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AudioFrame15 – Pontypridd YMCA
In brief, I found Blackbox-av very helpful and accessible, and they provided a product which was ideal for the exhibition and will be able to be used again in the longer term.
– Alan Humphries, Pontypridd YMCA
The Pontypridd YMCA has been a part of the community for more than a century and thanks to funding and a partnership with Artis Community, the building is seeing some much needed refurbishment. To honour the building's history a special exhibition took place, the YMCA Memories Exhibition. It is a collection of stories, photos and videos that celebrate the building and how it's been used through the years.
A team was created to collect and digitise stories from the YMCA archive and meet with people who have been a part of the building's history since 1910!
As part of the exhibition, we were contacted by YMCA Pontypridd and Artis to supply an audio unit to play a number of interviews from people who had shared their memories of the building.
Our Desk-mounted AudioFrame 15 was chosen for the task due to its inherent flexibility and ease of mobility. The unit was shown in the exhibition when it was held at Pontypridd Lido (another local building we've done AV work for!).
The exhibition has allowed the memories of the previous building to be preserved for future generations, while celebrating the new building that will carry on the legacy of the centre for the local community.
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Subject: Shakespeare
It's 2016: How is Shakespeare relevant?
Shakespeare remains one of the most influential playwrights throughout history. His plays have been performed across the globe, and serve to illuminate the human condition. Studying his works not only allows insights into topics that continue to ring true today, but also invites a broader perspective of cultural and historical factors. Tracing productions of a specific play over time and in different cultural contexts can be a lens for better understanding cultural climates, historical moments, and societal influences. For example, Othello has been done countless times, but for a brief while the ending was changed to be more socially palatable. Other productions have flipped the casting, changed the gender of characters, or adapted the story to better fit the culture in which it is produced. Studying one text enables a broad spectrum of possibility, from examining the rhetoric closely, to the production history, to modern iterations. Although Shakespeare's works are centuries old, they continue to resonate today.
Subject: Literature
What is the best strategy to address issues of censorship in Literature, particularly when a book is banned or restricted due to difficult, inappropriate, or sensitive material?
Censorship remains a deeply difficult topic for a number of reasons, but it is an issue that consistently needs to be addressed, and often challenged. When it comes to the issue of censoring or banning a book, the first question to ask is 'why?' Is it the language, the content, an issue deemed inappropriate, or otherwise sensitive material? If so, the offending content could be contextualized in a lesson, or perhaps an entire unit. Rather than prohibiting students from reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*" the lesson(s) could contextualize the moment in history in which the story takes place, and for further examination the student(s) could study the life of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). This enables a broader perspective of the material rather than eliminating it from the curriculum altogether. *I do realize quotes are not the proper marker for a book title, but it is my only option.
Subject: English as a Second Language
What is an effective way to instruct learners of varying levels in an ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom, and to address the needs of every student?
When teaching English as a Second Language to any demographic of students, the priority should always be the needs of the person learning. What does s/he need to accomplish? Where are his/her strengths, and what areas can be improved? Once this is established, the next step is forming a strategy to address these needs, creating lesson plans tailored to the student(s), and retaining the ability to adapt at any point if necessary. In a classroom, one topic can be made more challenging for students who have advanced, or modified for students who need a different version. The key is focusing on the learners' needs, remaining flexible, and having fun.
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Algebra Revisited
If Susie leaves Slidell High at 8PM on May 22, 1982, how long will it take her to figure out when her 25th reunion is?
Repeat after me…
82 + 10 = 1992
82 + 20 = 2002
82 + 25 = 2007
No, it's not "new math."
Not long after the ten year reunion, I ran into "Susie." She was conspicuously absent from the event. When I mentioned that we missed her at our little soiree, her response was, "Well, I would have come but I didn't know anything about it."
Huh? Can ya add?
Be damned, if it didn't happen again right after the twenty year reunion! Maybe Susie rode the little orange bus to school!
Look, we all took the same math in high school. We all can count! Even if you live in Istanbul, you can still google "slidell high school," get their phone number, call them and get the reunion lowdown.
Nevertheless, for Susie's sake and any of our other classmates who find themselves to be "mathematically challenged," I have sent reunion notices to every newspaper, television and radio station in our area, as well as any and all related websites (at least the ones that remain user-friendly) – which will take it global. Save sky writing it, I think we've covered our bases on press releases.
The Grand High Knick Knack 25R82 Reunion Committee (two chics & a guy & now a few other kind souls) are feverishly checking and cross-referencing email addys that we currently have for classmates, in an effort to at least try to reach as many of the class as we possibly can.
So, if any of you happen to run into "Susie" before the reunion, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please clue her in on the reunion dates.
Should you run into her in the days following our reunion in July, feigning not knowing anything about it, please feel free to contact the RocknRoll Army, so that they can immediately take her to Gitmo for a little math repatriation – Tiger style!


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Join Kansas City Young Professionals, presented by SocialHeart, for our monthly networking happy hour taking place in the historic Westside Neighborhood at the Westside Storey. Free parking is available along the street and throughout the neighborhood. This month's beneficiary is the Youth Entrepreneurs.
Youth Entrepreneurs(YE) began in a single classroom in 1991 and has since grown to inspire more than 30,000 young people to achieve far more than they ever thought possible. YE educators receive extensive online resources, training, and the freedom to customize a real-world, hands-on curriculum that benefits their students most. Rooted in entrepreneurial and economic principles, the YE curriculum reveals the innate passions and abilities within students so they believe in themselves and what they can accomplish. YE is a public 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is funded by private donations. For more information, visit YouthEntrepreneurs.org. https://youtu.be/Lfbj1wUCD2M
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Precast Concrete Design for a Food Bank
The Food Bank of Barcelona located at the industrial zone is a social facility for collecting and providing edibles to the population.
