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Policy Principles
Policy is a means to achieve the successful implementation and scale of integrated pathways. To facilitate the policy change process, JFF has identified five policy principles that we recommend that each state consider as it prepares, updates, and expands a detailed policy work plan.
Systems and Culture Change | Scale and Sustainability | Feedback Loops and Information Dissemination | Integrating Hard and Soft Policy
Systems and Culture Change
A primary reason to focus on policy is to create deep and lasting culture change around the value of integrated pathways for low-skilled adult learners. This effort focuses on changing attitudes among college staff and students, policymakers, and other stakeholders so that they see ABE students as valued members of the community college population, capable of earning college-level credentials and deserving of an equitable share of state and federal educational resources.
Policy plays two roles in facilitating culture change: as an active promoter, policy encourages practitioners to embrace integrated pathway models through policy strategies centered on engagement and consensus building. This approach might include creating cross-agency or cross-institution working groups for stakeholders to engage one another and centering professional development on bringing together national experts and individuals new to integrated pathways. State teams cannot expect culture shift to happen "organically" within three years. An active, guided effort is necessary to accelerate the process.
The second role is troubleshooting. The state must avoid or remove policies that constrain the ability of practitioners to be innovative around acceleration strategies. Poorly designed policy—unfunded, contradictory, unclear, top heavy, overregulated, or excessively punitive—has the potential to break down trust and undermine implementation. If institutional staff and faculty feel that state policy efforts are inadequately designed or implemented, they are less likely to support the initiative, even if they support integrated pathways in general.
Scale and Sustainability
We suggest that states view scale and sustainability as a core component of policy from the very first day. Scaling and sustainability strategies are not just about numbers and enrollments, states and colleges must also work on breaking down silos for expansion within the college, while also building out integrated pathways across the state.
Sustainability requires not just a long-term plan for funding and for managing assets and resources as a result of braided funding, but also includes the capacity to mobilize those resource well after the grant is over. Sustainability includes a high priority being placed on "shift in reform ownership" in which the key stakeholders exercise responsibility and authority. Planning to increase funding and staff capacity to match the targeted growth in the integrated pathway models is essential. This approach requires deliberate engagement; it is not enough to assume that long-term plans for the state or any work groups include these goals. Nor should state teams wait to think actively about scale and sustainability. Instead, consider scale and sustainability as measures for all policy change, at every step in the implementation process.
Feedback Loops and Information Dissemination
Lack of clear communication is a major impediment to policy reform efforts. Without knowing the experiences of local practitioners, state agencies cannot craft effective policies. The same is true for federal agencies as they shape national strategies. All of the partners engaged in the policy efforts must work to ensure that information flows effectively both upward and downward. State teams must engage a range of staff from the colleges on a regular basis around policy changes (both those made and those under consideration). Ways to do this include listening tours, conducting interviews and surveys, or by including college staff on the state policy team.
Integrating Hard and Soft Policy
The definition of state policy is necessarily flexible. In some instances, "policy change" applies to the more traditional definition that policymakers are familiar with, including rule changes (e.g., legislation, regulations, and guidelines), formal agreements tied to outcomes (e.g., MOUs, contracts, state grants), and definitional clarifications that have broad impacts across entire systems. These types of policy are often mandatory, requiring college staff to change behavior, and they are critical to ensuring that ambitious initiatives succeed.
At JFF, we also embrace a wider ranging definition of policy. In this sense, the term "policy change" is more about shifting educational practice through professional development and culture change. This type of policy hinges on building buy-in among key constituents. It also requires that system and institutional staff collaborate to ensure that recommended changes are enacted.
The contrast between these two types of policy is captured in the terms "hard" policy (rules, regulations, and formal agreements) and "soft" policy (consensus building; standardization of practice). Focusing primarily on hard policies limits effectiveness for several reasons:
- Governance: Every community college system operates to varying degrees on a shared governance model that requires consensus, not top-down fiat, to ensure success.
- Implementation processes: State regulations are often unavoidably or intentionally ambiguous and require local translation. All hard policies are vulnerable to this distortion effect.
- Buy-in: Institutional staff who are not engaged throughout the policy design and implementation process will feel disconnected from an initiative and less likely to provide the critical mass necessary to ensure maximum impact and culture shift.
JFF strongly encourages state policy teams to consider both hard and soft policies as they think about policy levers and other policy efforts aimed at improving the adoption, expansion, and sustainability of integrated pathways models.


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I just had to share this photo with Kit Up readers on this balmy spring Friday in Washington, DC.
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U.S. Special Forces are extracted from a mountain pinnacle in Zabul province, Afghanistan, by a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade after executing an air assault mission to disrupt insurgent communication.
That's some pretty sweet flying and some kick ass action from our boys in The Stan! (Click here for the full resolution version)
PS -- Please forgive the weirdness going on here at Kit Up like the broken comments. As I said earlier this week, we are migrating the blog to a new blogware provider and implementing a redesign. This should be completed by the end of the day and we'll re-start commenting with a better user experience. Thanks for your patience...


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Respiratory Disease is defined as medical conditions which affect the breathing organ and tissues including Inflammatory lung disease, Obstructive lung diseases, Restrictive lung diseases, Respiratory tract infections, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, the nerves and muscles breathing , etc.
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the air way of the lung with recurring symptoms, such as wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. The disease affects people of all ages, and mostly starts during childhood. According to American academy, allergy, asthma and immunology, about 1 in 10 children (10%) had asthma and 1 in 12 adults (8%) had asthma in 2009. (about 25 million, or 8% of the U.S. population).
Epidemiological studies, linking herbs in reduced risk and treatment of asthma have been inconclusive but certain herbs have been found to be effectively in some studies.
Marine algae have been used as food products and herbal medicine in many countries throughout human history with an abundance of algae floral. In recent studies, marine algae may consist great sources of chemical ingredients in treating inflammatory and allergic disorders, such as such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and allergic rhinitis (7)(8). According to the study at Pukyong National University, many marine macro- and microalgae have been reported to have potential to ameliorate the effect of asthma and further studies are needed to identify the molecular mechanism of this disease to apply those marine resources against asthma effectively(9). Iota-Carrageenan, derived from red seaweed showed to be potent against anti-rhinoviralas (HRVs may worsen COPD and asthma), it effectively prevented the replication of HRV1A, HRV2, HRV8, HRV14, HRV16, HRV83 and HRV84 in primary human nasal epithelial cells in culture(10).
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Wow, it has really taken a long time to get from reputation 69 to 70.. But I finally made it - thanks to all who helped and supported me along the way!
Not only am I now a reputation 70 Steemian, but I am also currently in position 70 in the list of witnesses (although unfortunately, my server has been offline for the last few hours due to further issues with the memory capacity - the cause of which is unclear, but I am investigating and will have the server back online again soon).
I attempted to find out who has the highest reputation on steemit and where I am in comparison, but since steemwhales.com is the main site I know of for that data and it is currently broken (the data is weeks out of date), I don't have an answer to that enquiry.. I am thinking I will add a page to steemocean.com to provide that data soon!
In a way, reputation is just a number, but it does give specific abilities - such as being able to downvote and reduce the reputation of other users who are lower. I actually think this is a bit unfair because reputation is only a measure of how many upvotes an account has received (plus the Steem power value of those votes) - so reputation can be BOUGHT and that means that the whole system can be twisted by whoever has the most money.
All that said though, reputation is still a measure of success and community support for most of us, so I am happy and thankful to have reached this milestone. When I started out posting regularly to Steemit, I'm not sure there was anyone at the level of 70. I think now possibly the highest reputation is 79.
Incidentally, I do respect the power of being able to lower the reputation of others and I have almost never downvoted anyone. I tend to only do it when they obviously lying, being obnoxious deliberately, scamming or demonstrating other destructive behaviors that are not beneficial to peace or wellbeing.
How long does it take to reach 70?
