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AfroPop has delighted audiences for nine seasons. Season nine's stories are just as beautifully and poignantly told, and remind us that not enough has changed for people of African descent globally. Black Public Media is committed to continuing to bring to the American public these stories and others that celebrate the art, culture and creativity people of African descent for another 10 years.
Season 9
An American Ascent
AN AMERICAN ASCENT documents the first African-American expedition to tackle Denali (aka Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak), while shedding light on the complex relationship many African-Americans have with the outdoors. As the United States transitions to a "minority majority" nation, a staggering number of people of color do not identify with America's wild places. By embarking on the grueling multi-week climb of 20,237ft Denali, nine African-American climbers try to bridge this "adventure gap" – challenging outdated notions of what adventure looks like by changing the face of America's biggest and baddest mountain on the 100th anniversary of its first summit.
Intore (The Chosen)
INTORE offers a powerful and rare look at how Rwanda survived its tragic past by regaining its identity through music, dance, and the resilience of a new generation.
It's a story of triumph, survival, hope, and a lesson in how to forgive and live, through the eyes of a mother whose grief gives hope; an artist who chose to forgive rather than seek revenge; a maestro who brings together the National Ballet with an incredible touch of ge- nius; and a young man who's determination and hard work has given the Rwandan culture a new dimension of identity and celebration. Through these characters and others, viewers will bear witness to how the nation rose above the ashes of a horrific 1994 genocide, to become a world model of post-conflict peace and unity.
The film features music performances from Rwanda's top traditional and commercial artists in music and dance, interwoven with poignant interviews from genocide survivors and perpetrators who sit side-by-side; plus Rwandan leaders and legends.
Produced by Rwanda Cinema Center, and Park Hill Entertainment in Association with the Kwetu Film Institute & the Rwanda Media Project.
My Father's Land
Papa Jah, a humble Haitian gardener, has lived in the Bahamas for 40 years. As his marginalized community faces a strict new deportation policy and growing xenophobia in the Bahamas, he returns to Haiti, to reunite with his 103 years old father and the land he left behind.
Watch the filmmaker chat
Black Out
Every day during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthy parts of the city, searching for light. This evocative documentary tells the story of these children's inspiring struggle for education in the face of the country's own fight for change.
Pangaea is a short film written and directed by Olivia Peace. It tells the story of a young girl, trapped on the roof of her house during the days following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. The film aims to comment on the lives of the children whose lives were drastically changed by the aftermath of the hurricane and the flooding that followed it, as well as on the role of those who experienced the events on television from the safety of their own living rooms. Pangaea was shot by a group of Northwestern University students over the course of a week in New Orleans, LA.
Watch the filmmaker chat
Omo Child
One man's journey to bring about a progressive cultural shift that will end the killing of children in the Omo Valley.
In Ethiopia's Omo valley, children are being killed horrifically under an ancient tradition known as 'mingi'. Teeth growing in a certain order can bring a child a death sentence. One young tribesman strives for change through education and adopting the cursed children. But challenging tribal superstition isn't easy and as he battles to save lives, things are not all that they seem.
Under Kara tradition, any child born with the feared mingi curse must be sacrificed. "Every mingi child must be killed. We do this for the protection of our people" explains Dore Akir, leader of the Kara. A baby is Mingi if it is born out of wedlock, without the blessing of the elders, or if its teeth emerge in a specific order, and any child with the curse is sacrificed shortly after birth, or often left to die in the forest.
This practice of killing mingi children is ingrained in the Kara culture, and has taken place for generations. But now Lale Labuko, one of the first of the tribe to receive a formal education, has returned to the village to end the practice and save the 'cursed' children.


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Leather Cuff with Watch and Vintage Sheet Music
This extremely unique leather cuff watch is for sure one-of-a-kind! The dark brown, raw leather cuff with snap closures has a black leather and steel watch with found, vintage sheet music from the 1930's.
Keith Ramsey is an artist from Richmond, Virginia. His work includes 2-dimensional paintings and 3-dimensional "FoundPunk" pieces that incorporate steel, found objects, and antiques.

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28 Aug DBJ Announces 2017 Women in Tech Honorees
The DFW technology scene is growing by leaps and bounds; much of this growth can be directly attributed to the kicka$s people that live, work and play here. And I may be a little biased, but this region's women in tech are not only playing an important role in that growth, but they are also putting the Big D digital scene on the national map in style.
There is still more that needs to be done when it comes to leveling the playing field for women in this industry, but for now, let's take a moment to acknowledge some of the best and brightest as the Dallas Business Journal announces their picks for 2017's Women in Technology Awards.
Now in its fourth year, DBJ shines a light on businesswomen in the North Texas community that demonstrate unfathomable leadership abilities when it comes to digital and technological innovation.
Honorees are selected from these three qualifications:
- She heads an established or startup technology company based in North Texas
- She holds a leading technological or scientific role in North Texas with a company whose primary product is technology
- Or she maintains a leadership position in North Texas in the IT or technology research department of a non-technology organization.
From Amber Venz-Box's game-changing fashion company Reward Style to Linux Academy's Big Data Analytics Queen Manisha Sule, these 25 women continue to make significant impacts on the tech landscape locally and nationally.
Click HERE to see this year's winners.
Celebrate these leaders live at The Women in Technology Awards on Tuesday, October 3, at the Westin Galleria. Details and tickets can be found here.


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"In Soviet Russia, rock stays on YOU!!'"
"I'd love to get one of those sexy fishermen on a Haida bed and Tlingit-Tlingit."
"What the fuck... Did that really come out of me?"
Ketchikan, the city of salmon, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Salmon, the impregnable city (of Alaska) of the High God Fishy, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Deer Mountain that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by High God Fishy and built by fishers of men, is a city in the Democratic People's Alaskan National Socialist Republic.
It is also the southernmost[1] and therefore most un-Alaskan city in Alaska.[2][3]
- 1 Ketchigeography
- 2 Ketchikalaska
- 3 Ketchigovernment
- 4 Ketrivium
- 5 Kethnicities
- 6 Ketchikonclusion
- 7 Ketchikendnotes[9]
The city of Ketchikan is a pile of rocks moved by humans on top of a very large rock called Revillagigeido Island- which purportedly kicked Rhode Island's ass when the two were formed back in the Mesozoic.[4] Revillagigeido itself is a distant cousin of the Pacific Coast Ranges of North America which are themselves... rocks.
Also, Ketchikan is on a very unusual kind of coastline. This coast is special in that it is bordered by water.
As previously stated, Ketchikan is the most un-Alaskan city in Alaska. This however does not prevent the hordes of tourists from being idiotic about the place. Stupidity seems to come as naturally to those rich bastards that come off the cruise ships as it does to you. The main activities of those freaks is to stand in the center of the road, staring at an eagle, staring at a totem pole, taking a photo of an eagle, taking a photo of a totem pole, or standing in the middle of the road while taking a photo of an eagle on a totem pole. The best scene however is a tourist standing in the middle of the road taking a picture of a trashcan. If you are approached beware and run away under fear of being asked stupid questions.
Let's just get this straight. There are no fucking polar bears. There are no fucking penguins on this fucking continent. There are no fucking igloos. We barely get any snow. Now leave.
Ketchikan is also Alaska's first city. Contrary to common belief, that's not because it's the first you come to when traveling up into Alaska from the lower[5] United States, but rather because Ketchikan is the first Alaskan city to have an Uncyclopedia page. And that, oddly enough, makes Ketchikan the most awesome city in Alaska too. Yeah. Get over it.
Being part of Alaska, Ketchikan is no different in its complete lack of government. Instead it is ruled by old mafia rejects who failed in Los Angeles and New York City. This mafia, which is called The Borough Assembly, tends to start programs and never finish them, much like the middle school renovation, and the ever lasting and legendary Road Project. The Mafia became famous on a global scale in recent years with it's plot that had to do with a bridge to My Little Pony Land, and while Congress gave them the money, Oscar Wilde managed to foil their evil plot and bring balance to the universe again.
Oh and a bridge to Nowhere was also proposed, but that's so bat fuck insane that it's not really worth mentioning.
Other than that the only real thing that has happened in the last 50 years was the crash of the Canadian Air Force's single fighter last year into the local grocery store.
Rain Rain Rain Snow Rain Rain Rain Rain Cloudy Rain[edit]
You think this article is kidding, but it isn't.
Ketch'Em All![edit]
That's right, Ketchikan is like the Safari Zone in Pokémon where you can catch all the Pokémon you want! Just go under Deer Mountain where the BASIC operating system is held and enter in the cheat code "How do you turn this on?" and you'll get in to the awesome place where all the Pokémon are. Note that this place is dangerously close to the place where the Care Bears are, so caution should be used when entering so as not be killed.
One thing that is not very well known is that Ketchikan is the containment place of Sephiroth, Darth Vader, the Joker, Loki, Voldemort, the Black Knight, Exodia the Forbidden One, the Queen of Blades, Gaston, the Three Prime Evils and countless other villains. They are all contained though a dense network to pure stupidity, which is why so many tourists are shipped there. The stupidity is funneled and poured on the villains constantly and thus the world is kept from being overpowered and destroyed by evil.
While these high-profile criminals are imported into Ketchikan, other inmates are often shipped down south to places like Hell, also called Arizona. This system forms Ketchikan's most thriving industry (and the only one that actually exists in winter): the prisoner trade market. Were this not a politically correct and morally upstanding website, this commerce could also be characterized with another phrase (given the inability of the inmates to have any control over their lives): the slave trade.[6]
Until then, neither Uncyclopedia nor the original author of this article condone racism in any form.
Unfortunately the reason that the evil villains aren't loose is the same reason why awesome good guys are unable to be in Ketchikan. The truth is Ketchikan's stupidity output is so great that the radiation causes harm to all the good guys too. So naturally they are out of work, except for Oscar Wilde of course.
Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain[edit]
Actually that first subsection really was kidding. This is what Ketchikan is really like.
Ketlingits, Haidakans, and Ketsimshians[edit]
These people are distantly related to Native Americans. Their standard activities are usually oriented around the pursuit of better health (both mental and physical, since we know the health troubles that the native -I mean, Ketlingit, Haidakan and Ketsimshian- community has). They are also regularly seen flying above the world on the backs of eagles (see picture).
A portion of Ketchikan's population, previously thought to be malnourished Ketsimshians, was recently discovered to actually be descended from his supernatural holiness, the anthropomorphic deity Phil the Pelican. The name "Filipinikan" for the newly uncovered demographic seemed to be a perfect fit. Being the offspring of a sea-bird god, Filipinikans are often found working in fish processing plants, or the distribution centers for processed food, although they are never out doing the actual fishing. Given the current stormy state of heavenly affairs between the High God Fishy and Phil, they find it wise to stay off the water and also largely avoid eating fish. Instead they eat manna, which they call lumpia in their native tongue.
Ketchikan has no industries or export products (except themselves). Most residents make a living by raiding each other's garbage cans and eating the bears[7] that try to compete in their business.
The regular inhabitants of this metropolis are usually divided into the following categories:
- Tourists
- Businesspeople, visiting to serve the tourists
- Fishermen
- Fish, aquatic tourists that haven't seen a shower in quite a while
- Drunks, incapacitated tourists
- Hunters, unfortunately not of tourists
- Abused children who need to get off the rock as soon as possible
These are the outcasts (read: regular people) of Ketchikan. They are usually distinguished by excess facial hair and a tendency to live in the woods and cut down trees without warning.
Recently the KGB (Ketchikan Gateway Borough) took control of neighboring villages including: Haines, Hoonah, and Prince of Wales Island. The expansion was an attempt to restore the KGB's honor after being laughed at for suggesting the bridge to nowhere by and little villages surrounding the Most High and Mighty Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ketchikan military forces are currently moving towards Juneau in an attempt to rule Alaska (and slay the dragon commonly referred to as Sarah Palin).
Visit some time and we'll give you fish.[8]
- ↑ This does not include the Aleutian Islands, which are in fact disputed territory between Japan, Russia, Alaska, Poseidon, and, confusingly, the Aleuts themselves.
- ↑ City here means a settlement with more than one dozen citizens.
- ↑ Note how well-sourced this article is.
- ↑ That's 251-65.5 million years ago, idiot.
- ↑ (inferior)
- ↑ The anonymous and hilarious authors of this article are in no way responsible for the misuse of historical terms, you Philistine.
- ↑ Remember that pretty packaging always makes up for an overpriced and lower quality product.
- ↑ For those that believe this article is overly referenced, the authors have this message: Go eat devil's club!


