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Wow! This is a awesome place to stay.
When you walk in the doors you realize you are not just at any hotel.
The vibrant colors, friendly staff & a great feel. There are so many things to enjoy here at the Fairfield Inn & Suites.
There is a mineral pool and hot tub, a great workout room, breakfast like no other, relaxing patio where you can chill with your friends, family or just by yourself with snacks, soda, beer or wines (from local wineries).
The rooms are large and the beds well you need to try it out for yourself. It's almost like a cloud (I can only imagine).
If you are just passing through you may decide to stay another night here. There are many things to do in Elkin and surrounding area and knowledgeable staff will help you with your itinerary…you are close to wineries, zip line, mountains to hike, historic downtown, great places to eat…….
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I feel like I had too many photos in my last post so here are the rest of the photos I took of the Parker and the lovely grounds early one morning. I almost did the ice bucket challenge while we were there but no one has challenged me *Antz doesn't count because he didn't do it!*
|A rare glimpse of Norma's empty!
|Love this color palette!
|There are so many hidden spaces to chill by running water
|The spa was closed so I didn't get to check out the indoor pool
|I don't know how they keep their grass so lush in this drought
|The Lemonade Stand
|Grown-ups only pool
|My Mum loves Foo Dogs
|There was always a bunny hanging out here
After we said goodbye to our chic room, we headed towards the Saguaro to hunt for the most pinned house on Pinterest. I didn't have an address other than knowing what the exterior looked like and it's marked 1100 but no street name. After driving around for about ten minutes Antz had the genius idea to ask the mailman where the house was. We headed over in less than a minute *FYI, there are soo many gorgeous houses on that same street* You can see the interior of this architectural gem here.
This house was a few doors down, love the inner tube lions entry. These folks must party hard!
We had a terrific time in PS, the perfect staycation and lovely place to spend with my two loves. See you again soon!


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Partnership includes dedicated Philadelphia Orchestra channel on patient televisions and audio and video content on employee COVID-19 portal
(Philadelphia, May 27, 2020)—The Philadelphia Orchestra, in partnership with Penn Medicine, will bring the healing power of music to patients at Penn Medicine's six hospitals, including those being treated for COVID-19. Starting this month, Penn Medicine hospitals throughout the region will stream Virtual Philadelphia Orchestra programs directly into patient rooms on a dedicated Philadelphia Orchestra television channel or on tablets, including rebroadcasts of previous concerts, chamber music from musicians' homes, and more, with new content added each week. In addition, Philadelphia Orchestra audio and video content will be available on Penn Medicine's employee COVID-19 support portal, PennMedicineTogether.
"Music has the incredible power to inspire, to comfort, and to heal," said Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. "The patients and healthcare heroes battling COVID-19 are going through so much, and it is our hope that by providing them with our gift of music, we can do our part to help them endure, and bring them moments of joy."
Participating healthcare facilities are the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, and Princeton Health. The Orchestra hopes to expand to other health systems following this pilot program.
"Now more than ever providing additional support for our patients is of the utmost importance, and that includes helping them stay connected and strengthening their mental wellbeing," said Regina Cunningham, PhD, RN, chief executive officer of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. "Music can soothe and comfort patients, which is incredibly important for those who are hospitalized—especially during a time when visitors are limited in order to safeguard our patients and staff. We are lucky to be in a city with such incredible art and music programs, and we are grateful to be able to bring this music to our patients during this unprecedented time."
Virtual Philadelphia Orchestra content currently in rotation at the hospitals includes the March 12, 2020, performance of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 to an empty Verizon Hall; a performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 100 and Mahler's Symphony No. 5 from 2010, Nézet-Séguin's first concert as music director designate; a specially curated chamber concert of works by Beethoven performed by Philadelphia Orchestra musicians from their homes; a concert featuring Brahms's Violin Concerto by acclaimed soloist Gil Shaham; performances of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 and Mahler's Symphony No. 1, led by Nézet-Séguin; a 2011 performance by then Principal Oboe Richard Woodhams playing Rouse's Oboe Concerto; a Neighborhood Concert from 2015; and more.
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text: Happy New Year everyone. My name is Owen aka Dynamite and I'm the leader and keyboard player for Tribal Legacy. Gonna try something new for 2012...blogging Every week or so (hopefully) I'll be sharing my thoughts about the band, music, whatever tickles my fancy (but usually pertaining to music), and maybe u guys will like it and come back to visit. If u don't like what I'm saying, please let me know and I'll probably quit (kidding) Right now the band is feeling the economic crunch because all of our…Read more


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Now Jasper is Three
Jasper kept the pinata intact, by the way. Roo has him convinced that it's his girlfriend. He holds its hand and kisses it. Sigh.
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oh my gosh, i can't believe he's three! he even looks older, haha! happy birthday to jasper!ReplyDelete
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Gary and I are both ROLLING at Roo's convincing Jasper that the robot pinata is his girlfriend. Hilarious, and she's quite clever too! =)
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San Diego, California - SDSU Women's Soccer to Open Conference with Split Weekend:
Game Week Preview
Wyoming (5-1-2; 0-0 MW) at San Diego State (2-6; 0-0 MW)
Friday, Sept. 21 | 7 p.m. PT | SDSU Sports Deck | San Diego, Calif.
San Diego State (2-6; 0-0 MW) at Colorado State (3-3-2; 0-0 MW)
Sunday, Sept. 23 | Noon MT | Mountain West Network | CSU Soccer Field | Fort Collins, Colo.
- San Diego State, the preseason favorites in the Mountain West, will open conference action with a home-road split weekend. The Aztecs will play host to Wyoming on Friday at 7 p.m. PT before traveling to Fort Collins to face Colorado State Sunday afternoon at noon MT.
- Friday's game at SDSU Sports Deck will not be streamed, but similar to every Aztec home game, admission is free. The tilt on Sunday, however, will be available live on the Mountain West Network.
- SDSU started the year as the preseason favorites after a poll of the league's head coaches put them at the top of the list. The Aztecs earned 112 points and four first-place votes, which was good enough to place them ahead of San José State, which finished in second place with 111 points and five first-place tallies. Wyoming and Colorado State, meanwhile, checked in at eighth (51 points) and 11th (26 points), respectively, in the 12-team league.
- The Aztecs are looking to stop a three-game skid after home losses last week to Pepperdine and eighth-ranked UCLA. San Diego State suffered three consecutive losses earlier this season and responded by shutting out UC Davis on the road, 1-0.
- This season marks the third straight year in which San Diego State has opened Mountain West play at home. The two previous seasons resulted in a 2-0 win over Air Force in 2016 and a 3-0 triumph over Nevada 12 months ago. SDSU is 7-2-2 in MW openers at home and 10-2-2 regardless of conference affiliation.
- San Diego State is 7-2-2 in Mountain West openers under head coach Mike Friesen and 10-5-4 overall in the MW era. SDSU is 13-5-4 all-time in league openers, which dates back to 1996.
- The Aztecs will open league action against Wyoming for the third time, but for the first time since 2005. SDSU was on the short end of decisions in 2003 and 2005, with both taking place in Laramie.
- San Diego State will carry a bit of Mountain West momentum into Friday's game having won four straight regular-season conference games dating to last year. Including its run in the MW Championship, which ended with SDSU raising the trophy, San Diego State has won six in a row vs. league competition.