Everyone is different, so there is no fixed speed - but my reputation was around 30 at the beginning of 2017 and it has taken me about 3/4 months at least to get from 69 to 70 I think. I have seen new users jump from 25 to 44 in one day with just a few valuable upvotes - but progressing beyond around level 55 requires dedication and a lot of hard work, since the higher our reputation goes, the more upvotes we need to get to the next level.
The other thing to consider is that along with all those upvotes comes Steem payouts, so in principle if we have a high reputation, we have also been paid out significant amounts of money. I am pretty sure that to get to a reputation of 80 you would have to have been paid out over a million US dollars worth of rewards from STEEM - probably multi millions! I am nowhere near that level, so if I ever get to reputation 80 I will be in a vastly different situation to where I am now.. I might even throw a party and pay for as many as I can to attend! lol
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text: Why is this week the same as all other weeks? Because there are Jews in the news.Passion Of The Christ 2: Back With A Vengeance: I don't think there's anything I can say that's as funny as a planned sequel to "Passion of the Christ," announced earlier this week. And yes, it will be directed by Mel Gibson. Line is at +200 that Gibson compares his Hollywood trials and tribulations to his protagonist in an interview.Israeli teens are suing the BDS activists who petitioned Lorde: A really stupid saga enters its next chapter: Litigation, baby! The three teens have filed a "test case of a law passed in 2011 that allows civil lawsuits to be filed against people who call for a boycott against Israel."Paul Nehlen, foisted by his own petard: Do you ever do that thing where you try to convince people that you're not anti-Semitic by posting lists of your critics and pointing out that they're mostly Jewish? If so, you might be Wisconsin Republican Paul Nehlen. Here's Nehlen: "The list stems from a BuzzFeed article that used my phrase 'Jewish media' as a slur, when in fact, it was a truthful statement. Consequently, I felt it was pertinent to lay the facts out and let the public decide."Support peacocks in shul: The non-Jewish part of this story is that a woman was tried to board a United Airlines flight with an emotional support peacock and was denied, which is something in itself. The wholesome, Jewish side of this is a very thoughtful answer posted on Chabad.org answering the question of whether or not an emotional support peacock would be allowed in a house of prayer.


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The FLSS Junior Committee held 2019 elections at their November 2018 meeting.
Megan V will serve as President, Sam P will serve as Vice President, Crista K will serve as treasurer, Leah B will serve as social media coordinator, and Brianna T/Catherine B will serve as Public Relations.
The members are looking forward to upcoming projects and to increased growth of Junior Membership!
Addition Atrium Remodeled!
The Addition Project was held on Sunday, November 11th at 10:00 AM. The group painted and redecorated the addition atrium , as well as completed some major fall cleaning!
Junior Friends Committee
To create & identify opportunities for Junior Friends Members to promote, support, & supplement the educational & recreational activities offered at Lord Stirling Stable through regular meetings, frequent projects, fundraising, & more!
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Was born in Blagoveschensk (Russia, Far East). Started musical education in 13 years old, taking piano lessons and music theory in music school. Later had mostly self-taught education. In 2018 graduated Moscow Film School as film composer. Also have engineering diploma, studied computer graphics and neigboring subjects. Worked as character animator for TV-series, computer games.
What does music mean to you personally?
It's a big part of my life. May be, it's opinion to make some beauty and bring it to people. May be, it means to be useful. To be somebody in this world.
Do you agree that music is all about fantasy?
I think it's not. Music is largely engineering process, and there are many tricks and tips to make music looking reasonably. But music made without fantasy is not interesting for me (and for other people, I hope), even it's technically perfect.
If you were not a professional musician, what would you have been?
I'm engineer for my first diploma, and I studied computer graphics, illustration, animation and other neighboring subjects later. Also I'm interested in cinematography, that's why my musical specialization is named «Film Scoring».
The classical music audience is getting old, are you worried about the future?
I don't think so. Visiting different concerts in Moscow, listening symphonic orchestra, organ, piano, vocals, chamber ensembles, classical music and avant-garde I always seen many young people in the hall. And, of course, classical traditions is in demand for cinema very much.
What do you envision the role of music to be in the 21st century? Do you see that there is a transformation of this role?
It's very difficult to answer this question... Of course it's happening. I think, it demands on technical progress more than another aspects. When vinyl appeared, music compositions became shorter and more concentrated in expression, songs became a general genre, industry changed... Now we have cloud technologies, hence people have unlimited access to any musical genre and style they prefer, at any time they want. I think it means the music will become more differentiated, the audience will consist of different communities. And a number of musical icons, recognized by all the people will decrease... Or not)
Do you think that the musician today needs to be more creative? What is the role of creativity in the musical process for you?
Musician must be always creative. How else? Another thing is that giant part of contemporary music is more sound design then music... Especially in cinema. But it needs not less creativity, in some other aspects.
Do you think we as musicians can do something to attract the younger generation to music concerts? How would you do this?
Less pathos, I think) And more naturalness. We must do what we love and enjoy it by ourselves. And go to social networks. And more humour)
Tell us about your creative process. What is your favorite piece (written by you) and how did you start working on it?
Really, I love songs. My favourite music is written in 1960-1980-s, mostly by Russian composers, mostly for cinema and basically it was songs. Song is the foundation of Russian film music (rather in that time). So, many of music I have written is just melodies for supposed songs and it lies in a drawer waiting for best times. And my favourite music written by me is one of it, i think. I can say, it isn't written yet.
Can you give some advice for young people who want to discover classical music for themselves?
Start listening it from Beethoven. I started from him.
Do you think about the audience when composing?
Honestly, no. I hope that my taste in music matches most. I think that I'm an ordinary man (not spoiled by the conservatory, as somebody say), so I write music for my own pleasure, and it works.
What projects are coming up? Do you experiment in your projects?
I graduated Moscow Film School a month ago, and now I'm looking for a jobs. I hope it will be soon and interesting... And because of fact that I'm not a musician with classical career path, all my musical composing is a big experiment.
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In 2019, I was fortunate to be invited to join as an associate researcher two world-class institutions.
In June 2019, I was appointed an associate researcher with the Big Data Science Lab at the West University of Timisoara in Romania. This will lead to some interesting and important collaborations, in the data governance space, culminating with several conference presentations, and co-authored publications.
In July 2019, I joined, as a researcher with the Center for Advanced Studies in Public Policy, Governance at the Paraiba State University in Brazil. This collaboration will lead to the internationalization of the Center's work on Internet Governance, and will produce seminars on Internet Governance, as well as original research on Internet Governance, and Human Rights.
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The WannaBeatles
We were invited to the Grammys because our album "Fab Fan Memories - The Beatles Bond" had been nominated for an award in the Spoken Word category. The big event at Staples Center, televised by CBS, occurred Sunday night, February 12, but there were other events, too. Sunday afternoon was the "pre-telecast" segment, where our particular category would be announced. There was also a "Special Merit Awards" ceremony the day before, on Saturday afternoon, followed by a reception for nominees. We didn't want to miss a thing, so we flew out from Nashville on Friday, Feb. 10.
That afternoon, we drove to the Wilshire Ebell Theater to attend the "Special Merit Awards" ceremony. No performances; just dignified tributes to very deserving honorees. And very personal stories from the various heroes and their family members. Among the acts that moved us were Memphis Horns and the Allman Brothers. Butch gave testimony to the enduring vision that Duane Allman had, which continues to endure even though he died at 24.
Representing the Memphis horns, with whom he played on classic records by Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, etc., Wayne Jackson, walking with a cane, told of his high school trumpet teacher, celebrated the 83 number one albums he played on, and called saxophonist Andrew Love his "best friend."
Roger Nichols (famous for engineering The Steely Dan albums), Rudy van Gelder (likewise for classic jazz acts of the '50s through '80s), Steve Jobs and Diana Ross were among others honored at the ceremony... and Gil Scott Heron, Dave Bartholomew (Fats Domino's producer/arranger), and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The reception after that ceremony included handing out medallions for all the nominees and taking official Grammy photos. There was live music from groups composed of brilliant high school students who attend Grammy Camp. They sang and played as if they were much older, very seasoned pros.
