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ILEP's 13 Members are working in 61 countries.
Our members work with girls and boys, women and men affected by leprosy; with ministries of health and the World Health Organization; with NGOs and governments; with the Novartis Foundation (Novartis provides anti-leprosy drugs for free), The Nippon Foundation and other philanthropic trusts; and with the support of some 500,000 individual supporters.
Scroll down for links to information about each of our Members and the projects they support. Each Member's profile page includes a link to its own website. We also provide a list of ILEP's individual country representatives.
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Customized STARband® Cranial Remolding Orthosis
As a result of pediatricians encouraging parents to sleep their babies on their backs to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), babies are developing asymmetrically shaped heads. There are three primary shapes for these deformities; scaphocephaly (very long and narrow) brachycephaly (very short and wide) and plagiocephaly (distorted to resemble a pararellogram). Northeast Orthotics and Prosthetics is the only facility in Rhode Island that uses Orthomerica's Starscanner Laser Acquistion System to capture the most accurate images of the baby's asymmetrical head and Orthomerica to provide the best fitting STARband® remolding helmet. The helmets, scanner, and the entire protocol are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
What is the STARband® AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
The STARband® is a custom molded orthosis designed for infants with abnormal head shapes. The orthotic treatment program focuses on redirecting cranial growth towards greater symmetry and proportion.
The cranial remolding orthosis treatment focuses on redirecting cranial growth toward greater symmetry. This is accomplished by maintaining contact over the prominent areas of the head, and allowing room for growth in the areas of flattening. To learn more, please click on the images below to open them in your web browser:
Evaluations for a Cranial Remolding Orthosis (Helmet)
The initial visit requires a prescription from a physician and includes an evaluation, initial scan, brief history and discussion about the treatment process. The orthotist will make a duplicate image of the infant's head using the 3-D STARscan. The infant is placed in the scanner where eye safe lasers and cameras create a three-dimensional image of the head. The scan replaces the casting process and is sent by e-mail for fabrication of the orthosis. Please click here to view/download the STARband® Helmet Transfer Pattern Guide >>
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Approximately 2 weeks after the scan, the the orthosis will be ready for fitting and delivery. The orthotist will determine final trim lines, answer any questions and provide instructions for wearing time. Continued care will involve follow up visits at 2-4 week intervals throught the duration of the treatment. On average, treatment takes approximately 8-16 weeks for infants between 4-7 months old. Older infants may require a longer treatment time as head growth slows after 12 months.
Cranial remolding orthoses are considered durable medical equipment (DME) by most insurance plans. Check with your insurance company to determine whether your policy includes this coverage. There is a $50.00 charge for the initial scan which is not covered by most insurance companies. If your policy does not cover cranial remolding orthoses, you may want to discuss a payment plan with our office. Please call Sarah at 401-437-8016 with any questions or concerns.
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Northern Platform #1
june 6th at 10.00-17.00
Särestöniemi studio
(Särestöntie, kaukonen)
How to co-operate? Experiences and best practices from cross-disciplinary and international projects and tools for artistic collaborations and regional networks.
Northern Platform is an encounter of performing arts professionals from the Northern parts of Nordic countries. It is a one-day event for mutual sharing, discussion and collaboration. Northern Platform aims to provide tools for regional collaboration in the field of performing arts and the event is targeted to artists and other art professionals who are interested in co-operation in the High North region.
Northern Platform #1 provides new angles to networks and regional collaboration. The invited speakers are experienced artists, developers and representatives of performing arts networks and organisations from the Nordic countries. The day's schedule will consists of speeches, case presentations, panel discussions and mutual sharing. Northern Platform #1 is an opportunity to improve one's own capacity for regional collaboration, wider the perspective of Northern performing arts and find new partners for the future collaborations.
Invited speakers: artists Thomas Eisenhardt (DK), Juha Hurme (FI), Catherine Poher (DK/FR), Ida Løken Valkeapää (NO), researcher Sami Keto (FI), producer and expert of Arctic collaboration Inger-Marie Lampe-Lupton (NO) and others.
In Northern Platform #1 you will also hear more about a recently established Northern Network for Performing Arts. The participants will also have an opportunity to influence on the concept and activities of the network and create new inclusive practices.
The whole platform Northern Platform will be facilitated by Karoliina Vilander from Arctic Design School
10:00 Welcome words
Silence Festival (Joonas/ Jonna)
10:30 Prologue We are never alone
Artist Juha Hurme (FI)
11:00 Beyond networking: Why we need interaction that's based on empathy not utility
Empathy researcher Sami Keto (FI)
11.30 Working creatively in groups of diversity
Artist Thomas Eisenhardt (DK)
12.00 Lunch
13:15 Introduction: Northern Network for Performing Arts
Producer Jonna Leppänen (FI)
13:30 Experiences and perspectives - networks and collaborations
Case 1 Experienses from the Nordic networks - Ida Løken Valkeapää (NO)
Case 2 Artist's perspective towards the networks - Catherine Poher (DK/FR)
Case 3 Respectful collaboration - Laura Rämä (FI)
Case 4 Is there a place for hierarchy in collaboration? - Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir (IS)
15:00 Workshop: Sustainable Collaboration - How to make the networks inclusive (for art and artists)? Arctic Design School (Karoliina Vilander, FI)
17.00 End of day
More info: firstname.lastname@example.com
Northern Platform #1 starts a series of 5 events which will take place in Finland, Norway, Iceland and Greenland during 2018-2019. The Northern Platform events are part of a capacity building project of Northern Network for Performing Arts and it is supported by Nordic Culture Point.


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I've been writing for Live Wire Radio (distributed by Public Radio International) on and off since 2014, and have been the sole writer since 2017. I'm writing for the Spring 2019 season now - and I also appeared as a guest on the 12/20/18 show! Below are some of my favorite audio clips of comedy bits I've written for the show.
Warning: Comedian and Executive Producer for Inside Amy Schumer Jessi Klein gets real up in arms about some fake Anthropolgie items I made up in this clip. Clip starts at 39:22.
"All Things Considered" NPR host Kelly McEvers was VERY into this bit asking her to be a little more…commercial in her approach to how she read the news. (https://soundcloud.com/live-wire-radio/live-wire-radio-337) Clip starts at 22:34
Comedian Aparna Nancherla was asked to talk about "Funny Feelings" in this episode, and distinguish between whether a quote was said by a famous Fred, or Sigmund Freud in "Freudian, or Fredian?" (https://soundcloud.com/live-wire-radio/live-wire-radio-331) Starts at 44:47.


