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Balder Ex-Libris - Hutton Christopher Review of books rare and missing 2019-12-13T14:02:05+01:00 urn:md5:c9a6cc40b646b8184eadcdd0220bb450 Dotclear Hutton Christopher - Race in the Third Reich urn:md5:9ab7840eac96bc7f5877229f613ac753 2017-01-15T15:36:00+00:00 2017-01-15T15:37:33+00:00 Balder ExLibris Hutton Christopher RacesThird Reich

 Author : Hutton Christopher M.
 Title : Race in the Third Reich
 Year : 1999

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 Introduction. This book is intended to give an introduction to the major questions addressed in the study of race in Nazi Germany, and to assess their place within its evolving intellectual and ideological landscape. It offers neither institutional history nor detailed biographies of the participants. What is of particular concern here are points of tension, controversy and uncertainty, both among academic theorists of race and between academics and the political authorities. The focus is on the politically and intellectually central concept of Volk ('people') and on competing understandings of German identity. This work offers just one particular path out of many through the maze of the Third Reich, and is written with the intention of informing debate about the relationships between race theory, National Socialism and wider trends in European thought. I have focused on those areas where in my view the received popular view is misleading, arid have not attempted to summarize the massive scholarly literature on the institutional basis and implementation of the 'Final Solution' and other crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime. Nazism as an ideological system was both dynamic and contentious. There was no single centre of power, and no single figure who determined the political correctness of a particular intellectual direction. National Socialist Germany did not see the rise of a new, clearly identifiable orthodoxy, as the major theoretical positions on race were staked out long before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. This is not to say that there were no intellectual changes or developments between 1933 and 1945, but these changes tended to take the form of the neutralization or marginalization of particular schools or groups of academics, and the rise of others. ...

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Board discussed 2018-19 financial plan, not Videocon issue: ICICI Bank
Mumbai, May 8 (IANS) Private sector lending major ICICI Bank has said that its board met on Tuesday to deliberate upon thhe budget and financial plan for the current fiscal and that the Videocon loan issue was not discussed.
"The Board today met to discuss the budget and the financial plan for the current fiscal," an ICICI Bank spokesperson said.
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Defra today unveiled the long-awaited funding and policy framework behind the 'Catchment-Based Approach'. This is finally an endorsement of the methods used by Rivers Trusts and other bodies in managing river water quality, catchments and ecosystem services across the landscape. We are delighted to support the approach and will be working closely with all our colleagues in the Environment Agency, other wildlife organisations and farmers to turn this policy framework into real, effective change in Essex and Suffolk (catchments 10 – Combined Essex and 24 – East Suffolk).
In the meantime read the announcement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/river-health-gets-16-million-boost
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£1m of the funding will be available to provide match funded support for the critical partnership lead/facilitators role in the form of a charitable grant. This will be distributed by the Environment Agency in proportion to catchment need within river basin districts and against the criteria within this framework.
A further £0.2m will be used to develop and deliver a training support package for the partnerships.
And up to £0.4m will be for direction by the national level steering group to invest as they see best.
This investment would still be administered by the Environment Agency but might fund further support for catchment partnership leads/facilitators; enhancing the planned central training; or, to develop further tools such as, a visual catchment representation or cost benefit analysis tools to facilitate further engagement and action. '
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Obit, Vanessa Gould's documentary look at the obituary department of the New York Times in action, is as deceptive in tone as it is perceptive in vision. A strange air of calm rumination pervades the account, even as we watch a group of consummate professionals go through their daily, panic-inducing routine of finding out who died, figuring out who's newsworthy, pulling clips and photos from the paper's labyrinthine and comically understaffed archives, interviewing loved ones, gaining "command of [the deceased's] life, work, and historical significance," weaving "a seductive historical spell" for an increasingly distractable reader that gets its facts right and doesn't blow its "one chance to do justice to a life and make the dead live again," and then pitching it for editorial consideration.
She achieves this unlikely tranquility by frequent cutaways to the writers themselves as they discuss their particular brand of journalism, and to their invariably engaging subjects. They're not all movers and makers of worlds, but even the minor figures are lent significance by the way their stories are told. (Go ahead and Google "John Fairfax badass obit" for the story of a professional adventurer who lived the bejesus out of life before he passed on — sorry, died. The Times doesn't go in for euphemism.)
That's the real subject here: storytelling, the creation of a stylish, authoritative, highly personal record of "how the world got to be the way it is." One more thing to miss about newspapers when they go.
Matthew Lickona: Do you read obituaries?
Vanessa Gould: I do now, but I didn't before making this film. While I was making my last film, one of my subjects died of lung cancer, sort of in the prime of his life. He was an unknown, struggling, reclusive artist living outside of Paris and working in the unusual medium of paper, and I think he was on the cusp of receiving some due recognition, which was the only thing he sought in life. Besides my personal sadness, I got this panicked feeling about an artistic life being cut short, the ideas the he would take into the grave. So I contacted 12 or 15 English-language newspapers, just announcing his death, and Margalit Fox of the New York Times was the one person who called me. She was asking me some basic questions about his early life, and I didn't know the answers, and I wasn't able to get some of them. I got this incredibly vivid feeling of how quickly the facts of history slip through our fingers, and I started to see how obituaries are a mechanism for catching the details of people's lives. I started looking at them every day and saw that they were also, to some degree, a catalogue of our contemporary culture. And every single one sort of looked like it could be a film. That's how I started reading them.
ML: The writers describe a shift from a very dry, just-the-facts, almost somber style for obituaries to something that seeks to illuminate, educate, and even entertain. But they don't say why it happened or how.
VG: I can't give a really firm answer, but people are drawn to really great storytelling. In the '50s and '60s, there was a guy at the Times named Alden Whitman who wrote obituaries for the great figures of the mid-20th Century: Picasso, Churchill. He had a real flair, and he often interviewed subjects for their own obituaries, which was a new and daring tactic. I think he might have been the first in terms of making obituaries more editorial or journalistic. And then, 10 or 15 years later, there was a writer named Robert McG. Thomas who got sent to the Times' obituary desk out of punishment. He had too much restlessness on the other beats. And he started writing obituaries about unusual people who had what he called "great yarns." The guy who accidentally invented kitty litter; the pilot "Wrong Way" Corrigan. They were terrific, fun, sassy stories, and the readership ate them up. I think he demonstrated that there was interest, and I think [today's writers] found latitude in that. Margalit is an amazing stylist; she can handle the eccentric like no one else.
ML: There's a great line from one of the writers about how you go looking for something in a story and you always end up finding something else, and the something else you find is better than what you were looking for. Did that happen to you in making this film?
VG: Yes. By way of research before interviewing the writers, I would read their entire body of obituary writing. It was the natural thing to do, but it took a couple of weeks for each one. I went into those meetings with a long list of the obituaries that I thought were the most exciting or compelling to me, and I don't think a single one of them made it into the film after talking to the writers and finding out which ones were most memorable to them, or had the most interesting stories behind them. It's not easy for them to remember what they do on any given day; it's this extreme process of immersion and purging in order to come in the next day with a clean slate. Often, they don't remember which obituaries they've written. So when they did remember somebody, I knew there was something special there. The one about the guy who was a [Jewish] matchmaker in the Catskills — that's one that would never have come onto my radar, but when you hear Margalit read the lead paragraph, and when you look at those photos…. It's just a wonderful little story.
ML: Near the very end of the film, you include a dense and dizzying montage of historical images, many of which go by too quickly to be properly perceived. Why did you include that?
VG: We weren't trying to do anything expressly specific; it's sort of open to interpretation. But I'm willing to give mine. Over the course of making the film, we accumulated so much cultural stuff through the reading of these obituaries. The past was sort of illuminated by all these stories — people, events, even consumer products. It was this pointillistic picture of the past that came to life by looking back at all this stuff. My editor Kristin Bye and I felt that the film didn't really express that in its totality, and we wanted to end it on a vital, vigorous, energetic note. Time just barrels by, quicker and quicker, and I think people know the feeling of time passing quickly. We were just playing around with [representing] that visually.
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My studio has always been the central hub of the house; perhaps because when we initially lived in smaller spaces, all the rooms were interconnected; and in close proximity of one another. But if truth be told, this isn't the real reason that my studio has always been (and till today), remains the cockpit of the home. I say this because many of my friends and colleagues who are writers and artists or who have jobs where they work from home, find ways to isolate themselves away from the routine of daily life; and prefer to have a separation between their work and other factors of their lives. For me I have chosen otherwise, and though on some days I feel a bit frazzled, I know without a doubt that I would never feel as fully alive and enriched, without the rhythm of the world around me parading it's existence.
I don't know whether this situation of allowing the world of my studio to co-exist with all else around me, occurred because I went to college each day of my (medically rather difficult)pregnancy; and further insisted upon being back in my studio in college four days after my delivery. Or whether the simple practicality of having my studio as the central base made it easier to be an artist when I was multi-tasking, and thereby not compromising on the many worlds that define my personal existence. I don't really have the answer, but what I do know is that it has always been a structure that keeps me free to do all that I choose to, and this is personally very satisfying.
It was amusing to many that whilst I was hunched over with abdominal stitches after being operated on only days earlier for a hysterectomy in 1993, I had the hospital corridors lined with paintings and photographs of art works because I was in the middle of curating a show. To me it just seemed so normal and I was slightly irritated to imagine that anyone else thought otherwise!
Mithun, and my adopted granddaughter Aditi have each played for hours as children in my studio. Corners of my studio have transformed into garages and race tracks, bowling alleys and marble competitions, dolls schools and concert areas where imaginary audiences silently ask for endless encores! Even today Mithun, when he visits home, will come up in the afternoon to my studio and snooze (all stretched out on the settee that doesn't fit his lanky frame), to channel surfing and read comic books or magazines or just mutate. My mother has her Sunday scrabble sessions in my studio too that often get rowdy with words being challenged and accusations of cheating ranting the air. Countless students have sat all wrapped up sipping hot beverage that range from soups to chocolate milk or horlicks comforters, as I play Florence nightingale to some fever or the other. Sometimes my teaching sessions have students scattered all over my space, drawing or reading.
Yesterday my friend had the blood drained from a jambed finger, and was in pain and just wanted to be home with us. She came home and sat with her bandaged thumb (like little Jack Horner) reading in a corner of my studio, as I painted. She said to me that though she loves every nook and corner of our home, that somehow it was only in my studio that she feels the completeness of her relationship with me. It made sense because my studio really is the heart of my home for me.