A simple and legible programme, a vast box that contains all of the activities in the inside organised by a series of stripes. The singularity and the beauty of this massive project remains in the ceiling.
We propose a strong design for the rooftop, with skylight illumination composed with a total of 1,260 pieces of precast concrete.
Each module's got fair faced concrete finish. They provide the industrial unit with a strong personality, while the functional requirements are well covered. The geometry leads the rain water through gutters, contains internal thermal insulation, and even the economy of the mass-production of the piece is insured by reducing the design to a single wooden cast.
By using a precast concrete constructive system for the ceiling we provide an homogeneous illumination for the classrooms, the storage area and the offices, as well as finishing the building in less time.


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18-19 August 2017
Lot 102
Vacheron Constantin, Pink Gold Triple Calendar Wristwatch
Sold for $11,875
Cal. 11-1/2''' manual winding lever movement, 17 jewels, mono-metallic balance, gilt dial, 18k pink gold applied Roman numeral and dart indexes, engine turned subsidiary seconds at 6, double aperture for day and date in Spanish in red, outer date ring with red hand, outermost minute track, 18k pink gold case, Cornes de Vache lugs, snap on solid case back, case, dial, and movement signed.
The movement is running at time of cataloguing, however it was not tested for the accuracy of time or duration of the power reserve and may need service at the buyer's discretion. Please note that Sotheby's does not guarantee the future working of the movement.
Case in good vintage condition with light scuffing and wear consistent with age and use. Left side case band with material indentations likely from opening. Light and even oxidation. Dial in overall good condition with small surface dotting and marks throughout. Some material loss to the outer minute track at 3, 6, and 12. Some uneven oxidation to the applied indexes. Some light scuffing to the hands. Triple Calendar function working properly and engaged via two pushes at the right side case band. Movement in excellent condition. With associated link bracelet and clasp with an inner circumference of approximately 195 mm.


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Month: August 2009
This week's show features a conversation with Josie Cotton, who became the world's new wave sweetheart when she performed (already an international hit) "Johnny Are You Queer" in the movie Valley Girl.
Tonight's Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature a conversation with Josie Cotton. Most 80s fans remember Cotton for her performance of "Johnny, Are You Queer?" on Valley Girl. While it was an international hit, controversy over the song wound up depriving us at the time of the musical talents of this fine songwriter.
From the superbly elegant solo album by Adriana Kaegi. TAG, comes this sultry, bedazzling track with a new video to match.
Josie Cotton is our guest on Revenge of the 80s Radio on Friday. Many remember her as the prom band singer in the Valley Girl movie and from her international hit song "Johnny, Are You Queer?"
The podcast for our 8/24/09 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the end of this post. The second hour features a re-broadcast of our November 2008 interview with Robin Lane.
While I am on a short break in Virginia, Revenge of the 80s will re-broadcast our show featuring a conversation with Robin Lane.
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock concert that was not played in Woodstock, we dedicated the second hour of the program to Woodstock-era songs covered by artists of the 1980s.
Tonight's Revenge of the 80s will feature classic alternative artists of our decade covering music of the late 60s and very early 70s — the musical era of the "Woodstock Generation."
Berlin and The Motels are putting on some very exiting shows this weekend.
One of the all-time great concert films, thought to be lost in the annals of the Warner Brothers archives, is now available for new wave fans on DVD
The podcast for our 8/7/09 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up, featuring our special full, uncut interview with Martha Davis of The Motels.
Tonight, our guest will be the legendary Martha Davis of The Motels. We will talk about her career, the two incarnations of The Motels before the 1987 breakup, Martha's solo career, her life and some very interesting projects she is working on.
A retrospect to the great John Hughes on the Revenge of the 80s Radio website/blog.
The Band Who Made Us All Dance to "The Earthquake Song" in the '80s is Back with Classic Cuts and a New Sound
Martha Davis of The Motels is our guest on the next Revenge of the 80s Radio. We will talk about her career from the first Motels band through the newer formation, the lineup changes, Davis' solo work and all-new Motels band.
This week we focused on geography and world travel as all of our classic alternative tracks played are about places around the world, points of interest and some fictional areas. Artists featured include Louise Robey, The Clash, Strawberry Switchblade, Red Rockers and Missing Persons.
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Welcome to the Mongolia Cuckoo Project!
From 4-8 June 2019, five cuckoos – one Oriental Cuckoo and four Common Cuckoos – were fitted with transmitters around Khurkh Bird Banding Center in northern Mongolia. The birds have been named by local schools who will follow "their" birds to learn about the migration route and wintering grounds of these iconic birds.
You can follow them, too, by checking this page and by following @BirdingBeijing on Twitter.
The latest positions of the Mongolian Cuckoos. Zoom into the map using "+" and "-" to see more detail
The Mongolia Cuckoo Project is a joint initiative by the Wildlife Science and Conservation Center (WSCC) of Mongolia and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), facilitated by Birding Beijing and generously supported by the Oriental Bird Club and Mr Dick Newell.
The Project Team – including Chris Hewson (BTO), Lyndon Kearsley, Dick Newell and Terry Townshend – is grateful to WSCC for making the arrangements to visit Khurkh Bird Banding Center and for their invaluable support. We are particularly indebted to Nyambayar Batbayar, Batmunkh Davaasuren and Tuvshinjargal Erdenechimeg.
