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The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues
15 Then rI saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, sseven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
2 And I saw twhat appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those uwho had conquered the beast and its image and vthe number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass wwith harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing xthe song of Moses, ythe servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
z"Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
aJust and true are your ways,
O King of the nations!1
4 bWho will not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are choly.
dAll nations will come
and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed."
5 After this I looked, and ethe sanctuary of fthe tent2 of witness in heaven was opened, 6 and out of the sanctuary came gthe seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright ilinen, jwith golden sashes around their chests. 7 And one of kthe four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven lgolden bowls full of the wrath of God mwho lives forever and ever, 8 and nthe sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and ono one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath
16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling pthe seven angels, "Go and qpour out on the earth rthe seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful ssores came upon the people who bore tthe mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and uit became like the blood of a corpse, and vevery living thing died that was in the sea.
4 The third angel poured out his bowl into wthe rivers and the springs of water, and xthey became blood. 5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters1 say,
y"Just are you, zO Holy One, awho is and who was,
for you brought these judgments.
6 For bthey have shed the blood of csaints and prophets,
and dyou have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!"
7 And I heard ethe altar saying,
"Yes, Lord God the Almighty,
ftrue and just are your judgments!"
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people gwith fire. 9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and hthey cursed2 the name of God who had power over these plagues. iThey did not repent jand give him glory.
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on kthe throne of the beast, and lits kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed mthe God of heaven for their pain and nsores. oThey did not repent of their deeds.
12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on pthe great river Euphrates, and qits water was dried up, rto prepare the way for the kings sfrom the east. 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of tthe dragon and out of the mouth of uthe beast and out of the mouth of vthe false prophet, three wunclean spirits like xfrogs. 14 For they are ydemonic spirits, zperforming signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, ato assemble them for battle on bthe great day of God the Almighty. 15 ("Behold, cI am coming like a thief! dBlessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, ethat he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!") 16 And fthey assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called gArmageddon.
The Seventh Bowl
17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into hthe air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, i"It is done!" 18 And there were jflashes of lightning, rumblings,3 peals of thunder, and ka great earthquake lsuch as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 mThe great city nwas split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God oremembered pBabylon the great, qto make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 And revery island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 21 And sgreat hailstones, about one hundred pounds4 each, fell from heaven on people; and tthey cursed God for uthe plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
The Great Prostitute and the Beast
17 Then vone of the seven angels who had wthe seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of xthe great prostitute ywho is seated on many waters, 2 zwith whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and awith the wine of whose sexual immorality bthe dwellers on earth have become drunk." 3 And che carried me away in the Spirit dinto a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on ea scarlet beast that was full of fblasphemous names, and git had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman hwas arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned iwith gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand ja golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of kmystery: l"Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." 6 And I saw the woman, drunk mwith the blood of the saints, the blood of nthe martyrs of Jesus.1
When I saw her, I marveled greatly. 7 But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you othe mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast that you saw pwas, and is not, and qis about to rise from rthe bottomless pit2 and sgo to destruction. And tthe dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in uthe book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because pit was and is not and is to come. 9 vThis calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. 11 As for the beast wthat was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. 12 And xthe ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings yfor one hour, together with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. 14 They zwill make war on the Lamb, and athe Lamb will conquer them, for he is bLord of lords and bKing of kings, and those with him are ccalled and chosen and faithful."
15 And the angel3 said to me, d"The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. 16 And ethe ten horns that you saw, they and the beast fwill hate the prostitute. They will make her gdesolate and hnaked, and idevour her flesh and jburn her up with fire, 17 for kGod has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and lhanding over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman that you saw is mthe great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth."
The Fall of Babylon
18 After this I saw nanother angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and othe earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
p"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become qa dwelling place for demons,
a haunt rfor every unclean spirit,
a haunt sfor every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
3 For all nations have drunk1
tthe wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and uthe kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and vthe merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
w"Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
5 for xher sins are heaped high as heaven,
and yGod has remembered her iniquities.
6 zPay her back as she herself has paid back others,
and repay her adouble for her deeds;
mix a double portion for her bin the cup she mixed.
7 cAs she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
d'I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
and mourning I shall never see.'
8 For this reason her plagues will come ein a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and fshe will be burned up with fire;
for gmighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
9 And hthe kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, iwill weep and wail over her jwhen they see the smoke of her burning. 10 kThey will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
"Alas! Alas! lYou great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For min a single hour your judgment has come."
11 And nthe merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.2
14 "The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!"
15 oThe merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, pwill stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 "Alas, alas, for the great city
qthat was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For rin a single hour all this wealth shas been laid waste."
And tall shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and ucried out vas they saw the smoke of her burning,
w"What city was like the great city?"
19 And they threw xdust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
"Alas, alas, for the great city
ywhere all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For zin a single hour she has been laid waste.
20 aRejoice over her, O heaven,
and you saints and bapostles and prophets,
for cGod has given judgment for you against her!"
21 Then da mighty angel etook up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
"So will Babylon fthe great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;
22 and gthe sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
will be found in you no more,
and hthe sound of the mill
will be heard in you no more,
23 and the light of a lamp
will shine in you no more,
and ithe voice of bridegroom and bride
will be heard in you no more,
for jyour merchants were the great ones of the earth,
and all nations were deceived kby your sorcery.
24 And lin her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
and of mall who have been slain on earth."
Rejoicing in Heaven
19 After this I heard nwhat seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,
oSalvation and glory and power belong to our God,
2 for phis judgments are true and just;
for he has judged qthe great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and rhas avenged on her the blood of his servants."
3 Once more they cried out,
sThe smoke from her goes up forever and ever."
4 And tthe twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" 5 And from the throne came a voice saying,
u"Praise our God,
all you his servants,
vyou who fear him,
small and great."
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
6 Then I heard what seemed to be wthe voice of a great multitude, like xthe roar of many waters and ylike the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,
For the Lord our God
the Almighty zreigns.
7 Let us rejoice and exult
and give him the glory,
for athe marriage of the Lamb has come,
and bhis Bride has made herself ready;
8 cit was granted her to clothe herself
with fine linen, bright and pure"—
for the fine linen is dthe righteous deeds of the saints.
9 And the angel said1 to me, "Write this: eBlessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, f"These are the true words of God." 10 Then gI fell down at his feet to worship him, hbut he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to ithe testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
The Rider on a White Horse
11 Then I saw jheaven opened, and behold, ka white horse! The one sitting on it is called lFaithful and True, and min righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 nHis eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are omany diadems, and he has pa name written that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in qa robe dipped in2 blood, and the name by which he is called is rThe Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, sarrayed in fine linen, white and pure, twere following him on white horses. 15 uFrom his mouth comes a sharp sword vwith which to strike down the nations, and whe will rule3 them with a rod of iron. xHe will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh yhe has a name written, zKing of kings and Lord of lords.
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to aall the birds that fly directly overhead, b"Come, gather for cthe great supper of God, 18 dto eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,4 both small and great." 19 And I saw ethe beast and the kings of the earth with their armies fgathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was captured, and with it gthe false prophet hwho in its presence5 had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who iworshiped its image. These two were jthrown alive into the lake of kfire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were slain by the sword lthat came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and mall the birds were gorged with their flesh.


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It has been jutting out of the sea just off the Italian island Giglio for 20 months, but today the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner will be raised to an upright position as part of the largest salvage operation ever conducted.