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Random Observations #10
As a boy, I used to stare into the mirror and let my eyes blur until I could see my father's face staring back at me. As an adult, when I look into the faces of vagrant men on the street, I sometimes see how some of our boys (but for the grace of God) could have turned out. There is W, obese and rummaging through the trash. There is S, long-bearded and filthy, with his head in his hands (always a loner). There is B, half-naked and emaciated, passed out in the heat.
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Pluto has finally ended, and I'm sorry to see it go. This was a genuinely terrific adventure, one which never outlasted its welcome or felt overlong. Naoki Urusawa can take a bow; this was among the best comics of the last decade.
If you were among those oddballs who failed to jump on board while it was ongoing, you might have missed what we were raving about. I described it last year as a "simply expert blend of detective fiction, classicist science fiction and big robots knocking the bejezus out of each other." It's actually a revisionist expansion of a celebrated Astro Boy adventure by Osamu Tezuka, in which some unknown force has been eliminating both the greatest and most powerful robots on the planet along with robot-friendly scientists. Only another robot could destroy the heroic droids who previously brought an end to a worldwide war, but robots are programmed never to harm humans, so the detective Gesicht has a dangerous problem on his hands, one that threatens to plunge the world into darkness.
If Pluto has a failing at all, it's that book six could have been the conclusion and I would have been satisfied. Sure, it would have meant one heck of a bleak ending, and one quite opposed to the always optimistic Tezuka's worldview, but Urusawa created a climax there which knocked me for a loop. Honestly, the real ending, while still quite satisfying, just doesn't have the emotional resonance of the earlier moment. There's an unexpected epilogue with a hell of a payoff, too. If you enjoy mysteries, comics or old-school SF, there's a lot in Pluto to surprise you. Strongly recommended.


