text: So this is the first time I have ever made a tutorial. Please excuse the poor execution. I have had a few people ask about the bow-ties I make for clients collars so I figured I would make a video on how I make them. I know we have a lot of talented crafters on here. Please share any neat ways you make little extras for your clients.

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Our Teachers
Kelly Cimbaljevic – Dance Factory and CSTD fully qualified
Miss Kelly is a fully qualified dance teacher and a member of the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing. Kelly has had extensive training in all facets of dance including full time at the Dance Factory in Melbourne. After turning professional at the age of 17, Kelly travelled in cabaret shows interstate and overseas. Some of the destinations including Jupiter's Casino, Perth Casino, Cairns, Sydney, Adelaide, Queensland, Sheraton Hotels in Singapore, Taiwan and the Superstar Gemini Cruise Ship. Other credits include dancing for tribute shows nationally and overseas. She has also performed in many floorshows around Melbourne and also had the pleasure of judging several talent quests including Melton Star Search and Melton's Got Talent.
Bree Kent – Guest Teacher – Industry Dance Graduate
Bree Kent specialises in hip hop and commercial dance and has many years of experience in the industry. Credits include choreographer and dancer for Madeline Woods' Taking Chances video clip, ABC Christmas Show Australian tour, Robbie Williams' tribute show, Red Ball (at the Palladium) with Hugh Jackman and regular appearances on Foxtel. She performed for the Rugby Sevens in Dubai for several years and is the founder of Breeze Entertainment. One of the most successful entertainment companies in Australia.
Andrew Portelli – Industry Dance Graduate
Andrew Portelli has had extensive training from various teachers in all facets of dance. He specialises in hip hop, commercial dance, musical theatre and acting. Since turning professional at the age of 17 he was offered to compete in Germany after being placed within the top 5 of the IDO world championship hip hop section. His credits include dancing for Pseudo Echo, Boom Crash Opera, the Robbie Williams Experience and Ricky Lee as well as many other corporate events. Andrew is also a trained actor and singer and has appeared in Neighbours and most recent Steven Spielberg's The Pacific. Andrew also worked at Sentosa island in Singapore and had a 12 month contract on a cruise Ship.
Shelley Skinner – Industry Dance Graduate
Shelley is from Melbourne, Australia. She has always been drawn to performing on stage and it is her biggest passion. At the age of 17 Shelley began her full time professional training in performing arts and dance in Melbourne, Australia. From then on she has been working professionally as a dancer and performer for over 7 years all over Australia and overseas. Her professional career has given the opportunity to be apart of numerous events, TV Shows, Tours, back-up dancing and much more. Some of her credits include: Performing in the production cast on Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean and Princes Cruises, Rugby world 7's held in Dubai and the Opening ceremony for the Asian world cup. Shelley has performed back-up for artists such as: Havana Brown, Redfoo, Brian McFadden, and Australian artists Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy. Shelley has also toured with many show productions around Australia. Shelley has also spent her time as an assistant choreographer for the Victorian State School Spectacular held at Hisense arena broadcasted on Channel 7 – this has given her the chance to help put together a cast of over 3,000 people and work alongside director Kelley Abbey and choreographers Troy Phillips, Yvette Lee and Deon Nuku.
The opportunities arising from these experiences have given Shelley the chance to explore many aspects of the dance industry, while providing invaluable time to sharpen her skills. As a performer and teacher Shelley is very passionate about passing her knowledge on to her students, continually challenging herself and her students to reach there potential.
Natalie Oosterhof – Dance World 301 Graduate
It was at a very young age that Natalie discovered she had a real passion for dance. Natalie started calisthenics training at championship level at the age of 3 years.
Throughout her career she was selected to represent Victoria at National level with both her solo and as a team participant on several occasions.
Natalie took casual ballet classes growing up but really found her love for jazz and ballet when she joined Barbara Lynch Dance Studio in 2007.
In 2012 Natalie was accepted into APO Arts Academy – Dance World Studios, graduating in December in 2014.
She has had immense experience with live performance; participating in multiple flash mobs for corporate functions and performing for companies such as Cystic Fibrosis Victoria, AGL, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, NAB, Holden and Hawthorn Football Club.
In 2015 Natalie was lucky enough to perform for artist Lea Salonga. She also performed in Master of Choreography "Once Upon A Time Chapter 2."
Natalie has had a wide variety of dance training from elite teachers creating a strong foundation for the beginning of Natalie's professional career.
Breanne Mallia – Ministry Of Dance
Breanne has been dancing at Instyle for 15 years and is trained in all styles including CSTD examinations. She has completed all theatrical examinations with excellent results. Recently Breanne successfully auditioned for Jason Coleman's Ministry Of Dance and will begin her full time training in 2016. She performed for the AFL Luncheon with Breeze Entertainment and featured in a music Video choreographed and directed by Cara Pepe.
Breanne specialises in hip hop and looks forward to sharing new things with the students of Instyle.
Sinead Speranza
Sinead joins us to teach Contemporary, Acrobatics, Hip Hop, Tinies tap, jazz and ballet.
Jasmine Shockley
Jasmine joins us to teach Musical theatre, Broadway Jazz and Tap.
Angela Dunstan
Angela teaches the Elite Program, Hip Hop and Contemporary.
Kim Blanza
Kim teaches Boys Hip Hop and Breakdancing.
Rachel Whelan
Rachel joins Instyle to deliver Royal Academy of Dancing (RAD) Ballet classes.


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Debugging – the process of identifying, localizing and fixing bugs – is a key activity in software development. Due to issues such as non-determinism and difficulties of reproducing failures, debugging concurrent software is significantly more challenging than debugging sequential software. A number of methods, models and tools for debugging concurrent and multicore software have been proposed, but the body of work partially lacks a common terminology and a more recent view of the problems to solve. This suggests the need for a classification, and an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the area.
This paper presents the results of a systematic mapping study in the field of debugging of concurrent and multicore software in the last decade (2005– 2014). The study is guided by two objectives: (1) to summarize the recent publication trends and (2) to clarify current research gaps in the field.
Through a multi-stage selection process, we identified 145 relevant papers. Based on these, we summarize the publication trend in the field by showing distribution of publications with respect to year , publication venues , representation of academia and industry , and active research institutes . We also identify research gaps in the field based on attributes such as types of concurrency bugs, types of debugging processes , types of research and research contributions.
The main observations from the study are that during the years 2005–2014: (1) there is no focal conference or venue to publish papers in this area, hence a large variety of conferences and journal venues (90) are used to publish relevant papers in this area; (2) in terms of publication contribution, academia was more active in this area than industry; (3) most publications in the field address the data race bug; (4) bug identification is the most common stage of debugging addressed by articles in the period; (5) there are six types of research approaches found, with solution proposals being the most common one; and (6) the published papers essentially focus on four different types of contributions, with "methods" being the type most common one.
We can further conclude that there is still quite a number of aspects that are not sufficiently covered in the field, most notably including (1) exploring correction and fixing bugs in terms of debugging process; (2) order violation, suspension and starvation in terms of concurrency bugs; (3) validation and evaluation research in the matter of research type; (4) metric in terms of research contribution. It is clear that the concurrent, parallel and multicore software community needs broader studies in debugging.This systematic mapping study can help direct such efforts.
Traditional ideas about science as being separate and separable from ideology have to be reconsidered. Each interpretation of sustainable development is not only scientific but at the same time ideological. For this reason our ideas about good science should also be related to normal imperatives of democracy. Mainstream neoclassical economics is specific in scientific and ideological terms. This paradigm is useful for some purposes and has played role as a mental map in guiding us towards economic growth and other ideas about progress in society and the economy. Sustainable development, however, represents an ideological turn in our ideas about progress and it is no longer clear that neoclassical theory will be enough. Alternative perspectives in economics are being developed as part of a pluralistic strategy and the monopoly position of neoclassical economists at university departments of economics is thereby challenged. A 'political economic person' is suggested as alternative (complement) to Economic Man assumptions and a 'political economic organization' to be compared with the neoclassical profit-maximizing firm. Alternative ways of understanding markets and international trade, efficiency, decision-making, monitoring and assessment are also needed. It is argued that such an alternative mental map is useful for actors who take the challenge of sustainable development seriously.