Workers have been waiting for favorable weather conditions in order to undertake the crucial rotation, known as parbuckling. If the vessel is not moved before winter sets in, the fear is that the already heavily corroded hulk will deteriorate to a state where it may break apart, releasing toxic substances into the sea.
(MORE: Fukushima Ice Wall and Other Crazy Measures to Fight Disasters)
The Costa Concordia is twice the weight of the Titanic, and salvaging it is a mind-boggling operation that has already cost more than $800 million.
In order to carry out the parbuckling, a fake bottom has been built underneath the hull and 50 massive chains and winches have been attached to the vessel, as have huge tanks, or caissons, which will keep the ship afloat once upright. Once rotated, the ship will be moved to a mainland port, where it will be searched for missing bodies, and then scrapped. The parbuckling is the most sensitive stage of the salvage operation, and can be followed live here.
Just before 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. Eastern), engineers announced that they have freed the ship from the reef and have successfully moved it onto the specially-constructed platforms underneath. No bodies were found in the process, leaving two missing people still unaccounted for.
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TV Review: SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED – "Enemies of Rome" – Season Premiere
Stars: Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Dan Feuerriegel, Simon Merrells, Todd Lasance, Christian Antidormi, Cynthia Addai-Robinson Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Created by Steven S. DeKnight Director: Mark Beesley Network: STARZ, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: January 25, 2013 SPARTACUS WAR OF THE DAMNED is here! The final chapter in the STARZ SPARTACUS saga and boy oh boy is this last season going to be a doozy. If you thought the boundaries were pushed before in terms of blood, violence, sex, and more blood and violence; you had better hold onto your butts. Before I get to the first episode "Enemies of […]Read On »


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Teladoc Health to Develop First Pediatric-Specific Consumer Telehealth Platform with Cincinnati Children's
PURCHASE, NY, April 11, 2019 –Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), the global leader in virtual care, announces today its collaboration with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati Children's) to develop the industry's first consumer pediatric telehealth platform. Cincinnati Children's, ranked number two on U.S. News & World Report's list of Best Children's Hospitals, will bring their expertise to help evolve the Teladoc Health licensed platform for pediatric needs.
"With the increased adoption of consumer telehealth, the time is now for pediatric hospitals to have a platform that is designed specifically to support the unique care needs and workflows they manage," said Alan Roga, MD, president, Hospitals and Health Systems Teladoc Health. "When it comes to healthcare needs, children are not small adults. That's why it is with a great deal of pride along with a sense of responsibility with which we take on this project, and we are committed to continually setting new standards for what's possible in virtual care around the world."
Dr. Steve Davis, Chief Operating Officer of Cincinnati Children's, will lead an interdisciplinary team that will serve in an advisory role. This will bring Cincinnati Children's proven, pediatric clinical care expertise to guide the development. Pediatric-specific workflows, clinical requirements and user experience for patients and their families will be core components of the platform.
"Whether we're treating a child who has a complicated diagnosis or treating and managing more common illness, our pursuit of the best outcomes means that our telehealth system should be tailored to pediatric needs," explained Marianne James, SVP Information Services and CIO, Cincinnati Children's. "Cincinnati Children's, through our Center for Telehealth, continues to expand telehealth services for pediatric patients. We are proud to be at the forefront of bringing an innovative platform to market that will benefit other hospitals, children and families across the country."
Teladoc Heath and Cincinnati Children's will kick off platform development during the second quarter, with availability to other pediatric hospitals and medical centers targeted for early 2020.
For more information, visit TeladocHealth.com
About Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ranks second in the nation among all Honor Roll hospitals in U.S.News and World Report's 2018-2019 Best Children's Hospitals ranking. In addition, Cincinnati Children's ranks first in the pediatric specialties of cancer and gastroenterology/GI surgery care. Founded in 1883, Cincinnati Children's vision is to be the leader in improving child health, through patient care, research and education.
About Teladoc Health
A mission-driven organization, Teladoc Health, Inc. is successfully transforming how people access and experience healthcare, with a focus on high quality, lower costs, and improved outcomes around the world. The company's award-winning, integrated clinical solutions are inclusive of telehealth, expert medical opinions, AI and analytics, and licensable platform services. With more than 2,000 employees, the organization delivers care in 130 countries and in more than 30 languages, partnering with employers, hospitals and health systems, and insurers to transform care delivery. For more information, please visit www.teladochealth.com or follow @TeladocHealth on Twitter.
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We knew it couldn't last. We've been reporting some good news about the economy lately. The housing market has been doing quite well. Unemployment is high, but it's been falling. But today, the government released some key economic data and it suggests things are not quite as good as they seemed. Adam Davidson with NPR's Planet Money team joins us to explain. And, Adam, what did we learn today?
ADAM DAVIDSON, BYLINE: Well, today was really the day of meh. It was not horrible news. This was not an awful day, but it was just nothing. It wasn't great news either. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest data on the personal finances of us Americans and how much money we make, how much we save, how much we spend, and it showed that in April, we basically had no movement at all.
Our income in April compared to March was exactly the same. Our savings was the same. Our spending was almost exactly the same. Same with inflation. Everything was the same.
BLOCK: Well, everything is the same could not necessarily be such a bad thing, right? It's better than the alternative, which would be going down.
DAVIDSON: Although there's another alternative, which is going up, and that's what we really, really need. I mean, yes, I have come on the air far too many times and talked about how this month was much worse than the previous month. And so, yes, it is good that things stayed the same. They're stagnant rather than falling, but what we want to see is unemployment to get much lower than it is.
We want to, you know, have that feeling you have when the economy is growing at a healthy pace and the average person is feeling that growth. And the only way we're going to get there is for all these numbers to go up. We need income to go up. And if income goes up enough, you can get both more spending and more savings at the same time. And that's what we need to see before the economy's healthy enough to really feel recovered.
BLOCK: Well, Adam, what accounts for the stagnation in April and what do economists say it would take for things to get better?
DAVIDSON: Well, what's interesting is this was not, as far as we can tell, caused by the sequester, you know, the sudden drop in government spending because Congress people and the president couldn't agree on a solution to tax and spending reform. In fact, collectively, government workers were one of the groups that saw their incomes go up. Only a little, but it did go up.
Also, people who receive government payments, people on Social Security, Veterans benefits, unemployment benefits, they saw their income go up a tiny bit. And as you mentioned earlier, we have been seeing lots of good data. Just yesterday, we saw that the economy, overall, grew at a reasonable rate in the first three months of the year, 2.4 percent. Not stellar, but pretty good.
Housing is doing better. The stock market is really on a tear, going up and up and up. So what I'm beginning to see is a picture of high-end growth, a high-end economy of wealthy people, of homeowners, particularly people buying higher value homes, doing fairly well, but that not getting out to the average person, the working persons.
So this high-end recovery combined with low-end stagnancy. So for the whole economy to do well, we really need to see everybody sharing in it.
BLOCK: So what's the picture as you look forward, do you think?
DAVIDSON: There really is a battle. There are all these forces moving the economy forward that we've talked about and then there is a lot of expectation that that sequester is going to begin to eat into income as government workers are furloughed and start losing some income and some people's government benefits start falling off. So there's a good chance we're going to be seeing this thing we've had too much of, this two steps forward, one step back kind of dance.
So I think, to sum up today's data, it's better than before, but we are a long, long way from the kind of full recovery that I think we're all looking for.
BLOCK: OK. NPR's Adam Davidson with our Planet Money team. Adam, thanks very much.