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This new Kosmos offering got great buzz from Essen. Everyone was saying "plays like Caylus, but faster!" I took this as a mixed recommendation, because I don't think the only thing wrong with Caylus is its length. Caylus is a very good game, but it is slightly uncooked. On the other hand, Kosmos (and other German heavy-weights like Hans Im Glück and Ravensburger) have a well-deserved reputation for game development. They take good designs and refine away all the impurities, stripping a game down to its essence. If the design is very good, then this development process produces a gem. If the design is only mediocre, then the process can produce a game that's oddly flat, as it has no charm or flavour to prop up its design flaws.Pillars Of The Earth is a very good design, and it's very well developed. It's not precisely like Caylus, but it does have mechanisms that are reminiscent of same (as well as another recent game, Leonardo da Vinci, than which it is also better).In the game, each player essentially assumes the role of a powerful family contributing to the construction of a cathedral. The game lasts for 6 rounds. In each round, you get to use your troupe of "masters" to select three actions you will take (from about ten different options); some of these actions can be taken by more than one players, others can not; some of the actions change from round to round (special privileges that can be had, craftsmen that can be drafted). Also, in each round, you get to use your troupe of "workers" to gather resources, or generate income. Finally, in each round, you can use your money to hire craftsmen (only two players each round can do this).The opportunities for privileges, craftsmen, or gathering resources are controlled by decks of cards with different costs and benefits. (For example, there's a card to let you acquire two sand cubes by assigning two workers; there's also a card to let you acquire four stone cubes by assigning ten workers.)The turn order for assigning your workers and hiring craftsmen is determined. The turn order for assigning your masters is not. All masters go into a bag and are drawn out one by one. As with Da Vinci, you pay a high price (in money) to assign a master when yours is drawn, but you can pass and put your master in a queue. This makes the assignment price cheaper for all further masters. This process divides master assignment into two sections: the first section of assignments where it costs money, and the second section of masters who are sitting in the pass queue. Finessing this process is a very important part of the game: do you pay to take what you need, or do you pass, making choices cheaper for everyone else (including you if you have masters still left to be drawn)?Pillars Of The Earth is all about figuring out the relative worth of just about everything in terms of eventual pay out in victory points. There are two ways to get Victory Points: assign your Master to the action of "Get 2 VPs" or "Get 1 VP"; or use a craftsman (hired or drafted) to turn resources into VPs, or money into VPs. There is also a single craftsman that gives you one free VP every turn, and a single craftsman that lets you turn resources into money.So, the question is - what do I pay for this craftsman? Is the cost worth it? What do I pay to make sure I get this action? How many VPs will I get out of it in the end?And the game has luck: the privilege cards and event cards are randomly drawn (and some privileges and events will not feature in each game, unknown which ones), and the craftsman cards are organized into six "waves" of four, but within each wave, it's not known which two craftsman may be hired and which may be drafted. Turn order determines who has the opportunity to hire, but since drafting is a "master" assigned action, it's unknown who'll have the ability to draft first.The presence of luck means that another huge component of the game is managing risk. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, and always try to have several paths to victory for as long as you can.Pillars Of The Earth seems like such a good game, that I'm certain that it will see table time and take away table time from Caylus. And it has stopped me from buying Leonardo da Vinci: since I have both Pillars and Caylus, I can see no real reason to buy da Vinci. On the other hand, Pillars does not have the depth that either of the other two games has, and so I'm not sure what its shelf life will be. Will it tap itself out at some point? Caylus, despite its length and flaws, may have longer endurance simply because of the wider and deeper number of options available to players.But it's encouraging that we played a three player in the afternoon, and then immediately wanted to play a four-player in the evening.(Plus, as is typical of Kosmos big-box games, the bits are undeniably gorgeous. The rules are clear and help you learn the game on your first play in a clever fashion; and the game components themselves assist you in playing the game in a very good, although language dependent, manner.)A very good game and well worth the money.
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Five days to the trial.
The boy's company keeps my mind off.
Learned something terrible today though.
Apparently my mom not visiting for a lack of strength isn't true.
In today's letter - devastated as always - she reports that she's not allowed.
Would I have known I would have tried to demand and maybe even extended the hunger strike.
Dad did not mention so they must have put him under pressure.
The one-page limit to the letters is bad enough but the one-parent visit rule is cruel.
Not for me as I have known all along why I am here and that I'm paying a price for my decision.
But for my mom.
I can hardly imagine her pain.
Why didn't we ever talk about this in here?
"Hey guys, how many people visit you from your folks?"
"One, my mom sees me coz my dad can't travel."
"It's the rule. Why do you ask?"
There is no use to complain or fight it now.
Come Tuesday I will know my sentence.
I might be gone by Thursday.
Thinking about mom for the rest of the night.
And I'm looking forward to prison wherever that might be.
Because I'll see my mom again during monthly visitations.
And if not?
I'll sing the hunger blues again.
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I have this thing, and am probably not the only one (au contrarie, right!), that when I see something that's cool to me, first thoughts in my head are: Why am I not as cool as this? and I should be like this! The funny thing is that these things [I think I should be like] are so opposite in character that it would be quite impossible to be all the things I should be.So, for example, when I see looks like this all I want to be is a willowy-180 cm tall-no breast in sight model so clothes can hang of me so lovely as she has it. When I wear things like this my shapes bulge in all the wrong places: not anatomically, but aesthetically wrong from what the designers imagined Andrej Pejic will wear well (I think you can all read my oh so subtle irony).
But you can bet, that I had the same thought process that SAME day, when I saw Salma Hayek (I SHOULD be a short Mexican woman), a fitness ad (I should work out more. I should be as cool as this lady and be able to do one armed push ups and look HAPPY as I do it).
Some would call this exhausting. I call it funny. Because the entire process is so ridiculous that even my low self esteem part of my self can't take it seriously.
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I am excited to let you know that this coming August we plan to embark on another Mission to Malawi.
I am really looking forward to it as are our friends in Malawi who are eagerly awaiting our arrival. I plan to continue the program of Evangelism training in the rural churches with a specific focus on Muslim Evangelism.
What are this Mission's Objectives?
We will be focusing in the rural areas of Malawi where the needs are the greatest.
Our objectives will be 3-fold:
- To continue the work of Evangelism training in the rural churches where God has opened doors for us over the past 5 years. I aim to focus on Muslim Evangelism training as this is an area of great need.
- We would like to distribute 2 boxes of Bibles (as we did in March this year) because most rural Malawians can't afford to buy their own Bible due to their perpetual struggle with hunger. I would also like to purchase effective Gospel literature from the SIM offices in Malawi for use in outreaches.
- I plan to initiate the Joseph Project during this mission trip. This will enable the oppressed and hungry rural folk to have access to affordable maize during the hunger season which is already upon them.
Blessing in Partnership
As a faith missionary, I rely on God's provision through the hands of His servants here on earth. I have often been blessed beyond my capacity to comprehend in the way that God has faithfully provided time and time again. God has used His people to partner with us for the sake of His Gospel. Only they will know and be able to tell of the blessing it is to be able to be part of building God's Kingdom in this way.
Prayer Team Needed
I am trusting God to provide the R 20140-00 that will be required to make this mission a success. Would you please consider being part of my team? I cannot do this alone. Would you commit to praying for the success of this mission, for God's provision, protection, and empowerment by the Holy Spirit.
Finances Needed
If you would like to partner with us financially you could find our banking details here: www.highlightafrica.com/support/
Thank you for your love, your support, and prayers.
May God's richest blessings surround you daily!
In His service and still loving it!
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I am just going to flat-out admit it; the Orioles series really bummed me out. Yes, I like both teams; but I was really hoping for a split series rather than the Os stomping all over us, but clearly, after the series in Baltimore this past weekend, they are definitely the better team. The Orioles have the hitting we don't, and that really hit home for me over these two series. Sure, we took two from the Cleveland Indians, and that is helping us stay afloat and over .500, but I just really wanted to even things up with the O's. I did have a great time at that series here, but when all was said and done, the Birds taking three of those four games was a bummer. Especially on Felix night that Friday. Ugh.
In any event, the Mariners are apparently still somewhat in the playoff hunt, though things after the All Star break have not been looking as good as they were prior to it (I'm using the word "somewhat" pretty loosely). I have started the process of divorcing myself from the idea that there is a post season for Seattle this year, and am gradually preparing myself for 2015. That may sound premature to some – there are two months-ish worth of baseball left, after all – but all I can see is the Athletics' 69-43 record, and we're still 9 games in back of the Angels, and don't even get me started on the Tigers, and of course Baltimore. Things aren't looking great for post-season right now. And we have the White Sox, the Jays (who are also doing pretty well for themselves in the AL East this year), the Tigers, and Nationals this month. I am not harboring high hopes. We play the Athletics for two series in September and the Angels for two series as well; that's half a month taken up with two teams measurably better than we are. Just keeping my fingers crossed for that .500. A winning season would be nice indeed. September's going to be terrifying.
News has it that Justin Smoak has been hitting .340 since he went back down to Tacoma. I know I'm a little late with the article linkage. I am wondering if we have the evidence we need that Smoak will not be a good fit for this major league club? I had high hopes that he would come as advertised, just like everyone else. But I'm not sure how many more times I can take the Smoak yo-yo game. And if it continues next year, I will honestly have to wonder how serious the Mariners are about fielding a playoff-bound team. I wouldn't have any problem with Smoak staying in Tacoma or being turned over for a guy or guys we can use; but the time is running out for that, if it hasn't already. It's clear he cannot hit major league pitching, and his WAR is down at -0.3 from a consistent -0.5 or 0.5 since he first arrived on the scene in 2010. It's been four years. He is at a career-high 24% SO rate, with a BA that is barely keeping its head above the Mendoza Line, and a BABIP of .250 (yes, I'm just pulling random stats). Things just aren't looking great for Smoak and while he has shown flashes of brilliance, like I said, after this season it will be four years. Clearly the Rangers, getting to the World Series that year, got the far better end of that deal. Sigh.
I haven't been able to watch a lot of games lately, though I did get to a pub last Friday to watch the game after work. I couldn't see the game last night, but I'm listening today at work, and hope they go after Atlanta with a vengeance. So back to work, and the start of the game. Would like to see us go – however slowly – to a little more comfortable numbers than the .518 we currently sit at. Now I've got to get back to work…