This thesis is a collaboration with Framtidens läromedel, which is a research and product development project at Mälardalen University. Studies show that the mathematics skills of Swedish students are declining. The project aims to create a teaching material based on research that can help change the trend.
The project is developing several different parts. A book for students, a teacher's guide and a PowerPoint to use in the classroom. My task is to design the PowerPoint which aim to include interesting illustrations.
Research shows that students understand the content of a text better if they can look at a descriptive image. The "image" can be a movie, a picture in a book or a sketch drawn by the teacher on the board to help the students to understand.
The conclusion of this study is that a design should be attractive and that an image should be easy to read and to understand. This makes the recipients interested to the message being conveyed.
Studies show that in mathematics and mainly geometry, children relate geometric shapes to familiar objects. I have considered this in the creation of a descriptive image showing geometric shapes placed in an everyday context.
In 2012, the International Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) is being organized for the 15th time. This is a great opportunity to take a step back and reflect on the impact of the symposium over these 15 years. Several interesting questions immediately come to mind: What were the main topics of interest in the community? What is the maturity of the field? What is the research CBSE Symposia impact? Who are the mots involved researches and researchers centers? In order to answer these questions we have performed a systematic review of 318 papers published under CBSE. In this paper we provide answers about the impact of the event, list and categorize the most frequent topics, and give some statistical data about the event during this period.
Syftet med studien är att undersöka och synliggöra faktorer som kan påverka dansmatteundervisnings relevans för elevers lärande i matematikämnet, detta i grundskolans tidigare år. Två kvalitativa insamlingsmetoder, i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer och observationer, har använts i undersökningen. Resultatet antyder att dansmatteundervisning kan vara relevant i och med att arbetssättet innebär en förståelseinriktad undervisning, där ett reflekterande arbetssätt med gemensamma samtal om matematiskt innehåll genomsyrar undervisningen. Att kommunikationen ökar, genom att både verbal och kinestetisk kommunikation samspelar i dansmatteundervisning, kan också bidra till att arbetssättet kan vara relevant. Pedagogens möjlighet till direkt återkoppling till elever anses som en styrka i dansmatteundervisning. De mest kritiska och avgörande faktorerna som kan påverka eller begränsa dansmatteundervisnings relevans antyder resultaten vara pedagogens ämnesspecifika kompetens, genomförande av samplanering mellan involverade pedagoger, samt tidsplaneringen med mängden avsatt tid för genomförandet av dansmatteundervisning. Dessa faktorer kan påverka eller begränsa dansmatteundervisnings relevans för elevers lärande. Slutsatser som gjorts i studien är att dansmatteundervisning är relevant för elevers lärande i matematikämnet ur aspekter som elevers möjlighet till djupinlärning, ökad kommunikation i undervisningen, ökad konceptuell undervisning, förståelseinriktad undervisning samt att elever upplever variationen som motivationshöjande. Dansmatteundervisning kan både vara inkluderande och exkluderande för elever, vilket påverkar dansmatteundervisningens relevans.
Detta examensarbete undersöker genom analys innehållet i ett urval av samtida läseböcker i svenska för lågstadiet. Studiens syfte är att undersöka om, och i så fall på vilket sätt de förändringar som skedde i det svenska samhället under 1970-talet förmedlades. Det övergripande styrdokumentet för grundskolan under denna period var Läroplan för grundskolan (Lgr69). Studien innehåller även forskningsbakgrund kring läseböcker från 1970-talet samt en tillbakablick över den svenska läsebokens historia.
Genom text- och bildanalyser av läseböcker som använts i svenskundervisning under 1970-talet visar studien att det finns övergripande likheter i deras innehåll. Dock finns det skillnader mellan böckerna vad gäller struktur, disposition och val av illustrationer. Samtliga läseböcker i studien innehåller en blandning av traditionella teman för läsinlärning, blandat med texter som speglar ett samhälle med för tiden nya värderingar och strukturer.
In traditional design of computer based systems some effort, say 1, is spent on the early modeling phases, and some very high effort, say 50, is spent on the later implementation and testing phases. It is the conjecture of this paper that the total effort can be substantially reduced if an increased effort, say 2, is spent on the early modeling phases. Such a shift in focus of efforts will also greatly improve the overall effects (both quality and cost-wise) of the systems dev eloped, there by leading to a better (denoted by "≻") design process. In this paper, w e specifically consider the design of safety-critical distributed real-time systems. © 2000 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Den här studien är en kritisk diskursanalys av ämnet kroppslig hälsa i skriftlig media. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur fenomenet kroppslig hälsa framställs i skriftlig media genom språket och dess användning. Analysmodellen vi använt oss av är formulerad av Norman Fairclough och det datamaterial vi använt oss av är av empirisk karaktär och insamlat från svensk skriven media i form av både rikstäckande press och lokalpress. I studien finns även ett avsnitt där vi presenterar tidigare forskning inom ämnet hälsa och diskursanalys. Forskningen presenteras genom fem teman: biopolitik, livsstil, individens ansvar, klass och könsskillnad utifrån ett hälsoperspektiv samt experthjälp. Den teori vi utgått ifrån för studien är främst den för den kritiska diskursanalysen, vi har även använt oss av Foucaults biopolitik vilken främst ges uttryck i diskussionsdelen. Resultatet för studien presenteras i två delar utifrån Fairclouchs analysmodell; text samt diskursiv praktik. Resultatet redogör vi för med en rad olika teman vi formulerat utifrån den analys som gjorts. De teman som vi formulerat är: hotspråk, den stratifierade hälsan, anvisningar & imperativ, superlativ, vetenskapligt språk och den reella exemplifieringen (del ett). De huvudsakliga diskurser vi funnit i materialet är: den ohälsosamma diskursen, den hälsosamma diskursen, den vetenskapliga diskursen samt den utbildande diskursen (del två).
A method that permits the determination of moisture content in biofuel in a fast and representative way is under development. Vie method uses radio frequency waves within the range of 310 MHz to 800 MHz and measures the reflection coefficient in samples with volume of about 0.1 m(3). The influence of sample temperature in the measurements is shown in this study. Two biofuel types were used, with moisture content varying between 31% and 63% and temperature varying between 1 degrees C and 63 degrees C. The data was evaluated with multivariate data analysis. Results show that it is not possible to identify the sample temperature as a principal component in a principal component analysis and partial least squares regression shows no correlation between temperature and the radio frequency data. For the frequency interval and the temperature range studied, it was not possible to detect any influence of sample temperature on moisture content prediction with the radio frequency method.
The importance of using formal methods and techniques for verification of requirements in the automotive industry has been greatly emphasized with the introduction of the new ISO26262 standard for road vehicles functional safety. The lack of support for formal modeling of requirements still represents an obstacle for the adoption of the formal methods in industry. This paper presents a case study that has been conducted in order to evaluate the difficulties inherent to the process of transforming the system requirements from their traditional written form into semi-formal notation. The case study focuses on a set of non-structured functional requirements for the Electrical and Electronic (E/E) systems inside heavy road vehicles, written in natural language, and reassesses the applicability of the extended Specification Pattern System (SPS) represented in a restricted English grammar. Correlating this experience with former studies, we observe that, as previously claimed, the concept of patterns is likely to be generally applicable for the automotive domain. Additionally, we have identified some potential difficulties in the transformation process, which were not reported by the previous studies and will be used as a basis for further research.
Syftet med mitt arbete var att ta reda på av vilka anledningar elever i årskurs 9 har valt att inte läsa ett modernt språk utöver engelska samt vad som hade kunnat få dem att läsa ett ytterligare språk. Skillnader utifrån språkval och genus uppmärksammas. För att få svar på mina forskningsfrågor valde jag att utföra en kvantitativ surveyundersökning i enkätform. Av de elever som deltog i undersökningen var det fler som tyckte att språk var intressant, viktigt och roligt än som tyckte motsatsen. Majoriteten ansåg att språk var svårt. Eleverna ville ha mer undervisningstid i språket, mer ordkunskap och fler hörförståelseövningar samt muntliga och praktiska övningar. De ville ha mindre grammatik och färre hemuppgifter. Nästan 63% av eleverna svarade att de tror att de kommer att lära sig ett språk till i framtiden. Med rätt förutsättningar skulle möjligheterna att få elever i grundskolan att avsluta någon kurs i moderna språk utöver engelska i grundskolan kunna öka.