Introducing the five Mongolian Cuckoos:
Cuckoo 1
Mongolian name: нүүдэлчин
English translation: Nomad
Species: Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus)
Sex: male
Tag number: 161312
Cuckoo 2
Mongolian name: Хурх
English translation: (Captain) Khurkh – boldly going where no cuckoo has gone before…
Species: Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Sex: male
Tag number: 170438
Cuckoo 3
Mongolian name: намжаа (NAMJAA)
English translation: Namjaa is the name of a storyteller in Mongolian folklore
Species: Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Sex: male
Tag number: 170436
Cuckoo 4
Mongolian name: Баян (BAYAN)
English translation: Prosper
Species: Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Sex: male
Tag number: 170437
Cuckoo 5
Mongolian name: Онон
English translation: Onon (after the local river)
Species: Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Sex: male
Tag number: 161314
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31 March 2020
ONON is continuing to motor.. and is now just 100km SW of Kilimanjaro. BAYAN is still in northern Zambia.
29 March 2020
Both ONON and BAYAN have made moves overnight. BAYAN is now near Kapoko in northern Zambia after a modest flight of around 140km north and ONON has flown c400km NE to Dodoma in central Tanzania.
21 March 2020
Hot on the heels of ONON's first significant move of the spring, BAYAN has made a similar flight north of c475km from northern Mozambique into Zambia.
20 March 2020
The return has begun! ONON has just flown c450km north, crossing the border into the Mbeya region of Tanzania. BAYAN remains in northern Mozambique and we have received some weak-powered signals from NAMJAA, unfortunately too weak to calculate a location. We remain hopeful that we may pick him up as he starts to migrate.
25 February 2020
BAYAN has moved 250km WNW into northern Mozambique and is now at the eastern end of Lake Cahora. ONON remains in Eastern Zambia. No recent signals from NAMJAA.
3 February 2020
ONON has continued another 400km south-southwest and is now in Eastern Zambia. BAYAN has edged back into Malawi, close to the border with Mozambique. Will this be ONON's last big move before he begins his return journey?
29 January 2020
After a period of relative inactivity, ONON has made a 300km move south to southern Tanzania, just 50km from the borders with Zambia and Mozambique.
5 January 2020
After spending Christmas in Malawi, BAYAN has edged south and into Mozambique. ONON remains in Tanzania and NAMJAA is in Kenya.
20 December 2019
ONON is in Tanzania… having flown c450km SSW, passing Kilimanjaro in the process. Almost certainly he will have been able to see Africa's highest peak as he headed south. Meanwhile, BAYAN has edged south in Malawi.
16 December 2019
ONON and BAYAN are still on the move. ONON has flown c300km south but remains in Kenya. After his 1,000km move south into Tanzania, BAYAN has kept going, crossing northern Mozambique and is now in Malawi, the 16th country visited since being fitted with his tag.
13 December 2019
A big move from BAYAN – c1000km south and he's now in southern Morogoro, Tanzania.
3 December 2019
ONON has now joined BAYAN and NAMJAA in Kenya.. and less than 200km separates them. Remarkable.
1 December 2019
NAMJAA is still going… he's crossed the Equator and joined BAYAN in Kenya.. with the two separated by less than 200km.
30 November 2019
NAMJAA is in Somalia! Signals from late on 29th show he has flown 4,000km in 4 days from Gujarat in India to c300km west of Mogadishu in Somalia. It seems that he didn't stop on reaching the African coast.. but instead flew another 1,000km SW.. incredible.
28 November 2019
This is exciting! As of last night, NAMJAA was over the Arabian Sea and had almost reached the coast of Somalia! He certainly took his time to make the sea crossing but boy did he go for it! The most recent position was from late on 27th November; we are now waiting for confirmation that he has made it across! Winds look good and should assist him (see below).
26 November 2019
NAMJAA is edging west.. and is now c35km NNE of Surendranagar in Gujarat. When will he take the leap and cross the Arabian Sea? It's now two months since ONON and BAYAN made their crossing…
Meanwhile, ONON is in southern Ethiopia and BAYAN remains the most southerly of the Mongolian Cuckoos in Kenya.
17 November 2019
NAMJAA has moved WSW into Gujarat. Is he finally going to make his crossing of the Arabian Sea to Africa? Winds look good…
11 November 2019
BAYAN has crossed the Equator, making him the first (known) of the Mongolian Cuckoos to reach the southern hemisphere! The map below shows his latest move, still in Kenya.. with ONON a little further north in Ethiopia.
31 October 2019
ONON and BAYAN (PROSPER) have settled in to Africa, with both moving south in the last few days. ONON is in southern Ethiopia and BAYAN (PROSPER) is in the Samburu region of Kenya, probably mixing with elephants and lions! NAMJAA remains in India and we are still awaiting further signals from Captain KHURKH or NOMAD…
16 October 2019
BAYAN (PROSPER) has continued SSW and has crossed the border into Uganda. His 12th border crossing involving 13 countries since being fitted with a tag in Mongolia in June.
15 October 2019
BAYAN (PROSPER) has made a big move SSW, flying more than 1,000km, briefly crossing into South Sudan (the first time a tracked cuckoo from East Asia has visited this country) before entering N Kenya. If he continues on this heading, he'll be the first of our East Asian cuckoos to enter Uganda. ONON is still in northern Ethiopia, NAMJAA remains in India and we are still waiting for news from NOMAD, last heard from in Hubei Province, China on 4 October.