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… also titled 'My November Goals'.
So, we started another wellness challenge at work. I really wanted some motivation to help get me through the holidays. I tend to throw caution to the wind during the months of November and December- baking, eating, drinking, and just having fun. And as a result, I typically gain 5-10 pounds every year, which then has to come off some time in the following 3-6 months. Well, I didn't want to do that this year. I want to stay on track with my fitness goals. (Speaking of goals, I've never actually written any down. I think now is a good time to start).
It's so hard for me to find motivation alone. I need the support and encouragement of others. It's not the competition that I want, it's the accountability that I need. So I am spearheading a Wellness Challenge at work.
There are 2 options to choose from – #1 is simple – just don't gain any weight over the holidays. Weigh in on November 1st and again on December 31st. If you gained any weight at all, you have to pay $25. Everyone who maintained or lost their weight will be entered to win a drawing of all the loser's money. Easy. I had over 20 people choose this option!
#2 is quite a bit more complicated with a team structure and point system. I won't share all the details with you, but suffice it to say that this one will definitely keep me motivated! There are 6 of us that chose this option, which is 3 different 2-person teams. It should be a lot of fun.
I plan on sending out weekly tips and motivational emails to all participants. I'll include them on the blog for you too! My very first tip includes setting goals. Specific, measurable goals. It's not enough to say "I'll exercise more" or "I'll eat better". Those are not specific enough. And set a deadline for achieving that goal.
Here are my goals for November:
1) Lose 4 pounds (1 per week) by the end of November
2) Run in 8k on Thanksgiving Day! (Haven't done this race in 6 years!)
3) Set a PR on deadlift at 120#
So here is my challenge to you…. can you get through the holidays without gaining weight this year? Can you strive to 'Maintain, Don't Gain' this year? How will you do it? Set your goals today!
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I'll be playing the supporting role 🙂 Gotta keep the wife unit motivated! I'm just patiently working out this SI Joint inflammation so I can get back to a normal workout routine. Grrrr.
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You told us all day every day how Jon Ossoff would win. He not only did not win but lost by MORE than twice the percentage points President Donald Trump beat Hillary with. That is a BLOW-OUT loss of a liberal bleeding heart. We hate Nancy Pelosi here in the 6th district.
EVERYONE of us.
All of us.
And so the democratic stronghold in California and New York send ALL their monies HERE to TELL us how to vote.
NO other ad ran.
Just Jon Ossoff.
You called my cell phone repeatedly.
You stood outside the voting place.
You sat in benches with T-shirts on outside the polling place.
And you rallied support for your side thinking Southerners are backwards stupid uneducated and needed YOU to tell US how to vote.
They even showed-up trying to vote when they do not live in the 6th district. Why not ? Your candidate does not even live here either. He lives in an apartment and easily could have represented HIS DISTRICT by living here among us. But no that is too much damn trouble for Democrats.
They told us in EVERY POLL Jon Ossoff would win and did win.
Then we voted.
They told us THEN that it is a referendum against Republicans with their tired old rhetoric.
They never did tell us that Jon Ossoff wants to give citizenship to cheating lawbreakers who do NOT pay taxes and don't have a driver's license.
They told us how attractive Jon Ossoff is.
They told us that Republicans would not control the House. We have 47 more Republicans than Democrats. 47.
And the Democrats who are MOSTLY from out West and up North tell us how bad all this is. You can't win. Even when you tell us how you WILL you don't.
Jon Ossoff ?
Really ?
Nearly three-quarters of us have college degrees and make $ 160 thousand dollars a year every year.
And you bring your tired bullshit down here to our airwaves to tell US how to vote ?
I am so fed-up with your tired worn-out rhetoric of how bad all this is for YOU.
It is a BLOW-OUT of Biblical Proportions by MORE than twice the percentage points President Donald Trump beat Hillary with.
It is NOT at ALL what you said it would be.
You LOST again.
Your leaders in the Democratic Party are NOT our leaders.
We're SMARTER than that.
I have news for you in California and New York that not only are you out-of-touch but also we do NOT like your kind. Try your tired old bullshit somewhere else.
Jon Ossoff has the lead. Jon Ossoff will win. Those of you who did show-up to vote were pissed-off. You are EVEN more so now.
Jon Ossoff was defeated by MORE than TWICE that by which Hillary was here. Make them citizens ? Tell them to vote for you then – try THAT. Give us YOUR GUY who doesn't even BOTHER to TRY to live in my district ?
Bad job Democrats. Bad ads. Wrong idea. I am sick and tired of your ads Democrats.
Take your cash back to California and to New York the number one and number two places where all those ad monies came from and BURN IT THERE dumbasses.
You LOST again. Ha ha. Lol.
You don't listen – do you ?
I listen. I studied your words. I get it. You do not. There were 71 better shots for Democrats than this 71.
Who told US we lose to Jon Ossoff ? SurveyUSA GBA Strategies/House Majority PAC (D) Gravis Marketing Anzalone Liszt Grove Research (D) WSB/Landmark Communications Trafalgar Group Revily FOX 5 Atlanta/Opinion Savvy AJC/Abt Associates
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Title: Widower
Medium: Two colour lithograph
Paper size: 22" x 14"
Edition size: 20
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Banele Khoza / Widower
Banele Khoza was in born in 1994 in Hlatikulu (a small rural town) in eSwatini. During high school he moved to South Africa and is now based in Tshwane. He studied at the London International School of Fashion for a year, studying Fashion Design. Dismayed by the limited oppertunities to draw he transferred to study Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology.
On completion of his degree he taught Drawing and Art Theory at the same institution. In 2018 he decided to stop teaching to work as a full time artist.
Banele Khoza is a man to watch, with a recent solo show at Zeitz MOCAA, the 2017 Gerard Sekoto Foundation award under his belt and a fleet of taxi's covered in his work (as the result of him winning the SA Taxi Foundation Art Award) his work is going places.
Khoza's first suite of lithographs published by The Artists' Press, demonstrate his skill and dexterity. Khoza's ability to embrace the unknown and to immerse himself in the technical possibilities of what lithography has to offer combined with the skills of Master Printer Mark Attwood have resulted in prints that reveal the artist's gifts.
Khoza worked on stone and grained film using a combination of pencil, litho crayon and ink and tusche washes. The delicate traces of the dried ink, Khoza's choice of colours and drawing abilities combine to delight the eye. Khoza has been a keen draftsman since the age of five, drawing images of the toys that he wanted but which his conservative parents refused to get for him. This sense of longing and vulnerability can be seen in Khoza's lithographs.
Obsessively neat and detailed text weaves through some of the prints, but one cannot read all of the words. It is if the artist entices one into his private world and then stops one from fully accessing it, questioning the viewer's motives for the intrusion. Khoza's journals are an integral part of his practice and are reflected in his image making "I have never seen so many sharp pencils" is some of the text included in one of his lithographs. Khoza's interest in the private and the public merges with his interest in social media, technology, connection/disconnection, isolation and a longing to be whole and completely present with someone as well as with oneself.
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On the Delta(d)–chromatic number of a complete balanced multipartite graph
In this paper we solve (approximately) the problem of finding the minimum number of colours with which the vertices of a complete, balanced, multipartite graph G may be coloured such that the maximum degrees of all colour class induced subgraphs are at most some specified natural number d. The minimum number of colours in such a colouring is referred to as the Delta(d)–chromatic number of G. The problem of finding the Delta(d)–chromatic number of a complete, balanced, multipartite graph has its roots in an open graph theoretic characterisation problem and has applications conforming to the generic scenario where users of a system are in conflict if they require access to some shared resource. These conflicts are represented by edges in a so–called resource access graph, where vertices represent the users. An efficient resource access schedule is an assignment of the users to a minimum number of groups (modelled by means of colour classes) where some threshold d of conflict may be tolerated in each group. If different colours are associated with different time periods in the schedule, then the minimum number of groupings in an optimal resource access schedule for the above set of users is given by the Delta(d)–chromatic number of the resource access graph. A complete balanced multipartite resource access graph represents a situation of maximum conflict between members of different user groups of the system, but where no conflict occurs between members of the same user group (perhaps due to an allocation of diverse duties to the group members).
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The relation between cognitive and motor functions in Parkinson's disease is not fully understood. In an incidence population of newly diagnosed drug na < ve patients with Parkinson's disease, associations were found between the degree of bradykinesia and postural instability and gait disturbances, measured by the Unified Disease Rating Scale, and different types of cognitive functions. To investigate the stability of these associations over time, we explored the association of differences between baseline and 1-year follow-up in 91 incident cases with Parkinson's disease. The magnitude of change between the two assessments was assessed together with analysis of differences based on which dopaminergic medication was used. Change in bradykinesia was associated with change in working memory and mental flexibility. Changes in postural instability and gait disturbances were associated with change in visuospatial memory. A negative effect of the dopamine agonist pramipexole on phonemic fluency performance was found compared to treatment with other dopaminergic drugs. Change in cognitive and motor functions were associated from time of diagnosis until 1 year after diagnosis. These persisting findings strengthen results from a previous cross-sectional study suggesting similar associations. The effects of dopamine agonists on phonemic fluency should be investigated further.
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disease. The diagnosis is based on a combination of the motor signs: tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and postural abnormalities. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is common early in the disease and a large proportion of patients with PD develop dementia (PDD). Associations between motor symptoms and cognitive decline have been suggested but the results are inconclusive due to differences in the selection of participants and variables tested. Large population based studies with comprehensive neuropsychological investigation in newly diagnosed cases with PD followed prospectively are rare. The aim of this thesis was to improve characterization and understanding of cognition in PD, and to explore the relationship to motor impairment in the early phase of PD.
Methods: All new patients with suspected idiopathic parkinsonism in the catchment area (142 ooo inhabitants) were examined during a period of five years and four months. Among other investigations, a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation was carried out in 119 of 148 patients with PD together with 30 age matched healthy controls. Assessments were repeated after one three and five years.
Results: Patients performed worse than healthy controls in a majority of neuropsychological tests. MCI at the time of diagnosis were found in 36% according to recently published MCI criteria. Thirty % were cognitively impaired using another definition. One fourth of the patients developed PDD within five years after diagnosis and 25 % of those with MCI at baseline reversed back to normal cognition. Age and MCI were significant predictors of dementia. Education was an independent predictor for severe cognitive dysfunction at diagnosis but did not predict PDD. Patients with MCI converting to PDD had worse performance on visuospatial function, semantic fluency, episodic memory, mental flexibility and conceptual thinking. There were no differences in cognitive performance between patients with predominant Postural and Gait Disturbances (PIGD) and the tremor dominant subtype at the baseline investigation and belonging to the PIGD subgroup at baseline did not predict PDD. Dementia converters declined more rapidly than non-converters in posture/gait function. Associations between bradykinesia and measures of executive functions and working memory were found, and between posture and gait disturbances and visuospatial function. Some of these associations were persistent after one year. Patients receiving the dopamine agonist pramipexole performed significantly worse on a measure of verbal fluency at the one year follow up.
Conclusions: The differences in proportions of cognitively impaired in the different studies emphasize the value of joint criteria for PD-MCI. Even when using such criteria, a substantial proportion of patients revert back to normal function. The increase in motor disability in patients with PDD could have several different causes that need to be further investigated. Associated motor and cognitive dysfunctions could reflect common pathophysiological processes in partly shared networks. Both dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic motor and cognitive functions seems to be involved in PDD which suggests that pharmacological treatment in PD needs to go beyond the scope of dopaminergic deficiency in search for new therapies that would also be effective for non-motor symptoms.


