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Iman has no plans to marry again after losing husband David Bowie to cancer six years ago.
The 66-year-old entrepreneur and retired supermodel shared on TODAY Wednesday that she had an immediate answer when she was asked by their daughter, Lexi Jones, 21, if she would ever get remarried following the death of her husband of 24 years.
"No," she told Hoda Kotb. "People say to me when they talk, 'Oh I loved your late husband,' and I said, 'He's not my late husband, he's my husband,' so that's how I feel about it. This was truly the love of my life, and I just wait until I meet him again."
It took her four years after he died at 69 in 2016 to confront her grief, which hit her while she was confined at home during the early stages of the pandemic lockdown last year.
"I had a daughter who was a teenager when her father passed away, so I was really more concentrated in helping her go through her grief," Iman said. "But I thought, oh yes, I did go through my grief, but I actually did not.
"Last year I went to my house estate, this beautiful property that I haven't spent time there since my husband passed away, and there I was stuck for the year and I was forced to deal with it. All of a sudden grief knocked on the door and became a companion. And I went through all of it, and now it is the joy that I remember."
Iman had been married twice and Bowie had been married once before they fell in love and tied the knot in 1992. She said she was "a huge fan" of his music and had been invited backstage to his concerts, but never accepted the offer because she felt "awkward."
She ended up moving to Los Angeles and finally met him a year later, where he later told her it was love at first sight.
"I think it was about destiny," she said. "Destiny really propelled me to go to L.A. for no obvious reason."
While the world knew Bowie for his musical talent and theatrical stage performances, Iman also knew him as a loving dad to Lexi, who is their only child together.
"He loved it, because we met late in life, and had been married before and had older children, so this was a choice, and he felt very safe at home with us," Iman said. "My daughter has witnessed the love between the two of us that she actually says now, 'I hope to God that I'll meet a man who would love me as much as my dad loved my mom.'"
Iman is now releasing her first fragrance, Love Memoir, as a tribute to Bowie. She often has worn Bowie's cologne since his death in order to feel close to him and wanted the new fragrance to symbolize the "eternal love" they shared.
"He was visibly, really with us, and that is why I really feel that he's still with us," she said. "He isn't in plain sight, but he's right there with us. I smell him and we see him every day on the property."
Iman's journey through her grief over his loss is ongoing, but has reached a place where she is celebrating their time together more than mourning his passing.
"I think there are days that are harder than others," she said. "I don't think it will ever go away, but the acceptance of it, and the remembrance of the joy, rather than saying every memory that, 'Oh, I wish he was here, I wish we could experience this together.' Now I remember the 26 joyful years I had with my husband."
She had Hoda in tears at the end with her belief about losing loved ones.
"I think at the end of our days, the only thing we will have if we are lucky is our memories," she said. "That's the thing that we will have and will sustain us after the person passes away."


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SIS Associate Professor Vandana Singh to be Honored for Her Service & Research Work
Associate Professor Vandana Singh's work over the past few years is being recognized by several outlets – both for the extensive service she has undertaken, and for her research.
She will receive the College of Communication & Information Service Award in October, for which she was nominated due to her service in creating the successful proposal for the new School of Information Sciences undergraduate major, as well as service on other committees including: co-chair for the Open Source Track at Grace Hope Celebration of Women in Computing, editor for Public Library Quarterly, UTK Undergraduate Council member, UTK Undergraduate Appeals Committee member, Chair of CCI Undergraduate Affairs Committee and Director/Chair SIS Undergraduate Studies committee.
Singh said serving as chair of the SIS undergraduate committee meant learning all about undergraduate university systems in the United States. Her own undergraduate schooling was completed in India, and she has always taught in master's programs in the United States.
"I'm very happy that I got to learn that and oversee that process, and understand the American education system, and the involvement of the state in that process," she said.
The proposal for the program was approved in May 2019 and students began enrolling in the undergraduate program for fall 2019. Singh said the Tennessee Higher Education Commission was so impressed with the proposal submitted by SIS, it is using it as an example to show other institutions starting new undergraduate majors.
The undergraduate major has two concentrations: user experience design; and data, information management, and analytics.
"We take foundations from information organization from the library field, and then we take the user-centered design from the technology field, and we put them together. It's a socio-technical program, so it's for anybody who is interested in technology but doesn't want to eliminate people from the equation," Singh said. "In my vision, [students] will see themselves filling the gaps that computer science can't."
Besides providing students with skills to fill a growing job field, Singh also hopes that the undergraduate major could help more women to enter the IT field. One of the other notable service roles Singh fills is as chair for the Open Source Track in the Grace Hope Celebration of Women in Computing, (https://ghc.anitab.org/) which is the largest technology conference for women in the field of technology.
In fact, Singh focuses much of her research on barriers women and marginalized populations face in IT, and what could break down some of those barriers.
"This is really a very good time to be working on this because there's a lot happening around gender equality with issues such as equal pay receiving significant media attention, and it's giving momentum to equality movement for women including women in technology, " Singh said, noting she recently presented at two conferences in Canada, and both were about women and open source software.
At the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), she participated in a workshop on gender equality and presented the paper, "Women Only Spaces in Open Source Software." This paper will be published in the IEEE "Software" magazine as research that is useful to industry practitioners.
Then, at the International Conference on Open Source Systems, she presented "Inclusion Initiatives for Women of Open Source Software," which was nominated for best paper of the conference.
Singh was also thrilled to learn that a paper she published in 2017, "Open source integrated library systems migration: Librarians share the lessons learnt," will be a featured article in the "Informed Librarian" for July/August 2019 as it was deemed useful for library professionals.
In September, Singh will travel to Paris for the European Conference on Software Architecture, where she will share the results of interviews she conducted with women about their experiences of how they are treated in IT fields.
To learn more about Singh's past and ongoing work, visit her website at https://sis.utk.edu/vandana/.

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Gaming hardware company Razer has put its manufacturing expertise to good use in helping to fight the COVID-19 pandemic by creating the first fully-automated facemask production line in Singapore.
Razer CEO Tan Min-Liang posted about the development on his Instagram account, where he shared a photo of the production line.
The production line was set up and fully operational after just 24 days, and can create 5 million masks per month — more if required. The masks will be certified for both domestic and international standards to allow shipments of the product to other countries.
The face mask production line isn't the only thing that Razer has been doing to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The gaming company recently sent a shipment of masks to the Philippines after an urgent request made by Alan Cayetano, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
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Hello Undergrounders! This week on CW's The Flash: Caitlin must resolve her relationship with her mother when Icicle returns to enact the next phase of his devious plan; Iris takes matters into her own hands after Barry makes a decision about their family without consulting her.
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Lexi Doersch
Position title: Graduate Student, U of Minnesota (Fall 2018)
Lexi graduated with her Bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering from UW-Madison in the Spring of 2018. During the summer of 2018, she will continue to assist Alireza with various projects. Lexi will begin her graduate studies pursuing a PhD in BME at the University of Minnesota in the Fall of 2018. Lexi has extensive interests in biomaterials, tissue engineering, and design. Within the Ashton lab, she worked with Alireza on robotic micro-contact printing and soft lithography for neural tissue generation. Work in the Ashton Lab has allowed her to explore her creative side, has inspired her to be inquisitive, and has provided her with top-notch resources and excellent mentors. Lexi's favorite food is peanut butter and she loves spending time at Memorial Union!