13 October 2019
After their mammoth crossings of two deserts and two oceans, ONON and BAYAN have been recuperating in Ethiopia for the last two weeks. BAYAN is beginning to show signs of restlessness and has edged SW around 100km. NAMJAA remains in India, poised to cross the Arabian Sea. No signal from NOMAD's tag since 4 October. We're hoping we'll pick up his signal if/when he starts moving south.
10 October 2019
It is now just over a month since we heard from Captain KHURKH's tag. In the days leading up to the last transmission on 8 September, the battery charge had been consistently low but the temperature data showed no abnormalities, suggesting he was healthy. The most likely explanation is that the tag's battery is now so low that it cannot transmit a signal for the satellites to pick up. Although there is a chance his tag may kick into life if it receives a prolonged boost of sunlight, given the length of time without any transmission, we should expect not to hear from him again. Of course, it may just be that he's been 'beamed up' by Scotty!
7 October 2019
A quiet few days for the Mongolian Cuckoos. NAMJAA is on the outskirts of Udaipur in Rajasthan. ONON and BAYAN (PROSPER) are both recovering on Ethiopia after their epic desert and sea crossings. Still no further sign of Captain KHURKH and NOMAD remains in Hubei Province, China.
2 October 2019
NAMJAA is skirting the Thar Desert, poised to make his crossing to Africa. He's currently 25km W of Udaipur in Rajasthan. We've received no signal from Captain KHURKH since early September. The most recent transmission on 8 September showed apparently healthy temperature data but a low battery charge, so we remain hopeful the tag will start to transmit again if it has a chance to recharge. NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, remains in Hubei Province, China.
29 September 2019
In the last 4 days, ONON and BAYAN have crossed two deserts and two seas. After their long flights from India to Saudi Arabia, they've flown another 600km SW, crossing the Red Sea and Eritrea to Ethiopia, following a remarkably similar path. NAMJAA remains in India with NOMAD still in Hubei Province in China, some 7,500km ENE of ONON and BAYAN.
27 September 2019
This is breathless..! ONON has continued right across the Rub' Al Khali Desert and seems to have stopped in the far SW of Saudi Arabia, close to the border with Yemen. An incredible 2,860km from his previous position in Pakistan. BAYAN (PROSPER)'s journey is even more remarkable. Having reached India on Tuesday after a flight of 900km from Yunnan to Bangladesh and then >1,500km from Bangladesh to India, he must gave been in great condition as he has flown a further 3,300km west from Madhya Pradesh. The most recent signal (0930am local time) puts him in Saudi Arabia, over the southwestern part of the Rub Al Khali Desert. That's 5,400km in 6 days! Interestingly, one of the signals from BAYAN's tag when he was over the eastern part of the desert puts him just 15km from ONON's location 11 hours earlier!
26 September 2019
Oh wow… it seems that ONON's 800km flight to the Indus Delta in Pakistan was just his warm-up… he's now flown another 2,000km WSW and is in Saudi Arabia! That's a new country for the tagged East Asian cuckoos… Not only that, BAYAN (PROSPER) has also crossed the Arabian Sea and is in Oman…. Both taking advantage of favourable winds in the northern Arabian Sea. These ocean crossings are almost a month earlier than the Beijing Cuckoos in 2016… and three weeks earlier than Flappy in 2017. Fascinating stuff! Judging from the temperature data from the tags, they both appear to be still in active migration, so there could be more drama yet today…
25 September 2019
ONON has consolidated his lead in the race to Africa.. he's flown c800km WSW to the Indus Delta in Pakistan. NAMJAA and BAYAN (PROSPER) remain in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh respectively.
24 September 2019
BAYAN (PROSPER) is motoring! He's flown another 1,500km west and is in Madhya Pradesh, India. Three of the five Mongolian Cuckoos are now in India with ONON in Rajasthan and NAMJAA in Uttar Pradesh.
22 September 2019
A big move from BAYAN (PROSPER). He's flown nearly 900km WSW from his previous position in Yunnan Province, crossing Myanmar, and is now in Bangladesh a little south of Chittagong.
18 September 2019
NOMAD did indeed continue – he flew more than 430km overnight and is now in Hubei Province. From the temperature data, it looks as if he is taking a rest here.. Still anyone's guess where he is heading!
17 September 2019
NOMAD is on the move again. He's flown about 200km south and has crossed the border from Shanxi to Henan Province. From the temperature data, it looks as if he is still in active migration, so could move further today. His heading, almost due south, does not give much away in terms of the intended destination.. he's keeping us guessing!
Earlier this month we began a poll to see where readers think NOMAD, the first Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus) to be tracked, would spend the northern winter. The poll closed on 10 September and here are the results:
Indonesia/Malaysia – 39%
Africa – 27%
Australia – 13%
India – 8 %
New Zealand – 5%
Other – 8%
Perhaps not surprisingly, SE Asia is the most popular suggestion. However, with one specimen from Zambia (per Handbook of the Birds of the World), and eBird records from Australia and New Zealand, there remains a large element of mystery about where NOMAD will go.
16 September 2019
ONON has edged west into Rajasthan, on a heading towards Jaipur.
15 September 2019
After a few days in northern Shaanxi Province, NOMAD has flown 300km south and is now in western Shanxi Province. Tantalisingly, there are still no firm clues as to where he is going..
10 September 2019
After his unexpected turn NW into Sichuan, BAYAN (PROSPER) has flown c450km SW and is now in Yunnan Province, just 60km SW of Dali, on a more expected course.