text: The year 1/2 students have finished their Performing Arts program for the year. The last topic they studies was drama. Students wrote a script to accompany the story Koala Lou written by Mem Fox. They did a fantastic job putting the story into word, thinking about what the characters would say to tell the story to an audience. Students help to write the script including stage directions and thinking of the ma in characters to include. It was lots of fun writing the script but more fun watching students perform these small plays.


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New ICD-10 Code Updates: Ask the Right Questions to Get the Right Code
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New ICD-10 Code Updates: Ask the Right Questions to Get the Right Code
CMS releases updates to the ICD-10-CM coding manual
- Non-pressure ulcers now have 3 new code subcategories to include those ulcers that are down to the muscle or bone but do not have necrosis and for those ulcers that have tendon/ligaments showing. The clinician should always document the severity of the non-pressure ulcer in terms of skin breakdown, fatty layer, muscle exposed, muscle exposed with necrosis, bone exposed, bone exposed with necrosis, or other appropriate descriptive terms (tendon/ligament, hard eschar, slough obscuring wound bed, etc.).
- C Diff is now being captured as being recurrent or not stated as being recurrent. Recurrence is defined by complete resolution of C diff symptoms while on appropriate therapy, followed by subsequent return of diarrhea and other symptoms after treatment has been stopped. Recurrence usually occurs within one week after treatment stops but may happen up to 8 weeks later. The physician would need to confirm whether C diff is recurrent or not.
- Types of myocardial infarctions now play a role in determining the appropriate ICD-10 code. Type 1 is the most common MI which is associated with ischemia and due to primary coronary even. Type 2 MI is due to imbalance in supply and demand of oxygen. Type 3, (which we wouldn't see in home health), is sudden cardiac death, including cardiac arrest. Type 4 MIs are associated with percutaneous coronary intervention while type 5 MIs are associated with a CABG procedure.
- Secondary pulmonary hypertension diagnosis code has been further detailed to describe what the condition is that is causing the secondary pulmonary hypertension, including left heart disease, lung disease, etc.
- Lumbar stenosis should be classified with or without neurogenic claudication. Neurogenic claudication is leg pain with walking. The physician must confirm neurogenic claudication for it to be coded.
- Bowel obstructions can now be captured as complete or incomplete/partial. Complete bowel obstructions would need surgery to correct while incomplete/partial bowel obstructions can be sent home for it to resolve. The coding specialists need to know whether a bowel obstruction is resolved upon discharge from the hospital. Resolved conditions cannot be coded in home health except for in OASIS items M1011 and M1017 when they reflect the patient's recent history.
- New coding guidelines state that if a patient's visual category is not documented then coding specialists can only code unqualified visual loss. It would be beneficial to query the physician to determine patient's visual category to be more specific with coding of low vision and blindness. Also, the laterality of the low vision and blindness is necessary in retrieving the most specific code.
- Query the provider for specifics that are not included in the physician documentation prior to completing assessment.
- Specify sites and laterality of wounds
- Specify etiology of wounds (surgical, traumatic, diabetic, arterial, venous, etc)
- Query the provider for late effects of CVA if there are none documented in clinical paperwork
- List the type of MI the patient experienced
- Always document patient's smoking/tobacco use status (current or history of, and what product)
- Don't list diagnoses on the plan of care that are not actively being addressed or impacting the plan of care
- If there are diagnoses listed on the plan of care that will likely impact it, but no direct interventions regarding those conditions are present, document how they will impact the POC
- Document if patient's substance disorders are in remission per physician documentation or query to determine this.
- Document the specific type of heart failure a patient has been diagnosed with
- Specify which type of diabetes a patient has been diagnosed with, and what, if any, manifestations are present.
New Bundled Payment Projects: Get Prepared Now or Risk being Passed Over by the Hospitals
Agencies should prepare NOW developing Cardiac and/or Orthopedic Best Practice programs if they are not already present. Conduct statistical analysis reflecting outcomes. Demonstrate your agency's value and strengths to that acute care hospital. If you already have a program, run the analytics. Show the value of your Agency's specific care.
On July 25, 2016, CMS released the proposed rule stating they intend to test new bundled payments to Hospitals for the following diagnoses: Myocardial Infarcts (MIs), Coronary Artery Bypasses (CABGs), and Surgical Hip/Femur fractures. This proposal is similar to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model that began the Spring of 2016. That proposal made hospitals responsible for the first 90 days of cost following hospital discharge for that condition. CMS has been pleased with the results thus far.
The new models would run from July, 2017- 2021 and like the CJR model, the hospital providing the procedure would be held accountable for costs and quality of care from surgery through 90 days post acute care. Of course, the hospital will be able to choose the post acute providers.
Agencies should prepare NOW developing Cardiac and/or Orthopedic Best Practice programs if they are not already present. Conduct statistical analysis reflecting outcomes. Demonstrate your agency's value and strengths to that acute care hospital. If you already have a program, run the analytics. Show the value of your Agency's specific care.
How to Show YOUR AGENCY's Value
Gather emergent and rehospitalization data such as number of patients cared for and the resulting rehospitalization admission rate. Be prepared to discuss what makes your Cardiac program successful and why your agency will be an excellent partner.
CMS will choose 98 markets by random selection. Those hospitals working with post acute care providers including physicians are expected, by CMS, to deliver care that is at a "quality adjusted target price, while meeting or exceeding quality standards, and would be paid the savings achieved."
For the Surgical Hip/Femur Fracture Treatment, that model will be placed in 67 areas where the CJR is ongoing. This looks to be an add-on to the present project. This diagnosis is the eighth most common discharge diagnosis for Medicare fee for service patients in a hospital. CMS has noted that mortality rates associated with this diagnosis is 5%- 10% after 1 month and approximately 33% at a year.