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Our focus at Reclaim Hosting throughout 2022 has been all about increased communication. And while I've mentioned this before on the bava, the Reclaim Roundup has in many ways been central to this push. It seems prosaic and not all that cutting-edge, I know, "We need a newsletter to collect and publish all the work we have been doing over the last month." Welcome to 2012! That said, I think the process of regularly creating the newsletters has been transformative for us on several levels.
When the newsletter was floated as a 2022 todo list item at our annual get together in Nashville back in November, the idea was to consolidate our communications on a monthly basis for admins at the institutions we work with. It would focus on updates to infrastructure, PHP versions, pricing, as well as anything else we needed to announce, a very practical means to update folks beyond our blog—which it was not clear anyone was reading. But when we started the monthly newsletter in January a couple of things were starting to happen: we were building out Reclaim Edtech; more folks at Reclaim Hosting were blogging; we started hosting monthly community chats (more on that soon); and we were coordinating our documentation more strategically. This meant on top of the essential updates we needed to get out, we could also give folks an inside look at what we were thinking, what we were working on, and what we were documenting. The newsletter was not only a place to share news, but also a place to highlight the amazing work happening around Reclaim Hosting monthly, which in turn has fed that work with a potential audience/community. Which in turn feeds the work of blogging, documenting, sharing, and caring, it's a virtuous cycle….
And that virtuous cycle really depends on a sense of community. I think the newsletter provided us a less amorphous ideas of people on the other side of our work. This became immediately apparent when Taylor Jadin started leading our monthly Community Chats that were not only well attended, but became an absolute highlight each and every month. We continued to build on ways for us to connect with the community more directly by creating Reclaim Edtech's Discord community. This provided a focused space for us to work through our Reclaim Edtech offerings as well as build a sense of connection around various tools, ideas, projects, and more. Engaging a community is always faith in a seed of possibility, and in my experience it has not only been the fuel for ridiculous creativity and connection, but it has also been crucial to keeping everyone honest. I remain, in many ways, indebted to all the folks who have helped build so much of what we're doing at Reclaim Hosting over the years, and remaining connected, responsive, and responsible to that community helps us focus on our….
On the surface the newsletter provides a space to communicate with folks who are using Reclaim for everything from shared hosting to managed hosting to Domain of One's Own to Reclaim Cloud. But arguably the newsletter is just as much about remaining actual people on the other side of any of those products. Both the newsletter and Discord have been crucial to giving everyone at Reclaim a voice to highlight not only what they're working on, but what they're reading, and what they're passionate about. Whether it's Meredith's Megadesk progress or Pilot's meticulous construction of these monthly newsletters or Taylor's tech streams, there is much to love. In this, I think the June newsletter was particularly powerful because it was as much about who we are and what we believe as it was about communicating important news and updates.
In fact, the inspiration for at least two of my more ruminating posts last month, "Is Edtech Dead?" and "Thinking about Edtech" were a result of Lauren Hanks asking me point blank, "What's Reclaim's response to Audrey Watters announcement about leaving edtech?" At first I thought we didn't really need a response given I absolutely understand Audrey's frustration with edtech; few have spilled more blood and ink trying to get others to actually look at what a shit show the field has become. But as Lauren posed the question I realized two things immediately: 1) Audrey is a bright star of critical hope for many coming up in the field, so her announced absence leaves a significant void; 2) Lauren highlights the fact that the folks working at Reclaim are committed, we believe in what we are doing. And despite venture capital often stealing the oxygen in the field, we believe our work matters and that's why so many good people have stayed at Reclaim for so long (Lauren just celebrated her 7th anniversary and Meredith her 5th recently). We continue to intentionally build a culture of commitment that can push back against the relentless churn of press releases and acquisitions that serve no one but the folks pulling the strings. So, I slept on Lauren's question about what Reclaim response might be, and rather than pretending to speak for the whole of Reclaim I spoke for me here on the bava, and I hope everyone at Reclaim does the same thing. I want to build a community around edtech that believes what we do and say matters, and that there is a real sense of responsibility and engagement with the work we're doing that interfaces with the field of edtech more broadly. We're small, we're by all counts marginal, but we are also awesome and we have a community of awesome folks who believe that all is never lost and there's work yet to be done.
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ONE of the pleasures of a spring morning is watching the bumblebees buzz industriously from flower to flower, while early butterflies rock gently back and forth in the sunlight. The bees, as Bernd Heinrich reveals in Thermal Warriors, are maintaining their wing muscles at a precise 37 °C, the same as your own body temperature—an astonishing feat for a tiny animal flying in cool spring air. The butterflies are raising their temperatures by basking, which works very well in bodies less than a millimetre thick.
A few decades ago, no one studied thermoregulation by insects, because everyone knew they were cold-blooded. Now, thanks in large part to Heinrich it is a subject with a vast bibliography and dozens of researchers. Thermal Warriors is aimed at a general audience—though one that is prepared to think. It is illustrated with pleasing pencil drawings and impressive colour thermographs of insects at work.
Hundreds of fascinating examples show insects coping with heat when foraging in hot springs, and with cold when living in glaciers. These illustrations serve to underline Heinrich's main message: insects have evolved many strategies to deal with the challenges of their environment, and many of these challenges are thermal. Flight for large insects is possible only with thermoregulation. And it is flight that has insured the successful spread of insects. Thermal Warriors is about more than heat and insects; it is also an explanation of evolution at work.
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Jul 18, 2018
FirstService Residential Names Dale Dyck Vice President of Property Services
FirstService Residential, British Columbia's leading property management company, is proud to announce and welcome back Dale Dyck as Vice President, Property Services. Dyck will be responsible for managing a team of area managers who oversee all resident managers, building caretakers, cleaners and concierge staff.Read more
Jun 07, 2018
FirstService Residential Hosts Strata Council Educational Event on Conflict Resolution
FirstService Residential, the leading property management company in British Columbia, is hosting a strata council training session on conflict resolution that will focus on strategies to effectively handle disputes within strata corporationsRead more -
Apr 11, 2018
FirstService Residential Hosts Strata Council Educational Event on Governance and Enforcing Bylaws
FirstService Residential, the leading property management company in British Columbia, is hosting its latest educational event entitled 'Strata Governance 2.0: Bylaws" on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 6:00pm. The event, open to all strata council members in the Greater Vancouver area, will occur at UBC Robson Square in room C300.Read more -
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FirstService Residential Appoints Brian Rowland to Vice President, Investment Properties
FirstService Residential, the leading property management company in British Columbia, announced today the appointment of Brian Rowland to the position of Vice President of Investment Properties. Rowland will work with the investment properties and Investor Client Services teams to lead growth and operational initiatives throughout the department.Read more -
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FirstService Residential Hosting Free Leadership Seminar on the Responsibilities of Strata Council Members on November 15 in Vancouver
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Sean Ingraham Promoted to FirstService Residential Vice President, Community Development
FirstService Residential, British Columbia's leading property management company, has promoted Sean Ingraham to Vice President, Community Development. In his new role, Ingraham will work with developers and oversee the expansion of service offerings to bring a higher level of service and quality of lifestyle to owners and residents in British Columbia.Read more -
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FirstService Residential Announces Appointment of Jeff Faith to Director, Human Resources
FirstService Residential, British Columbia's leading property management company, announces the appointment of Jeff Faith as Director, Human Resources.Read more -
May 30, 2017
FirstService Residential Appoints Dale Dyck vice president, Strata
FirstService Residential, the leading property management company in British Columbia, announces the appointment of Dale Dyck as Vice President, Strata.Read more -
Mar 08, 2017
FirstService Residential Raises $76,300 for the Canuck Place Children's Hospice
This past holiday season, FirstService Residential, the Vancouver property management leader, teamed up with 56 local vendors to raise money for its third annual Canuck Place Children's Hospice Campaign. With a record $76,300 in donations raised, it was the largest amount raised in a single year by FirstService Residential for the campaign.Read more -
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FirstService Residential Hosts Seminar on Maintenance Planning for Strata Corporations
FirstService Residential, Metro Vancouver's leading residential property management company, hosted its latest educational seminar for Strata Council Members on July 21st on the topic of "Annual Maintenance Planning for Strata Corporations". The event, held at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver's Olympic Village, was attended by Council Members from more than 100 different Strata Corporations, making it one of the largest educational Strata events in British Columbia.Read more