9 September 2019
NOMAD is in Shaanxi Province. He's flown another 300+km south from his previous position in Inner Mongolia and spent the afternoon/evening c80km SE or Ordos. Don't forget, there is still time to have your say on where you think he is heading.. Remember, NOMAD is the first ever Oriental Cuckoo to be tracked. Will he go to Africa, following the Common Cuckoos and from where there is a specimen? Or will he go to SE Asia or even Australia as some people think? Or somewhere else? You can vote for where you think he is going here.
8 September 2019
After a few days close to Ulaanbaatar, it looks as if NOMAD has started to cross the Gobi. Sometime around 7pm local time on 7th September he started to move and the temperature of his tag was lower than normal, indicating that he is in active migration. Crossing deserts and oceans are some of the most perilous parts of bird migrations, so we have everything crossed he will be ok. We're expecting to pick up further signals later today or tomorrow. Watch this space! In the meantime, there are still two days to vote for where you think NOMAD, the first Oriental Cuckoo to be tracked, is heading… SE Asia? Africa? Australia? Vote here!
UPDATE: NOMAD flew c800km overnight across the Gobi and is now in Inner Mongolia, China. It looks as if he still has around 75km to go to find optimal habitat but he's broken the back of the desert crossing..
7 September 2019
NAMJAA has flown c1200km west from northern Bangladesh and is now in northern Madhya Pradesh in India, about 50km south of the town of Chhatarpur. The habitat looks to be a small range of hills c400m asl.
6 September2019
Captain KHURKH has flown 800km SW from his previous position in Guizhou to Yunnan Province, heading for the border with Myanmar. Looking at the data from his tag, he was flying well below warp speed.
5 September 2019
A big move by ONON. Since the last transmission from his tag in Guizhou Province on the evening of 31 August local time, he has flown a whopping 2,400km and is now in Nepal, close to the border with India!
At the same time, NAMJAA is hot on his heels. He's flown c1,500 km west and is now in northern Bangladesh, close to the border with Meghalaya, India.
4 September 2019
BAYAN/PROSPER has taken a turn WNW and headed into Sichuan Province, at the same time climbing to an elevation of >2,300m. It'll be interesting to see whether he takes a short-cut over the mountains or turns south and takes a longer route around the highest mountains, as we saw with the Beijing Cuckoos.
3 September 2019
NOMAD continues, flying 350km SSE, crossing the border into Mongolia. He is now just 80km north or Ulaanbaatar. Where is he heading?
2 September 2019
Captain KHURKH has joined his crew in Guizhou. BAYAN/PROSPER has made a 200km flight in the slightly surprising direction of WNW. Generally, the cuckoos we have tracked so far avoid the high mountains, so we expect him to track south soon to head for the lowlands of Yunnan rather than the high peaks.
1 September 2019
NOMAD is still going… he's flown another 600km SE and is now at the southern end of Lake Baikal. Will he take a similar trajectory to the Common Cuckoos? As the first Oriental Cuckoo to be fitted with a tag, his migration route and wintering grounds are unknown.
At the same time, we have a signal from NAMJAA's tag showing he is now in Guizhou, joining ONON and BAYAN/PROSPER.
30 August 2019
After a relatively quiet 10 days, NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, is on the move again, and it looks as if he's moving with a bit more purpose than on 19 August. He's flown c300km south and is now around 500km NW of Lake Baikal. Even after this latest move, he is still around 2,500km behind the Common Cuckoos!
We've also just picked up BAYAN/PROSPER's signal again, after a few days of radio silence, and he has moved around 800km SSW and is now in Guizhou Province overtaking ONON.
19 August 2019
Over the weekend, NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, took a small excursion, flying at least 150km SSE into Irkutsk before circling round and heading back to where he started! Movements like this, although not straightforward to explain, are not uncommon in cuckoos, as we saw with the Beijing birds.
16 August 2019
ONON continues to set the pace. He's flown 300km SW and has crossed the provincial border into Guizhou. Captain KHURKH and BAYAN are not far behind. Of the remaining two cuckoos, NAMJAA is still in Shandong and NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, remains in Russia, some 3,500km to the north!
14 August 2019
The race is on! All four Common Cuckoos are now in China and heading south. ONON is the latest to move and is now in Hunan Province, making him the most southerly of the four. Captain KHURKH is in Hubei Province, BAYAN is in Shaanxi and NAMJAA is in Shandong. NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, has now spent a month northwest of Lake Baikal in Russia. Being the first Oriental Cuckoo to be tracked means that we have no idea what to expect. The temperature of his tag looks normal, so we are not unduly worried, although it will be reassuring to see him move south soon.
11 August 2019
BAYAN (Prosper) is the last of the five to begin his autumn migration. He's flown 600km south across the Gobi and is now only 50km north of the border with China.
9 August 2019
Captain KHURKH is now the most southerly of the five Mongolian Cuckoos. He's flown another 400km SSE and is in the Qinling Mountains of northwest Hubei Province, just 150km north of the Yangtze River.
8 August 2019
Captain KHURKH has flown c800km south, crossing the Chinese border and is now in Shaanxi Province.
7 August 2019
This map shows the positions of all five Mongolian Cuckoos. There is around 2,800km separating NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, in Russia and NAMJAA, the most southerly Common Cuckoo, now in Shandong Province, China.
5 August 2019
Captain KHURKH is heading south! He's flown around 500km and is now in southern Mongolia, close to the border with China.
2 August 2019
ONON has continued to move south and is now in western Shanxi Province, around 500km WSW of Beijing. The other cuckoos remain in their positions from 1 August.
1 August 2019
ONON has made a move and flown south to the border of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (China). He is on a similar trajectory to NAMJAA who has continued south and is now in Shandong Province. Latest positions below.