- Since Colorado College joined the Mountain West in 2014, the Aztecs have split games in the same weekend - home and away - with Wyoming and Colorado State just once. The occurance came in '14, resulting in a 5-2 home victory over the Cowgirls and a 1-0 double-overtime effort at CSU.
- The Aztecs have spread the offense around as six different players have found the back of the net, but they are currently in a scoring drought that dates to the Sept. 7 road game at San Diego. Since Phoebe Leitch scored in the 88th minute vs. the Toreros, SDSU has gone 182 minutes and 18 seconds without celebrating a goal.
- Goalkeeper Gabby English totaled 12 saves last week with six apiece vs. Pepperdine and UCLA. The junior now has 205 career stops, putting her third all-time in the SDSU career record book. She passed Lorena Snyder (204) for third and now trails her predecessor, Melanie Vaughn (2012-15), by just two saves for second place. Aubree Southwick is the all-time leader with 338 denials.
- The Aztecs are 16-3-2 all-time vs. Wyoming and are unbeaten in their last five meetings with the Cowgirls (4-0-1). Friday's game marks the second straight season the Brown and Gold have visited SDSU Sports Deck. Last year, San Diego State posted a 2-1 victory in late October. Additionally, SDSU is 11-0 all-time vs. Wyoming at home.
- San Diego State is 5-0 lifetime vs. Colorado State and is coming off a 3-0 home win in 2017. In five meetings, SDSU has outscored the Rams, 12-1, with the lone goal coming in 2016 in Fort Collins. In three previous home games vs. CSU, the Aztecs have won by a 3-0 margin each time.
Opponent Notebook
The Cowgirls are unbeaten in their last three (2-0-1) and are coming off a 2-1 road win at Southern Utah last Friday... Prior to that, Wyoming turned in a 1-0-1 homestand, tying Montana, 0-0, and defeating Iowa, 1-0... The Cowgirls have been good on the road, going 3-1 with victories over South Dakota, Idaho State and SUU... The lone road loss was a 4-1 decision at Northern Colorado... Annika Clayton leads the team with five points (2g, 1a) and Sekoya Romero is Wyoming's other multiple-goal scorer (2g, 0a)... Cristina Salazar has played 573:56 with a 0.94 GAA and Hannah Lee has logged 188:55 to go with a GAA of 0.95.
Colorado State
The Rams are 2-1 in their last three games and split two games last week, losing to Gonzaga, 2-0, and defeating SMU, 1-0, at home... Colorado State has played six of its eight games at home, going 3-3 in the process... CSU just finished a six-game homestand and will hit the road for the first time since Aug. 19 on Friday at New Mexico... All eight of the Rams' games have been played in the state of Colorado... Caeley Lordemann leads CSU with four points (2g, 0a)... Hunter Pelfer has started six games (580:00; 0.78 GAA) with Gabi McDonald also seeing time in between the posts.


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INDIANA PRINTING COMPANY taps DCOS for their press automation upgrade
KINNA, March 8th, 2019 – Located in the northern Indiana town of Milford, The Papers, Incorporated, has been a family owned and operated business founded in 1939 when Arch Baumgartner took over the reins of The Milford Mail. From that humble beginning, The Papers has evolved into a diverse combination of newspaper, magazine publications, and commercial printing now run by Arch's son Ron Baumgartner who joined the company in 1966.
In September of 2018, The Papers contracted with DCOS Automation Sweden for a press automation upgrade which includes automatic register, ink density, and cut-off control camera's and associated control and integration equipment for the 16-unit MAN Cromoman press.
The Cromoman press configuration is four towers and one folder. The existing QTI register system will be replaced by eight CRC4 closed-loop density/register control cameras. The folder will be equipped with four PCT4 cut-off cameras. For ink density control, DCOS will integrate the CRC4 cameras with the existing MAN Roland remote ink system.
According to Todd Clark, Plant Manager for The Papers, the project evaluation took place in 2018 and after initial meetings with DCOS "We contacted several DCOS users who shared positive feedback on the ease of use and how the system has exceeded their performance expectations in terms of quality and waste control."
Clark visited DCOS customers in Norway as part of the evaluation. "The Norway site visits really demonstrated the savings the DCOS systems can provide. The startup waste numbers were amazingly low. The other interest in the visits were reviewing the press controls upgrades offered by DCOS. This is an area of future interest for us as we consider options in keeping ahead of electronic obsolescence" said Clark.
The equipment was installed in February 2019 and according to Clark, "The system has been operational for only a few weeks and we are already seeing improved waste reduction. We have also received compliments from customers regarding print quality achieved from the closed loop color control".
Ron Ehrhardt, DCOS Sales Director for the Americas, adds an interesting "second generation" link of this project to a past project at The Papers. "In 1968 my dad sold Arch and Ron Baumgartner a 3-unit Goss Community press, and 50 years later I was able to sell Ron this automation upgrade. I think that's pretty cool".


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hackBCA III is the third annual hackathon hosted at the Bergen County Academies high school in Hackensack, New Jersey. Created and planned solely by students, hackBCA is open to all high school students who are interested in exploring computer science. Prior programming experience is not needed: hackBCA is an open floor to anyone who wants to create.
1st Place
Dell Venue Tablets, (4) Octocat Figurines, Pitch/Get Feedback from Envision VC, Trophy, MLH medals
2nd Place
(4) Programmable Laser Gaming Mouse, Octocat Figurine, Pitch/Get Feedback from
Envision VC, Trophy, MLH medals
3rd Place
(4) Arduino Uno Ultimate Starter Kit's, Trophy, MLH medals
Best Mobile Application Prize (Intel)
(5) Sphero Balls BB8, Trophy
Best Project on .TECH Domains (.TECH)
$30 voucher per member, Trophy
Best Education Hack (Intel)
(5) Intel Compute Stick / Wireless Keyboard Trackpads, Trophy
Best Startup (NYTechDay)
Booth at NYTechDay, Trophy
Best Twilio Hack (Twilio)
(4) Technomancer 2.0 Digital Wizard Hoodie, Trophy
Most Polished
(4) Raspberry Pi, Trophy
Best Humanities Hack
(4) Solar Chargers, Trophy
Best Use of 3D Printing
$50 Shapeways Gift Card, Trophy
Most Creative Beginner Hack
(4) Gaming Keyboard, Github Octocat, Trophy
Best Overall Beginner Hack (Github)
(4) Dancing Water Speakers, (2) Octocat Figurine, Trophy
Best Beginner Web App Hack (Intel)
$100.00 Amazon Gift Cards, Trophy
Best Beginner Mobile App Hack (Synchrony Financial)
iPad Air 2, Trophy
Best Beginner Website Hack
Octocat Figurine, Trophy
Best All Girls Team (Intel)
$100.00 Amazon Gift Cards, Trophy
Best "Code for Good" Technical Hack (Intel)
Best "iOS Dev" Path Hack
(4) Charging Cases, (1) Octocat Figurine, Trophy
Best Hardware Hack (Recon Indu)
Labrecon breadboard experimenter, Top 3, Trophy
Best Use of AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Dell 1TB Hard Drive, Trophy
Best Use of Domain.com (Domain.com)
Domain.com Swag Bag (Sparkfun Redboards), Trophy
Best Developer Tool (Github)
Github Octocat, Trophy
Best Use of Arduino
Hardware prize
Best "Code for Good" Concept Hack
(5) DJI Phantom 3 Standard, Trophy
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Josh Bancroft
Developer Relations at Intel
Chris Wanstrath
Cofounder and CEO of GitHub
Tom Lehman
Cofounder and CEO of Genius
Jeremy Rossman
Cofounder of MakeSchool
Cindy Gallop
Founder and CEO of If We Ran The World
Tea Ho
Product Designer at DonorsChoose.org
Kate Machtiger
Senior Analyst at Luminary Labs
Judging Criteria
Technical Difficulty
Is the hack technically interesting or difficult? Is it just some lipstick on an API, or were there real technical challenges to surmount? This is the most important criterion that your hack will be judged upon for the general prizes.
