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Differentiating Filter Media by Capillary Flow Porometry
Mechanical filters are devices that use porous media, such as paper, foams, synthetic fibers, cotton, or spun fiberglass, to remove solid particles and other contaminants from fluid streams. The Porometer 3G series of instruments, utilizing the technique of capillary flow porometry, can measure and analyze the through-pore characteristics of materials used in different applications. This application report compares and contrasts the results for two similar looking filters used to remove contaminants from an in-house air source.
Filters and membranes are devices which remove particulates from a continuous stream of either a gas or liquid. Important applications requiring air purification are ventilation systems, engine air intakes, air compressors, gas turbines and vacuum cleaners. Importantly, cleanrooms that manufacture the latest electronics also require nearly particle-free air for material fabrication. The four main materials used in mechanical air filter media include paper, foam, synthetic polymers, and cotton. Some buildings, as well as aircraft and other man-made environments (e.g., satellites and space shuttles) use foam, pleated paper, or spun fiberglass filter elements to keep people or individual components protected from unwanted contaminants. In addition, some filters employ a static electric charge to attract dust particles to the filter.
Polyester and glass fibers are also commonly used to make air filters. Both materials have high temperature ratings near 120 °C, and are widely used in commercial, industrial and residential applications. In some cases polypropylene is used to enhance chemical resistance, but has a lower temperature tolerance. These materials can also be blended with cotton or other synthetic fibers to produce a wider range of performance characteristics. Tiny synthetic fibers known as micro fibers are also used in many types of HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters.
The efficiency of air filters is normally reported as Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) - a measure of the efficiency with which particulate filters remove particles of a specified size from an air stream (Fig 1 and Appendix). The higher the MERV number, the better the removal efficiency, particularly of smaller particles. MERV levels 1 through 16 are determined using the American National Standards Institute / American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ANSI / ASHRAE) Standard 52.2-2017 test method. However, this does not address HEPA filters or Ultra Low Penetration Air (ULPA) filters (MERV 17 – 20). Instead, HEPA / ULPA filters are assigned MERVs based on their performance in accordance with standards published by the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) [1, 2].
Both types of test are known as "challenge" tests which require standard dust particles of a known size in which the filters removal efficiency can be tested. However, these tests do not truly measure pore size but their abilities to remove certain particulates. To truly know a material's ability to filter particles over a given size range, the through-pore size distribution should be determined. This can be done quickly and automatically by capillary flow porometry experiments.
1. ASHRAE 52.2-2017 Standard 52.2-2017 - Method of Testing General Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size
2. ISO 14644:2015 Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Part 1: Classification of air cleanliness by particle concentration
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Q: How do i slow my mind during sex?
A: It can be difficult to shut off your mind from the daily stressors that occur and focus on sex. It might be thoughts of what you need to do, what has happened or insecurities that could arise in the bedroom. For woman this might see them become distracted, get caught in their heads and not be able to either enjoy the moment or achieve orgasm. For a man this could impact his erections and ability also to orgasm. So what do you do? Anything to slow your mind is the simple solution.
1. Do something relaxing before. You might want to sit down with your partner and have a glass of wine, enjoy a shower or bath together. Anything that gives a break between your hectic day and your bedroom activities and gives you a chance to unwind.
2. Foreplay. Either spend longer here or just have it in general. Sometimes especially for woman it take times for them to warm up into the moment and hence why foreplay is really a must. Touching and caressing can help her to switch her pattern of thought to what needs to be done around the house to what is being done to me.
3. Breathing. I know it's sound obvious but practicing some simple breathing exercises before and even during sex can help slow the mind and refocus.
4. Focus on what is going on. It sounds straightforward but this is the problem in the first place. If you find your mind wondering try and think about what it is that is going on. Talk to yourself about what is taking place. Talk yourself through the exact actions and how it feels. This will help not only slow your mind but also once again refocus it and even turn it on.
5. If there is something on your mind that you just can't move away from don't. If something has happened in your day or there is an issue in the relationships that you just can't put aside, maybe you need to stop, address it and clear your mind so you can move on. And if things do get a bit heated – you know what you can do to make up…

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Non-League teams are increasingly from suburbia. So the visit of a steelworks team to a colliery town is an unusual event in one of the country's oldest competitions, the Northern League. Harry Pearson reports
Saturday afternoon in the north-east and its raining. It's not a heavy rain. It's the sort of fine rain that hangs in the air, all-enveloping like an unfinished argument. The bus from Peterlee to Horden drops me off at a stop next to a Spiritualist church. Down the road towards the porridge-coloured North Sea there's a medical centre named after Manny Shinwell, the Labour minister responsible for nationalising the coal industry. Outside the Comrades Club a mother and a ten-year-old girl in a party frock unload a chocolate fountain from the back of a Renault Clio and scurry indoors. A poster in the window advertises a night of entertainment featuring "Donna, Promising Young Vocal Artiste".
Horden Welfare Park – with its football, cricket and rugby grounds, its bowling green and flowerbeds – is an enduring monument to community spirit. Paid for by the miners through subscription back before the Great War it's as neat and tidy as a front parlour when the vicar's due. On the backs of the benches that line the paths are little plaques telling the history of the community – how many cinemas the town once had, when the railway station closed, the tonnage of coal the pit once produced and the number of men who died digging it.
In Horden 80 per cent of the workforce were once employed in the mining industry. The colliery closed in 1986. Since then the population has dropped by several thousand and local business seems almost entirely devoted to the north-east's new boom areas – tattoos, tanning and taxis.
Today's visitors, Billingham Synthonia, are another relic of heavy industry. Synthonia were founded in 1945, part of the social and sporting side of Imperial Chemical Industries' vast Teesside operation. Like the National Union of Mineworkers, ICI was a paternalistic organisation. It looked after its 30,000 strong workforce and their families, providing them with a whole network of support from pensions to hockey fields, to medical care and subsidised beer. But ICI gradually shed its holdings in the region and in 2006 it left for good. The big HQ at Billingham is now empty, the windows smashed, the insides ransacked by vandals. Like Horden Colliery Welfare, Billingham Synthonia are a tiny reminder of what once was, like the hat of a dead man hanging behind the door in a widow's bungalow.
There was more like them too, at one time. In recent times, though, the Northern League has seen many of the clubs from its traditional heartland, the Durham coalfield, disappear – Eppleton CW, Easington Colliery, Langley Park, Evenwood Town and Willington have all dropped out, replaced by sides from the Tyneside and Teesside commuter belts. Places like Morpeth and Stokesley, where there's more money and fewer folk whose idea of a good evening's entertainment is to set fire to the dugouts.
Not that there's any evidence of that sort of thing at Horden's ground. It's recently been revamped using lottery money. The old stand – opened by local celebrity ref George Courtney back in the 1980s – now has indoor toilets and facilities for female match officials. Horden won the Northern League second division title last season. Now they are struggling to come to terms with life in the top flight. They lie fourth from bottom. Synthonia are a few places above them.
When I arrive at the Welfare Ground a bloke in a Horden warm-up coat is removing a couple of dog turds from the pitch, carrying them away on a shovel. There's a Catholic social club over the west wall and the Horden social welfare centre over the fence to the east. Everything in sight is made of red brick. The streets run up from the headlands above the sea to the green hill where the colliery once stood, as if that was the only direction the population would ever expect, or need, to go in.
