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Safety View by GM Future Roads & INRIX Now Available to Support Safer Roads in U.S. Communities
New INRIX school zone study highlights Safety View's sophisticated cloud-based analytics capabilities designed for Vision Zero plans and Safe Streets and Roads for All program
DETROIT AND KIRKLAND, Wash. – Today, General Motors (NYSE: GM) and INRIX Inc., a world leader in mobility analytics and connected car services, announced that Safety View by GM Future Roads & INRIX is now widely available to transportation planners nationwide. The cloud-based application provides transportation officials with critical insights using crash, vehicle, vulnerable road user (VRU), and U.S. Census data, to help prioritize and measure the effectiveness of roadway safety projects and their impact on communities.
"Safety View by GM Future Roads & INRIX represents an important part of our growing portfolio of data-driven software solutions and offers a glimpse into some of the innovative ways we can collaborate with the public sector to support safe roadways and communities," said Alan Wexler, GM senior vice president, Strategy and Innovation. "We are committed to creating shared value for society and our stakeholders as we aim to lead the industry transformation and bring digital safety solutions to market."
Leveraging data analytics available through Safety View, INRIX Research published a new study today analyzing the road network surrounding 27 Washington, D.C. schools with the goal of better understanding driving behaviors in school zones. Findings from the new study demonstrate some of the real-time insights that can be gathered using Safety View's analytics capabilities and datasets, which are customizable by geography. Below are key insights from the Washington, D.C. study:
- Speeding and the number of crashes didn't vary much between school zone and non-school zone streets, but the severity of crashes was marginally lowered where school zone designations were present.
- Traffic and school zone signs didn't appear to have a large effect on slowing down speeding, according to a sample evaluation of signs.
- Speeding is more prevalent in school zones with higher percentages of students on free- or reduced-lunch programs.
"As we officially roll out Safety View to our customers, today's study helps illustrate the critical insights the tool can provide to help improve roadway safety in our communities," said Bryan Mistele, co-founder and CEO of INRIX. "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides transportation officials with a historic opportunity to make their infrastructure smarter, safer, and greener in ways that were previously unimaginable or unattainable. Now more than ever is the time to invest in and utilize data to better inform the future of our roadway networks and to understand how things may vary based on demographics and at the community level."
Safety View's benefits are especially important as government agencies come together to counter the growing number of fatal crashes. The recent passage of the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $5 billion in discretionary funds as part of the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. With applications due by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, Sept. 15, SS4A creates new resources for developing and executing road safety plans aimed at the goal of zero traffic-related fatalities. Safety View can help streamline the funding application process by providing the datasets and analytics tools in one place.
GM Future Roads and INRIX first announced their collaboration in May 2022 to respond to the growing demand for safety solutions. With the new report highlighting just some of Safety View's capabilities, transportation professionals will be able to tap into additional key benefits that can help improve understanding and performance of roadway networks, including:
- Access to critical safety and demographic datasets in one cloud-based application
- Identifying hazardous roadway segments through valuable insights about elements that elevate risk and prioritize those that need the most attention
- Evaluating the impact of a Vision Zero action plan with access to near real-time insights through easy-to-use visual analysis tools
- Accelerating the funding application process by providing the required datasets and analytics tools needed in one place
With its strong network of connected cars on U.S. and Canadian roads, General Motors believes joining forces with INRIX to make aggregated vehicle insights available to public agencies is a major step to help increase the safety of U.S. roads. INRIX brings a deep understanding of the public sector and has a proven ability to create advanced solutions for generating insights from vehicle and device data to make mobility smarter, safer and greener.1 This new collaboration between General Motors and INRIX marks an important advancement in the mission to help local and tribal governments, metropolitan planning organizations and other road authorities achieve their safety goals through connected vehicle data innovation.
Transportation officials are invited to join a webinar to learn more about Safety View and experience its features firsthand. Additional product information can be found here. To explore findings from the School Traffic study by INRIX Research, visit here.
About INRIX
Founded in 2004, INRIX pioneered intelligent mobility solutions by transforming big data from connected devices and vehicles into mobility insights. This revolutionary approach enabled INRIX to become one of the leading providers of data and analytics into how people move. By empowering cities, businesses, and people with valuable insights, INRIX is helping to make the world smarter, safer, and greener. With partners and solutions spanning across the entire mobility ecosystem, INRIX is uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and transportation – whether it's keeping road users safe, improving traffic signal timing to reduce delay and greenhouse gasses, optimizing last mile delivery, or helping uncover market insights. Learn more at INRIX.com.
About General Motors
General Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company focused on advancing an all-electric future that is inclusive and accessible to all. At the heart of this strategy is the Ultium battery platform, which powers everything from mass-market to high-performance vehicles. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Baojun and Wuling brands. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety and security services, can be found at https://www.gm.com.
1INRIX helps make mobility greener by, for example, optimizing traffic lights using INRIX Signal Analytics to shorten traffic delays thereby reducing vehicular emissions. See more here: https://inrix.com/press-releases/signal-analytics-agencies
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President Bush at the dedication of Flight 93 Memorial last night (get your kleenex).
Go here, click "complete file" and watch this interview with Major Heather Penney, one of the jet pilots sent to intercept Flight 93 had Todd Beamer and his confreres not changed things up. Fast forward to about the 20 minute mark and listen to her tell you they had no missiles aboard (no time to mount them), so they were going to ram the plane. (Curtsy: American Digest). So much heroism from so many quarters.
To my Venerable Brother
The Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan
President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
On this day my thoughts turn to the somber events of September 11, 2001, when so many innocent lives were lost in the brutal assault on the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the further attacks in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. I join you in commending
the thousands of victims to the infinite mercy of Almighty God and in
asking our heavenly Father to continue to console those who mourn the
loss of loved ones.
The tragedy of that day is compounded by the perpetrators' claim to be acting in God's name. Once again, it must be unequivocally stated that no circumstances can ever justify acts of terrorism. Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the
attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the
inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.
The American people are to be commended for the courage and generosity that they showed in the rescue operations and for their resilience in moving
forward with hope and confidence. It is my fervent prayer that a firm
commitment to justice and a global culture of solidarity will help rid
the world of the grievances that so often give rise to acts of violence
and will create the conditions for greater peace and prosperity,
offering a brighter and more secure future.
With these sentiments, I extend my
most affectionate greetings to you, your brother Bishops and all those
entrusted to your pastoral care, and I gladly impart my Apostolic
Blessing as a pledge of peace and serenity in the Lord,
From the Vatican, September 11, 2011
Iconic photos of the day. Islam showed itself that day; so did Catholicism.

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Course Overview
This course teaches the knowledge, skills and practical experience required to set up and configure a basic Aruba WLAN utilizing the OS 8.X architecture and features. Using lecture and labs, this course provides the technical understanding and hands-on experience of configuring a single Mobility Master with one controller and AP Aruba WLAN. Participants will learn how to use Aruba hardware and ArubaOS to install and build a complete, secure controller network with multiple SSIDs. This course provides the underlying material required to prepare candidates for the Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA) V8 certification exam.
Who should attend
Typical candidates for this course are IT Professionals who deploy small-to-medium scale enterprise network solutions based on Aruba products and technologies.