29 July 2019
NAMJAA is motoring.. he's flown more than 700km SE and is now in China's Hebei Province, just 200km north of Beijing.
28 July 2019
Autumn is here! On 11/12 July, after only four weeks on his breeding territory in central Siberia, NOMAD (an Oriental Cuckoo) made a move of around 150km SSE, closely followed by another move of similar distance. He is now c300km SSE of his summer position. We believe NOMAD is the first ORIENTAL CUCKOO to be fitted with a tag, so his migration route and wintering grounds are of huge interest. Where will he spend the winter? SE Asia? India? Africa? Or maybe even Australia?
Meanwhile, two of the COMMON CUCKOOS have also moved from their tagging locations. On 25 July, Captain KHURKH (boldly going where no cuckoo has gone before?) headed 170km west towards Ulaanbaatar. And NAMJAA is heading due south, surely the start of his autumn migration.
3 July 2019
All of the Mongolian Cuckoos seem to be stable on their breeding grounds. NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, remains in central Siberia and (Captain) Khurkh, Prosper, Onon and Namjaa are all in the vicinity of Khurkh ringing station, where they were caught and tagged. It's in stark contrast to the UK cuckoos, most of which are already on their way back to Africa.
22 June 2019
NOMAD, the Oriental Cuckoo, seems to have settled down, presumably now on his breeding grounds in central Siberia, whilst the four Common Cuckoos, including (Captain) Khurkh, remain in the vicinity of Khurkh ringing station.
17 June 2019
The ORIENTAL CUCKOO continues to move northwest. He's now 1,625km NNW of Khurkh and still going!
16 June 2019
The ORIENTAL CUCKOO is still on the move! Since being tagged in Khurkh, he has flown 1375 km NNW and is now in Krasnoyarsk on the southern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau!
10 June 2019
Whilst the four COMMON CUCKOOS remain in the general area of Khurkh Bird Banding Center, the ORIENTAL CUCKOO has already moved on and is now c250km to the NW on a heading towards Lake Baikal in Russia.
8 June 2019
Mission Accomplished! After a remarkable three days in the field, already the fifth cuckoo has been fitted with a transmitter! After the male ORIENTAL CUCKOO on day one, the next four to be fitted with a transmitter were all male COMMON CUCKOOS. Here is a video of Tuvshi, manager of the Khurkh Bird Banding Center, releasing the fifth cuckoo.
7 June 2019
The Mongolia Project Team visits the local school in Khurkh to speak to students about the cuckoo tracking project and to ask them to nominate two names for the first two cuckoos.
The students chose "нүүдэлчин" (NOMAD) and "Онон" (ONON) after the local river that runs through the town.
6 June 2019
The Mongolia Cuckoo Project Team catches and fits a transmitter to the first cuckoo, and it's an ORIENTAL CUCKOO! We believe this is the first time a transmitter has been fitted to this species, so it'll be fascinating to see where it spends the summer and to discover the wintering grounds and migration route of this poorly known species.
5 June 2019
The Mongolia Cuckoo Project Team arrives in Khurkh after an eight-hour drive from Ulan Bator.


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Stevan Ridley's face said it all.
This is the moment he's been envisioning. And this is the team he wants to face most of all: New England.
"The story couldn't be written any better,'' said the former Patriots running back, who signed with the Jets in April. "Just to say that I went out a year ago and I'm coming back against my old team, it's kind of crazy. I don't think you can make a movie better than that. How much I'll play is totally up to Coach and I'm fine with whatever he calls, if it's two plays or it's 20 plays.''
The ACL and MCL tears he suffered last season, and the year-long recovery that awaited him, were the impetus for Ridley's departure from Foxborough. When the Patriots chose not to re-sign him, Ridley found a new home in New Jersey.
"It's in the bank of motivation for me,'' he said of parting ways with the defending Super Bowl champions. "That's the team that I was on, that was the team that I was connected to. And I'm no longer there. So guess what? I'm with my new boys, man. And I'm with a new team that's doing tremendous.''
Ridley became eligible to return to practice this week after beginning the season on the physically unable to perform list. But Todd Bowles has yet to say definitively that he'll play.
"It all depends on what we determine, whether we need a third or fourth back and those type of things,'' Bowles said Thursday. "He ran around more today. Again, he's been out for a while.''
Ridley, however, spoke as if he expects to be on the field Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
"I mean, wouldn't you be if you were able to come back?'' he asked, smiling. "I can't go into the game saying that I'm ready to sit on the bench. No. I'm ready to play. And I'm excited about that chance.''
Ridley has amassed 2,817 rushing yards and 22 touchdowns on 649 carries since entering the NFL in 2011. But although he said "my body's fresh and I'm ready to go,'' he added, "I'd be lying if I said I could just go out there and I'm just 100 percent right now, today. I mean, nobody is that good.''
He's just trying to ease his way into an offense that is flourishing behind workhorse running back Chris Ivory, who was named the FedEx Ground NFL Player for the second time in three weeks.
"There's a group of guys that have been getting it done all year,'' Ridley said. "So I'm not the magic piece to come in and push everybody to the side. No. I'm just trying to come in here and find my role, find my niche, whatever that may be.''
Notes & quotes: CB Buster Skrine (concussion) practiced on a limited basis wearing a red, non-contact jersey. WR Brandon Marshall, an addition to the injury report because of a sore calf, also was limited, as were G Willie Colon (knee), WRs Eric Decker (knee) and Chris Owusu (knee) and CB Marcus Williams (hamstring).
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Congratulations to All of Our 2019 Bible Bowl Competitors
You did an amazing job studying the Gospel of Mark.