In the tea bar friendly middle-aged women, who seem purpose-built for a role as aunties, are frying chips and doling out cups of tea in Princess Diana commemorative mugs. I take mine into the main stand, which is, as it happens, the only stand. It's a big old-fashioned shed, with a red corrugated roof, a press box and a bit of worn away graffiti pledging allegiance to the Horden Shed Army. I take a seat in the Stan Anderson enclosure. Anderson – the only man to captain Sunderland, Newcastle and Middlesbrough – is Horden's most illustrious former player (Colin Bell played for the juniors). Synners can trump that though. They once had Brian Clough and Frank Bough.
Behind me a group of Synthonia fans talk in Teesside accidents so finely adapted to expressing scorn and contempt even their compliments sound like an invitation to a punch up. When three elderly Horden fans saunter into the ground from the nearby social club at ten to three one of the Synners fans booms: "Oh look. Here comes the Barmy Army." The rest of the talk is of flu jabs and hip replacement operations.
Synners have rejected their old-style green-and-white quartered shirts in a favour of a wild mess of blue and yellow. Horden's shirts are rather nice, a red-and-white hooped body with plain white sleeves. They carry the logo of Tweddle Children's Animal Farm, inviting jokes about rustic tackles. The left-back wears a white polo neck under his that, combined with his thinning, slicked back hair and lean face, gives him the vague look of the 1970s comedy actor Patrick Cargill.
The first period is played out in the swirling drizzle. After ten minutes the players' shirts are soaked. Water drips from hair, ears and the tips of noses. On the skiddy surface it's a struggle to stay upright. At one point four players and the referee are all sprawled on the turf. "Has somebody up there got a rifle?" one of Horden's subs yells up at the stand. It's too wet for anybody to laugh.
Thanks to the conditions, the play is not so much disjointed as completely and utterly devoid of any joint whatsoever – the football equivalent of a tapeworm. Occasionally there are outbreaks of coherence, but they never last long. Synners are kicking up the slight slope towards the ex-colliery and into the sort of breeze that sets the corner flags flapping. Occasionally they succeed in lumping a ball over the top to the swift number 11, Danny Earl, who looks the most likely to player to score, but never quite manages to get a shot away. At the break I look down at my notebook and find the only entry in it is: "Jack Pounder (H'den) sounds like character from Catherine Cookson mini-series."
At half time something surprising happens. There's a brief flicker of lightning somewhere to the south over Blackhall and Hartlepool and then the rain stops and the sun emerges shyly from amid the grey. By the time the two teams return to the field it's genuinely warm and steam is starting to rise from the concrete terracing. The change in climate seems to inspire the two sets of players and the next 45 minutes, while in no way samba soccer, certainly has a bit more rhythm to it.
We get an inkling that a change has come when Horden come close to scoring in the first minute after the restart, Pounder's volley from the edge of the box almost worming its way under Chris Porter in the Synners' goal. The visitors break away from the resulting clearance and win a free-kick on the edge of the area. Horden's defenders seem to have cleared the danger, but the ball drops to skipper Andy Harbron 25 yards out and he strikes a volley with real venom and accuracy, sending it flashing into the right-hand corner of the net. The celebrations that follow are testament to the quality of the strike and to the fact that Harbron is making a bit of a habit of scoring wonder goals – he'd blasted one in from even further out a few weeks back against Consett.
Once they are in front Synthonia start to knock the ball around with newfound confidence. The shaven-headed David Yale in the midfield pulls the strings and up front Nathan Jameson, a big fair-haired striker with the look of John Belushi about him, always seems to have space and time to control the ball and bring others into play. They get their second in the 60th minute. It's another beauty, the ball moving via a series of crisp short passes from the halfway line, down the left and finally into the path of Colin Iley coming in from the right wing. He takes one touch before dinking it past the advancing James Winter.
Horden bring on an extra forward, Keith Devine, a huge man with the body of a cartoon strongman and an impressive goalscoring record. He's all hustle and bustle, sprinting forward and banging defenders about at every opportunity. His introduction brings new urgency to the Colliers. The ball bumps around the penalty box, cannoning off knees and thighs. There's a big shout for a penalty when Mark Stephenson tumbles over in the box and for a few minutes it seems as if sheer physical endeavour might be enough to rescue the situation.
It isn't. The visitors continue to look the more likely side to score, moving the ball about with a purpose and accuracy Horden lack. Substitute James Magowan, who seems to be nicknamed Bimbo, almost adds the third, turning neatly on the left of the box and firing in a fierce, curving shot that Winter does really well to tip over the bar.
Throughout it all, good and bad, the Teessiders behind me remain resolutely unimpressed. "First touch like a bloody elephant," one snorts as a ball bounces off a Synners shin. Another is listening to the Boro match commentary on headphones. "Adam Johnson's scored a second," he bellows at one point. "He'll be away in January," his mate growls. The pits, the shipyards, the steelworks and the chemical plants may have gone, but the region's pessimism endures.
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Are there gender issues?
Evidence shows that girls (relative to boys) start disengaging from IT and technology at age 7.
Only 17% of Google's engineers, 15% of Facebook's, and 10% of Twitter's are women. (Ref)
"the gender gap is not at all connected to innate ability; girls are not less likely than boys to be good at these subjects.
In fact, The Engineer reports that in the UK girls outperform boys up to GCSE level (exams taken at age 16). But after this, the further on you go, the fewer women you find pursuing these subjects
For instance, women make up just 12% of engineering students at universities in the UK, and just 4% of those taking engineering apprenticeships." (Ref)
"A statistical report by WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) shows that girls in the UK only begin losing interest in science as they grow into their teenage years." Roughly equal numbers of boys and girls study STEM subjects at GCSE with girls marginally outperforming boys, the gap then widens significantly at A-level and again at undergraduate level with fewer girls continuing to study STEM subjects.
There is no evidence to suggest any physiological or cognitive reason for the gender gap.
"The research suggests that perceived or actual differences in cognitive performance between males and females are most likely the result of social and cultural factors. For example, where girls and boys have differed on tests, researchers believe social context plays a significant role. Spelke believes that differences in career choices are due not to differing abilities but to cultural factors, such as subtle but pervasive gender expectations that kick in during high school and college." (APA)
The differences are best explained by stereotyping and social pressures.
"The decline in STEM interest which begins in adolescence increasingly manifests itself in STEM participation in the last years of high school, when girls can express their own wants. Teenage girls score lower than boys on math SAT tests, take fewer AP tests in calculus, physics, and computer science, and are less likely to select college STEM majors (AAUW, 2010). We propose that these trends are connected to girls' perception of STEM as masculine and their internalization of feminine norms. Girls are caught in a "double conformity" bind, in which they must opt out of femininity or opt out of STEM" (Ref)
In an attempt to redress the balance there are a growing number of initiatives aimed exclusively at girls, Google's Made With Code project promotes computer sciences to girls 'For students today, coding is becoming an essential skill, just like reading, writing, and math. If you have a daughter, niece, or other girl that you know, encouraging her to learn to code can open up countless opportunities for her future. Whether she's an athlete or an artist, loves animals, or wants to explore medicine, coding can help her pursue her interests now and create greater career options and job security for her future. Long story short? She can make anything with code.'
But these forms of positive discrimination are not without their problems. How do you appeal to girls without invoking traditional female stereotypes? Does pink lego really encourage girls to become engineers or does it reinforce the premise that pink is for girls whilst all of the other types of lego are for boys?
"The environment that we grow up in affects how our brain develops. Professor Rippon explains that any difference in brain circuitry comes through stereotyping. Our brain has an incredible ability to adapt, to learn, to accommodate, and to rewire (known as neuroplasticity), and to fit in to our community we adopt the standards, beliefs, and prejudices of those we want to identify with – such as the role of our associated genders. This can help explain the drop in girls taking STEM subjects during their formative years between GCSEs and A level." (Ref)
So girls and boys need to see and hear about the women involved in STEM as early as possible.