We also saw our friend Peter Cooper from Nashville and Laura and Ed Hill. Peter writes for The Tennessean; Laura is the director of Jam Camp; her husband Ed was nominated for Best Country Song, "Just Fishin'" by Trace Adkins. It was that afternoon that the news that Whitney Houston had died spread like a small brush fire through the crowd.
When we were leaving the reception, waiting in line for our cars, I noticed "Weird Al" Yankovic, and pointed him out to Holly. He was a fellow nominee, so I had a reason to tell him how much I enjoyed his work, but I didn't want to bother him. Holly - "the good yoko" - took up the slack, walking up to him and telling him her husband was too afraid to come up and tell him how much he admired his work. Holly found him to be a very natural and down-to-earth guy, there with his wife, very appreciative of the compliment.
Sunday morning we got dressed for the big day and went to the Grammys, which was like diving into full scale LA-hype machinery on red alert: big tents, security, laminated ID tags, parking passes, numbered invitations, red carpet, lights, cameras, media people from around the world, TV screens showing highlights from previous grammy shows... all a bit of over stimulation.
As nominees, we could walk down the red carpet gauntlet, with camera crews and interviewers lined up along the right side, a white wall decorated with the Grammy logo along the left side, where all the glamorous subjects could pose for photos. An intern would help us find our way to various media spots, and we'd talk about our album in whatever way we could that seemed newsworthy.
Part of what makes our album interesting, and made this part of the trip tricky, was the involvement with Louise Harrison, George's older sister. She hosts the record, introducing the questions and presenting an authentic British presence to the interviews. She traveled to the Grammys with Marty Scott, who plays the part of George in The Liverpool Legends. Since Louise was not officially a nominee, she was technically not allowed into the red carpet area where nominees are interviewed. But that was solved when Nathan offered his nominee ticket for Louise to hold to get past the guard who was checking that particular credential. On our second pass down the gauntlet, Lou and Marty were joined by one WannaBeatle, making a group of three, while the three remaining WannaBeatles searched for other interview possibilities.
From that point, we went into the Convention Center for the Pre-telecast. It was actually sort of boring, since it was in the convention center, which felt like 10,000 chairs in a dark box. People were getting up, leaving, going back to their seat, milling about... very haphazard, except for the stage, where a band played walk-on and walk-off music, and the non-broadcast awards were announced and received, as various artists said their thanks.
We were excited about our chance. The Spoken Word category was approaching. They announced the nominees. They mentioned our album, and all our names. Then, they opened the envelope, and said "Betty White." So that was it. On my way out, I passed Allison Krauss walking in.
We headed over (with 10,000 other guests) to Staples Center and shuffled into seats to hear Ken Ehrlich, the producer, tell us what a great show we were about to watch. Opening up was Bruce Springsteen, singing "We Take Care of Our Own" with a string section augmenting the E Street Band. That was the beginning. It was three hours of abundant musical talent, and expensive production to go with it.
I loved Bruno Mars - his proto-James Brown soul revue number was just as hot as a musical performance could be in my book. Also, that was when I felt ready to admit, "now it's official: the bow tie is back." LL Cool J was sporting one as the host, then Bruno as the front man for the soul band.
It was one amazing show after another. You could see elaborate sets being erected behind the Grammy sets, and you could imagine vast teams of headphone wearing directors shouting instructions to keep the event moving.
I was ery glad to see Bonnie Raitt doing a scaled down duet with Alicia Keys in a tribute to Etta James...
Very glad to hear Beach Boys songs, three of their best ones, as augmented by members of Maroon 5 and Foster the People...
Very glad to hear Sir Paul doing his stately little standard "My Valentine" with Diana Krall & Joe Walsh on nylon string guitar, and a string section...
Very glad to hear Glen Campbell doing "Rhinestone Cowboy"...
Glad to hear Tony Bennett doing "It Had To Be You" with Carrie Underwood, although he's beginning to show his age (after years of very impressive singing in his 80's)...
And very impressed with Chris Brown, as a dancer & gymnast.
The winner that night, not only in terms of Grammys, but in terms of audience sentiment, was Adele. Every time her name or album was announced as a winner, you could hear the crowd roar in support.
We did not get to meet Sir Paul. However, we had a great time, and our seats at the live broadcast were only 200 feet away from where McCartney performed. So I consider that to be a step in the right direction.
There was an after-party. It was staged with carnival dancers on floats just undulating endlessly. In another room, Kenny Loggins was hammering out his hits.
Then Monday morning was checking out, fighting traffic, and flying home. Arriving at the Nashville airport, we saw Mayor Karl Dean. He had been at the Grammys. He waited at the luggage carousel just like a regular guy. That said a lot about the difference between LA and Nashville.
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Drinks: Cocktails: $4 off | Draft pints: $2 off | Whiskey of the day: $5
Food: Select appetizers: $3 off
The Smoked Pull Pork Sliders are a hearty and shareable app, with tender and seasoned meaty goodness. The Poutine is also a good bet because when are smothered fries not the move. To drink, browse the list and go with whatever bourbony barrel-aged cocktail your taste buds desire.
Our Overall Rating: 4/5
With all cocktails $4 off, a $5 whiskey, and an upstairs patio adorned with fairy lights, it's hard not to fall in like with Bourbon's Happy Hour. The cocktails boldly feature the spot's namesake, letting you find your bourbon forte. With so many cocktail offerings, the nosh is necessary and enjoyable.


text: Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy in 1445. He is one of the pronounced Italian artists who participated in the Italian Renaissance at the time. Botticelli gained fame when he was called on to paint the Sistine Chapel in 1481 by the Medici family. Botticelli is still a very famous artist today. Botticelli was born in Florence where the Italian Renaissance really began, and there were themes that started there that would be used throughout the art created. One example would be Humanism. Humanism was something during that time where people began to believe humans were more important than God or the divine. It stressed that humans could do things on their own rather than with the help of the supernatural. Before that, a lot of art was centered on the church and God. Another theme of the Renaissance was the style and how people painted or drew as well as their execution of the art. People had much more freedom than that of someone from another time, such as the medieval period. Some types of techniques that they used more were multiple point perspective, anatomy study, realism, and different styles of art. Botticelli contributed to these in his artwork. In Florence on March 1, 1445, Sandro Botticelli was born, his father was a tanner at the time and when he Sandro grew older he had him apprenticed as a goldsmith. He was the youngest of his father's sons. His father later had him apprentice Filippo Lippi when he found his son preferred painting. Botticelli learned new techniques and art styles such as linear perspective and fresco. Then by 1470 he was a well-known artist in Florence and established his own workplace. Botticelli never married and lived with his family for a while, but he did receive a good education, his apprenticeship with Filippo helped him with his development in the arts. His artwork mostly, again, developed under his apprenticeship with Filippo Lippi. He learned the traditional Florentine style of linear perspective and emphasized human figures with sharp contours. Some examples would be The Birth of Venus and The Adoration of the Magi. His early style of painting was influenced by the use of light and shade, which became very popular for many artists at the time. Botticelli focused on the traditional Florentine art style at the time, keeping the themes of perspective and linear shape. His art is mainly taken from the Bible, like Madonna of the Magnificat, and mythology, such as The Birth of Venus (Aphrodite in Greek). His paintings have the form and content of Ut Pictura Poesies; meaning "As is painting, so is poetry." (Grendler). His later style is when a new style of art began to emerge when Botticelli worked on frescos and churches as well as chapels. "These frescoes show a new concern with the construction of stage-like spaces and stiffer figures, also seen in a series of altarpieces of 1485 and 1489. A bow to the newly fashionable work of the Domenico Ghirlandaio and of Flemish painting is implied, but the tense linearity of the figure reveals the Botticelli's art had not undergone any fundamental changes." (Gale). Botticelli concentrated on paintings with smaller figures, and he used the same sharp lines, so he could make it very vibrant and detailed. Some of his artworks he created were The Fortitude, which was a painting that gave him his reputation as a great artist. One of his most popular portraits was a man holding a medallion of Medici, which he blended the style of the time with his own style. He also worked on illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, but he passed before he finished them. These are just a few of his very well-known pieces of art.


