes it, that alone will be her lasting legacy for generations and she will go down as one of the states best Governors.
Let's hope Governor Lujan Grisham does not get Potomac fever mid term and decide to bail out of the state and go to work for President Biden as was the possibility when she was being considered for Secretary of Interior.


A new study at the University of Kansas will investigate the potential of transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS, whereby a safe, low current of electricity is applied to the brain by placing electrodes on a person's scalp. The painless technique may be a useful as a therapy for depression, especially in conjunction with antidepressant medications.
"It's a technology that allows us to influence the chance that cells in the brain will fire using moderate amounts of electricity," said Evangelia Chrysikou, assistant professor of psychology.
Chrysikou recently earned a $70,000 grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation to study the potential of tDCS in people experiencing depression. She'll use proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in brain chemistry and neural activity among 40 subjects receiving tDCS, half healthy and half experiencing major depressive disorder. Participants will be recruited from the KU Psychological Clinic on KU's Lawrence campus and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center.


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First, the question: What are the shortcuts/cheats/tips/tricks you have for streamlining your workflow for ease of use?
Now, the explanation: I've worked up a nice template that includes just about everything I'd use. I've been working paid projects using this template, and although I'm relatively new to using the Hollywood series (I think I started about 8-9 months ago, maybe even less) I felt like I had a pretty good setup. Basically, I do a pretty simple thing where I assign articulations to separate MIDI channels and that works really well.
...I've already got I think 6-7 articulations and/or effects in my violins, for instance. It seems like if I were to build a template with everything I might ever possibly need, it's just going to get cluttered - not to mention difficult to remember which MIDI channel is assigned to which instrument/articulation/etc.
For my current large project, it's an entire album worth of orchestral arrangements of metal songs (rather, orchestral arrangements ADDED to metal songs), and I have been saving a new VEP project for each song so that I'm not spending time loading up instruments that I'm not using for that song.
So what are some good tips you folks have found for keeping yourself organized? One such example of the type of tip I am looking for is something I actually have already implemented - I keep pizz strings separate from my other string tracks. This makes sense for me because I'm rarely (if ever) going to switch quickly between pizz and legato strings in a single passage.
Related note: I watched this cool interview video with Brian Tyler where he walks through some of his setup, and when you look at his computer he's actually using an iPad so he can search articulations and instruments. Screen is small, but it actually looks like he keeps a separate track for every single one, which is just nuts to me and does not seem practical. Educate me, friends!
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The way my template (Cubase and VE Pro) works hinges on two main ideas, both of which you're probably not going to like, but I'll annoy you with them anyway!
1) One track for every articulation. It's what I think works best with PLAY. Efficient grouping of tracks and shortcuts assigned to logical editor presets that close all folders and then open only one folder means you don't have to look for the one you need for too long. Cubase also has a Ctrl+F shortcut for searching your tracks, so efficient naming means you can just type the name of your track in. No iPad needed! I realise that this is probably not what you want.
2) No new VE Pro projects for new Cubase projects. Whatever I do in Cubase, it always uses the same VE Pro project. Switching Cubase projects is a matter of a minute or two. To facilitate this, I have a "bread and butter" part of my VE Pro template that's always active - and a whole lot of deactivated/unloaded instances. I assign a MIDI CC to activating/deactivating those instances. Whenever I need something "exotic", I select the channel, send the MIDI CC value (assigned to a knob on my nanokontrol), wait for it to load (twenty seconds max, I think?), and here we go.
This is a huge pain in the behind to set up and takes an eternity - but once you've got it, you have maximum flexibility without the need for twenty-three slave computers. Building a template on the idea of deactivating non-essential stuff and activating them on the fly is something that's crossed my mind only recently, but I've never looked back.
Thanks for the input, Dominik! That's not annoying, just not the way I'm doing it. I use Logic Pro X, but I could probably do something similar to the Cubase folders you mentioned using Logic's "summing stacks" (I typically use this feature to group sections of the orchestra together, i.e. strings, brass, percussion). I'll have to see if there is some way to search track names in Logic.
I'm already using a slave PC for my iMac and it's super quick to load my current template - I think I'm at about 90 seconds to load my biggest one.
I'm about to show my ignorance here, and I can try this on my own when I get home, but I guess I thought there would be some strange performance issues if I had, for instance, spiccato or staccato violins one track and the legato/sustained violins on another and attempted to use them as "one section" - I guess in my head I've assumed that wouldn't sound "natural" so when I saw someone else doing it it didn't make sense.
Thanks for all the info on another way of doing things. I'm going to look into it and see about adapting it for my setup!
there would be some strange performance issues if I had, for instance, spiccato or staccato violins one track and the legato/sustained violins on another and attempted to use them as "one section"
Quite the opposite, in my experience. Even beautifully balanced virtual orchestras need some tweaking - the staccato articulation might be too loud at a certain velocity value and not 'mix right' with the sustains. With two separate tracks, you can easily select all stacc notes and modify their velocity without touching your sustains or legatos.
Of course, before you do that, you'll have to "arm" both tracks and play your passage in with both articulations active on every note, but once you get accustomed to the process of deleting the "wrong" notes, that's an easy fix. It's all a matter of getting used to things. There is, in my experience, no quality difference between using one track with Keyswitches or one track each for all articulations - it's all just workflow, and that depends entirely on your preferences.
Well, I've gone back the other way....a more minimalistic approach. I have a "bread and butter" template (like Dominik), consisting of about 200 instruments; I have one for Logic, and one for Cubase. However, I find I never use a majority of he template patches unless I'm riding something epic. I've been using EW stuff for so long, I just know exactly what I need to load for a given project. And when I do load them up, it's one instrument per instance. I find this keeps things simple (no routing issues) and it's more resource friendly in Logic.
BTW- those MOD wheel patches that you mentioned are the golden nuggets of Hollywood Strings...they are the "ni" patches. They are what breathes realism into your sequences.
Thanks for the reply, Jeremy! I have a question about something you said. You mentioned you have a template for both Logic and Cubase, and that it consists of about 200 tracks. Cubase has a search function, but Logic does not. I'm a Logic user and I'm really accustomed to it and its shortcuts now, so I'm dreading changing to anything else. Do you have an effective way of navigating quickly to the desired articulation/track in Logic with that many tracks?
In Logic, I keep the instruments in groups, and have each group colour coded and in their own track stack. I also use the Hide function in Logic, I modified my own key commands to "H" for hide, and "U" for unhide. This allows me to only show tracks that have data in them, makes the project area a lot cleaner when I start sequencing bigger projects.
Oh, cool. I need to look into this. Thanks for the assistance, Jeremy and Dominik! This is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for to improve my workflow.
I'm Logic only - I can't work without a score and seeing musical notation. In both the score view and the mixing view I need it to be clean, consistent and hierarchical because as a conductor this is how I view the musicians. At the moment my approach is the following.
First I have a few templates that follow traditional ensembles - orchestra, quartet, etc, and I'll change the needed instrumentation from there. Take the orchestra template for an example.
Summing stacks for Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard/Extras (like harp) and Strings.
Extensive use of the new Articulation sets, with an X-Keys used to switch between the articulations. Since Play doesn't natively understand articulation sets I use MIDI routing, which means I get 16 patches maximum per instrument. I'd love it if EW could support articulation sets but this works OK for now.
I'm still refining my patch set/articulations, but what seems like it will work is to have a standard articulation setup for an instrument group - e.g. woodwinds all use one set, brass, percussion and strings another. With EWHO this seems to work well because those families are all structured similarly anyhow, and it means I only have to learn/remember 4-5 groups. But I do keep similarities between the groups, e.g. longs for 1-8 and shorts for 9-14 with 15-16 for KS/effects.
Then it's just a matter of playing and hearing how the patches behave, and setting up an internal feedback loop of knowing how to 'play' them like a real instrument.
I'm single vendor - I don't know how people can try to master multiple libraries from different vendors. Fundamentally here it's a level playing field - no vendor has some magic sauce not available to another, while I haven't spent much time outside EWHO I don't get the impression that the others are significantly different. So I went for a vendor with a deep and expansive library, that doesn't require a mortgage on the house.
Those are the niente "ni" patches, and IMO, the sonic gold of Hollywood Strings. By learning how to program these patches correctly (MOD wheel for example), these patches breathe life into an orchestration.
My orchestral templates are pretty lean, and consist of only a few articulations from each section; namely a sustain (ni), a legato, and a short.
How you load/route these really comes down to which DAW you are using. Are you on Logic or Cubase by chance?