Is the hack more than just another generic social/mobile/local app? Does it do something entirely novel, or at least take a fresh approach to an old problem?
Is the hack usable in its current state? Is the user experience smooth? Does everything appear to work? Is it well designed?
Is the hack practical? Is it something people would actually use? Does it fulfill a real need people have?


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China Enlists U.N. to Promote Its Belt and Road Project
Top United Nations officials are helping sell Xi Jinping's signature foreign-policy initiative.
Speaking at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last July, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed suggested a way for African leaders to boost their economies and end decades of strife: sign up to participate in China's Belt and Road Initiative, a plan to invest a trillion dollars or more into the construction of ports, roads, and railways across dozens of countries from East Asia to East Africa.
Speaking at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last July, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed suggested a way for African leaders to boost their economies and end decades of strife: sign up to participate in China's Belt and Road Initiative, a plan to invest a trillion dollars or more into the construction of ports, roads, and railways across dozens of countries from East Asia to East Africa.
"We must work to take advantage of one of the world's largest infrastructure initiatives," Mohammed urged at the summit's opening ceremony. "This is an opportunity not just to provide alternatives to silencing the guns for our people but one that will keep our assets both human and natural on the continent building our tomorrow today."
The promotion highlighted the U.N.'s curious role in China's public relations campaign to sell the Belt and Road to the developing world. In speech after speech, top U.N. officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres, have sung its praises in terms that echo Chinese government talking points, portraying the Belt and Road Initiative as a vital pillar in a U.N.-sponsored plan to tackle poverty around the world by the year 2030.
The Chinese initiative, Guterres said in a speech before the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in May 2017, holds "immense potential" and promises greater market access for "countries yearning to become more integrated with the global economy."
U.N. support for the Chinese project comes just as Beijing is facing growing criticism for imposing unsustainable debt burdens on poor countries and feeding suspicions that the program is a cover for projecting China's economic and military interests.
In March, then-U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that Chinese "predatory loan practices" were encouraging dependency in African nations and "undercut[ting] their sovereignty." European Union officials and European leaders have sounded the alarm about the political implications of greater Chinese investment, especially in Southern Europe. And China's Asian neighbors are increasingly alarmed by Beijing's checkbook diplomacy that threatens to upend the military balance across the Indo-Pacific region.
The United Nations, in contrast, has embraced the Belt and Road, which offers the prospect of trillions of dollars in desperately needed infrastructure investment at a time when the United States is cutting back foreign assistance.
"It's an international stamp of approval to the Belt and Road Initiative at a time when it is under fire," says Elizabeth Economy, a China scholar with the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State.
By joining up with China, U.N. officials contend, they can help ensure that the benefits of Chinese investment trickle down to the world's poorest and help alleviate poverty. "The United Nations cannot ignore or be passive about this global plan," said a spokesperson for the U.N. Development Programme, which has a policy of not naming their spokespeople.
China formally unveiled its Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, outlining a staggeringly ambitious plan to link China by sea and land to more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa. The blueprint reimagines ancient Silk Road trade routes that linked Eastern merchants and Western markets. There is a land-based belt, across Central Asia to Western Europe, and a maritime Silk Road snaking across the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
In a July 7, 2016, meeting with then-U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Chinese President Xi Jinping argued that the Belt and Road project could help the U.N. implement its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a set of ambitious sustainable development goals, including the eradication of poverty.
The story of how Beijing subsequently rallied the U.N. behind its Belt and Road Initiative is a case study in how a rising China has flexed its diplomatic muscle in an organization that has been dominated by the United States and its European allies for decades.
Drawing on an extensive network of Chinese nationals employed by the United Nations, China has effectively steered the international organization into embracing one country's signature foreign-policy initiative, a program that has the potential to alter the geostrategic balance of power at the U.N.
For years, political appointees from Britain, France, and the United States have held monopolies on the top U.N. humanitarian, peacekeeping, and political jobs. Since 2007, China has held the top position in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, or DESA, long considered a U.N. backwater that organized conferences and wrote economic case studies for poor countries.
Under Chinese leadership, the department, which is currently led by former Chinese Ambassador Liu Zhenmin, has served as a quasi-Chinese fiefdom that bolsters Beijing's claim to global leadership in development, according to several U.N. officials and diplomats.
"DESA is a Chinese enterprise," says one European diplomat. "Everybody knows it and everybody accepts it." Zhenmin declined an interview request.
In May 2016, China signed a 10-year agreement with the U.N. to invest $20 million a year into a U.N. Peace and Development Trust Fund, half of which would be earmarked for programs that support U.N. sustainable development goals.
Under the terms of the arrangement, the fund's steering committee advises the U.N. secretary-general on projects. Zhenmin and three Chinese government officials sit on the steering committee.
Following the establishment of the fund, China's State Information Center asked DESA to conduct a study into how the Belt and Road Initiative could help the U.N. meet its development goals. In June 2016, Pingfan Hong, a Chinese national who serves as one of DESA's top economists, conducted the study, concluding the "essential spirit" of the Belt and Road Initiative was "to a large extent in line" with the U.N. blueprint for reducing global poverty by the year 2030.
In September, 2016, Helen Clark, then administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, signed the first Memorandum of Understanding with China, pledging cooperation on the Belt and Road. At the time, Clark was in the heat of a campaign for U.N. secretary-general and was seeking China's support in the vote, which ended on Oct. 6 of that year.
In a response to questions, Clark writes that "the Belt and Road Initiative represents a powerful platform for economic growth and regional cooperation, involving more than 4 billion people, many of whom live in developing countries. It can serve as an important catalyst and accelerator for the sustainable development goals."
Asked if China urged her to support its initiative during the campaign, Clark says, "There was absolutely no, repeat — absolutely no, connection with my campaign to be UNSG — no mention by China, no mention by me."
Clark says the decision to sign the memorandum of understanding came from the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific — which is headed by UNDP's top Chinese official, Haoliang Xu. Xu declined a request to discuss UNDP's agreement with China.
But Clark added: "I take responsibility for agreements signed on my watch, albeit it on the advice of UNDP staff. I agreed to the MOU because of the importance of advocating for incorporation of human development benefits in the Belt and Road initiative."
The UNDP has also produced a cartoon advertisement promoting the Belt and Road. And other parts of the United Nations, like the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which signed its own cooperation agreement with Beijing last summer, have seen a spike in Chinese funding in the past year.
Hong, however, has in the past denounced nascent regional trade agreements, singling out the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as unfairly favorable to U.S. and EU countries and "discriminatory" towards developing countries left outside the pacts. (With the election of Donald Trump as president, the United States, which drove the creation of the TPP, has since left the trade pact, and the trans-Atlantic pact remains moribund.)
Hong declined to be interviewed for this piece, but in a brief email exchange he downplayed the significance of his role in shaping U.N. thinking about the Belt and Road Initiative, noting that his draft paper was "a pure 'theoretical exercise.'" He wrote in an email that he has not "followed up on the development of the Belt and Road" Initiative since. But he delivered the keynote address for an international conference in Vienna on Belt and Road in September 2017.