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A discussion of index-based natural catastrophe protections by Jean-Paul Conoscente, Jean-Yves Nouy, Christophe Gaudron and Emmanuel Dubreuil.
Indices have been used in many different markets to establish the basis of remuneration of a contract. An obvious example is a basket of investments referenced to the NASDAQ or the NYSE indices. Such approach has also been used over the past ten years in the insurance and reinsurance industry, mainly under two forms, catastrophe (CAT) bonds and weather derivatives. In such contracts, the loss experience of the cedant has no reflection on whether a loss is paid out or not. Instead, payment is triggered only when the contractual index exceeds a pre-agreed threshold. Typically, the amount paid is also a function of how much the index exceeds the threshold, with a pre-agreed cap or limit.
The risk transfer can be carried out in two different ways:
In the case of CAT bonds, both types of contracts are used, since a financial contract is passed between investors and a special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up for the transaction, and a reinsurance contract is passed between the cedant and the SPV.However, to date, both CAT bonds and weather derivatives have had limited success.
Bonds and derivatives
CAT bonds seemed to be the answer to the hard reinsurance market worldwide after the large natural catastrophe losses between 1989 and the mid-1990s, including the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, the European windstorms of 1990, the Japanese typhoon Mireille of 1991 and hurricane Andrew in 1992. CAT bonds were devised to transfer natural catastrophe insurance risks to the financial markets, through financial SPVs.
While a number of transactions have been successfully placed over the past decade, their development remains very limited because of the large frictional costs involved (legal investment banker catastrophe modelling fees, etc.). These costs are typically of the order of 1.5% to 2% of the capacity placed. Indeed, in spite of the current hard reinsurance market, the number of CAT bond transactions and the capacity available in 2001 and 2002 remain very limited.
Similarly, weather derivatives were developed in the US in the 1990s after energy deregulation. Companies, such as energy producers, were able to protect their balance sheets against seasonal changes that might affect their revenue, while keeping their costs constant. Weather derivatives were developed to trigger when excess variations around a seasonal average temperature occurred, therefore protecting the ceding (or issuing) company against a warm winter or a cool summer, which would reduce the demand for electricity.
In such transactions, no loss needs to be proven; the cedant receives a payment once the contractual index exceeds a certain threshold. This market has developed substantially in the US, primarily with energy-related companies. However, its development outside the US energy market remains limited, again because of the important frictional costs involved (intermediary fees and correlation study fees) and because the deregulation of most energy markets in Europe and Asia still lags behind the US.
Transaction of interest?
Despite these apparent setbacks, cedants and risk takers remain interested by an index-based concept for transferring natural catastrophe risks. Cedant companies are interested because the product is a bridge between the financial and the reinsurance markets, it does not require any clause or event definition and the payment is available very quickly.
The major drawback for a cedant remains the correlation or basis risk, i.e. the risk that the money received will be less than a company's actual loss. A detailed comparative analysis of the proposed index and a company's portfolio loss can mitigate this risk, as well as adapting the index as closely as possible to a company's loss profile.Similarly, risk takers are interested in underwriting index-based transactions because the quality of data available is typically better than the information usually available in traditional CAT placements, the transactions carry no run-off and they are very simple to settle. Given the hardening insurance and reinsurance markets and the remaining interest in such transactions, a number of solutions have been proposed using physical measurements of natural catastrophes with as little transaction frictional costs as possible.
Structure for windstorm
An example of such cover is the index-based reinsurance protection Benfield Greig placed for a large French insurance company to protect itself against French windstorm.
There are three steps required to structure such a transaction:
An example of the selection of meteorological stations is presented in Figure 1, to construct a wind index for a pan-European portfolio. This selection is representative both of the exposure distribution of the cedant's portfolio, of the vulnerability to damage of the risks insured to the peril under consideration.
In a second step, weighting factors are assigned to each station, in function of the cedant's regional loss potential, including exposure and vulnerability. For example, windstorm damage to individual homes is typically higher as a percentage of the exposure than storm damage to apartment buildings. This can be reflected in the weighting factors assigned to each station, according to the distribution of such risks in the cedant's portfolio.
Using the measured wind speed at each station and the assigned weighting factors, a portfolio index is derived, taking into account the spatial correlation between the different stations (i.e. what is the wind speed at station A given that the wind speed at station B is X). An example of the spatial correlation between different French meteorological stations is shown in Figure 2. This shows, for example, that the wind speed measured near Marseille (Marignane) on the Mediterranean is highly correlated to the wind speed measured further west along the coast at Sète and highly independent of the wind speed measured in Paris (Athis-Mons).
The transaction is then designed to trigger for a given index value (or attachment point) and the cover is exhausted once the index exceeds a certain threshold (or exhaustion point). This type of non-proportional agreement is the same one used in traditional reinsurance transactions, except that in this case, the attachment and exhaustion points are expressed in kilometres per hour instead of a monetary value. Then, as with weather derivatives, the payment received is a function of the wind speed payment in excess of the attachment point and of the monetary value assigned per kilometre per hour.
Despite the lack of previous enthusiasm for index-based transactions, both cedants and reinsurers remain interested in such an approach, especially if the structural costs are kept to a minimum and the prices asked by reinsurers and investors remain competitive with traditional reinsurance. A number of market players, including Benfield Greig, believe that the further growth of this market will benefit all participants and are actively pursuing its development.
By Jean-Paul Conoscente, Jean-Yves Nouy, Christophe Gaudron and Emmanuel Dubreuil
Jean-Paul Conoscente, Jean-Yves Nouy, Christophe Gaudron and Emmanuel Dubreuil are with Benfield Greig in London.


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Project Superpowers #6
It is the final confrontation between the alien invader P:andora and the surviving members of Project Superpowers. Can they make one last stand? Do a sense of hope and true heroes still exist in this world? Or will all life on planet Earth be a thing of the past?
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ORANGE, NJ – In his two-plus decade stint at the head coaching helm, Randy Daniel has built a tremendous program at Orange. Under his guidance, the Tornadoes have been a perennial state section playoff contender, while producing myriad talented players who have gone on to play at major colleges and even in the NFL.
For the past few years, the Tornadoes have fielded a mostly young team. But this year, Daniel's squad is upperclassmen-laden.
"This is a junior- and senior-heavy team," said Daniel, entering his 22nd year as the Tornadoes head coach. "This is the one year we don't have to play freshmen or sophomores. The whole team is juniors and seniors. That's rare for us. That's what I'm excited about this year."
The Tornadoes have one of the most exciting players in the state in Nyquee Hawkins. The junior wide receiver/defensive back is rated as one of the top players in the nation for the Class of 2019 with dozens of scholarship offers from several Football Championship Series schools. In addition to his athletic prowess, Hawkins has a great work ethic.
"He is one of the hardest working kids to ever come through here," Daniel said. "You can debate who is the best player to come through here, but you can't debate who is the hardest working kid to come through here. He has been working out with us since seventh grade."
Another positive change for the Tornadoes is the fact that they have legitimate linemen. In the past, the Tornadoes would have to convert natural skill players due to a lack of linemen. But that's not the case this season, much to Daniel's delight.
Senior four-year starter Wilgens Previlon (offensive guard/defensive tackle) leads the line on both sides. Senior center Joshua Fields and senior guard Rakeem Statum also will be featured on the O-line.
George Crespo, a junior, is back as the starting quarterback.