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class XMLRPC::Client::Proxy
XML-RPC calls look nicer!
You can call any method onto objects of that class - the object handles
XMLRPC::Client::Proxy#method_missing and will forward the method call to a XML-RPC server.
Don't use this class directly, instead use the public instance method
XMLRPC::Client#proxy or
require "xmlrpc/client" server = XMLRPC::Client.new("www.ruby-lang.org", "/RPC2", 80) michael = server.proxy("michael") michael2 = server.proxy("michael", 4) # both calls should return the same value '9'. p michael.add(4,5) p michael2.add(5)
Public Class Methods
Creates an object which provides
The given
server must be an instance of
XMLRPC::Client, which is the XML-RPC server to be used for a XML-RPC call.
prefix and
delim will be prepended to the method name called onto this object.
An optional parameter
meth is the method to use for a RPC. It can be either, call, call2, call_async, call2_async
args are arguments which are automatically given to every XML-RPC call before being provided through
# File xmlrpc-0.3.0/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb, line 607 def initialize(server, prefix, args=[], meth=:call, delim=".") @server = server @prefix = prefix ? prefix + delim : "" @args = args @meth = meth end
Public Instance Methods
Every method call is forwarded to the XML-RPC server defined in XMLRPC::Client::Proxy#new.
Note: Inherited methods from class
Object cannot be used as XML-RPC names, because they get around
# File xmlrpc-0.3.0/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb, line 619 def method_missing(mid, *args) pre = @prefix + mid.to_s arg = @args + args @server.send(@meth, pre, *arg) end


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Critics Page
February 1959
big buddha, really huge, at least 100 feet high. People come up and pay homage. An earthy lady of the land offers that part of herself.
Then an old woman in her 70s comes up the walk to the buddha and reaching down grabs a seed from a bowl or basket of fruit and throws it in the face of the buddha. All the journals on Zen for months afterwards have articles on "The Woman Who Threw the Pip in the face of the buddha."
"i have crossed this ocean 9 times to do this, but never had the nerve until now," she states.
March 1959
Albert (Saijo) is not doing Za-Zen right, stopping it short to give a lecture of his own.
Robert Duncan is there, doing La-Zen. With ropes around our waist we run around the house in the snow. A crack the whip effect is pro- duced by Robert when he wants.
This is called Running Zen.
ContributorJoanne Kyger
JOANNE KYGER is an American poet. She has published more than twenty collections of poetry, including The Tapestry and the Web (1965), All This Every Day (1975), The Wonderful Focus of You (1979), Going On: Selected Poems 1958 - 1980 (1983), Just Space, poems 1979 - 1989 (1991), Again: Poems 1989 - 2000 (2001), As Ever: Selected Poems (2002), and About Now: Collected Poems (2007). She is also the author of the prose collection Strange Big Moon: Japan and India Journals 1960 - 1964 (1981). Kyger lives in Bolinas, California and occasionally teaches at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado.
LET GO /By Anne Waldman
MARCH 2021 | Poetry
Anne Waldman is the author most recently of Trickster Feminism (Penguin), Sanctuary (Spuyten Duyvil) , co-translator of The Songs of the Sons & Daughter Of Buddha (Shambhala) and the album SCIAMACHY (Levy Gorvy).


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Madrid-based designers Maria Lemus and Victor Alonso of Maria ke Fisherman are known for their print-heavy, ultra cyber creations. MkF has easily become one of the top cult phenomenons in both the fashion and celebrity realms, with everyone from Sean Combs to Azealia Banks to Lady Gaga rocking pieces from their collection. Futuristic cool, with a retro twist.
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Global acclamations in praise of Kofi Annan, the first sub-Saharan African to lead the United Nations, continue to pour in. Annan's efforts to revitalise the UN, put human rights at the core of the UN, spearhead the global fight against HIV/Aids, revitalise Africa's agriculture, champion the millennium development goals earned him a Nobel peace prize.
Although the Rwanda genocide tainted his image, he demonstrated that Africans can successfully manage global offices and execute the art of negotiation. Annan warned against the litany of selfish, dangerous, or destructive leaders that have greatly exacerbated the many challenges that independent Africa faced. He said that he was never going to stop being an optimist because if he did, it meant he had given up.
The best tribute we can give him is to shun romanticism, embrace realism and temper optimism with positive action as we strive continuously to improve living standards in Africa and engage with global partners in a win-win manner. The African Executive celebrates his extraordinary accomplishments.


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Exploring Certain Features and Tweaks in Windows 10's Microsoft Edge
In our previous tutorial, we have shown the different ways in launching the new browser in Windows 10 called Microsoft Edge and we've also show the steps that are involved in changing its default search engine from Bing to Google Search. This new browser that has been introduced along with the release of Windows 10 more than a year ago is really a better one than Internet Explorer in certain ways but there are still many more features of it that needs to be explored so you can maximize its use in case you'd like to give it a test in your Windows computer.
For instance, it is capable of pinning certain pages to Start and just like other browsers, you can also choose to set a default Homepage for it so you won't need to enter the URL of the site that you visit often every time you want to start with your browsing routine. There are also some other things that are just awesome about Microsoft Edge and that's what we're going to talk about in this tutorial. What features makes Microsoft Edge stand out among the rest and how can you take advantage of these features to improve productivity and enhance your overall user experience? These are just some of the questions that we're going to try to answer in this article so be sure to get your Windows 10 machine fired up and be ready to follow the steps that we're going to show below.
Launching Microsoft Edge in Windows 10
There are plenty of ways that are available for launching Windows 10's default browser called Microsoft Edge and we've shown all of these available methods in our previous tutorial but in order to save you time from jumping from one tutorial to the other just to learn how to launch this browser, we are going to show two of the easiest methods in accessing it.
First, if you are using a newly bought Windows 10 computer, you should expect the Microsoft Edge quick launch icon to be already pinned on the Taskbar as you can see being highlighted on the screenshot above. It is impossible that this icon would be missing because it is the default settings for every Windows 10 operating system that's installed in every computer. However, if you are using a machine that has already undergone some personalization tweaks, this quick launch icon might already be unpinned from the Taskbar which is often done by power users to free up some space on the Taskbar.
If this is the case, you can launch Microsoft Edge quickly by first accessing the Start Menu. To launch this menu, just press the Windows key on your computer's keyboard or click on the Start Button and once it launches, just look for the Microsoft Edge application tile on the right hand portion of the Start Menu screen as shown on the screenshot above. Again, it would be impossible not to find this tile on the Start Menu because it is pinned there by default unless it has already been unpinned as in the case of the quick launch icon which can also be removed from being pinned on the Taskbar.
These are two of the easiest ways that are available in launching Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 and in case you can't find both the quick launch icon on the Taskbar and the application tile on the Start Menu, you can use the other methods in launching Microsoft Edge that we have shown in our previous tutorial.
How to Pin Webpages to the Start Menu
One of the awesome tricks that you can do with Microsoft Edge is the ability to pin webpages to the Start section or the right hand portion of the Start Menu where application tiles are found. This is only possible with Microsoft Edge and not on any other browser since it is Windows 10's built-in browser. Doing this trick is easy and very much straightforward.
You can start by first launching Microsoft Edge using any of the methods that we've shown above and once it opens, you will need to browse to the webpage that you want to pin to Start. Just enter the website URL into the address bar that is found on the top then hit the "Enter" key in order to launch the website. Once it launches, you will need to simply click on the "More" icon which is represented by three dots or "…" as you can see being highlighted on the screenshot below.