That conference was hosted by the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, which is headed by Li Yong, a former Chinese vice minister in China's finance ministry, and the Finance Center for South-South Cooperation, which is headed by a former top Chinese banking official, Cai E'sheng.
China's ambitious plans address an undeniable need for investment across Eurasia; developing Asia alone needs at least $26 trillion in new investment in power plants, roads, and the like, according to the Asian Development Bank. And while entities such as the ADB and the World Bank are investing in infrastructure projects across the region, their outlays pale in comparison to the trillion-dollar visions in Beijing.
"From the U.N. perspective, China not only brings money to the table, it brings energy, it brings initiative, and it brings the capacity," Economy notes, saying that the overwhelming majority of projects are run by Chinese companies. "They can deliver. They've got ideas, they've got the plans, and they can implement."
Economy acknowledges that there are shortcomings in China's infrastructure plan. It includes weaker environmental standards, and in many cases the projects Beijing pushes don't always match what the recipient countries need. And Chinese state-owned firms so far dominate most of the activity on the Belt and Road.
Still, it could help meet a desperate need for new investment, and Economy urges the United States and its partners to work with China to upgrade standards and attract international, private-sector companies to join the effort.
"We should work with China to make this better," she says. "We don't have an alternative."
Colum Lynch was a staff writer at Foreign Policy between 2010 and 2022. Twitter: @columlynch
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DALLAS, Oct. 10 – High pollution levels may make people more susceptible to stroke, according to a report in today's rapid access issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers collected data on 23,179 hospital stroke admissions from 1997 to 2000 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan – the island's second largest city and heavy industrial area. They compared air pollution levels on the dates of admissions with air pollution levels one week before and one week after admissions, said Chun-Yuh Yang, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor, director and dean at the Institute of Public Health, College of Health Sciences at the Kaohsiung Medical University.
The researchers found an association between exposure to increasing levels of two common pollutants and hospital admissions for stroke, particularly on warm days, i.e., 20 degrees Celsius or warmer (68 degrees or warmer Fahrenheit).
"Particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) seem to be the most important pollutants and the effects appear to be stronger on warm days," Yang said.
For each interquartile change – 66.33 microgram per cubic meter change for PM10 and 7.08 parts per billion change for NO2– the risk of hospital admission for primary intracerebral hemorrhage (bursting of a defective brain vessel) increased by 54 percent.
The risk of hospital admission from ischemic stroke (resulting from a blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain) increased by 46 percent for PM10 per interquartile change and 55 percent for NO2 per interquartile change.
Studies have shown associations between air pollution and daily death rates for respiratory and heart disease. But findings related to pollution's effect on stroke have conflicted.
"This study provides new evidence that higher levels of ambient pollutants increase the risk of hospital admissions for stroke, especially on warm days," he said.
On cool days, researchers noted a link between carbon dioxide levels and ischemic stroke admissions, but believe this may have been a finding by chance.
Many experts suspect that air pollution may affect blood volume and resistance of the blood vessels and heart structures, known collectively as the hemodynamic system. High temperatures may also affect blood viscosity.
"Doctors should know that hemodynamic disturbances that may lead to the risk of cardiovascular events may also lead to an increased risk of other types of circulatory events, such as stroke," Yang said.
Substantiating these findings with further studies could lead to developing drug interventions that might protect the public from transient exposure to ambient pollutants, such as those experienced during rush-hour traffic. "In hot weather, we recommend that people avoid pollution, stay inside and use an air conditioner if needed," he said.
As stroke is associated with air pollution, lowering the level of exposure could considerably reduce the associated health burden independent of behavior change, he said.
Co-authors are Shang-Shyue Tsai, Ph.D.; William B. Goggins, Sc.D. and Hui-Fen Chiu, Ph.D.
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Evidence continues to mount that non-physician providers can positively contribute to a medical practice's vitality, both in terms of care and the bottom line. New data from the Medical Group Management Association found that medical practices that use more non-physician providers see a boost in both revenue and productivity.
Based on comparative data from more than 3,000 organizations, the 2018 MGMA DataDive cost and revenue data represents various practice types including physician and hospital-owned, as well as small and large practices.
Primary care practices with 0.41 NPPs per physician or more did report greater expenses, but they also reported earning more revenue after operating costs than practices with fewer NPPs (0.20 or fewer NPPs per physician), no matter the specialty. Practices with 0.41 or more NPPs reported $100,748 more in revenue after operating expenses per physician and in hospital-owned primary care practices, the difference was $131,770 more in revenue per physician after operating costs.
"Because these non-physician providers can effectively complement primary care services for the organization, access to care increases. Ultimately, both the number of patient encounters as well as their satisfaction can increase," said Ken Hertz, principal consultant at MGMA.
The DataDive results showed that over the past five years, median operating costs for primary care practices had gone from $391,798 per physician to $441,559 per physician, a rise of 13 percent. Evergreen expenses are a steady presence, such as general operating costs, which make up 32 cents of every dollar collected in physician-owned practices. IT represents 2 cents, drug supply 6 cents, and building occupancy 6 cents.


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February Month in Review, Chronology and Current Political Prisoners List
This month, 92 people were arrested, 90 of whom are from ethnic areas. In January, 42 people were charged, including 36 farmers, and six activists. Two people were sentenced in January. 17 individuals were released, 15 of whom are farmers. Two incarcerated political prisoners are reported to be in bad health.
People from ethnic areas continue to be accused of being associated with ethnic armed groups. On February 7, two Baptist Church officials Naung Lat and Gam Seng from Mong Ko Township, Kachin State, were charged under Section 17/1 of the Unlawful Associations Act by the Muse Township Court. They were arbitrarily taken into custody on December 24, 2016 and kept in secret detention for almost a month until January 19, 2017. The Court has added a new charge against Naung Lat and Gam Seng under Section 8 of the Export and Import Law, which prescribes a maximum of three years of imprisonment for exporting or importing restricted / prohibited goods or goods that require permission without due approval. These charges go against the reconciliation process between the government and ethnic minorities. AAPP therefore urges the Government continues to work towards national peace and reconciliation by moving forward with the second meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in an inclusive manner. Individuals from ethnic areas also continue to be forcibly recruited into Ethnic Armed Groups. This can be seen this month in the forced recruitment of over 90 individuals into the Kachin Defense Army (KDA).
In February, farmers' issues remained unresolved in Burma. On 23 February, 25 residents of Letpadaung in Sagaing Region were prosecuted under Section 19 of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Act, and Sections 143 and 431 of the Penal Code for unlawful assembly and causing mischief on a public road. On 21 February, the protesters blocked the road to the mine, and demanded that Wanbao Mining Copper Ltd. Company give them the 1,900 acres of land they were supposed to receive according to the recommendations of a Parliamentary commission in 2013. The land was to be granted as compensation to offset the damage to villagers' crops, livelihood, and social standing as a
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Wakame Seaweed
Diet Nutrition
Wakame is a kelp and looks and tastes like spinach lasagne. Wakame is similiar to Kombu and it can be used in many of the same ways, particularly in soup.
Wakame is probably best used in salads, added to soup or broth or used as a topping for other dishes. Soak dried wakame in water and it will expand to about ten times in size. Wakame should have the central vein cut out after soaking. It can then be either simmered for 10 minutes or cut into small pieces and served as a salad.