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Unlike the characters at the opening of Lin Anderson's new novel, we weren't trapped in the Cairngorms by a blizzard. Unlike them we were free to walk away from the Cairngorms Mountain Rescue (CMR) Base in Inverdruie whenever we chose. And unlike her fictional protagonists, we wanted to be where we were. We'd come Aviemore for the weekend to hear about the 12th book in the Rhona MacLeod series, Follow the Dead.
A mountain rescue base must surely be a unique setting for a book launch, but it was also very apt, as the CMR team play a major role in the story and Lin had spent many hours in their company, picking their brains for tales of nail-biting rescues and learning about the real-life risks and challenges they face when trying to reach walkers and climbers trapped in the harsh mountain landscape of the Cairngorm Mountains.
The skill, commitment and bravery of mountain rescue teams is legendary. John Allen, whose exploits are described in the book Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue, was at the launch. As was Willie Anderson, the current leader of the CMRT, who spoke about rescues the team had been involved in, some of them requiring extraordinary bravery and truly heroic efforts to bring bodies – alive and dead – down off the mountains.
Also present was Lin's chief forensic expert, Dr James Grieve, Emeritus Professor of Forensic Pathology at the University of Aberdeen. A man with a long title and a great sense of humour! He confirmed the realism of the technical aspects of Lin's books, applauding the work she does in 'educating' readers to the reality – and limitations – of forensic science in the solving of crimes. It's this accuracy that gives the books such an authentic feel, and helps make the character of Rhona MacLeod so believeable.
Among the audience was a 'real-life-fictional-character', Mary, who plays a pivotal and intriguing role in the story. But just what that role might be, is a mystery you'll only be able to solve by reading the book for yourselves!
After Lin, the second most celebrated guest must have been Oor Blaze fae Skye – perhaps the best-known resident of that fabled isle. With a Twitter following in the thousands, Blaze is a mountaineering (and Portree pub) legend in his own right.
He even has his own much-sought-after calendar: a calendar signed last year by the author and stars of the spectacularly successful Outlander series, amongst many others. The funds raised from the auctioning of the autographed calendars go to the Skye Mountain Rescue Team. So Blaze has a very appropriate connection to the book launch we were attending.
Some of you will already know that Blaze's other great claim to fame is that he writes regularly for iScot magazine, sharing his mountain exploits with the magazine's readership. There's something rather special about having a fellow contributor who has four legs and a penchant for tennis balls: which, I must add, he catches with unfailing accuracy!
And so, having spent time with Blaze (whose literary efforts are penned with a little bit of help from his 'dad' Steve) and having heard about the real-life background to the drama in Follow the Dead, as well as having met some of the real-life counterparts to the fictional characters, all I have to do now is get reading – so shush!


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As I read it this time, however, I found myself thinking about how much it applied to the students I work with this year- students with intellectual disabilities.
First and foremost it reminds us that intelligence is not set in stone. Hard work, dedication, and determination can change anyone's "intelligence". By teaching our students to work hard and giving them strategies to use when they fail we can help them to achieve more than their "intellectual disability" label implies for them. The idea behind the growth mindset reminds us why we set high standards- because we cannot predict how any one person in our classrooms will do on any one task.
The second reminder is that it shows us the importance of teaching strategies. Our children need to have strategies in place for when they fail. It will happen a lot in their lifetime, and they need to be able to push up their sleeves and believe that they can overcome the failure. Knowing that they can do hard things is essential for their success in life. I am frequently asking my students, "Was it hard?" and then when they tell me yes, saying, "I know! Isn't it great that we can do hard things!"
Teaching them to be problem solvers is also essential. Encouraging them to look at a situation and decide how to get help is what will serve them the most in life. Doing things for them, allowing them to be helpless, always having a chair appear out of nowhere when they need to sit down- those are things that will never help our students become self advocates. We have to directly teach our students how to succeed- how to look around and determine what they need, how to pick themselves up when they make a mistake, and how to embrace hard tasks.
If we teach our students determination there is little that they will not be able to do.
When I was a general education teacher I centered my entire year around the question "what is a problem solver". It was amazing to watch the growth I saw in the children's ability to problem solve throughout the year. I need to figure out a way to make that happen again with this population of students.


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A serial homicide occurs where a perpetrator kills several victims in three or more separate events with an emotional cooling off period in between the homicides. The cooling off period may last days, weeks, months, or years, and reference to separate events and separate locations, Many are psychopaths, who are considered personality disordered and not psychotic, and thus appear to be quite normal and often even charming, a state of adaptation which Hervey Cleckley calls the "mask of sanity." There is often—but not always—a sexual element to the murders. All the murders may have been completed/attempted in a similar fashion and the victims may have had something in common, ex. occupation, race, sex, etc.
The term (serial killer) is widely believed to have been coined either by FBI agent Robert Ressler or by Dr. Robert D. Keppel in the 1970s (the credit for the term is disputed). Serial killer entered the popular vernacular in large part due to the well-publicized crimes of Ted Bundy (for whom the term was first used) and David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") in the middle years of that decade.
Psychology and development[]
Many noted serial killers have had dysfunctional backgrounds. Frequently they were physically, sexually, or psychologically abused as children and there is often a correlation between their childhood abuse and their crimes.
Serial killers are specifically motivated by a variety of psychological urges, primarily power and sexual compulsion. They often have feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness, sometimes owing to humiliation and abuse in childhood and/or the pressures of poverty and low socioeconomic status in adulthood, and their crimes compensate for this and provide a sense of potency and often revenge, by giving them a feeling of power, both at the time of the actual killing and afterwards. The knowledge that their actions terrify entire communities and often baffle police adds to this sense of power. This motivational aspect separates them from contract killers and other multiple murderers who are motivated by profit. For example, in Scotland during the 1820s, William Burke and William Hare murdered people in what became known as the "Case of the Body Snatchers." They would not count as serial killers by most criminologists' definitions, however, because their motive was primarily economic.
The element of fantasy in a serial killer's development is extremely important. They often begin fantasizing about murder during or even before adolescence. Their fantasy lives are very rich and they daydream compulsively about domination, submission, and murder, usually with very specific elements to the fantasy that will eventually be apparent in their real crimes. Others enjoy reading stories or seeing photographs in magazines of sadism featuring rape, torture and murder. In some cases, these traits are not present.
Some serial killers display one or more of what are known as the "MacDonald triad" of warning signs in childhood. These are:
- Fire starting, invariably for the thrill of destroying things, for gaining attention, or for making the perpetrator feel more powerful.
- Cruelty to animals (related to "zoosadism"). Many children may be cruel to animals, such as pulling the legs off spiders, but future serial killers often kill larger animals, like dogs and cats, and frequently for their solitary enjoyment than to impress peers.
- Bed-wetting beyond the age when children normally grow out of such behavior.
This Triad, developed in 1963, has been called into question by other researchers. For example, many children are fascinated by fire as they are fascinated by other natural phenomena at young ages (lightning, floods, etc.). The fact that a child can start a fire as opposed to "starting" lightning is seen to discount fire starting as an implication.
When caught and tried in a court of law in the United States, some serial killers will plead not guilty by reason of insanity. In most US jurisdictions, the legal definition of insanity is still generally based upon the classic common law "right or wrong" test delineated by an English court in the 1843 M'Naghten case. The M'Naghten rule, as it is generally known in the legal profession, hinges upon whether the defendant knows the difference between right and wrong at the time of the offense. With some serial killers, extensive premeditation, combined with lack of any obvious delusions or hallucinations that would hinder the defendant's ability to elude detection after committing multiple murders, make this defense extremely difficult and almost uniformly unsuccessful in achieving a not guilty verdict. However, it does allow the defense to introduce evidence about the killer's background that would normally be deemed inadmissible (for example, a history of having been abused as a child), in hopes that some sympathy from the jury will spare the client a death sentence.