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Dad Hilariously Trolls Bride-to-Be During Surprise Engagement PhotoshootBy Mustafa Gatollari
Although I don't have any scientific evidence to prove the hypothesis I'm about to propose, it's a very well-known "fact" that whenever someone officially becomes a father, they can't help but do their darnedest to embarrass their children, just like Allison Barron's dad did on the day of her engagement.
I know when my kids were born, in addition to the primal love that was instantly activated in some corner of my brain, a penchant for lame jokes that'll be sure to get their eyes rolling for years to come was turned on as well.
Now the thing is, these corny gags, puns, and awful quips will come out at the worst possible moments. My son says, "I'm hungry." I say, "Hey Hungry, I'm Dad." It's just awful.
Allison experienced the old "Dad Joke at the Worst Possible Time" when her boyfriend was proposing to her. I know, you're probably wondering how did Dad slip in a joke when that was going on, without completely ruining the moment.
It's a delicate balance and one that I don't know how I'd ever be able to pull off. On the one hand, it's your duty, as a father, to embarrass your child with a terrible joke no matter what the situation. If you look at Allison in this photo, she's absolutely smitten that the love of her life got down on one knee to ask for her hand in marriage.
If you notice in the photo above, Allison's now-fiance strategically placed a secret message off in the distance. I'd imagine they walked a special route and he constantly had to draw her attention away from looking in that direction while the two of them went on a nice romantic stroll.
There was also another message waiting somewhere in the distance, but it wasn't on a landscape. This time, it was high above her father's head. It somehow contained a simultaneously touching/dad-jokish message, and using only two simple words.
Allison found the whole thing hilarious, and I mean, who wouldn't? Here you are on one of the most emotional days of your life and your father's hanging around, holding a sign telling you to "Say No" to the man who just proposed to you.
I'm not going to lie, as much as I love my own family, I'm kind of jealous and want to be a part of Allison's now - seems like they all have a pretty great sense of humor.
Allison's dad's slick sign-holding gag instantly became a meme. It started with a few photoshops by people, some of which weren't nearly as funny as the initial joke.
Others were just as poorly photoshopped, but packed excellent Star Wars prequel references. In all seriousness though, if her dad pulled this off, I'd really consider becoming a part of Allison's family.
While others used the original photo to create memes that hit a little too close to home. In this instance, you're definitely going to listen to Allison's dad's advice.
Some people decided to focus on other parts of the photo, which became an "OMG you too?!" sub-thread of its own. Yes, of course they did, I mean this is the internet after all. Instagram was basically created for body-stalking strangers online.
Oh, you thought you were going to get out of this thread without a Tyler Perry movie reference eking its way in somehow? Well guess again. It couldn't have been a more perfect one than this, either.
And like anything on the internet, there was someone there waiting to suck out the fun by taking Allison's father's joke super seriously. I mean, yes, the guy's right and totally has a point, but still.
When it comes to dads trolling their daughters, Allison's right up there with the legends, like this comedian who decided to recreate his child's selfies, which resulted in straight-up hilarity.
Now that's what I call quality dad joke-ing.
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The fifth Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research: Puget Sound (FFPERPS) conference will be held June 18-21, 2020, at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.
FFPERPS is intended as a biannual conference that provides a venue for rich dialogue among physics education researchers in the Cascadia region and beyond. It is designed to enhance communication and collaboration and to increase the visibility of work that is of high quality but not well known. The conference provides a forum for examining and articulating the current state of the field, exploring future directions, and discussing ways to pursue promising avenues of research. The structure of the conference, loosely based on that of the FFPER conference held in Bar Harbor, Maine, includes plenary talks, targeted sessions, contributed poster sessions, and substantial free time for informal interactions.
The 2020 conference will feature plenary speakers engaged in a wide variety of exciting research and scholarship around the learning and teaching of physics.
In addition, the conference will offer contributed poster sessions, as well as a series of targeted sessions/workshops.
The registration deadline will be in May 2020.
Questions? Contact one of the conference organizers:
Krishna Chowdary, The Evergreen State College
Andrew Boudreaux, Western Washington University
Abigail Daane, South Seattle College
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Information overload is the new peril in daily project completion. It's easy to find yourself diverted, distracted, or simply bogged down with the tide of information that can arrive on your computer screen in the course of a working day. The internet, while bringing a revolution in accessible information like never seen before, is a tide that brings with it debris as well as treasure. It is taking longer for the intrepid explorer to search out what they need simply due to the sheer volume of web sites now in existence.
Whether you're engaged in researching, or writing, or group work projects, the chances are that you will be trudging through web site after web site gathering what you specifically need to complete the task at hand.
Here are my 5 favourite strategies for keeping on track and getting the job done without diversions or breakdowns on the hard shoulder of the information superhighway:
1. Questions, questions
Ask yourself constantly does this directly serve the purpose of what I am working on right now.
This is a yes/no question. Grey answers will lead to grey results in what you're trying to get done.
If your answer is yes, then all well and good and on you go...
If it's no - then leave it be. Literally, let it go and move on...
2. Trust Yourself
This is an extension of the above - if you answered no to your "purpose" question - then you have to trust yourself that if this new information is really of value for a future project, you will remember it.
Sometimes I literally say to myself "OK if this is really important, I'll remember it sometime in the future where it fits in with what I'm doing then."
That really does clear some mental space and saves a lot of time that might otherwise be spent vacillating, or taking a trip to diversion land.
3. Trust Yourself
No, that's not an accidental repetition. This time it's about trusting what you know. Let yourself reveal your knowledge on any given subject with the minimal reading. Research reading has to be specific and focused and question number one is, once again, very useful here. Make starting easy by working with what interests you first.
4. Set your Antennae
Keeping your specific task set in your mind is like tuning your radio to a set frequency. If you want to listen to some classical music and you keep your tuner set to scan you are only going to receive some occasional short and sporadic bursts of what you want to hear.
The same is true with your work, it's amazing how much more specific and useful information actually gets through when you are single minded in your approach to research and project progression.
It is literally like you can tune in to what you need and skip the distracting commercials and that is a powerful thing.
5. Get Creative
Visual creative planning is the single best thing I ever learned for project planning and completion for training courses, workshops, articles and books. My favoured system is Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping. If you've never tried Mind Mapping a quick Google search will reveal enough to get you started.
These are my personal 5 key tips for staying on track and having an enjoyable time while I'm there. If you have some of your own, I recommend you jot them down and have them near your workplace for some support and inspiration during times of information flooding!