Wireless fundamentals at the Wireless Fundamentals 1 (WFUN1) course level
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
- Explain how Aruba's wireless networking solutions meet customers' requirements
- Explain fundamental WLAN technologies, RF concepts, and 802.11 Standards
- Learn to configure the Mobility Master and Mobility Controller to control access to the Employee and Guest WLAN
- Control secure access to the WLAN using Aruba Firewall Policies and Roles
- Recognize and explain Radio Frequency Bands and channels, and the standards used to regulate them
- Describe the concept of radio frequency coverage and interference and successful implementation and diagnosis of WLAN systems
- Identify and differentiate antenna technology options to ensure optimal coverage in various deployment scenarios
- Describe RF power technology including, signal strength, how it is measured and why it is critical in designing wireless networks
- Learn to configure and optimize Aruba ARM and Client Match features
- Learn how to perform network monitoring functions and troubleshooting
Follow On Courses
Course Content
WLAN Fundamentals
- Describes the fundamentals of 802.11, RF frequencies and channels
- Explain RF Patterns and coverage including SNR
- Roaming Standards and QOS requirements
Mobile First Architecture
- An introduction to Aruba Products including controller types and modes
- OS 8.X Architecture and features
- License types and distribution
Mobility Master Mobility Controller Configuration
- An introduction to Aruba Products including controller types and modes
- OS 8.X Architecture and features
- License types and distribution
Secure WLAN configuration
- Identifying WLAN requirements such as SSID name, encryption, authentication
- Explain AP groups structure and profiles
- Configuration of WLAN using the Mobility Master GUI
AP Provisioning
- Describes the communication between AP and Mobility controller
- Explain the AP booting sequence and requirements
- Explores the APs controller discovery mechanisms
- Explains how to secure AP to controller communication using CPSec
- Describes AP provisioning and operations
WLAN Security
- Describes the 802.11 discovery, authentication and association
- Explores the various authentication methods, 802.1x with WPA/WPA2, Mac auth
- Describes the authentication server communication
- Explains symmetric vs asymmetric Keys, encryption methods
- WIPS is described along with rogue discovery and protection
Firewall Roles and Policies
- An introduction into Firewall Roles and policies
- Explains Aruba's Identity based Firewall
- Configuration of Policies and Rules including aliases
- Explains how to assign Roles to users
Dynamic RF Management
- Explain how ARM calibrates the network selecting channels and power settings
- Explores the new OS 8.X Airmatch to calibrate the network
- How Client match steers clients to better APs
Guest Access
- Introduces Aruba's solutions for Guest Access and the Captive portal process
- Configuration of secure guest access using the internal Captive portal
- The configuration of Captive portal using Clearpass and its benefits
- Creating a guest provisioning account
- Troubleshooting guest access
Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Using the MM dashboard to monitor and diagnose client, WLAN and AP issues
- Traffic analysis using APPrf with filtering capabilities
- A view of Airwaves capabilities for monitoring and diagnosing client, WLAN and AP issues


text: modify it (to make it work correctly), than to insist on a first solution completely free of defects. E. Expert Consulting Systems AI methods have also been employed in the development of automatic consulting systems. These systems provide human users with expert conclusions about specialized subject areas. Automatic consulting systems have been built that can diagnose diseases, evaluate potential ore deposits, suggest structures for complex organic chemicals, and even provide advice about how to use other computer systems. A key problem in the development of expert consulting systems is how to represent and use the knowledge that human experts in these subjects obviously possess and use. This problem is made more difficult by the fact that the expert knowledge in many important fields is often imprecise, uncertain, or anecdotal (though human experts use such knowledge to arrive at useful conclusions). Many expert consulting systems employ the AI technique of rule-based deduction. In such systems, expert knowledge is represented as a large set of simple rules, and these rules are used to guide the dialogue between the system and the user and to deduce conclusions. Rule-based deduction is one of the major topics in Nilsson's book. F. Natural Language Processing When humans communicate with each other using language, they employ, almost effortlessly, extremely complex and still little understood processes. It has been very difficult to develop computer systems capable of generating and "understanding" even fragments of a natural language, such as English. One source of the difficulty is that language has evolved as a communication medium between intelligent beings. Its primary purpose is to transmit a bit of "mental structure" from one brain to another under circumstances in which each brain possesses large, highly similar surrounding mental structures that serve as a common context. Furthermore, part of these similar, contextual mental structures allows each brain to know that the other brain also possesses this common structure and that the other brain can and will perform certain processes using it during its communication "acts." The evolution of language use has apparently exploited the opportunity for each brain to use its considerable computational resources and shared knowledge to generate and understand highly condensed and streamlined messages: A word to the wise from the wise is sufficient. Thus, generating and understanding language is an encoding and decoding problem of fantastic complexity. A computer system capable of understanding a message in natural language would seem, then, to require (no less than would a human) both the contextual knowledge and the processes for making the inferences (from this contextual knowledge and from the message) assumed by the message generator. Some progress has been made toward computer systems of this sort, for understanding spoken and written fragments of language. Fundamental to the development of such systems are certain AI ideas about structures for representing contextual knowledge and certain techniques for making inferences from that knowledge. Although Nilsson's book does not treat the language-processing problem in detail, it does describe some important methods for knowledge representation and processing that do find application in language-processing systems. G. Intelligent Retrieval From Databases Database systems are computer systems that store a large body of facts about some subject in such a way that they can be used to answer user's questions about that subject. To take a specific example, suppose the facts are the personnel records of a large corporation. Example items in such a database might be representations for such facts as "Joe Smith works in the Purchasing Department," "Joe Smith was hired on October 8, 1976," "The Purchasing Department has 17 employees," "John Jones is the manager of the Purchasing Department," etc. The design of database systems is an active subspecialty of computer science, and many techniques have been developed to enable the efficient representation, storage, and retrieval of large numbers of facts. From our point of view, the subject becomes interesting when we want to retrieve answers that require deductive reasoning with the facts in the database. There are several problems that confront the designer of such an intelligent information retrieval system. First, there is the immense problem of building a system that can understand queries stated in a natural language like English. Second, even the language-understanding problem is dodged by specifying some formal, machine-understandable query language, the problem remains of how to deduce answers from stored facts. Third, understanding the query and deducing an answer may require knowledge beyond that explicitly represented in the subject domain database. Common knowledge (typically omitted in the subject domain database) is often required. For example, from the personnel facts mentioned above, an intelligent system ought to be able to deduce the answer "John Jones" to the query "Who is Joe Smith's boss?" Such a system would have to know somehow that the manager of a department is the boss of the people who work in that department. How common knowledge should be represented and used is one of the system design problems that invites the methods of Artificial Intelligence. H. Theorem Proving Finding a proof (or disproof) for a conjectured theorem in mathematics can certainly be regarded as an intellectual task. Not only does it require the ability to make deductions from hypotheses but it also demands intuitive skills such as guessing about which lemmas should be proved first in order to help prove the main theorem. A skilled mathematician uses what he might call judgment (based on a large amount of specialized knowledge) to guess accurately about which previously proven theorems in a subject area will be useful in the present proof and to break his main problem down into subproblems to work on independently. Several automatic theorem proving programs have been developed that possess some of these same skills to a limited degree. The study of theorem proving has been of significant value in the development of AI methods. The formalization of the deductive process using the language of predicate logic, for example, helps us to understand more clearly some of the components of reasoning. Many informal tasks, including medical diagnosis and information retrieval, can be formalized as theorem-proving problems. For these reasons, theorem proving is an extremely important topic in the study of AI methods. I. Social Impact4 The impact of computers, machine intelligence, and robotics must be examined in the broader context of their impact on society as a whole, rather than the narrower focus based on NASA needs and applications. The impact of information processing technology (and machine intelligence and robotics) on society has been considered in detail by Simon. Here we present the conclusions derived by him. The reader is referred to Simon's book for details of the reasoning and evidence that led to the conclusions presented here. This subsection is based on material presented in The New Science of Management Decision, revised edition, by Herbert A. Simon, PrenticeHall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1977. The Study Group would like to thank Professor Simon and Prentice-Hall for their kind permission for the use of the material. The reader is referred to Chapters 3 and 5 of the book for detailed discussions that lead to the conclusions presented here. 1. The Dehumanization - Alienation Hypothesis There has been a great deal of nervousness, and some prophetic gloom, about human work in highly automated organizations. An examination of such empirical evidence, and an analysis of the arguments that have been advanced for a major impact of automation upon the nature of work has led us to a largely negative result. There is little evidence for the thesis that job satisfaction has declined in recent years, or that the alienation of workers has increased. Hence, such trends, being nonexistent, cannot be attributed to automation, past or prospective. Trends toward lower trust in government and other social institutions flow from quite different causes. An examination of the actual changes that have taken place in clerical jobs as the result of introducing computers indicates that these changes have been modest in magnitude and mixed in direction. The surest consequence of factory and office automation is that it is shifting the composition of the labor force away from those occupations in which average job satisfaction has been lowest, toward occupations in which it has been higher. The argument that organizations are becoming more authoritarian and are stifling human creativity flies in the face of long-term trends in our society toward the weakening of authority relations. Moreover, the psychological premises on which the argument rests are suspect. Far more plausible is the thesis that human beings perform best, most creatively, and with greatest comfort in environments that provide them with some immediate amount of structure, including the structure that derives from involvement in authority relations. Just where the golden mean lies is hard to say, but there is no evidence that we are drifting farther from it. Finally, while we certainly live in a world that is subject to continuing change, there is reason to believe that the changes we are undergoing are psychologically no more stressful, and perhaps even less, stressful, than those that our parents and grandparents experienced. It appears that the human consequences we may expect from factory and office automation are relatively modest in magnitude, that they will come about gradually, and that they will bring us both disadvantages and advantages - with the latter possibly outweighing the former. 