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Cirque du Soleil brings economic stimulus and cultural cachet to Montgomery County
"There's a huge demand for entertainment in Montcto," said a tourist official. "Cirque solidified it."
The last 16 times Cirque du Soleil has come to town, it's been in Philadelphia. But in recent weeks, the Montreal-based frequent flyers took a leap of faith and set up their high-wire act in a somewhat novel environment: Montgomery County .
Cirque opened its show "Volta" in the "Big Top" in Oaks on July 12. It was originally slated to run until Aug. 5 but after strong ticket sales extended its run to Aug. 19.
Hosting this production marks a rise in arts programming for the suburb, which once housed the Valley Forge Music Fair, hosting Broadway national tours and acts like John Denver, Aretha Franklin, and Kenny Rogers until its closure in 1996. But recent growth in retail, hospitality, and a business migration west made "all the stars align," says Mike Bowman, CEO of the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board.
"There's a huge demand for entertainment in Montco," he said. "Cirque solidified it."
Arts Montco is a response to that demand, an initiative to promote "theaters, live music, museums, and more" in the region. Jessica Willingham, director of arts and culture for the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board, says there are more than 200 "arts attractions" included in the initiative, which launched last year and also covers nearby counties.
Music offerings range from the Bacon Brothers appearing this month at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside and the vocalists Manhattan Transfer coming to the Sellersville Theater in October; theater such as Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie at People's Light in Malvern; and museum exhibitions ranging from religious iconography in the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn to the Stoogeum in Ambler, dedicated to the pugilistic wit of the Three Stooges.
The tourist board claims $113 million in economic impact in Montgomery County from performing arts, historical museums, visual arts, public art and gardens, libraries, and other groups. The board touts "more than 30 public gardens within a 30-mile radius of the city," "more than 20 places to take in a show," and "five orchestras."
Just hotel occupancy by the Cirque team consists of "140 people from 20 different countries, including 47 artists," who perform in the show. Cirque's corporate office estimates spending $2 million in the Oaks area for employees' daily needs, local direct labor, and equipment. And the company employs about 150 local workers for support functions like ushering, concessions, and ticket sales. Bowman says the show typically takes place in cities and more densely populated areas, so it's a big get for the suburban Montgomery County and "sends a strong message."
The show takes place under the "Big Top," a tent that seats 2,500 and travels with the troupe. It is rigged with equipment for such stunts as BMX biking and "hair suspension," in which a female performer's hair, wired on cables, hoists her in the air.
The general manager of the Expo center, which is privately owned by Pen Oaks LLC, and described on its website as "one of the largest on the East Coast," could not be reached.
Stephanie Gaudette, general manager of Cirque du Soleil's touring-show division, says this isn't the first show Cirque du Soleil has put on in a suburb. They aren't worried so much about city vs. suburbs, but for "great destinations where people are going to have a tendency to appreciate the culture." And, she says, the family-oriented nature of the suburbs is a draw.
Steven Ross, Cirque's publicist for the show, adds that "Volta is one of the shows with the biggest footprint in terms of size requirements," which means that a more open space like Oaks works well logistically.
Edward Harris, chief marketing officer for the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board, projected ticket sales at 80,000 to 85,000 total, but exact numbers will not come in until the end of the show's run. "In terms of a major entertainment event," Harris says, "this is really the first time we've done something like this." But he's "confident [the area] can do more of this" moving forward.
And, he notes, "anecdotally, we've received a lot of positive feedback from the restaurant community, which is a good indicator that people are coming here."
One local business, the Melting Pot in King of Prussia, concurs: "While we don't have any hard data to provide, we have seen an influx of business from people who have gone to the show and have dined with us either before or after," a company statement said.
Amy Kradzinski, general manager of P.J. Whelihan's in Oaks, credits Cirque's run with an 18 percent growth in sales from last year, which translates to an additional $15,000 per week or so. This is significant for the restaurant "because the summer months … tend to be [its] slowest," but an influx of people before and after the shows, as well as Cirque's premiere party, which was hosted in the restaurant, has resulted in significant revenue.
Janel and Mike Risell of Skippack Township in Montgomery County attended the show on July 31. The couple frequent shows in Las Vegas, New York City, and Atlantic City, and have seen Cirque du Soleil productions a few times before, in addition to shows by groups like the Blue Man Group and the Rockettes.
"We're not traditional Phantom of the Opera people," Janel, a pharmacy technician, explains; they prefer their shows more free-wheeling and kinetic.
Mike, a firefighter in East Whiteland Township, noted the free parking as something "unlike anywhere else we've seen." This sentiment echoes part of what Bowman called the "value proposition" of the area — free parking, "best shopping in the Northeast," featuring the King of Prussia Mall, the nation's largest in terms of retail space, and the high median household income. All are draws for a world-class company to come to Montgomery County.
Bowman says there'll likely be another show with Cirque down the line, but nothing's final yet, though they're looking at "a show that [Cirque is] in the process of tweaking right now." Gaudette, the Cirque touring-show division head, echoes that they're "open" to having another show in Montgomery County.
The next big initiative for Arts Montco is the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which runs Aug. 16 to 19 in Schwenksville. Down the line, Bowman adds, "we're looking to bring the entertainment from out of town into the market. There is definitely an appetite for that here now."
Willingham says that the team is also looking forward to a Van Gogh Museum Pop-up Aug. 16 through Oct. 14 at the Lord & Taylor court in the King of Prussia Mall, with "curator-approved replicas of nine van Gogh masterpieces; it is even possible to feel van Gogh's famous brushstrokes."
When asked about the emergence of the county as an "arts destination," Janel Risell seemed excited. "This is a great way to start."