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Renew Our Libraries
Today's libraries are about more than books – they are valuable centres of information for the entire community and a vital part of our social infrastructure.
NSW public libraries are struggling to keep up with increasing demand and funding is at a crisis point. In response, at the 2017 LGNSW Conference, all councils unanimously agreed to joint advocacy and the NSW Public Libraries Association (NSW PLA) and Local Government NSW (LGNSW) have united to create Renew Our Libraries.
Renew Our Libraries is an advocacy initiative which brings together councils, public libraries and their supporters into a grassroots effort to demand action and funding commitments from all political parties in the lead up to the 2019 NSW State Election.
The support and involvement of councils will be invaluable to the success of Renew Our Libraries. By getting your council involved, you will be helping Renew Our Libraries achieve its objectives.
LGNSW has partnered with the NSW Public Libraries Association to Renew Our Libraries, which is calling for increased funding for public libraries.
Thank you for joining us to Renew Our Libraries.
The information collected here means Renew Our Libraries can generate a database of supportive councils and maintain details of the key contact people within each council.
Renew Our Libraries can then further assist these individuals and their councils by providing resources and materials and can direct local media inquiries to the appropriate contacts.


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PITTSBURGH, PA -- The Redhawks improved to 12-2 on the season and a perfect 7-0 in conference after defeating Medaille 93-78 on Saturday afternoon. La Roche earns their fourth straight victory and maintains a one game lead in the AMCC standings.
Zach Gould scored a game-high 21 points and hit 7 of 9 three-pointers. Tyler Frederick finished just a rebound shy of a double-double with 16 points and 9 rebounds. Austin Hannes (15 points) and Caden Kryz (12 points) used the long ball to reach double-figures. RayQuan Phifer dished out 9 assists and picked off 4 steals.
La Roche shot 57% from the field and were even better from three-point range where they hit 16 of 26 (62%).
Medaille remained in striking distance for a majority of the first half. The Mavericks battled, but Gould helped fend off the Medaille attack by stringing together four straight three-pointers for a 22-13 lead with 12:41 left in the half.
The Mavericks chipped away and grabbed a 31-30 lead on a pair of free throws. Hannes ran off the next ten points and the Redhawks entered halftime with a 40-34 lead.
The Redhawks stormed out of the lockerroom with a 21-3 run. La Roche allowed just one field goal over an eight minute stretch. Kryz drained a pair of three over the course of the run while Phifer picked up all four of his steals.
Luke McDonough hit a layup for La Roche's largest lead of the game at 85-55. The Redhawks went on to earn the twenty-five point victory.


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In Defense of CTA "Doomsday"
Today, at long last, comes the day Chicagoans have dreaded in one guise or another since the bad old era of the Blagojevich regime: CTA "Doomsday". You might be surprised to learn I welcome it with open arms.
At the stroke of midnight, approximately 20% of Chicago transit bus service and 9% of 'L' rail service was eliminated, including all arterial express bus routes, and 1,100 union workers lost their jobs. It happened because the CTA's unions refused to offer pay and pension concessions at a time when sales tax revenues to help fund the system are at perilously low levels.
You can't say we–and the union–weren't warned. For a year, the CTA has advised anyone who would listen that the punishing cost of the existing union contracts simply could not be borne by current revenues, and that something would have to give. Either the union, or transit service, itself.
Unfortunately, after all the aborted cries of CTA "Doomsday" heard over the past few years, this time no one really felt like listening anymore. The state always seemed to ride in like a fiscal Lone Ranger and cover any budget deficit just enough to stave off service cuts. Even I thought that would happen this time around.
Last November when Illinois Governor Pat Quinn offered monetary aid to the CTA only on the conditions that fares not increase and threatened service cuts go forward, I thought he was pandering to longtime community activists who constantly rail against fare increases. (As if costs don't naturally rise over time, for transit service or anything else.)
Now I see the wisdom in Quinn's move. We've argued in this state about the cost of Chicago transit in good times and bad. Even before CTA "Doomsday" was so clearly on the table, the fixed and seemingly unquestionable cost of transit union wages, health care, and pensions was impossible to justify.
The reason is clear. The CTA exists to do one thing: that is, move three million Chicagoans around this massive city. That is its only reason for being. Not to provide guaranteed, lifelong jobs for union workers. And certainly not to protect work rules and compensation regarding those jobs to the point where moving those three million Chicagoans around becomes impaired.
Unfortunately, impairment of service has finally come to pass, and we three million Chicagoans have the unions' stubborness to blame for it. The unions refused to give, so transit service gave out instead. If Gov. Quinn had allowed the CTA to raise fares or had provided enough state money to stave off fare increases, we'd just be in this position once again next year as the transit unions dug in their heels and thumbed their collective nose at the potential for service cuts.
I'd much prefer my tax monies be spent on providing the transit service so needed in a city as congested as Chicago, rather than being used to ensure a false sense of entitlement among union workers who, unlike many thousands of Chicagoans, are lucky enough to at least have jobs. Of course, now 1,100 of them don't have jobs anymore, and I'm sure few Chicago transit riders who will face longer waits and more crowded commutes this week feel any sympathy for them.
But today's cuts are the only way forward. Unless Chicago transit service is to be permanently reduced or priced outrageously high (remember the Sunday-only service levels and $5 rides proposed during the Blagojevich administration?), then it's the unions who must give back. That's the gist of Quinn's strategy: once and for all show the transit unions you mean business by finally allowing "Doomsday" to happen.
Today no one wins. But if the 11th hour intervention by Mayor Daley is any indication, the negotiations are far from over. While the mayor could have intervened a little sooner, it's a help that he did. As the weekend began, the CTA's unions were offering $90 million in givebacks to get today's layoffs and service cuts reversed. If they manage to reach an agreement with the CTA, within a couple of weeks, bus and 'L' service levels could be back to normal.
That would be good news. Not just because Chicago would have its transit service back, but also because precedent would now be set to revise transit union work rules and compensation agreements to ensure that in the future, Windy City transit service is never again held hostage by a group of self-interested workers refusing to share the pain of a bad economy with their fellow Chicagoans.
I hope such an agreement happens. The only chance of it happening, though, is for us transit riders to bear the hopefully temporary pain of today's service cuts. So welcome, CTA "Doomsday".
I guess we had you coming.
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Again, they got you so focused on their left hand you can't see what the right hand is doing. And concerning Quinn, if he takes away the free riders the budget gap is not so big, but he gets a pass because an election year explains that away.
I challenge you to try and figure out on a bus or train, during rush hour, how many passengers actually paid full fare for their ride (hard to do, I know) but from personnal experience I can atest to having 70 to 75% of passengers riding either completely free or reduced fare at times. It makes it hard to fund the operating costs of a transit company that relies so heavily on fares with practices like that going on.
Honestly, if I didn't know any better I would have had no idea the service cuts went into effect today. On the Red Line, intervals and loads were about the same as any other Sunday. My experience this afternoon was actually better than during the same time period a couple Sundays ago.
It seems like the heaviest cuts are affecting the bus system. However, I've been watching my old route, #62 Archer, on Bus Tracker and the intervals were about 15 minutes apart – same as they always were on a Sunday.
I'm most curious to see how things are during non-peak periods on weekdays.
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Mike, I really like the new CC layout! Sharp! CTA's cutbacks have finally pushed this transit user to buying a bike and ditching public transportation. My goal is to be FREE of my ChicagoCardPlus fare card by my 42nd birthday on April 1st.
I do believe that Unions are part of the problem, but feel that there is still too much middle management at CTA that could be cut first. I do believe in "living wages" for all workers, but CTA's service and accountability have been horrible for years (or decades, I've lived here for 20 years now).
See Tracy Swartz's always useful Going Public column in RedEye today for a detailed and ongoing look at how the service cuts affect each 'L' and bus line. Fifteen-minute Sunday waits for the Blue and Orange lines, anyone? You got 'em…
See also Max Shron and Luke Joyner's Picturing Transit site for an amazing mapped representation of the CTA service cuts that shows how hard hit some neighborhoods will be, especially during off-peak times. (Thanks to Gapers Block for originally promoting their site today.)