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Braun Intertec selects Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and SAGlobal
We are thrilled to announce that Braun Intertec has selected SAGlobal to implement Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, along with our ProjAX (now known as Projects+) 2012 solution, as their new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., and with offices across the upper Midwest, Braun Intertec is a leading provider of engineering, environmental and laboratory testing, geothermal consulting, and materials and analytical laboratory services for the commercial, industrial, energy, institutional, transportation, construction and government sectors. Braun Intertec boasts a team of more than 500 engineers, scientists, managers, and field personnel that specialize in more than 50 technical disciplines. The organization's expertise and commitment to excellence during the past 50 years has placed Braun Intertec at the forefront as an industry leader.
Microsoft Dynamics AX is used by more than 17,000 organizations around the world to run their day to day operations. The Dynamics AX Services Industry solution provides an industry-specific ERP platform for Architecture & Engineering firms and other project-driven organizations, helping them to manage their finances, clients, projects, and resources all through a single easy-to-use business system. SAGlobal will also provide Braun Intertec with our ProjAX (now known as Projects+) 2012 solution, which further extends the core Dynamics AX system to provide best-in-class project management and accounting functionality.
"As a growing organization, Braun Intertec needed a technology platform that could help our firm streamline critical business processes and gain deeper insight around the performance of our business," explained Mike Anders, Chief Information Officer at Braun Intertec. "We evaluated ERP systems from many of the leading ERP software providers in our industry. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides us with a strong set of functionality, and its integration with the rest of the Microsoft technology platform will help us leverage our existing Microsoft investments and maintain a low Total Cost of Ownership. After evaluating several Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation firms, we chose SAGlobal based on the company's experience and knowledge in working with other services-based organizations."
SAGlobl and Braun Intertec will work together to deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX as the organization's core business management system. Braun Intertec will use Microsoft Dynamics AX primarily for its Financial Management, Project Management & Accounting, and Customer Relationship Management processes. Through this implementation, Braun Intertec aims to enhance visibility across their business, provide stakeholders with improved access to critical business information, streamline key business processes, and deploy a flexible technology platform that can easily adapt to future changes in their business.
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is a small mountain farm witch lies 530 meters above sea level.
The farm is placed in the county of Nordland, in the rural district of Hattfjelldal and this part of Norway is called Helgeland.
Sivertgården is a good and safe place for children, and you can even meet some farm animals here.
Sivertgården is places in the wilderness, surrounded by mountains and lakes, and this is a perfect place for hiking in the summer or cross country skiing in the winter.
This is the place to feel the silence and the greatness of the nature, to experience a glistering cold winter day or to see a crystal clear autumn morning.
Rent a cottage?
is a 157 years old wooden building.
The old cottage was used as a home for the first settlers on Sivertgården, but know this old historical building can be yours for some days.
Gammelstua has been totally renovated the last years, but the old style and look of the cottage has been maintained.
Ground floor:
Living room
1st floor:
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The cottage also has electric lights and running hot and cold water.
If you want to experience a historical atmosphere - this is the place to be.
Activities Winter
You can fish on the frozen lakes for mountain trout or
use the many natural sledging hills.
The area is great for cross country skiing in the mountains or on the frozen lakes.
There is also a snowmobile/snow-scooter track next too the farm.
If you know how to kite – this is the right mountain farm to visit.
There are many places where you can make a campfire and barbeque your own food.
Activities Summer
The area is a great place to hunt for grouse or fish for mountain trout.
The farm is a good starting point for hiking in the mountains, or in the nature reserve partly belonging to the farm.
You can find blueberry, cloudberry and mushrooms near the farm and you are welcome to pick booth berries and mushrooms.
Famnvatten, the biggest lake near the farm, has some very nice beaches. The water is cold, but it is really refreshing to take a swim.
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My rating of Yahoo! Bix: 8.1 / 10
For people who haven't been following news about Yahoo!, you surely must not have heard of their new acquisition Bix. Well, neither had I actually – came across this in a link on the Yahoo! Mail Blog. If you're wondering what Bix is, in its own words, it's a place 'to create, enter, and judge online events'. Basically, it lets you create poll-type showdowns where people can vote and comment on contentious topics like say, 'Which Harry Potter movie character is better?; or whatever you like. Some are more serious, like 'Vote the icon to be used for Yahoo! Green'.
It's a nice looking site, although slow to load on the first visit because of all that eye-candy. It's definitely not meant to replace the snap polls on sites, oh no, that's not what they're targeting. Bix is an attempt at mixing social networking with pure waste of time voting for nonsense questions. But hell, it's fun to vote for 'Which Liam character on Yahoo! Mail is your favourite?'.
Yahoo! seems to be taking social networking pretty seriously, and they're buying pretty cool services, like Jumpcut, del.icio.us, and Flickr for example. Until the next post, you can waste some time on voting the 'Top 200 Star Wars Characters'.


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Via Kim
1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1773 - Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1994 - The movie Pulp Fiction opens in theaters.
2003 - Steve Bartman became notorious when Bartman interfered the pop flyball during the Game 6 of 2003 NLCS (Chicago Cubs against Florida Marlins).
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and President of the United States
1958 - Thomas Dolby, British musician
1983 - Vanessa Lane, American porn star
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
Interesting coincidence
Turns out that on my birthday in 2005 - Daniel Craig, as wussy of a man as ever walked the earth, dishonered the legacy of those before him when he was announced to be the sixth actor to appear in an official James Bond film, Casino Royale.
This came, incidently, two years to the day after the 2003 death of Patrick Dalzel-Job, the English soldier who was the inspiration for James Bond and as real a man as ever walked the earth.


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On a lunchtime errand, I tool down Hall Street, look over at the field across from Lee Park and notice there's a sign I haven't seen before. I immediately flip on the hazards, pull over and grab my phone to snap this photo of what is, quite possibly, the worst advertisement for retirement living ... ever. Oh, sure, the guy on the right looks blissed-out and the peeps on the other side of the fold are quite happy, but damn, that silver-haired woman looks scared out of her tree. I'm sure she's supposed to be having a gay ol' time post-bridge game or something, but terrified looks more like it.
Now, let's say you're bringing home a pamphlet to an elderly parent. You're trying to explain what a lovely staff Belmont Village has and how happy they'll be there. They flip through the thing and actually consider it. That is until they get to the back cover where "Helen" here scares the bejeezus out of them, and they proceed to lock themselves in the bathroom. Yeah, not an ideal situation.
All I'm saying is Belmont Village and Belmont Village's PR company might want to consider changing the marketing on the development posting because, well, it's frightening. A random 30-something driver and her office mates unanimously agree this woman looks like she's just seen Saw VI and didn't mean to.
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I have no place telling them how to run their bidness, but having a grandmother in a senior community, I kinda know my way around them. And while there is occasionally shrieking and mayhem (in our case, after disappointing meals or The Price is Right), they prolly shouldn't call attention to it. Though, I will say Helen's manicure is outstanding.


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Cultivating Wonder
The biggest lesson I have learnt from my girls is how to wonder about the world around me. One of the biggest surprises for me as a parent was the age at which my girls started asking the really big questions of life. For some reason I thought it would happen when they were teenagers but instead the questions started soon after they began to speak.
The first question was naturally, "Why?" Such a good open ended question to get the adults around you to open up and explain things! They rapidly moved on to questions such as "What's at the end of the universe?", "Is everything made of atoms?", "How did we think before there was language?" "What's that bird?" "What's this flower called?" "Can I eat this?"
They had such confidence in my knowledge and ability to teach them everything they needed to know. And for my part, I felt keenly all the areas where I just didn't know the answers to their questions.
The questions made me want to know more about the world around me, especially the plants and creatures. And the more I learn about birds, the more I am filled with a sense of wonder for the miracle of flight and bird song.
Noam Chomsky believes that humans are superior to animals because we speak languages and animals are not able to speak any of our languages. Experiments have tried to teach chimpanzees English and they have learnt a few words but not grasped the whole language. I always had a problem with this idea - that our languages are superior to those of animals and that if they can't speak our language then of course they mustn't have one. The idea that they already have a complex language and intelligence of their own and that the failing is ours because we cannot understand or speak it doesn't seem to have occurred to him. Nor does the idea that there is more to language and intelligence than speech and grasping abstract concepts.
I wonder if he ever marvelled at the sight of a bird on the wing. Or wondered how birds can migrate to breeding grounds they have never seen. I wonder if he has ever tried to build a nest. When my oldest daughter was five we tried to make a bird's nest and failed miserably. We marvelled at the skill of the nest builders and their beaks to fashion homes for their eggs.
Reading the Genius Of Birds by has confirmed my belief that other species are just as intelligent as humans and that there is far more to intelligence than passing tests. It's a fascinating glimpse of the avian world and the amazing birds that inhabit it. If you too are wondering about the birds you see flying overhead, you should read this book.