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Leading Surgical Oncologist Waddah Al-Refaie Installed as Dillon Chair
Georgetown University officially installed Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, as the John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology during a investiture ceremony May 11.
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(Washington, D.C.) - Georgetown University officially installed Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, as the John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology during a luncheon investiture ceremony May 11. Family members, mentors, colleagues and friends from around the world gathered at Georgetown's Hariri Building to honor Al-Refaie, along with the physician who bears the Chair's name.
Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, honored with this prestigious investiture thanks to his commitment to service, training the future of medicine and medical innovation.
The late Kathrine Folger established the John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology in 1988 in gratitude for care she had received at Georgetown University Hospital. Dillon was a surgeon there and taught medical students at Georgetown University School of Medicine from1963 to 1996.
Dillon attended the investiture ceremony with his wife, Mary Frances, and several of their children and grandchildren. Lee Folger represented the Folger family.
In his welcoming remarks, Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, executive vice president for health sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), said Al-Refaie "… brings enormous talent and dedication to his new role and all of us, myself included, look forward to seeing him help shape this future together."
Big shoes to fill
Speakers reflected on Dillon's enormous impact on his students' surgical education – and to the surgical field broadly. "Where he really became critical to American surgery was as an American surgical educator," said Stephen R.T. Evans, MD, chief medical officer for MedStar Health and himself one of Dillon's surgical trainees.
Evans spoke fondly of Dillon's weekly exercises – every Saturday morning at Georgetown, for four hours, over 30 years, Dillon assembled 3rd and 4th year medical students for a rigorous Socratic exercise in case presentation. And as Evans recalled, these were not "soft" exercises.
Evans drew a clear parallel between the younger and older surgeons. Filling Dillon's shoes calls for "an individual committed, much like John was, to thinking much more about those around him who he has a commitment to train and educate – whether they are students, or residents, or junior faculty – than anybody else. And that is the link between Waddah Al-Refaie and John Dillon."
Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, PhD, echoed this connection between past and present. "Dr. Dillon is one of the most distinguished members in the history of our medical center community," he said. "His stature as a teacher earned the lifelong respect of all of his students."
"This chair will deepen, for our department of surgery, and indeed for our entire medical center, our opportunities for research, for discovery – opportunities that will lead to new treatments, to new cures, to new individualized treatment plans, and patient care," DeGioia said.
Louis M. Weiner, MD, director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, (left), Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, and David Rothenberger, MD, FACS, of the University of Minnesota (right).
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Lynt Johnson, MD, MBA, chairman of surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said the search and recruitment process that led to Al-Refaie's appointment was a rigorous one that began with 75 applications from surgeons around the country. Al-Refaie came to Georgetown from the University of Minnesota, "where he quickly established himself as one of the rising stars of surgical oncology in the nation," Johnson said.
At Minnesota, Al-Refaie had secured funding for surgical outcomes research – a precursor to the newly established MedStar-Georgetown Surgical Outcomes Research Center. "His research expertise is recognized nationally and internationally in the burgeoning field of disparities in cancer care for vulnerable populations and he has been awarded several internal and external grants to support his endeavors," Johnson said.
"Something outstanding"
An early mentor of Al-Refaie, surgeon Hilal Al-Sayer, MD, president of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, spoke warmly of his protégé, who approached Al-Sayer for advice soon after completing his medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. (Al-Refaie is a native of Kuwait). "I had a lot of residents passing through my tenure when I was chief of surgery in my department, but Waddah was something different," Al-Sayer said.
"In the ward rounds, he knew everything about his patients, even their lab results. And when there was a clinical/ pathological meeting, or a morbidity/mortality conference, and he had a case, he prepared it beautifully, and he had all the research done and answered all the questions. He is something outstanding," he said.
Al-Refaie expressed his gratitude for the appointment and provided an overview of the work ahead.
In his family, service to others was paramount, which is what led Al-Refaie to medicine, he said. His mother, an academician, and his father, a geologist, inspired his love of learning, though not in a prescriptive manner. "I remember my father telling me, 'Son, follow your passion. We will support you,'" Al-Refaie said.
This credo, in turn, has provided the inspiration for his academic work. "We tell our junior faculty, residents and students; we tell our researchers, 'Follow your passions, we will support you.'"
Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS accepts John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology Investiture in front of his peers.
Al-Refaie articulated the three goals for surgical oncology at Georgetown:
Become a premier regional and international surgical oncology program,
Make significant contributions to the research mission of GUMC and MedStar Health in surgical oncology,
Train next generation of academic surgeons.
He emphasized the need for a robust surgical outcomes portfolio. "In the U.S., there are over 2 million cancer patients, and up to 40 percent will need surgery. We need to help surgeons help their patients do a better job in terms of access, quality and outcomes," Al-Refaie said.
"We're positioning ourselves to be leaders, not followers."
VIDEO: Meet Dr. Al-Refaie
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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute-care teaching and research hospital with 609 beds located in Northwest Washington, D.C. Founded in the Jesuit principle of cura personalis—caring for the whole person—MedStar Georgetown is committed to offering a variety of innovative diagnostic and treatment options within a trusting and compassionate environment.
MedStar Georgetown's centers of excellence include neurosciences, transplant, cancer and gastroenterology. Along with Magnet® nurses, internationally recognized physicians, advanced research and cutting-edge technologies, MedStar Georgetown's healthcare professionals have a reputation for medical excellence and leadership. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital—Knowledge and Compassion Focused on You.
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Sailing Anarchy
Steve & Linda Dashew post history of their sailing and designing career (Part 1)
By QBF, September 13, 2019 in Sailing Anarchy
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QBF 523
Location:Frostbite Falls, MN
The Dashew's have published a lengthy post on their sailing and yacht design history.
https://setsail.com/steering-clear-of-trouble-our-search-for-cruising-perfection