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Kenya is a leading global exporter of premium Arabica coffee. The coffee industry remains a very crucial sector to the Kenyan economy, it is the fourth foreign exchange earner after tourism, tea and horticulture. In the coffee growing belt (south of Mt. Kenya to parts of Machakos county; the western Kenya) coffee assures livelihood of about sixty percent of the rural population. Most coffee is cultivated on smallholder farms and the producers earn by quantities and quality produced. This makes most farmers strive to maintain high quality and high yielding trees for better returns.
In Kang'undo, Machakos county farmers have grown coffee since early 1950s and it has been a reliable cash crop until recently where the dream crop seems to dwindle. The variety of coffee which was introduced here is SL (Scottish Laboratories) variety and has remained as the main variety adopted by farmers. The SL variety is highly adaptable to the climatic conditions in Kang'undo and that is why it has remained predominant despite its vulnerability to Coffee berry disease and coffee leaf rust fungal
disease. Management of the SL is highly dependent on continuous fungal disease control.
With climate change, there has been increased incidences of pests on this variety. The Smallholder coffee farmers bear the burden of tendering the crop which is further complicated by unpredictable coffee prices. Farming in Kenya is largely rain fed agriculture with the rainfall pattern in Kang'undo defined as mid-March to end May and mid-October to end December. However the rains are no longer predictable in the wake of climate change.
Stakeholders in the coffee sector employ various means and methods to sensitize farmers on the impacts of climate change. The Sustainable Management Services (SMS) Limited is one of the partners working with coffee farmers through targeted capacity building on climate change through projects. SMS ltd is a licensed coffee management agent, offering extension and education services based on good agricultural practices to coffee farmers. One such project that is being implemented is Sustainable and secure smallholder systems @ scale (4s@scale) where its main pillars comprises of: Good agricultural practices training of farmers to achieve better production volumes and of good quality; Women and Youth support- incorporation and active participation to coffee production and management; Credit & Input extension to societies to aid farmers access the required inputs as well as support them to increase their capacities in coffee farming and in the acquisition of new technologies like bio-digester installations; Income diversification through dairy enterprises to increase income at farm level; Biodigester promotion and installation- where the biodigester technology is promoted for bioslurry and biogas. The gas promoted for clean cooking while bioslurry as organic fertilizer and soil nourisher for the coffee trees. Bioslurry application is becoming a household name among coffee producers since the application has started bearing fruits on some farms. It is with this in mind that SMS is promoting and supporting farmers install biodigesters.
Mr. Raphael Itumo is a member of the Muisuni Farmers' cooperative society (FCS), he is retired civil servant and had been preoccupied in formal employment while his coffee farm registered low production. Raphael had been trying to revive his coffee farm enterprise by the time the 4S@Scale project team visited his cooperative. The costs of reviving his crop were high and he decided to invest in the biodigester instead and hope that bioslurry would meet his expectation.
Raphael installed a fixed dome digester size 8M3 in 2015. He says he was more interested in biogas but slurry has exceeded his expectations. After being trained on bioslurry utilization and management, he started applying the slurry to the coffee farm. Through extension support from SMS he embarked on rehabilitating his coffee bushes. This is the first phase of rehabilitation and in the next two years he expects to reap high volumes of coffee which is of good quality that will fetch better prices in the market. He is happy with the plant vigor and general state of his farms. SMS has set up his farm as a demonstration farm for slurry and he loves sharing the story with other farmers delivering coffee to Muisuni FCS so that their coffee can be of uniform quality for them to fetch better prices. Raphael benefited from the Muisuni biodigester marketing Hub where the society acquired loans from SMS to buy dairy cows as well install biogas units. He currently has 3 dairy cows producing 60 litres of milk daily. He has sufficient fodder from using slurry and plans to sell the surplus.
At the Kilalani FCS, Mr. Alex Kimondio acquired the biodigester in 2015 and has been using gas and applies the slurry to the vegetable garden close to homestead and composting the slurry for use in his coffee farm. After training on bioslurry application he is in the process of changing cycle of the old coffee trees in order to reap good crop in the next two years.
Mr. Alex Kimondio a kilalani farmer
Mr Alex explaining his plans of canopy (change of cycle) management to Mr. Daniel a KBP technical staff
Mr. Kimondio owns 225 coffee trees and resides in Mulingana zone. Last year he managed to harvest 610 kgs of coffee from his farm yet his previous harvest he realized 490kg. He attributes the slight improvement in production of 0.5kg per tree to use of slurry and he foresees his production doubling in the current season and 'who knows it may triple in future', says Alex. Alex has plans to engage an employee to support in the application of the slurry from the collection point to the farm because of the distance. He is also very willing to train other farmers and give them access to his farm to learn on several technologies he is applying in his farm.
Tags: Biogas, Biogas in Kenya, Bioslurry, Bioslurry in Kenya, Coffee Farming, Machakos, Organic Fertilizer


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1Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman once pretended to read a newspaper on a train to avoid being recognized by a former master. Because the man knew Harriet was illiterate, he ignored the black woman reading on the train.
2. In 2017, a Utah woman named Kristy Manzanares was allegedly murdered by her husband while on a murder mystery trivia cruise in Alaska. The event was a musical Sherlock Holmes-themed murder mystery trivia program, and some of her fellow passengers thought the screams coming from her cabin were part of the show.
3. Beethoven was such a massive star that following composers struggled to pull away from his artistic gravity. Brahms, for example, refused to make a symphony for 21 years, feeling unworthy. Schubert said: "Who can ever do anything, after Beethoven?"
4. In medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to a queen would be given the title of an "advisor," so as to not imply that the king had more than one queen or was unfaithful.
5. Ringo Starr was the narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine from 1984-1990.
6Tom Parker
Elvis Presley's manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker prevented Elvis from touring outside of the US (except for 3 shows in Canada in 1957) because Parker was, among other things, an illegal alien from the Netherlands that was suspected of murder.
7. Three Honolulu firefighters were killed, and six wounded, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, making them the only fire department on American soil to be attacked by a foreign power.
8. Bobby Driscoll was a famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), but he died penniless and alone at the age of 31 in an abandoned New York City building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
9. AutoZone's original name was "Auto Shack." Radio Shack threatened to sue and it led to the name change. Years later, Radio Shack had a section that used the word "zone" in its name and was sued by AutoZone.
10. Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 7:30 pm on a Tuesday holding a Safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.
11Rebecca the Raccoon
In 1926, President Coolidge and his wife were gifted a raccoon as a Thanksgiving dinner gift. They did not want to eat her, so they named her Rebecca and kept her as a pet. She had a free range of the White House and would go on trips with the couple.
12. The Church of Scientology sponsored a car in the 1988 Indy 500. It crashed on the second turn.
13. Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who is believed to be the richest drug lord of all time died while getting plastic surgery to alter his appearance. The two surgeons that performed the procedure were later found dead, encased in concrete inside steel drums, with their bodies showing signs of torture.
14. Boris Yeltsin made an unplanned stop at a grocery store in Texas after visiting the Johnson Space Center. He was so amazed by what they had in the store compared to the USSR that it led him to leave the Communist party and he tried to make massive economic reform in Russia.
15. Thanks to skyrocketing real estate prices, Manhattan gas stations are worth much more than the money the owner can make selling gas.
16Midnight Special
The song "Midnight Special" is about a steam locomotive that used to pass the Louisiana State Prison and its light would shine into the cells. Prisoners developed a superstition that having the light shine on you would bring fortune and freedom.
17. During the siege of Leningrad in World War 2, a group of Russian botanists holed up in a secret vault starved to death rather than consume the greatest collection of seeds they were guarding for a post-apocalyptic world.
18. The human brain filters incoming information using prior knowledge. This leaves us with an experience of the outside world that is shifted away from reality and more towards our beliefs and expectations.
19. On a trip to Nepal, Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa met Nepalese who believed that the spirits of their dead resided on the Moon. Roosa could not understand why a few of the local citizens treated him like a God, nor why they were distressed when he told them he saw no one else on the moon.
20. In 1915, surrounded and faced with imminent defeat, the entire Serbian army and government, numbering 400,000 (~10% of the population), retreated through Albania to the sea and evacuated to Greece. Half of them died on the march, but the rest came back in 1917 to liberate their country.
Lisztomania was a term that was coined in the 19th century to describe the obsessive fan hysteria surrounding the classical composer Franz Liszt. Admirers would fight over his locks of his hair, pull his carriage like horses, and carry glass vials of his old cigars and coffee dregs.
22. Ninjas avoided garlic or any pungent food to prevent their body odor from being detected by the enemy when hiding.
23. Pirate Joe's was a popular specialty grocery store in Vancouver, Canada that exclusively resold Trader Joe's products that the owner bought from USA (Canada does not have TJs) which he did via weekly trips in an unmarked van to various locations that he became banned from.
24. For 20 years, J.R.R. Tolkien sent his children illustrated letters from Santa Claus where Santa would battle goblins flying on bats, and included fireworks, a prank-loving polar bear, and multiple invented languages.
25. Immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, her secretary will inform the Prime Minister via a secure phone line by saying "London Bridge is down", thus initiating Operation London Bridge, a detailed procedure that outlines the action for days and weeks after the sovereign's death.


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I noticed that one the Manage Users page (/management/#/users) there is a column for the "Department" of each user, but I can't figure out how to set this information. How do I do this?
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Each summer, Ravinia's concert series lights up Illinois' Highland Park, however, as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, organizers had to call off this year's celebration.
Ravinia has operated annually since 1904 – aside for three years amid the Great Depression – and is named the oldest outdoor music festival in the U.S. Now, 120 events have been cancelled this year from May 30 to September 15. These include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's annual summer residency, as well as performances from acts like Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, John Fogerty, and Sheryl Crow.
Additionally, 35 artists were slated to make debuts during the season, including My Morning Jacket's frontman Jim James, Ziggy Marley, Dispatch, and Teddy Abrams. President and CEO Welz Kauffman was slated to celebrate his 20th and final season with the festival. Kauffman said the decision was made following "the health and safety of the festival's artists, staff and neighbors," noting that the virus "has moved very quickly."
"As much as I can do to put together a terrific 2021, that's what I'll focus on in the next months," Kauffman told The Chicago Tribune.
Across the country, hundreds of festivals have been postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. See our full, updating list here.


text: Kimbo Slice is the type of guy you would expect to fight in someone's backyard with a broken satellite dish in the corner. That's why the guys at Norton Anti-Virus decided to use him in their ad campaign to make little children cry at night. Perhaps it's my microscopic lack of attention span but I don't fully understand this commercial (sort of like I fully don't understand nougat. What is it?). Anyway, watch Kimbo Slice get his arm sliced off by a laser-shooting caterpillar inside of an airport hangar. Yeah, I will be handing out WTF napkins so you can clean the drool from your chin.