After you click on the "More" icon which is found at the top-right portion of the Microsoft Edge Window, you should be able to see a menu that contains different options and in order to pin the webpage that you have just accessed into the Start portion of the Start Menu, all you need to do is click on the option that says "Pin this page to Start" as you can see being highlighted above. Right after clicking on this option, a prompt will then pop-up on the center of the Microsoft Edge Window which says "Do you want to pin this tile to Start?" and in order to have the webpage pinned, just click on the "Yes" button that is found on the prompt as you can see on the screenshot below.
Then after hitting "Yes", you can now check the Start portion of the Start Menu and you should now find a tile representing the webpage. The next time you want to access the webpage/website again, you won't need to be launching Microsoft Edge and entering the URL into its address bar because a simple click on the tile from the Start section of the Start Menu will open the website in Microsoft Edge!
Launching InPrivate Browsing Tabs
Another awesome feature of Microsoft Edge is called InPrivate browsing and it is designed for people who are quite paranoid about making all their web activities and browsing in private or untraceable! When you use InPrivate browsing, your browsing date such as cookies, history or even temporary files will not be saved on your computer or mobile device and once you are done browsing, Microsoft Edge would automatically delete all temporary data and files from your device right after all InPrivate browsing tabs are closed.
This is really an awesome tool for those who want covert browsing most of the time either because they don't want to get caught lingering on certain websites or just purely protecting some important credentials which are entered in certain websites while browsing. To launch a new InPrivate browsing tab, all that you need to do is launch a regular tab in Microsoft Edge then click on the "More" icon which is found just below the "Exit" or "X" button at the top-right portion of the Microsoft Edge Window as shown on the screenshot below.
After clicking on the "More" icon/button, a menu will appear just below it where you will simply need to click on the option that says "New InPrivate window" and voila! A new InPrivate Window should launch in an instant and you can start browsing privately without leaving any trace in Microsoft Edge's browsing history.
The Zoom Feature
Are you having a hard time reading the regularly sized texts on Microsoft Edge or viewing smaller images vividly because your computer or device screen is quite small? This is a problem to older aged users and if you know someone who has this struggle while browsing with Windows 10's default browser, you can teach them to use the "Zoom" feature in Edge. There are two ways in accessing this feature. First, you can view the Zoom in and Zoom Out buttons by pressing on the "More" icon/button that is found on the top-right portion of the screen as shown below.
After clicking on "More", a menu will appear and from here, you should be able to find a "Zoom" option which has a (-) and a (+) button on its right as shown on the screenshot above. Clicking on the (-) button will zoom out the texts and images on the Microsoft Edge Window while clicking on the (+) button zooms in everything. If you don't want to be doing this then you can use the CTRL – and CTRL + keyboard shortcut combinations for zooming out and zooming in respectively
Casting Videos and Other Media to Device
The awesome features of Microsoft Edge doesn't end with pinning webpages to the taskbar or being able to zoom in and zoom out some stuff that it has opened because you can also cast videos, music and even webpages to other devices that are connected to your computer via Bluetooth or other connections such as VGA wire or even through your network. Doing this is also a simple and straightforward process and involves clicking on the "Cast media to device" option that appears on the menu which launches whenever you click on the "More" icon/button that is located at the top-right portion of the Microsoft Edge Window as you can see being highlighted on the screenshot below.
After clicking on this option, you will be able to see a Window that shows a list of devices to which you can cast the media that is currently opened in Microsoft Edge. From here, all that you need to do is click on your device of choice and the media will automatically display or play on the device that you have selected.
How to Open Webpages in Internet Explorer from Microsoft Edge
Lastly, there is also a feature in Microsoft Edge that will help you use Internet Explorer in case you really miss the browser and you want to be able to use it again in your Windows 10 computer. To do this, you will first need to launch Microsoft Edge then access any webpage in it. Once the webpage is open, you will need to again click on the "More" icon/button that is found at the top-right portion of the Microsoft Edge browser screen as you can see on the screenshot below then on the menu that would appear, simply click on the option that says "Open with Internet Explorer".
Right after hitting the option, Windows 10 will launch Internet Explorer and have the website that you have accessed in Microsoft Edge opened in it as shown on the screenshot below. Now, you can enjoy the old browser with the help of the new browser in your Windows 10 machine.
Changing Microsoft Edge's Homepage
Another tweak that can be done with Microsoft Edge is changing its homepage from the default which is Bing to Google.com. To accomplish this tweak, you will again need to open Google.com first by entering "google.com" into the browser's address bar and once the site launches, simply click on the "More" icon/button that is found at the top-right portion of the screen then from the menu that would appear, simply click on "Settings".
Next, you will now be able to view the Settings for Microsoft Edge and the tweak that we want to perform is found in this section right under the "Open Microsoft Edge with" option and from here, simply click on the dropdown box under it where it says "Start page" and an options box will appear which shows the other options that are available for the homepage setting of the browser.
From this options box, simply click on the one that says "A specific page or pages" and after you do so, an input box which asks for the site URL will appear just below the selected option as you can see below.
From here, simply enter the website URL of the site that you want to set as homepage then hit the "Save" button that is found on the right of the URL input box. After this tweak, you can relaunch Microsoft Edge and voila! It should now open the site that you have set as your new homepage!
More Great Features to Watch Out for in Microsoft Edge!
Microsoft Edge is still a relatively young browser compared to its leading competitors but as you can see, it now has more than enough features that can easily make it become a browser of choice to Windows 10 users. The good thing about it is that Microsoft and other third-party developers are still making more and more improvements and innovations to the browser which means that we can only expect even more features to be added to it in future Windows 10 updates. The Anniversary Update which has recently been released has brought much improvements like extension support and many others and we're excited for newer updates and what they would change in Microsoft Edge to make it better!
It turns out that being the last isn't really a negative thing because being the youngest gives you the opportunity to look at the failures and aspects of those who have gone ahead and improve from those points. That's exactly where Microsoft Edge is standing right now and we can see that it is in a good vantage point! What feature in Microsoft Edge do you like best? Do you know of a trick that can be done with it which we failed to mention in this tutorial? Share that trick with your fellow readers by taking advantage of the comments section below. You can also get all our latest tutorials and articles straight to your inbox by signing up for our newsletter! That's all for now and see you in our next tutorial only here on WindowsTechies.com!


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Following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history earlier this week in Las Vegas, two Florida lawmakers announced legislation designed to temporarily prevent access to firearms for individuals at a high risk of harming themselves or others.
The bill (HB 231), filed Thursday by Jacksonville Sen. Audrey Gibson and Lantana Rep. Lori Berman – both Democrats –would allow family, household members, and law enforcement to obtain a court order with "demonstrated evidence" the person poses a significant danger to themselves or others, including danger as a result of a mental health crisis or violent behavior.
Both legislators say the intent is to reduce gun deaths and injuries by allowing an order to temporarily restrict a person's access to firearms, while simultaneously respecting constitutional rights. Court orders are intended to be limited to situations where a person possessing a firearm poses a significant danger of harming themselves or others.
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"It is critical to address senseless gun deaths that now seem to be more the norm than a rarity," Gibson said. "This bill is designed to remove from harm's way individuals who are at high risk of harming themselves or others through an act of gun violence.
"A temporary, evidenced-based court order to remove a firearm from the home can be extremely helpful in curbing dangerous crisis behavior," she added.
"In light of Sunday night's tragedy in Las Vegas, it is more important than ever that we address how to limit gun violence," Berman added. "This bill provides a mechanism for family or household members and law enforcement to stop bad actors before [a] tragedy happens."