Steve and Linda Dashew have been sailing and working as a team for more than 50 years: racing, initially, and cruising for the past four decades. This is the first of multiple posts and starts leading up to their 20' Shark catamaran, to their D-Class Beowulf catamarans (Steve at the helm with Linda on the wire), to their 78-foot ketch, Beowulf.
This is a fascinating and in-depth read from a very talented couple. I highly recommend it!
Tom O'Keefe 58
Location:San Clemente, California
Interests:Custom Plastic Injection Molding
Destroyer TP52
Mac Gregor 65' Lean Machine
Spencer 65' Rag Time
SC 50 Horizon
R/P 68' Tax Dancer
R/P 86' Pyewacket
Back in the 60's and 70's Dad used to race A-Class Unicorns up at CBYC. In 1974 I was 13 years old and would walk/ hang out on the pier waiting for Dad to finish racing. Steve had Beowulf a D-Class custom uni rig. I once got a ride after he broke something and needed to come in and repair it. I got to go back out for the test sail. That boat was incredible for its time.
In 1972, the Dashew's Beowulf V was considered the fastest sailboat in the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/23/archives/the-fastest-sailboat-in-the-worldbeowulf-v.html
sailwriter 71
The "Speed Trials" off Hurricane Gulch, Long Beach was an annual event. Take turns on assigned time slots, cross the start line and when at the end of the run make a quick right turn behind the RC boat at the other end so the start line folks could take the time. I was there in a homemade A-Cat, mixing it up with the Unicorns.
Seaman and Alter had a Hobie 16 on steroids named El Gato something. They were to go when there happened to be a good, long lasting puff. Beowulf V, noticed and took off through the line out of turn shortly thereafter. It took a while, but Steve and crew slowly overtook to windward and thereby won the speed record.
The early 70s was a really an innovative time. Beowulf was a pleasure to watch.
Dad had Tantalus. Alex Koslov had Aquarius a C class.
Steve also mention Mickey Munoz. He built his cat on the beach near Hobie and Edwards houses at the end of Beach Road. Looking back I must have been a pest. But, Mickey would let me hang out and "help".
techdef 1
Beowulf (the ketch) is docked right across from me. She's so very sexy. I'd give my eyeteeth to see her leave the dock. Been there almost 7 years and never seen her move.
Svanen 282
Location:Whitby
2 hours ago, techdef said:
It's so true: the bigger the boat, the less it gets used.
Steve and Linda have been long-time advocates of the "bigger is faster, and therefore better" school of offshore sailing, but there are certainly disadvantages to owning a large yacht.
boatcat65 3
Wow- this is great! I had no idea they had been so active in development classes, and held the records they did. Success there was an early indication of their ability to re-think the whole concept of a cruising boat, how it really should be organized in terms of priorities and design. After his experience burying the leeward hull and compromising steering, the prioritizing of steering quality in a cruising boat has a new depth to it. Love it!
bridhb 179
Location:Jax, FL
Interests:sailing, biking, surfing, working on combining them!
On 9/13/2019 at 7:44 PM, Tom O'Keefe said:
I think I remember reading about a Munoz "cruising" cat in a old Surfer magazine in the 70's. The picture in my mind was a high center pod and some very beautiful "dolphin" inlays. I have tried unsuccessfully to re-find the article in the last decade or so. Wonder what happened to that boat. It seemed very innovative at the time, when my "dream" boat was a Seasprite 23.
Knut Grotzki 36
Interests:Baltic Sea, Design Reviews
Thank you. I have all their books (nothing boots faster than paper). Although visiting their website sometimes I never came across their history. Very nice read - enjoyed it very much!
Years ago I lived in Flensburg, Germany. As a christmas present I ordered their "Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia". Paid by Credit Card. Got a post card from customs to get the parcel. Customs told me to pay additional ~ USD 25,00 for custom fees. Well - I paid. Opening the box they had included a video tape (VHS). Nice video...
Next time - after having consulted a friend with customs experience - I ordered the "Mariner´s Weather Handbook" and asked them to declare "advertisement material" in case they added a video. Went perfect - no fee.
socalrider 191
Location:San Diego CA
Interests:Beneteau First 405
22 hours ago, Svanen said:
Tragic to think of a boat like that sitting unused.
I also loved the story and am looking forward to the next installation. I do think they downplay the disadvantages of so much length, and their ideas don't seem to scale down very well to the financial universe inhabited by most of us.
El Boracho 562
Location:Pacific Rim
Interests:Sailing, beer.
On 9/14/2019 at 9:12 AM, techdef said:
Likely cannot move. I have been all over that boat. Wayyy to complicated to function without a dedicated maintenance crew. Cruising? Like far from modern ports? Out of the question without a home office, crew and DHL support. It is not cruising, it is exhausting.
19 minutes ago, El Boracho said:
What parts of the boat are the particular problems re: Maintenance/reliability?
Diarmuid 352
Location:Laramie, WY, USA
46 minutes ago, socalrider said:
That is the tragedy. Their designs are really novel and smart and exciting and seem to perform as advertised. But all of that depends so heavily on waterline to work. From righting moment/stability to D/L to widespread split sailplans. Then to get the torsional stiffness on a hull like that while keeping weight under control, ya almost have to build in alloy, which piles materials & construction costs on top of future ownership costs to really put their designs beyond most sailors' means. Those few who can afford to buy and own an 80 footer with lots of systems likely crave more interior volume, more home-like layout, and more toys for the 85% of time most sailors spend at dock, mooring, or anchor.
I'm agnostic on the Dreadnought aesthetics, but as fast cruising machines go, Dashew boats are very cool. Think I'd rather own an X Yacht or SC tho.
7 minutes ago, MR.CLEAN said:
The number and complexity of internal systems. The hull and sail plan and all that is surely great. But the wiring, mechanical, plumbing, gizmos....holy crap. A remote control with fifty buttons. The galley systems alone would overwhelm a cruising couples maintenance schedule. Never sailed on one, but doubt many of the rig gizmos work on any given cruise. Yachts that successfully execute carefree cruising share more traits with a dinghy than with the Dashew yachts. I've crossed paths with several like yachts sitting in ports waiting for parts from afar. Certainly all of us long distance cruisers have done that. But imagine the chores with 100 times the complexity: Dishwasher, jacuzzi, a million electrical and hydraulic connections.
That said, they are correct about bigger, longer, faster being better out at sea. However, there is simply no good reason to burden such a boat with such complexity other than to rope in wealthy dock walkers. So the mantra should be longer, faster, lighter and simpler. How to do that is more difficult than what they have done.
Steve and Linda Dashew sailed Beowulf all over the place from the Pacific, to the Caribbean, and on to the Atlantic with just the two of them on board.
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Yes, the Dashews are more talented than most, and have yrs miles of experience. But the new owners may have bought the dream that a couple could run the boat - and Dashew does sort of admit the boat was at THEIR limits to handle. As to maintenance, who knows what state things are in. But complexity is relatively easy to remove, but doing so requires more work out of the crew to continue to operate the boat. It's a double edged sword.
Location:Vancouver B.C.
1 hour ago, El Boracho said:
That begs the question of how much complexity is added just because it's a big fast boat? Certainly the autopilot/remote complexity is required to keep a shorthanded 70' boat surfing downwind for days at 20kts. And a big boat with that much windage needs heavier ground tackle, maybe bigger & powered winches.
Looking at the pilothouse of their FPB78 it seems like the complexity has just spiraled out of control. Maybe this is necessary if the goal is for an elderly couple to cruise the world in comfort, but it seems like a nightmare to keep on top of all those systems without a top notch hired crew.
The closest thing to an affordable version of this seems to be an ULDB sailboat in the 40-55' range, for example: https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2000/santa-cruz-52-3556293/ - you get the comfort and speed of a longer waterline, but still only 10T displacement, so loads are still somewhat manageable.
The long/efficient powerboat concept is appealing for some use cases as well, but fewer examples of this outside of the FPBs; would be neat to see a FPB50 equivalent.
Displacement trawlers probably come closest, but not as efficient as an ULDB under power and they make no attempt at being light. Here's a 50' at 35t: https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2002/diesel-duck-enhanced-50-3018317/?refSource=enhanced listing
Jud - s/v Sputnik 380
2 hours ago, Keith said:
[Enter, Stage Right, Lin and Larry Pardey, in straw hats and flip flops]
"Friends, you don't need an annual income of $150K to go cruising." [furtive glances to side; Larry slowly pushes an odd-looking cedar bucket out of video frame with foot, as Lin smiles]
On 9/15/2019 at 7:01 PM, Jud - s/v Sputnik said:
Lin and Larry Pardey: "Friends, you don't need an annual income of $150K to go cruising."
Or Pete and Annie Hill.
I like modern conveniences as much as the next guy (nothing like enjoying a cold Coke at sea, courtesy of the electric ice-maker!). But all that stuff is indeed time-consuming and expensive to keep in good repair. Even if one has virtually unlimited money to throw at problems, access to spare parts and competent technicians can be a real problem, especially - but not exclusively - in remote areas.
When choosing a cruising yacht, the KISS principle (keep it small and simple) tends to work well.
On 9/13/2019 at 7:48 AM, QBF said:
Thanks so much for posting that. Great read! One of my favorite designers.
Harry Pattison 3
Location:Newport Beach sometimes
Beowulf was the boat of it's day. I was working at Taylor Made Sails in those days when we built the sails for it.
Meh... never liked the taste of their Koolaid.
Amati 711
Location:Yes!
Interests:if 1 does not = 1, then....?
http://www.wyliecat.com/models/wylie_48.html
Foiling Optimist 178
Location:Vancouver BC.
The New York Times article from 1972 about Beowulf V set me to wondering how it compared to an M32 (Marstrom) catamaran as they are the same length. Turns out the M32 at 18 feet is a couple of feet wider though it's 27 feet with the racks. More importantly the article states BV had a sail area of 361 square feet, and the photo indeed shows only a main, a deck sweeper, no less. The M32 with gennaker totals out to 1220 square feet so I guess things have progressed here and there. Still they claimed 35 kts on the 825lb BV where the M32 is 1125lb. Thanks for posting this, the Dashew philosophy is certainly an interesting topic to ponder.
ALL@SEA 105
Location:43 south
Interests:mostly sailing related.
5 hours ago, Amati said:
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Graduate School seminars for the month of April
The seminars sponsored by the Graduate School for the month of April include sessions from the Graduate Education Administration Series, Graduate Education Policy Series, Human Research Protections Series, Intellectual Property Series, Research Administration Series, and Responsible Conduct of Research Series. These sessions are open to all members of the campus community.
The sessions require registration through the Office of Human Resource Development website: http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/Home/. To register you must know the titles of both the series and the session.
The Graduate School Seminar Series sessions for April 2009 are as follows:
Graduate Education Administration Series
Research Policy – Human Research Protection Series:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Biotechnology Center Auditorium (425 Henry Mall)
This seminar will provide an overview and brief description of the elements of informed consent, as required by Federal regulations. There will also be a discussion describing the differences between: waiver of documentation of consent vs waiver of consent, assent and consent for research involving minors and active vs passive consent.
Presented by Lillian Larson and Mike Bingham
Applying Wisconsin Law to Human Subjects Research (RESCHEDULED from 3/3/09)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:30 – 3:45 PM Biotechnology Center Auditorium (425 Henry Mall)
This seminar will focus on little known Wisconsin laws that apply to human subjects research. Included in this topic will be a discussion of laws which apply to minors and to guardians, reporting requirements and medical records research.
Presented by Lisa A. Wilson
Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Human Subjects Research
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:00 – 3:30 PM G5/119 Clinical Science Center
The basic ethical issues in research involving human subjects will be discussed, followed by a brief history of the regulatory history, and the recent shift from protection of human subjects to protection of the institution.
Presented by Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics
Research Policy – Intellectual Property Series:
WARF's Role in Patenting and Licensing and the Activities in Between
Thursday, April 9, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 AM
WARF is a national leader in technology transfer. This talk will focus on the basics of WARF's evaluation of disclosures for patentable and licensable intellectual property and efforts the organization is making to enhance the potential of promising UW technologies to make it into the marketplace.
Copyright on Campus – What You Need to Know
Tuesday, April 14, 9:30 – 11:30 AM Biotechnology Center Auditorium (425 Henry Mall)
This is a presentation of the basic principles of copyright law as they apply to the university community. The topics covered will include:
* Assemblage and use of published materials for instruction and research
* What types of intellectual property copyright protects
* Who owns papers, software and graphics produced at UW-Madison
* Protection of copyrightable materials
* Rights of copyright owners and copyright infringement
* "Fair use" and obtaining permission to use copyrights materials
* Research and publication issues; licensing your copyright to others Presented by: Nancy Lynch, Senior University Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Services; Edward Vangemert, Associate Director, General Library; Krista Coulson, Digital Assests Coordinator, University of Wisconsin Press
Legal Issues in Sponsored Research
Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 AM
This seminar will address the legal issues that may need to be resolved before the University can accept sponsored research agreements. Specific examples of contract and grant provisions that most commonly are an issue between the university and a sponsor will be discussed. The presentation will last approximately one hour. An open discussion period will follow for those who wish to stay.: Presented by Ben Griffiths, Senior University Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Services
Trademarks and Corporate Sponsorship
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 AM