"George is the key to everything," Daniel said. "We're going to go as far as he takes us. He's a hard worker and a great kid. He's the hardest working quarterback I've ever had. He's tough. That's going to be his strength."
The running game is led by senior Zach Kirkland, a speed back who is shifty, noted Daniel.
Defensively, senior Nasir Givens and junior Nigel Thomas are relentless ends. Thomas returned to OHS last year after playing at DePaul High School in Wayne in his freshman season.
"We expect the ends to be the strength for us up front," Daniel said.
Senior inside linebacker and three-year starter Mahkye Boswell spearheads the defense.
"He is the 'coach', the 'general.' He is the one who will line up everybody," Daniel said of Boswell.
The Tornadoes, normally a Group 2 or Group 3 school, have been reclassified to Group 4 this season by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. They are in North Jersey Section 2, Group 4. With a schedule that includes lower Group opponents, the Tornadoes will face the challenge of gaining enough power points to qualify for the state section playoffs.
Daniel feels his team has the pieces to have a successful season. But the main concern is to take it "one day at a time," he said.
"We think we are going to be good, but we're going to play some good teams," Daniel said. "We're going to have to be at our best. We just can't walk out there and beat those teams. We feel good about it, but we're going to have to earn it."
Sept. 9, at Ferris, 1 p.m.
Sept. 15, Mahwah, 7 p.m.
Sept. 23, West Essex, 1 p.m.
Sept. 30, at Passaic Valley, 1 p.m.
Oct. 7, Barringer, 4 p.m.
Oct. 14, at Nutley, 1 p.m.
Oct. 21, Parsippany Hills, 1 p.m.
Oct. 27, at Central, 7 p.m.
Nov. 3, Chatham, 7 p.m.
Records for past three years
2016: 6-5 (Section 2, Group 3 state playoffs, lost to Morris Hills, semifinals)
2015: 7-3 (Section 2, Group 3 state playoffs, lost to Ridgefield Park, first round)
2014: 6-4 (Section 2, Group 3 state playoffs, lost to Parsippany Hills, first round)


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We're grape experts – it's in our blood! At Dida's Distillery (pronounced "did-uh"), our spirits are distilled 100% from grape – we grow the grapes, press the juice, and ferment the wines at our Virginia Farm-Winery, Rappahannock Cellars, in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Adjacent to our tanks and barrels of our wine cellar, the stills of Dida's Distillery carefully extract the essence of the wines, concentrating them into hand-bottled expressions of each vintage. Distillation begins at the source: the crops. With our 30 years of grape growing and winemaking experience, our Virginia Distillery exemplifies a truly "farm-to-table" production process, pioneering a new frontier of American Grape Spirits. Our aged and clear spirits alike are concentrated expressions of our ultra-premium craft wines: the highest quality grapes are pressed and fermented into intense wines, then small-batch distilled in our custom 100-gallon pot/column hybrid copper still. Whether it be our luxurious brandy, groundbreaking vodka, and refreshing gin, our family's winery-based distillery brings new, unique, and innovative life to your favorite cocktail or beverage.
Dida is Croatian for "Grandfather", and it's what we called our grandfather, Paul Mariani. His father grew up on the island of Vis off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, where one of the primary crops was (and still is) Viognier grapes – the very same varietal named the State Grape of Virginia. In 1906, great-grandpa Dida emigrated to California where he planted fruit trees and continued farming to support the family. His son, grandpa Dida, built the farm into the Mariani Fruit Packing Company, which is run today by our family. In 1996 our parents, John Delmare and Marialisa Mariani-Delmare, moved our family to the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, leaving behind their winery in California (Saratoga Vineyard / Mariani Vineyards in Saratoga, California, now Savannah-Chanelle Winery). In 1998, John founded Rappahannock Cellars near the headwaters of the Rappahannock River in the northern tip of Rappahannock County, just a few miles south of the quiet town of Front Royal, Va and a little over an hour outside Washington, DC. John is a "hands-on" owner who works side-by-side with our family in the day-to-day operations. Of us 12 children, three now work full time at the family businesses (Allan, 2nd, Distiller at Dida's; Kelly, 4th, Tasting Room Manager at Rappahannock; and Teresa, 6th, Wine Club Manager at Rappahannock), while many of our other siblings support the tasting rooms on weekends.
We started work on Dida's Distillery in 2015 with the purpose of producing 100% grape-based spirits made from Rappahannock Cellars wines. True to our family history and expertise, we saw the incredible potential in distilling from grapes rather than grains. Our wines are renowned for their quality, flavor and aroma, and they distill into smooth, yet complex spirits. Our winemaking and distilling teams work passionately side-by-side in our cellar to produce incredible wines and distill them into remarkable spirits. For grape-based spirits, we don't stop at barrel-aged Brandy; Dida's Distillery currently offers Vodka, Gin, and three different styles of "immature" Brandy, with aged Gin coming in late 2018, and multi-year aged brandies to follow.
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Designer: Anna e Gian Franco Gasparini
"Sbriciola" is a Bread board, easy to use also but not only in the kitchen, designed by Anna and Gian Franco Gasparini, with large lengthwise slits and a little drawer that holds the crumbs falling through the slits. The drawer is separated into two compartments - the smaller one houses the bread knife and is located under the slit-free part so the crumbs don't get in; the second one is the same size as the slitted area, so it can collect the crumbs that form when you cut the bread.
bread board in bamboo wood with crumb catcher in thermoplastic resin.
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CBC darling (Definitely Not The Opera gave him a boost with its Big Break contest) and proud Prince Edward Islander Nathan Wiley could be the second coming of Tom Waits. On his phenomenal first record, Wiley shows what happens to a lonesome cowboy when he's stranded Down East, far away from the wide open plains: he drinks some hooch, adapts chameleon-like to his surroundings and becomes a dark and mysterious surfer-pirate-renegade hybrid. Bottom Dollar is a sunken-treasure bonanza, combining the brittle, bleached bleakness of twangy old country tunes (replete with eerie lap-steel guitar), groovy wavering surf guitars, back-room honky-tonk pianos and cabaret swagger. Each song is an origami-folded story, crafted like a lobster trap, with verses and choruses delicately interwoven and hammered in place between secret doors and hidden hinges. Wiley delivers the bar-stool confessions in a perfectly tarnished, gravelly warble that adds credence to his paeans to sin and regret. Perhaps this is the definition of pirate music -- hollow and lonely, desperate for love and oozing emotion, bourbon and soot.


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- Perugia, Italy
- Program Type:
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- Degree Level:
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- Term:
- Summer
Program Overview
- Program Description:
Spend your summer uncovering the archaeology and history of Castiglione del Lago in this charming medieval town in Umbra. As with all programs at the Umbra Institute, students will collaborate with the local community; you'll work with a local archaeological association and will help the municipality of the town to catalog findings and establish a new archaeological museum.
For six weeks, you will take one theoretical course and one practical course, giving you a comprehensive overview of the latest archaeological research and fieldwork as applied to the civilizations that shaped the area. Field study to various archaeological and cultural sites, including an overnight trip to Rome, are included in the program.
Arcadia University opens the doors to new experiences, different academic learning, people, cultures and perspectives so you can build your own lifelong learning and memories:
- Explore a new world – excursions, activities, events, …
- Get to know yourself - then change! Gain a new view of the world and your place in it.
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- Nestled between colorful cafes, restaurants, museums, and art galleries in the historical center, the Umbra Institute houses a library, computer facilities, art studios, student lounge, and multimedia classrooms. Travel to fascinating places of interest that enhance your cultural immersion and give a meaningful context to your academic courses. Here is a sampling of Arcadia's Excursions - for a complete list, please visit our website. · Amalfi Coast · Film Festivals · Trip to Roman Baths and Wine Vineyards · Explore Agriturismo, Outdoor Markets, Food and Flavors · and more...
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Europe needs no introduction. If it does, you've been living under a rock bigger than Uluru. But what's the best way to travel around Europe? I'm so glad you asked….