Many experts have claimed that once serial killers start they cannot (or only rarely) stop. Recently this view has been called into question as new serial killers are caught through methods that were previously unavailable, such as DNA testing. Some argue that those who are unable to control their homicidal impulses are more easily caught and thus over represented in the statistics.
There have been conflicting reports as to the extent of serial murder. The FBI claimed in the 1980s that at any particular time there were roughly 35 active serial killers in the United States, meaning that the serial killers in question have committed their first murders but have not yet been apprehended for their crime or stopped by other means (e.g., suicide, a physical incapability to commit their crimes, imprisonment for a different offense, or a natural death).
This figure has often been exaggerated. In his 1990 book Serial Killers: The Growing Menace, Joel Norris claimed that there were 500 serial killers active at any one time in the United States, claiming 5,000 victims a year, a quarter of the country's homicides. Some have argued that those who study or write about serial killers, be they journalists or employed in the judicial profession, have a vested interest in exaggerating the threat of such offenders.
In terms of reported cases, there appear to be far more serial killers active in developed Western nations than elsewhere. There are several reasons that may contribute to this:
- Detection techniques in developed nations are better. Multiple victims of one offender are quickly identified as being linked, so the apprehension of the offender comes more quickly than in a nation where the police are generally more underfunded and with fewer resources.
- Developed nations have a highly competitive news media, so cases are reported more quickly.
- The United States and Western Europe have avoided the large-scale, state-sanctioned news outlets that certain nations have, in which stories related to serial murder have been suppressed. An example of this is the case in the Ukraine of serial murderer Andrei Chikatilo, whose murder spree continued largely unreported and poorly investigated by police in the former Soviet Union due to the Communist ideology that only supposedly corrupt capitalistic Western countries bred such killers. After the collapse of the USSR, there were a number of reports of prolific serial killers whose crimes had previously been hidden from the West behind the Iron Curtain.
- Cultural differences could account for a larger number of serial killers, not just a larger number of reported cases. Equally, some cultures would fail to call certain crimes (such as multiple honour killings) serial killings.
- Self interest. Few countries, especially those wishing an international tourist trade, are keen to generate the sort of negative publicity, that a rash of solved or unsolved serial killer cases entails.
- Cultural Bias. Serial killers in non-Western nations, such as Yoo Young-Chul in South Korea, Yang Xinhai in China or Cedric Maake and Moses Sithole from South Africa, are rarely reported as extensively in Western media outlets.
- Poor tracking of people. In places such as Brazil, there are a lot of children living on the streets without proper documentation or official knowledge of their existence. Consequently government agencies and journalists do not necessarily note if any have vanished.
The accepted stereotype of American serial killers is that they are disproportionately likely to be white and male, and between the ages of 25-35 year old, but there have been exceptions. A noted female serial killer is Aileen Wuornos; many "angel of mercy" serial killers--nurses who murder their patients--are female, as well. There are also women who kill in partnership with their husbands or boyfriends, though it does not appear they would be serial killers alone, or would have become serial killers had they never met these men. Examples include Myra Hindley and Karla Homolka. Some of these women appear to be enthusiastic participants in the tortures and murders, however.
While the pervasive image of the white male as a serial killer is merely a stereotype, white males are more likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 5% of serial killers. Hispanics account for approximately the same percentages. Whites make up around 75% of the population but 90% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately more likely to be serial killers.
Serial murder before 1900[]
- Further information: List of serial killers before 1900
Although the phenomenon of serial murder is generally regarded as a modern one, it can be traced back in history, with a limited degree of accuracy.
Liu Pengli, cousin of the Han Emperor Jing, was made king of Jidong in the sixth year of the middle period of Jing's reign (144 BC). In the evenings, according to the Chinese historian Sima Qian, he would "go out on marauding expeditions with twenty or thirty slaves or young men who were in hiding from the law, murdering people and seizing their belongings for sheer sport." Although many of his subjects knew about these murders, "so that [they] were afraid to go out of their houses at night," it was not until the twenty-ninth year of his reign that the son of one of his victims finally sent a report to the Emperor. Eventually, "it was found that he had murdered at least 100 or more persons." The officials of the court requested that Liu Pengli be executed; however, the emperor could not bear to have his own cousin killed, and Liu Pengli was made a commoner and banished.[1]
In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in France, Gilles de Rais, is said to have abducted, raped and killed at least 100 young boys whom he brought to his castle as pages. The Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory was arrested in 1610 and subsequently charged with torturing and butchering as many as 600 young girls. Like Liu Pengli, De Rais and Báthory were rich and powerful; therefore, although their crimes were known in their areas, they were not brought to justice for a long time. Chronicles of the times dealt largely with the affairs of the powerful; moreover, there was a lack of established police forces, at least in Europe, during those centuries. Therefore, there may have been many other classical or medieval serial killers who were either not identified or not publicized as well.
Thug Behram, a gang leader of the Indian Thuggee cult of assassins, has frequently been said to be the world's most prolific serial killer. According to numerous sources, he was believed to have murdered 931 victims by strangulation by means of a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult between 1790 and 1830, thus holding the record for the most murders directly committed by a single person in history. In total, the Thugs as a whole were responsible for approximately 2 million deaths according to Guinness. The notoriety of the Thugs eventually led to the word thug entering the English language as a term for ruffians, miscreants, and people who behave in an aggressive manner towards others. Recent scholarship has cast doubt on the Thuggee cult and suggested that the British in India were confused by the vernacular use of the term by Indians and may also have used fear of such a cult to justify their colonial rule (see Kevin Rushby's "Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult, and the British Raj").
In his famous 1886 book Psychopathica Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing notes a case of serial murder in the 1870s, that of an Italian man named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a sexual obsession with blood and confessed to murdering six people. The unidentified killer Jack the Ripper slaughtered prostitutes (the exact number of victims is not known) in London in 1888. Those crimes gained enormous press attention because London was the center of the world's greatest superpower at the time, so having such dramatic murders of financially destitute women in the midst of such wealth focused the news media's attention on the plight of the urban poor and gained coverage worldwide. Joseph Vacher was executed in France in 1898 after confessing to killing and mutilating 11 women and children, while American serial killer H. H. Holmes was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 after confessing to 27 murders.
Some historical criminologists have suggested that there may have been serial murders throughout history, but specific cases were not adequately recorded. Some sources suggest that legends such as werewolves and vampires were inspired by medieval serial killers. Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Werewolves is a prime example of such an idea, mixing crimes which would today clearly be called serial killings with the development of a specific mythology.
Types of serial killers[]
A significant number of serial killers will show certain aspects of both organized and disorganized types, although usually the characteristics of one type will dominate. Some killers descend from being organized into disorganized behavior as their killings continue. They will carry out careful and methodical murders at the start, but as their compulsion grows out of control and utterly dominates their lives, they will become careless and impulsive. regardless the FBI generally categorizes serial killers into the two different types.