The legislation also "gives family members a pathway for removing firearms from individuals in the throes of a dangerous mental health crisis, including suicidal ideations." he said.
A similar bill filed in the 2017 Legislative Session would have required someone applying for a concealed-weapons permit to undergo a mental health evaluation by a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist and be deemed "competent and of sound mind."
That proposal failed, as did almost every other gun-related bill that year.
The bill is the second gun-control issue to be introduced by Democrats in the Legislature in the past two days. On Wednesday, state Sen. Linda Stewart and Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, both of Orlando, unveiled proposed legislation to ban the sale of assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines.


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A field for research in Artistic Eurythmy in Brazil, in its interface with Theater, Music, Poetry, Puppet Theater, Visual Arts, Philosophy.
Direction – the Cia. Terranova comes to birth in 2010, through idealization and under the Artistic Direction of Marília Barreto, trained eurythmist at the Helikon Hogeschool in The Hague/The Netherlands. Since 1988 back in Brazil, she has been co-founder of the São Paulo Eurythmy Group, where she realized several performances and tours with, throughout Brazil, Latin America, Europe and in the US. Besides her artistic experience, she has large acting as teacher and choreographer for several youth projects (Terra Brasilis Eurythmy and Terranova Pre-Graduation). The Cia. Terranova counts with the special partnership of director Dino Bernardi for the Performing Arts, as well as several partners in the field of Music.
2010 – its first realization brought together the eurythmists Marília Barreto and Renate Nisch and the actress Ana Alkmim in the performance OBLIVION, with special participation of pianist José Carlos Motta and cellist Samuel Oliveira, under Scenic Direction of Marcio Aurelio and Choreography by Göran Kranz.
2014 – the Company starts a new research, now a performance for young and old, OS SERVOS DE PAN (THE SERVANT OF PAN). With text by Marília Barreto, in a free adaptation of Ein Mitsommerspiel by Margherite Lobeck Kürsteiner about beings and forces of Nature, this performance unites a great cast (26), under actors and actresses, eurythmnists, pupett manipulation artists and musicians. The scenic conception is by Dino Bernardi, Choreography by Marília Barreto, Music Direction by Luciano Vazzoler.
2015 – The Servants of Pan performed in a few Conferences and schools in Brazil, and prepared for its coming projects.
April 2016 – The Company has just arrived from the Europe Tour of THE SERVANTS OF PAN, through Germany, France and Switzerland. It is now busy with fundraising for performances in São Paulo and other Brazilian cities, and with producing its second tour to Europe, projected for 2019.
Creating Culture through Eurythmy is to move paradigms, to innovate, to promote the essentially human, in the artist and in the spectator.
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Based in its most recent iteration on Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu Cloud Live — as its name implies — is a live session of Ubuntu preloaded with all the tools needed to create and manage a complete private cloud environment.
It's available as an image file that can be run on any computer from a USB stick, it can be installed to make bootable USB stick using the image or fired up quickly and easily in a virtual machine.
The image uses OpenStack Diablo, requires an x86_64 compatible desktop/laptop machine, and is approximately 560Mb in size. We recommend flashing to a 4GB USB drive (or larger) to allow for proper setup and use of the cloud.
Installing Ubuntu Cloud Live on USB Stick
To install Ubuntu Cloud Live on a USB stick you can either use unetbootin tool or use dd command to install manually, here is how you can use the dd command for USB install.
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Once flashed, simply boot your laptop/desktop from the USB drive and follow the instructions displayed on the desktop.
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Tory Burch Spring 2020 - Runway Review
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Princess Diana, fashion's latest muse du jour, served as the touchpoint for Tory Burch's eloquent Spring show. And while the designer was inspired by the insouciance of her style -- the oversize blazer, the faded jeans, the boyfriend sweatshirt and bike shorts -- Burch forged her own path on the '80s rather than be too literal.
The results, paraded down the runway at the Brooklyn Museum, was a sturdy-chic collection of separates and party dresses that beautifully channeled that era with not one iota more of retro. As exemplified on Natalia Vodianova, who opened the show in a camisole top and long skirt in handkerchief silk organdy, the slouchy silk tops, leather-trimmed trenches, embroidered pantsuits and trousers in bold prints were highlights of the collection -- but it was the dresses that really elevated the aesthetic. A series constructed from embroidered handkerchiefs, the dresses, along with their matching leather bags, had a timeless femininity to them that juxtaposed with others boasting pouf sleeves.
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Today, TechCrunch Disrupt attendees were treated to a very special guest: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg addressed the audience of entrepreneurs, urging them to make their way to New York City to start their next venture. As he put it, "When you want to start a business, you don't have any choice. This is where the best and the brightest are."
Mayor Bloomberg also announced that New York City and FirstMark Capital have teamed to offer a $22 million fund to fuel entrepreneurship in NYC. The city has set aside $3 million for the fund, and FirstMark is contributing the remainder. The first company to receive funding from the NYC Entrepreneurial Fund is MyCityWay.
Here's the full video of Mayor Bloomberg's talk (which was followed by a brief Q&A). Updated: Full transcript below.
Mayor Bloomberg:
Let me start by trying to establish my social media and IT credentials. I'm the proud owner of a new iPad – it's amazing, I told Steve Jobs the other day if he can top this it'll be amazing, every day I discover something new. This morning before this conference I also updated my Facebook feed, sent out a tweet, checked my Digg feed and checked in at Foursquare. I even posted a personal on Craigslist. (laughter)
I did – Cleveland basketball star wanted to save basketball in the big apple. Whether Lebron's reading it or not, I don't know. Anyway I hope he makes the right choice and comes to the city, because I think TechCrunch made the right choice in bringing its conference here. (cheers) Thank you very much.
Because in media and advertising technology, I really think New York is number one. We already have more information and media jobs in New York City – 315,000 and counting – than any other metropolitan area in the nation, and during the first quarter of this year, venture capital funding increased in New York by 19% even while it went down in Silicon Valley and the rest of the nation. It's true, this is where it's happening. And I've said this a thousand times, my company could never have been anywhere as successful if I had started it anyplace else.
The value proposition here is a great place for people where intellectual capital is important. If you want to compete in the big pond, if you want to have a lot of cultural opportunities, be able to interface with the others of the best and the brightest, this is the place to come and I'm going to tell you a little of how we're going to increase our market share in this high-tech, fast-paced world.
20 months ago, when Wall Street went into a tailspin, city hall went into overdrive. Now we know that talent is the city's number one asset, and the people losing jobs at financial sector firms were people we knew we had to keep in our city. Nearly 30 years ago I was in that job too, when I was fired from my job on Wall Street – I had a harebrained notion about making financial services information available on desktop computers, and the truth of the matter is when I started the business, PCs did not exist, and for those of you not old enough to remember, the internet did not exist when I started Bloomberg.
We went and built our own hardware, I used to go up on Saturdays to Connecticut to the barn that our engineer worked in, and I would solder resistors and capacitors into circuit boards and that's what we put on people's desks. We would rent telephone lines and buy muxes and created our own internet, but then as PCs were developed I felt we could not compete in that world and so we switched our product to running on PCs – and when the internet came in, it helped us get out of the telecommunications business as well. So we are a technology company but we've changed as the world has changed. That's one of the keys to success. Too many companies just stay with the same old thing and are trying to stop the waves from coming in. But you have to sit there and recognize as things change, the opportunities you have.
Now our idea worked out pretty well, and while I don't know who's going to create the next big thing in technology, we do know where the next Bloomberg or Twitter needs to be headquartered, and that is here. And so we've geared up our support for startups especially in information technology.