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Living Lent Well
Catechiwi's resident expert Fr Merv Duffy speaks about Lent, the season of preparation for the pinnacle of the Church's year: Easter. Fr Merv talks to Gavin Abraham about the origins of Lent, the three Christian actions we are called to focus on during Lent and speaks about the significance of the number "40" in Christian and Jewish history.
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A big shout to Zdenko Franjic (DJ Zdena) from Zagreb, Croatia for kindly sending us these pics of his great garden/orchard. Zdenko runs the Croatian alternative rock/blues/punk/indie label Slušaj Najglasnije! (Listen Loudest!) and distributes all sorts of books, comics and fanzines too.A few words from Zdenko: "My mamma left me a garden with an orchard. Then I met Nina (Varga) and we now spent our weekends there. We're beginners in gardening but we've started to plant and now they're growing.
If that garden was good enough for my mamma, it's good enough for us…"We just want to say here at weeds it's a fine garden/orchard and best of luck with it as it looks like a special space! There's some nice raised beds there too!More on the massive output of the Listen Loudest label here and here. Ta to Zdenko for words and the Clarence Reid tune and Nina Varga for the pics.Thanks also to Zdenko for his mix of Madtone's Dark Dread off The Sound Robbers From Outer Space CD from 2007.


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According to the words of his former player, Homewood High School's (Birmingham, AL) Coach Doug Goodwin is a piece of work.
Brent Calloway's recent interview with Tidesports.com paints a grim picture of a man teetering on the edge of odd if not childish behavior.
From the interview:
"Like the week of signing day I had to cut my phone off. Coach Goodwin was blowing my phone up everyday. All day long, blowing my phone up about this, this and this. 'Where you at? I need to talk to you.' Coach Goodwin was blowing my phone up. And when he found out that I was going to Alabama, it was like he started sending me crazier messages, talking about, 'I'm going to get in trouble.' I was like, 'Coach Goodwin, nobody has paid me to do anything.' He told my dad it's a shame he forced me to go. I said my dad can't force me to do nothing. Peaches is my guardian. And for that matter, he has limits on what he has say so over. And college is not a say-so any parent has over his son or daughter. That's a decision they have to make."
Calloway went on to say that the Goodwins (including his wife) haven't spoken to him since changing his commitment (and eventually signing) with Alabama (from Auburn).
Read the entire article by Aaron Suttles at Tidesports.com…well worth the subscription in my opinion.
We've made the claim many, many times here that Auburn University's fan following resembles more of a cult than a following. When you try to leave a cult, that's when the cult members get nutty, resorting to odd measures to keep you in. Notice any similarities?
The bigger question is, parents, would you want your child to play for this man? If the University of Alabama has interest in him, will you ever know?
Tuesday, a caller on the Finebaum radio program, a former player of Goodwin's while at Demopolis called in. He was one of several who wanted to weigh in on their former coach. Simply put, he said it best:
"Coach Goodwin wants you to go to Auburn. He wants his players to go to Auburn."
The caller and others went on to paint a vivid picture of a coach who would be capable of what Calloway has alleged.
Also on the Finebaum show Goodwin's sister called in. She said he's one of the finest Christian men she's ever met, and she's not just saying that because he's her brother. Neat. She also wanted us to know he once let a black boy sleep on his couch. Hearing her really changed my opinion.
Keep in mind through all this, what if Goodwin was a source in part to Jeffrey Lee's landmark distraction last week? How does the idea of a coach telling a player that if he commits to Alabama he's going to get in trouble strike you? And if this is so, was that a threat of things to come in return for scorning his beloved * University?
Sounds like the Homewood School system has some decisions to make. Good coach with a great record, but an apparent questionable track record brought to light by some of his own.
He may be fine, and maybe all this will deliver the wake up call he needs. But if I had a son playing football at that high school, based on what is coming out via Calloway, Finebaum and others, I would be more than concerned.
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Doctors at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib used their medical knowledge to help devise coercive interrogation methods for detainees, including sleep deprivation, stress positions and other abuse, it was reported Thursday.
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine provides the most authoritative account so far that doctors were active participants in the abuse of prisoners in the US' "war on terror."
"Clearly, the medical personnel who helped to develop and execute aggressive counter-resistance plans thereby breached the laws of war," says the article, which is based on interviews with more than two dozen military personnel and recently released official documents. It adds: "The conclusion that doctors participated in torture is premature, but there is probable cause for suspecting it."
The issue that the administration had encouraged the use of coercive interrogation techniques was raised yesterday in the Senate confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the presidential nominee for attorney general. Gonzales was attacked for a memo which said only the most severe types of torture were not permissible under US law.
The article accuses doctors of violating professional ethics by passing detainee health records to military intelligence, and by watching interrogation sessions.
It also describes collaboration with interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq in which doctors and medics helped set the parameters for abuse, determining 72-hour "sleep management" schedules for detainees, approving bread and water regimens for those subjected to "dietary manipulation," and sanctioning long periods of isolation.
At Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, doctors had the final say on the interrogation plan for each detainee.
"We'd capture a guy; the medic would screen him and ensure he was fit for interrogation. After that the medic would watch over the interrogation from behind the glass," the article quotes a military police commander as saying.
The report is not the first evidence of physicians' collusion with torture. Last August an article in the British medical journal the Lancet accused medics at Abu Ghraib of failing to report the beating of detainees and of forging death certificates. But the practices described Thursday suggests for the first time that medical practitioners played an active role in abuse.
"This is physicians and psychiatrists being involved in the design and implementation of interrogation plans," said Jonathan Marks, a British lawyer and a fellow at the Georgetown University law center, who co-authored the report.
There was no immediate comment from the US military, but the article includes comments from the deputy assistant secretary of defense for health, David Tornberg, which suggest that the Pentagon holds that professional ethics do not apply in a time of war. That view has raised concern within the medical community.
"You have to protect physicians from being manipulated or used to serve military purposes," said Leonard Rubinstein, director of Physicians for Human Rights.
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The course will be led by a Certified SAFTD Master Instructor. In the first half of the course the instructor candidate will participate in a full professional presentation of the S.A.F.E. Seminar. During the second part of the course the candidate will be participating in the instructor coursework/lesson plan. Besides bookwork the candidate can expect to participate with a hands on learning approach using the course material, slides and visual aids, while roll playing in an instructor capacity with other instructor candidates.
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Singleton v. Tristan et al
|Robert F Singleton
|Diana Aguirre, The City Of Houston, Kim Ogg and Officer Tristan
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|August 9, 2019
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|Filing 2 MOTION/APPLICATION to Proceed In Forma Pauperis by Robert F Singleton, filed. Motion Docket Date 8/30/2019. (LoriPurifoy, 4)
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Investing in Africa
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At the urging of PPI board members, Theresa Whitmarsh, executive director, Washington State Investment Board, and Bob Maynard, CIO, Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho, PPI, through our Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) initiative, has partnered with Africa investor (Ai), a Pan-African platform for African institutional investors to examine the opportunities and obstacles associated with foreign investment into Africa, most notably in infrastructure.
The IWG seeks to address the lack of coordination between the asset owners seeking to invest and the myriad institutions that are active in the infrastructure investment marketplace. Further, we wish to provide our members and the pension-sovereign fund investor community at-large with a deeper understanding of the tools in place to address the need for investment. This partnership's focus on Africa is an important connection point for our holistic approach to the global infrastructure investment landscape.
PPI often partners with institutions whose work aligns with our mission to help asset owners and managers understand, learn and gain perspective from one another on geopolitical, economic and financial matters that affect the investment environment and opportunities for its members. To learn more about Ai and their African Pension and Sovereign Wealth Fund Infrastructure Co-Investment Platform, here.
In support of this important relationship, we invite you to please take a couple of minutes to tell us about your interest in investing in Africa.
Kris Greenville
Vice President, PPI