Organized types:[]
are usually of high intelligence, have an above average IQ (105-120 range), and plan their crimes quite methodically, usually abducting victims, killing them in one place and disposing of them in another. They will often lure the victims with ploys appealing to their sense of sympathy. For example, Ted Bundy would put his arm in a fake plaster cast and ask women to help him carry something to his car, where he would beat them unconscious with the cast and spirit them away. Others specifically target prostitutes, who are likely to voluntarily go with a serial killer posing as a customer. They maintain a high degree of control over the crime scene, and usually have a good knowledge of forensic science that enables them to cover their tracks, such as by burying the body or weighting it down and sinking it in a river. They follow their crimes in the media carefully and often take pride in their actions, as if it were a grand project. The organized killer is usually socially adequate and has friends and lovers, often even a spouse and children. They are the type who, when captured, are most likely to be described by acquaintances as "a really nice guy" who "wouldn't hurt a fly." Some serial killers go to lengths to make their crimes difficult to discover, such as falsifying suicide notes, setting up others to take the blame for their crimes, and faking gang warfare. The case of Harold Shipman, an English family doctor, is slightly unusual in that his social position and occupation was such that he was able to portray victims as having died of natural causes; between 1971 and 1998 he killed at least 250, and possibly well over 400, of his own mostly elderly patients – and until very near the end of his rampage it was not even suspected that any crimes had been committed.
Disorganized types:[]
are often of low intelligence IQ below average, 80-95 range and commit their crimes impulsively. Whereas the organized killer will specifically set out to hunt a victim, the disorganized will murder someone when the opportunity arises, rarely bothering to dispose of the body but instead just leaving it at the same place in which they found the victim. They usually carry out "blitz" attacks, leaping out and attacking their victims without warning, and will typically perform whatever rituals they feel compelled to carry out (e.g., necrophilia, mutilation, cannibalism, etc.) once the victim is dead. They rarely bother to cover their tracks but may still evade capture for some time because of a level of cunning that compels them to keep on the move. They are often socially inadequate with few friends, and they may have a history of mental problems and be regarded by acquaintances as eccentric or even "a bit creepy." They have little insight into their crimes and may even block out the memories of the killings.
Regarding motives, they can be placed into five different categories, Although there may be some serial killers that seem to have characteristics of more than one type.
Contrary to popular opinion, serial killers are rarely insane or motivated by hallucinations and/or voices in their heads. Many claim to be, usually as a way of trying to get acquitted by reason of insanity. There are, however, a few genuine cases of serial killers who were compelled by such delusions.
Herbert Mullin slaughtered 13 people after voices told him that murder was necessary to prevent California from suffering an earthquake. Mullin went to great pains to point out that California did indeed avoid an earthquake during his murder spree.
Ed Gein claimed that by eating the corpses of women who looked like his deceased mother, he could preserve his mother's soul inside his body. He killed two women who bore passing resemblances to his mother, eating one and being apprehended while in the process of preparing the second woman's body for consumption. He also used the flesh of exhumed female corpses to fashion a "woman suit" (as well as various other household adornments, such as curtains and lamp shades) for himself so that he could "become" his mother. After his arrest he was placed in a mental facility for the remainder of his life.
So-called missionary killers believe that their acts are justified on the basis that they are getting rid of a certain type of person (often prostitutes or members of a certain ethnicity), and thus doing society a favour. Gary Ridgway and Aileen Wuornos are often described as missionary killers. In Wuornos' case, the victims were not prostitutes, but their patrons. Missionary killers differ from other types of serial killer in that their motive is generally non-sexual. Arguably, Jack the Ripper may also fit this role.
This type kills for the sheer pleasure of it, although what aspect they enjoy varies. Yang Xinhai's post capture statement is typical of such killers' attitudes: "When I killed people I had a desire sexual excitement. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern"[1]. Some killers may enjoy the actual "chase" of hunting down a victim more than anything, while others may be primarily motivated by the act of torturing and abusing the victim while they are alive. Yet others, like Jeffrey Dahmer, may kill the victim quickly, almost as if it were a chore, and then indulge in necrophilia or cannibalism with the body. Usually there is a strong sexual aspect to the crimes, even if it may not be immediately obvious, but some killers obtain a surge of excitement that is not necessarily sexual, such as David Berkowitz, who got a thrill out of shooting young couples in cars at random and then running away without ever physically touching the victims.
Gain motivated[]
Most criminals who commit multiple murders for material ends (such as mob hit men) are not classed as serial killers, because they are motivated by economic gain rather than psychopathological compulsion. There is a fine line separating such killers, however. For example, Marcel Petiot, who operated in Nazi-occupied France, could be classified as a serial killer. He posed as a member of the French Resistance and lured wealthy Jewish people to his home, claiming he could smuggle them out of the country. Instead he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing 63 people before he was finally caught. Although Petiot's primary motivation was materialistic, few would deny that a man willing to slaughter so many people simply to acquire a few dozen suitcases of clothes and jewelry was a compulsive killer and psychopath. However, it is impossible to understand the true motivation in such cases.
Power and control[]
This is the most common serial killer. Their main objective for killing is to gain and exert power over their victim. Such killers are sometimes abused as children, which means they feel powerless and inadequate, and often they indulge in rituals that are linked, often very specifically, to forms of abuse they suffered themselves. One killer, for example, forced young girls to perform oral sex on him, after which he would spank the girl before finally strangling her. After capture, the killer claimed that when he was a child his older sister would force him to perform oral sex on her, then she would spank him in order to terrify him into not telling their parents.[How to reference and link to summary or text] The ritual he performed with his victims would negate the humiliation he felt from his abuse as a child, although such relief would only be temporary, and like other such killers, he would soon feel compelled to repeat his actions until eventual capture. (The vast majority of child abuse victims do not become serial killers, of course, meaning that such abuse is not regarded as the sole trigger of such crimes in these cases.) Many power/control-motivated killers sexually abuse their victims, but they differ from hedonistic killers in that rape is not motivated by lust but as simply another form of dominating the victim.
Serial killers in popular culture[]
- See also: List of fictional serial killers
Because of the horrific nature of their crimes, their highly varied personalities and profiles, and their ability to evade detection and kill many victims before finally being captured and imprisoned, serial killers have always fascinated people and have been featured in many novels, movies, songs, comic books, true crime, video games, and other media.
Serial killer memorabilia and serial killer lore is a subculture revolving around the legacies of various infamous and notorious serial killers. While memorabilia is generally confined to the paintings, writings, and poems of infamous killers, a market has expanded in recent years with serial killer encyclopedias, trading cards, and action figures. Some of the best known articles of serial killer memorabilia include the clown paintings of John Wayne Gacy and the poetry of Jack Unterweger.
- Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Journey into Darkness. Pocket Books, (1997). ISBN 0-671-00394-1
- Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Pocket Books, (1997). ISBN 0-671-01375-0
- Lane, Brian and Gregg, Wilfred. The New Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers. Headline Book Publishing, (1996). ISBN 0-7472-5361-7
- MacDonald, J. M. "The threat to kill." American Journal of Psychiatry 120 (1963).