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Other World Computing Now Relies on Wind Power
The turbine was designed to produce power at winds as low at 9 miles per hour, since the site's average wind speed is between 10 and 15 miles per hour. The tower is 131 feet high, with blades that extend the total height to 194 feet. The blade housing rotates to face winds, and it work with winds up to 150 miles per hour. After that, the blades go "flat," with the narrowest point facing the winds, until it's safe to continue. The company should see a 100 percent return on its investment in 10 to 14 years.


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Australia's first family of Kombucha.
At MOJO, we are committed to providing the best range of sparkling probiotic beverages possible. In the pristine Southern Vales of the Fleurieu Peninsula, we create our MOJO in small batches, with the best ingredients that we can source, to deliver a premium health-focused product. It is a hands on approach, to ensure MOJO are the most probiotic-brimming beverages in Australia. Each bottle that leaves our Willunga site is made with Certified Organic ingredients, stringent quality controls and 100% love.
MOJO was created by Australia's first family of kombucha, who introduced bottles of sparkling, fermented tea to market in 2010, pioneering the niche beverage category in Australia. An ancient health elixir, people have been fermenting tea to produce kombucha at home for many years. MOJO's humble beginnings link directly back to our founder Anthony Crabb being introduced to the drink by a well-travelled friend, and being inspired to begin handcrafting home batches of his own kombucha.
After perfecting his brew, Anthony, with the help of his wife Sarah and a committed tribe of family and friends, embarked on a mission to take kombucha to the people – all beginning with an esky at the local farmers market. As Australians became more conscious of the impact of diet on their general health and, more people learnt about the benefits of fermented beverages and foods, interest in kombucha grew. Anthony and Sarah travelled all over Australia, advocating the virtues of their wonder-brew to passionate health food retailers, cafe and restaurant owners and eventually independent and major grocery chains, always standing by their belief that 'true health begins within'. Today MOJO is sold throughout 4,000 outlets nationwide.
Being the pioneer of kombucha in Australia took guts! Anthony has grown his personal knowledge of this handmade, fermented beverage to rival anyone in Australia. It was through trial, error and the help of the South Australia Research and Development Institute (SADRI) that our home brew recipe was able to be produced on a larger scale, allowing true handcrafted kombucha to be readily available to Australians on the go. From the beginning, we have invested heavily in testing and certifications, to assure you that our product is consistently providing the benefits and quality you expect.
Today, our small local team continue to handcraft MOJO Kombucha using the same SCOBY we started with, continuously developing new varieties using real, organic ingredients. With a focus on health, we have expanded our offerings to three sparkling probiotic beverages ranges – MOJO Classic Kombucha, MOJO Crafted Kombucha and MOJO Probiotic Sparkling Water.
Happiness and health are at the forefront of everything we do.
Cheers to good guts!
Team MOJO
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A newspaper reporter, Zaslow started at the Orlando Sentinel, and later moved to the Wall Street Journal, where he was working when in 1987 the Chicago Sun-Times held a contest to replace Ann Landers, who had defected to the rival Chicago Tribune. There were more than 12,000 entrants, including Zaslow, who did it with the intention of writing about his experience for his own paper. But he won, and he moved to the Sun-Times to write "All That Zazz". He left the paper in 2001, and returned to the WSJ. In addition to being a columnist there, he wrote books. He had attended the "Last Lecture" of Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch (Honorary Unsubscribe, Volume 4), who was dying of pancreatic cancer. He found Pausch's 2007 presentation so profound, he helped Pausch write a book based on the lecture. It was published three months before Pausch died, and was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 112 weeks. Zaslow also wrote The Girls from Ames, about a group of 10 women who were friends for more than 40 years; Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope, with Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly after she survived an assassination attempt; and Highest Duty, about Chesley Sullenberger, the airline captain who landed his crippled jetliner in the Hudson River in New York with no casualties. Zaslow was killed in a car crash in Michigan on February 10, while on a tour to promote his latest book, The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for our Daughters. He was 53.
Columnist and authorJeffrey Zaslow
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Alexa is a senior at Lincoln Southeast and was photographed in both the Haymarket and at Pioneers Park for her senior session. This particular image was taken on the steps of the Burkholder Project art gallery on P Street. The weather was far from cooperative, but Alexa had a great attitude and I'm thrilled with the final results.
Location: Burkholder Project, 719 P Street, Lincoln, NE 68434.Keywords: Haymarket Senior Portrait Burkholder Project (3).