We've been working to eliminate or reduce the state's unincorporated business tax for 17,000 freelancers and contractors, and that one reform put up to 3400 hours a year back in their pockets. With partners in academia and in the real estate community, our economic development corporation, led by its president Seth Pinsky, has also opened up two incubators for tech startups and social media freelancers, and we know that office space and equipment and the chance to rub shoulders with your colleagues are what people who launch startups need. So we created these incubators and I will say that they've been very successful. The tenants have already received more than $8 million in venture capital funding and counting, and so we're going to launch a media lab at a major university in our city later this year. And like the labs now at Stanford and at MIT it will foster IT research and collaboration. We're continuing to help IT firms find out about opportunities to do business with our city agencies. New York City has a $64 billion budget annually; we have 300,000 employees; we have 8.4 million customers and so we have a lot of business to give out and we want to make sure that the people who can help us will know how to do that, and that will also help them.
Now, today, President Obama is welcoming small business owners across America to the White House – you're lucky to be here with me, some of them are unlucky and had to go with the President, but hey, you know. (laughter) It's just the way it is. He'll be urging congress to authorize new lending programs and tax cuts to the small businesses that will generate the jobs that our nation needs – and the president, all kidding aside, really does understand that small businesses are the future of America. And here in New York we know that these initiatives are vital for startups, and the faster congress approves the president's proposals, which are right on the mark, the better.
That's why at the local level, in addition to the tax cuts I already mentioned, we also created a loan program for the businesses that, despite their credit worthiness, were being shut out from sources of capital. And more than a year ago, we put three million city dollars into an early stage investment fund for tech startups. It is the first fund of its kind created by any city outside of Silicon Valley. We originally hoped it would attract nine, maybe ten million in private funding. But today, I'm pleased to make two announcements about that fund: first, thanks to a new partnership with the venture capital leader Firstmark Capital, who is co-investing up to $19 million private dollars with our NYC entrepreneurial fund, will now be able to invest up to $22 million, and that's significantly more than we ever thought possible, and proof, I think, that Firstmark shares our optimism about the future of New York City startups.
And second, today we're announcing our first investment of $300k from that fund, and it's going to an exciting mobile application provider, MyCityWay, and if you haven't heard of them yet you will, and in fact let me tell you a little bit about them right now. A year ago our administration launched a competition we called "NYC Big Apps," and we made data from over 30 city agencies available to tech entrepreneurs: property tax records, the city-wide tree census, wi-fi hotspots, where dog runs are located, you name it. We threw it open to all of the city's tech world and we set up a contest to see who could come up with ways to use that data creatively. Did they rise to the challenge? Did they ever, with more than 100 submissions. And MyCityWay put in one of them. It's called NYCWay, it puts everything New York right at your fingertips, and it's what native New Yorkers and visitors need. It's the lowdown on four-star restaurants and also the best eats, information on theatre tickets, art galleries, and hotels, and if you're from out of town and thinking of relocating here, which we definitely hope that you are, you can find jobs jobs and real estate listings as well.
Well we liked what they did so much, we not only named them the Big Apps winner, most likely to be an investor's choice, but we also chose to invest in them. And I'm delighted to tell you that it's enabled them to move to New York City from their former home in New Jersey, and also to add some new employees. In a few minutes, the MyCityWay team and Lawrence Lenahan (sp?) will join me to describe that to the reporters, but before we leave, let me leave you with this. In New York City, we understand that innovation leads economic growth – from the days of the trans-atlantic telegraph cable right up to today, we've been nurturing information technology. And it doesn't matter now if you're in New Jersey or in New Delhi – if you have an idea, or a product, or an app, New York City I think is the city for you.
If you take a look at what's been happening in this city, you go to restaurants here, they will all tell you business is better, you go to stores, they tell you business is better, if you take a look at the real estate market here, business is better, if you look at our tourism numbers, tourism is only down a couple percent; it's down double digits in virtually every other city in the country. New York City has just become the number one tourist destination in America, something that Orlando had for an awful long time. This is the city where it's happening. It's happening in IT and in Bio science, and all of these things, it's the fashion capital of the world, it's the financial capital of the world, it's the media capital of the world… if you want to start a business, and you want to see that business grow, I can't guarantee that you'll be successful, but I can tell you from personal experience, that is an awful lot easier to attract the best and the brightest, because they want to live here. It is an awful lot easier for you to interface with other people who have ideas, and you can exchange and cross-pollinate, and it's the place where you can have the greatest life to live. If you're a smart person, this is the happening city.
Thank you all, and we hope you all move here if you don't live here already.
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If you're a world-class startup, why pick NYC?
Most immigrant friendly place in America. Gateway to the US. What is unique about NYC is that we live as a mixture, not a mosaic. Live together in a way that promotes understanding. People don't have to forget where they came from.
Microsoft, Google, Reuters have few thousand people each in this city.
If you were starting today as an entrepreneur what would you do?
Something that wasn't be done, or something that was only being done by big companies. Competing with big companies is much easier than small companies. Live expectancy of a company is relatively short. They become big, they develop infrastructure, and everything looks small in the bottom line so they don't do it. And that's when the next big thing comes along.
Your company was about disruption. Today's media companies are being disrupted by the Internet. What's your advice to the media?
I'm a big fan of quality media. I think that the problem is not, is it distributed via truck or fiber. The question is it something that you need> I would argue an awful lot of the media has gone away what the public wants to receive. Examples: The Economist keeps growing, it's probably the most expensive general interest magazine that I know of. There are companies that sell what people want. An awful lot of companies got away from that. It's not the technology. The magazines that are in trouble are in trouble because they are writing the same thing as everyone else does. They aren't germane to people's lives anymore.
Tax incentive programs for tech companies?
Basically, no. We have the fund, we have incubators. But NYC we tax people. We make this the safest big city in the country. Our streets are cleaner, safer. We support our cultural institutions. Rather than tax breaks we're investing our money in making this city a better place for people to live so that when you want to start a business, you don't have any choice. This is where the best and the brightest are.
"Thank you all… live in New York City!"
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Examining the Efficacy of Inclusive Practices and its Impact on the Academic Achievement of High School Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities
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Spring 2018
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Doctor of Education (EdD)
Peg Hughes
Best Practices, High School, Inclusion, Instructional Design, Secondary Education, Special Education
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Educational leadership
There is extensive research in elementary education on effective practices that support academic success for students with mild to moderate disabilities in general education; however there is a dearth of research on high school inclusion practices. A survey examined the current inclusionary practices at a Central Coast High School. California State Standardized Assessment scores of 11th grade English Language Art and Math classes were also analyzed by groups. Overall, findings indicated that inclusionary practices were implemented to different degrees, but none were fully in place i.e., practices building relationships was rated the highest and instructional practices was rated lowest. In addition, findings indicated that students with disabilities exceeded the state SBAC scores in the area of English but not math. Longitudinal research is needed to further identify secondary practices that impact Math scores for students with disabilities along with continued examination of inclusive high school practices.
Recommended Citation
Cobb, Paulette C., "Examining the Efficacy of Inclusive Practices and its Impact on the Academic Achievement of High School Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities" (2018). Dissertations. 14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.wpky-2v5n


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The SURFACE project brought together 10 partners from Central Europe (AUT, BEL, CZE, DEU, HUN, ITA, PL, SLO) with the aim to set up Multi-Stakeholder based Smart Re-Use parks as a possible solution for increasing sustainability in selected functional urban areas. The involved regions benefitted from the transnational cooperation through know-how-exchange and learning from best practice examples. This knowledge exchange was especially addressed with the regularly held Multi-Stakeholder-Fora and the Twinning Learning Journeys.