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The other day, I learned that Hungarian born U.S. billionaire hedge fund 'philanthropist' George Soros was a candidate (one of five Fed hucksters) to head bankster Ukraine's Central Bank. This is not exactly earth shattering news given that the lying cabal that is in charge (illegally) of the Kiev junta is a direct result of the U.S. State Department's planned murderous coup d'état which occurred this past February.
And you can be sure that Soros' black hands were involved in that covert operation by way of his NGO contributions; no doubt about it. Georgie, has even gloated publicly about his 'successes' there.
Those of you not already familiar this scoundrel, Soros is well renowned for his 'storied' experiences worldwide using financial speculation to subvert sovereign currencies which in turn subjugated those governments as vassal states to the U.S. hegemonic overlords. Great Britain comes to mind. During the early 1990's in Soros' opinion the U.K. pound was 'overvalued'. First, who the heck is he that his opinion
should matter in re the actions of any sovereign state? That germane question did not matter though; neither did it stop Soros from short-selling the pound sterling to the tune of 10 billion.
In the end, all of the King's horses and all the Exchequer's men could not stem the retreating tide of the pound's fall. The Crown and their countrymen tried though: the Bank of England burned through a couple of billion dollars of foreign exchange reserves; but it was pound foolish. After the chips fell, Soros' pocketed $ 1 billion U.S.; that was his tidy 'profit' for a couple days 'work'.
The British people did not fare as well. On the contrary, many of them, my friends included, lost not only their shirts. More important, many Brits surrendered their homes too due to increased mortgage costs. I was there...
Soros did not shed a tear; he invested his ill-gotten gains for what else, but more filthy lucre: real gold. Sleight-of hand dealings have been Georgie's hallmark since youth. Right after the close of WW II in Europe, Soros and his father 'volunteered' to sanitize war ravaged Berlin; but for a fee of course. By the wheel borough load father and son stacked the stiffs (corpses) of fellow countrymen for final disposal at the city's dump (or incinerator). Dirty beginnings; but Georgie sure knew how to rise above the stench.
Not satisfied with his day's wages, Soros took to moonlighting. Under cover of darkness he dabbled in the' black market'; he panhandled Marlboros, booze, medicines, and practically anything in short supply; which in turn led to his first forays in 'currency swaps'. Astute fellow that he already was, Soros demanded payment in the hard currencies: U.S. dollar was preferred. Any Deutsch marks that he already scrounged were quickly disposed for those same dollars; the night before. This all makes sense (in a perverted way) if one considers who Soros really is.
A rough translation of his Hungarian name into English yields 'Brewer'. That's where any similarity stops. Soros is not in the business of promoting elixirs; far from it. For sure he is not concerned with anyone's health, especially amongst the 'little people'. Soros' gig is manipulation; always has been; favorite prey: the securities and money markets. He is a conjurer too. Without any compunction Soros is quick to defend his avarice. And these days he has made it to the big leagues as far as high finance is concerned.
States side, Georgie is revered. His hedge funds have reached their zenith. As expected, his currency short-selling scheme continues to deliver big profits and huge dividends for the fund members. In addition to the British pound, other sovereign currencies have fallen by the wayside and the corresponding governments have all taken a big bath trying to defend against his covert financial takeovers: the Japanese Yen and Argentine peso are prime examples.
In fact, Soros' Ponzi scheme is the paradigm that others of his same ilk try to emulate. He is regular on the 'talk show' circuit. His exculpatory opines came fast and furious; those op-ed pieces were even featured in the high powered business rags like the Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine. At one point, Georgie even offered to write the legislation to tighten the largely unregulated derivatives markets so that their reporting gave at least the appearance of 'fairness'. How he managed to spew that 'whopper' to his audience with a straight face, smacks of, well, just more avarice.
These days, Soros has not amended his wicked ways, nor has he curbed his insatiable appetite for dirty/easy money (despite his assurances to governments). Can you say: Dateline Argentina; déjà vu all over again? To wit, Georgie and his minions have managed to 'persuade' a New York judge to enforce their creditor interest claims on Argentine junk bonds (monopoly money) that he 'lawfully' purchased; but for pennies on the thousands. If Soros is allowed to proceed with this ruling the Argentine
government will default on its debt; again. By extension, the South American country will soon tip further from its current recession into collapse; a long depression follows. Thanks, boy Georgie!
What does this all portend for Ukraine? If those criminal dunces in Kiev don't wake up fast and smell the napalm, generous George in no time flat will raid the treasury and in the process rape and strip the country's huge swath of natural resources clean to the bare ground. After all, Georgie was the first to coin the popular phrase: American greed; don't come home without many more grubby greenbacks!
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Thank You by Donna Sledzik
Good morning everyone. For today's card I have a fun technique that I saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog, which she called Faux Die Cut Monoprint.
To create this card I inked white cardstock with Distress Ink Pads. I rubbed the ink pads directly onto my paper to get good ink coverage.
Next I die cut my image from the inked cardstock. I was left with the outline and negative shape of the die cut.
I sprayed the die cut outline with plain water and placed it face down on another piece of white cardstock. I run this through my die cut machine several times to transfer the ink. Next I gently pulled the die cut off the paper. If you are having a hard time removing the die cut from the cardstock, heat it with a heat tool to help release the paper.
On the white cardstock you are left with a watercolor like image of the die cut.
I decided to place my print behind the negative space of the die cut. To add a little texture to my inked background, I placed a stencil over the cardstock and rubbed through the stencil with a baby wipe to remove some ink.
Next I glued the outline die cut to a white card base and trimmed the other inked piece to fit on my card.
I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock. Next I fussy cut the word and used foam tape to adhere it to my card.
To finish the card I glued a few embellishments to the front of my card.
I hoped you enjoyed today's card and thanks for stopping by.


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Band Profiles
Andy Louis
Lead Vocals
Andy has had a successful solo career and always wanted to sing in a band covering the magic songs of the Electric Light Orchestra. When the chance came along, he didn't need to be asked twice. A fabulous Jeff Lynne "sound-alike", Andy strives to get the essence of ELO in his vocals.
Pete Smith
Bass Guitar, Vocals
A professional musician for most of his life, Pete brings much experience to the stage. Forming the 'engine room' of the band with Tony on drums, Pete's impeccable bass guitar playing and backing vocals are an integral part of the show.
Chris Marsh
Keyboards, Special Effects, Vocoder
Chris has played all over the world with some of the UK's leading tribute acts and function bands. At prestigious events and venues from The Reading Festival to the Emirates Palace (Abu Dhabi) and even Wembley Stadium. He always strives to recreate everything he plays as accurately as possible to the original recordings so as to give the most authentic live experience. He also produces dance/pop music and have remixed major artists for Sony Music.
Jan Christiansen
Lead Guitar, Vocals
Jan studied guitar at the Musicians Institute in California. After returning to Europe he played in various bands both in his home country Denmark, and more recently in Germany. He worked for many years in the musical "Starlight Express" before moving to live in Hull. Jan's good looks don't deflect from his great guitar work and harmonies.
Tony Lawson
Drums And Percussion
Tony is a tremendous drummer who compliments the rest of the band with his attention to detail. A true professional who has played all over the world, Tony provides the backbone that is essential to any band.
Liz Stacey
Liz studied the violin in Sheffield, and has played with many of the leading chamber groups and ensembles in the North. She is also the founder of a very busy trio, Simply Strings, playing at many prestigious events throughout Yorkshire.
Francesca Mcdonald
Francesca joined the band permanently in January 2018. She first learnt the cello at the age of 9 and went on to study music at York St John University. Now settled in York she shares her time between recording and teaching as well as performing with the ELO Experience.
Rachel Hoffman
Rachel lives in Cheshire and studies at the Royal Northen College of Music, receiving specialist music tuition at the college since the age of 6. Outside of her studies, she enjoys playing with various orchestras and also a quartet and Flute ensemble with her father.