Wakame soba, a mixture of wakame and buckwheat noodles (soba) is a favourite at Japanese restaurants.
Wakame because of its kelp content is rich in protein, calcium, iodine, magnesium, iron and folate. Lower rates of breast cancers have been reported in Japanese women eating a diet high in kelp. Lignans, which help fight cancer are found in high quantity in wakame (kelp) and may provide protection against certain cancers.
Even though seaweed supplements and kelp tablets are currently being sold as energy boosters, there is no evidence that seeweed boosts energy except in those who are iodine deficient and have underactive thyroids.


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Thalapathy Vijay showed up at the event which was organized to showcase the silent protest of Tamil industry against the issue of sterlite and cauvery. Vijay being the disciplined person he is, he arrived at the event before any of his colleagues as Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan came in a little late. Vijay is a very integral part of Tamil film industry and one of the biggest stars of all time who thrives in Tamil cinema hence it is almost his responsibility to take the stand for his industry and strike could be cancelled.
Entire Tamil film industry is on an indefinite strike hence a lot of films are not getting a release and being postponed. Most of March, no film is released in Tamil theater which came from Tamil cinema hence the entire chain of production is getting affected. Shooting of all Tamil films have been stalled including Vijay's upcoming film 'Thalapathy 62' being directed by AR Murugadoss. This film is suppose to release on Diwali but since the shooting is not happening makers can't be sure of the release. Kamal Haasan, who has newly joined politics also came to address the issue.
Thalaivar Rajinikanth came and joined the rest of industry and has his own rest of problems to deal with the protest because his film 'Kaala' which was suppose to come out on 27 April might be further delayed. Tamil industry is rather organized and does not believe in giving anybody more or less space because they are stars hence they might be releasing the films that were suppose to hit the theaters on March in April hence the April ones would have to be shifting their dates. Rajini already has '2.0' pushed quite a lot even without the strike and does not seem to release which is why 'Kaala' being delayed is a sign of trouble.


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GELF_GETRELA(3) Library Functions Manual GELF_GETRELA(3) NAME gelf_getrela, gelf_update_rela - read and update ELF relocation entries with addends LIBRARY ELF Access Library (libelf, -lelf) SYNOPSIS #include <gelf.h> GElf_Rela * gelf_getrela(Elf_Data *data, int ndx, GElf_Rela *rela); int gelf_update_rela(Elf_Data *data, int ndx, GElf_Rela *rela); DESCRIPTION These convenience functions are used to retrieve and update class- dependent Elf32_Rela or Elf64_Rela structures in an ELF object. Argument data is an Elf_Data descriptor associated with a section of type SHT_RELA. Argument ndx is the index of the entry being retrieved or updated. The class-independent GElf_Rela structure is described in gelf(3). Function gelf_getrela() retrieves the class-dependent entry at index ndx in data buffer data and copies it to the destination pointed to by argument rela after translation to class-independent form. Function gelf_update_rela() converts the class-independent entry pointed to by argument rela to class-dependent form, and writes it to the entry at index ndx in the data buffer described by argument data. Function gelf_update_rela() signals an error if any of the values in the class- independent representation exceeds the representable limits of the target type. RETURN VALUES Function gelf_getrela() returns the value of argument rela if successful, or NULL in case of an error. Function gelf_update_rela() returns a non- zero value if successful, or zero in case of an error. ERRORS These functions may fail with the following errors: [ELF_E_ARGUMENT] Arguments data or rela were NULL. [ELF_E_ARGUMENT] Argument ndx was less than zero or larger than the number of entries in the data descriptor. [ELF_E_ARGUMENT] Data descriptor data was not associated with a section of type SHT_RELA. [ELF_E_RANGE] A value was not representable in the target type. [ELF_E_VERSION] The Elf_Data descriptor denoted by argument data is associated with an ELF object with an unsupported version. SEE ALSO elf(3), elf_getdata(3), elf_getscn(3), gelf(3) NetBSD 9.99 April 22, 2019 NetBSD 9.99


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In an earlier post we talked about Visio being a general purpose diagramming and drawing application that enabled specialized behavior through its extensibility model. Custom shapes are combined with custom code to create an intelligent diagramming solution for a particular scenario. Sometimes users like to take this extensibility notion even further by creating their own shapes to work with the solution. We inevitably are asked how these new shapes can "join the club" or participate in the specialized behavior.
Unfortunately there is no single mechanism for registering a shape with a solution or converting a shape to work with a solution. Some Visio solutions provide this capability. Others do not, forcing the user to discover the secret handshake with the solution. We'll look at a specific example in this post.
The Legend feature can be found in Visio's Brainstorming template, or the Legend Shapes stencil can be opened from File > Shapes > Brainstorming. Special legend shapes are added to the diagram, and the Legend shape displays them with counts and labels.
Now imagine that you need a new shape to easily identify issues to be resolved. Here is a simple shape created with the Freeform tool. The initial alignment box for the shape is not ideal, but that can be fixed using Shape > Operations > Combine to fit the geometry into a nice upright rectangle.
It would be helpful to tally the issues in the diagram and have the total displayed in the legend as well. To do this, open the Document Stencil for the diagram by going to File > Shapes > Show Document Stencil. Then drag the issue shape over to the stencil. You should rename the shape from Master.11 (or similar) to Issue. You could also clean up the icon if desired.
Next we need to make the shape work with the legend. Drag the shape from the Document Stencil and drop it on the legend shape in the drawing. The following message will appear.
Choose Yes and then delete the shape sitting on top of the legend. Now drag out Issue shapes from the Document Stencil to annotate the drawing. The legend should reflect the total number of Issue shapes present.
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Managing the Coronavirus by Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing the Workplace
Cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing aren't the same thing - learning the difference is important to protecting your workplace from COVID-19
Now that we're experiencing a global pandemic, we're all paying more attention to our homes and our workplaces. The surfaces that used to seem so ordinary could now be harboring the COVID-19 virus. This is a problem for those of us who get to work at home, but it's even worse for the thousands of essential workers continue to show up to work every day, sometimes coming in contact with the public and those who are sick.
We all have an understanding of the way germs, viruses, and other contaminants can impact our workplaces. However, it is now critical that we all remain on the exact same page as the CDC and federal- and state-level public health authorities. They provide the most up-to-date, reliable, and trustworthy information about the spread of infection and what we should do to prevent it.
Preventing the spread of the Coronavirus will involve more than just coughing into our sleeves and keeping six feet apart from others (which many workers cannot do).
It is critical that we all know and understand how to manage workplace health through CDS (cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing). That includes knowing the difference between these and implementing them in our daily operational processes.
Cleaning Equipment Isn't Always Clean
First, a brief word of warning.
We tend to think of cleaning solutions and cleaning equipment as inherently clean. They're not. They must also be cleaned and disinfected after use.
Think about restaurants for a moment. The cloth the workers use to wipe down the table might be cleaning the surface. But it might also be spreading germs from table to table.
(Find out How to Manage COVID-19 in Your Workplace.)
I've inspected hundreds of kitchens throughout my career and I have seen dishes handwashed in water that looked more like a soup than a cleaning solution.
Don't make that type of mistake in times like these. Make sure your cleaning equipment gets cleaned as well. And communicate this fact to workers, because it's normal to assume that rags, sponges, and mops are clean by default.
CDS: Knowing the Difference
Before discussing procedures and best practices, let's get clear on the terms we're using. They're sometimes used interchangeably, but they differ in important ways.