2. The Potential for Increased Unemployment Simon presents evidence that any level of technology and productivity is compatible with any level of employment, including full employment. He suggests that the problems we face today will not cause us to retreat from high technology for such a retreat would not be consistent with meeting the needs of the world's population - but that they will bring about a substantial qualitative shift in the nature of our continuing technological progress. For future increases in human productivity, we will look more to the informationprocessing technologies than to the energy technologies. Because of resource limitations and because of shifting patterns of demand with rising real incomes, a larger fraction of the labor force than at present will be engaged in producing services, and a smaller fraction will be engaged in producing goods. But there is no reason to believe that we will experience satiety of either goods or services at full employment levels. 3. The Impact on Resources and Environment Technology is knowledge and information-processing technology is knowledge of how to produce and use knowledge more effectively. Modern instruments those, for example, that allow us to detect trace quantities of contaminants in air, water, and food - inform us about consequences of our actions of which we were previously ignorant. Computers applied to the modeling of our energy and environmental systems trace out for us the indirect effects of actions taken in one part of our society upon other parts. Informationprocessing technology is causing all of us to take account of the consequences of our actions over spans of time and space that seldom concerned us in the past. It is placing on us — perhaps forcing on us - the responsibilities of protecting future generations as well as our own. In this way, the new technology, the new knowledge, is helping to redefine the requirements of morality in human affairs. J. Conclusion In this section we have attempted to provide a broad introductory tutorial to AI. Detailed discussion of the methods and techniques of AI and the wide range of problem domains in which they have been applied is given in various survey articles by Minsky (1963), Newell (1969), Nilsson (1974), and Feigenbaum (1978) all of which appear as Appendixes B to E of this report. Appendix F (Newell, 1970) discusses the relationship between artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. (The book, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by Patrick H. Winston, also provides an excellent introduction to the field.) NASA Needs NASA is, to a significant degree, an agency devoted to the acquisition, processing, and analysis of information -- about the Earth, the solar system, the stars, and the universe. The principal goal of NASA's booster and space vehicle commitment is to acquire such scientific information for the benefit of the human species. As the years have passed and NASA has mustered an impressive array of successful missions, the complexity of each mission has increased as the instrumentation and scientific objectives have become more sophisticated; and the amount of data returned has also increased dramatically. The Mariner 4 mission to Mars in 1965 was considered a striking success when it returned a few million bits of information. The Viking mission to Mars, launched a decade later, acquired almost ten thousand times more information. Comparable advances have been made in Earth resources and meteorological satellites, and across the full range of NASA activities. At the present time, the amount of data made available by NASA missions is larger than scientists can comfortably sift through. This is true, for example, of Landsat and other Earth resources technology satellite missions. A typical information acquisition rate in the 1980s is about 1012 bits per day for all NASA systems. In two years, this is roughly the total nonpictorial information content of the Library of Congress. The problem is clearly getting much worse. We have reached a severe limitation in the traditional way of acquiring and analyzing data. A recent study at JPL estimates that NASA could save 1.5 billion dollars per year by A.D. 2000 through serious implementation of machine intelligence. Given different assumptions, the saving might be several times less or several times more. It is clear, however, that the efficiency of NASA activities in bits of information per dollar and in new data acquisition opportunities would be very high were NASA to utilize the full range of modern computer science in its missions. Because of the enormous current and expected advances in machine intelligence and computer science, it seems possible that NASA could achieve orders-of-magnitude improvement in mission effectiveness at reduced cost by the 1990s. Modern computer systems, if appropriately adapted, are expected to be fully capable of extracting relevant data either onboard the spacecraft or on the ground in user-compatible format. Thus, the desired output might be a direct graphic display of snow cover, or crop health, or global albedo, or mineral resources, or storm system development, or hydrologic cycle. With machine intelligence and modern computer graphics, an immense amount of data can be analyzed and reduced to present the scientific or technological results directly in a convenient form. This sort of data-winnowing and content analysis is becoming possible, using the developing techniques of machine intelligence. But it is likely to remain unavailable unless considerably more relevant research and systems development is undertaken by NASA. The cost of ground operations of spacecraft missions and the number of operations per command uplinked from ground to spacecraft are increasing dramatically (Figures 3-1 and 3-2). Further development of automation can, at the same time, dramatically decrease the operations costs of complex missions and dramatically increase the number and kinds of tasks performed, and therefore, the significance of the data returned. Figures 3-3 and 3-4 illustrate schematically how improved automation can produce a significant decline in the cost of mission operations. The projected reallocation of responsibility during mission operations between ground-based humans and spacecraft computer processing is shown in Figure 3-5. There are many simple or repetitive tasks which existing machine intelligence technology is fully capable of dealing with more reliably and less expensively than if human beings were in the loop. This, in turn, frees human experts for more difficult judgmental tasks. In addition, existing and projected advances in robot technology would largely supplant the need for manned missions, with a substantial reduction in cost. RELATIVE COST PER GROUND COMMAND OPERATIONS PER COMAND AUTONOMOUS MISSION CONTROL 1.0 Figure 3-2. Trend of spacecraft automation. As a relative indicator, the level of automation is measured by the different elementary functions the spacecraft can perform in an unpredictable environment between ground commands. A 100-fold improvement through advanced automation is projected by the year 2000. Figure 3-3. TOTAL NUMBER OF DECISIONS PER OPERATION RELATIVE COST PER MISSION OPERATION Figure 3-4. 10 1968 100 1975 DECISIONS MADE BY MACHINE 1986 Trend of cost to generate ground commands. A four-fold improvement through advanced automation is projected by the year 2000 through (1) performing more ground functions on the spacecraft, and (2) automating the remaining functions on the ground. Figure 3-5. Trend of function (decision) allocation between humans and spacecraft. 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Critiquing Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Studies
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Assignment: Critiquing Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Studies
Critiquing the validity and robustness of research featured in journal articles provides a critical foundation for engaging in evidence-based practice. In Weeks 5 and 6, you explored quantitative research designs. In Week 7, you will examine qualitative and mixed methods research designs. For this Assignment, which is due by Day 7 of Week 7, you critique a quantitative and either a qualitative or a mixed methods research study and compare the types of information obtained in each.
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- Select a health topic of interest to you that is relevant to your current area of practice. The topic may be your Course Portfolio Project or a different topic of your choice.
- Using the Walden Library, locate two articles in scholarly journals that deal with your portfolio topic: 1) Select one article that utilizes a quantitative research design and 2) select a second article that utilizes either a qualitative OR a mixed methods design. These need to be single studies not systematic or integrative reviews (including meta-analysis and metasynthesis). You may use research articles from your reference list. If you cannot find these two types of research on your portfolio topic, you may choose another topic.
- Locate the following documents in this week's Learning Resources to access the appropriate templates, which will guide your critique of each article:
- Critique Template for a Qualitative Study
- Critique Template for a Quantitative Study
- Critique Template for a Mixed-Methods Study
- Consider the fields in the templates as you review the information in each article. Begin to draft a paper in which you analyze the two research approaches as indicated below. Reflect on the overall value of both quantitative and qualitative research. If someone were to say to you, "Qualitative research is not real science," how would you respond?
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- Complete the two critiques using the appropriate templates.
- Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
- Contrast the types of information that you gained from examining the two different research approaches in the articles that you selected.
- Describe the general advantages and disadvantages of the two research approaches featured in the articles. Use examples from the articles for support.
- Formulate a response to the claim that qualitative research is not real science. Highlight the general insights that both quantitative and qualitative studies can provide to researchers. Support your response with references to the Learning Resources and other credible sources.