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Career Ready Workforce
In today's global, knowledge-based economy, states and local communities are increasingly differentiated based on their ability to educate, train and recruit a qualified workforce that meets the needs of industry. Even as middle and high-skilled jobs grow in Iowa, the availability of a skilled workforce is a major area of concern to Iowa businesses. Combined with Iowa's weak population growth, the availability of a trained workforce is likely to plague Iowa for many years to come. The engagement of businesses to create solutions to workforce development is paramount. Identifying the job demands of the future, working with K-16 education to engage students and teachers, and developing career pathways are essential areas of public/private partnerships for IBC members.
The members of the council recognize the importance and urgency around growing a career ready workforce in Iowa. In response to this challenge, the council engages both public and private institutions to develop long-term education and workforce strategies that cultivate a diverse, highly skilled population capable of meeting current and emerging workforce needs.
Initiatives include:
- Continue to support the efforts of the Future Ready Iowa initiative.
- Support the Iowa Department of Education's work-based learning clearinghouse and pursue virtual work-based learning opportunities among IBC members.
- Engage in policy initiatives that increase access to affordable, high-quality child care services throughout Iowa.
- Coordinate and support the efforts of the Business Education Alliance, which aligns stakeholders in business and education to meet the current and future workforce needs of Iowa.


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The operator plans to sell part of the fixed fibre assets in its home market to a consortium.
Orange has agreed to sell part of its fixed fibre assets in France to a consortium of three investors for about €1.3 billion.
The move would have been unthinkable until relatively recently: now there is a growing trend for debt-laden European operators to realise value from the assets, most notably their tower infrastructure.
Operators are also under pressure because of the pandemic to accelerate the roll out fibre and 5G, to support digitalisation of all kinds of businesses and to close the digital divide.
Rural assets
Orange said will sell the 50% of Orange Concessions, a vehicle that includes some of its French fibre assets, to La Banque des Territoires, part of France's state-owned bank Caisse des Dépôts, insurer CNP Assurances and EDF Invest consortium.
The deal values Orange Concessions at €2.675 billion, according to Orange, which said the assets cover about 4.5 million households passed by FTTH in rural France. This will make Orange Concessions the leading fibre network operator in rural France: the networks operated by Orange Concessions on behalf of local public authorities are open to all operators.
The operator said it will provide more details of its plans for its European mobile assets when it reports its full-year results on 18 February.
Orange said the move is in line with its Engage 2025 strategic plan, announed in late 2019, giving the company the flexibility to push its development in fibre, notably in rural areas.
The transaction is expected to be completed this year.
Shared vision
Stéphane Richard, Chair & CEO of Orange (pictured), stated, "I am delighted that Orange, Europe's leader in fibre roll-out, is now set to establish this partnership in its domestic market with recognized investors who share our vision of digital communication infrastructure development.
"Through this partnership, Orange holds the means to pursue the development of fibre in rural areas, by winning new public initiative networks or by participating in market consolidation.
This is a key milestone in the delivery of our Engage 2025 strategic plan. As to its financial merits, the achieved valuation reveals the value of Orange's investments in fibre as well as the relevance of such strategic move."