This seminar will focus on two separate but related topics – trademarks and corporate sponsorship. The first part of the seminar will involve a discussion of the basic principles of trademark law, how trademarks differ from copyrights, when formal trademark registrations may be helpful or necessary, and what campus resources are available to faculty and staff. The second part of the seminar will involve a discussion of campus policy and legal issues related to the sponsorship of university activities by non-university entities, including the process for establishing a sponsorship agreement, and limitations on how sponsorship support can be acknowledged by the university.
Presented by Ben Griffiths, Senior University Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Services
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug and Medical Device Approval Process
Friday, April 24, 2009 10:00 – 12:00 PM
This seminar will provide useful information for basic researchers (basic, translational, clinical, and chemists) synthesizing and working with new and potentially efficacious chemical entities or developing new medical devices. Specifically, this seminar will examine the path that a new drug or medical device takes through the FDA until it receives final regulatory approval for commercial sale. Specific topics to be discussed include initial new drug (IND) applications, new drug applications (NDA), premarket approvals (PMAs) and 510K's, abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) and generics, biologics, new chemical entity exclusivity and patent exclusivity and the extension of patent terms for FDA regulatory review.
Presented by Lisa Mueller, Attorney, Dykema Gossett PLLC
Plant Variety Protection Boot Camp
Friday, April 24, 2009 1:30 – 3:30 PM
This seminar will provide useful information for plant researchers regarding the "ins and outs" of the plant variety protection act. Specifically, this seminar will examine the steps involved in filing a plant variety protection act application, including suggestions for collecting the information required for filing a plant variety protection act application and enforcement of plant variety protection certificates, including a discussion of "essentially derived varieties".
Guidelines for Keeping Laboratory Notebooks
Monday, April 27, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 AM
This seminar will the cover the "why, what and how" of maintaining research laboratory notebooks are s covered in this seminar presented by Cheryl Scadlock, WARF's Information Specialist. Also discussed are the issues related to saving, accessing, and archiving electronic research data. Cheryl has seven years of industry experience working with scientific research staff and patent attorneys. Protecting your invention is easy, once you know how!
Presented by Cheryl Scadlock, Information Specialist, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Export Controls and Government Control of Sensitive Information
This seminar will provide a summary of the export laws that are most likely to apply to university research; possible exceptions to these laws; and campus policies and resources available to researchers with questions in this area. Other governmental controls including reference to "sensitive information" will also be discussed.
What's Your Data Plan?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Biotechnology Center Conference Room 1360 (425 Henry Mall)
Are you managing a growing set of data you or others have captured or collected while conducting research? Are you writing a grant proposal for research that will generate a sizeable body of data? Come learn about the basic components of a data plan that can help guard against loss of your valuable research findings. Presented by Dorothea Salo, (librarian specializing in digital archives, Memorial Library), Cindy Severt (data librarian, Data and Information Services Center, Social Sciences), and Jan Cheetham (research technologies consultant, DoIT), will provide a data plan 'blueprint' and discuss data formats, metadata, data storage, sharing data, and requirements of external funders for data plans. They will answer your questions and provide a guide to resources on and off campus for managing data.
Resources for Starting a New Business
This seminar covers resources on UW-Madison campus available to assist faculty staff or students who are exploring potential for starting a new business venture. Topics to be discussed include company formation issues, identifying customers, defining the market for the venture, and marshalling the talent and resources needed to pull it off. For companies that will be based on WARF technologies, additional considerations will be discussed including:
* Conceiving and disclosing an invention
* Standstill agreements that hold your technology for you to license
* Deliverables you must provide to exercise your option to license
* Terms and conditions of WARF equity agreements
* WARF start-up company handbook
* Resources available beyond the campus for start-up companies
Presented by Allen Dines, Assistant Director, Office of Corporate Relations
Research Administration Series:
NIH Institutional Training Grants-Post Award Issues
Thursday, April 16, 10:00 – 11:30 AM
1360 Genetics – Biotechnology Center (425 Henry Mall)
An explanation of the types of extramural agreements that facilitate research including Material Transfer Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Cooperative Agreements, Grants, Contract, Gift, Fixed Price Agreements and Fee-for-Service Agreements.
Presented by: Tammy Kuhn Martin, Dawn Herrick, Steve Harsy
Intended Audience: Research administrators and researchers
Research Administration 101, Session 4: Award Management
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Engineering Centers Building (1550 Engineering Drive), Room 1003
This seminar will review the process that needs to happen to manage an award including monitor project spending, cost transfers, financial reporting terms and conditions, audits, cash deposits, and invoicing.
Presented by: Carol Hillmer, Ken Mount, Petra Schroeder
Research Policy: Responsible Conduct of Research Series:
Outside Activity Reporting (OAR) and Financial Conflict of Interest
G5/119 Clinical Science Center
Federal grant-funding agencies and the State of Wisconsin have policies addressing conflicts of interest between the public and private activities of faculty and academic staff. This seminar will cover the following aspects of these policies:
* Applicable laws, regulations and requirements
* Procedures used by the University to assess potential conflicts of interest
* Ways in which actual conflicts can be eliminated, minimized or managed
* Examples of common conflicts of interest
Presented by Brian Fox and Kathy Irwin
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Interviews - June 2020
Navigating distance in locality
An interview with Tom Patterson, featuring photographs by Jonathan Williams
Andy Martrich
Photo of Tom Patterson taken by Jonathan Williams in 1980 at the Ocmulgee National Monument. Courtesy of Tom Patterson.
I initially reached out to Tom Patterson in June 2019 with a research inquiry related to poets practicing in the American South during the late 1970s and '80s. Although he's now known primarily as a writer on contemporary art and an independent curator, Tom has served in multiple roles with small poetry presses over the years, perhaps most notably as the executive director of the Jargon Society from 1984–87, where he led Jargon's Southern Visionary Folk Art Preservation Project.
Note: I initially reached out to Tom Patterson in June 2019 with a research inquiry related to poets practicing in the American South during the late 1970s and '80s. Although he's now known primarily as a writer on contemporary art and an independent curator, Tom has served in multiple roles with small poetry presses over the years, perhaps most notably as the executive director of the Jargon Society from 1984–87, where he led Jargon's Southern Visionary Folk Art Preservation Project.