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HIGH SCHOOL II is a film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95% of whose graduates go on to four year colleges. The film illustrates the school's emphasis on the "Habits of Mind" program (weighing evidence; awareness of multiple points of view; seeing connections and relationships; speculating on possibilities; and assessing values.) Sequences illustrating the school's approach to learning include: classroom activities in the humanities and sciences; family conferences; discussions of race, class, and gender; faculty meetings; disciplinary problems; sex education; conflict resolution by students; and student council meetings.
HIGH SCHOOL II portrays CPESS with its predominantly black and Hispanic student body as a font of nurturing and learning. Classes are small with loads of student/teacher interaction.
–Lewis Beale, Daily News
Wiseman's method fits perfectly with the school's approach to teaching. Again and again, you hear the staff of Central Park East ask the students to fill out their statements, to add detail, to provide more evidence. That's exactly what Wiseman does devotedly and brilliantly.
–Stuart Klawans, The Nation
Mr. Wiseman is now a master of the epic documentary. (CPESS)… urges its students, a multiracial mix that includes political organizers and teen-age parents, to talk, listen and think for themselves.
–Caryn James, The New York Times
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Is your small business thriving? Do customers from out of town ask if you're going to open another location in their neck of the woods? Are you secretly yearning for a new challenge now that your business is running so smoothly? If you can answer "yes" to all these questions, it might be time to consider franchising your business.
But there are a few other questions you need to answer to determine if you're ready to get serious about franchising your business.
Ask yourself:
Does my business have strong systems in place?
A good franchise has operational systems and processes that can be standardized and taught to other people to provide a consistent product or service across all locations. For example, if you own a sandwich shop, do you have a written system for all the steps of making a sandwich, such as:
- Whether to put on gloves first
- How much meat, cheese, mayonnaise, and other ingredients to use (such as "two ounces" or "one tablespoon")
- The order in which to assemble the items
- How to wrap and package the sandwich
It may sound picky, but these are the kinds of things that can make or break a franchise. If different franchisees make sandwiches differently, here's what can happen:
- Your sandwiches won't be consistent, which will hurt your brand.
- The locations that aren't consistent about measuring ingredients will be less profitable.
- Without a standard process, sandwich assembly will take longer, hurting the customer experience.
An employee handbook and an operations manual are essentials before you even think about franchising.
Do I need to be there for my business to work?
This is a common issue with service businesses, especially if you started out as a one-person business. If you are a consultant, graphic designer, or masseuse whose clients only want to work with you, it doesn't matter how many people outside your location ask for your services—there's only one of you, and you can only spread yourself so thin.
To prep for franchising, start training employees to provide the same services you do. Then start easing your customers into working with your team instead of directly with you. You can do this by charging more for your personal services (as many hair salon owners do) or assigning new customers to employees while continuing to service the long-time customers.
Do I chafe at following rules and regulations?
There's a lot of red tape involved in franchising. You'll be required to follow both state and federal laws regarding franchises. For example, the FTC's Franchise Rule requires franchisors to give prospective franchisees a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). This lengthy legal document provides information about 23 specific areas of the franchise, including:
- Initial and ongoing costs
- Any litigation the franchisor has been involved in
- List of franchise outlets and current and former franchisees
- Financial statements for the past three years
- Your obligations as a franchisor (i.e., the services you'll provide, such as training or advertising support)
- How renewal, termination, transfer, and dispute resolution will be handled
Get the full list of items required in the FDD.
Creating and preparing these documents requires legal assistance that can be time-consuming and costly. If you don't have the patience or budget to handle this part of the process, you may not be ready for franchising.
Is there a market for my concept?
A business idea that is successful in one city or state (such as Hawaiian shaved ice) may not translate to other parts of the U.S. where consumers aren't familiar with it. Before you start franchising, do your homework and ask:
- Is my concept well-known in this part of the country, or will I have to educate consumers on what I'm selling?
- Is there enough of my target customer base in the regions I'm considering?
- Do these regions have a good supply of potential franchisees? For example, if your concept requires white-collar management experience, franchising in big cities might yield more franchisees than in a rural area.
Is my business in good shape financially?
It's recommended to have at least three successful locations up and running smoothly and profitably before you contemplate franchising. Opening multiple locations will help you understand what's involved in getting new locations up to speed.
You'll also need sufficient working capital to:
- Develop all the necessary legal documents
- Market your concept to potential franchisees via advertising and trade shows
- Hire salespeople to sell the franchises
- Provide training and ongoing support to new franchisees
All of this can easily add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. If you can't finance this internally, seek outside sources of financing.
Do I like managing people?
If you love the hands-on aspects of your business, be prepared to wave goodbye to it as a franchisor. Instead of dealing with the day-to-day operations of one location, you'll take on the role of a corporate manager. You'll be responsible for things like:
- Searching out new areas for franchise expansion
- Developing marketing plans for your franchise concept
- Assessing prospective franchisees
- Training new franchisees
- Providing franchisees with ongoing support
If you don't want to switch into this management-oriented role, you'll need to promote or hire a trusted manager who can lead your franchising efforts.
Does franchising sound like the best path for you? If so, your SCORE mentor can help you decide if it's realistic and get you on the journey to success.
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Posted: - Modified: | cooking, sketchesI spent Saturday at Lee Valley's Women and Power Tools seminar. In the process of building a toolbox, we got to use a circular saw, a mitre saw, a table saw, a jigsaw, a band saw, a drill press, routers (both fixed and hand-held), a belt sander, a palm sander, and a portable drill. W- and I used a circular saw, a jigsaw, and a portable drill to build our Muskoka chairs, but I wanted to try out the stationary power tools like the table saw and the drill press. We haven't set up a permanent workshop, so all of our tools have to be portable enough to set up on the deck.
The class was lots of fun. I enjoyed meeting other women who were interested in woodworking. Our two instructors were both great role models: passionate, experienced, and engaged. I'm looking forward to seeing the list of autumn classes at Lee Valley's and learning more.
I'm happy with the toolbox I built. The sides aren't perfectly matched and the wood has knots, but the toolbox holds together, and the little buttons that cover the sunken screws are so cute. =)
I really liked the drill press, the belt/orbital sander, and the table saw. I think our next major tool investment might be a portable table saw, if W- and I find one that we're happy with. But we'll buy that only if we get into serious carpentry, like building cabinets. The folding table I've got on my to-build list should be doable with the tools that we have.
One of my classmates is into sewing, gardening, and woodworking too. Yay! =) Maybe she'll come to one of my tea parties? I'd love to connect with other crafters.
On Sunday, I invited Maira to come over and try batch-cooking. The kitchen at her sublet apartment is small and sparsely equipped. W- and I both enjoy cooking, and we have a decently-stocked kitchen. So Maira and I spent three hours cooking up a storm: lemon refrigerator cookies, baked chicken, and chicken with mushroom sauce. There was a lot of food. Maira took home a week or two of meals, and we stashed the rest in the chest freezer.
I'm glad I invited her to come and cook with me. It's great to try new recipes and realize they're not so scary, and company turns cooking into a conversation. If cooking batches works for her, then she can repeat the recipes or try new ones and manage her time more efficiently. (I spent many student days living off pans of lasagna I made for myself!) I also repotted some of my parsley for her. The large bunches of parsley in the supermarket made Maira feel bad about the potential waste, but growing parsley will let her harvest a little bit at a time.
After we dropped Maira off, we passed by Walmart to see if they had any sergers in stock. I'd like to get a serger to finish my edges more cleanly and do better rolled hems, but it's hard to decide which one to buy. The Walmart at Dufferin Mall had two Singer 14CG74 sergers in stock. The Brother 1034D is highly recommended, but I haven't found out where to buy it in Toronto. W- volunteered to help me do research and check out Craigslist, which is terrific because he's really good at doing that kind of comparison shopping.
I offered to make him a green monster (vegetable smoothie), but I dropped the blender and the plastic shattered. It was the low-end blender I'd bought during my student days, so I wasn't troubled by it. After some research, W- and I bought a KitchenAid blender from Home Outfitters. It turned out to be $50 cheaper to order the blender from FutureShop, so I'll call Home Outfitters after the long weekend to find out if they'll match the lower price.