Designing and testing new information and safety features for industrial vehicles do not need to involve the realization of high-fidelity and expensive simulators. We propose a low-cost mixed reality environment which allows for rapid development and rearrangement of a virtual and physical setup of a simulator for industrial vehicles. Our mixed reality simulator allows for safe testing of controls, information, and safety features to support drivers of industrial vehicles. In this paper, we test the implications of showing extra digital information to excavator drivers through a virtual environment, an external head-up display as well as a head-down display. Through user tests we have seen first indications that projected information through our mixed reality system and content on a head-up display is perceived as more helpful and intuitive than using head-down displays, when controlling our industrial vehicle simulator. Moreover, we have seen that the fear of overseeing an obstacle or other important information is lower when using a head-up display, in comparison to other tested visualization options. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
In this work, the execution of student housing studies to find out if it meets the needs that students have around their accommodation. The methods have been used to gain a broader insight into the target group's living situation and to find out how the features look and function, both according to the students themselves and through space analyzes.
In spite of all electronic navigation devices on a modern ship bridge, navigators still lose their orientation. Reasons for this might be excessive cognitive workload caused by too many instruments to read and compile, navigation information that is displayed in a cognitively demanding way, short decision times due to high speed or fatigue due to minimum manning and long work hours.
This work addresses the problem of map information displayed in a less than optimal way. Three new concepts are presented: the bridge perspective, the NoGO area polygons and a dual lane seaway network. Map reading can be difficult due to the problem of mental rotations. By allowing a 3-D nautical chart to be viewed from an egocentric bridge perspective, the need for mental rotations can be removed. The cognitively demanding calculations necessary to find out if there is enough water under the keel can be made by the chart system and the result displayed as of free water and NoGo areas. On land car driving is facilitated by a road-network and a sign system. This notion can be further developed on sea and make navigation easier and safer.
These concepts were then tested in a laboratory experiment, in interviews and in a prototyping project. The results were very promising. The experiment in a laboratory maze showed that map reading from an egocentric perspective was more efficient than using traditional paper and electronic maps. Interviews and expert evaluation of prototypes also showed great interest from practitioners in the field.
In the event that remote pilotage is introduced in a wider extent, this paper suggests using nautical charts displayed in a 3-D egocentric perspective to improve situation awareness for both for the land based pilot and the bridge crew of the pilotless ship. The system will allow the port to send pre-planned routes with times and courses to individual ships, and present them in an ergonomic and intuitive way. The efficiency of the 3-D egocentric view has been shown in previous research.
This report covers the creation and implementation of a 3D audio application using FMOD Ex API. The report will also cover a walkthrough of the basic principles of 3D and surround audio, examples of other uses of 3D audio, a comparison between available technologies today, both software and hardware and finally the result of the implementation of the 3D sound environment software, both server and client. The application was created to explore the use of 3D audio in immersive environments. There was no application like this available when this project was conducted. An inductive approach along with a form of rapid application development and scenario creation was used to achieve the results presented in this report. The implementation resulted in a working client and server software which is able to create a 3D sound environment. Based on a user evaluation the software proved to be quite successful. With the help of the implementation the user, or operator, can now create a sound environment for another user, or a listener. The environment is created and designed by the operator using the client side of the implementation and later played through the server side which is connected to a 4.1 speaker system. The operator can steer and add sounds from the client to an active environment and the listener can experience the change in real time. This project was conducted as a bachelor thesis in computer science at Mälardalens University in Västerås, Sweden.
Informationsdesignsforskaren Thomas Porathe presenterade i våras i en avhandling en ny metod att presentera sjökortsinformation på fartygsbryggan. Genom att visa kartan ur ett "bryggperspektiv" uppnås en kognitiv avlastning som förenklar navigeringen, särskilt i höga hastigheter när informationstrycket är högt och beslutstiden kort.
Problemet är att många människor har svårt att läsa kartor. Nästa alla har någon gång tvingats vända kartan "upp och ner" i något gathörn för att bli klar över om det är till vänster eller höger färden skall gå. På sjön är den en dygd att hålla sjökortet orienterat i nord upp. Radarskärmar och elektroniska sjökort används också vanligen i denna orientering. När fartyget är på sydgående rör det sig alltså uppifrån och ner på sjökortet och en fyr som i verkligheten befinner sig till på styrbordssidan (till höger) om fartyget, återfinns till vänster på sjökortet. För att jämföra sjökortet med verkligheten tvingas navigatören till att mentalt rotera kartbilden 180 grader. Man har experimentellt kunnat visa att detta tar tid och det är svårt och kan bli fel. Vi människor har också olika lätt för mentala rotationer. Den så kallade "spatiala förmågan" varierar och avtar dessutom med åldern. Ett sätt att förenklar navigeringen i själva "körsituationen" är att presentera sjökortet ur ett bryggperspektiv där man ser samma vy på skärmen som genom vindrutan dagtid, men med sjökortsinformationen överlagrad på vattenytan.
Ytterligare kognitiv avlastning kan uppnås genom att låta systemet räkna fram farbara och icke farbara vatten för rådande vattenstånd, det egna fartygets djupgående, sjöhävning och squat. Kanske också en fullt utbyggd infrastruktur av sjövägar med skilda körbanor och vägkorsningar virtuellt synliga i sjökortet som landsvägar på land kan göra det lättare att förutse mötande fartygs manövrer och underlätta beslutfattande i närsituationer.
Ämnesinnehåll, arbetssätt och arbetsformer samverkar på ett övergripande sätt och bildar tillsammans det som i detta kapitel benämns undervisningssinnehåll. Jag inleder kapitlet med att argumentera för behovet att uppmärksamma att lärare arbetar inom undervisningstraditioner, vilka gör att de kommunicerar olika undervisningsinnehåll till eleverna. Därefter följer en kort redovisning om de mest utmärkande dragen hos traditionerna samt hur forskningen synliggjort dem. Till sist presenteras ett reflektionsverktyg för lärare/lärarlag som kan användas som stöd för att urskilja undervisningstraditioner i den egna verksamheten och därigenom på ett mer reflekterat sätt kunna förändra undervisningsinnehållet.
The Swedish government makes yearly monitoring of environmental goals and recent reports show that individuals have a great impact on the greenhouse effect due to their consumption of air travel and meat. On account of these climate changes this study intends to investigate and understand the consumer behavior of these individuals. Therefore qualitative interviews where used to map differences and similarities between individuals in different generations. The study shows that the main cause that affects the individual's consumer behavior is through the individual's upbringing but also for other reasons. There are visible similarities and differences between different generations, which was an expected outcome. Furthermore they express a high degree of awareness about climate change and also a willingness to change their actions. Their willingness is however limited and they are not fully ready to leave their old consumer patterns. The reasons described are fear of limited freedom. Measures that aim to limit climate change are in some cases in conflict with individual's traditions and their childhood memories.
Opening up innovation processes requires the development of forceful and efficient practices and methods that is able to mobilize and pool the creative capacities of a broader range of people. This paper will focus on a collaborative innovation design – the Innovation Plant - that in its concentrated form is a 72 hours innovation race. The purpose of the paper is to conceptualize and interpret the "72 hours to innovation" methodology from the point of view of "creative democracy", the mobilisation of the creative capacity of all. As a form of crowd sourcing, the methodology develops concentrated creativity in order to radically accelerate innovation.