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The world's first and only full-length concerto for mariachi and orchestra, composed 1997-98 by world-renown mariachi José L. Hernández and Jeff Nevin, Ph.D., this piece is destined to delight and thrill orchestral audiences around the globe. Designed to introduce the world to the pinnacle of mariachi performers and composition, this groundbreaking piece of music is best suited for orchestral "classics" concerts as opposed to most "pops" concerts. The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Association and the Mariachi Heritage Society commissioned the Concerto in 1997, and in numerous performances since then it has never failed to receive applause between movements and a standing ovation at the end, even from the most conservative audiences! This piece has truly won Jeff Nevin and Mariachi Champaña Nevín the artistic respect of countless classical music connoisseurs and musicians alike.
Note: with top professional orchestras and/or ample rehearsal time this Concerto (or portions of it) may be performed on orchestral "pops" concerts but the difficulty of the orchestral parts usually mandates at least 4 hours of rehearsal with most professional orchestras to perform the entire work. Please contact us do discuss programming details such as this.
Featuring Mariachi Champaña Nevín with symphony orchestra only.
Duration: ca. 23 minutes
Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2 4-2-3-1 4 perc., timp., strings
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Curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light. During the ancient period, cavemen used animal skins as curtains and covered the entrance of the caves. Today, curtains are made up of cotton, silk, velvet and other form of fabrics.
Curtain or curtains may also refer to:
Curtains is the ninth solo album by John Frusciante, released on February 1, 2005 on Record Collection. The album is primarily an acoustic album, in contrast to his previous collaboration with Josh Klinghoffer, A Sphere in the Heart of Silence, which was mostly electronic. According to Frusciante, the album was recorded in his living room: "It was just me sitting on a pillow, on my living room floor, with my back leaning against the couch."
The album features contributions from Autolux drummer Carla Azar, upright bassist Ken Wild, and The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, with Frusciante noting, "Carla from the band Autolux plays drums. I loved having a feminine energy. My friend Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta played some guitar. He and I do these solos together where we're using the same amp at the same time."
A video was released for "The Past Recedes".
The vinyl edition of the record saw a repressing from Record Collection on December 11, 2012. These reissued records are 180 gram and come with a download of choice between MP3 and WAV formats of the album.
Curtains is a 1995 Canadian short film. Produced in both English and French (the French version title is Rideau), it was nominated for a Genie and many other awards.
An actress, having just discovered she's been dumped, questions everything around her in the 15 minutes before the curtain comes up and she must take her place on stage. In the process, we get a glance at what goes on behind the scenes in your average theatre production.
In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic line, or the "horizontal" aspect.Counterpoint, which refers to the interweaving of melodic lines, and polyphony, which refers to the relationship of separate independent voices, are thus sometimes distinguished from harmony.
In popular and jazz harmony, chords are named by their root plus various terms and characters indicating their qualities. In many types of music, notably baroque, romantic, modern, and jazz, chords are often augmented with "tensions". A tension is an additional chord member that creates a relatively dissonant interval in relation to the bass. Typically, in the classical common practice period a dissonant chord (chord with tension) "resolves" to a consonant chord. Harmonization usually sounds pleasant to the ear when there is a balance between the consonant and dissonant sounds. In simple words, that occurs when there is a balance between "tense" and "relaxed" moments.
Harmony is the seventh album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1971 (see 1971 in music). The album featured two Top 10 hits: a cover version of Paul Williams' "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (U.S. #4) and Hoyt Axton's "Never Been to Spain" (U.S. #5).
Harmony (ハーモニー, Hāmonī) is a 2015 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Michael Arias, animated by Studio 4°C and based the novel of the same name by Project Itoh. The film was released on November 13, 2015. Two other anime films based on novels by the same author are to be released: The Empire of Corpses was released on October 2, 2015 and Genocidal Organ, currently delayed without a release date.
The film is scheduled for release on November 13, 2015, taking the release date of Genocidal Organ due to the latter's delay, moving from the previous release date of December 4.


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Keeping Up With Songwriter, Recording Artist, Musician, Producer & Golfing Enthusiast, Randy Goodrum. Stay tuned here for firsthand updates on Randy's solo work, his collaborations and news of other artists' performances and recording of Randy's music as well as Awards, announcements of his participation in special benefits & other issues important to him.
The Power of Music Benefit in Bentonville, AR.
While he may be best known as a #HallofFame #songwriter, Randy Goodrum also has a long list of credits & kudos as a world-class musician & performer. Northwest Arkansas Travel Guide was "in the room where it happened" at Haxton Road Studios in Bentonville, AR as Randy performed "BLUER THAN BLUE," the song he wrote for Michael Johnson (also recorded by Barry Manilow) after weaving through the writing process before an intimate hometown audience at The Power of Music benefit for music education. Here's a clip of the writer of "You Needed Me," "Foolish Heart," "I'll Be Over You," "Sad To Belong"… sharing about songwriting in the days before iPhones.
Kyla Jade of The Voice sings "The Last Tear"
When speaking of Kyla Jade, Goodrum exclaims, "One of the great rewards for a #songwriter is hearing a luxurious, powerful, moving interpretation by a talented vocalist. Congratulations to @KYLASINGS on her top finish on @The Voice. She is a perfect artistic fit for "The Last Tear," a song #TommySims & I wrote. I'm honored to be a part of Kyla Jade's effort and top 10 iTunes/top100 (#1R&B) success!"
#nbcTheVoice #teamBlake #songwriter #teamRandy
The Voice: Kyla Jade "The Last Tear"
"Private O'Toole" from THE CD, BRAVE NEW WORLD
The reviews are in on "Private O'Toole," the 1st track from#GIG's BRAVE NEW WORLD CD…WOW!
"Private O'Toole" kicks things off in fine fashion with Innis' acoustic piano setting the scene around Gaitsch's elegant acoustic guitars. Goodrum's vocal delivery reminds me of Steve Miller's, in that he has a boy-next-store delivery which immediately brings you into the story. Of course, the boy next door could never quite sing as well as Goodrum, or convey a story as well. The song is unmistakably crafty and well produced, tying touches of organ, Gaitsch's soaring electric works and a tasty hook.
"Framed with harmonic vocals to die for, the song is about as subtle and sexy as a luscious lady's long closely shaved legs with beautiful lines, tone and absolutely no edges."
Video content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nD3C9DkZE (single)BUY CD
Songwriters Hall of Fame 2018 Nomination
Randy Goodrum nominated for prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame class of 2018!
"I am humbly honored by my nomination to the 2018 Songwriters Hall Of Fame. This is the pinnacle award for songwriters on this planet and I am enormously appreciative of receiving this news. To be in the company of my fellow nominees as well as the aspirational and inspirational list of Members of the @SongHall is the greatest honor."
-Randy Goodrum
You can read more about Randy's 2018 SHOF nomination here
Q&A with Randy Goodrum
Ever wonder if iconic American songwriter Randy Goodrum has 'magic moments' while writing music and lyrics to hit song after hit song? The 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame nominee reflects upon a "special memory" in his songwriting career:
The 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame nominee whose songwriting crosses many genres – country, pop, jazz, rock, R&B and adult contemporary, has written #1 songs in each of the four decades since his first #1 hit, 1978's "You Needed Me."
Musician/Songwriter Bill Burgess recently asked Randy to think about a "special memory" in his songwriting career:
Q: Do you have a special memory of a moment in songwriting where one musical or lyric phrase materialized and made the magic? I'm thinking of one of those for me … where that one new change and melody over it elevated it in my mind to maybe be better than average for me. Any of your songwriting moments come to mind?


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Skywald's editor and chief writer Archaic Al Hewetson loved playing around with the rules of story-telling and tripping up the reader, as well as appearing himself in every tale that contained a character who was an editor. Or any shifty, untrustworthy no-good for that matter.
A lot of his stories break the fourth wall, break it again, and then kick the rubble about a bit. Here's two: I Am Dead: I Am Buried and The Fetid Belle Of The Mississippi, both of which would be good horror tales anyway, but are much more fun for Al mucking about all over them.