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Sega has released new information and screenshots for Yakuza: Like a Dragon further detailing the "Dragon Kart" Play Spot.
Get the details below.
■ Dragon Kart Also Playable in Kamurocho
While you can race around Yokohama via the new "Dragon Kart" Play Spot, you will also be able to race around Kamurocho by clearing certain conditions.
In Dragon Kart there are Grand Prix (tournaments), and by winning race after race you will be able to participate in higher level Grand Prix. There are four Grand Prix in total, with the highest being the "Dragon Cup" set in Kamurocho.
In order to challenge the Dragon Cup, you will need to have significantly upgraded your kart and polished your race technique.
Upgrade your kart and polish your technique to dominate the Grand Prix with the goal of becoming the fastest racer.
—How does the Kamurocho, Tokyo course differ from the Isezaki Ijincho, Yokohama course?
■ Dragon Kart Story
Dragon Kart is an exhilarating Play Spot set in Yokohama where you can drive around in modded karts. the following is an introduction to how protagonist Ichiban Kasuga gets involved in Dragon Kart.
By walking near the Dragon Kart reception garage in Hamakita Park, a man named Fujisawa will talk to Kasuga and recommend he try out Dragon Kart, where you race around Yokohama in modded karts.
—Kasuga is invited by Fujisawa to participate in Dragon Kart.
Kasuga learns the fun of Dragon Kart through a trial race, but ignites the flames of competition in the other racers that watched his run, throwing himself into a heated race.
—Kasuga fires up his rivals and ignites the flames of competition. Rivals such as this mask-wearing man are all unique characters.
—In battles against rivals, sparks will fly as you collide with opponents in dead heat races.
■ Dragon Kart Course Mechanics
When racing on a Dragon Kart course, you will encounter various course gimmicks that make the race even more exciting, including "jump ramps" and "explosion drums," "dart zones" that decrease speed, "damage zones" running with electric current, and more. Enjoy a thrilling race that is more than just driving as you destroy explosion drums with Gatling gun, jump over jump ramps, and more.
—A line of explosion drums block the bath. Colliding with them will not be good.
Kart Settings
By spending money, you can upgrade your kart's driving performance, number of times you can use weapon items obtained during races, and more. There is a difference in acceleration performance growth, stamina, and other factors for each kart, so upgrade your kart to bring out even more of its individuality.
—Invest money in your kart to upgrade its performance.
Network Features and Rewards
In addition to the Grand Prix, there is also a Time Attack Mode. By playing when connected online, you can register your score to the daily ranking for each course's Time Attack records to compete your time against other players. Rankings are finalized at the end of each day, and you will receive a reward based on what you ranked the following day.
–Compete against the scores of other players in Time Attack Mode.
Trade in Rings for Items
You can trade in the rings you pick up on the race course for items. There are items that increase Kasuga's attribute values, as well as those that increase job ranks, so play Dragon Kart to strengthen Kasuga and his friends.
—Trade in the rings you pick up during races for items that strengthen Kasuga and his friends.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is due out for PlayStation 4 on January 16, 2020 in Japan, and in 2020 in the Americas and Europe. A demo is available now. Read more about the game here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
View the screenshots at the gallery.
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A report is made on proposals for change in postgraduate medical training that may have profound implications for the specialty of accident and emergency (A&E). The proposals are detailed with their background and rationale, together with some of their possible effects on A&E.
- training
- foundation year
- experience
- service provision
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The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) is an organisation whose membership is comprised of educationalists and clinicians with a commitment to medical education and is an influencial body in developing medical educational structures. Members include deans, (postgraduate, undergraduate, and general practice) and hospital clinical tutors, together with trainee and student members. In October 2000 a meeting of the Association was held entitled: SHO training—time for reform.
The delegates included representatives from the NHS executive, SCOPMED (Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education) Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, the GMC, the BMA, the UK medical careers research group and many deaneries, universities, hospitals and general practitioner tutors. Speakers included Professor Temple, chairman of SCOPMED and adviser on postgraduate medical education to the department of health.
Subsequent to this meeting a working party has been set up with the department of health to refine and develop reforms to SHO training.
It can be seen that this is an influential body and many of their proposals are likely to be implemented. The core of the proposal will profoundly involve A&E and affect our working practice.
A radical shake up of postgraduate medical structure is suggested by Calman, Temple, et al (1999), to produce a streamlined, planned career pathway from the end of the compulsory preregistration and "foundation" years. Further details of the proposals will be published by ASME and placed on their web site (www.asme.org.uk). They include the provision of a post-registration year, the Foundation year, comprising three 4 month periods in selected specialties designed to provide basic experience of a "core of acute care". Specialties suggested for this include general practice, A&E, and obstetrics and gynaecology.
This "Foundation" would lead to entry to competitively appointed, numbered SHO posts in specialty programmes, leading into the specialist registrar (SpR) programme and together lasting a total of approximately six years and leading to Certificate of Specialist Training (CST), or to General Practice training. Movement in and out of such programmed training would be facilitated by acceptance of the concept of trainees spending time in non-career grade work, such as research, staff grade (or equivalent) positions, locum posts or work abroad (see figure 1)
A&E medicine has been proposed to form a part of the foundation year because of the need to have a grounding in acute care and decision making, in recognition of the specialty's role in teaching and its pivotal role at the interface of primary and secondary care. The proposals' proponents suggest that no extra posts would be necessary as the foundation SHOs would take the place of existing SHOs. Implementation of the proposals is intended to be "cost neutral".
Calman implementation has given greater structure to specialty training. However, entry into SpR training remains haphazard and variable. For both manpower factors and satisfactory career planning a structure is thought to be necessary. The concept of an intercalated SHO/SpR programme provides that structure. However, if this tramlined training is to be adopted then a broad background is essential, particularly in the assessment and management of the acutely ill patient. Medical students have less and less opportunity to take decision making roles and to manage sick patients. House officers are rarely involved in acute care and when they are the decision making is supervised or taken out of their hands. Hence this proposed "foundation" year.
(1) The Calman proposals for higher specialist training were implemented of over the last years of the 20th century. These introduced a formal structure for SpRs, culminating with a CST recognised throughout the European Community. The former grades of registrar and senior registrar were eliminated. Practice of hospital medicine has changed after "Calmanisation". One feature that has been widely discussed has been the level of experience of trainees at both the SHO and the SpR grade.1–10 Additionally consultant workload in terms of formal education, supervision, appraisal and assessment has increased while the service workload that can be expected from SpRs has diminished. This has put a huge burden on consultants and has not been accompanied by Calman's anticipated increase in consultant numbers.1–3
One consequence of implementing the New Deal for junior doctors has been a decrease in the level of experience gained by junior doctors becoming A&E SHOs over the past two to three years.1,6,7,9,10 In my experience and that of many colleagues this has led to the need for increased supervision and education. (Indeed we at the Lister Hospital have had correspondence with our deanery highlighting this problem and received the advice that we must ensure adequate support, supervision, and education).
Attitudes in hospital medicine are changing. The adage of "see one do one" is no longer tenable. In the post "Bristol" climate it is recognised that skills must be learned thoroughly and competencies assessed before undertaking clinical activities. "As regards patient care there can be no learning curve." (Barry Jackson, President Royal College of Surgeons). Expectation of education by junior medical staff has increased and they demand "on the job" teaching, formal protected teaching, and study leave.2,5–7,10–12 They are supported in this by the deaneries, by risk management policies and by the Academy of Royal Colleges and Faculties. For example, ATLS courses are considered almost mandatory for surgeons and anaesthetists in training. Patient expectations have also increased and this combines with the negative media representation that medicine has suffered to nurture a questioning and demanding attitude. Increased tendency to litigation goes hand in hand with this.
Changes in working hours and pay structures have been one factor in reducing experience. The new banding arrangements will no doubt lead to further amendments to SHOs' conditions of employment.
These factors make adequate education and supervision mandatory.
Additionally it has beeen recognised that consultant workload has increased and that its intensity varies.1,3,6,10 The new intensity payment may improve morale in this disillusioned body. However, with trainees now in a position to earn substantially more than their mentors the climate is not conducive to introduce more consultant based working to take on the necessary service commitment.
The inclusion of accident and mergency medicine in the proposed foundation year acknowledges the respect in which the specialty is held and we should be proud of this. However, I believe the proposals may pose a severe threat to A&E. Few specialties have such a high proportion of junior doctors who, in addition to experiencing service based learning and structured formal education, make a substantial proportion of the service contribution. In recent years consultant and middle grade numbers have expanded but SHOs remain the backbone of A&E. We find that junior doctors taking up A&E medicine SHO appointments have over recent years become less experienced, less ready to take on responsibility and make decisions, require more supervision, and take longer to learn to usefully fulfil their service commitment.6,7,9,10
Any senior and middle grade expansion has been absorbed to fill the gap created by such less experienced SHOs, who work fewer hours, and in increasing the provision of formal education with protected teaching, induction, appraisal, review, and final assessment of both SHOs and SpRs. The expansion has therefore failed to create anticipated improvement in A&E services, waiting times, and standards of care. We have turned to protocol driven care to attempt to provide a safe service, but this does not provide a substitute for experience.
Employing the same number of SHOs for four months would further erode experience and diminish service provision. If this were introduced it would not be possible to achieve the present standard of service with the same number of medical staff and without cost implications. If the year were to be compulsory we would also be faced with some juniors who were in post against their will, giving rise to attitude and cooperation difficulties in addition to the problems outlined above.
Perhaps now is the time to question whether it is right for juniors to carry out the majority of the care of A&E patients. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recommend that SpRs seeing patients in clinics discuss each case with the consultant. This is partly for educational benefit, but compare this situation, carrying out a planned assessment of a non-acute patient with consultant supervision at a relatively senior grade, with that of the more junior A&E SHO, seeing acute patients, with considerably less opportunity for supervision or discussion, with inherent pressures to manage the case him/herself, combined with time, space, and equipment limitations. Clearly the A&E situation is less than ideal or safe.
Calman training for SpRs was envisaged against a background of consultant expansion but was implemented before this expansion occurred.1,3,6,8,11 This has caused significant difficulty and much increased consultant workload. We should not accept this SHO reform as a cost-neutral plan. The four months attachment is unfeasible. The idea of running three induction courses a year and attempting to teach essential knowledge and skills, together with the obligatory appraisal and assessment, within four months, is daunting. The service element would diminish and such an arrangement would require the SHOs to be largely supernumerary. This can only be achieved after significant middle grade and consultant expansion. Indeed the numbers of SHOs may need to be reduced to ensure the quality of their learning and supervision during this foundation year. In addition we must continue developing the skills of other professionals such as emergency nurse practitioners. Should the posts be for six months the need for increased education and senior support will still demand increasing middle grade and senior input.
The proposed foundation year is not a practicable proposition unless it is preceded by senior and middle grade expansion and changes in the way service is delivered in A&E departments. We should not adopt what could be thought of as an expansion of Calman training without learning from our experience with implementation of the SpR grade and ensuring that the new framework permits us to provide quality care for patients. The specialty of A&E medicine should take this opportunity, while SHO training reforms are being discussed, of considering their workforce requirements. We should explore programmes that would be suitable for prospective A&E medicine SpRs and develop SHO rotations appropriate to the needs of the specialty. Service needs demand senior input to provide safe high quality patient care and we must ensure adequate middle grade and consultant numbers to provide this. To be satisfactory for trainees, training appointments must be balanced against service requirements.
Finally, I think it essential that we participate in the development of any proposed reforms in order to ensure that we are in a position to provide a safe effective service after their implementation.
Cilla Reid initiated and formulated the contents of this report, with constructive suggestions from the paper's reviewers.
Funding: none.
Conflicts of interest: none.