Objective: To study the long-term outcomes of two interventions targeting patients with sub-acute and persistent pain in a primary care physiotherapy setting. Design: A 10-year follow-up of a two-armed randomised controlled trial, initially including 97 participants. Interventions: Tailored behavioural medicine treatment, applied in a physiotherapy context (experimental condition), and exercise-based physiotherapy (control condition). Main measures: Pain-related disability was the primary outcome. The maximum pain intensity, pain control, fear of movement, sickness-related absence (register data) and perceived benefit and confidence in coping with future pain problems were the secondary outcomes. Results: Forty-three (44%) participants responded to the follow-up survey, 20 in the tailored behavioural medicine treatment group and 23 in the exercise-based physiotherapy group. The groups did not differ in terms of the change in the scores for the primary outcome (p=0.17) of pain-related disability between the experimental group (median: 2.5, Q1-Q3: -2.5-14.25), and the control group (median: 0, Q1-Q3: -5-6). Further, there were also no significant differences found for the secondary outcomes except for sickness-related absence, where the exercise-based physiotherapy group had more days of sickness-related absence three months before treatment (p= 0.02), and at the 10-year follow-up (p=0.03). Discussion: The beneficial effects favouring tailored behavioural medicine treatment that observed post-treatment and at the two-year follow-up were not maintained 10 years after treatment.
The phase-noise theory and design of a differential CMOS LC-tank VCO with double switch pair is presented. A formula for the minimum achievable phase noise in the 1/f2 region is derived. The 2.15 to 2.35GHz 0.3μm CMOS VCO has a phase noise of -143.9dBc/Hz at 3MHz offset and draws 4mA from a 2.5V supply.
Component-based development is a software engineering paradigm that can facilitate the construction of embedded systems and tackle its complexities. The modern embedded systems have more and more demanding requirements. One way to cope with such versatile and growing set of requirements is to employ heterogeneous processing power, i.e., CPU-GPU architectures. The new CPU-GPU embedded boards deliver an increased performance but also introduce additional complexity and challenges. In this work, we address the component-to-hardware allocation for CPU-GPU embedded systems. The allocation for such systems is much complex due to the increased amount of GPU-related information. For example, while in traditional embedded systems the allocation mechanism may consider only the CPU memory usage of components to find an appropriate allocation scheme, in heterogeneous systems, the GPU memory usage needs also to be taken into account in the allocation process. This paper aims at decreasing the component-to-hardware allocation complexity by introducing a 2-layer component-based architecture for heterogeneous embedded systems. The detailed CPU-GPU information of the system is abstracted at a high-layer by compacting connected components into single units that behave as regular components. The allocator, based on the compacted information received from the high-level layer, computes, with a decreased complexity, feasible allocation schemes. In the last part of the paper, the 2-layer allocation method is evaluated using an existing embedded system demonstrator; namely, an underwater robot.
Traditional embedded systems are evolving into heterogeneous systems in order to address new and more demanding software requirements. Modern embedded systems are constructed by combining different computation units, such as traditional CPUs with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Adding GPUs to conventional CPU-based embedded systems enhances the computation power but also increases the complexity in developing software applications. A method that can help to tackle and address the software complexity issue of heterogeneous systems is component-based development. The allocation of the software application onto the appropriate computation node is greatly influenced by the system information load. The allocation process is increased in difficulty when we use, instead of common CPU-based systems, complex CPU-GPU systems. This paper presents a 2-layer component-based architecture for heterogeneous embedded systems, which has the purpose to ease the software-to-hardware allocation process. The solution abstracts the CPU-GPU detailed component-based design into single software components in order to decrease the amount of information delivered to the allocator. The last part of the paper describes the activities of the allocation process while using our proposed solution, when applied on a real system demonstrator.
A 3-D Nautical GIS is suggested in this paper. The system is aimed at nautical navigation and simplifies navigation by adding three major features to existing chart systems: The egocentric view, by allowing the geographical data to be viewed from an bridge perspective the problem of mental rotations is removed; the seaways, displaying traffic separated fairways and individual track lines and the NoGo area polygons displaying warning areas for waters too shallow for the individual ship in the current tidal situation.
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the 5- to 8-year outcome of anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) combined with a structured physiotherapy program as compared with that following the same physiotherapy program alone in patients with cervical radiculopathy. No previous prospective randomized studies with a follow-up of more than 2 years have compared outcomes of surgical versus nonsurgical intervention for cervical radiculopathy. METHODS Fifty-nine patients were randomized to ACDF surgery with postoperative physiotherapy (30 patients) or to structured physiotherapy alone (29 patients). The physiotherapy program included general and specific exercises as well as pain coping strategies. Outcome measures included neck disability (Neck Disability Index [NDI]), neck and arm pain intensity (visual analog scale [VAS]), health state (EQ-5D questionnaire), and a patient global assessment. Patients were followed up for 5-8 years. RESULTS After 5-8 years, the NDI was reduced by a mean score% of 21 (95% CI 14-28) in the surgical group and 11% (95% CI 4%-18%) in the nonsurgical group (p = 0.03). Neck pain was reduced by a mean score of 39 mm (95% CI 26-53 mm) compared with 19 mm (95% CI 7-30 mm; p = 0.01), and arm pain was reduced by a mean score of 33 mm (95% CI 18-49 mm) compared with 19 mm (95% CI 7-32 mm; p = 0.1), respectively. The EQ-5D had a mean respective increase of 0.29 (95% CI 0.13-0.45) compared with 0.14 (95% CI 0.01-0.27; p = 0.12). Ninety-three percent of patients in the surgical group rated their symptoms as "better" or "much better" compared with 62% in the nonsurgical group (p = 0.005). Both treatment groups experienced significant improvement over baseline for all outcome measures. CONCLUSIONS In this prospective randomized study of 5- to 8-year outcomes of surgical versus nonsurgical treatment in patients with cervical radiculopathy, ACDF combined with physiotherapy reduced neck disability and neck pain more effectively than physiotherapy alone. Self-rating by patients as regards treatment outcome was also superior in the surgery group. No significant differences were seen between the 2 patient groups as regards arm pain and health outcome.
The present investigation involves a unique, 7 year (2001-2007) long study of corrosion and deposits on superheater tubes in a biomass fired circulated fluidized bed boiler. These measurements are correlated against the different fuels used over this period. In the earlier years, the boiler was run with a mixture of different biomass fuels and peat. In later years, recycled wood was introduced into the fuel mix. The deposit growth rate approximately doubled when the recycled wood content of the fuel was increased to 10-20%. Small amounts of chlorine and zinc were found both in the recycled wood and in the deposit layer. These elements together with alkali metals from the biomass, have the potential to form sticky compounds that increase the deposit growth rate. The corrosion rate of the superheater tubes varied over the study period. A number of possible explanations for this phenomenon are discussed.
Today's computer games have thousands of agents moving at the same time in areas inhabited by a large number of obstacles. In such an environment it is important to be able to calculate multiple shortest paths concurrently in an efficient manner. The highly parallel nature of the graphics processor suits this scenario perfectly. We have implemented a graphics processor based version of the A* path finding algorithm together with three algorithmic improvements that allow it to work faster and on bigger maps. The first makes use of pre-calculated paths for commonly used paths. The second use multiple threads that work concurrently on the same path. The third improvement makes use of a scheme that hierarchically breaks down large search spaces. In the latter the algorithm first calculates the path on a high level abstraction of the map, lowering the amount of nodes that needs to be visited. This algorithmic technique makes it possible to calculate more paths concurrently on large map settings compared to what was possible using the standard A* algorithm. Experimental results comparing the efficiency of the algorithmic techniques on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 with 24 multi-processors are also presented in the paper.
Background: Information and communication technology (ICT) has increased in importance and facilitates participation in several life areas throughout society. However, young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability make less use ICT than the general population. Disability services staff play a central role in supporting and enabling service users in daily life, and their perceptions of ICT are important to their role in service provision.
Aim: To describe staff perceptions of the role of ICT and how it affects daily life in young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability living in residential homes.
Method: Focus group interviews and individual interviews were conducted with staff working in residential homes in which young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability live. All materials were transcribed verbatim and analysed using latent content analysis.
Findings: Staff perceived ICT and, more specifically, the Internet as being supportive of both daily life and social relationships of these young adults, but they also viewed ICT as posing social risks. Perceptions of and support for ICT were related to staff perceptions about what is appropriate and manageable in relation to an individual resident's functioning level. Staff members also considered the views of parents about appropriate content when providing support.
Discussion: Staff in residential homes for young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability use their implicit moral judgement about the use of ICT by residents. Their enablement of and support for ICT are not primarily based on the service user's wishes or interests. This finding implies a risk that the organization of a conflict-free service provision is a higher priority than service users' participation in social life.