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- Ressler, Robert K. and Schachtman, Thomas. Whoever Fights Monsters. St. Martins Mass Market Paper, (1994). ISBN 0-312-95044-6
- Schechter, Harold and Everitt, David. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Pocket Books, (1996). ISBN 0-671-53791-1
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- Wilson, Colin. A Plague Of Murder. Robinson Publishing, Ltd., (1995). ISBN 1-85487-249-4
- Elliott Leyton. Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer (1986) McClelland and Stewart ISBN 0-7710-5025-9
- Holmes, Ronald. Holmes, Stephen. "Murder in America". Sage Publishing ISBN 0-7619-2092-7
See also[]
- List of serial killers by country
- Mass murderer
- Offender profiling
- Spree killer
External links[]
- Crime Library's Serial Killer page
- Serial Killer 'Hit List' at Mayhem.net
- The aetiology of serial murder by Ed Mitchell, University of Cambridge
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- ↑ Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian. tr. Burton Watson. Revised edition 1993, Columba University Press. Han Dynasty Volume I, p. 387


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In 2003, when I was thirty, I left Milan and my job as an investment banker to resume an activity that had been given up by my grandfather and mother, which was to them little more than a hobby: winemaking. Since my mother's last harvest, in 1987, the world had changed and viticulture made no exception. That's why I had to start from scratch, or nearly so. I bought new land, replanted obsolete vineyards, built a modern cellar, selected an oenologist who shared my same view of wine and worked side by side with my workers on the farmland to understand its dynamics and complexities.
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Sannio is an area of Campania almost unknown to most people and off the typical tourist trails. Although located at just 45 miles from Naples, Sannio is quite different from the Campania stereotypes as to culture, climate and morphology: a rural land with vineyards and olive groves extending as far as the eye can see. Standing at the Apennines' foot, it borders Campania, Apulia and Molise. Vines, imported from Greece, spread over the whole Magna Graecia area and therefore also in Campania. Wine produced in this area was the most widely drunk in Rome coming through Pompeii market until the fatal eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, that obliterated Pompeii and put an end to its worldwide trades.
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We grow nearly 1500 olive trees of different ages. Varieties are those typical of Sannio: Ortice, Ortolana and Femminella, from which we obtain three monocultivar extra virgin olive oils.
We only use organic fertilizers, trim regularly and don't use artificial watering systems. Our training system is a 20 x 20 feet polyconic vase.
There is a lot of talk about organic farming these days, often in an incomplete way, sometimes just as a commercial topic to ride the fashion of the moment. I think instead that organic farming, defined as the search for an optimal balance of the plant in its ecosystem, must be a primary objective of a farmer, and not the result of an economic calculation. I believe that avoiding using chemical synthesis products or forced irrigation, allows to obtain healthier and better fruits and therefore reduces need of intervention when processing grapes into wine.
On the other hand, it is now proven that the continuous use in organic farming of a heavy metal such as copper, in the long run, makes the land sterile.
However, nature alone produces vinegar, not wine, and it would be short - sighted to think that enology does not contribute to the improvement of the quality of wines, as organic wine fanatical implicitly suggest.
My goal is to produce authentic wines without extremisms. Therefore my wines are filtered, I use selected yeasts, I add sulfites to the minimum extent necessary and I will not try to convince you that a defect is to be understood instead as a distinctive feature of a wine.
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* - Passed Dave Righetti as all-time Yankees saves leader.
** - Passed Trevor Hoffman as all-time MLB saves leader.
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By Angela Mers Regional Marketing and PR Manager at YPO Honoring Global Innovators Initiating Breakthroughs that Inspire Positive Transformation
DALLAS – 17 May 2017 – YPO, the premier chief executive leadership organization in the world, concluded its second-annual YPO Innovation Week by announcing the winners of the Global Innovation Awards, which honors those YPO members who have created transformative innovations and nurture continued growth and opportunity for leaders around the world.
In addition to recognizing the top ten innovators from among more than 24,000 YPO members across 130 countries, the Global Innovation Awards also honors Asia's top innovator and the top young adult innovator, who is a child of YPO member (ages 17-29).
"The Global Innovation Awards highlight those distinguished innovators who are leading the way in creating forward-thinking companies and significant opportunities for this and the next generation. These leaders are making an indelible mark in the world," said Keith Alper, Chair of YPO Innovation Week.
During May, 2017 YPO Innovation Week connected influential entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders to exchange ideas about inspiration, breakthroughs and transformation through more than 50 signature events, live two-way interactive video casts and livestream events around the world. At the conclusion of the week, YPO announced the top Asian innovator in Hong Kong and the Global Innovation Award winner in New York City.
2017 Global Innovation Award Winners:
Global Innovation Award – Michael Golway, President and CEO of Advanced Solutions, Inc Michael Golway is the inventor of the BioAssemblyBot®, the world's first 3D human tissue printer that uses a six-axis robot (www.bioassemblybot.com). BioAssemblyBot® is a disruptive technology that allows researchers to complete their experiments faster, pharmaceutical companies to take cost and time out of the drug development process and a new approach to solve for diseased or failing organs. In addition to selling the innovation to customers around the world, Advanced Solutions Life Sciences is using the BioAssemblyBot® technology platform in its own labs to help advance the science including developments to support the goal of 3D printing human organs.
Global Innovation Award – Asia Top Innovator – Tadahiro Kawada, President of Kawada Industries Tadahiro Kawada is the President of Kawada Technologies, Inc, overseeing multiple businesses including construction, ICT, aviation, environmental, and robotics. With a background in mechanical and aerospace engineering, he led the research and development of humanoid robots at Kawada, collaborating with the University of Tokyo and Japanese government agencies. Since 2000, the Kawada Group has developed more than 10 variations of biped humanoid robots. Kawada's newest robotics product, NEXTAGE, is an industrial-use collaborative robot (cobot) that empowers manufacturing companies, facilitating factory innovation and labor efficiencies.
Global Innovation Award – YPO Next Generation – Nicholas Ackerman Nicholas Ackerman is the developer of bCODE technology, providing companies with a method of delivering tickets to all mobile users by utilizing SMS. bCODE technology has since evolved, now offering services for retailers and credit card companies, allowing for consistent consumer engagement and dynamic delivery of incentives to reward or encourage loyalty behavior.
"Congratulations to the 2017 Global Innovation Award honorees as they highlight the innovation and breadth of talent of the global YPO network," said Scott Mordell, CEO of YPO. "Acknowledging their originality and inventiveness is a perfect way to cap off the second-annual YPO Innovation Week."
The top finalists for the YPO Global Innovation Awards include:
Rex Briggs, CEO of Marketing Evolution Marketing Evolution is an independent SaaS platform for measuring and optimizing the entire marketing mix and creator of ROI BrainTM, which uses person-level analysis to deliver detailed message rotation, targeting and media mix optimization for every media.
Mark Hadland, CEO of Level11 Level 11, a user experience software development firm, has recently partnered with Carnival Cruise Corp. to develop the largest guest-facing, Iot platform designed to deliver personalized guest experiences at scale.
Gregg Hill of Frustum Frustum is a pioneer in functional generative design and topology optimization software for industrial designers and engineers, recently introducing its proprietary geometry kernel designed to move the 3D Computer-Aided Design market to true generative design and optimization.
Samir Kulkarni, CEO of Showcase Showcase is a 105-store national chain based in Canada and one of the most innovative retailers in North America, fueled by groundbreaking trend technology and a nimble supply chain.
George Kurtz, President, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdStrike CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company focusing on next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and incident response through cloud-based endpoint protection.
Stuart Lacey, Founder and CEO of Trunomi Trunomi is reinventing the way in which financial institutions interact with customer data, securely connecting financial institutions to their customers with a consent-based data sharing platform. Its consent-based platform revolutionizes the way financial institutions interact with customer data, in full compliance with data privacy regulations.
Rao Mulpuri, CEO of View, Inc View, Inc is the first company to successfully advance the large-scale commercialization of dynamic glass, a new generation of architectural glass that transitions through multiple tint states to control the sun's energy.