Travelling within a group, particularly those that are age-specific, means you'll usually come across like-minded, social and outgoing people. In every group you'll have the Party Animals, the Social Surfers, the Chillers, the weird guy*, the couples…this is starting to sound like an Attenborough transcript. You're pretty much guaranteed to meet friends for life.
Your tour guide, trip manager, possessor of one of the best jobs in the world, whatever you want to call them, genuinely care about each individual on the trip. Their knowledge is often unrivalled, even when compared to locals. Forget trawling through Urbanspoon for hours looking for somewhere for a quick bite and have faith in your trusty guide; he or she will know.
Europe Is Your Oyster
The world (or Europe in this instance) is your oyster. But if you don't know how to eat the Oyster, you'll come unstuck (stick with me here). Planned by travel experts, group tours can take you to every corner of the continent, and lots of secret spots you'd never have reached on your own. It's tempting to think that group travel means you'll miss out on those authentic experiences when, actually, the opposite is often true.
You'll have an itinerary, though this doesn't mean you'll have no free time to yourself. Don't feel obliged to take part in the optional activities if you don't want to. Just make sure you are awake and ready to go when you venture out in the bus to your next stunning location, the rest is up to you.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard a couple say that they met on a group tour in Europe *cough Contiki cough*, I would have be a millionaire by now. OK $10, but that's more than nothing. With average group sizes between 18 and 50, your odds are looking pretty shweeet!
In my view, one of the more underrated things in life is peace of mind. While some nomadic explorers have popularised travelling without an itinerary/map/backpack/trousers, it can be a relief to have a plan. With accommodation and transfers organised for every leg of the journey, you'll have peace of mind knowing that you'll have a roof over your head each night. Let others take care of the travel jargon and T&Cs while you're out in your own little care-free world, soaking up everything Europe has to offer.
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I can get shift states for scroll-lock, numlock, capslock, etc with ah=2, int 16h. Are there any interrupts that would set those states rather than just reading them?
This external discussion might be of some interest to you:
There you'll find examples of enabling scroll lock, num lock and caps lock in x86 assembly. I cannot vouch for them, since I haven't tried, and they use routines other than those availbale through BIOS to do the work.
I also did a check on interrupt routines (as I'm sure you already have), and found no mention of setting these states through BIOS interrupts.
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Thanks for that. Yes, I did look through the interrupt list, and didn't find any that did the job. I've since amended my program to do things a different way. But I'll take a look at the discussion anyway. It might give me some ideas for another day.


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"I ain't a crook; just a gentleman adventurer and make my living working against the law breakers. Not that work I with the police -- no, not me. I'm no knight errant either."
Carroll John Daly's short story, "The False Burton Combs," which first appeared in the December 1922 issue of The Black Mask, is often credited with being the first hard-boiled private eye story. Although the hero identifies himself as more of a "gentleman adventurer" working as a middleman between the cops and the crooks, rather than as a detective, although he does cop to having worked as a "soldier of fortune" in the past. And, as he's fond of saying, he "ain't a crook."
There's no doubt it's a transitional piece, looking backward to Poe and dime novel ideas of masculinity, but almost all the other elements that we we would come to associate with the hard-boiled detective genre are present and accounted for.
The unnamed hero of this tale ("Burton Combs" is the alias he assumes at one point -- we never learn his true name) is a hard-boiled sort of egg, a tough guy for hire, a cynical lone wolf wending his way through a corrupt world where the forces of law and order are ineffectual at best, and far too often just as crooked as the criminals they're supposed to be putting away. His ethics are a little on the shady side, and he'll go as far as killing if he has to, but he's held in check by his own rigid personal moral code.
Unfortunately, the story didn't exactly set the world on fire, perhaps because the undeniuable whallop of the story is slightly diluted by its rather sappy ending which seems to come out of left field.
But Daly (and Hammett [see below]) were definitely on to something. Daly would fill out his character and give him (slightly) more depth -- and a name. First it was "Three Gun Terry," whose first adventure is generally acknowledged as the first hard-boiled private eye story where the hero himself cops to being a private eye, and then Race Williams, who was essentially Terry under a new monicker, who would go on to appear in Black Mask and other pulps well into the 1950s.
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It should be noted that another school of thought posits that Hammett's "The Road Home," which appeared in the very same issue of The Black Mask, was the first hard-boiled detective story. Although the hero of that yarn doesn't identify himself as a detective either, but rather a "manhunter". Reading the two stories back-to-back (and in The Black Mask, that's exactly how they appeared: back to back) it's obvious the detective story is going through a monumental shift right before your eyes. Almost all the tropes of a new sub-genre are present or suggested in one or both stories.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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Do writers (truly) take time away from writing?
Does the muse and Creative Genie disappear for a time?
NO! There is no turning off the creative brain, for anyone! Instead a time of gathering, introspection, which road to travel, or an influx of new ideas consuming a writer in a myriad of directions. e.g. Core Vidal or J D Salinger!
Are these seemingly rest times? If only the Creative Genie would allow such pleasantries in peaceful moments…!
Writers scribble notes, and record ideas during impossible moments when the Genie appears with a NOW! (literatim!!) As I started an E-Book on TBI recovery, and within two hours time had written 6 pages.
Putting aside the wondrous relaxed moment, in swoops a complete book, verbatim, while driving to a meeting! Or as we slumber in deep restful sleep! And in meetings, we hear one word, which sparks an entire scenario.
presented; every word and picture in one large swoop!
What the audience may not see, there is never a down time for a writer. To reference J.D. Salinger – the infamous only book published, "The Catcher in the Rye," which continues to be read, voraciously. Mr. Salinger published a few articles and what is less known to public; Salinger wrote the rest of his life, never publishing another article or book.
These words are to assure all writers, particularly myself – for I have withdrawn for a time from public to be more public!
Writers must have times in the general public to enjoy life. A Walk, meeting Strangers, forming small intellectual groups and most necessary, having conversations. Fuels a writers broadening mind with ideas and words – words – words which paint a never ending visual for our readers.
On my cell phone, there are a myriad of subjects, spoken rapidly, oft times the phone does not spell out the correct words, which leaves me in a quandary, "What was the theme?" for only moments. The cellular contraption limits my allowance to record, especially when driving, I speak the visions while concentrating on traffic to a phone I cannot see, hoping it's capacity to record as quickly as my thoughts spew forth.
This is similar to speaking to one's hidden friend, whom no one else ever sees, as we gush forth the wonders of a new article, or part of a book.
Oh dear, those books!! As a trilogy sits unedited.
This is where I floundered!
I have read the first page to a few friends, watching their reactions. "Oh My, if my friends knowing me intimately, and react with such profountity; do I wish to proceed in the public domain at this time?
These are writers' choices and yet Isaac Asimov published over 500 books, all fictional and wondrous reads.
Core Vidal, over 50 books published in his lifetime, first published novel " Williwaw," in 1946 at age 21.
A Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer who wrote plays, television dramas and screenplays. Additionally, the unforgettable televised "Best of Enemies, William Buckley vs. Vidal; riveting repartee!
Creativeness never ceases. Look around this world, Nature is either blooming, feeding humans and animals. Artists are painting and sketching. Buildings are being built or torn down to build more. Gardens and public spaces are being constructed, beautifying the landscape, lending to large ponds where animals gather, ponds for geese to swim and take flight. A marvel in the present moment of viewing.
Take a walk through the endless lists of parks in your area. Visit the museums and view Creativity all around, from microscopic life, to monolithic towers.
Creativity is endless
We writers offer you stories and facts. We often fuel the imaginations of children and adults. What might seem a break from the public, is naturally another moment acquiring another acquisition to come.
Yes, I am on one of these wondrous adventurous breaks!
About the Author: MicheleElys is a Neurobehaviorist ~ Writer ~ Educator ~ Keynote Speaker.