As W- reminded me, a blender in hand might beat two in the mail. ;)
I'm starting to like these vegetable smoothies. They took some getting used to when we first made them, but the frozen strawberries and blueberries make them almost a treat, and we go through so much more spinach (and even kale!) than we do if we just have salad.
In other news: you know, this drawing thing is fun. I find it more fun than taking and posting pictures, even. Why haven't I been doing this more often? Maybe because I've been writing about these abstract things that don't suggest images, but that's a good exercise for the imagination. Perhaps I can write these slice-of-life posts from time to time. I like playing with colour and ink when I draw on my computer… =)


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Housing block with post office for Eigen Haard
Detail of support beam for balcony on north facade; This five-storey building with 102 dwellings, a post office (2 storeys), a meeting hall for residents and the annexed school is the best example of what was termed a "worker's palace" in Amsterdam. There are 18 different floor plans for the units. In 1917 the housing association Eigen Haard commissioned de Klerk again for a block in the Spaarndammerbuurt neighborhood. A few years earlier a school had been built near the triangular site on Oostzannstraat and de Klerk was required to include it in the plan. At the apex of the triangle is the post office, resembling a huge piece of sculpture. De Klerk also designed the interior of the post office; the counters, seats and even telephone booth. At the center of the triangular block are private gardens and the school playground. It is not by chance that all the formal comparisons for the building, ranging from ship to locomotive, suggest, together with associations with movement and power, an organic entity with identifiable components. Today the Museum Het Schip is housed in the post office, with an extension in the school. Source: Casciato, Maristella, ed.; The Amsterdam School, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1996 (9064502463) (accessed 6/10/2014)
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architecture, City planning, social housing, public housing, Brick Expressionism, Amsterdam school, Twentieth century, Expressionist
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Joe Francis (1933-1994), founder of The Barbers Corporation was the quintessential self-made man who never forgot his early struggles and continuously looked for ways to help others find opportunities in the salon business. To memorialize his life and achievements, The Joe Francis Haircare Cosmetology Scholarship Foundation was established in 1994 by his wife of 39 years, Flo Francis, and the many people whom he advised and mentored to their own success in the industry.
Joe began his career as a shoeshine boy for a local barber school in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His labors eventually led him to enroll as a barber student at the age of 17, and he set a record as the youngest Barber to get his license in the State of Minnesota. His entrepreneurial spirit flourished and in 1963, he built his first state-of-the-art hair salon. In 1970, Joe Francis was the first in the industry to franchise through his publicly-traded company, The Barbers Hairstyling for Men and Women, Inc. The company enjoyed great success and by 2000 had established over 1,000 hair salons throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia.


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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, for the latest installment in the popular SimCity video game franchise, which was released this week to massive sales, and then just as quickly, an epic fail as the paying customers were unable to play the game they just bought. The culprit isn't the game itself, which by most accounts is pretty good; no, the problem is the game's DRM scheme.
That software requires each user to maintain an "always online" connection to the publisher's authentication server—even for single player mode—but the publisher, Electronic Arts, is having trouble keeping that server available. Even if you connected, the double helping of fail continued: all cities are saved to the cloud, and if the servers bug out, hours of work can go up in smoke faster than Godzilla can decimate a metropolis. No more local saves, lest you manage to defeat the DRM.
EA has had so many problems, in fact, that it's temporarily disabled the kinds of features that might actually benefit from an online connection. You know, the very reason that the online connection was supposed to be a "feature" for users. As a result users are currently suffering through all of the headaches of buggy DRM without any of the upsides of being online.
This story may sound familiar. That's because SimCity is just the latest big flop for DRM, which hurts consumers, undermines innovation and competition, and unnecessarily preempts users' fair use rights — all without having a real effect on "piracy." Last year's blockbuster game Diablo III suffered from many of the same problems. And another publisher, Ubisoft, insisted on using "always online" DRM for all of their top titles for years, before finally accepting that it was harming legitimate purchasers without slowing down the "pirates" at all. In fact, unauthorized copies of the games had removed the need to maintain a constant connection with the authentication servers, making the playing experience better in some cases. Publishers may disagree about the solution to problems posed by unauthorized copying and the challenges of "competing with free," but surely the first step in that competition is not making the legitimate product worse than the free one.
In the few days since the new Sim City's launch, the game has racked up over 1,000 1-star reviews on Amazon, followed by its temporary suspension from the store. An online petition aimed at Electronic Arts dropping its "always online" DRM from Sim City and future games has racked up 35,000 signatures and counting. A Reddit AMA with the developers was dominated by disgust for the DRM. Clearly, the decision to include DRM on this title has been a major problem for Electronic Arts, but the underlying problem is much larger.
DRM's Ugly History
Even outside of the world of video games, DRM's got an ugly history of upsetting consumers and even leading to legal action. The most notorious may be Sony's inclusion of a rootkit on music CDs — essentially a malware tool — that raised major security and privacy concerns among CD buyers.
Since then, music companies have mostly seen the light and dropped DRM, but other media lag behind. Ebooks, for example, are largely sold wrapped in the digital locks, though a few forward-thinking publishers have seen good results dropping it. The movie studios are working hard to push the latest DRM-laden movie format, a physical/digital combination called UltraViolet, but early reviews are in and not very positive.
And the troubles with DRM are not limited to reducing access in bits and pieces — it can extend to disabling content altogether. When the company running the authentication server decides the maintenance costs are too high, it can flick a switch and render the content useless. This isn't hypothetical, either: Google, for example, killed its video offerings after buying YouTube, making previously purchased videos unplayable. Electronic Arts itself regularly announces which games it will be turning off for legitimate users.
DRM's Evil Henchman: DMCA 1201
While DRM software is busy keeping you from freely using all the content you legitimately bought, the worst kept secret in the industry is that it always gets broken. And of course, once it is broken even once, DRM-free copies become available for unauthorized download. So in order to give this ineffective software some legal teeth, the content industry pushed for a law that became section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Section 1201 regulates the circumvention of "access control measures" like DRM. Never mind that there is already law that covers actual infringement; because of section 1201, bypassing DRM systems even for noninfringing fair uses might get you targeted for a lawsuit. This is the same law that might affect cell phone unlocking, a rule that the Obama administration has said is out of line with common sense.
Congress knew an outright ban on circumvention tools wasn't workable, so it included a process for the Librarian of Congress to establish some temporary exemptions. EFF has worked to put some important exemptions in place, but those must be renewed every three years. The process is time-consuming and difficult, and as we explained before the 2006 rulemaking, "fundamentally broken."
No wonder, then, that there's a growing movement to fix this part of the DMCA. You can join EFF and a number of other groups on a campaign to called Fix the DMCA that targets section 1201 for reform or repeal.
What Can Users Do?
Video game players frustrated with the DRM situation can vote with their thumbs, sending a message by rejecting games that come tangled up with anti-consumer software. The success of sales platforms like Humble Bundle — which sells collections of DRM-free games and supports EFF with a user-determined portion of the proceeds, and is offering a new bundle now — demonstrates that companies can have success and respect their users at the same time.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Steve King, one of the most conservative members of Congress and a harsh critic of immigration, has questioned the contributions to civilization of groups of people who aren't white.
During an appearance Monday on MSNBC from the site of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, King responded to comments on the racial makeup of the convention crowd, which is largely white.
"This whole old white people business does get a little tired," he said. "I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you're talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?"
When asked by host Chris Hayes whether he meant contributions by "white people," King made a more general statement. King said he was referring to "Western civilization itself, that's rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That's all of Western civilization," he said.
The comments sparked a heated response from Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan and Esquire writer Charles Pierce, who were also on the panel. Hayes quickly moved on with the segment after noting that, "If you're looking at the ledger of Western civilization, for every flourishing democracy, you have Hitler and Stalin as well."
In a later conversation between Ryan and Hayes on Periscope , Ryan said she was "kind of shaken" by what she described as King's "in my face racism." Hayes said he thought during the segment that a debate on "what's the best race" would be "preposterous."
A spokeswoman for King hasn't responded to a request for comment on the congressman's remarks.