Josh Siegel, Chairman and CEO of StoneCastle Financial Corp. Siegel has created Cambr, a financial toolkit that enables brands and developers to easily build financial apps and features on StoneCastle's network of more than 700 insured community banks, essentially the first Banking in the Cloud (BAAS) platform.
Tej Tadi, Founder and CEO of MindMaze
Tadi founded MindMaze in 2011 to develop technologies that help patients recover from brain injuries. The company recently has launched devices, which use virtual reality, brain imaging and gaming technologies to retrain the brain in stroke victims. MindMaze is now developing solutions for spinal cord injury and amputee patients.
About YPO Innovation Week
YPO Innovation Week offers global chief executives with learning events and networking opportunities designed to infuse innovation into their companies, form strategic partnerships, and positively affect their businesses and the communities in which they work. YPO leaders were able to leverage new partnerships in innovation, integrate innovation into their company culture, and convert ideas into actionable plans, through YPO Innovation Week.
YPO Innovation Week 2017 held events in more than 30 countries around the world, including Tel Aviv, Israel; New York, New York; Melbourne, Australia, Silicon Valley, California; Hong Kong, China and more, all dedicated to driving innovation across a diverse range of industries. The week featured idea jams, workshops, live-streamed panels, insider company tours, global conference calls, TED-style presentations and debates.
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YPO is the global platform for chief executives to engage, learn and grow. YPO members harness the knowledge, influence and trust of the world's most influential and innovative business leaders to inspire business, personal, family and community impact.
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Yankee Candle Large Jar Amber & Sandalwood
Experience Yankee Candle®, totally reinvented. This new take on our iconic jar shape is designed to create the best experience to date. The two wick medium jar candle weighs 368g and is made from the highest quality blend of soy wax. Perfectly enhance any moment at home either individually or as part of a beautiful candle arrangement. Hand-illustrated labels and vibrant wax colors are in perfect sync with our distinctive, exclusive and trusted fragrance to enhance your home.
Burn time: 60 to 90 hours
Wax: Smooth soy wax blend that ensures a clean and consistent burn.
Fragrance: High quality ingredients that produce authentic and exclusive fragrances
Wick: 100% natural fibers, rigorously tested to ensure optimal combustion.
Dimensions: 9.3cm x 15.7cm


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Tonight, the Sox got back up off the mat. They were down a run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, having been unable to solve Cliff Lee for most of the game, when Kevin Youkilis and his lumberjack's ruddy beard, stepped to the plate and fired a single into left to bring what Don Orsillo called "Bonus Baseball" to Fenway.
Mike Cameron put a charge into the first pitch he saw in the 10th inning from Rangers reliever Alexi Ogando. NESN hadn't even finished going over Ogando's stats when they had to kill the graphic and call what looked to be the walkoff home run for Boston.
Instead, as the camera homed in on deep left center, Nelson Cruz reached into the Boston bullpen and plucked the homer back.
Cameron's face, as he stopped dead in his tracks just past first base, was deadpan. Numb. Shocked. On the dugout steps, Papelbon swore. Manny Delcarmen was warming, about to make his first appearance coming off the DL. No pressure, kid.
But Delcarmen was solid, and backed by stellar defense from Adrian Beltre and Do-it-all-Bill-Hall, who pulled a Dustin Pedroia impression, diving onto his face to snag a grounder and end the top of the 11th, giving the Sox another turn at bat with the score still tied.
A sacrifice and an error later, and the Sox had men at second and third with no outs in the 11th. The Rangers intentionally walked Ortiz, loading the bases.
Inexplicably, the Rangers elected to walk Papi and have submariner Darren O'Day face the man who'd tied the game two innings earlier. Once again, Youkilis delivered, in the form of a walk-off sacrifice fly to deep center, scoring Marco Scutaro for the first Red Sox win of the second half.
Just call this the MacGyver team, because right now they're engineering wins with a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and a turkey baster.


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Lil Pumpkin Party- When my Maisy turned two in October, we celebrated with a big party on at our local pumpkin patch. Check out the post for details on how to create your own invites, pumpkin cupcakes, and lots of fun party details.
Transforming Goodwill Furniture: Have you ever found a chair on the side of the road? I have! Read the post for tips and tricks for turning a "garage sale find" into a statement piece.
Coffee Bag Pillows: You never know where inspiration will hit- even in your local coffee shop. Transform a $5 coffee bag into a unique throw pillow.
Bathroom Redo: What started as a simple coat of paint turned into a major renovation. My husband loves his sledgehammer!
Painted Curtains: Love the bold look of stripes but can't find the right fabric at the right price? Make your own!
Playroom Re-do: Just because it is home to Barbies and baby dolls doesn't mean it can't be well-designed. Find out how to turn your play area into a room that you can be proud of.
Funky Camera Strap: Do you sew? Have you ever tried? Take a chance and create this super simple camera strap cover. Perfect for gifts or keep it for yourself :)
Creating a Unique Home: Learn to love your home! It might not be perfect, but nothing good ever is. Read my post to find out how I have transformed my house into a beautiful, comfy place that we are happy to call home.
Fit for a Princess: Upcycled Headband Holder: Do you live with royalty? I have one princess and one queen under my roof. So hair accessories are literally everywhere! Use an old oatmeal can to create a chic holder for all your 'pretty things'.
Rapunzel Party: Tangled is a favorite in my house, so when my girl turned 5 I knew that Rapunzel would be the theme of the party. We created a fun and easy party- complete with a tower cake, lots of free printables, and of course one long braid!
The Ruffled Lamp Shade: In an effort to bring more neutrals into my home, I had to think of a way to disguise my bright red lampshades. And thus the ruffled lamp shade was born. You can never have too many ruffles!
And don't forget all the fun holiday decor!
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To those of you who comment on my posts, follow me on facebook, subscribe to my emails, and pin my ideas-- just know that none of it goes unnoticed. I am truly amazed by the amount of people who take the time each day to spread the word about my little hobby.
I can't wait to see what 2012 will bring. I appreciate the support from all of you, my dedicated, caring, crafty readers. And of course I couldn't do it without my amazing sponsors. These small businesses are run by women just like me- moms who are finding a way to balance family and passion. If you know someone who would enjoy sharing in the "Crafty Texas Girls" journey, please feel free to pass it along. Crafting is more fun with friends!
I am thrilled at the success of Crafty Texas Girls and my esty shop "Samantha Conner Designs".
I can't wait to continue crafting, creating, and designing. You- my friends and family- are my inspiration! Happy New Year!
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The decline of wild bees and other pollinators may be an even more alarming threat to crop yields than the loss of honeybees, a worldwide study suggests, revealing the irreplaceable contribution of wild insects to global food production.
Scientists studied the pollination of more than 40 crops in 600 fields across every populated continent and found wild pollinators were twice as effective as honeybees in producing seeds and fruit on crops including,
Furthermore, trucking in managed honeybee hives did not replace wild pollination when that was lost, but only added to the pollination that took place.
"It was astonishing; the result was so consistent and clear," said Lucas Garibaldi, at the National University in Río Negro, Argentina, who led the 46-strong scientific team.
"We know wild insects are declining so we need to start focusing on them. Without such changes, the ongoing loss is destined to compromise agricultural yields worldwide."
Pollination is needed for about three-quarters of global food crops.
The decline of honeybee colonies due to disease and pesticides has prompted serious concern.
Jason Tylianakis, at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, described them as,
"the species charged with protecting global food security".
The new research shows for the first time the huge contribution of wild insects and shows honeybees cannot replace the wild insects lost as their habitat is destroyed.