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Released in 2000, A Drowning Man is Naoki Ichio's first and so far only motion picture. The Japanese filmmaker wrote, edited, produced, and directed the movie, displaying a steady hand and a distinctive eye. His press clippings compare him to Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel, but I think his most obvious compatriot is not a filmmaker, but an author. A Drowning Man reminds me a lot of the short stories of Haruki Murakami.
At the start of the film, Kumiko (Reiko Kataoka) drifts off to sleep while she takes a bath. She dreams of being in a beautiful, open field with purple flowers. She also realizes that she's not merely sleeping, but she's dead, having drowned. Apparently, death is merely another dreamscape. Naoki Ichio uses this as his springboard to suggest that life is merely a dream, as well. Everything we experience is just another state of illusion. We stand between two mirrors, and they reflect our image back to us, multiplying into infinity.
Kumiko's husband, Tokio (Shinya Tukamoto), finds her in the bath, but instead of calling for an ambulance, he drains the tub and removes her body, laying her out on the couch as if she were taking a nap. He then goes and sleeps under the kitchen table, waking up only after his wife has regained consciousness and rouses him. Did she ever really die, or did he just dream it himself?
It's quite a set-up for a film. In other hands, it might be overly weird, with a forced atmosphere and overstating the point. Ichio is a gentler director, he wouldn't force anything. His odd concept is a metaphor for the malaise felt by two people in a dying relationship, and he adopts that mood to establish the tone of his movie. With Kumiko seemingly acting strange after the incident--her skin is always freezing cold, she eats food she's never liked before, the apartment has a rotting smell that no amount of cleaning will dissipate--Tokio begins to doubt himself and what he knows. Kumiko never really opens up about what she thinks happened, suggesting a lack of trust between them. They do address the divide, but they mostly tip-toe around it. They are sleeping through their marriage and they need to snap out of it.
A Drowning Man is a small movie. It's barely over 80 minutes long, and it never really leaves the couple's apartment. Long passages go by without anyone speaking, and most of the shots are cloaked in darkness. Though there is a faint whiff of pessimism in Ichio's resolution, the very final scene reveals the optimism he's been guarding all along. By embracing the illusion, we are free to live it. It's a grand revelation, but the neophyte director unveils it almost on the sly, so far from any fanfare that you might not even catch it at first. You have to think that if he's smart enough to take it that far, that his own perspective on what must be a very personal film is that it is also a layer to the dream, a fabrication of one man's mind. It's been seven years since he shared it with the rest of the world, I can only wonder what he's been dreaming of since.
I can't say I was surprised that the picture quality for the A Drowning Man DVD wasn't very good. Right when I received the disc, before I had taken off the plastic, I noticed the poor reproduction quality of the box art. The fuzzy letters and over-saturated coloring make it look like it was printed on someone's laser printer rather than a professional printing job. You'll notice the same fuzzy lettering as soon as the movie begins and you see the white credits on a black screen. The transfer on A Drowning Man is pretty terrible.
The movie is presented in a full frame format. I don't know if that is its original aspect ratio, I can't find any information on that. The picture is extremely soft regardless of what size it is in, with dull colors, the occasional speck of dirt, and a persistent background haze, like maybe this was mastered from an old VHS or something.
Only one basic audio mix is offered of the original Japanese soundtrack. Though A Drowning Man is a very quiet film, this flat mix still has some very noticeable flaws, since there is a pretty obvious imbalance between the music and the spoken dialogue. All in all, it has a kind of distant quality, like the audio lacks the same sharpness missing from the video.
Yellow English subtitles are optional, and they are decently written with only a couple of typos.
Most of the bonus features are text based and can be scrolled through using the arrows on your remote control. These include liner notes by critic Roseanne Lawrence (I assume she's a critic of some kind, no one bothers to give her an explanatory byline despite her presumably being someone worth paying for her opinion), production notes, and biographies of the participants. There is also an image gallery of stills.
The video portion of the bonus section has both the U.S. and Japanese trailers for A Drowning Man and a selection of trailers for other DVDs from Pathfinder Pictures. There is also a 16 minute, 45 second "Making of..." documentary. This is entirely put together with on-set footage, leading us through the production at a brisk pace. It's absent of any of the usual interviews with actors or director, but is more quiet and unassuming, like the movie we're seeing be filmed.
Packaging is important to DVD collectors, and this is a case where the package doesn't live up to the movie it contains. From top to bottom, from the cover art through to the DVD authoring, this release of A Drowning Man was done on the cheap. On those merits, I'd likely tell you to skip this DVD completely; however, Naoki Ichio's movie is such a special little puzzler, it balances out the disc's average. The intriguing dissolution of this Japanese marriage, with the rift between the husband and wife manifesting as illusory metaphors that neither can adequately explain, makes for a special film that deserves to be seen and pondered. So, despite the presentation, Rent It, because it's worth seeing regardless of how its shown.
Jamie S. Rich is a novelist and comic book writer. He is best known for his collaborations with Joelle Jones, including the hardboiled crime comic book You Have Killed Me, the challenging romance 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, and the 2007 prose novel Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?, for which Jones did the cover. All three were published by Oni Press. His most recent projects include the futuristic romance A Boy and a Girl with Natalie Nourigat; Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks, a loopy crime tale drawn by Dan Christensen; and the horror miniseries Madame Frankenstein, a collaboration with Megan Levens. Follow Rich's blog at Confessions123.com.