We hope to see all of you back on April 4, 2020, to quiz on the book of Judges!
Our Redeemer
Moorhead, Minnesota
Minnesota North District
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Minnesota South District
First Place: Our Savior, Eyota
Second Place: Trinity, Faribault
Third Place: Trinity, Faribault
The Minnesota State Bible Bowl is
actually two competitions in one!
This is a fast-paced, double-elimation contest that progresses throughout the day. Teams consist of three players, four players, or four players with an alternate. You may bring as many four-player teams as you like. See Contest Rules for compete details.
Shortly before lunch, players take a break from the team competition to gather in the auditorium for the Individual Competition. This is a 50-question, multiple choice test.
Sample questions from last year's Bible Bowl.
Obviously your students will learn scripture. However, you will be amazed at how much they will learn and how long they will retain it!
There is no better way to become close than by studying scripture together. Your team may become best friends! Celebrate that on the day of the competition. Design matching
t-shirts or wear crazy hats. Celebrate your achievement with ice cream afterward.
This is a great opportunity for your students to become familiar with one of our Concordias. Maybe there's a future Lutheran pastor or teacher on your team!
Frequently the Bible Bowl book is chosen to coordinate with the lectionary. Kids pay closer attention during the Sunday morning worship service because they are so familiar with the reading.
If you have additional questions about Bible Bowl 2020 and how to form a team with your church, school, or family, please contact us! We would love to hear from you!
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Street Style: Sonia Rakhra
Sonia Rakhra, Service - Foreign Investments, shares her street style.fashion-and-trends Updated: Feb 10, 2012 01:01 IST
Name: Sonia Rakhra
Age: 30
Occupation: Service - Foreign Investments
How do you define style?
Be yourself - don't ape!!!
What are you wearing today?
Earrings from BGs for Rs 750;
Jacket and Jeans from Holland for Rs 5,500; Shoes from Khan Market for Rs 1,999;
The bag was a gift, so I do not know where and what price it was for.
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Madam Sonia Gandhi — I like her classic style
Favourite shops in Delhi
Janpath for flea market buys and DLF Promenade for high-street wear
Favourite brands/labels
Nothing in particular... whatever suits me best
Most expensive item you own
A Guess watch, bought it from Connaught Place for Rs 11,000
Best buy
A pair of Adidas shoes that I bought for Rs 6500
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text: New Search Back to Search Results 9733 Share Profile Sayan Ray, MD Specialty Infectious Diseases Additional Language Spoken English Medical Groups & Affiliations Providence St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group St. Joseph Hospital Affiliated Physicians Phone (714) 289-7171 Address 845 West La Veta Avenue Suite 107A Orange, CA 92868 Get Directions Accepting New Patients Primary Office Address 845 West La Veta Avenue Suite 107A Orange, CA 92868 Get Directions Phone (714) 289-7171 Fax (714) 289-7177 Hours Mon - Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. More Information The patient rating score is based on responses and comments from Press Ganey. Responses are measured on a 10 point scale, with 10 being the best score. These scores are then translated to a 5 point scale in order to display results in a 5 Star rating. Comments are also gathered from the same survey and displayed in their entirety with the exception of any language that may be considered libel, or may contain private health information, or is unrelated to the provider being reviewed. Learn more about Press Ganey star rating calculations Meet The Doctor Specialties & Education Primary Specialties Infectious Diseases Education & Training Medical School Medical College of Ohio - 1997 Internship University of California - 1998 Residency University of California - 2000 Fellowship Infectious Disease UCI - 2002 Biography Biography Biography Dr. Ray accepts new patients. Office hours are for Infectious Disease only. Areas of Expertise Dr. Ray accepts new patients. Office hours are for Infectious Disease only. Back to Search Results


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Two Day FDM Training Course
Our Stratasys approved FDM training courses are suited to each level of operator. They include tips and tricks on how to maintain your FDM 3D printer to the highest standards as well as in-depth training on GrabCAD Print and Insight software.
The duration of the course you choose is primarily dependent upon your system. The location can be either on the customer's site or at Laser Lines' facility in Banbury. The courses are ideally constructed for participants who are either new machine operators or customers new to 3D printing generally.
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Question submitted by the audience in our recent webinar: Understanding Steroid Responsive Meningitis-Arteritis and Other Inflammatory Neurological Disorders of Dogs:
Regarding treatment and long-term management of steroid responsive meningitis arteritis ... what is the best way to wean a dog off Prednisone? How long should dogs stay on Prednisone before tapering begins? Is there an accepted tapering protocol?
Answer by: Karen R. Muñana, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Neurology):
There is no gold standard for tapering of corticosteroids during treatment of SRMA. Most commonly, the dose is slowly decreased every 4-6 weeks.


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Gatlinburg is home to America's favorite aquarium once again!
Readers voted Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies as the No. 1 aquarium in the nation in USA Today's 2019 10Best Readers' Choice poll.
This is the second time Ripley's has taken the top spot in this poll after being voted No. 1 in the U.S. in 2017. It was also ranked No. 5 in the world in a 2017 TripAdvisor poll.
The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga also came in at No. 9. It, too, has been a perennial contender for best aquarium in the nation -- ranking No. 5 in the same poll in 2017.
Here's the full list of winners:
- Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies - Gatlinburg, Tenn.
- The Florida Aquarium - Tampa, Fla.
- Audubon Aquarium of the Americas - New Orleans, La.
- Texas State Aquarium - Corpus Christi, Texas
- Mystic Aquarium - Mystic, Conn.
- Newport Aquarium - Newport, Ky.