Lucas Garibaldi said relying on honeybees was a "highly risky strategy" because disease can sweep through single species, as has been seen with the varroa mite, and single species cannot adapt to environmental changes nearly as well as a group of wild pollinators.
"The studies show conclusively that biodiversity has a direct measurable value for food production and that a few managed species cannot compensate for the biodiversity on which we depend," said Tylianakis, who was not part of the research team.
Garibaldi's team, whose work was published in the journal Science (Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance) on Thursday, warn:
"Global degradation of natural services can undermine the ability of agriculture to meet the demands of the growing, increasingly affluent, human population."
Garibaldi said:
"Without wild pollination, you will not get the best yields and the best agricultural land already farmed, so it is very important to get the maximum yield."
He added that, across the world, the yields of crops that needed pollination were rising significantly more slowly (see "Global Growth and Stability of Agricultural Yield Decrease with Pollinator Dependence") than crops that did not.
Wild pollinators perform better than honeybees because they deploy a wider range of pollinating techniques, such as "buzz" pollination. They also visit more plants, meaning much more effective cross-pollination than honeybees, which tend to carry pollen from one flower to another on the same plant.
A second new study published in Science on Thursday showed more than half the wild bee species were lost in the 20th century in the US.
It made use of a remarkable record made of plants and pollinators at Carlinville, Illinois between 1888 and 1891 by entomologist Charles Robertson.
Scientists combined that with data from 1971-72 and new data from 2009-10 to discover the changes in pollination seen over the century as widespread forest was reduced to the fragments that remain today.
They found that half of the 109 bee species recorded by Robertson had been lost and there had been a serious degradation of the pollination provided by the remaining wild insects, with their ability to pollinate specific plants falling by more than half.
There was an increasing mismatch between when plants flowered and when bees were active, a finding consistent with climate change, according to the researchers.
Laura Burkle, at Washington University in Montana, who led the work, said:
"There are two sides to this coin. These pollination systems are incredibly robust to environmental change, it is almost miraculous that they continue to pollinate given the land use changes. But the system is also incredibly compromised and further degradation will have serious impacts."


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Greetings from the Department of Natural Resources Atchafalaya Basin Program!
News: Daily Comet: Terrebonne coastal restoration project nears design phase The Advocate: Macaluso: Chill, winds back in the picture KLFY: Invasive Asian bug could mean trouble in Louisiana Daily World: Melville to host cleanup day Jean Lafitte National Park: New Acadia Project presents findings Save the Date: Attakapas: the Story of the Cajun People, March 26 and 27. A dynamic, immersive multi-media concert performance that incorporates visual projection and live music to tell the story of the Cajun people of Louisiana. 7:30 pm both nights at 101 West Vermilion Street in Lafayette Acadiana Dragon Boat Festival, March 28 from 8 am to 6 pm at 102 Main Street in New Iberia Bushcraft Demonstrations, March 28 from 9 am to 10 am at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville Bayou Vermilion Novice Canoe/Kayak Lesson & Guided Paddle Trip, March 28 from 8:30 to 11:30 am at Vermilionville in Lafayette Swamp Maple Paddle at Grand Gueule, March 28. Meet at Pack & Paddle in Lafayette at 9 am. Chalmette's Crawfish Festival, March 26 - 29 at the Sigur Cultural Center, 8245 West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette World Championship Crawfish Etouffée Cook-Off, March 28 - 29 from 10 am-6 pm at the Northwest Community Center Pavilion, 501 Samuel Drive in Eunice Twenty-Five Years at Vermilionville, April 1 from 10 am to 4 pm at Vermilionville Alligators: Dragons in Paradise, a traveling exhibit from the Museum of Florida History TREX program. March 7 through June 6 at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge Les Mains Guidées: Wood carving, April 4 from 10 am to 12 pm at Vermilionville Fly Fishing 101, April 9 at 6 pm at Pack & Paddle in Lafayette Kayaking 101, April 9, meet at Pack & Paddle at 5 pm Cycle Zyedeco, April 8 - 12, 200-mile bike ride through Acadiana Cajun Hot Sauce Festival, April 10 - 12 at the SugArena at Acadiana Fairgrounds in New Iberia Cypress Sawmill Festival, April 10 - 12 at Kemper Williams Park in Patterson Scott Boudin Festival, April 10 - 12 at Lions Club Roak in Scott Washington Catfish Festival, April 16- 19 at 143 Veterans Memorial Highway in Washington Bayou Teche Black Bear Festival and Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Festival, April 17 - 19 in downtown Franklin Top of the Teche, a 7.7-mile canoe race from Leonville to Arnaudville, April 18 Azalea Trail, April 1- 30 in New Iberia
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Checking the water:The information below is obtained from the USGS and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and has been compiled by DNR into this format to allow a quick look at information pertinent to the Atchafalaya Basin. Click here for current weather conditions and water levels.
Data is for 3/27/2015
Ohio River at CairoLocation: Southernmost gauge on the Ohio River in Illinois Reading significance - used to forecast rises on the Mississippi. Lag time, 4 to 6 days.Flood Stage: 40'Stage: 40.9'24 hour change: -0.4'Forecast: expect to FALL to 38.5' by 4/1
Mississippi River, just south of ORCS, at Red River LandingReading: Mississippi River south of ORCS, after the diversion into the Atchafalaya Flood Stage: 48'Stage: 51.9'24 hour change: +0.5'Forecast: expect to RISE to 52.5' by 4/1, expect to CREST at 52.5 on 3/31
Mississippi River at Baton RougeFlood Stage: 35'Stage: 35.2'24 hour change: +0.4'Forecast: expect to RISE to 36.0' by 4/1, expect to CREST at 36.0 on 3/31
Mississippi River at New OrleansFlood Stage: 17'Stage: 13.5'24 hour change: +0.4'Forecast: expect to RISE to 14.2' by 4/1, expect to CREST at 14.2 on 4/1
Atchafalaya River, just south of ORCS, at SimmesportReading: The combined latitudinal flows of the Red, Black, Ouachita, and ORCS flow from the Mississippi Flood Stage: 47'Stage: 32.6'Forecast: expect to RISE to 33.3' by 4/1
Atchafalaya River at MelvilleFlood Stage: 34'Stage: 25.2'Forecast: expect to RISE to 26.0' by 4/1
Atchafalaya River at Krotz SpringsFlood Stage: 29'Stage: 22.3'Forecast: expect to RISE to 23.0' by 4/1
Atchafalaya River above Butte LaroseFlood Stage: 20'Stage: 15.9'Forecast: expect to RISE to 16.4' by 4/1
Atchafalaya River at Bayou Sorrell Locks on the GIWWFlood Stage: 12'Stage: 8.4'Forecast: expect to RISE to 8.7' by 4/1
Atchafalaya at Millet (Myette) PointFlood Stage: 15'Stage: 9.2'Forecast: expect to RISE to 9.4' by 4/1
Atchafalaya River at Morgan CityFlood Stage: 6'Stage: 5.1'Forecast: expect to RISE to 5.8' by 4/1
Murphy Lake near Bayou SorrelStage: 13.24'
Lower Grand River at Bayou SorrelStage: 6.54'
Bayou CourtableauStage: 18.91'
Middle Fork, Bayou LongStage: 6.51'
Arm of Grand Lake near Crook CheneStage: 12.85'
Pontoon Bridge at Butte LaroseStage: 11.38'
Lake Pelba at I-10, HendersonStage: 15.17'