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SOOOOO! It's Camp NaNoWriMo and, while I'm not officially participating, I've used this as motivation to slow down on my reading and focus on writing! "Whhhaaattt! I didn't know you write?!" you say. Well you didn't know because I can never stick to one idea and hardly get anything done sooooo 😊 BUT THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT! I've got two projects happening right now (wow I guess that's not different for me), one is contemporary and the other fantasy. If you're interested in either, you can read ramblings below!
SO I call this one "Anthology" in my head because my original idea was for a YA anthology novel but OH HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED! It is no longer an anthology but rather a more focused novel with three POVS. I'm not going to go into the whole plot but it's very similar to Panic by Lauren Oliver with teens who have just graduated high school competing in an organized competition for money. That's the basic plot but it has characters each dealing with their personal demons and just trying to make it through life. I've been playing around with idea for about a year now (and it's changed A LOT) but I've finally sat down and now I have a chapter by chapter outline of the entire story. I'm currently forcing myself to take a break from this project for a week or so before I come back to decide what I like, what I don't like, and begin writing. I just know that if I don't take a break I'll get frustrated and hate the project so I have to give my brain time away from it them come back with fresh eyes!
Now enjoy this aesthetic based on the story from my Pinterest!
This one I'm still working out but I've figured out that it's gonna be about elves (but watch that change tomorrow…. XD) I've also figured out that WORLD BUILDING IS HARD! I've done so much research for this project already and I'm really only brain storming! The research is because the world consists of many different groups (clans?) of elves and they are all based off different cultures/civilizations from around the world. This has led me to learn a lot about many different places and cultures and I LOVE THAT!
I have two aesthetics for this one! The first is a general collage about elves and the second seems a little more sporadic but that is because it is representing many different peoples and culture based in the world. Thus the wide range on clothing and such!
I excited to see where these projects go in the future! I'll keep you updated (if you're interested), and hopefully I don't end up just dropping these projects within the next month… that would suck
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The Lean Startup Conference kicked off on Monday in San Francisco. In Toronto, entrepreneurial types, filled a room at MaRS to listen to their local peers present and discuss Lean Startup concepts before tuning in to the livestream of the main event.
Eric Ries, credited as the founder of Lean Startup, kicked off the conference by saying that a lot of people have jumped on the Lean Startup bandwagon in the past year and joked that it had "great vanity metrics" – Lean Startup speak for non-actionable metrics. He noted companies of all sizes are using it, including enterprise firms, such as GE, Toyota, and Intuit. In short, he argued that Lean Startup offers a better way to innovate, giving it broad appeal despite its seemingly limiting name.
According to Ries, Lean Startup is, "…not about entrepreneurs working in a garage, or a bunch of dudes (read executives, not Jeff Lebowskis) in a boardroom". He went on to make the point that it's about communicating and collaborating with our target audience (customers), even if that means getting out of our comfort zone. The rationale is — when you're speaking with customers, you're always learning and, if done with some discipline, your company can become what he calls a "learning company"; constantly learning from its environment and adapting to it.
Ries also took a jab at the common success metrics for software companies of delivering a project "on time and on budget". He likened this way of measuring success to "driving a car off a cliff while bragging about the gas mileage". In other words, you could be moving quickly in the wrong direction yet remain unfazed because you're doing such a great job getting there according to your standards. He seems to believe that we should define success by customer satisfaction, not by meeting deadlines and budgets. This left me wondering, why not consider all of these factors when measuring success? If it is possible for a project to be considered a success that is over budget and behind schedule yet delivers greater than expected customer satisfaction, say through greater revenue than anticipated, is it not possible for the inverse to be true?
The first session at the local event was, "Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)". MVP is an element of the Lean Startup approach that advises building a product with just enough functionality to give the customer an idea of what the product offers (Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, later stressed that you really need to think about what minimum viablemeans to you, implying that it's likely less than you originally believe it ought to be). The presenter, Josh Borts, shared how he has built MVPs for startups: get out of the office and meet with the people who you believe would want your product; create bare bones documentation before getting in front of an external audience; and use key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure your daily success (e.g. customer conversions).
Some of the attendees voiced concerned about sharing their product concept early in the process for fear that someone will steal their idea. The logic seemed to be, if an MVP is little more than an idea, can't someone else take that idea and move faster or better or both to win the market? In response, one of the speakers made the point that "traction is the new IP"; that 100,000 users, not a patent, is what provides competitive advantage. While that may offer some comfort to entrepreneurs who want to avoid the patent process, the door is still open for someone to take an idea that doesn't yet have significant traction, copy it, and win the race to traction, no? But it seems to be a risk innovators need to both accept and take. Extensive upfront planning with minimal interaction with external audiences until you're "ready" may seem safe because it is established practice. However, when you consider that 75% of all start-ups fail, perhaps a change in approach that focuses on validating your idea with your potential customers is worth a shot?
One of the challenges that presumably exists with Lean Startup is getting "problem interviews" with customers. According to Lean Startup methodology, after creating a hypothesis of need, you are to conduct face-to-face interviews with people in your target market, focusing on learning more about their problems so that you can create a solution to solve them. It seems as though the interviewer would derive much greater value out of this meeting than that of the interviewee. Would you take 20-30 minutes out of your day to share what problems you're facing to someone who's curious and may be able to help you? One panelist joked, (paraphrased) conferences are a great place to conduct interviews with 40 (plus) people, but don't do that here (laughs)… It seems important to be able to structure these interviews in a way that is mutually beneficial, but that is likely easier said than done.
The second session was a Lean Canvas Workshop. A Lean Canvas is a blueprint for your startup idea. It's like a business plan in that it enables you to communicate your business model with internal and external audiences. But it's unlike a business plan in that it's a short, dynamic document. Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean and creator of the lean canvas, said that it's designed to be "as actionable as possible while staying entrepreneur-focused". In the workshop, we each built a Lean Canvas, a 9-step process:
- Problem – what problem do you seek to address?
- Customer segments – who has this problem? (We were reminded that you can't target everyone)
- Solution – what are the top 3 features of your solution?
- Unique Selling Proposition – template: For (insert target customer), (insert your product) provides (3 benefits)
- Channels – how will you reach your customers?
- Revenue Streams – how will generate revenue?
- Cost Structure – what costs will you incur?
- Key Metrics – what should you be measuring?
- Unfair Advantage – what do you have that your competitors do not?
In practice, you aren't supposed to complete the canvas in one sitting. There are points at which you need to validate your plan with your audience. After completing the exercise in about 30 minutes, it was hard to determine how valuable a Lean Canvas would be to an entrepreneur. It helps simplify and order the number of things that an entrepreneur needs to consider when creating a business model or plan. But it's the process of validating the various elements of the Lean Canvas that seems to be the most valuable part of the exercise.
Here were some of the other highlights from the day:
- Robin Chase, Co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, and now founder and CEO of Buzzcar, talked about the collaborative economy and how Zipcar identified and solved a problem of excess capacity in the market. They solved this problem by creating a technology platform that enabled their customers to be peers, sharing the costs incurred of using a vehicle. She also spoke about how Airbnb is another example of a disruptive, collaborative company that saw a problem of excess capacity and solved it with a platform that enables their customers to also be producers.
- Members of Toyota's software development team described how they went from Lean manufacturing to Lean StartUp. They began their presentation by acknowledging that Toyota is "still very much stuck in the Waterfall approach" and that they were getting customer feedback once every 3 years. Curiously, they looked to Lean Startup rather than Agile to improve their software development process. Their priority was getting closer to their customers to get feedback sooner. To do so, they posted on Craigslist that they were looking for people to provide feedback on a GPS system that they were creating. Much to their surprise, 300 people responded who were willing to provide in-person feedback.
- Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn, was interviewed by Eric Ries. Hoffman said, "if you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." When Ries asked Hoffman to provide advice to entrepreneurs on how to create the next LinkedIn, Hoffman said (paraphrased), think about your startup as a long-game…and a multiple-game strategy. The odds are your first venture will fail, but keep working towards the end goal.
Overall, Lean StartUp Day was a worthwhile event. We'll continue to look into Lean Startup, specifically to get a better understanding of how it relates to Agile as well as how larger companies can apply Lean Startup practices. Keep an eye out for future posts on these topics.