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Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Pubished October 2015 by Scholastic
Source: the publisher
Rating: 5 stars
From the blurb: Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story. Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence and 'capable of anything', despite suffering from Alzheimers. As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to her. Rules get broken as allegiances shift. Is Mary contagious? Is 'badness' genetic? In confronting the past, Katie is forced to seize the present. As Mary slowly unravels and family secrets are revealed, Katie learns to live and finally dares to love.
Unbecoming is Jenny Downham's third novel. Set in the town of Bisham, we meet seventeen year old Katie, her mother Caroline, and her younger brother Chris. She's never met her maternal grandmother but Mary has come to live with them after her mother was called as the emergency contact. Mary has dementia but despite this Caroline does not want her to live with them. It's a subject that she chooses not to discuss, but she was abandoned by Mary at a young age and brought up by her aunt. Katie on the other hand finds Mary delightful and the two instantly bond. Katie sets about writing down the stories Mary tells her and keeps them in a book to use as a way to remind Mary of who she is.
I assumed because there were three women in this story, that there would be three perspectives, but there are only two, Katie's and Mary's. I think it was a clever way to approach the story as Caroline is not a likeable character on first meeting her, but she's also in the dark about a lot of her early childhood and as she learns about it so does the reader, this bring us closer and allows us to have more empathy towards her.
I adored Katie, she's a wonderful girl but she feels trapped by her mother's rules and by her secret - she thinks she's a lesbian and is terrified of her mother finding out. Already she's being teased at school by her former best friend, but having Mary in her life allows her to grow and discover who she doesn't want to be.
Mary was lovely and her story was so sad. She's confused about who she is, why she's come to stay with her daughter and grandchildren, but takes pleasure in telling Katie stories of her younger years.
Jenny Downham really knows how to write an emotional story, and Unbecoming is no exception, I felt so much for this family and really loved the time spent reading about their lives. The ending was beautiful, full of hope yet tinged with sadness too.
This is a YA book that could easily be enjoyed by adults as well, it's a realistic coming of age story combined with historical fiction.
Thank you to Scholastic Australia for my review copy.
The three women in this story have varying shades of red hair and I love how this is represented here (the cover of the new edition also has a great design).
I started with 2 coats of BYS Kung Fu Blue.
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"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."
(Giuseppe Verdi)
This second day was our only rainy/poor weather day of the trip... and I'm actually really glad we got to see it! As we drove south from the Alps to the Northern Italy Coast we looked out our windows adoringly. Caleb couldn't stop talking about the towns "nestled" into the hills, "tucked" into the land, and "perched" on the cliffs. The fog puffs rolled in and out and it all felt cinematic and brooding. We loved it.
However, we had to make sure we made the most of the day! Honestly, Caleb and I could carry on with any travel plans in the rain. Rain jackets, umbrellas, and darting in and out of buildings is no problem. But the kids. It's another story when little ones are slipping, cold, strapped-in, and uncomfortable! I wanted to make sure we still "experienced Italy" but indoors. Palace of Venaria it was! (I was inspired by Naomi Davis who has taken her kids into many castles/palaces/tours while traveling.)
I'm SO glad it rained.
Otherwise we may not have stopped and made an indoor solution work. And this was one of the best memories of the whole trip. It was not crowded in the slightest, the kids could roam around the big rooms, and then run around the Galleria Grande. I was happy as a plum to take our time enjoying the splendor (snapping pictures furiously) and Caleb inspected the doors, trim, and engravings in awe.
There are 54 rooms to go through (I don't think we hit them all! haha But we did at least a few dozen!) filled with history of the home. It was built in the late 1600's by Charles Emmanuel for, what I can tell, basically a bragging right and "honor" for his wife, Marie Jeanne Baptiste, Regent of Savoy. It was all the rage. Buying towns and building manors. It was also his hunting lodge *straight line mouth emoji* It turned into a military hub during Napoleon's era and was used as a training facility by the Italian government much after.
But now, happily, the gardens and buildings are restored to their former glory... and glorious they are! The art and building detail was head-spinning. Like walking through Tuscan Pemberley.
This item on display was one of my favorite parts of the visit: an enormous hand-drawn family tree. The intricacy and printer-like quality...!
When I shared a picture from this visit on Instagram, a few people asked me how I took such a great picture while traveling. The quick answer? We had ton of time, no crowds to fight, and I wanted to! Haha The longer answer is, well, you know "the best-laid plans of mice and men..." Just because a mama is hopeful doesn't mean "it" is going to happen! My general rule of thumb for travel pictures with the kids is: setting and characters. Meaning, I'll take pictures of the places and the stuff ("the setting") all on its own, and then try to get the kids against a wall or on a bench or anywhere, really, during that day. I know I can compile these images together for an album, or, say, a blog post, to tell the story of the day. I don't HAVE to have the kids in all the stage-setting shots, since Lord knows they're probably face-first into the stroller basket looking for a cookie. "Never try to make a happy child happier!" And certainly never try to make a happy child upset haha!
If I've been able to do both things I start to gain traction and courage and think about getting the characters IN the setting. If anyone ever offers to "take a picture of the four of you" I always say yes (we had a number taken this trip... and a couple were perfect!!). Then once the kids have been documented I sometimes let myself try to get a shot of just Caleb and I that isn't a selfie. Practically speaking, this means I'm manning the camera and he's manning the kids for the most part. When I've gotten what I want (or things are starting to fall apart and I'm needed), I put my camera away and turn that part of my brain off. And for me, since I am a photographer, having my camera out and being in "picture mode" doesn't take me away from the present. Truthfully, when I'm even taking pictures with my phone I feel that pull away from the moment -- tapping a screen and seeing it through a flashcard size window. But when I am using my camera it's almost a tool to focus in on the moment; to absorb the scene. Maybe how some journal about a travel day or listen to certain music to set the tone/memory in place. I believe what I'm doing is useful and good for our little family history; something we and our kids and hopefully their kids! will look back on someday and I also find it personally fun. Anywho, there's the long answer!
I was worried we wouldn't get pictures of us "in the setting" and I couldn't stand it because everything was SO beautiful. I took a few of Rowdy playing, and then selfies in a mirrored door... but I needn't have worried! There was pleeeenty of time for pictures, and even setting the camera aside in the Galleria Grande.
This is the exact view you see when you push past the curtain doorway to enter the room. We stopped in our tracks and my heart began to race. Overwhelming in the grandest, most inspiring ways.
We spent about 20-30 minutes in here! The kids played tag, rolled on the floor, looked out the windows, and enjoyed their echoes. We could not BELIEVE that no one else was in here!! Other groups walked through and I saw maybe two people snap a picture. But no one stopped. Everyone just walked through like a hallway. I guess when you're from Italy and you've seen it all, this ain't much? I don't know. We were enthralled. Right before we were ready to go I thought Caleb and I should try to get a pretty shot. This was the luckiest iPhone selfie ever. One try!! (Caleb had been so sweet, too. He grabbed me up in a big swaying hug and burst out "This is so romantic!" I love his easily-moved, affectionate wonder. That's part of why I wanted a "real" picture of us to remember. It had been a "real" memorable moment not just as a family, but as a couple. He brings out the softie in me ;) And even convinced me to be in front of the camera solo. *horrors* it didn't last long but... that happened?
As we walked out we chatted about how many little royal Savoy children had done the exact same thing our kids just did and how, no, I don't need a souvenir hand towel from the gift shop. Two villages and a palace will do. 😘
Ps. They host an actual Grand Ball here! Look!
Up next! Portofino & St. Margherita!


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An exclusive report from Reuters details how at the base in Hawaii where Edward Snowden was assigned, plans to install "anti-leak" software were delayed because the facility did not believe they had sufficient bandwidth to ensure its effective operation.
It's fitting that the agency would have a bandwidth issue. The biggest revelation from the Snowden leaks was that the agency intercepts 1.7 billion Internet communications every day, a feat that requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth.
In June, we reported on the super facility the agency has in Utah, which can hold 5 zettabytes of information. (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes = 1 trillion gigabytes.) With just 1 zettabyte (1024 exabytes) of space, the NSA can store a year's worth of the global Internet traffic ( which is estimated to reach 966 exabytes per year in 2015).
Apparently, the NSA's Remote Operations Center in Hawaii where Snowden worked didn't have that same capacity, and because the anti-leak software had not been installed, within a few weeks of working there, Snowden was able to collect a treasure trove of information and traipse out the door with it, stealing away to Hong Kong before eventually settling in Russia.
An NSA spokesperson told Reuters that the agency has since stepped up its efforts to safeguard its information.
These revelations come on the heels of news that Snowden's boss at the CIA in 2009 wrote a negative report on him that described a sudden change in demeanor and an interest in gaining access to files that he had no business looking at. That report apparently fell through the cracks.