Cleaning is mostly dealing with all the visible stuff. We're talking dust, dirt, grime, and gunk.
It's an essential part of the CDS process, because you should always clean a dirty surface before you disinfect or sterilize it.
Disinfecting (or Sanitizing)
Disinfecting goes below the surface, past the stuff that cleaning deals with. It tackles pathogens (excluding bacterial spores), removing the contaminants from surfaces to ensure they are safe to handle.
Sterilization is the nuclear option, so to speak. It destroys or eliminates all microbes. These are the processes typically used in medical facilities, but that can be applied to other workplaces as well.
Pay Attention to Contact Points
Use soap and water, along with other cleaning chemicals, to clean surfaces, instruments, and clothing.
While we are working to contain the spread of COVID-19, this should be done more frequently than usual. Do it at least daily, but aim for hourly. In some cases, like the grocery stores that station someone to disinfect all the shopping cart handles, you might have to do it even more often.
Take note of all the contact points - surfaces that are touched regularly - and make sure your cleaning procedures target them.
Here is a long but incomplete list of common contact points you will need to consider:
- Door knobs, door handles, locks, and window latches
- Light switch plates and controls, alarm key pads, and swipe card devices
- Cupboard handles and drawer pulls
- Hand rails and elevator buttons
- Telephones and other handheld devices, like tablets, radios, and smart phones
- Computers, especially the keyboard, monitor, control pad, and mouse
- Printers and any other devices used to produce and collate reports, binders, or posters
- Remote controls
- Sinks, refrigerators, microwaves, and any other appliances
- Countertops and shelf surfaces
- Buttons, switches, and controls
- Vacuums, mops, mop buckets, and all other cleaning equipment
The list goes on and on. In short, clean everything you or someone else touches with their hands, could cough or sneeze on, or handles routinely.
Contact Time
Now that we talked about contact surfaces, we need to introduce the concept of contact time.
When we're cleaning a surface, it might not be good enough to just swipe a damp rag on it. We have to use products that are effective for the job. And that product has to stay on the surface for an appropriate amount of contact time (the time it spends on the surface).
How long is long enough? Safety professionals rejoice, because there are charts! The EPA helpfully lists products, what they do, and how long (and in what concentrations) they must stay in contact with the surface they're disinfecting. Check it out here.
Hard Surfaces vs. Fabrics
Cleaning and disinfecting procedures have to take into account the different ways we need to tackle hard surfaces and fabrics.
Both need to be cleaned and disinfected to manage the Coronavirus, but each will require a different approach.
Cleaning Hard Surfaces
For hard surfaces, use disinfecting wipes or solution with alcohol-based formulas. Make sure they are contain at least 70% alcohol.
Again, remember contact time. Make sure the solution remains on the surface long enough for it to eliminate the contaminants. In most cases, you can simply allow the product to air dry, but check the SDS in case you need to rinse the surface after applying the product.
Cleaning Fabrics
Clothing should be washed regularly, ideally on a hot water cycle.
Adding bleach to the wash will help you ensure that the clothing is disinfected. However, make sure that it is safe to use with your clothing (check the label). This is especially the case when washing PPE and high-visibility gear. It's important to disinfect them, but not in a way that could compromise its protective qualities.
(Find out How to Properly Launder and Clean FR Protective Clothing.)
It is also recommended that you don't stuff your washing machine. Doing more modest loads will allow the detergent to wash the fabric more thoroughly.
Using the dryer instead of line drying can also help, especially on the hottest setting.
And remember that laundry baskets, hampers, and the washing machine itself should also be disinfected regularly.
Stay Clean, Stay Safe
Safety professionals will need to work closely with their suppliers to obtain the CDS products that best suit their workplaces.
But remember that all cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing present their own risks and hazards. Always obtain and consult the Safety Data Sheets before using them. Follow the instructions for use, storage, and disposal. When bringing a new product on site, it is best practice to train or retrain workers in its use.
Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is our collective responsibility. For those of us in the safety world, it's also our professional duty. Make sure your workplace has proper CDS procedures in place and that they are being followed diligently.
For more information, consult this paper on COVID-19 from OSHA, as well as this cleaning guide by the CDC.
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Rondo says this Celtics team more talented than 2008
There is a whole lot of optimism in Boston about this Celtics team.
Because they made a run all the way to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, then brought back Kevin Garnett (who played fantastically in the playoffs), then got deeper and better with the addition of guys like Jason Terry and Courtney Lee.How much optimism? Check out this quote from Rajon Rondo, via CSNNE.com.
"I believe this team is more talented than that team," Rondo said. "But the key to the 2008 team is that everyone bought into the system….
"Guys probably won't play their normal amount of minutes that they have in the past because we're such a talented team."
That 2008 NBA championship team had Kevin Garnett playing at a consistently higher level than today's KG (but he can turn it on for stretches), it had Ray Allen, James Posey and Kendrick Perkins scowling in the paint. But the 2012-13 team has a better Rajon Rondo, and more depth with Terry and Lee and Jeff Green.
If KG doesn't slide backwards too far and Paul Pierce continues to play at the same level, this year's Celtics may be better. The problem: The mountain between them and an NBA title this year is much harder to climb and much steeper. They could be better and still not reach their goal.


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Easily push files to SFTP using our Sync feature for Hosted~FTP~ Enterprise T2 and above accounts. By following rules you setup in the Sync process, you can have specified user directories sync towards your SFTP server to: upload, move, delete, or upload and move files automatically. This article will cover how to setup a Sync to SFTP process.
1. First, please make sure that the following IP addresses are whitelisted to allow Hosted~FTP~ to connect to your SFTP server:
2. Logging in as the administrator, go to your Sync tab. Click on the Add button to setup and create a new Sync process.
3. Next, you will need to input information for the sync rule to follow. See table below for details on setting up each field
|Name of the Sync process
|Select what you want the Sync process to do: Upload, Move, Delete, Upload + Move.
|For this use case, please select Upload
|The source of where the data is located to sync.
|For this use case, please select Hosted~FTP~
|Use a * to include all users, or place specific usernames separated by a space.
|(i.e. username1 username-2 user_3)
|Place usernames in this field to exclude them from the sync process
|Include specific folder paths and even file name extensions using regular expressions for the sync rule to follow.
Use a * to include all paths, or place specific paths separated by a space (i.e. //Folder1/SubFolder1/.* //Folder1/SubFolder2/.*)
Note: /.* is required to pull all data from the target path
|For more detailed examples on using regular expressions, please see this link
|Place paths in this field to exclude them from the sync process. Include specific folder paths and even file name extensions using regular expressions for the sync rule to exclude.
|For more detailed examples on using regular expressions, please see this link
|The source of where you will sync the data into.
|For this use case, please select SFTP
|Username credential of the SFTP server
|Password Type
|Select the authentication type the username connects by: Password or Private Key
|Password/Private Key
|Input field for the password or private key
|The hostname of the SFTP server
|The designated folder to apply the sync process.
|Note: The folder does not need a / at the beginning of its syntax
|Additional Javascript commands that can be included. for advanced rules
|(Please reach out to our support team for assistance)
4. Manage the Options if required:
|To have the sync process run fully, all options must be enabled.
|Turns the sync process on or off after being created
|Accepts additions to the process
|Disabling this option queues up the sync but does not process. For the sync to process, this must be enabled
5. Click Save to create the sync process. If all options are enabled (by default), the sync will run in the background every time uploaded data meets the rules.