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AGDC board hears project cost dropping
There is a $102 million spending plan for Alaska's gasline projects.
The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. board of directors unanimously approved the budget at its Feb. 9 meeting in Anchorage. The plan would exhaust the state's two gasline funds over the next 18 months or so.
The board also heard from AGDC President Keith Meyer that cost estimates for the Alaska LNG Project — regularly characterized in the past as $45 billion to $65 billion — are dropping.
The three major North Slope producers and the state spent about $600 million over two-plus years to study the project's environmental impacts and value engineer its cost down.
That effort was largely successful, as former project leader Steve Butt of ExxonMobil said late last year that the revised Alaska LNG capital estimate under the equity partner structure was "towards the lower end of the price range."
Meyer said during the Feb. 9 meeting that the final price for the full-size, 20 million tons per year LNG export plan would be "north of $37 billion and south of $45 (billion)."
In an interview, he said the final cost will depend largely on the financing partners the state is able to secure and the rates of return they require.
Since taking the helm at AGDC last June Meyer has emphasized the importance and ability for the project to attract lower, "infrastructure" rates of return from investors looking for long-term stable investments, as opposed to the higher, 12-plus percent returns oil and gas companies typically seek for their equity.
To what level a state-owned project can secure tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service will also impact the final Alaska LNG Project cost.
Phasing the project to match market demand is another subtle change AGDC has floated in recent weeks.
The current three-LNG train plant design and construction plan calls for installing and starting each train about a year apart. Spreading the LNG plant construction over a longer period would up the per-unit LNG cost initially, but also keep the state from overbuilding, Meyer noted.
"The market will determine the configuration of the project," Meyer said.
He estimated the cost to start one 6.5 million tons per year LNG train at about $20 billion, including the North Slope gas treatment plant, 800-mile pipeline and other fixed costs.
"I want to start thinking about this as a $20 billion project as opposed to a $40 billion project," he said in an interview.
The $102 million spending plan is what remains from previous appropriations to advance the Alaska LNG Project and the smaller Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline project, or ASAP, which is a backup line focused on getting natural gas to in-state customers.
About $26 million is left in the ASAP fund from a 2013 appropriation of $355 million. Legislators pulled $157 million from the ASAP fund and used it for school funding in 2015 when the state's budget deficit exploded and Gov. Bill Walker tussled with Republican leaders in the Legislature over his ideas for the project.
The other $76 million is in the Alaska LNG Project fund and is already dedicated to the large project being pursued by the state-owned corporation.
AGDC President Keith Meyer said the corporation will not be asking for additional funding from the Legislature this year — which must resolve the state's nearly $3 billion budget deficit soon — but it will request a reappropriation of $14 million this year from the ASAP fund to the Alaska LNG fund so the money can legally be spent on the large project.
The remaining cash in the ASAP fund will go toward finishing the federal permitting process for the ASAP project over the next year, which also has significant value for the larger project, AGDC officials told legislators in hearings in late January.
The $100 million-plus, two-year FERC licensing process will require additional funding from the Legislature in early 2018, at which point Meyer hopes to have customers lined up to prove the project's viability.
Legislators have expressed bipartisan hesitancy in funding the project further since the Walker administration said the state would take the lead role in the daunting endeavor from it former equity partners, BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil.
Also late last month BP agreed to support the state's Alaska LNG effort in a reduced role from the previous joint-venture partnership.
Meyer said the rest of 2017 will be spent attracting Asian utility customers to the project, as well as applying for the Alaska LNG Project's official license to operate from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which AGDC hopes to submit in June.
AGDC has an Alaska LNG Summit planned for March 1-6 to bring potential customers to Alaska and show them the North Slope and LNG plant site in Nikiski as well as provide briefings on the project from state agencies, BP, ConocoPhillips and others. During a Feb. 14 Senate Finance Committee hearing he said at least 10 companies interested in buying from or into the project will be represented at the event.
Corporate officials have also noted the prospective customer attendees will pay their own way from Asia to Alaska and back.
AGDC will also be looking in the coming year to contract with a financial advisor firm with experience in the LNG industry to make sure the multiple customer and financing contracts needed to support the project are compatible, according to Meyer.
Finally, on the technical side, the corporation is in talks with large engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, firms that could provide a final cost estimate in 2018 and eventually manage the construction.
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CES 2018 has kicked off here in Las Vegas, Nevada and what a start during the first day! HTC Vive revealed the new Vive Pro during press announcements this morning. The new headset will have higher resolution compared to the previous model along with built-in headphones. Also, Intel's Wigi technology will be included with the Vive Pro and it's being called the Wireless Adapter. The adapter will be attached to the Vive Headset and it comes with a battery pack that can fit into your pocket. As of right now, the battery design hasn't been completed. This upgrade will be the next step forward to help more people enjoy the VR experience. The price has not been released but it looks like this will be shipped by Quarter 3 of the year! Be sure to continue to tune in as more CES 2018 news is released later this week!
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Mar 02, 2017
Excellent course. The lecturer has written code snippets that let the students visualize the meaning and interrelationship of p-values confidence-intervals power effect-size bayesian-inference.
Feb 22, 2018
Excellent course with a lot to learn. After 10 years in data analysis it provided me with great new insights and material to further improve my skills and understanding of data analysis
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May 25, 2019
As an early career scientist, this course helped me get a solid foundation on statistical inferences. After years of accumulating vaguely-organised statistical concepts and procedures, now I am confident I have mastered the basics. Definitely the best course I've had in a long time!
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Jun 25, 2018
This courses uses R
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Jun 01, 2019
The explanations from Daniel are awesome... I am understanding p values in a manner I never did before.
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Jun 08, 2019
Amazing course! Tons of insights and original thinking!
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Jul 21, 2019
Amazing course! Many thanks to Daniel Lakens for the time spent on this. It's really useful and I've learned so many things I will use to make better research.
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Nov 30, 2018
Great course!
创建者 Dennis H•
Dec 04, 2018
excellent refresher and expansion on frequentists stats (interpretation) and nice intro to bayesian stats. highly recommended.
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Jan 10, 2019
Great overview of statistics and philosophy of science. Now I know what to tell my students when they ask me about p-values. At last !
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Jan 22, 2019
Great course. A lot of topics introduced and explored. Well worth the time.
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Jan 23, 2019
It was truly an awesome course! I learned a lot from the very well done videos, and well thought-through assignment. Would recommend to anyone trying to marry theory and application in ways that are actually helpful! BRAVO!
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Feb 19, 2019
Thank you daniel, very educational, I learned a lot
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Mar 21, 2019
The best MOOC in statistis ever!
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Mar 01, 2019
Excellent course. I learned a lot about inference.
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Mar 25, 2019
Excellent course. I improved my statistical knowledge and learned more about bayesian inference. Also, I learned something about how to pre-register a research and its benefits of doing so.
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Dec 07, 2018
I really enjoyed the course and found it challenging at times. Its definitely worth the time and effort as my knowledge has improved dramatically. I have gained knowledge which will be really helpful in the future for correctly interpreting current literature as well as future reporting of data and building research ideas. I also appreciate all the effort put into this course and the tools provided which will be beneficial to me in the future. I have saved a lot of the webpages and tools for future reference and will definitely use them when beginning research as well as examining current literature. Excellent
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Feb 26, 2019
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Jul 10, 2018
This course is immensely helpful to improve my area of expertise. This course also fills the gap of my previous formal training with current challenges in my career as a scientist
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Jul 17, 2018
very well organised course and deepens understanding. Excellent resources provided also, e.g. books and papers.
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Sep 16, 2018
One of the best online courses I've ever taken! (completed it just now). Great lectures, great materials, great assignments. Links and information for anyone wanting to go deeper on any topic. Brilliant and engaing lecturer who provides the information with so much passion and interest that it "catches on" to you. I especially liked how actual studies are used as examples for learning/assignments. Bottom line - in my opinion it's a must do course to anyone who is interested in inferential statistics.
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Aug 25, 2018
Thank you Daniel Lakens for creating and sharing this course in the way you have done. The content is very appropriate for any one anyone who is looking to work with Inferential Statistics. Many thanks
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Aug 29, 2018
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Aug 16, 2018
Taking this course was the best decision of the start of my grad school. It has massively improved my ability to interpret other papers and plan my own experiments, as well as changing how I view psychology/science in general. Plus Daniel is a great teacher :)
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Aug 17, 2018
The course taught me a lot about data analysis and the philosophy of science. By focusing on the processes associated to doing science (data collection, theory generation, statistical inference) the course prepares you to design studies and think better about any area of research (it`s all data after all). But not just that, it made me rethink various things I do in life. I have to say that while, and now after, doing it I started to take a more scientific and data driven approach to all problems in my life. 10/10
创建者 Helén L•
Aug 17, 2018
The course was great for refreshing my understanding of statistical inferences. Additionally, it provides an easy to understand introduction to bayesian thinking. The apps and websites, as well as the R-codes and excel-sheets provided alongside the assignments, and the lecture videos are of high quality and proof of a thorough and intesive preparation of the material. The material is very helpful, both for learners and for those teaching statistics to students. Plus, Professor Lakens lectures are entertaining and fun to watch.
I really enjoyed the course and have already recommended it to my department.
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Oct 09, 2018
A great course to learn or refresh theoretical concepts behind statistical inferences. There is also a lot of hands-on material and additional content. I think I will come back to the videos and slides when I want to refresh some concepts.


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Snapchat has a mysterious new trophy case for achievements
A sneakily hidden feature in today's Snapchat update offers a "trophy case" for achievements you've unlocked using the app.
The trophy case contains various things you've done in the app to earn trophies, such as taking 10 photos with the front-facing flash on, represented by emoji.
We're guessing that over time, new emoji will show here as you unlock different trophies for doing random things in Snapchat.
It seems to be partly broken right now as it shows a single achievement repetitively, but it's appearing in the latest update for iPhone users.
You can get to the trophy case by swiping on the small arrow at the top of the screen which shows your Snapcode.
Are you seeing any different Snapchat trophies in your trophy case? Let us know in the comments!
Update 12/8: Snapchat quietly removed the odd "trophy case" in another app update today. It'll probably be back later, when it's actually finished.
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"Don't Want No Drama Queens....Just Want Our M14s"
Discussion of all things M14. Including Traditional and Modern Day platforms as well as NY State Classified Assault Weapon Versions.
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Posted by Aurora University on May 24, 2016
Tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes — the life of a broadcast meteorologist is never dull. Just ask Mary Kay Kleist, anchor of the weekend weather desk at CBS Channel 2 in Chicago.
Kleist visited the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School on the campus of Aurora University May 23. During a 45-minute presentation, the Emmy-Award-winning meteorologist talked about weather and her career in broadcasting, as well as encouraged students to build their own careers doing what they love most.
Kleist then took all 200 STEM school students outdoors to appear in a live 11 o'clock newscast from one of Channel 2's mobile weather units, an SUV decked out with cameras, radar and other weather monitoring equipment.
"We invite our corporate and not-for-profit partners to bring STEM experiences to our students through presentations, virtual field trips and real field trips," said Arin Carter, director of the STEM partnership school. "We also invite our parents to share their STEM careers. We've had a veterinarian come talk and an engineer. One of our student's father works at CBS and he helped organize this event."
Not only are the topics interesting to students, according to Carter, these activities help introduce students to a wide variety of STEM careers available to them. She said that the visit from Channel 2 was well timed; in class, students were just wrapping up an academic unit on weather.
With two days left to go in the school year, Kleist talked about summer weather safety, giving facts about weather phenomena and providing tips on how to avoid being hit by lightening ("When thunder roars, go indoors!") and what to do in case of a tornado warning (head for the basement).
Seventh grader Zach Frye, who plans to pursue a career in either nature photography or chemistry, helped deliver the weather report on camera. "I thought the presentation was awesome," he said. "I never knew that you could be hit by lightening 10 miles away from the storm."
For more information about the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School, visit stem.aurora.edu.


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Mathew Knowles, the legendary, GRAMMY® Award-winning record-label executive and executive producer of top-selling female R&B group Destiny's Child and father of superstar entertainers Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, will share his knowledge of the entertainment business in a day-long, intensive boot camp on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at Zilkah Hall – The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.
The boot camp, called The Entertainment Industry: How Do I Get In? offers attendees a fascinating, insider's view of the entertainment industry from someone who knows it from top to bottom: Knowles has spent more than 20 years in every aspect of the music industry and has a demonstrated and spectacular history of success. The daylong boot camp will allow attendees to tap Knowles' vast entertainment and music business expertise and leave with real information, contacts and strategies for their own successful entertainment endeavors.