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Mark Robins laughed off suggestions that Adi Viveash could become Walsall's next manager but the Coventry City assistant remains the bookies' favourite to land the job.
Viveash joined the Sky Blues in August.
The 48-year-old left Chelsea in May 2017 after nine years with them with the Premier League club as a coach.
Viveash is well known to Saddlers fans as he played over 200 games for the side between 1995 and 2000 before joining Reading.
He is 4/5 to be named as their new manager, with current caretaker manager Ian Sharps just behind him with odds of 4/1.
Robins said: "That will be him linking himself with it!"
As to whether Viveash has mentioned it to him, the City boss said: "We have not spoken about it, no."
And asked if he's concerned, he laughed: "No!"
Former defender Viveash was part of the Saddlers side which was promoted automatically to what is now the Championship in 1999 - ahead of play-off winners Manchester City.
As a coach he spent a highly successful nine-year spell at Chelsea where he coached the Blues' Under 18s to three consecutive FA Youth Cup finals, before taking over the development squad.
He also managed the side in the UEFA Youth League, which Chelsea won in 2015 and 2016.
This followed a playing career which included spells at Swindon, Reading and Walsall, where he played with and became good friends with Robins.
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Coventry City striker Marc McNulty was struggling towards the very end of Tuesday night's pulsating 2-2 draw with Luton Town.
Sky Blues boss Mark Robins revealed after the energy-sapping encounter that the club's leading scorer was feeling his hamstring – an injury that always prompts caution because of the delicate nature of the muscle and fact that it can leave players sidelined for weeks if there is a tear.
"McNulty was feeling his hamstring at the end, so he'll have to ice that up and see how he is this week," said the City boss of the striker who took his season's tally to an impressive 18 with a curling free-kick against the Hatters.
The striker went for an assessment with club physio Pauline Robertson immediately after the game before speaking to the media with an upbeat update.
Asked if he's injured his hamstring, he revealed: "No, I just think it was a bit of cramp towards the end there.
"It's fine. I think it was just a little bit of tiredness towards the end and don't think it is anything too serious."
McNulty believes the condition of the heavy Ricoh Arena pitch doesn't help, adding: "It's pretty energy sapping and not great to be honest.
"But that's no excuse, we're used to it by now.
"It can be quite heavy on the legs and that makes you a bit tired and lethargic towards the end of games. But you just have to dust yourself down and get onto the next one."
As for his assessment of the game in which City took a two goal lead into the break against the League Two title chasers, the 25-year-old said: "It was very disappointing to end 2-2 and felt like a defeat.
"I thought first half the boys were very good. Second half maybe not so good but we expected Luton to come into the game at some point and I thought in the first half that they were pretty poor.
"They did a little bit after the break but I still think the goals were a bit soft from our point of view and at the other end we should have probably added a couple more goals."
Vincenti verdict
Mark Robins hopes Coventry City fans will finally start seeing the Peter Vincenti he thought he'd signed last summer after the player made an impressive return to the side against Luton Town.
The Sky Blues boss drafted in the unorthodox 6ft 3 inch tall winger from League One Rochdale to supply and get goals for the club.
Vincenti had an impressive spell at Spotland where he scored 31 goals in the three full seasons he had before an injury limited his final term.
He hit seven in Dale's 2013/14 League Two promotion campaign, following that up with an outstanding 16 the following year in League One, including a spree of seven in nine games.
And he scored eight more in 2015/16 with another flurry of seven in nine.
However, Vincenti has struggled to find the form and goals required at Coventry, managing just one in an early season Ricoh Arena win over Carlisle before Tuesday night's match opener against Luton Town .
He's been limited to 25 appearances, occasionally not even being included in the matchday squad, as was the case against Barnet last Saturday, and come in for criticism from supporters, many of whom were surprised to see him thrown into the starting line-up to face the Hatters.
Asked about his decision to put him back in the side, Robins said: "He justified the selection.
"At the end of the day he is a good player who I think has probably been lacking in a bit of confidence and self belief and that will do him the world of good.
"He's scored goals in his career and that's why we signed him. And against Luton he showed the player that we signed because he was a real handful.
"I thought he was excellent."


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CLEVELAND -- Here's a holding call that won't penalize the Cleveland Browns.
The Browns will not raise ticket prices for next season, the team said Thursday.
The club, which finished 4-12 last season, reminded fans that Cleveland's average ticket price -- just under $60 -- is the lowest among AFC North teams and second-lowest to Buffalo among the NFL's 32 teams.
"After careful consideration, we decided not to change our ticket pricing for the upcoming season," Browns president Mike Keenan said in a statement. "We hope that this, along with the introduction of new payment options, will ensure an affordable product and provide our fans with greater flexibility when they purchase their 2009 season tickets."
The club sent out season-ticket renewal forms this week with payments due on May 1, one month later than last year's deadline.
Cleveland's 2009 home schedule includes games against division rivals Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati and matchups with San Diego, Oakland, Jacksonville, Minnesota and Green Bay.
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The prompt came from a post at the Althouse blog, which has received even more attention than usual the past month or so, thanks to Althouse and husband Meade's coverage of the people protesting Wisconsin's union-weakening legislation in their town of Madison. The paragraphs that caught my attention were these two, from commenter JorgXMcKie:
While there are many very good students in the College of Ed, on average they are in the bottom 1/3 of ACT scores, but the overall college GPA is probably the highest in the University. So, probably they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they do have really high self-esteem.And this was my response:
Most of them don't really learn a subject, they learn how to 'educate'. They learn how to make the all-important lesson plans. They learn that no one outside the Education Establishment knows anything about education. They learn that they deserve to be highly compensated whether or not their students learn anything.
I have long believed that nobody should be allowed to major in education, which should instead be a minor, studied in combination with a major in one's chosen teaching area. It doesn't matter how much somebody knows of teaching techniques and the miscellaneous psychobabble taught in ed-school if he or she isn't a master of the subject being taught.The comment thread is still going as we speak, and nobody's said anything to directly contradict me. But feel free to start your own thread here.
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Visualforce to LWC: Creating Records using Apex in LWC
There are 3 ways to create records in Lightning Web Components:
I already talked about the first two in my previous articles. Now I'm going to be sharing with you how to create records in Lightning Web Components using Apex.
I'll be using the same example of adding a new contact but this time using an Apex @AuraEnabled method.
Line 3: The apex method will take 3 strings as an input (FName , LName, Phone) and we mark it as @AuraEnabled to make it accessible in lightning web components.
Line 5–10: Using the variables passed to the apex method to create a new contact.
Line 6–8: We use the lightning-input component to capture the data that should be inserted in the 3 fields (FirstName, LastName, Phone).
Line 12–13: Our lightning-button when clicked will trigger the handleCreateCon event handler.
Line 18: We're using a variable called message to display a custom message if the contact is saved successfully or if an error occurs during the saving operation.
Line 2: We import the apex method to be used as a javascript function.
Line 4–7: Declaring the variables we need to store our data.
Line 9–11: This change handler is triggered whenever a change occurs in the lightning-input and what it does is basically capture the text entered in the lightning-input and stores it in a variable called firstName which we defined in line 5. The same happens for lastnameCH and phoneCH.
Line 19: The handleCreateCon function will fire when we click the button.
Line 20–23: We call the apex method imperatively and pass the variables we created as an input to the apex method. Calling the apex function imperatively will return a javascript promise (then , catch).
Line 24–25: In the then method, we define what happens if the contact is created successfully. So in this case we set the message to 'Contact Created'.
Lines 26–27: In the catch method, we define what happens if the contact creation fails. In this case we set the message to 'Error Creating Contact'.
You can try this component in your own org! An example that would trigger the catch method is if you leave the last name field empty, because this field is required on the Contact object.
By using apex you have the flexibility to work with multiple records, unlike when using Lightning Data Service functions and Record Form Base Components which allow you to work with single records only.