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Social Contracts Foster Community in the Classroom
When students and teachers collaborate to create shared behavior expectations, the whole class is invested in the norms.
October 11, 2019
This is part of our Schools That Work series and features key practices from John C. Haines Elementary School.
Schools That Work
John C. Haines Elementary School
Public, Urban
Grades Pre-K-8
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Women are thought to be biologically sensitive to effects of extreme physical activity when accompanied by weight loss?possible negative consequences cited include bone fractures and fertility difficulties. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, United Kingdom, examined the effects of an?extreme challenge in six women who skied over 1,000 miles in 61 days, while pulling sleds weighing about 176 pounds. All in an environment of very low temperatures and high winds. The investigators monitored several health markers before and after the expedition, including stress, reproductive and metabolic function and fat and muscle levels.
Findings indicated that muscle levels and hormone markers of stress, fertility and bone strength were preserved, despite?enduring such?extreme exercise and losing on average 22 pounds in body fat.?Some tests even showed evidence of exercise-related benefits by two weeks after the expedition had ended.?These findings contain some potentially myth-busting data on the impact of extreme physical activity on women.
These investigators have shown that, with appropriate training and preparation, many of the previously reported negative health effects of such challenges can be avoided. The low number of highly-selected women means the findings may not be applicable to all. More research is needed to compare these measures in women with men, and to explore whether factors like dietary content, adequate sleep or psychological preparation might have protected women against the negative effects of extreme exercise with weight loss.
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- Version: 2020.10.000
- Compatibility: Any content (regardless of data source) in the relevant parts of the application
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- Use this function to embed web-based images into your dynamically created text programmatically.
- The image URL address must be accessible from a web browser on your network.
- If width or height are not supplied, the image is shown using its natural dimensions,
- The text can be any static or formula driven text element.
This example returns the following Pyramid logo image from the Pyramid website, with a width of 150.
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Victims of natural disasters must be dealt with respectfully: NYT Canada bureau chief
Reporters who fly in to cover natural disasters must report on people suffering the consequences with respect and compassion, says journalist Catherine Porter, who arrived in Haiti soon after the 2010 earthquake to cover the story for the Toronto Star.
Porter was one of several speakers at a recent Ryerson Review of Journalismconference to emphasize that journalists must retain their sense of humanity toward victims of devastating wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides and other disasters. Covering Disasters: A Critical Lens, a day-long event held at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, explored how journalists can prepare to cover disasters and where they are missing the mark.
"We have to be respectful, we have to be decent," said Porter, who is now the Toronto-based Canada bureau chief for the New York Times. "The mantra I repeat to myself often all the time in this job–whether it's a natural disaster overseas or not–is, 'This is just my job for today and this is this person's life.'"
Porter, the keynote speaker at the Nov. 21 conference, recalled the experience of touring a public hospital in Haiti to illustrate how vulnerable people can be treated without dignity. The Spanish doctor who took her on the tour "walked me into a room where I found a completely naked woman on a bare metal table giving birth and she was crowning," Porter said. "As someone who has given birth twice naturally and has been in that position of complete vulnerability, I was shocked.
"I looked back on that and thought … 'Why did that Spanish doctor think it was okay to bring me into that room so casually when I was not writing about women giving birth there?' That would never ever happen in Canada," she said.
Porter said she left the room because her job as reporter involves treating vulnerable people with respect. Covering disasters, she noted, is hard on the human spirit: "I was haunted when I returned from Haiti."
Ed Ou, a visual journalist with NBC News based in New York, also discussed the need to focus on the person beyond the tragedy.
"No matter what happens in any situation, whether it's a conflict or a disaster, life does go on," said Ou, who was part of a panel about photographing disasters. "One thing that has really struck me is how resilient the human spirit is. We oftentimes as journalists have a tendency to go in and we see people and we're trying to extract a tragedy but really what you [need] to see is hope."
Ou travelled to Kazakhstan in 2008 to photograph the lasting effects of radiation on the two million civilians who were exposed when the Soviet government test fired more than 400 nuclear weapons during the Cold War. He said he spent as much time as he could with survivors to get a sense of who they are as people.
Continue reading this story on the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre website, where it was first published.


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Although 'neoliberalism' primarily invokes associations with Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the financial crisis and the demise of social security, neoliberal thought predates the actual establishment of the welfare state.
The research project 'Founding Freedom' focuses on the development of neoliberal thought in Western European, most notably in the Netherlands. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Dutch neoliberals fiercely opposed the emerging welfare state. They argued that any government aiming to nourish its citizens from cradle to grave would require a dangerously large amount of socio-economic (and hence) political power. Despite the good intentions of its advocates, the welfare state was therefore bound to re-establish the recently defeated totalitarian state. To secure freedom, neoliberals put their faith in the market. Through the mechanism of free competition, the market would thwart the attempts of any party to exercise excessive influence over others, thus providing individual freedom for all. Rather than delimiting the free market or allowing it to run its course, the state should reinforce the market by fostering the principle of free competition.
'Founding Freedom' examines the birth of neoliberal thought in the Netherlands, its dissemination and its influence on socio-economic policy. In doing so, it does not assume a coherent neoliberal ideology, but rather investigates how clashing, but resonating ideas contributed to the development of a neoliberal 'thought collective'. The research project maps the international development of neoliberal thought, as well as its dissemination within the Dutch political arena, with a particular focus on socio-economic policy within the areas of social aid, social housing and the organization of the labor market.
By embedding the history of the early neoliberal movement in the context of the emerging welfare state, 'Founding Freedom' examines the impact of ideas on politics and policy, moving beyond the conventional realms of the political party.
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And that makes sense. Qualitative research can be tough to incorporate into your development process. Until fairly recently, it's been a big, expensive, time-consuming endeavor. Often it required having outside consultants come in to run tests in a rented lab behind a one way mirror. Additionally, a lot of product folks assumed that it would slow down the development process, since it would often add a step between design and engineering.
Now, if you read my blog or listen to me speak, you know that I advocate quick and cheap testing over large, formal studies, and I like taking advantage of tools that let me run remote usability studies. I also feel that testing and research speeds up your development process, since it tends to catch problems early, when they're easier to fix.
That said, user research is easy to get wrong. It takes some practice to be good at things like moderating sessions and analyzing data. For those of you who are interested in learning more about these things, I've compiled a list of resources to get you started.
My Blog PostsThese older posts should help you fix some of the common problems people have with user research:
- 5 Mistakes People Make Analyzing Qualitative Data
- Why Your Customer Feedback is Useless
- Pain Driven Design
- Shut up and Show Me Something
- Love Thy User: 5 Tips for Dealing with Tough Customers
- 6 Stupid Excuses For Not Getting Feedback
- 5 Things People Get Wrong When Talking to Users
- 6 Ways You May Be Failing at Customer Development
- 7 More Ways People Suck at Customer Development
- A Faster Horse - When Not To Listen To Users
- When Talking to Users Isn't Enough
- Improving the ROI for Your User Research
- A/B and Qualitative User Testing
- Why I Hate Paper Prototypes
- When To Get Help With User Research
There are a million books about user research. These are two very good ones. Let me know in the comments if you've read any other particularly helpful ones.
Online Tools
These tools do NOT eliminate the need to actually interact with your users in person, but they can be extremely valuable additions to your user research process.
- Skype, GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc. - Allow you to screen share so that you can observe how your users are interacting with your product.
- usertesting.com - Very fast & cheap way to test your new user experience.