The way we manage our lives is changing. 86% of households now have internet access, 82% of people go online every day and 72% of adults use a smartphone.
It is now time to embrace this rapidly increasing digitalised world and manage our own wellbeing, health and social care needs. With two thirds of visits to the NHS Choices website being on smartphones, there are clear indications that a majority of people are ready to go online to understand and manage their health and care needs.
Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria is home to a growing population of 1.7 million people. More of us are getting older and experiencing long-term health problems. Some of this disease could be avoided or the ill-effects slowed down, if we took positive action. Using digital is one approach to help address the challenges we all face.
We know digital will not work for everybody. Some people struggle with computers and not everybody has access to the internet. For those who would like to use digital but cannot, our aim will be to find ways to help them get online. As our digital offer grows we hope people will find it easier and more convenient to use online services, but technology will never replace the care and compassion that comes from our dedicated workforce.
Declan Hadley, Digital Lead and Dr Amanda Thornton, Digital Health Clinical Lead, explain why embracing a digital future is so important for Lancashire and South Cumbria.


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Thousands of lonely and 'invisible' children calling Childline
By Alison Kershaw, Press Association Education Correspondent
The helpline provided the equivalent of 11 counselling sessions a day in 2016/17, 4,063 in total, to children and young people suffering from loneliness. (David Cheskin/PA Wire)
THOUSANDS of youngsters are feeling lonely and misunderstood, Childline has said.
The helpline provided the equivalent of 11 counselling sessions a day in 2016/17, 4,063 in total, to children and young people suffering from loneliness.
The issue is usually associated with older people, Childline said, but it is getting calls from children as young as six as today's younger generation struggle with the pressures of growing up in the modern world and a lack of adults to talk to.
Girls were five times more likely to get make contact about loneliness than boys.
In total, there were 2,978 counselling sessions abut loneliness involving girls, compared 582 with boys. In 503 counselling sessions, the gender of the youngsters involved was unknown.
The NSPCC-run service suggested that counsellors are often reporting youngsters telling them that they feel invisible, misunderstood and like those close to them struggle to understand how they feel.
Childline said it had specifically recorded loneliness for the first time as an issue as it had seen increasing numbers of youngsters raising it.
Dame Esther Rantzen, founder and president of Childline, said: "I think we in the adult world are addicted to being busy, and that our children and young people are suffering as a result. Of course, many of us have to work hard, couples may need to take on several jobs to boost their income, but sometimes that leaves too little time for the people we care about most, our children.
"I worry, too, that the kitchen table has become obsolete, families are too busy to eat together, to talk about their days together, and share their worries. So Childline has become the place young people choose to confide in. They tell us that we make them they feel valued, so they have the confidence to talk about their feelings of loneliness."
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, said: "There is no single reason why so many young people are suffering from loneliness and as result there is no simple fix to the problem.
"What is clear is that the world is becoming an increasingly complex place to grow up in with children and teenagers' facing daily pressures to achieve what society defines as a successful life – grades, relationships, physical appearance.
"It is therefore vital that children and teenagers have people around them, in particular parents, who they can really open up to about how they are feeling."
Artificial pancreas is 'life-changing' for very young children, experts say
I'll be there for you: Old pals reveal the secret to 50 years of friendship
Judy Murray: We shouldn't wait until this is over to give our children special attention. They have lost out on so much already
Councils must be 'pushy parent' for youngsters in care – Children's Commissioner