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Genetically Modified Organism foods are a "hot" topic these days. Several studies have been completed in the last few months and the reports released . Some of these reports find that GMO food has greats benefits attached. Others blame GMO-foods for a variety of human ills. I am not a "bible thumper" on the subject, but I think it is important for health conscious people dedicated to whole food plant-based diets to be aware of what is going on and what the issues are.
Over 40 countries require GMO labeling as a consumer's right to know. The United States is not among them. As awareness starts to grow in the US, consumers have a lot of questions. They want to know what GMO foods are, if they should be concerned, and how to avoid them. Those who believe them to be dangerous want to know what they can do. This very simple primer is designed to distill the basics.


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Zion's Call by Jeremy Maughan
1830's LDS Historical Fiction
Howard Egan has left his life at sea to try his hand at the new america. A dream of owning land and a better life for himself. More than anything he wants to find a woman to spend this new life together. To his surprise he finds her on his first day on shore. He just didn't expect her to be so beautiful or to be so harsh.
Thrown into the middle of a political firestorm between a Mormon missionary and local business men. Tasked with being the Mormon's Bodyguard Howard has to find a way to secure his love, fulfill his duty and keep himself and the Mormon alive.
Howard spoke up. "Ladies."
The three turned to face him. The woman in the center gave him an exasperated look. "Pardon me?" she asked. "Did you speak to us?" She looked him up and down. She gave a little click of her tongue and looked on unapprovingly.
Howard was taken aback by her harsh tone. He struggled to get words out, "Yes. "He stammered, "I wanted to meet you." he said slowly so he could be understood. He cursed his swollen tongue.
The girl on the left giggled a little, the one in the middle gave her a rueful glance before looking back at Howard. She frowned. "Do you always speak like you have a mouth full of marbles? Are boots a foreign concept from where you're from?"
Howard started to turn red. He didn't expect to be talked down to by this woman or any other. His anger started to rise. "I just wanted to meet you and get your name."
"A little forward aren't you sir? I don't think you gave me yours, for starters."
"My apologies ladies. I am Howard." He said putting one hand to his breast.
The girl on the left raised her eyebrows, waiting for more. "Just Howard? Are we to call you Mr. Howard?" she asked.
He looked at the other girl. Are all girls of Salem so forked tongued, he thought, or just these? "Sorry, Howard Egan." He again found his name difficult to pronounce correctly.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Egan" the girl on the right said.
"I don't know about that," the black haired girl said. "Come, ladies."
The three turned to go.
Howard took a step closer. "I didn't get your names." He didn't want them to leave.
They turned again. The girl in the middle tapped her toe lightly on the cobble stones. "No, and you didn't earn the right." She paused to look him over again. "Clean up. Stop fighting and some day you will get to. But not today."
She looked up at the wagon and saw the man sitting there. She nodded quickly to him and said, "Good day Mr. Chisholm. How is Mrs. Chisholm?"
"Good day to you too. She is doing well. You will have to come by sometime for pie. She so does love your company." Mr. Chisholm replied.
"I just might do that."
She turned and looked at Howard. He felt he was being judged, like a pig at the fair.
"Do you know this man?" she asked,
"I do. I have agreed to take him on as an apprentice."
She inspected him one more time and looked back at Mr. Chisholm. "Well you must see something I don't then."
"I suspect my wife will feel the same way." "Good Day, Mr. Chisholm" She inclined her head. Her friends did the same. The curls framing the black haired girl's face bounced as she nodded. "It was a pleasure seeing you. I will take you up on your wife's pies."
They turned to leave, leaving Howard standing dumbstruck in the road.
Mr. Chisholm looked down and saw Howard was still watching the women walk away. He laughed and called to Howard to climb back on. Once he was back on the wagon, Howard asked, "Who is that girl?"
"I don't know if it is my place to tell you. She made it pretty clear she didn't want you to know her name. As well as I can remember, she has always been like that." Mr. Chisholm replied.
Author Jeremy Maughan
Jeremy Maughan a seventh generation member of the LDS Church, was born February 1978 in Provo Utah. As a young man he had a passion for reading. One of his fondest memories is laying on the back on his parents boat reading for days at Lake Powell. He would spend days reading Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, David Eddings,Terry Pratchett and many of great fantasy writers. He says that the only way he passed English in high school was because his teachers allowed him to turn in book reports as extra credit.
After High School Jeremy attended Devry Institute of Technology and studied to become a programmer. After two semesters he dropped out, having already landed a great programming job. He didn't find the need to continue his education to get a job he already had.
A few short months after dropping out of school he was convinced by a close friend, who was a recent convert to the LDS church, to serve a mission. In May of 1997 he was called to serve in the Oregon Portland mission. He reported to the MTC just 6 weeks after submitting his mission papers. There he gained a deep testimony of the gospel that has stayed with him throughout his life.
Once he returned home from his mission his love of the North West pulled at him and he moved to Seattle to pursue his profession programming career. While attending institute his meet the love of his life and married her for time and all eternity in the Timpanogos Temple. In their 14 years of marriage they have had 5 children. Two boys and three girls.
Jeremy's writing career started with a simple 30 day challenge and the desire to fulfill a item on his bucket list. Wanting to do a challenge to write every day for 30 days he needed something to write about. After days of struggle he was studying the writings C.S. Lewis and was inspired by the story behind The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Jeremy decided to follow in Lewis's footsteps and write about his own children. A story was hatched and he set out to write a novel for his kids and about his kids.
He caught the writing bug and has written many stories for his family and friends. His most recent work, "ZIon's Call" is a full length historical fiction novel based on one of his ancestors and his conversion to the gospel.
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Deliciously Ella Every Day: Quick and Easy Recipes for Gluten-Free Snacks, Packed Lunches, and Simple Meals by Ella Woodward (Scribner, April 5, 2016)
Deliciously Ella Every Day opens with hope: �Healthy living has totally transformed my life and I think it will transform yours, too� (7). Ella Woodward (Deliciously Ella) gave up gluten, dairy, refined sugar, processed food, and meat to heal chronic postural tachycardia syndrome; eighteen months later, medication-free, Woodward had become happy and healthy, and her new habits were a lifestyle. Instead of approaching a plant-based diet as restrictive, Woodward believes �it opens up a whole new world of delicious ingredients, amazing tastes and unique textures and truly makes you feel fabulous from the inside out� (8).
Woodward admits she is a �lazy cook� who prefers quick preparation and clean up, so, in her world, staying healthy is �all about organization.� Breakfast is Ella�s favorite meal — recipes like Sweet Beet Overnight Oats and Chili-Avocado Toast set a healthy tone for the entire day, providing steady energy and a positive attitude. Ella hopes to reinvent how we approach salads, celebrating texture and flavor with recipes like Chickpea and Squash, and Wilted Spinach and Black Bean Salads. Easy Weekday Dinners are intended to �soothe and energize� so you feel like a whole new person by the time you finish your plate� (123) — Honey and Mushroom Lentil, and Comforting Mashed Potato Bowl satisfy this goal. And Simple Sweets like Coconut and Raspberry Mousse, and Summery Strawberry-Banana Crumble replace refined sugar with raw honey, date syrup, dried fruit, and maple syrup, which are actually nutritious! Deliciously Ella proves every day can be a healthy celebration of flavor.
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men."
In reality, The Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors, where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked and the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at The Nickel Academy.
Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children.


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Rules of play: Age Groups will be 2021-2022, PLEASE SEE HERE FOR UPDATED AGE GROUP INFORMATION. FIFA rules will apply unless noted below. It is the understanding of this tournament committee that all teams, including all players, coaches, spectators, and officials, will participate in the spirit of FAIR PLAY and will conduct themselves in accordance with the Tournament Rules
CHECK IN DEADLINE: Check in deadline is FRIDAY, October 29 @ 5:00 pm. Teams not meeting check in deadlines may forfeit their first match
Tournament Format: All teams will be guaranteed 3 matches, semi final and final matches will be played. There are no consolation games for this tournament.