The purpose of this paper is to study the first phase—from 2014 to 2016—of the Swedish Public Employment Service's renewal journey by examining how the agency worked to achieve its new strategy through processes of strategic management and entrepreneurship. We did this through the theoretical lens of strategic entrepreneurship (SE). The results showed that the agency's renewal processes are simultaneously entrepreneurial and strategic. The agency is historically well known for its detailed management and control, which creates several tensions with entrepreneurship. We contributed to previous literature by focusing on the organizational aspects of these tensions and the SE practices of balancing entrepreneurship with strategic management.
Background: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a major health problem among older adults, particularly those who live alone and/or those who are dependent on formal care. Chronic pain is associated with mobility problems, falls, fear of falling, catastrophizing thoughts, and a lower quality of life. Research shows that physical therapy interventions based on behavioral medicine approaches are beneficial for middle-aged adults with chronic pain. However, there appears to be no previous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) based on this theoretical framework that have examined the effect on older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain who live alone at home and are dependent on formal care to manage their everyday lives. The aim of the planned study is to evaluate the effect of an individually tailored integrated physical therapy intervention based on a behavioral medicine approach compared with the effect of standard care. Methods/design: The planned study is an RCT that will include one intervention and one control group involving a total of 150 adults aged ≥75 years with chronic musculoskeletal pain who live alone at home and are dependent on formal care to manage their everyday lives. The intervention will involve a 12-week home-based individually tailored intervention that will be designed to enhance the participants' ability to perform everyday activities by improving physical function and reducing pain-related disability and beliefs. The control group will be given standard care, including general advice about physical activity. The participants will be assessed at baseline and at 3 and 6 months after baseline. The primary outcome will be pain-related disability and physical performance. Discussion: The intervention, if effective, will have the potential to be the basis of the first evidence-based guidelines for physical therapists who work with older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Background: To be an older woman, live alone, have chronic pain, and be dependent on support are all factors that may have an impact on daily life. One way to promote ability in everyday activities in people with pain-related conditions is to use individualized, integrated behavioral medicine in physical therapy interventions. How this kind of intervention works for older women living alone at home, with chronic pain, and dependent on formal care to manage their everyday lives has not been studied. The aim was to explore the feasibility of a study and to evaluate an individually tailored integrated behavioral medicine in physical therapy intervention for the target group of women. Materials and methods: The study was a 12-week randomized trial with two-group design. Primary effect outcomes were pain-related disability and morale. Secondary effect outcomes focused on pain-related beliefs, self-efficacy for exercise, concerns of falling, physical activity, and physical performance. Results: In total, 23 women agreed to participate in the study and 16 women completed the intervention. The results showed that the behavioral medicine in physical therapy intervention was feasible. No effects were seen on the primary effect outcomes. The experimental intervention seemed to improve the level of physical activity and self-efficacy for exercise. Some of the participants in both groups perceived that they could manage their everyday life in a better way after participation in the study. Conclusion: Results from this study are encouraging, but the study procedure and interventions have to be refined and tested in a larger feasibility study to be able to evaluate the effects of these kinds of interventions on pain-related disability, pain-related beliefs, self-efficacy in everyday activities, and morale in the target group. Further research is also needed to refine and evaluate effects from individualized reminder routines, support to collect self-report data, safety procedures for balance training, and training of personnel to enhance self-efficacy.
The "above-average effect" is the phenomenon that people tend to judge themselves above average on desirable traits. Based on social identity theory, we propose that a "below-average effect" may arise when individuals rate themselves and the average ingroup member on traits stereotypically associated with the ingroup. In two studies, Republican and Democrat participants rated themselves and the average political ingroup member on possession of desirable traits related to warmth and competence. Current political stereotypes in America associate the former dimension with Democrats and the latter with Republicans. Consistent with our hypothesis, the above-average effect was moderated by political group and dimension in interaction. In particular, Democrats rated themselves below the average Democrat on warmth and Republicans rated themselves below the average Republican on competence.
The first part presents a conceptual model of the economic system in its ecological and social context. It is developed via an integration of basic concepts in physical resource theory, animal and human physiology, economic theory and systems ecology. The capacity of the model to support analysis of such complex systems where life is a key system characteristic is high. The conceptual model shows the dependency of the human economy on support by non-renewable and renewable resources from Nature (i. e. ecological source restrictions), as well as the capacity of ecosystems to assimilate wastes (ecological sink restrictions). The analysis focuses general principles; thus, the high level of abstraction results in an apparent simplicity. In the second part, we integrate traditional economic production functions and the conceptual model, which results in the formulation of a biophysically anchored production function (BAPF). The BAPF by itself, and through the system of ecological economic accounts that can be derived from it, represent a toolbox that supports the operationalisation of a sustainable development from micro to macro level. It is coherent with Impredicative Loop Analysis, existing management systems within agricultural sciences, OECD's principles for sustainable development and the approach of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Compared to analytical approaches used in the formulation of sustainability policies in the private and public sphere, based on conceptual models ignoring the complexity when life (bios) is a defining system characteristic, its relevance for the operationalisation of sustainable development approaches infinity. The third part presents results from statistical analysis of relations between gross domestic product and energy supply and some emissions, respectively, for different nations and time periods, delivering values on levels and trends for parameters in the BAPF as well as a first test of the relevance of the BAPF proposed. The paper is ended by a theoretical analysis of the costs of provoking an economic system working under ecological source and sink restrictions to follow exponential growth: The need to decouple economic growth from natural resource use and emissions is highlighted. Otherwise, the erosion of the ecological foundation of the economy with regard to source as well as sink aspects will be a function of exponential growth
To enable fast and reliable delivery of mobile text messages (SMS), special bidirectional protocols are often used. Measuring the achieved throughput and involved latency is however non-trivial, due to the complexity of these protocols. Modifying an existing system would incur too much of a risk, so instead a new tool was created to analyse the log files containing information about this traffic in a black-box fashion. When the produced raw data was converted into graphs, they gave new insights into the behaviour of both the protocols and the remote systems involved.
This paper presents a realistic model of the radio energy consumption for Bluetooth-equipped sensor nodes used in a low-duty-cycle network. The model is based on empirical energy consumption measurements of Bluetooth modules. This model will give users the possibility to optimize their radio communication with respect to energy consumption while sustaining the data rate. This paper shows that transmission power cannot always be directly related to energy consumption. Measurements indicate that, when the transmission power ranges from $-$5 to $+$10 dBm, the difference in consumed energy can be detected for each transmission peak in the sniff peak. However, the change is negligible for the overall energy consumption. The nonlinear behavior of the idle state for both master and slave when increasing the interval and number of attempts is presented. The energy consumption for a master node is in direct relation to the number of slaves and will increase by approximately 50% of the consumption of one slave per additional slave, regardless of the radio setting.
Aims. To gain a better understanding of fear-avoidance beliefs towards physical activity and body awareness in people experiencing moderate to severe rheumatic pain. Background. Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis are long-term conditions with pain as the prominent symptom. Health-promoting physical activity is recommended, and can have an analgesic effect. High self-rated pain has previously been reported to be associated with increased fear-avoidance behaviour in relation to physical activity. Body awareness, which includes attentional focus and awareness of internal body sensations, could be valuable in the nursing care of long-term diseases. Design. Empirical phenomenological. Methods. An empirical phenomenological psychological method was applied. Interviews were undertaken in 2016 with 11 informants (eight females and three males, age range 44–71 years) who were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (n = 7) or psoriatic arthritis (n = 4), with a disease duration ranging from 3–35 years. The mean visual analogue scale score in the study sample was 60 mm. Results. Three typologies were identified: "My relatively fragile physical status", "I am an active creator" and "Part of something bigger than myself." Conclusions. The current findings indicated that pain anticipation and fear-avoidance beliefs towards physical activity sometimes affected the behaviour of individuals with long-term rheumatic pain syndromes. People experiencing moderate to high rheumatic pain tended to focus on their fragile physical and emotional state. By adopting a more favourable attitude towards the self, the body could be restored to a state of calm and balance. Relevance to clinical practice. The current findings are relevant for healthcare professionals engaged in health-promotion clinical practice.