"Concussions are a huge drain in the workplace!" 4-6 week training program relieving the agony of TBIs and concussions.
Founder of NBR [neural behavior recognition]. A recovery model for Trauma/TBI Improvement, Recovery to maintenance, Need a Consult? Connect with MicheleElys email LinkedIn, MicheleElys.com
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Through a notification dated 26 September 2017, the FSSAI has issued directions regarding the standards of tin that is used in packaging certain food products. The Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 2011, has prescribed that the packaging requirements for Edible oil/ fat are to be as follows
Tin Plate used for the manufacture of tin containers for packaging edible oils and fats shall conform to the standards of prime grade quality contained in B.I.S. Standards No. 1993 or 13955 or 9025 or 13954 as amended from time to time and in respect of Tin containers for packaging edible oils and fats shall conform to IS No. 10325 or 10339 as amended from time to time.
Through these directions, FSSAI has brought notice to the following changes in the above-prescribed standards
- There is now a revised edition of IS 1993 and the revised edition will supersede IS 13955, IS 9025 and IS 13954
- Containers made of tin are used for packaging other food products also besides edible oils and fats. Therefore the tin plates used for packaging of all kinds of foods have to be of the required quality which will ensure that all foods contained in the tin packaging are completely safe for consumers.
- Henceforth, manufacturers that make tin containers for packing of foods will have to keep in mind that any tin plate that they use for packaging food products must conform to the
- Specifications, as laid down in, IS 1993/ISO 11949 relating to cold-reduced electrolytic tinplate
- Any such tin containers once already used for packaging cannot be re-used for packaging of any article of food.
About Tinplate
Tinplate is a low carbon steel sheet that is coated on both sides with a thin layer of tin, through an electrolytic process. Tinplate is considered a primary raw material in the packaging industry because it is malleable and can be recycled. It has the flexibility and weldability to be shaped into tin cans and containers. The tinplate has a metallic luster which can resist corrosion.


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Optimism, opportunity abound at Global Leadership Conference despite gloomy economy
More than 600 of the world's leading business owners convened in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, from 7-9 May 2009 for the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) Global Leadership Conference (GLC). The annual conference provided attendees with a chance to exchange ideas, learn from experts and find inspiration in the role entrepreneurs play in leading global economic recovery.
"We were very excited to have the opportunity to gather so many entrepreneurial leaders in New Orleans," commented incoming EO Chairman Matt Stewart. "With entrepreneurs facing a unique combination of challenges and opportunities, the GLC gives us a unique opportunity to learn from each other and to discuss strategies that we can use to grow our businesses and lift the economy."
In its 2009 Global Economic Forecast Survey released in January, EO reported that more than 80 percent of members surveyed believe that entrepreneurs will play a significant role in economic recovery. In fact, one in five entrepreneurs surveyed is more likely to start a business in 2009 than they were last year. Highlighting the conference were remarks delivered by a lineup of leading figures from both the business and government sectors.
Speakers included Louisiana's current governor Bobby Jindal; the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Mitch Landrieu; and Warren Rustand, a leader in both business and government throughout the past several decades. Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley made a special appearance to help recognize those chapters earning Rock Star status in the organization. A second GLC is scheduled for EO chapters in the eastern hemisphere in Hong Kong, China, on 28-30 May 2009.
"The Global Leadership Conferences are designed to galvanize the EO leadership and to provide them with inspiration and direction for the coming year. The speakers and elective sessions at the GLC: New Orleans conference certainly achieved that goal," said Stewart. "EO exists to enable entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Based on the spirit of our conference attendees, I can confidently say that our members are excited and prepared to continue to lead the world's entrepreneurs into the future."
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I make jewelry working with stone, glass, and other beads I find many of my supplies in old, vintage, and broken jewelry pieces as well as swap meets garage sales, thrift stores and friends. I also sell older and vintage items I find that may only have needed a cleaning and bit of tlc, to be new once again for somebody who will love the item. I hope everyone enjoys my items as much as I enjoy making them.


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Seven days after hundreds of white nationalists paraded tiki torches through the University of Virginia campus, Shaun R. Harper, an expert on race and education, stood before the school's faculty and asked who had been disgusted by the white supremacy on display. Almost every hand rose. He nodded slowly. "Well, then do something about it," he said.
But as students return to campuses nationwide this week, administrators are grappling with what that "something" should be.
The racist violence last month in Charlottesville, Va., only punctuated a dramatic spike in white supremacist activity on American campuses that has forced a reckoning among competing values: safety, free speech and a commitment to tolerance and diversity. Some universities, fearing further violence, have responded by squarely prioritizing safety over expression, risking a collision with the First Amendment. Others are reviewing campus safety plans or seeking to counter white supremacists' message by starting conversations about diversity.
"When we talk about recruitment and the potential for violence, it is because the trends tell us this is a problem," said Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. "You saw it play out in Charlottesville."
His organization cataloged 115 incidents of white supremacist propaganda on Americans campuses between January and April, up from nine during the same four months in 2016. And domestic extremists killed more people in 2016 than in any other year except for 1995 — the year of the Oklahoma City bombing — since the group began keeping track of such statistics in 1970.
James Alex Fields Jr., who is accused of driving into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville and killing a woman, was photographed at the rally holding a shield with a logo Vanguard America, a leading white supremacist recruiter on college campuses.
"These extremists feel emboldened in the current political climate, and they openly boast about efforts to create a physical presence on campuses, where students are engaged in the war of ideas," Mr. Greenblatt said.
Last December, Texas A&M University was part of that battlefield. Richard B. Spencer, the white nationalist who led the Charlottesville torch bearers, gave a speech in a Texas A&M lecture hall, sparking protests that resulted in two arrests. Mr. Spencer was expected to speak again next week at a "White Lives Matter" event on the College Station campus, but the university's president, Michael K. Young, canceled the event, citing the advertisement headline "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M."
Mr. Spencer's venue requests for the fall semester have also been rejected at Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, Louisiana State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida. Florida's president, W. Kent Fuchs, wrote in a statement that "the First Amendment does not require a public institution to risk imminent violence to students and others."
But free speech advocates have pushed back. Since 2014, at least seven states have instituted campus free speech laws, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts, reinforcing the general law with penalties for campuses or students who suppress free expression. Just this year, lawmakers in 22 states considered similar bills, according to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Such laws could apply to incidents similar to last spring's cancellation of a speech by the divisive right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley. The school canceled the visit after demonstrators set fires to protest his appearance. Mr. Yiannopoulos is expected to return to the campus for a week of free speech rallies in the public plaza this fall.
"It's unlikely that courts will allow public universities to engage in obvious viewpoint discrimination, even when those views are extremely unpopular," said Robert Shibley, the executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a free speech group. "Speakers also may not be banned, or charged more for security, based on the expected reaction of their political opponents."
Such was the ruling in April, when Auburn University attempted to cancel a contract permitting Mr. Spencer's use of a school auditorium for a speech. A federal judge overturned the decision, citing the First Amendment, and the event took place amid raucous protests, resulting in three disorderly conduct arrests.
This semester, Auburn is trying a contrasting approach, starting a speaker series and dialogue program on "intellectual diversity and the free exchange of ideas" to engage with tense conversations before they breed violence.
"Experience informs strategy," said Taffye Benson Clayton, the vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at the school, reflecting on the lawsuit. "It's about engaging with people who think differently, in ways that are constructive. If anything, Spencer and Charlottesville has really intensified our resolve."
Schools are preparing in other ways: Dozens of college presidents have sent letters to incoming students to reiterate their commitment to tolerance. The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators — which has held trainings on preparing for polarizing campus visits — will host an October series to examine hate groups.
And Teresa A. Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia, announced that the school would hire groups to review the campus's safety infrastructure and policy on open flames. She also formed a group charged with evaluating the school's response to the events in Charlottesville, following criticism.