Deadline to Withdraw: Deadline to with draw from the tournament with a full refund is September 15. Any team with drawing after this date will forfeit their entry fee
Forfeited Matches: Any team that does not fulfill their commitment to play all tournament matches will be banned for 2 years for future tournament and club placed on probation
PLAYING ON MULTIPLE TEAMS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED: Players may only play and be on one roster at the tournament, this includes different age groups, different brackets regardless of the players affiliation with the club
Protests: Protests are only allowed regarding paperwork issues. The decision of the Referee, Field Marshall, and the Tournament Director shall be final. Protests must be reported to the Tournament Director before, during or immediately after the match. Disputes will be handled by the tournament committee and tournament director. Referee decisions may NOT be disputed. Only Tournament Director has the ability to declare a match a "forfeit." Tournament Director has the discretion to order matches "continued at a later time" or "result stands" if a match is suspended for weather or other related issues (provided at least half of the match is completed.)
Credentials: Laminated US Club player ID cards or USYSA equivalent will be required. {all cards MUST be valid. All teams must provide a team roster. PLAYERS MAY ONLY PLAY FOR ONE TEAM DURING THE TOURNAMENT, regardless of their club affiliation. This includes various age groups. ONCE AGAIN, PLAYERS MAY PLAY FOR ONLY 1 TEAM DURING THIS TOURNAMENT. TEAMS IN VIOLATION OF THIS MAY FORFEIT MATCHES.
Medical Release: All players must have signed US Club medical/USYSA release forms at team check in and throughout the tournament.
Players Age Group: Teams will play in their 2021/2022 Age Groups
U13 | Born in 2009 |
U14 | Born in 2008 |
U15 | Born in 2007 |
U16 | Born in 2006 |
U17 | Born in 2005 |
U19 | Born in 2003 |
Roster Size: Teams may register a maximum of 26 players for the U13 and U19 age groups with a maximum of 18 players suited up per game; There is no limit on "LOAN" or "GUEST" Players, teams may register 26 players for the tournament, but only 18 are allowed for each match. They 18 eligible to participate must be designated before the start of the match at check in.
Player's Credentials and Equipment: The referee has the final determination as to the safety of each player's equipment. All players are required to use shin guards. No rings, chains, watches, metal objects, jewelry, or headbands may be worn. Soft cast are permitted with the permission of the referee. Soft casts are allowed in tournament if padded and the referee considers them to be safe. Hard casts are not allowed
Player picture identification cards are to be present and available at all matches.
Identification cards are required to be checked by the referee prior to each match.
The shirt number of each player must be the same as the player's shirt number on the game card or roster.
Home Team: Home Team will be listed first on the scoreboard and in the program. The home team is responsible for game balls (if tournament balls are not available)
Away Team: Will be required to change uniforms if there is a conflict (note: different than most tournaments). The "away" team is listed second on the schedule
Team Check- In & Registration: Teams must register at the Mandatory check-in & registration. ALL REGISTRATION IS DONE ONLINE information regarding this is AVAILABLE HERE. Failure to check-in may result in disqualification from the tournament without a refund of the fee. At the discretion of the tournament, the disqualified team may be allowed to compete as a "Guest team." Games not played will be classified as "Forfeits and Byes." Forfeits will be scored as 3-0. THERE IS NO SATURDAY MORNING CHECK IN, GAME CARDS WILL BE PRINTED FRIDAY NIGHT.
Requirements for Check-In & Registration: At the Mandatory Registration, teams must provide the required credentials. All US teams must provide valid laminated Player ID Cards with photographs, signed medical Release forms. Travel Papers for US Club teams are not required. Proper Player Loan Forms will be required at Registration along with other required credentials, as required by US Club soccer. Travel papers for other organizations are not required by the tournament
Teams From the United States: The players must present picture identification cards issued by the teams Federation Organization Member (US Club/USYSA). Teams must provide proof of approval of the team's participation from the teams Federation Organization Member.
Conduct: All coaches have total responsibility for the conduct of their players and bench at all time. Coaching from the sidelines (giving direction to one's own team) is permitted provided:
No mechanical devices are used;
The tone of voice is instructive and not derogatory;
Each coach or substitute remains within 10 yards of either side of the halfway line
No coach, player or substitute makes derogatory remarks or gestures to the referees, other coaches, players substitutes or team officials.
No coach, player or substitute uses profanity or incites, in any manner, disruptive behavior.
Mechanical noise making devices are allowed provided they are not used by the teams technical staff or players or used inside the technical area (drums, trumpets etc, etc)
Any parental behavior on the sideline such as profanity, coaching, fighting or other behavior that is not sportsmanlike is not accepted. Teams may be removed from the tournament per the Tournament Committee if they feel team sideline is out of control.
Equipment: No Jewelry…Soft casts are allowed in tournament if padded and the referee considers them safe…Mandatory that all players wear shin guards…No alcohol permitted at the tournament…..No smoking…No animals (Dogs)
Cautions & Ejection's: A player or coach receiving two (2) yellow cards in a single game is considered to have received an ejection (red card). Ejected players or coaches may not be replaced in the current game and shall serve a minimum of one game suspension at their next game played. For flagrant violations, longer suspension or additional disciplinary action may be enforced based on mandatory review of the Tournament Director. The tournament director will hold ID cards of the player or coach until suspensions are served. Suspended coaches cannot be on the same sideline as the team with no communication of any manner. Players may sit with the team but may not be in uniform. Suspended Coaches must be "Out of Sight & Sound of the Field". PLEASE NOTE, UNDER FIFA and US CLUB TOURNAMENT Sanctioning Rules, Red Cards can NOT be appealed. All sending offs are a mandatory 1 game suspension. If a player or coach is suspended beyond 1 match, that ban may be appealed. The one game suspension is mandatory and may not be appealed. No points are deducted for sending offs, coach or player.
Suspended Games: If, in the opinion of game officials, a game must be terminated due to misconduct of players, bench or spectators, the offending team could be suspended from further play and forfeit all points and position previously earned. Additionally, the home league and state association will be contacted as appropriate.
Substitutions: U13-U19—Unlimited substitutions . However, teams may substitute only with the referee's permission. Substitutes must wait on the sideline (off of the field of play) until the field player has left the field of play and/or the referee has indicated the substitute may enter the field of play. Substitutions may occur during any stoppage of play.
Substitutions by either Team are allowed at any stoppage of play with the permission of the referee. Referees will be instructed not to allow substitutions that are deemed "excessive" or of a "time wasting" nature. Please be respectful of the integrity of the game and do not use the free substitution rules (13U-19U) as a means to disrupt the match.
Injury: In the spirit of the game, all attempts to play injury time will be made. Delays of the match due to injury (or other stoppages) will result in appropriate time being added to the full game time, based on the judgment of the referee.
Home Team:The home team appears first on the match schedule. The Home Team will supply game ball, (only if tournament ball is unavailable). The match ball is subject to referee approval.
Away Team: The away team will be required to switch to an alternate jersey, if the referee declares color conflict.
Side Lines: Both teams and coaches will be on the same sideline directed by the field marshal or referee unless otherwise notified. All spectators will be on the opposite sideline.
Forfeitures & Byes: Games not played will be classified as "Forfeits & Byes". Teams failing to report ready to play within Five (5) minutes of scheduled kick-off time forfeit that game. All teams who Forfeit will have the game scored 0-3 loss. The winner will be awarded maximum tournament points for a win (3 ). A team needs 7 players for a U12-U19 match for the game to get started. Teams taking actions which cause the game to be terminated will forfeit.
Disputes: Tournament Committee will handle all disputes that are non-referee decisions and make all final decisions.
Decisions by referees may not be appealed and any decision on a dispute will be final and may not be appealed.
Playing Times: Play will be based on halves as specified below:
U13-U14 30 minute halves, 60 minutes full
U15-U19 35 minute halves, 70 minutes full
SEMI FINAL MATCHES WILL GO STRAIGHT TO KICKS FROM THE MARK. No extra time will be played for semi final matches.
FINAL games decided in overtime will not be "golden goal." Two five (5) minute halves will be played. Full amount of time plus injury time will be played. If match is still tied, game will be decided by kicks from the mark. Over time games will only be played for championship games. Group matches will end in a draw.
All teams will be scheduled for a minimum of 3 games.
All efforts will be made to complete matches that have been terminated due to weather or other circumstances that are not the result of discipline from one team. The Tournament Director does have the discretion to declare the match complete should one half play is completed.