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"Art has visual, no words. Literature has words, no visual. Comics have words as well as visuals. This accounts for its popularity…" – Cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma. The man who was anointed as the 'Walt Disney' of India, succumbed to cancer at the age of 75, this morning at a hospital in Gurgoan.
Pran was born on 15th August 1938 in Kasur which was then a part of undivided India. His family later moved to Gwalior. Pran was an MA (Political Science) and he also completed a 4-year course from the famous – Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai.
He ventured into the world of arts as a Cartoonist in 1960, for a Delhi-based newspaper; Milap. His maiden comic strip was titled "Daabu." However, in the year 1969, Pran raised to fame with his ingenious comic "Chacha Chaudhary," for a Hindi Magazine, Lotpot. Chacha Chaudhary is one of the most successful and popular Indian comics today. The comic has sold a close to 10 million copies. Some of his other famous works include – Shrimatji, Pinki, Billoo, Channi Chachi, and Raman.
Greatness lies in simplicity, and this was indubitably reflected in the works of the legendary cartoonist. The characters he penned down were all humble and ordinary, inspired by the middle-class Indians. This attributed to his success as readers could easily relate themselves to the characters.
He was credited with much recognition for his contribution to the world of Arts. In 1982, he won the Thitholi Award. In 1995, he was named amongst the People of the Year, for popularizing comics in India, by Limca Book of records. In 1997, he was given the Rajdhani Ratan Award. This year, at Fourth Annual Comic Con India Awards, Pran received a Lifetime Achievement Award.


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KIDS MEAN BUSINESS with Harry Tucker. Because you're never too young to have a good idea!
Our We Mean Business Coffee Club is a monthly working/networking/ideas hub held at The FMLY Store, Bruton on the LAST THURSDAY of each month.
This month's club will be taken over by the kids! Hosted by HARRY TUCKER, son of entrepreneur and Not On The High Street founder, Holly Tucker.
Inspired by his mum's success, Harry has launched his own sweet business, Sugar Boy. Kids will discover how he formed his idea, how he created his brand and how he fits it in around school life. They'll also have a go at branding design for their very own sweet company, and take home their creation!
Come along with a business idea, learn from a young entrepreneur, and have a go designing your very own brand.
Suitable for ages 6-11.
This will be a FREE session, but please RSVP so we have an idea of numbers as we can't always guarantee a place.
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The first Jews came to Prague in the ninth century, probably from modern-day Iraq. The early settlers were merchants, and almost certainly came at the invitation of the Bohemian kings to bolster trade links. At first Jews lived on both sides of the river, but by the late 11th century a more tightly knit Jewish town emerged in Staré Město, probably as a result of anti-Semitic attacks. In the 13th century, Rome decreed that Jews and Christians live separately, and the ghetto was walled in. It was originally shaped like a dumbbell, with Persian Jews living in one circle, German Jews in the other, and what is now Maiselova Street running between.
Life in the ghetto was controlled by numerous laws and decrees. Jews wore identifying caps or badges, were allowed to work only as usurers or rag merchants and were forbidden from owning land. There were a number of attacks on the ghetto; the worst was the 1389 Pogrom, in which 3,000 Jewish people were murdered by their Christian neighbors over Easter weekend.
During the reign of Rudolf II (1576-1612), Jewish culture blossomed under the emperor´s policy of religious toleration. The Jewish Town Hall, Maisel Synagogue and High Synagogue were built; gifts to the ghetto from its wealthiest son, Minister of Finance Mordechai Maisel. At the same time, Rabbi Löw, chief rabbi of Prague, was studying the mystic teachings of Kabbalah and, according to legend, building the Golem. In 1648 the Jewish community won the favor of Ferdinand III when they repelled the invading Swedish army on the Charles Bridge. Ferdinand enlarged the ghetto in gratitude. A century later Maria-Theresa (1740-80) sent the entire Jewish population of Prague into exile, but welcomed them back three years later when her ministers noticed the deficit in the tax system
Enlightened emperor Joseph II (1780-90) took the biggest step towards granting equal rights to Jews. His 1781 Edict of Tolerance gave non-Catholics the right to education, ended the compulsory dress code and opened the ghetto´s gates. A century later the Jewish community honored Joseph by renaming the ghetto Josefov. As richer Jewish families left the ghetto, Prague´s poorest inhabitants moved in. The area became a slum, and in 1893 the city authorities razed most of the ghetto and constructed the Art Nouveau Josefov of today.
From its founding in 1918, Czechoslovakia promised full civil rights to its Jewish population. While still a university professor, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, later first president, defended Jewish civil rights during the Hilsner Trial, in which a Jewish man was charged with murdering a Catholic woman on trumped-up charges. At his election, Masaryk echoed George Washington´s promise to American Jews, saying that in Czechoslovakia there would be only one class of citizen. His friendly attitude to the Jewish people was continued by his successor Eduard Beneš, an early supporter of Israel.
On March 15th 1939, Nazi troops occupied Prague. Jews were barred from work and school, required to wear identifying badges and forbidden from leaving the ghetto. In November 1941 the first transport left Prague for Terezín, 60km to the northwest. Three quarters of the 55,000 Jews living in Prague at the time of the occupation were murdered or starved to death in the camps. Of those who lived, many emigrated to Israel or the United States.
In the communist era intolerance towards any form of religion, coupled with institutionalized anti-Semitism, led to a further dwindling of Jewish culture. However, unlike in most of the rest of the Soviet Bloc, the Synagogues were open, though there was a Secret Service official at the door. Since the Velvet Revolution the Jewish community has been undergoing a gradual rebirth.
Contemporary Jewish Culture
"I remember listening to tour guides in the Jewish Quarter in the early 90s saying 'The Jews worshiped here, lived here and ate there,´ and I thought 'wait a minute – we´re not dead stones in the cemetery, we´re still here!´"
That statement is from Sylvie Wittmann, owner of the first Jewish tour company in Europe, founder of the Bejt Simcha Reform congregation and president of the Czech Reform Jewry Federation; herself proof that Prague´s Jewish community is very much living. "We have to remember the Holocaust, and the negative parts of our history," says Ms. Wittmann. "But Judaism is about the present and the future, not just the past. Every day the Jewish community here has something new to show."
There are roughly 6,000 Jewish people living in Prague today, and 1,800 are active members of the Jewish community. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the average age in the community has dropped every year. "We are seeing lots of bar mitzvahs and marriages, and lots of conversions," says Rabbi Hoffberg, a conservative rabbi with the Masorty Olmaj congregation.
Rabbi Hoffberg tells the story of a Czech Jewish woman who was in a concentration camp as a child. After the war, she returned to Prague and married a non-Jewish Czech man. Because she was afraid of a second holocaust, the woman concealed the fact that she was Jewish from her husband and daughter. Years later, she told her young grandson, who became interested in Judaism. When the boy saw Jewish children on their way to synagogue, he followed them and told the rabbi he wanted to join the service. "I met the grandmother at the little boy´s bar mitzvah. She told me that it was the first time she had been into a synagogue since 1941," says Hoffberg. "People are finding their way back to Judaism."
Jewish worship in Prague is denominational, like everywhere else. "Twenty years ago, when we were living in the shadow of Communism, the community was like a big family," says Wittmann. "But now we quarrel between ourselves like religious denominations everywhere."
The conservative group, Masorti Olami (www.masorti.cz) is led by American rabbi Ron Hoffberg, who conducts services in English and Hebrew. Bejt Simcha, in English 'House of Joy,´ is Prague´s reform congregation. Their first rabbi, Joan Freedman, was also an American. Although present rabbi Tomaš Kučera is Czech, Bejt Simcha is English-language friendly.
For splendid surroundings, the Orthodox congregation wins hands down. Services are either held at the 700 year-old Staronová Synagoga (Old New Synagogue) or the 400 year-old synagogue at Židovská radnice (Jewish Town Hall). Orthodox services are in Hebrew and Czech, but when I attended Friday night service many non-Czechs were present and parts of the service were translated into English, though the translator mumbled and not much was audible through the small windows of the women´s gallery.
To view a synagogue without going to a religious service; book a guided tour or go to one of the concerts regularly held in the Jewish Quarter. The Španělská synagoga (Spanish Synagogue) is a popular music venue, and the exquisite gilded interior and Moorish design make it one of the most beautiful religious buildings in the city. Information on concerts is available here.
In the last ten years, the visibility of Judaism in the Czech Republic has rapidly increased. "I have seen a growing interest in Judaism, Israel and the Hebrew language here," says Israeli Ambassador Jaakov Levy. This is hardly surprising, Ambassador Levy points out, when you consider a thousand year shared history and "a live and vibrant Jewish community whose rich cultural, religious and social contribution enriched the region."
Symptomatic of this increasing interest in Judaism is the wide array of educational programs and events on offer in Prague. The Jewish Education and Culture Centre, which receives funding from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, provides education about Judaism and Jewish culture in the Czech lands. The main body of their work is training teachers, but there are also four evening programs a week which include lectures, classes, book discussions and film screenings. Bejt Simcha (see above) runs an Introduction to Judaism course on Saturdays, a Wednesday evening study group, two and three day seminars on a range of Jewish-related subjects, as well as Ivrit and Classical Hebrew classes. Jewish and in particular Israeli drama and dance have an increasing presence in Prague. A useful resource for information on events is the Israeli Embassy website.
Ten years ago there was one kosher restaurant in Prague, which was aimed at tourists. Now there are four kosher restaurants, and their popularity with locals can be witnessed at Sabbath dinner every Friday night. Located opposite the Pinkas Synagogue, King Solomon (www.kosher.cz) is the oldest of the four, and serves rich Middle European Jewish food and kosher wine in austere stone-clad surroundings. Tables for the Sabbath (either dinner on Friday or lunch on Saturday) have to be booked in advance by filling out an online order form, and there is also a takeaway service. Dinitz (www.dinitz.cz), tucked behind Španělská synagoga, is a kind of Israeli-Middle Eastern-Mediterranean fusion restaurant. Bookings should be made a week in advance, particularly for Friday (for which there is a flat-rate for four courses) or Saturday. Shalom Kosher Restaurant is run by the Prague Jewish Community and located inside the Jewish Town Hall. At 450 CZK, the daily menu is not cheap, but it includes three courses, salad and coffee. Also in Josefov, Shelanu (www.shelanu.cz) is a cafe and deli, with dinner daily, offering simple kosher food. There is a salad bar and Shelanu´s specialty is pareve (dairy-free) 'milk´ shakes. Kosher food can be bought online at King Solomon (www.kosherfoodonline.cz).
One of the best ways to get a sense of Prague Jewish history is to walk through Josefov, either alone or with a tour. Wittmann Tours (www.wittmann-tours.com) specializes in Jewish tours, offering daily walks through Josefov, as well as to sites of Jewish interest throughout the Czech Republic (and indeed Central Europe). Prices are high, with a tour of the Jewish Quarter costing 880 CZK per person, but Wittmann´s guides are extraordinarily knowledgeable, even including a lecturer in Jewish History from Charles University.
The museums in Josefov come under the umbrella of the Jewish Museum (www.jewishmuseum.cz), which manages six sites. The permanent exhibitions at the Španělská synagoga contain photos of the old ghetto before it was demolished and a section on Prague´s Jewish writers, including Franz Kafka. Housed on the first floor, the zimní synagoga (winter synagogue) houses an exhibition of silver religious artifacts. Pinkasova synagoga was converted into a chilling holocaust memorial in the 1950s. The name, birth dates and date of transportation of each of the 77,297 Czech Jews murdered in the Holocaust are inscribed on the walls. Upstairs is an exhibition of drawings by children in Terezín, most of who later died in Auschwitz or other camps. At Obřadní síň (Ceremonial House), a former mortuary located near to the cemetery, there is an exhibition on Jewish customs and burial traditions, and Klausová synagoga contains a display of religious artifacts. The fanciful baroque Maiselova Synagoga houses an interesting exhibition on the early Jewish settlers in Bohemia and Moravia.
Jewish people in the Czech lands have touched the national culture in a way that is unique in central Europe. Rabbi Hoffman points out that when the Town Hall was built at the turn of the last century, the stonemasons chose the figure of a rabbi to represent Czech faith. "The Jews and the Czechs have a long and close history," he says. "It is a pleasure to see that Prague is taking back its place in the world as a leading Jewish community."