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Madam President, as seen on TV
While television news broadcasts and pundit shows have been asking for months now if the United States is ready for President Hillary Clinton, another province of Televisionland has been busy conjuring up fictional visions of what a female leader of the free world would look like.
Or perhaps "busy" isn't quite the right word; even in the fictional universes of the small screen, female presidents seem to be few and far between. Even so, the past several years have brought television viewers several prominent Madam Presidents, and is set to do so again in January. Will life imitate art in 2008, and if so, what should we expect? A quick review of television leaders may give us some clues.
President Julia Mansfield Term as President: 1985
We've seen many farces about the presidency before, most recently with Comedy Central's That's My Bush! about the current U.S. president roughly 70% of Americans love to hate. Few people remember this artifact, though: Hail to the Chief was a short-lived ABC comedy about a female president surrounded by a rogue's gallery of loonies. Conceived and produced by the same people behind the popular parody Soap, Hail to the Chief was intended to shock and titillate; ads for the show played up the outrageous premise and content, calling the show "an equal opportunity offender."
Full of sexual innuendo, kooky characters and cracks about the Cold War, Hail to the Chief certainly looked outrageous on paper, but apparently the show didn't find an audience. Put on the schedule in the wilds of April 1985, when most television seasons end, Hail to the Chief disappeared by August. Series creator Susan Harris blamed network interference for the show's failure, and then went on to put the nail in the coffin herself: she called it a bad show that deserved to be cancelled. Ouch.
There is one saving grace, though: Julia Mansfield played the straightwoman of the show. In other words, of all the crazy characters, it's the woman president we were supposed to take seriously.
President Mackenzie Allen Term as President: 2005-2006
A decade later, ABC would try out another woman president, only this time in a much different context. Commander in Chief, a highlight of ABC's fall dramatic lineup, was the brainchild of Rod Lurie, whose previous work included the 2000 film The Contender. That film, you may remember, starred Joan Allen as a female Senator in line for the vice-presidency after the last vice-president dies suddenly. Lurie apparently wanted Joan for the role of President Mackenzie Allen, but Geena Davis came to play the former vice-president who was elevated to the top seat after then-President Teddy Bridges suffers a fatal aneurysm.
From day one Allen has her back against the wall. First she's asked to resign as VP so that Speaker of the House and Bridges acolyte Nathan Templeton can step into the Presidency. Bridges staffers, Templeton, even Allen's own daughter tell her not to take the job—but she does anyways, thus setting the stage for a prolonged fight against Templeton, who seems to stop at nothing to ensure the failure of Allen's term in office.
One of the nice things about Commander in Chief is that Mackenzie Allen isn't pigeonholed as a Woman President. Though the first episode has Allen demanding the safe haven of a Nigerian woman sentenced to death for having sex out of wedlock (a laudable decision but maybe a bit too obvious?), the show generally doesn't remind you every two minutes that Allen is the First Woman President and Wow Isn't That a Big Deal. Allen's gender is treated as merely one of her traits, not her defining one—for example, her status as an Independent is a significant factor in some of the show's stories.
All that said, the show does throw in details and subplots that probably wouldn't exist on a similar show about a male president. For example, Commander in Chief takes great pains to show Allen interacting with her three young children. When Allen's standing in the kitchen of the Presidential Residence solving family arguments while chomping on an apple, you get the sense that the producers threw in the scene to remind everyone that yes, she is a mother, and yes, she can take care of her family and be President at the same time.
At the beginning of the show's run, Allen seems just a bit too resourceful, a bit too unshakable, a bit too awesome—essentially, she edges dangerously close to Mary Sue territory. Having a president that can get herself out of every hard situation without a scratch is not exactly realistic. It also implies that any woman president has to be equally awesome in order for her to be taken seriously, which isn't exactly fair. But Allen becomes less of a paragon and more of an actual human being later on, starting with the episode where she faces her first major terrorism crisis.
For all its problems—most notably the show's inability to completely escape the shadow of The West Wing—Commander in Chief gave us the most realistic depiction yet of a woman in the Oval Office. The show's greatest asset was its ability to subtly and convincingly pursue the ramifications of a female president—and a First Gentleman—without turning the show into a heavy-handed Feminism Issue Of The Week civics lesson. I've watched about half the season in the past couple of days (the entire series is available on DVD) and it's been fairly entertaining and intriguing. Unfortunately, despite critical acclaim and a Golden Globe for Geena Davis, ABC cancelled the series after 18 episodes. Production issues may have had something to do with its demise, but more likely it was the timeslot opposite Hugh Laurie and the ever-popular House.
President Laura Roslin Term as President: 2003-present
Mackenzie Allen and Laura Roslin have a few things in common. Both are tough women who are thrown into the top spot when the then-current President dies (apparently television is not yet ready to give us an elected female president). But that's where the similarities end. For example, Allen is VP when the president dies of an aneurysm; Roslin is secretary of education when the president and the 42 people ahead of her in line for the presidency are killed thanks to a massive nuclear holocaust. Oh, and did I mention Roslin is actually president of twelve planets in a far-flung future with spaceships and robots?
The 2003 Battlestar Galactica four-hour miniseries/pilot episode starts the series off with a bang—or rather, several hundred bangs. The Cylons are robots designed and built by people living on what's known as the Twelve Colonies, a dozen planets containing the future descendants of the human race. After a war between the Cylons and humans, a ceasefire is signed and the Cylons retreat to the vacuum of space for 30 years. When they return, they bring hellfire and brimstone; in the space of a couple of hours, the Cylons nuke every single human colony and destroy practically the entire Colonial space fleet. In the process, most of the Colonial government is massacred, and it's left to Roslin, secretary of education and 43rd in line for the presidency, to pick up the pieces of humanity.
The original 1970s Battlestar Galactica was a goofy space drama produced in the wake of Star Wars, but the 2004 version is relentlessly grim. Merely 50,000 people, living in cramped quarters across a ragtag fleet of whatever ships managed to escape the massacre, make up the entire surviving human race. Provisions are low, morale is even lower, they are never more than a star system away from being crushed by the vastly superior Cylon fleet, and aside from the faint hope of finding the lost 14th colony—Earth—there's little reason to wake up in the morning. Not a great way to start your first term.
Roslin adapts to her role quickly. Painted initially as lacking in gravitas and decisiveness—at one point it's noted that the "schoolteacher" has become President—Roslin quickly loses her political naivete and her soft approach. Along the way she makes tough, unpopular, and occasionally problematic decisions. She authorizes the torture and execution of Cylon prisoners without trial, deftly manoeuvres a hand-picked vice-president in order to stave off the political aspirations of a convicted terrorist, and eventually orders military personnel to take action contrary to Adama's authority, thus breaking the unwritten pact never to interfere in military affairs and causing a schism in the human fleet. And that's just in the first season.
Roslin is a fully realized character, with plenty of faults to balance out her strengths. Her toughness and perseverance serve her well when fighting off political challenges or dealing with her previously diagnosed breast cancer, but they also lead to stubbornness and occasionally unilateralism. Her strong moral convictions are often undermined by her less-than-moral methods, and her use of hallucinogenic drugs to combat her cancer causes her to lose mental clarity at times. But through it all, Roslin's authority is rarely questioned, and she manages to win over even the most skeptical members of her cabinet and the military—quite a feat for the 43rd person in the line of succession.
Despite her flaws, Roslin is one of the most sympathetic characters in a series where no character is without blood on their hands. As a vision of a female presidency, Battlestar Galactica leaves much to be desired—it's too far into the future and too bleak a situation to make a good analogy to the present situation. Plus there's no indication that Roslin is, in fact, the first female president—and let's face it, you'd hope she wasn't the first after thousands of years of social and cultural evolution. Even so, the depiction of a strong and principled female president who nevertheless occasionally makes unpopular and unfortunate decisions is just one good reason to watch this science-fiction success.
President Allison Taylor Term as President: 2008-?
24 has always been a controversial show for its often-cavalier treatment of torture and its continuing use of Muslims and Arabs as terrorist villains. But it's not exactly the right-wing orgy some people think it is—the show has occasionally hinted at the complexity of the hot button issues it features, like the second season ambiguity over the effectiveness and morality of torture. (That subsequent seasons threw this out the window in favour of protagonist Jack Bauer shocking and beating the hell out of anyone who might have anything remotely resembling pertinent information is perhaps the biggest failure of the show to date.) 24 also has the distinction of being one of the few television shows to have a black president (two, in fact). So perhaps it's not so surprising that it should take on a woman president as well; next season will open with Allison Taylor in the Oval Office.
Exactly how do the showrunners intend to depict Taylor? It's pretty much anyone's guess at the moment, but despite executive producer Joel Surnow's conservative credentials (he was also responsible for the failed conservative take on The Daily Show, The Half-Hour News Hour) you shouldn't necessarily expect a grotesque right-wing caricature of Hillary Clinton, as some critics fear. On the other hand, 24 is prone to simplification and caricaturization—most obviously a couple of seasons ago with a civil liberties lawyer sent to stop the torture of a man who clearly has information, and is painted as weak-willed and ineffectual.
We can't really look back to prior 24 presidents to figure out if she'll be painted as an ally or a threat, as the Oval Office has seen its share of leaders both principled and corrupt. Plus, with the tried and tested 24 formula being thrown out this year, pretty much everything about the show is up in the air except for Kiefer Sutherland's return as the unstoppable Jack Bauer. One thing's for certain: with the next season of 24 ending a scant six months before election day, a lot of people will be watching Allison Taylor as they contemplate the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency.