Half-time: Half-time will be exactly five (5) minutes. Please help officials with this request.
Tournament Points System:
3 Points For each Win
1 Points for each draw
0 Points for a loss
(points are not deducted for red cards)
Score Reporting: Scores after each game will be reported by the referees reporting the scores to the Field Marshall. If score is misprinted on internet or "board" please contact field marshal ASAP.
Tie Breakers: In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined as follows:
1. The winner of head to head competition.
2. Goal Differential (there is no limit on goal difference)
3. Goals For (there is no limit on goals scored)
4. Goals Against
5. Most Wins
6. Penalty Shoot Out
Tie Breakers: (if 3 or more teams are tied) If more than two teams are involved in a tie, tie breaker number 2 (only if one team has not beaten the other 2, 3, 4 teams, {only relevant in a crossover bracket}) will be used first to rank the teams. If all teams are still tied, tie breaker number 3 will be used to rank the teams, and so on until a tie is broken. Once a team has been ranked higher or lower, the next tie breaking criteria will be used to continue to rank the teams. If more than two teams are still tied after tie breaker number 5, a coin toss will be held with the odd team sitting out. The other two teams will then take kicks from the mark to establish a winner. The winner of this will then play the team sitting out. (kicks from the mark). The winner will advance. When all teams will advance to the playoff rounds a coin toss, as sequenced above, will decide the team's seed in lieu of kicks from the mark
Example #1. Three teams have 6 points and have all defeated each other. Team A has a goal differential of +6, Team B is +4 and Team C is +3. Team A is 1st, Team B is 2nd and Team C is 3rd.
Example #2. Three teams have 6 points and have all defeated each other. Team A has a goal differential of +6, Team B is +4 and Team C is +4. Team A is 1st. Team B has scored 4 goals and Team C has scored 3 goals. Team B is 2nd and Team C is 3rd based on Tie Breaker #3 (Goals For)
Example #3. Three teams have 6 points and have all defeated each other. Team A has a goal differential of +2, Team B is +3 and Team C is +3. Team B and Team C each have scored 9 goals, but Team B has only conceded 1 goal, Team C has conceded 2 goals. Team B is #1, Team C is #2 and Team A is #3. (Please note if one team is ranked higher or lower, the TIE BREAKING PROCEDURE does not revert to tie breaker #1)
Example #4. (Crossover Bracket) Three or four teams have 6 points. Since all teams have defeated another team in the tie, GD will be used to rank the teams then GF, GA, Most Wins, Penalty Shoot Out.
Example #5. (Crossover Bracket) Three teams are tied with 6 points. Team A has beaten Team B and Team C. Team A would advance virtue of the head to head tie breaker.
Filming: No filming from team bench area.
Acts of God: Rain or other weather conditions during the tournament shall not delay play unless the referee determines the field to be unsafe for play. In the event of such a delay or postponement games will be rescheduled if at all possible. If a match has played more then a half, the Tournament Director may declare the result of the match to stand. If games cannot be rescheduled or played due to rain, weather, or other Acts of God there will be no refund of fees.


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With Wis. spa shooting suspect still at large, police release photo
| Brookfield, Wis.
Deputies searched Sunday for a man suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall.
Police released a photograph of the man they identified as Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer. They said he was still at-large and the public's help was needed in tracking him down.
Brookfield police told WTMJ-AM the shooting happened about 11 a.m. Sunday at a spa across the street from the Brookfield Square Mall. The mall and a country club adjacent to the spa were locked down, local media reported.
Brookfield Police Lt. John Beth said a bomb squad from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department was at the spa. He wouldn't say why the unit was there but said it was not routine to have it respond to a shooting.
Spokesmen for the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said their agencies also had agents participating in the investigation.
Milwaukee FBI spokesman Leonard Peace said his agency sent a SWAT team and hostage negotiators, among others.
Online court records showed a temporary restraining order was issued against Haughton in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Oct. 8 because of a domestic abuse complaint.
Beth Strohbusch, a spokeswoman for Froedtert Memorial Hospital, said four shooting victims were taken there, and three more were expected. She said none of the four already received were in critical condition.
The shooting took place at Azana Day Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from the mall in a middle- to upper-class community west of Milwaukee.
It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.
The shooting at the mall took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.


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Black Sabbath Started Wearing Crosses to Ward Off Curse
Geezer Butler remembered the time Black Sabbath started wearing crosses with the intention of warding off a curse that had been placed on them.
In their early days, the band members regularly dealt with accusations of being Satanists, and drew fans from some extremist groups.
"There was some black magic organization that wanted us to play at a stone circle," Butler told Metal Hammer in a recent interview. "We said no – we were sort of against Satan, as opposed to promoting it – so they allegedly cursed us. The head of the white witches call our management and said he knew we had a curse put on us, and we should wear crosses and he'd do a ritual thing. It all sounds so hokey."
Nevertheless, the band believed what it had been told. "That's why we started wearing crosses!" Butler said. "Ozzy [Osbourne]'s father made them for us. He used to work at a metal factory making car parts, so he made us these great big crosses out of spare metal."
In his 2009 memoir I Am Ozzy, Osbourne told his own version of the story. "I couldn't believe it when I learned that people actually 'practiced the occult.,'" he wrote. "These freaks with white makeup and black robes would come up to us after our gigs and invite us to black masses at Highgate Cemetery in London. I'd say to them, 'Look, mate, the only evil spirits I'm interested in are called whiskey, vodka and gin.' At one point we were invited by a group of Satanists to play at Stonehenge. We told them to fuck off, so they said they'd put a curse on us."
In the new interview, Butler recalled how being brought up in the Catholic faith influenced his exploration of the world around him. "I wanted to read about the other side," he explained.
"I'd always hear about Satan, so I wanted to find out what that was about. So I started reading up on astral planes, all that kind of stuff. I used to have weird experiences when I was a kid; orbs appearing to me. … It sounds like I'm nuts. When I was four, I felt a presence in the room, and I saw this orb hovering above my head and I could see the future in it and it just disappeared into the fireplace. I used to have these dreams. … I'd wake up and it would happen the next day. A lot disappeared when I got to my teen years."


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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and SquirrelMail.
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Tori AmosCountry of origin:U.S. Type of music generally:she's a goddess. what else is there to say? (firstname.lastname@example.com) Status:Most recent release, Christmastide (seasonal EP, 2020); most recent regular release Native Invader (2017) See also:There are hundreds of Tori webpages and sites with Tori info. You might start at one of these and then give your browser some exercise: Comparisons:Kate Bush crossed with Sylvia Plath ;). Though like Kate Bush she draws her musical inspiration from all over, she is defiantly original. (Neile) Covers/own material:Mostly own material, some covers as b-sides on singles and an album of covers, Strange Little Girls General comments:Highly emotional. (email@example.com) Comments about live performance:The Plugged Tour:The Tori concert that I saw at the MCI Center was quite wonderful. Although it didn't have the intimacy of the solo gigs, the addition of the stage lighting and drums added a sense of spectacle that worked very well. (I can't say how the guitar and bass would have helped, since I couldn't hear them until the encore, during which Steve Caton did a pretty good Kevin Bartlett imitation :-]) Some songs that didn't work for me at all on the CDs came to life, and the rest were quite solid, though I wished she'd done some that she didn't. Recommended first album:Little Earthquakes is the most accessible for the first taste of Tori, though many prefer other albums. My personal favourite is Boys For Pele though it is probably not the best introduction. (Neile) Favourite album:If it's the brilliance, uniqueness or challenge you're after than Boys for Pele is it. But many of us tuned into the emotional content, and for that few things can touch Little Earthquakes.... I can appreciate, and indeed admire Boys for Pele, but it's Little Earthquakes that I love, and that's probably how things will stay. Also, Little Earthquakes is now what—6 years old? It has all sorts of historical baggage attached and probably this is what really makes it so special to me. As I look back now it reflects and captures a very definite stage of my life. Boys for Pele on the other hand was simply another record. Good, great, whatever—but to me it just never had the same importance.... (email@example.com) Recordings:
Further info:Tori co-authored the book Tori Amos: Piece By Piece. Thanks to Art Liestman and JoAnn Whetsell for work on this entry.
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