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As Facebook turns 10, we look at who's having the most success in using the biggest social network in the world to put their content in front of eyeballs.
Here are the top 10 Facebook publishers of last month, based on their share count. The data is from our content discovery platform Spike.
It's been another amazing month for BuzzFeed. In December, they overtook the Huffington Post to become the biggest Facebook publisher. They further consolidated that position last month, with over 9.5m shares of content published that month and over 17.6m likes. Their most impressive stat is the number of comments their output attracted last month – over 13m. That was enough to drive their monthly Facebook interaction count (likes + shares + comments) over the 40m mark, a figure we've never recorded before.
These BuzzFeed stats are all the more interesting in light of the news that Facebook trumped Google for traffic referrals to the site and its extended network over the last two years.
It wasn't just BuzzFeed who saw a rise in Facebook activity last month however – the Huffington Post had an increase of over 2m shares, while Fox News saw a 1m lift in their total likes. It's hard to point to the exact reasons for these rises, but recent tweaks to Facebook's timeline, which sees 'suggested articles' pop up whenever you click on a story – may go some way to explaining.
Another big story of the month has been the phenomenal success of Viral Nova, who were added to our Spike database in December. The site rank third overall in our top Facebook publishers chart for January – ahead of the likes of CNN, the New York Times and even Upworthy. Their January success had a lot to do with some key posts – their Life Hacks Guide was shared over 660,000 times during the month alone, making it the most shared piece of content across the web last month. We've charted the Facebook rise of virally-optimised sites such as Viral Nova and the Independent Journal Review (who also had a very strong January) in detail, and we'll go further into their success on this blog next week.
Meanwhile, one notable absence from last month's top 10 is Upworthy, who were consistently in third place overall at the end of 2013, well ahead of CNN, NBC, the New York Times and others. In fact, their total Facebook interactions almost halved, from 10,771,244 to 5,697,857. They ended January in 11th place in terms of Facebook shares, and even further down when Likes and Comments are combined.
There are some equally interesting changes outside the top ten. As ever, data for the top 25 are below – feel free to download and make your own analysis. Separate breakdowns for Twitter and LinkedIn are also on the way.
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Some bankers and analysts think that Google, Facebook, Amazon or the like will not fully enter a highly regulated, low-margin business such as banking. I disagree. What is more, I think banks that are not prepared for such new competitors face certain death.
Technology has already transformed many industries. Next in line is banking. In two or three years, only 5 per cent of consumer interaction will be through branches. The rules have changed and a new league of competitors is emerging.
New entrants are free from the legacies of banks: obsolete systems and costly distribution networks. So far, most (PayPal, Square, iZettle, SumUp, Dwolla) are seen as niche businesses. However, they may expand or seek alliances. And almost certainly some big names in the digital world, companies with strong brands and millions or billions of users, will jump into the fray.
Yet while this is disconcerting for banks, the good news is that we still have one significant advantage, which is the vast array of financial and non-financial data that we accumulate. This information reveals a lot about habits, tastes, needs and aspirations. Banks need to turn it into knowledge and use that knowledge to provide users with exactly what they want, precisely how and when they need it.
People want simple, transparent services with real-time customised pricing, and it has to be available on the move. Mobile services not only provide a much more flexible, convenient customer experience, they also offer the potential to double or even triple the number of bank customers worldwide in the next decade.
Customers expect the same level of service through all channels, whether mobile, PC or branch, and the ability to jump freely from one to another. They also seek innovative content, products and services – financial or non-financial – that fit their changing needs.
In combination, big data and cloud computing will be important tools for giving customers an improved experience. "Open innovation" models are also needed, such as when the bank opens its technological platform to outside developers to create services. Employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders must be involved at every step.
The financial services industry is becoming what I call the BIT industry (banking, information and technology), where information, through technology, is transformed into knowledge. In this new world, banks should transform into "digital" banks, or rather into new forms of information services company. Their engine will be a platform that can integrate limitless volumes of data. For existing banks, this implies a monumental undertaking. Most banking platforms were designed in the 1960s and 1970s, and have been patched up over the years, creating what Professor Peter Weil of Massachusetts Institute of Technology calls "spaghetti platforms". This refers to the complex, unwieldy connectivity among different applications, which results in rigid, inefficient tools.
In view of the difficulties in replacing core platforms, some banks have opted for adding middleware – that is, intermediate applications that interact with the "core" system and support the front end. However, this is a temporary solution as the need for processing capacities increases more and more.
A new financial ecosystem is being created. In two decades, we will go from 20,000 "analogue" banks today worldwide to no more than several dozen "digital" banks. Diverse niche businesses will exist, but most will be mere "suppliers" for the much-reduced number of digital banks acting as "knowledge distributors". They will own the platform through which products and services are channelled to the end customer. Here we will see the main clash between digital banks and new entrants.
The shift from analogue to digital requires a complete overhaul of banks' technology and corporate culture. This is a matter of survival. We at BBVA have been working on this process for six years and we are making substantial progress in our transformation. We now have a state of the art platform. But we need to sustain this effort throughout the years to come.
Huge challenges also await regulators. They should maintain a level playing field somewhere between the existing regulatory burden for banks and the largely unregulated virtual environment. They need to ensure security, privacy, consumer protection and systemic stability in a digital world that is largely unmapped and gets bigger, faster and more complex by the minute. And, at the same time, they should leave space for fair competition and innovation.
Banks are losing their monopoly on banking. It is up to each one to rise to the challenge of offering the information services (banking or otherwise) that people need.
The writer is chief executive of BBVA
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I love that mushrooms are their own kingdom - neither plant nor animal, they are uniquely themselves. Some are delicious, some supremely medicinal, some deadly poison. Interesting, beautiful, intriguing...we know comparatively little about fungi.
Above is a Ganoderma tsugae we found in June, up in Cooks Forest. This is one of the types of mushroom known as Reishi, an intensely healing mushroom prized in Asian medicine.
Medicinal mushrooms are said to benefit the immune system and many - like reishi (above), maitake (second below), shiitake, lion's mane (directly below) and turkey tail - have been proven to have anti-tumor properties.
The mushrooms below (lion's mane or bearded tooth and hen of the woods or maitake) were found recently in Frick Park, right here in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me to take a picture of them growing, but I did snap a few when I got them home (before eating them! Unlike Reishi (above) which is bitter, the mushrooms below are delicious edibles.)
lion's mane/bearded tooth or Hericium erinaceus
hen of the woods/maitake or Grifola frondosa
There is a wonderful movie about mushrooms called "Know Your Mushrooms" which we recently watched online, and captures the spirit of mushroom hunters well. You can watch it online here.
Enjoy the fall!
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In the course I teach for senior testers, we spend a few hours talking about different approaches to software development (waterfall, agile, v, w, rup, etc.). At the end of the discussion I, of course, tell them which approach is best.
Of course, I'm kidding - I hope anyone reading this realizes that. There are better ways to make software, and the hard part is figuring out which approach is best for the given situation and personnel. Steve Yegge posted a follow up to his "Good Agile Bad Agile" post this weekend. Like all of his posts, it's long, but well written with good points. If you have been under a rock and haven't read his agile post it's a good read whether you are a fan of agile or not.
Let me preface my rant by stating that I like Agile. An Agile approach may not be the best solution for every software problem, but many of the approaches that live under the agile umbrella are make a lot of sense for creating good software. One thing that bugs me (and it may just be what I've seen) about the devout agilists is the notion that non-agile approach to software development is inherently waterfall based. This is like saying any condiment that isn't mayonnaise must be ketchup. Ok - maybe not exactly like that, but I'm writing in a hurry :}
Waterfall (and it's brother and sister v-model and w-model) have been used to ship a lot of software. And...I guess that's about the only good thing I have to say about it right now. The idea of entirely completing any phase before starting on the next phase is ok in theory, but rarely works in practice. This is especially problematic in just about any project longer than six months or so (completely made up number - I don't have any empirical evidence to support that figure - it just seems accurate to me). Most projects I've worked on have been closer to spiral model (break a large project into milestones and take time to review the process and progress at each checkpoint) than anything else. Sometimes, it has worked, and sometimes it hasn't. Usually the teams I have been on have learned from their mistakes, and sometimes they haven't. I think those observations could be said of waterfall or agile (or even rup) projects as well.
Now let's discuss the Noodle Madly** model of software development. In the NM model, you look at the scope of the project, the people assigned to the project (including their experiences), and the goals of the project and design the engineering model with those things in mind. For a small internal project, a model based on Agile methodologies may be adopted. For a larger project with hundreds of people working on it you may choose something closer to spiral - or - you may choose a hybrid model. For example, because you have a 7 year support plan in place, you may be locked into creating complete design and functional specifications. However, you see short iterations as beneficial, so you choose to have milestones end every 6 weeks. You find that the engineering team is reluctant to have a team room, so you keep people in their individual offices - but you get every sub team to agree to work in a team room for one week every milestone. You may or may not decide that pair programming or pair testing will be part of the plan - it depends on the team and the work they need to do. That's the beauty of the NM model of software development. It's not based on blind faith that the plan will work for everyone - it's a plan created by people who understand the system and the components that make it up. It's a model that allows for reflection and compromise, and a model that can be used to create great software no matter what the audience is.
But what do I know?
** anagram of 'any old model'
[ed. 3:15pm - Yes - I realize that in theory, agile promotes individuals and interaction over process, but that's not what I see agilists practice. I see individuals and interaction over process and tools as long as the processes are purely agile based. ymmv]