Project outputs and results
• 2 Action Plans and Strategies for the 9 involved Functional Urban Area
• 5 Tools and Services for establishing urban re-used oriented roadmaps and Smart Re-Use Parks.
- SRP-Activation Toolbox: A set of open source documents and tools to help start a Smart Re-use Park
• 5 Smart Re-use Parks (SRP) in IT, AT, DE, PL, HU including two digital platforms
• 4 Feasibility studies were carried out for future SRP in IT, CZ, SI, HR
• 18 regions and cities in total were working on the set-up of SRP: The impact of the project increased twofold through the 'Twinning scheme' where each partner region engaged a 'twin' partner interested in replicating the SRP
• 366 people were trained in the course of the Multistakeholder Forum on Urban Waste Prevention Plans, the SRP training schemes and activation tools trainings
• 9 implemented Twinning plans and trainings
• 5 Twinning Learning Journeys with personal and virtual site visits at the SRPs and thematic workshops were performed
Other highlights of the project
• Project final infographics: What are SRP and what impact was achieved?
• YouTube Channel: Collection of video stories of re-use from CE and beyond
• Implementation of the Re-use Box in many countries
• Open source final Conference materials
• Cooperation continues: The consortium committed to keep supporting each other and boost re-use even after the project end through regular online multistakeholder forums every 6 months
The results helped to improve environmental management and quality of life of the involved FUAs in the CE programme area through reducing waste streams, creating jobs, offering new trainings and boosting boosting investments, creating a set of tools for harmonized and evidence based decision making setting in the field of waste prevention and re-use.
The Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) of Kempten follows an area-wide approach and covers the functional urban area (FUA) of ZAK waste management. The FUA comprises 48 municipalities and more than 300.000 inhabitants....
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The assigned FUA from Hungary is the capital city of Hungary, Budapest. Its territory belongs to the service area of the Metropolitan Public Domain Maintenance PLC (MPDM). They are responsible for cleaning the public areas and waste management of the city....
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The Smart Re-Use Park concept was implemented in Tyrol as the online platform www.noamol.at.
This platform shows the citizens environmentally friendly and resource-saving alternatives for throwing away used items. Conversely, there is also information about how to get used goods....
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Following the principles of a plan-do-check-act-cycle we developed a quality scheme for the control and continuous improvement of a Re-Use-Park.
The quality scheme contains criteria in areas of management and organisational structures, integration of SRP providers (actors) and the integration of services provided.
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You have set up a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) and are overwhelmed with the variety of activities and needs in your region?
A SRP manager can help to manage actors and activities and fulfilling public relation activities.
Our training modules shall give you an idea of what specific know-how a SRP manager needs.
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In order to fullfill all three pillars of sustainability also the economic dimension of a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) needs to be considered in the planning phase carefully.
For this reason the SURFACE consortium elaborated and evaluated a tool that allows and suggests a great variety of costs that might occur so that nothing remains unconsidered.
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A good advice when setting up a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) is to learn from the experience of others and look at best-practice examples.
For this reason the SURFACE consortium gathered some case histories on policy requirements and on operational requirements in their functional urban areas.
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You are in the stage to settle specific re-use collaborations in your region?
Our templates for collaboration agreements shall give you an idea of what should be defined by the involved collaboration partners.
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You want to visualize the current status of potential cooperation in the field of re-use in your region?
The cooperation matrix describes all possible synergies and combinations between public authorities, private companies, social enterprises in your region.
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Multistakeholder Forum is part of the Activation Toolbox
The SURFACE Multistakeholder Forum Visual Tutor is an online toolkit that allows the visualization of SURFACE Multistakeholder Forum activities, concepts and Pilots.
Thanks to this tool, it is possible to see easily the initial stakeholders' members and the new ones, as well as the work in progress divided by FUA's areas.
One of SURFACE´s most important outcomes is a number of tools and instruments that are established throughout the 3 years project phase. Besides pilot actions, training and action plans, those tools should be something that will help other regions or cities when starting Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) activities.
During project life this section will be populated with the description of each tool
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SURFACE is on YouTube
Follow us in our dedicated YouTube channel where our videos are published
These are our last published videos
Recycle is Silver, Reuse is Gold
What Surface motto recalls in Italian street people
Vicenza SRP Virtual Tour
Due to Covid-19 emergency SURFACE Twinning partners have met online for a virtual journey of Vicenza SRP
Online Twinning meeting in Vicenza
On 22nd of April the 4th Twinning Learning Journey of the Interreg CE project SURFACE took place as an online webinar. Cooperativa Sociale Insieme gave a detailed insight into the Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) Vicenza, which was installed as a pilot action within the SURFACE project.
IURS inspirational video
Let inspire your city to start own reuse project. This video was made thanks to SURFACE project supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE
CPU - FUA Ljubljana
With reuse to a healthy environment
PoR SURFACE STORY #2
ReedoLab a very special second hand and repair store in Rimini - Italy
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25/06/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 1 - June 2019
13/11/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 2 - October 2019
19/12/2019 - SURFACE Newsletter # 3 - December 2019
27/01/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 4 - January 2020
11/03/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 5 - March 2020
06/04/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 6 - April 2020
07/05/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 7 - May 2020
12/06/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 8 - June 2020
23/06/2020 - SURFACE Newsletter # 9 Extra issue - June 2020
In the first week of June 2020 the Interreg SURFACE final conference »Re-Use: Key Element of a Circular Economy in Central Europe and beyond« took place online in form of two interactive online events! The number of 160 registered people from more than 20 European countries underlines the relevance of the topic of re-use and is proof that the theme of the conference was brought into practice.
The last Learning Journey and Twinning Meeting were held online on June 3rd. Through an online platform, project partners and their guests met and had a virtual tour of the SRP in Mid-Tyrol managed by Waste Management Association Mid-Tyrol.
In the month of May SURFACE has promoted an intense Facebook campaign with the goal of reaching general public to disseminate project achievements and enhance public awareness on Re-use.
The project Facebook page, already active since project start, has been populated during the whole month with posts, news, videos, project deliveries in order to reach the greatest number of recipients.
SURFACE has 10 partners from 8 central European countries
Plus 1 partner from a country outside Central Europe
RREUSE - Reuse and Recycling European Union Social Enterprises - BELGIUM - www.rreuse.org
City of Graz Department of Environmental Protection -
Municipality of Ljubljana -
municipality of vicenza -
city of kempten -
Europa Kujaw i Pomorza Association -
Humana nova Zagreb, Social cooperative -
City of Zagreb -
Association of municipalities in catchment Basin Stonavka -
Czech Republic
City of brno -
Czech Republic
FKF Nonprofit Zrt. -


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Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough (2017)
I knew very little about Hamilton going on this book, so it was very educational for me. The style was generally pretty easy, but I got a bit bogged down during the Revolutionary War. I think I just find it difficult to read about war because I don't know what some of the military activity looks like, and I always try to envision things as they're happening. But when you just describe a particular maneuver or battle in a few words it's hard for me to picture. But afterward, when we moved into the era in which Hamilton was instrumental in authoring the Federalist Papers, drafting the Constitution, and basically creating a government from scratch it got much more interesting to me.
I was also a bit fascinated by how quick to duel everyone was. This was also a big theme in War and Peace, but apparently it was a universal phenomenon. Any little insult - like calling someone a rascal - was grounds for a duel to defend one's honor. Please. (And we think people are easy offended these days.) It's such a waste too - Hamilton survived a frigging war but allowed himself to get killed over honor? I realize from reading this book that honor was the most important thing to him ever, but I have a hard time understanding that, especially when he left behind a wife and about a bazillion kids. (Seriously, every time his wife was mentioned in this book, she was pregnant again.)