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This story shows us the power of Jesus' words – the centurion understood that Jesus did not have to be physically beside his servant to heal him, he just needed Jesus to say the word! The Luke passage shows more of the love of the centurion for this servant. The lesson to those standing around was – Oh, have such great faith! Today, let us pray for those whom we love that need Jesus' touch:
Guider prayer: "Healing God, just like the centurion, there for those that I love who need your
healing touch. (Name your loved ones; name what you desire God to do for them; and remind yourself how much you love them.) Thank you for allowing me to love these dear people. Amen"


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Colon Hydrotherapy is a rejuvenating, relaxing and highly effective treatment of internally cleansing the colon with the treatment administered by our experienced therapist Nyree George. The colon is cleansed via the rectum – this occurs as a series of warm, filtered water infusions where the colon is alternately filled and emptied.
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Gas – belching or flatulence
Lower back pain
Lack of energy
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A feeling of indecision 'Where am I heading?'
The solution to your problems may be Colonic Hydrotherapy!
About Colonic Hydrotherapy
Your colon is the sewage system of your body. If the waste in your colon builds up it putrefies, ferments and absorbs through the porous wall of your colon into your bloodstream leading to 'autotoxaemia' or 'self-poisoning'.
These toxins can pollute your brain and nervous system causing you to become depressed, irritable, tired and unmotivated. They may also pollute your lungs affecting breathing; your digestive system causing you to become distressed and bloated, as well as being unable to digest and assimilate the nutrients from your food. These toxins also pollute the blood creating sallow and unhealthy skin. Overall, the organs of your body may become stressed, deeply affecting their ability to perform their roles in maintaining your good health.
About the treatment
Colon Hydrotherapy is a rejuvenating, relaxing and highly effective treatment of internally cleansing the colon with the treatment administered by our experienced therapist Nyree George. The colon is cleansed via the rectum – this occurs as a series of warm, filtered water infusions where the colon is alternately filled and emptied. Treatments are combined with a soothing abdominal massage further encouraging the removal of hardened faecal matter and build-ups of gas and mucous.
Duration of treatment
Treatments last approximately 50 minutes and are comfortable and safe. The Colon Hydrotherapy equipment used has volume and temperature regulation, a multi-filtering system and the tubing/speculum kit is sterile and disposable.
Does it hurt?
Occasionally discomfort is felt as the bowel contracts (peristalsis) to move out waste. For some this can feel like cramping or perhaps like wind pain.
Can I still have a colonic if I have my period?
Absolutely! During menstruation is a great time for a colonic at it supports the detox process the body is already experiencing.
Does a colonic get rid of the good beneficial bowel bacteria?
You will lose some of the good bacteria during a colonic. However you will also rid yourself of far more bad bacteria with the good bacteria replenishing easily in 2-3 days. For ongoing colonic therapy, supplementation with a probiotic may be recommended depending on the number of treatments or the health issues being addressed.
How will I feel afterwards?
Some people may feel a little tired afterwards, others can feel exhilarated and energised, either response is normal. The detox affect of the colonic process will affect each person differently depending upon their level of health.
Will I be ok to work afterwards?
The majority of people feel fine to go to work afterwards.
Will I need to keep going to the toilet?
Generally not. Every attempt is made to leave the bowel as empty as possible. Some people do however, occasionally experience the need to have a few more bowel movements.
I have Diverticular Disease, can I still have a colonic?
Colonic hydrotherapy is generally fine with Diverticular disease as long as it isn't in an inflamed active phase.
When is Colonic Hydrotherapy not advised?
It isn't advisable to have colonics if you have Diverticulitis, Crohn's Disease, uncontrolled high blood pressure, a painful fissure, aggravated haemorrhoids or ulcerative colitis. If in doubt please speak to Nyree our experienced colonic therapist, simply call her on 3808 6633 and she will be happy to answer any of your questions.
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Paris, France – June 2013
Happy Wanderlust Wednesday! So this is going to be the first of what I will try to make a weekly (maybe more realistic bi-weekly) venture to highlight a travel tip or place I have been, or would like to go.
I was looking at pictures on my laptop and reminiscing about my trip to France for a week last year with my friend. Here's a little summary of what I got up to during my wonderful trip. We decided we would keep the trip as cheap as possible, so we booked into a hostel with the least number of alarming reviews and hoped for the best. Our mantra was, "we only need a bed to sleep in because we'll be out and about the whole time." We packed lightly and were both like excited puppies for our first time in Paris. Our flight was delayed…
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This year is unique in that the total amount of pre-tax and employer contributions to the MLB Vanguard 401(k) Investment Plan could exceed the IRS limit for total contributions in one year.
A player who expects to earn a full year of service should contribute only $13,000 pre-tax and $0 post-tax if he wants to maximize his contribution for 2016.
If more than the maximum amount is contributed, the MLB Investment Plan will refund the excess contribution in December 2016 or in early January 2017, and will create tax reporting complications and further limit contribution amounts on outside retirement accasdfounts.
While some teams have been proactive in reducing the total amount of pre-tax contributions made to the Investment Plan, others have allowed the full contribution of $18,000, so it is important to review your paycheck today and make the necessary changes to avoid excess withholding. The cost of issuing any refund will be charged to the Player's Investment Plan account and the Player will need to make sure his tax records accurately reflect any refund.
Immediate Questions You Need To Answer
- How much have you contributed to your MLB 401(k) as of your last paycheck?
- Did you elect the full contribution amount available?
How Much Should You Be Contributing To Your 401(k)?
For every quarter of "credited service" a player earns in 2016, major league baseball will contribute $10,000 to that players account for the year. A player who is on the Active List for the entire season, for example, will be credited with 4 quarters of "credited service" and will thus receive an allocation of $40,000 during the last calendar quarter of 2016. This is a tremendous benefit but has the potential to create some tax issues.
Because the tax laws limit the total amount of contributions to a Player's account in one year to $53,000, a full year allocation of $40,000 limits the amount of a pre-tax contribution to $13,000. This is less than the allowable amount of $18,000, so it is important to consider service time when completing the Investment Plan form for the 2016 season.
A player who wishes to contribute the maximum amount in 2016 should elect the following Pre-Tax and Post-Tax contributions:
To reiterate the urgency and importance of you taking action, excess contributions will begin to kick in if not addressed before your next paycheck.
Please let us know if we can help. We are available to assist in reviewing and updating Investment Plan elections.


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We've all heard the advice from the media, a friend, our parents, etc. "Eat this, Not that!" "Go Gluten-Free." "Paleo is the only way to do it!"… It's all so confusing and hard to remember. I'm going to make it simple for you, whether you are a meat-lover, vegetarian, vegan or anything in between, you can follow any of the above diets and STILL implement what I'm about to tell you.


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Oilers Clinch!!
On April 13th, 2006 the Edmonton Oilers beat the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 at home to clinch a playoff spot. It was their 81st game of the season and it was a great day.
This is a great day too.
The Edmonton Oilers beat the LA Kings 2-1 at home to clinch a playoff spot!!!!
Anybody remember what they did back in the that 2006 season?
Oilers Sign Another College Kid
Senior Joe Gambardella (@DJgamz5) signs two-year deal @EdmontonOilers #UnitedInBlue #UMLHockey50 #AlwaysARiverHawkhttps://t.co/6GBqgLsnRo pic.twitter.com/dHf7AGGhtX
— UMass Lowell Hockey (@RiverHawkHockey) March 28, 2017
Peter Chiarelli won the jackpot last season with the signings of Matt Benning and Drake Caggiula and he's at it again. Today the Oilers have signed Joe Gambardella to a two-year deal and have added some much needed depth to the center position in the organization. Gambardella is coming off a big season where he scored 52 points in 41 games centering the top line for UMass Lowell in the NCAA.
The 23 year old Gambardella isn't huge at 5'10 and 201lbs but seems like a suitable replacement in the organization for Anton Lander who appears to jetting off to play in the KHL next season.
This is a big signing imo, this kid is probably on par with what Drake Caggiula was a year ago when he signed with the Oilers and Caggiula was able to make the team out of training camp and stick with the big club all season. I don't expect Gambardella to make the Oilers out of camp next season but I think he'll be in the conversation and could be an early call up if a center is injured on the big club.