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Autauga County District School System:
• 15 public schools
• Serves approximately 9,255 students from kindergarten through grade 12
• 14th largest school system in the State
• This county school system's test scores are high and its graduation rate is exceptional.
• Students excel in areas of the Arts and Technology, despite being one of the lowest funded school systems in the State of Alabama.
• 9,556 students, grades K-12
• Average student class size: 25
• 47.81% free/reduced lunch students
• 28% minority students
• 9% Special Education Students
• 6.2% gifted students
• 1% English Language Learners
• 96% average daily attendance
• 4,834 students bused/121 bus routes
• 1 Superintendent
• 2 Directors
• 33 Administrators
• 574 Teachers
• 21 Counselors
• 13 Media Specialists
• 26 Other Certified Staff
• 429 Support Personnel
• 98 Child Nutrition
• 136 Transportation
How does aef help?
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Because of YOUR support, we were able to double our efforts from last year, filling roughly 90 boxes full of school supplies and distributing them to all 14 campuses of the Autauga County School System.
During the 2017-2018 school year, the Foundation awarded over $60,000.000 in grants for 21 projects/programs in the Autauga County School System. Our allocation process makes funds available to all schools and departments within the school system. Allocation is done in the form of grants applied for by teachers, principals, administrative, and other support staff to enable new programs in the classroom or in extracurricular activities..
Those receiving funding were:
• Autauga County Tech Center for "Calculations to Financial Success" to purchase financial calculators to support application-based learning and introduce students to technology that will enable them to make more informed financial decisions both now and in the future.
• Autauga County Tech Center for Health Science Internship Stethoscopes, funding to purchase stethoscopes for students who are part of the Health Science Internship program allowing for a more engaged and enhanced experience while attending clinical practices.
• Autauga County Tech Center for Vet Science Lab Microscopes, for use in the Agriscience program, better preparing students for what they may see at college in a science class or in the workforce should they pursue a vet tech, vet, or lab career.
• Autaugaville School-for Eagles Landing, to purchase and install a new playground for their students to engage the mind and encourage the imagination of all students in a safe and caring environment; improving student morale, health and fitness, and academic focus.
• Billingsley School for Choir Performance Wear, to update choir robes for competition to properly represent Billingsley School and Autauga County.
• Daniel Pratt Elementary for Lights, Camera, Action! The Eagle News Network team allows students the opportunity to explore journalism, broadcasting, and 21st Century technology at a deeper user and professional level. This program will provide students with the tools and resources to effectively gather information, research, interview, write, digitally create, and edit a monthly video news broadcast for the school's entire student body, staff, and parents to view.
• Marbury High School for Laptops for Students, providing laptops for students who currently use the desktop computers in the library for ACCESS class and yearbook, allowing students access to their resources, while freeing up the existing desktop computers for the many classes who need the lab throughout the year.
• Pine Level for Orff Stands for Pine Level Elementary School, as a continuation of a project AEF funded last year, funds will be used to purchase an entire set of rolling Orff carts and adjustable table stands to help with setup and tear-down, transportation, as well as safe storage of Orff instruments.
• Pine Level Elementary for Diversity in OUR World-International Flags, to purchase flags for the gifted program's International Day, exposing students to the diversity and cultural awareness this geography fair creates.
• Pine Level Elementary for the Pine Level Elementary School Green Team to start a school-wide recycling program and purchase durable recycle bins, lids, and a tilt truck for transport.
• Prattville Intermediate School for Famous Scientists and You!, to purchase a set of resource books used to encourage students to learn more about famous and not-so-famous scientists, as well as an oil spill kit that will help students, through hands-on research, understand the ocean's delicate balance and how humans can cause problems for the ocean through accidentally spilling oil.
• Prattville Intermediate School for a Large Smart TV for Physical Education to help in educating students by providing a centralized location for facilitating information, as well as be able to create Physical Education lessons from various Physical Education apps online, and to teach larger class sizes.
• Prattville Junior High School for From Farm to Table and Beyond…becoming LIFE ready, a program to help students rocket to success by teaching them life skills. As part of a classroom with a functional living component, funds will be allocated to update a stove, microwave, and washer & dryer to help students learn functional living skills and be productive for many years to come.
• Prattville Junior High School for Chromebooks for History, providing a set of Chromebooks and a mobile cart for the World History department to enhance the delivery of state content standards and further engagement of 21st-Century learners by incorporating meaningful, student-led learning.
• Prattville Junior High School for PJHS Lab Cats Measure Up, to fund the measurement portion of a functioning lab for students in life science classes and physical science classes; exposing students to real-life experiments.
• Prattville Kindergarten/Special Education Department for Technology for Special Education to purchase new laptops for the Special Education Department to utilize with students in the classroom setting, allowing students to receive the highest quality education available to them, maximizing their individual potential and achieve academic goals.
• Prattville Primary for Engaging Students through STEM Literature, a program putting over 40 quality pieces of literature into teachers' hands allowing them to build background knowledge. Funds are also designated for the purchase of Ipads that will be available for students to do research and Light Blox allowing students to use real-life scientific tools to conduct and later design light communication devices.
• Prattville Primary for Keep on Reading to purchase library books/eBooks and iPad cases; purchasing new books, replacing outdated books, and adding higher level fiction and non-fiction books to the library's catalog.
• Prattville Primary for Let Their Voices Be Heard, for a Qball, an innovative tool that has a microphone enclosed in a soft ball that enables a person to speak into the ball while it amplifies out through a speaker; allowing for shy or quite students who are often difficult to hear in a large classroom, a voice to be heard.
• Second Chance for Sit me straight and strong to Learn, to purchase replacement chairs for the campus.
• Second Chance for Technologizing my Second Chance for a Bright Future, to purchase "smart boards" to help familiarize students with technology as it is used in all aspects of their future, and help teachers to bring a wider base of information to the students.
At this year's A+ Banquet the Foundation presented the Coach Bill Clark Outstanding Student Achievement Scholarship on behalf of the Autauga Education Foundation.
This award is intended to recognize outstanding student leadership in all areas of school life. To receive consideration, a nominee must have participated in one or more sports during the student's junior and senior years and exemplify characteristics and qualities of leadership through participation in and positions held in academic, social, cultural, athletic, and spiritual organizations. A nominee must receive recommendation from the school's athletic director and at least one core teacher and should exhibit characteristics of honor, independence, integrity, and humility, which are the fundamental, essential qualities of leadership.
The recipient of the 2017 Coach Bill Clark Outstanding Student Achievement Scholarship has done just that. We are proud to announce Ms. Zanesha Rhodes of Autaugaville School as this year's scholarship recipient. She will be receiving a $500 scholarship from the Foundation.


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Such astounding food might suggest stuffiness, but the experience of eating at Tare was wonderfully relaxed. In short: a wonderful experience and a team tipped for greatness in the future
It might be one of the smallest, but Tare is also one of the most exciting restaurants in Bristol right now
The space is bright and cheery, a contemporary setting that suits the ambitious, seasonal dishes
It might be a squeeze to get a berth at this 20 seat restaurant in a converted shipping container, but it's worth it for the food
Several shipping containers are home to the charmingly run Tare, serving creative, attractively presented and flavourful dishes.
You can check availability and make a booking below. Alternatively please contact us for more information or to make a booking over the phone.
Please note from Friday 3rd January we will be serving a six course menu only at the price of £50 per head.
Credit or debit card details are required to secure bookings for all reservations.
You will not be charged if your booking goes ahead.
If you cancel your booking within 12 hours of your table we will debit £10pp and no shows will be charged at £30pp
This decision has not been taken lightly, we are a small independent restaurant and unfortunately we cannot financially support those who don't show for their booking.
For any enquiries or to make a booking please don't hesitate to get in touch, via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or on the number shown below.
Tare at Cargo
- Booking times:
- Wednesday 19:00-20:00
- Thursday 19:00-20:00
- Friday 18:00-21:30
- Saturday 13:00-14:00 / 18:00-21:30
- Final lunch bookings are at 2.00pm
- Final dinner bookings are at 8pm Wednesday / Thursday and 9.30pm Friday / Saturday
- We allow 2 hours and 30 minutes per booking slot
- Tare Restaurant
- Unit 14, Museum Street
- Wapping Wharf
- Bristol