Another part that struck me was the passage about the election of 1800. I always think about current elections being especially dirty and smarmy, what with everyone dragging out every bit of dirty laundry they can find - or fabricate - on candidates they don't like, but that's apparently not new at all. In 1800, Adams was called "hermaphroditical" and it was claimed that if he won adultery and incest would be taught and encouraged throughout the country. (It reminded me a bit of the 2016 "threat" that if Clinton won there would be a taco truck on every corner which, to me, sounds like paradise.) Furthermore, the reason that Alexander Hamilton didn't ever run for President was because he was afraid that his adulterous affair would be made public. I don't know if it was heartening or depressing to learn that things really haven't changed very much in the last few hundred years.
At times, I wished there was a little more explanation. For instance, as a child Hamilton's father went away on a trip and never came back, abandoning Hamilton and his brother and mother. Later when he was about to get married, there was mention that he wanted his father to come, but he was unable to. Had they been in touch this whole time? How did they get in touch after he abandoned the family? There were a couple of others parts where I had similar questions. Of course, if all the details were fleshed out, we would have ended up with an 800-page book like Chernow's. Overall, I think Brockenbrough did a great job of giving us as complete a story as possible while keeping it short enough for those of us who are daunted by lengthy, detailed works of nonfiction.
I read this book for the Not-So-Young Adult Book Group at work, and we discussed it at my penultimate meeting. I hired someone new in my department and she's going to take over this group starting in June, which will absolve me of my monthly required reading. I've loved a lot of the books I read for this group, but I'm also very happy to read whatever the hell I want all the time. Plus I'm sure she'll bring new life and ideas to this group that I've been running since 2012. But I'm going to keep reading teen books so you'll still see me posting about them here!


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What Lies Ahead For The Future Milwaukee County Executive
Updated Feb. 24 at 3:24 p.m. CT
The Wisconsin spring election and presidential primary is on April 7. One of the biggest races on the ballot is for Milwaukee County executive. Chris Abele announced last October that he's not seeking reelection after holding the post since 2011.
There are two candidates vying for the position: state Rep. David Crowley and state Sen. Chris Larson.
READ: Meet The 2020 Milwaukee County Executive Candidates
Rob Henken, president of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, says the most pressing responsibility for the new county executive is developing the 2021 budget.
"There's a set of fiscal challenges that have been building for many, many years," he explains.
Henken cites a persistent $15 million to $20 million structural deficit.
"That's not chump change," he says. "The conundrum in which the county finds itself is that every year at the start of budget preparation season, the question is not, 'Where can we invest some resources into programs and services that are working well or try to fill some gaps?' Instead, it's, 'Where are we going to find $15- or $20 million of cuts this year?' "
READ: Milwaukee County Executive Candidates Share Ideas On How To Keep People Out Of Jail
One issue that is begging for attention is infrastructure. Henken estimates that there's about a $400 million backlog of infrastructure needs.
"Some very difficult decisions need to be made in terms of which of the county's capital assets are going to be repaired and replaced," he says.
Aside from infrastructure needs, there are the perennial issues of the transit system and parks. Henken says that one reason both of those elements receive a lot of attention is that those are so-called discretionary services.
"The county does transit and the county does parks, not because state statutes require the county to do them but because they're very important," says Henken.
Many of these problems have grown year after year, and the decision-making process regarding the budget has become more difficult. So, with that in mind: Why would anyone want to be the county executive?
Although Henken doesn't envy the person who's going to be taking this office, it's an important administrative role that's critical for the community.
"It's a position where somebody who wants to roll up his or her sleeves and make government work. So yes, the challenges are fierce, but also there is no higher calling in terms of somebody who wants to serve the public," he says.
The April 7 election will determine who will be the new Milwaukee County executive.
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Latisha Reihill, Between Showers, painting, 40 x 50 x 3 cm (44 x 54 cm framed)
Year: 2020
Medium(s): acrylic paint and other media on canvas (acrylic paint, oil paint, crackle paste, glass bead gel)
Frame: white wooden tray frame
- Sold
Shipping - This works is currently exhibited online and at Gallery 545, Blick Studios, Belfast until 31 October. Shipped within 7 days from 1 November.
Return - This work is eligible for return.
Artist - Selected Recognitions
- Award-winning artist, including Queen Street Studios Gallery Award (Belfast) and UU Next Generation Awards Feilden Clegg Studios (Belfast)
- Work in public collection (University of Ulster, Belfast)
Further information
This painting is part of Latisha Reihill - 'Ways of Seeing' Solo Exhibition, 2 – 31 October, on display at Gallery 545 online and at Blick Studios, Belfast.
Latisha Reihill is an award-winning emerging artist. She has focused her work mainly around the materiality of surfaces and as well as colour, often times looking at architecture and landscape, the memories they hold, and the changes of their colours and surfaces over time.
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He was with the 1st Platoon holding an important road junction on high ground near Kalterherberg, Germany, on 22 December 1944. In the early morning hours, the enemy after laying down an intense artillery and mortar barrage, followed through with an all-out attack that threatened to overwhelm the position. T/Sgt. Dalessondro, seeing that his men were becoming disorganized, braved the intense fire to move among them with words of encouragement. Advancing to a fully exposed observation post, he adjusted mortar fire upon the attackers, meanwhile firing upon them with his rifle and encouraging his men in halting and repulsing the attack. Later in the day the enemy launched a second determined attack. Once again, T/Sgt. Dalessondro, in the face of imminent death, rushed to his forward position and immediately called for mortar fire. After exhausting his rifle ammunition, he crawled 30 yards over exposed ground to secure a light machinegun, returned to his position, and fired upon the enemy at almost pointblank range until the gun jammed. He managed to get the gun to fire 1 more burst, which used up his last round, but with these bullets he killed 4 German soldiers who were on the verge of murdering an aid man and 2 wounded soldiers in a nearby foxhole. When the enemy had almost surrounded him, he remained alone, steadfastly facing almost certain death or capture, hurling grenades and calling for mortar fire closer and closer to his outpost as he covered the withdrawal of his platoon to a second line of defense. As the German hordes swarmed about him, he was last heard calling for a barrage, saying, "OK, mortars, let me have it—right in this position!" The gallantry and intrepidity shown by T/Sgt. Dalessondro against an overwhelming enemy attack saved his company from complete rout.
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Jay S. H.
Cruice Jr.,
CFP®, CLU, ChFC
CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Cruice Financial Organization
Co-Chief Investment Officer
CFO Capital Management
The Cruice Financial Organization team and its affiliates have been successfully managed by Jay S. Cruice Jr., CFP, ChFC, CFS for over 30 years.
Education Background:
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa: BA 1976
- The Wharton School, Philadelphia, Pa: BS 1976
- The Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: MBA 1981
- Certified Financial Planner [CFP®], 1984
- Chartered Life Underwriter [CLU], 1985
- Chartered Financial Consultant [ChFC], 1985
- Certified Fund Specialist [CFS], 1995
Business Background:
- President of Cruice Financial Organization/ Cruice Investment Advisors, Ltd. / CFO Capital Management
- Registered Representative for United Planners Financial Services (12/2017 to 01/2021)
- Series 7, Series 63, Series 65, Series 24, and Insurance licensed [Life & Health]
Jay is single with three grown children and currently resides in Hobe Sound, Florida and Westport, Connecticut. During his career, he has been involved with his community as a coach of youth sports teams, as a Sunday school teacher, and a member of Rotary International. Jay has always been an avid sportsman who enjoys playing tennis, platform tennis and golf as well as fishing and skiing in his spare time.
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