Oilers Trade Davidson to Habs for Desharnais
The #Oilers have acquired forward David Desharnais in exchange for defenceman Brandon Davidson. #NHLTrade pic.twitter.com/bH9GI3UV4m
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) March 1, 2017
Oilers trade Nail Yakupov for Cap Space and a Pick
The Oilers have traded Nail! Sad days.
Nail Yakupov to the Blues for Zach Pochiro and a conditional pick.
There has been all kinds of speculation that Yakupov had asked for a trade and that the Oilers were close to trading him last season but honestly we'll never know for certain how much truth there is to this stuff. What we do know is that Peter Chiarelli has now traded two of the wonder kids from the previous administration and in both cases cap space was a large part of the decision.
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Edmonton Oilers: No Need To Be Concerned With Jesse Puljujarvi
The Edmonton Oilers continued their recent history of drafting highly touted offensive prospects in the first round. With the fourth overall pick in the 2016 draft, the Oilers drafted 18-year old Swedish right winger Jesse Puljujarvi. This marks the fourth time in five years the Oilers drafted an offensive player with a top five pick: 2012 #1 Nail Yakupov, 2014 #3 Leon Draisaitl, 2015 #1 Connor McDavid and now Puljujarvi.
Puljujarvi comes to the NHL with high expectations. The 6'3" right-winger recorded four goals and four assists in 16 games as a 17-year old in Finland's top professional league. NHL's Director of European Scouting Goran Stubb had high praise for Puljujarvi saying, "He's a powerful skater with good speed and balance. He has outstanding hockey sense and reads the play well. He's a good playmaker with strong puck-handling skills. He can take advantage of 1- on-1 situations with his long reach."
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Should the Oilers Trade For Hamonic or Shattenkirk?
There has been so much talk this season of the Oilers making a trade in the off-season to bring in a true top pairing D-man. Much of the talk has Jordan Eberle or Ryan Nugent Hopkins being sent out to acquire Travis Hamonic or Kevin Shattenkirk, both of whom would likely improve this team a great deal. I don't want to get into the pros and cons of dealing Ebs or the Nuge but we all know that you need to trade value to get value and for the first time in a while I trust the GM to make the right deal.
So the question remain: Should the Oilers trade for Hamonic or Shattenkirk? I'll admit that before doing research for this article I would have picked Shattenkirk, I'm just more familiar with the player so I have less doubt that he can come in and help the team win. I put together a player usage chart over at hockeyabstract.com to compare both of these guys to defensemen already on the Oilers and I'm actually a bit surpised:
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Zack Kassian Is An Edmonton Oiler!
Not long ago Zack Kassian was likely the most hated NHL'r by Edmonton Oiler fans and now he's an Edmonton Oiler. I look forward to seeing the crowds reaction to Zacks first game at Rexall place.
Oilers take on the project that is Zack Kassian, send Ben Scrivens to MTL. Habs move on, EDM with nothing to lose.
— Mark Spector (@SportsnetSpec) December 28, 2015
Upper Deck 2015-16 Series One Hockey
As a kid I loved collecting hockey and baseball cards, of course it was a bonus to get a stick of gum with them and then use the doubles in the spokes of my bicycle tires. I had no idea how much card values would skyrocket and of course most of the cards I collected in the 80's are either lost or are in awful condition. I did manage to keep a small collection of cards from the early 90's in good shape and have passed them down to my son, who is only 10 years old, but understands the benefits of taking care of collectibles much better than I did at the same age.
The quality of the cards today is much better than back in my days as a youngster its much easier to keep them in top condition. I recently received the new Upper Deck 2015-16 Series One card set along with the 2015-16 Connor McDavid collection with the understanding I would review them on the site and I must say they are superb.
Meaningful Games
Meaningful games in December. Yes it's true. The Oilers who are now winners of 5 in a row find themselves just one point short of a playoff spot. Yes, that's true too.
The Oilers really haven't played a game that matters after the month of November in, well I can't remember when to be honest with you. The Pacific division is terrible, but that's fine when it comes to where our team sits in the standings. If the old rule for making the playoffs still applied only 2 teams from the Pacific would currently be in a playoff spot. Los Angeles and Vancouver. Thanks to NHL for these rule changes, the Oilers have a chance.
All of this while the team is missing 3 of their top 6 forwards, Benoit Pouliot, Nail Yakupov and young phenom Connor McDavid haven't played in ages and it appears only Pouliot is getting close to returning.
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Oilers Predictions Part 2 – The Defense
I talked about the forward group for 2015 here.
The Oilers have 10 Defencemen who I believe will be in contention to make the team out of training camp and there will be some upset fans when the team decides to send players to the minors even though they may have outplayed veterans in training camp. The candidates are: Andrej Sekera, Oscar Klefbom, Mark Fayne, Justin Shultz, Eric Gryba, Nikita Nikitin, Andrew Ferrence, Griffin Reinhart, Darnell Nurse and Brandon Davidson. It will not surprise me in the least if any of Nurse, Reinhart or Davidson outplay Ferrence or Nikitin in training camp but unless there are men going on the injury reserved list I will be shocked if any of the three make the team. Ferrence is currently the team captain and while his on ice performance leaves alot to be desired over the last couple of seasons he is by all accounts a good captain and a needed presence in the dressing room. This combined with a veteran coach who is more likely to trust veteran D-men will most likely result in the following lineup on D:
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In the aftermath of the critically acclaimed Tramlines festival, Sheffield music has enjoyed a lot of attention over the last couple of weeks. With the 'Free For All' festival proving a national hit, it heavily showcases the city's newest and finest talent. In this list we have a look back at Sheffield's finest artists that aren't the McCartney crushing Arctic Monkeys or Jarvis Cocker's Brit pop throw backs Pulp...
5. Frank White
To tap into the source of Sheffield music then the best place to start is this fret-fucking finger genius. Pre-dating the infamous Esquire and Club 60 nightclubs (among the first in Sheffield with the latter still used as studio space), White is still on the circuit, showing his unerring importance to the musical heritage of the Steel City.
In the aftermath of Brian Jones' death, it's rumoured that White was the man The Stones wanted and it has often been said his wizardry on the axe eclipses that of the most famous blues artists on the planet, namely Eric Clapton. Still, the family man and former steel worker ignored the offers, rumours and lifestyle, choosing Sheffield as the location where his legend would live on.
Frank White has undoubtedly earned his local tag 'the man who could have been king' after a career that has touched the most important decades of popular culture.
4. Joe Cocker
It was in the early Sixties that local entrepreneur and one of the main founders of Sheffield's music scene, Terry Thornton, was persuaded into allowing the-then-apprentice gas fitter Saturday night stage time.
Starting in local pubs with The Grease Band, Cocker became infamous on the local scene after his first few appearances at The Esquire.
Later hitting chart gold with his own version of The Beatles' 'I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends' (featuring Jimmy Page on guitar)and his famous 'Up Where We Belong' duet with Jennifer Warnes , Cocker wasn't just permanently written into Sheffield folklore and history, but the world's. With a Golden Globe, Grammy and an Academy Award (oh yeah, he's Joe Cocker OBE too), he has released 21 studio albums in his forty year long career and is the Godfather of Sheffield music.
3. Def Leppard
While Def Leppard didn't make the ripples they did on the other side of the pond, they're one of the UK's biggest exports, selling over 60 million records worldwide. In 1987 the band's fourth studio album, Hysteria, hit number one in the UK and America, seeing them join the elite band of artists to crack both markets simultaneously.
That's not even the best bit - they've got a one armed drummer. Known as 'Thunder God', Rick Allen crashed his car while on the way to a New Year's Eve party in 1984. His arm was severed and despite being reattached, it was amputated permanently after an infection broke loose. It didn't stop him though and with help from front man Joe Elliot and Status Quo drummer Jeff Rich, Allen was gigging by 1986 on an altered kit.
Despite entering music's murky waters in recent years, with an ill-advised covers album diluting previous classics into old man metal, Def Leppard are up there with the best in their field, the world over.