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Anti Communism, History, Russia, USSR
Resurrecting anti-soviet sentiment – The crusade of the Western media
You may have thought that in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic the practice of western imperialism through all its media outlets of still trying to kill and bury the Soviet Union in general and JV Stalin in particular might have abated, but no. Articles…
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Hands off Syria!
Red Youth have organised and taken part in demonstrations in London, outside Downing street, and across the country over the last few days, to tell 'our' Prime Minister and the imperialist government she heads up, that British youth and British…
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Britain, Protest, Syria
Anti-war and anti-imperialism: where Stop the War fails
Anti-war demonstrations against British airstrikes in Syria took place across the country on Saturday (12/12/2015), with a march in London, attended by thousands, taking place from BBC Broadcasting House to a rally outside Downing St. The anger…
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Korea: no game! Tensions escalate as USA and South Korea threaten war with the North
In the wake of joint military exercises (Foal Eagle and Ulchi Freedom-Guardian) staged by the United States of America and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) on the border of the DPR Korea (North Korea), clearly designed to threaten and sabotage…
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Shenstone Factory Protest Shows People's Power!
Support for the activists occupying the Israeli arms factory, UAV Engines in Shenstone, grew throughout the day yesterday. People continued to arrive from across the country, joining protesters who had stayed through the night, to express their…
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Birmingham Communist Party host Marcel Cartier
The Communist Party in Birmingham hosted US musician and journalist Marcel Cartier today at a well attended meeting. Birmingham CPGB-ML and Red Youth were extremely happy to receive Marcel who only returned from a trip to Cuba this weekend. Addressing…
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Capitalism and the demonisation of foreign nationals
We reproduce below a letter to Red Youth from a young comrade from south-east England focusing on the racial segregation that is driven into the British public through capitalism's most insidious tool - the private media. Such contributions…
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A few more photographs from Ecuador
A few more photo's from Quito
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The Mole is a reality competition in which the contestants work as a group to add money to a pot that only one of them will eventually win. Among the contestants is one person who has been designated "the Mole" by the producers and is tasked with sabotaging the group's money-making efforts. At the end of each episode, the contestant who knows the least about the mole, as decided by the results of a quiz, is eliminated from the game.
The series was first hosted by news reporter Anderson Cooper; for the third season, Ahmad Rashād replaced Cooper, and Rashād was in turn replaced by Jon Kelley for the fifth season. The third and fourth seasons featured celebrity contestants instead of average citizens.
The contestants typically meet for the first time at or shortly before the start of filming. They are given black duffel bags with the show's logo and their names on them in which to keep their belongings. Each is also given a numbered journal which is the only place they are permitted to record information and thoughts about the other contestants.
Some contestants form "coalitions" with other contestants, ostensibly to share theories and observations about the other contestants. Some contestants attempt to cause others to believe that they are the Mole, on the premise that believing the wrong person is the Mole will result in them having poor quiz results.