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Katanga mourns PV Obeng
The state of our saddened hearts cannot be expressed in these few words, as feelings cannot be contained entirely in words. The jaws of death once again have gripped another fellow, snatching him from life.
The demise of Paul Victor Obeng, the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and a Senior Presidential Advisor, was a shock which came like a 'hurricane thunderbolt'.
A healthy man pronounced dead suddenly brought us much disbelief. Our curiosity was, however, confirmed when one of the radio stations announced the death in its news bulletin.
As a former hall president of the University Hall (Katanga) P.V., as he was affectionately referred to, brought forth many remarkable developments that have been built upon to make Katanga a fortress among all university halls.
His efforts and willingness to protect and defend Katanga Hall at all times have placed Katanga in a position as the best hall in Ghana.
Grief engulfs us now, as the whole nation weeps at death's open door.
The nation has lost a gem who sought to build a better country for generations unborn, as he played efficient roles in the positions he held in this country. Some include Chairman of KNUST University Council.
Inasmuch as we have been clouded by death's smoke and been choked with tears, we take consolation from the fact that his life was well lived. He is indeed a legend.
It is only fair that Katangese celebrate a true legend.
We say to the family, that may the peace of of God that surpasses all peace given by human, be with you. May the ears of heaven be opened to this cry: Those we love don't go away.
They walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard but always near
Still loved, still missed and ever dear
Having said all we possibly can, we the members of the University Hall,
say to you, rest in the most perfect of peace there is.


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Omar (Coach O) was born in Honduras but raised in Jersey City, NJ. His first step as a fitness professional was as an intern for KRANK. There he learned the value of programming, recovery, community building and service.
From 2011 to the present, Coach O has gone from intern, coach/manager, owner/founder of JC KRANK, and now the owner/founder of WeStrong Strength & Conditioning. O values the passing of knowledge, and takes pride in helping people reach levels they thought were unreachable.
"I hate hearing the words I CAN'T, but I love making a person realize that they can."


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No laughing matter: Goonie's Comedy Club set to close next month
Rochester may be losing its only comedy club.
The owners of McGoon's Pub and Restaurant and Goonie's Comedy Club, both located in the historic Olmsted County Bank and Trust building on Second Street SW, have reached a deal to sell the property.
According to a report from Laser 101.7 — which has a business partnership with Goonie's — the restaurant will close on July 2 and the comedy club will host its final performances the following weekend.
Mark Klampe, co-owner and general manager of McGoon's and Goonie's, declined to comment on the sale but did confirm to the Med City Beat that he is searching for a new location in town for a comedy club.
In a post to Facebook, Goonie's management is asking customers who have unused gift cards and tickets "to redeem them over the next few weeks as there is no guarantee that we will find a new location."
Under the sale agreement, according to Laser, the new owners purchased the building and restaurant. Future plans for the space have not been made public.
For the past decade, Goonie's has attracted comedians from all across the Midwest and nation to perform in Rochester. Just this past March, it hosted its biggest name, Hannibal Buress, for a series of sold-out shows.
Here's a look at the remaining upcoming performances.
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The Eye Opener
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Many Groups and Clubs permit a little "friendly game" in the clubrooms. Far be it from us to criticize anyone for anything, as we like a little game occasionally ourselves. But we have all known of cases where the games got out of control. We have well-deserved reputations for intemperance.
Card games can be the breeding place for a grand emotional upset and, incidentally, it does not help a fellow's chances of sobriety to send him home broke to the wife and kids.
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Specialist/Expert Treatment
At Conway House we have a number of Specialists that you can visit to get the most informed advice about your Dental Treatment.
Mr Arijit Ray-Chaudhuri
BDS MFDS RCSEd MJDF RCSEng LLM AHEA FDS RCSEng
(Specialist Consultant Dentist)
(GDC No: 82588)
Arijit is specialist in Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry
We are very fortunate to have a Restorative consultant who works with us (AJ). He is normally works as a Restorative consultant at Brighton Hospital. He is a specialist in Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontics.
Adrian RJ Curtis
FDS RCS (Eng) BDS (QUB)
(GDC No: 66012)
Dr Adrian Curtis is a Specialist Oral Surgeon from Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Dev Mahtani
(BSc, MB ChB, FCARCSI) Consultant Anaesthetist
Dev is a specialist in Anaesthesia for special care dentistry. He provides Sedation services for our patients at the practice.
Dr Joel Thomas, Specialty Registrar in Periodontology
(BDS, MFDS RCSEd, MClinDent
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IRM's community
IRM's community is made up of over 5,000 risk professionals from over 100 countries.
Our membership ranges from leading experts in risk management to the next generation of risk leaders; from those who have created new standards and written subject-defining textbooks to those starting out on their careers.
Over 25% of IRM members now come from outside the UK. We have members from countries as far afield as Australia and Zimbabwe. Countries with high levels of membership growth include Barbados, Botswana, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Malawi, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and the UAE.
We have partnership arrangements with a variety of international bodies, including the New Zealand Society for Risk Management (NZSRM), the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) and Hawkamah, the UAE-based Institute for Corporate Governance.
All our members have access our global risk network through our website, online discussion forums or through our range of special interest and regional groups.


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2007 Stollen Bake
As some of our faithful readers know, every Christmas we bake a large amount of stollen for the priests, doctors, service people, benefactors, etc. who serve our monastery. This year Sr. Mary Catharine, aided by Sr. Mariana baked 60 loaves of very tasty bread!
Sr. Mariana cuts and weighs out the bread dough. In the foreground you can see that someone obviously was tasting the stollen!
Sr. Mary Catharine rolls out a batch of dough for the 2nd rise. In the background are the trays we use to cool the bread. One problem with baking such a large amount is that there really is no place to put it!
Faster than the camera can pick up Sr. Mary Catharine carries a formed loaf over to the pans for rising.


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Color Analysis
Color can communicate a lot about you and what you want to say. During two private sessions, Marion will design a unique palette of colors based on your personal coloring, inherent color temperature, combined with your personality, intensity, and energy. This custom palette will become a valuable tool for color selection for wardrobe, makeup, hair color, and accessories. You'll begin to shop with more ease and confidence than ever before and save money in the long run as color integration becomes more cohesive.
Your custom palette of 20-24 color families will contain approximately 100-120 colors and will become your tool for color selection for many years to come...color for your wardrobe, makeup, hair color, and accessories.
Wearing the colors Marion selects for you will be the key to loving what you wear while giving you an appearance of health and vitality. You'll also learn how to successfully combine and coordinate your colors so they are harmonious and keep you as the focal point. You will receive your custom color fan to slip into your purse as a guide for making the best selections when shopping. Along with your fan, you will receive a written Color Guide that will help you understand the unspoken language of color. Color can communicate a lot about who you are and what you want to say.
Marion will spend approximately three hours with you. The first appointment will be analysis and design of the palette. The follow-up appointment will be review of the colors chosen for you and to provide an explanation of the effects of those colors and how to best use them in your wardrobe. Marion will answer your questions and encourages you to bring your makeup and a few garments from your wardrobe for which you'd like to receive color advice. A color palette is one of the most important "tools" in an individual's style toolbox. This service is for both women and men.