- NavFlow - Lets you test your site navigation using mockups, which allows you to get feedback before you build the product.
- Five Second Test - Great for testing things like landing pages or whether your calls to action are obvious enough.
- Ethnio - Helps recruit session participants who are currently using your product.
- Revelation - Helps you run longer term studies with current users.


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The New Integration Act: its impact on permanent residence and Dutch citizenship applications
On 28 April 2021, the Minister of Social Affairs informed the Parliament that the new Integration Act would come into effect as from 1 January 2022, and that the implementation of this new Act would not be postponed. Under this new Act, the level of the integration exam shall be increased from the level of A2 (beginner's) to B1 (intermediate). Certain immigrants (eg. spouse of a Dutch citizen) have the duty to integrate into Dutch society. If they fail to integrate within a designated period, they can be financially penalized. Nevertheless, this change to the Integration Act shall have a greater impact on many other immigrants who intend to acquire permanent residency or Dutch citizenship, as the Integration Act is closely intertwined with the Foreign Nationals Act ("Vreemdelingenwet") and the Dutch Nationality Act ("Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap"). In this article, we shall explain the ramifications of the new amendment to the Integration Act.
Integration duty ('inburgeringsplicht')
First of all, one needs to understand the notion of integration duty ('inburgeringsplicht'). Under the Integration Act, many immigrants do not have the statutory duty to integrate. These people are namely, highly skilled migrants, European blue card holders, work permit holders, scientific researchers, search year permit holders and students etc. In contrast, family members of a Dutch citizen/permanent residence permit holder have the duty to integrate. It means that, for example, when a highly skilled migrant learns the Dutch language, he is trying to integrate voluntarily. If a highly skilled migrant refuses to integrate, he will not be financially penalized, as he has no integration duty. Instead, if a spouse of a Dutch citizen fails to integrate, he/she can be financially penalized, as he/she has the integration duty.
Current integration requirement ('inburgeringsvereiste') for permanent residency and naturalization
As many immigrants may know, if they want to become a permanent resident, they need to pass the integration exam and to meet "the integration requirement" of the Foreign Nationals Act. Currently, an immigrant needs to pass the integration exam at the level of A2 in order to meet the "integration requirement" for becoming a permanent resident. You may have seen the subtle difference between the terminologies used in the Integration Act and the Foreign Nationals Act. In the Integration Act, the phrase "integration duty" is used. The Foreign Nationals Act uses the phrase "integration requirement" and "integration exam".
Why is it important for you to know this difference? As from 1 January 2022, the whole situation will get a little more complicated. The issue as to whether/since when you have the integration duty shall have a direct impact on the integration requirement that you will need to meet in order to become a permanent resident.
Parliamentarian records
In one of the parliamentarian records, the Dutch GroenLinks party asked the Minister whether the exams (that have already been passed under the current Integration Act) shall be sufficient for a permanent residence permit application or naturalization application after the enforcement of the new Integration Act? Or should the immigrants have to sit the integration exam again and study the language again?
The Minister's response to this question is opaque and deserves our attention. Hereby, we quote the Minister's response in Dutch:
"Om in aanmerking te komen voor een sterker verblijfsrecht (voortgezet verblijf of een verblijfsvergunning voor onbepaalde tijd) moet op grond van de Vreemdelingenwet 2000 worden voldaan aan het inburgeringsvereiste. Uitgangspunt is en blijft dat een vreemdeling die heeft voldaan aan zijn inburgeringsplicht, daarmee is vrijgesteld van het inburgeringsvereiste voor het verkrijgen van een sterker verblijfsrecht."
Translation: In order to obtain a stronger residence right (continued stay or a permanent residence), the integration requirement of the Foreign Nationals Act must be met. The point of view is and shall be that an immigrant who has fulfilled his integration duty, shall be exempted from the integration requirement for obtaining a stronger residence right.
Under the logic of the current integration laws, with regard to immigrants with integration duty, their arrival date determines the scope of their integration duty. For example, the participation declaration (a section of the current integration exam) only applies to immigrants (with integration duty) who arrive in the Netherlands on/after 1 Oct 2017. If an immigrant (with integration duty) arrived before 1 October 2017, he/she does not need to do the participation declaration. In other words, with regard to immigrants with integration duty, their arrival date is like a 'stand-still' factor, meaning that the scope of their integration duty will not become broader, even if the laws become stricter in future. However, with regard to immigrants without integration duty, they need to meet constantly higher requirements of a new law, as their arrival date does not have such a 'standstill' effect.
This means that, with regard to most expats (such as, highly skilled migrants, European blue card holders, work permit holders, scientific researchers, search year permit holders and students etc.), on/after 1 January 2022, they will need to pass the integration exam at the level of B1 in order to meet the integration requirement of the Foreign Nationals Act and to get a permanent residence. With regard to family migrants (who have integration duty), after 1 January 2022, they should still be able to use their existing A2 diploma to meet the integration requirement of the Foreign Nationals Act. Please be aware that family members of highly skilled migrant and other expats have no integration duty either. Therefore, the new law will have a direct impact on the family members of highly skilled migrants too.
With regard to the naturalization, the Minister's response is much clearer, supporting the aforementioned analysis.
"De regering verhoogt volgens de afspraak in het regeerakkoord het voor een naturalisatie vereiste beheersingsniveau van het Nederlands. Het streven is om tegelijkertijd of kort voorafgaand aan het inwerkingtreden van de nieuwe wet inburgering de verhoging bij naturalisatie in te voeren. Vanaf dat moment geldt voor het kunnen naturaliseren dat de verzoeker het Nederlands beheerst op ten minste niveau B1 van het Gemeenschappelijk Europees Referentiekader voor Moderne Vreemde Talen. Voor naturalisatieverzoeken die op dat moment reeds zijn ingediend en in behandeling zijn, blijft het huidige taalniveau A2 gelden. Na het verhogen van het taalbeheersingsniveau worden bewijsstukken waaruit een lager niveau dan B1 blijkt niet aanvaard in een naturalisatieprocedure. Onder omstandigheden zal het jaren na het inburgeringstraject en met het oog op het kunnen naturaliseren voor een vreemdeling nodig zijn om een apart taalexamen Nederlands op B1-niveau te halen."
Translation: In accordance with the agreement in the governance convention, the government shall increase the required proficiency level of the Dutch language for naturalization. The goal is to implement the higher naturalization requirement at the same time of (or shortly before) enforcing the new Integration Act. From that moment onwards, in order to naturalize, the applicant needs to comprehend the Dutch language at least at the level of B1 of the Common European Framework for Reference. For naturalization applications that will have been submitted and will have been in review at that time, the current proficiency level of A2 shall apply. After increasing the proficiency level, evidence showing a level lower than B1 shall not be accepted in a naturalization application procedure. Under circumstances and after many years of integration process, an immigrant may need to sit an additional Dutch language exam at the level of B1 for the purpose of naturalization.
To conclude, if you are an expat (ie. an immigrant without integration duty), it is highly likely that your current integration diploma (at the level of A2) shall not be sufficient for the purpose of acquiring Dutch permanent residency as from 1 January 2022. No matter whether you have integration duty or not, the current integration diploma shall not be sufficient for naturalization in 2022. Therefore, if you have met or about to meet the requirements for permanent residency/naturalization, we strongly recommend that you submit your application this calendar year.
If you want, under certain circumstances, we can help you apply for permanent residence in advance. Should you have any questions about this topic, please do not hesitate to contact Mynta Law.
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