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Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (születési neve: Klaudia Jans, Gdynia, 1984. szeptember 24. –) lengyel teniszezőnő, olimpikon.

2000-ben kezdte profi pályafutását, amit 2016-ban fejezett be. Karrierje során három páros WTA-tornán győzött, valamint egy egyéni és tizenegy páros ITF-tornát nyert meg. Grand Slam-tornán a legnagyobb sikerét vegyes párosban a 2012-es Roland Garroson érte el, ahol a mexikói Santiago González partnereként a döntőig jutott. Női párosban a legjobb eredménye a 2015-ös Australian Openen elért negyeddöntő volt. Legjobb világranglista-helyezése egyéniben a 410. volt 2004. augusztusban, párosban a 28. helyen állt 2012. szeptemberben.

Három alkalommal szerepelt női párosban a nyári olimpiai játékokon, 2008-ban Pekingben, 2012-ben Londonban és 2016-ban Rio de Janeiróban. Mindhárom alkalommal az 1. körben szenvedett vereséget.

2002–2016 között 32 alkalommal, 20–12-es eredménnyel szerepelt Lengyelország Fed-kupa-válogatottjában.

A Testnevelési és Sport Akadémián mesterszakos diplomát szerzett. 2011. július 2-án házasodott össze Bartosz Ignacik sportriporterrel.

Grand Slam-döntői

Vegyes páros: 1 (1 döntő)

WTA döntői

Páros: 10 (3–7)

* 2009-től megváltozott a tornák rendszere. Az egymás mellett azonos színnel jelölt tornatípusok között nincs teljes mértékű megfelelés.

WTA 125K-döntői

Páros: 1 (0–1)

ITF döntői (12–9)

Egyéni (1–1)

Páros (11–8)

Eredményei Grand Slam-tornákon

Párosban

Év végi világranglista-helyezései

Jegyzetek

Források

Lengyel teniszezők
Lengyel olimpikonok
Gdyniaiak
1984-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Lengyel nők

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Description This study marks the first attempt to study historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distribution and phylogeny of Great Basin Western toads (Anaxyrus boreas spp.). The dynamic aquatic history of the Great Basin was evaluated as a potential model for early toad dispersal into regions which would later become arid and isolated, affecting gene flow and eventually promoting allopatric speciation. This research was accomplished by exploring the spatial and historical relationships among Western toad clades and Great Basin drainages. Toad clades that are distributed over large areas, and are composed of many populations, tend to fall within the confines of regional, riverine drainages. Smaller, more genetically distant clades are generally harbored in small, riverless drainage basins. Dates of estimated evolutionary divergence among Western toad clades varied considerably using rates of molecular substitution that are reasonable for this organism. In addition, aquatic histories contain last known dates of interbasin connectivity that are well within the range of toad evolutionary divergence times reported here. Although the specific dates presented in this study encourage further refinement, this study suggests that the relative ages of Western toad clades are positively related with their geographic isolation. These results suggest that the evolutionary history of the Western toad may have been affected by prehistoric environments dominated by glacial cycles. This information can be used to inform strategies used by wildlife managers to catalog and protect unique biodiversity.