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The factor that is necessary for the flow of heat from one object to another is that the two objects must have different temperatures. Heat always "flows," or moves, from the hotter object to the cooler one, unless there is some sort of external agent doing work.
As the heat flows, the warmer object cools down and the cooler object warms up until they reach the same temperature, or "thermal equilibrium." Once that happens, the heat transfer process stops.
The exchange of heat energy involves a change of either an intensive factor or an extensive (also known as capacity) factor, regardless of whether the heat energy is exchanged through the performance of work or through heat flow. In heat exchange, the intensive factor is the temperature, and the extensive factor is entropy.
There are three different ways for heat to flow from one object to another: conduction, convection and radiation. Conduction involves heat transfer through atoms bumping into each other. Convection, which happens in air and fluids, takes it a step further. The initial heat transfer is through conduction, but then a loop forms with warm areas rising and cool areas falling, creating a circular effect called a "convection cell." In heat radiation, thermal equilibrium means that particles are absorbing the same amount of radiation from their surroundings that they are radiating out themselves, so nothing changes. Heat transfer occurs when particles are emitting more radiation than they are absorbing from their environment.


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Runway Films Presents: See What I See
September 1st, 2009
Runway Films, the brainchild of pro snowboarder Leanne Pelosi (no relation to Nancy), is a snowboarding film production company driven by the world's most influential female snowboarders. Begun in 2007, Runway Films has produced two incredible videos to date: 2007′s La La Land, and most recently, See What I See.
Sponsored by Burton, Roxy, DaKine and other snowboarding superpowers, the ladies of Runway Films have once again taken to the slopes of some of the worlds most famous peaks to bring us a full length film packed with rail jams, big airs, massive bowls of untouched powder, and perhaps my favourite, the entertaining antics of some of the world's greatest women riders. With footage of Leanne Pelosi, Amber Stackhouse, Desiree Melancon, Anne-Flore Marxer and many more, See What I See promises to get you wishing the winter was here already so you could get out there and ride. I've been watching the trailer with baited breath, and have already made sure my plane tickets are booked to hit the west with full force once the snow begins to fall. Until then, you can purchase See What I See here.


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Mountainside Marketing Retreat Area Info Details
Mountainside Marketing Retreat
January 17, 2020 - January 20, 2020
Cherokee Indian Reservation
498 Tsali Blvd
Cherokee, NC 28719
(800) 438-1601
Cherokee, comes from a Creek word "Chelokee" meaning "people of a different speech." Here in their ancient homeland, the North Carolina Cherokee still compete in bowmanship and blowgun contests, they play the ancient game of Indian Ball and participate in other primitive games and dances that were begun centuries before the white man ventured into the region.
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text: The first time a Gary Giddins recommendation has failed me, and even his recommendation wasn't exactly glowing: "Perhaps it isn't as strong as its predecessor […] Wilson is sometimes self-indulgently languorous. Her treatment of Hank Williams's great ballad "I'm So Lonesome I Could Die" fails the melody, and the originals are flat, except for "A Little Warm Death," which is sexy and funny- qualities that have not appeared in her work in great quality." Sometimes? It's practically the entire album with the exception of what was just excepted, "A Little Warm Death," that employs a buoyant rhythm (and ends in a throwaway singalong) to distinguish it from its surroundings, which are all lugubrious. Her covers of emotionally charged songs like "I'm So Lonesome I Could Die" (which reminds me more of Cowboy Junkies' cover than anything else – not a compliment), "Strange Fruit" (which was bound to be a disappointment, despite the backing band putting a different spin on it than either Holiday's or Simone's, though still stark), "Love is Blindness" (which should have worked, given that it was written with Nina Simone in mind to sing it) and "Harvest Moon" (a personal favorite based on the memory that I associate it with) are all rendered emotionless because Wilson either "fails the melody" or fails to exhume anything new out of classic songs ('cept the U2 one, which ain't a "classic"). Add to this the near-unbearable length of each song and we have:


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Changing the world. Ambitious? Naive? Probably both. Will a blog post do it? Probably not. Can art? Maybe. Can we devote our lives to anything more worthwhile? Not a chance.
Welcome to thedodus.com. I've completely rebuilt my site and will continue to develop it as I take on more new and interesting projects. I conceive of this blog as an integral part of my site-wide and personal transformation. This is the first in what will become a frequently updated series of posts that I hope you'll all find informative and interesting. Here you'll find my thoughts and discussion spanning a variety of topics that I feel strongly about and hope can reach people and start a discourse about life, art, self-awareness, the current state of affairs and where we go from here. Come for the art, stay for the blog posts, or come for the blog and stay for the art, or come for the free cookies, which is an internet joke I may or may not have employed successfully.
As some of you know, I'm in the midst of a total overhaul of my art purpose, production and proficiency and that will be consuming most of my time for the near future. I do hope, however, that as my work progresses and becomes more exciting and relevant, and I begin to post here on the whole meaning behind this awakening journey, that this blog will turn into something of value in its own right that gives everyone a reason to come back, and possibly even inspire some of us to engage in new ways with each other, ourselves, and the world around us.
I also have a few super-secret, super-amazing hair-brained art/life schemes in the works that live in a musty shack on the border between genius and insanity. I can't really say more until they get the go ahead but trust me when I say, and I rarely say this about anything I do, they will be worth checking out. Hopefully more in a riveting and hilarious way and less in a car crash you're passing on the freeway…way.
That's all for now. You have my sincere thanks for stopping by the site, and stay tuned for things to get really exciting this summer. In the meantime if you want to stay in the loop and get notified of new developments, follow Brad Lacke Illustration on Facebook or connect with me on your other preferred social network.
Cheers, and thanks for all of your support!
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There's absolutely NO way I can pick a single favorite song. My iPod has a collection ranging from Neil Diamond to Kenny Rogers to Weezer to Metallica... It depends on my mood for sure. So I will just list a couple songs that when they come on my iPod I never skip them. Just don't ask me WHY I never skip them because I don't really know. :) I will try to link to the video on youtube in case you don't know the song. :)
Just Like Heaven by The Cure
Blow by Ke$ha
Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol
Unforgiven by Metallica
Only in Dreams by Weezer
I Like It by Enrique Iglesias
Simple Kind of Life by No Doubt
Your Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
There's more, but those are the ones I can think of. Oh and of course, I Gotta Feelin' by Black Eyed Peas. But I know why I love that song... Because it brings back great memories with my daughter. :)


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HHRF Ambassadors
Horses and Humans Research Foundation Ambassadors are a group of leading experts from equine-assisted activities and related fields. Members respond and contribute to a variety of foundation related needs including advising and assisting the staff and board in strategic decision making, educational outreach and in areas related to grant applications and assessment.
Dr. Allan J. Hamilton, Neurosurgeon, Author
Dr. Hamilton has been the Chief of Neurosurgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and holds professorships in Neurosurgery, Psychology, Radiation Oncology, and Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona. He has been chosen by his peers as "One of America's Best Doctors" for fourteen consecutive years. Dr. Hamilton and his wife, Jane, run Rancho Bosque, an equine-assisted learning and therapeutic program in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Hamilton is also an author whose second book, "Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Spiritual Lessons Horses Bring to Life" won the Nautilus Gold Award in 2012 for works of non-fiction "that change the world one book at a time."
Philip Tedeschi, MSSW, LCSW
Philip Tedeschi is an Animal-Assisted Social Work and Experiential Therapy Specialist and co-founder of the Institute for Human –Animal Connection programs at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW). Tedeschi is the Executive Director of The Institute for Human-Animal Connection and coordinates the school's Animal-Assisted Social Work Certificate program for Master of Social Work (MSW) students, as well as the Animals and Human Health online professional development certificate program. He also teaches MSW courses in forensic social work and experiential therapy approaches, with emphasis on conservation and environmental social work in areas such as East Africa and the inclusion of animals in therapeutic settings.
A certified Master Therapeutic Riding Instructor, former course director and instructor with Outward Bound, wilderness medical technician, he has many years of experience in non-traditional therapeutic approaches with children, adults and families, as well as program development and intervention in interpersonal violence including, assessment and intervention with animal abuse, attachment, trauma disordered and sexually abusive youth and adults. He has worked extensively in the treatment of male victims of abuse.
Some of Philip Tedeschi's best friends are animals. He has studied and teaches about the intricate relationship between people, domestic and wild animals and the natural world.
"It is a rewarding opportunity to work with animals, often our most reliable and uncomplicated relationships. They teach us so much about ourselves and are such patient teachers."