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My original post can be found here – this was a favourite practical test.
Additions for 2013. To paraphrase George Orwell, curves are good, straight lines are better. This means that we can learn more about the data with a good straight line than we can with a curve, simply because curves are notoriously difficult to draw well. In exams, they'll penalise you a mark if your curve is too thick, has a feathery look to the line or it doesn't go through all the error bars.
How can we determine if a decay is exponential or not? The right way to do this is to plot the ln of the y value against the x value and if the points fall on a straight line within the error bars, the function is an exponential. The other way is less elegant but you're also expected to know that if a curve is exponential the slope of the y value is proportional to y.
Here's the trick. Draw tangents to the curve at 3 separate y values. Make the triangles as big as you can. If it's exponential, the slope divided by the y value will give the same answer, k


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It's a busy two days. And we don't even get to see any bike racing.
It's now traditional for the road.cc tech team to head out to the host city of the Tour de France a couple of days before the Grand Depart with the simple task of photographing as many of the race bikes that will see action over the following three weeks of racing around France as we can.
Our eyes are peeled for any new bikes, those we've heard rumours about in the weeks leading up to the Tour, and those that have been kept a well-guarded secret until the racing gets underway. Not just bikes though, but equipment as well; wheels, power meters, tyres, handlebars, saddles too.
The 22 teams taking part in the race are supported by bike brands, big and small, and for these brands the Tour represents a huge shop window to reach millions of viewers and cycling enthusiasts, to hopefully inform their next purchasing decision. They're in the business to sell products and the Tour de France is great marketing, especially if a rider wins a stage or the whole thing using your product.
Pro endorsement counts for a lot in an industry and sport that still looks to what the pros ride, and for this reason, the Tour de France is of huge importance. That's why there is always a lot of new bikes being launched at this time of year. And this year has been particularly busy. A bike typically has a model life of about three years before a new version gets introduced, and this year there has been a flurry of new bikes from the big players in the business.
So that's why we found ourselves in Dusseldorf on the Thursday and Friday before the opening time trial on Saturday, going from one team to another to photograph and film the most interesting and newest team bikes and equipment. And then our camera memory cards are full, brains packed with info on the latest bikes, too many coffees consumed, feet tired from miles of walking and standing, and it's time to head home before the pandemonium of the Tour actually gets underway.
We'll be publishing features on many of the bikes we saw over the following days and weeks, but for now here are some photos from behind the scenes.
Arriving just in time for Mark Cavendish rolling out for a first ride on his new custom painted Cervelo S5 - read about the bike here
Hopping from one team hotel car park to another, with the team trucks taking up all the space and bikes lined up washed and ready to
Will this Ford Focus RS speed up Team Sky's wheel changes?
Another team and another star bike, here's Mat and Matt filming Marcel Kittel's race bike
Spare water bottles are prime souvenirs for racing fans
The team presentation offers a chance for spectators to see their favourite riders - sans helmet and shades - at a more leisurely pace around the streets of Dusseldorf
Button pressing and coffee drinking
Even the day before the world's biggest cycle race, there are still jobs for the team mechanics
And bikes still being built as well
More Tech from the Tour de France soon...
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.