2. The Human League
Sheffield was left out in the cultural cold after punk took hold of the Seventies. But when the Esquire club was reopened as The Leadmill, the Steel City played host to the Electro revolution of the Eighties. With Cabaret Voltaire and ABC at their sides, The Human League's smash hit 'Don't You Want Me' defiantly stamped Sheffield back onto the musical map.
There were a string of international hits including 'Human', (Keep Feeling) Fascination' and 'Mirror Man' and the band were on the forefront of the synth craze, despite the fact singer Phil Oakey couldn't even play one when he was invited into the band in 1977. Later recruiting Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, the League still tour heavily under the same line up and in 2011, released 'Credo', their first studio album in a decade.
Peaking at a lowly 44 in the UK chart and dividing the critics, it doesn't take anything away their initial importance, originality and game changing sound.
1. Richard Hawley
Often dubbed as Yorkshire's answer to Frank Sinatra, Richard Hawley is without a doubt one of the best things to ever happen to Sheffield music.
Nephew of Frank White and son of Dave Hawley (The Dave Hawley Combo/The Black Cats), Hawley comes from strong music stock. Growing up in with Elvis, Orbison and rockabilly on repeat, the sultry king of cool joined Longpigs towards the close of 1993, later joining Pulp after the Pigs disbanded in 2000.
It's his solo career, though, that's gives him the honour of number one spot, with albums such as 'Lady's Bridge', 'Truelove's Gutter' and the Mercury nominated 'Coles Corner' showing Hawley's profligacy, consistency and excellence as a songwriter in his own right.
This year's expansive 'Standing At The Sky's Edge' furthered Hawley's direction. Once again working with long time collaborater Colin Elliot (rumoured to be doing Kylie's next album), out of Sheffield's Yellow Arch Studios, the album is layered with genius from top to bottom - with guitars, harmonies and slick dynamics propelling his work into different dimensions.
With other collaborations including Lisa Marie Presley and Duane Eddie, Hawley teamed up with Arctic Monkeys at the back end of last year, resulting in January's release of 'You And I' trending on Twitter quicker than the man himself could spark a cigarette.
Take a bow, Rich.


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// Scenes from the Boston Women's March on January 21, 2017 - 125,000 strong.
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One Simple Trade Show Tip to Help You Sell
Tradeshows are a huge investment for brands. And, nowadays, there's so much clutter between the amount of labels exhibiting and the various shows happening at the same time that are hoping to get buyers and press to attend. For any business, the challenge becomes how to get people into their booth, spark interest and elicit and action whether that's write an order, take notes or make an initial contact. On the show floor, your products may merchandise themselves well in a display or have great anger appeal. However, if your pieces aren't really brought to life on display, it can easily be a deterrent because people may not be able to visualize how your pieces can be worn or styled, and have limited time to invest in doing so.
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Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has today sworn in two new ministers into the federal cabinet.
They were sworn in on Wednesday morning at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa before the commencement of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive council, FEC.
As earlier reported today by Naija News, following a tweet by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant-Media and Publicity to the Vice President, both of them have now been expectedly sworn in.
They are Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State who replaces the late labour minister, James Ocholi who died in a car accident in March, 2016, and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State who replaces former Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed who resigned to serve as Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations.
Both had earlier been screened and confirmed by the Senate in May and have been waiting to be brought into the federal cabinet.
Osinbajo said the portfolios of the two new ministers " will be announced shortly."
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NXTBoard is delighted to announce that Michell Curry, one of NXTBoard's account executives, has been appointed as Membership Engagement Vice Chair on the board of directors of the Austin chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN).
Originally from Alabama, Michell has resided in Austin for almost seven years. She can't imagine leaving the city (or the breakfast tacos!) She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with concentrations in race, religion, and politics from The University of Alabama. When she's not advising board members on how they can leverage NXTBoard's board portal software to support their board management and governance efforts, she can be found hiking around Austin with her dog Coley, performing improv, or hosting dinner parties for friends. Michell is excited to help YNPN achieve its mission to provide accessible professional development opportunities that empower young leaders and advance the nonprofit community.
"I am beyond excited to serve as the Vice Chair of Membership Engagement for YNPN's 2019 Austin Board. There were a large number of applicants interviewing for the available board positions, and I felt honored to have been chosen to represent the organization. Young Nonprofit Professionals Network is a great community of young career-oriented individuals that are hoping to engage with like-minded people who are looking to advance the nonprofit community.
Prior to accepting the board position, I frequented a number of YNPN events that allowed me to engage with nonprofit leaders that play key roles in Austin's philanthropic community. Those interactions inspired me to take my volunteer efforts to the next level. It was perfect timing that YNPN was seeking new board members!
The City of Austin is very special to me, and I found myself wanting to contribute to a local organization's mission in a more strategic fashion. I believe that my sales and recruiting background will lend to my efforts on the Membership Engagement Committee. Collaboration is key, and I'm sure that I will learn a great deal from current board members. I eagerly anticipate the opportunity to bring a creative flair in recruitment and marketing efforts for new individual and organizational memberships. I look forward to building new relationships within the greater Austin community!"
- Michell Curry
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Notice is hereby given that the Emery County Library Board has scheduled its regularly scheduled meetings for 2019. The meetings will be held on;
Monday January 7
Monday March 4
Monday May 6
Monday July 1
Monday September 9
Monday November 4
All meetings will be held at the Castle Dale Library, 135 North 100 East, Castle Dale, Utah. Meetings will begin at 8:00 am.
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It is a great honor and privilege for Woodland Overseas School to register for the Future 50 Schools Shaping Success award as the award recognizes schools doing exemplary work in shaping the future of the students by nurturing young learners and providing a platform for them to learn and share best practices across various fields. The parameters for evaluation are based upon the involved efforts made by the schools in shaping their student careers and on the results achieved by students owing to the support from the school.
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Dive Brief:
- California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) could be considering developing a hyperloop transit system through Central Florida, connecting Tampa and Orlando along the Interstate 4 corridor at maximum speeds near 700 mph, according to WFLA News Channel 8.
- HTT officials are reportedly scheduled to present their ideas for the high-speed system to regional transportation leaders at a meeting on June 6. Voters had approved a plan to give high-speed rail right of way along I-4, but Florida Gov. Rick Scott subsequently blocked $2.4 billion in federal funds from going into a rail project. The federal money earmarked for that project went to the California High-Speed Rail Authority's now-$77 billion bullet train project instead.
- Local leaders told WFLA that any plans for a Tampa-Orlando hyperloop are exploratory at this point.
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The US government has announced a new council that will support the commercialisation of hyperloop technology in coming years and months.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today published a Notice of Funding Opportunity for $15 million to fund two new University Transportation Centers (UTCs).
This past week Venture Smarter was joined by representatives from Drive Ohio, the University of Cincinnati (UC), the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), and the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) for the Ohio Conference on Freight hosted by the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI).
The Midwest Connect Corridor project is part of the Rapid-Speed Transportation Initiative (RSTI) to explore intercity routes that could utilize two rapid-speed transportation technology options - traditional passenger rail and/or Hyperloop technology - between Chicago, Columbus, and Pittsburgh.
The Arizona Hyperloop Coalition is implementing a high-speed and sustainable transportation solution to improve efficiency in freight transport, reduce waste, boost economic activity through increased trade, and promote connected communities.
California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) could be considering developing a hyperloop transit system through Central Florida, connecting Tampa and Orlando along the Interstate 4 corridor at maximum speeds near 700 mph, according to WFLA News Channel 8.
Data is transforming the way we move around cities, from family car journeys to the daily commute. Gone are the days when traveling from A to B meant remembering your map and having to ask for directions at regular intervals.
The Second Annual Smart Cincy Summit will bring together local, regional and national leaders on April 26th, 2018 at Union Hall in Cincinnati, OH. A detailed program overview, inclusive of featured speakers, panel discussions and smart planning workshops is now available.
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COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission has announced a $2.5 million rapid-speed transportation initiative to explore intercity routes.
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Molecular Devices announced today the launch of the new SpectraMax® ABS and ABS Plus Microplate Readers that cover a wide range of absorbance-based applications such as ELISAs, microbial growth, and protein quantitation and can be easily integrated into full robotic systems.
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