One early aspect of the response — Ms. Sullivan's initial four-sentence message posted on the school's website after the Friday night march — excluded any mention of racism, simply referring to the violence as "entirely inconsistent with the university's values." To Dr. Harper, the race and education specialist, nonspecific language — particularly in the midst of crisis — is part of the problem.
"Presidents and senior administrators ought not issue statements that make no mention of race in response to incidents and crises that are undeniably about race," he said in an interview. "To do so is a leadership failure."


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10 - 14 May
Casolin Giorgio & C.
Spindle moulder model F 45 EVO with tilting shaft +-45° . Compact and very strong machine. Designed for modular composition, with long plans 2630×770 mm and tenoning carriage. Base version with hanging control panel 3 axis - lifting-tilting - horizontal movement of front table- speed viewer. Standard spindle moulder fence with manual adjustment of the transverse movement driven and shoulder infeed, tool diameter 250 mm. Centralized lubrification pump spindle moulder unit. Interface with USB memory stick for saving even external programs. Machine ALL MADE IN ITALY.
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Circular saw from blade 300 mm up to 550 mm
Thicknesser Planer Model TS 810-630. Modern machine, safe and easy to use, with touch-screen supplied standard to manage all work functions. Exceptional driving ...
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|Sat 2 Nov 2019, 5:00pm–10:00pm
When Hawke's Bay starts to heat up, you know it's time to get outdoors and make the most of those balmy nights. Get your mates together, and start your summer right at an evening of beach-side beats at Clearview Winery.
Kick-back in the iconic coastal vineyard setting for a night of relaxed outdoor tunes, superb coastal wines, and fresh summer barbecue cuisine. Take your pick: sit underneath the blue umbrellas in the courtyard, or relax casually amongst the vines and let the good times roll. You'll be able to chat with the winemakers and chefs about all things coastal wine and food. Not to mention there will be Brave Brewery beer available for all the beer fans. It's set to be a night you won't forget in a hurry!
Ticket includes a food & wine passport with four food options and one complimentary drink. A cash bar for additional food & drink purchases is available.
Brimming with exquisite fresh produce and world-class food and wine, it's clear to see why Hawke's Bay is hailed as an epicurean's dream destination. It's a tough job knowing where to start, so that's why we created F.A.W.C! Food and Wine Classic – your one-stop culinary festival that brings together the best on offer from across the region. With 70+ events set in stunning locations over 10 glorious days, Summer F.A.W.C! is proving life doesn't get better than this.
Make the most of your F.A.W.C! experience by getting someone else to take care of the driving. Find out your options on the Transport page of the F.A.W.C! website.
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Huskers Set to Take on Seton Hall in Gavitt Tipoff Games
The Gavitt Tipoff Games match-ups are set for the 2018-19 season and Nebraska will host Seton Hall on Nov. 14.
The annual Gavitt Tipoff Games – named after the late Dave Gavitt, the founder of the Big East – consist of an eight-game challenge between the Big Ten and Big East. The other matchups include Georgetown at Illinois and Wisconsin at Xavier on Nov. 13, a national championship rematch with Michigan traveling to Villanova and Marquette at Indiana on Nov. 14, Ohio State at Creighton and Penn State at DePaul on Nov. 15 and St. John's at Rutgers on Nov. 16.
The Pirates went 22-12 last season, beating North Carolina State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before losing to Kansas. However, four of their top five scorers graduated including the Big East's all-time leading rebounder in center Angel Delgado.
Seton Hall's returning leading scorer is shooting guard Myles Powell, who will be a junior next season. Powell averaged 15.5 points and 2.8 assists while shooting 37.8 percent from 3. The only other two returners who played more than 10 minutes per game last year are 6-foot-5 guard Myles Cale (4.5 points per game) and 6-foot-7 forward Michael Nzei (3.9 points and 3.9 rebounds per game).
Seton Hall's recruiting class consists of three 3-star players, two guards and a center. They also add Taurean Thompson, a transfer from Syracuse who sat out last season. The 6-foot-9 forward averaged 9.2 points and 3.8 rebounds for the Orange as a freshman. The Hall also had Sacred Heart transfer guard Quincy McKnight (18.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists per game as a sophomore) and junior college transfer center Romaro Gill redshirting last season.
Last year's Gavitt Games ended in a 4-4 tie, the third straight year with that result. Minnesota, Illinois, Purdue and Maryland picked up wins for the Big Ten. The Huskers lost at St. John's 79-56.


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Careers @ Viet Net
System Engineer
Due to growth of the organization there is now a great opportunity for a Technical Consultant to join the Viet Net team.
The Technical Consultant (TC) provides pre-sales technical support to Viet Net Sales Reps and customers covering all of the company's family of products. The TC makes pre-sales calls on prospective clients, participates in local and regional seminars, and acts as the technical account manager for existing customers. This is a technical position supporting Sales.
Internships Program
We offer internships in all job families and product areas. Join Viet Net today, and help us to deliver the best IT products and solutions to our customer.
Person Specification
General and Professional Education
- The TC provides pre-sales technical support to Sales Reps (SR) and customers covering all of the company's family of products.
- The TC and SR work in tandem to formulate account strategies.
- The TC makes pre-sales calls on prospective clients, participates in local and regional seminars, and acts as the technical account manager for existing customers.
- The TC is the focal point for customer evaluations, proof of concepts, and demos.
- The TC is expected to stay abreast of current industry technology, trends, and competition.
- The TC will spend a considerable amount of time talking in front of customers in small (round table) discussions as well as large (seminar) audiences.
- The TC will work in tandem with the SR(s) in fulfilling sales goals and responding to RFI/RFPs.
- The TC may act as a focal point in case of a technical post-sales escalation for current customers. Some travel will be required.
- The TC will perform system deployment, installation, and integration of Enterprise IT solutions in customer environments.
- TC/s should be self-motivated, able to work well with multiple sales reps, and be creative in obtaining information and solving problems.
Person Specification
General and Professional Education
- Suitable qualification at graduate level
- 1-3 years of experience selling enterprise solutions into medium/large and complex organizations using target account selling, solution selling and/or consultative sales techniques.
- The TC must have excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- The TC must be able to talk about technical subjects and deliver technical presentation to a wide array of audiences with both technical and non-technical backgrounds.
- The TC must be able to transfer knowledge to inexperienced customers and VAR's (Value Added Reseller)
- High proficiency in spoken and written English
- Good communication skills both orally and in writing
- Good interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Good Presentation skills
- Good organisation and planning skills
- Initiative and Creativity
- Ability to prioritise and plan effectively
- Awareness of different media agendas
- The SE must posses various personal traits like excellent inter-personal skills, high energy, flexible, self motivated, trustworthy, friendly and dependable and has excellent follow through skills.
- Positive about change, adapting rapidly to different ways of working and putting effort into making them work
- Flexible and open to alternative approaches to problem solving. Makes suggestions for change and put ideas forward for improvement
- Work cooperatively with others to get things done, willingly giving help and support to colleagues
- Can-do attitude, be able to perform under pressure


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Aircraft Ditching Course
Aircraft Specific Training
SSTL provides realistic performance based, rotary and fixed wing aircraft ditching and associated programs. These programs have been delivered to Canadian and international military clients. Beginning in 1996, the programs designed and delivered by Survival Systems Training have trained hundreds of thousands of military aviation personnel under direct contract or through third parties.
EBS (Emergency Breathing Systems)
Helicopter Rescue Hoist Training
SSTL has identified a training need by both Military and Civil aviation clients to effectively perform practical Rescue hoist training that addresses the unique roles and responsibilities of pilots, hoist operators, SAR technicians and rescue swimmers responding to an offshore/over-land/over-ship rescue/ditching emergency in benign or adverse weather conditions.
Winter/Land Survival
This program is designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to:
- React to a forced landing (land-based) emergency
- Care for themselves in a winter survival situation
- Utilize available survival equipment
- Participate to the maximum extent in their rescue.