- North Carolina Aquariums - Multiple Locations
- Vancouver Aquarium -Vancouver, Canada
- Tennessee Aquarium - Chattanooga, Tenn.
- Aquarium of the Pacific - Long Beach, Calif.
"This award is so meaningful because it was decided by the public, our guests who visit our aquarium and make us a part of their family vacation," manager Ryan DeSear said. "We work hard to offer our guests the best customer service at one of the world's finest aquariums in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, and we cannot thank our guests and community enough for voting Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies the Best Aquarium in North America."
Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg to serve as a home base for all-new NBC show 'Earth Odyssey'
Believe it or not | $5 million later, Ripley's is completely new again
Longest pedestrian bridge in the U.S. opening in Gatlinburg in May
National Enquirer Live attraction opening in Pigeon Forge in May
Gawkers relish rain-soaked waterfalls in Smokies
New Smoky Mountain adventure offers a unique view of the park
10Trips: This is everything you should do in Gatlinburg if you only have a day
Opening of the Missing Link lifted Smokies to record visitation in 2018
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NZ's largest celebration of cutting-edge culture saw WellingtonNZ host 72 performances in our venues. As a bit of festival fun, our caterers have shared some interesting trends they picked up during the New Zealand Festival period.
From 23 February - 18 March, Wellington received an incredible injection of arts when the New Zealand Festival came to town. And what a festival it was!
900 ushers welcomed patrons to our venues as we hosted 72 performances across 19 events, including the NZSO's blockbuster Star Wars: A New Hope concert, family favourite Future Playground, and the popular Writers & Readers programme.
Our caterers spent the three weeks serving up tasty treats and delicious drops to our festival patrons, and picked up some interesting trends along the way:
St James with a sweet tooth
With over 5,500 ice cream sales over the festival period, there is a clear venue that has a sweet tooth; St James Theatre patrons ate double the amount of ice cream compared with any other venue.
Each venue has its own top tipple
Festival-goers at each venue had clear preferences when it came to Vidal Estate's delicious drops. Michael Fowler Centre patrons enjoyed sipping on chardonnay; sauvignon blanc was the wine of choice for those at TSB Arena shows; St James Theatre patrons were fans of bubbles; and it was a tie break between pinot gris and sauvignon blanc at The Opera House.
Loyal to local
Our patrons supported local, enjoying double the amount of Garage Project beer vs international brand Heineken. Cheers to that!


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Google keeps a rapidly extending list of copyright-infringing URLs which they haven't listed yet. This blacklist makes sure that these links are never put forward to the search engine. Appreciatively, a new update in the transparency report allows us to know how many non-registered links every takedown notice includes, which is astonishingly high in some cases.
Over the years, Google has had to deal with a continuous rise in takedown requests which target pirate sites in search results.
The total number of 'discarded' URLs just touched 3.5 billion, and millions more are added daily.
Although that is not new, the thing that is new is Google sharing some further insight into the nature of these requests.
Fact is, millions, if not hundreds of millions, of the links copyright holders target, have never shown up in Google's search index.
Earlier in the year Caleb Donaldson, Google copyright counsel, disclosed that the company had started to block non-listed links 'prophylactically.' Meaning, Google blocks URLs prior to them appearing in the search results, as some sort of piracy vaccine.
Donaldson stated "Google has critically expanded notice and takedown in another important way: We accept notices for URLs that are not even in our index in the first place. That way, we can collect information even about pages and domains we have not yet crawled."
Additionally, he said "We process these URLs as we do the others. Once one of these not-in-index URLs is approved for takedown, we prophylactically block it from appearing in our Search results."
Regrettably, Google gave no easy way to see how many links in a request were not listed, but that has now been rectified.
The previous week or so Google added a new signal to its DMCA transparency report showing how many of the submitted URLs in a notice are not listed yet. In some cases, it is most of them.
For example, Mexican branch on the anti-piracy group APDIF is one of the most active DMCA reporters and has requested Google to eliminate over a million URLs last week alone.
Given below are links where the majority of them appear to be non-indexed links.
Google now reporting non-listed takedown requests
These URLs are not removed well because they weren't listed. Stated earlier by Google, they are kept on a separate blocklist instead, which denies them from being added hereafter.
Apart from APDIF, Rivendell is also an active sender with a high rate of non-listed links, often well over 50%.
It turns out to be a rather usual tactic. Big time players like Fox, Walt Disney, NBC Universal, BPI, and the RIAA, all send non-listed links with varying degrees.
While not all reporting agencies have such high percentages as APDIF, it is clear that millions of non-listed pirate URLs are added to the preventive blocklist every month.
Technically, the DMCA takedown procedure is meant for links and content which really exist on a server, but maybe Google wants to take it a step further themselves.


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Audi R8 HD Wallpapers, Photos & Images
The Audi R8 is a mid-engine, 2-seater supercar, which uses Audi's trademark quattro permanent all-wheel drive system. It was introduced by the German car manufacturer Audi AG in 2006. The car is exclusively designed, developed, and manufactured by Audi AG's high performance private subsidiary company, Quattro GmbH, and is based on the Lamborghini Gallardo platform. The fundamental construction of the R8 is based on the Audi Space Frame, and uses an aluminium monocoque which is built using space frame principles. The car is built by quattro GmbH in a newly renovated factory at Audi's 'aluminium site' at Neckarsulm in Germany. In 2005, Audi announced that the name of the successful Audi R8 race car would be used for a new road car in 2007, the Audi R8, based on the Audi Le Mans quattro concept car , appearing at the 2003 International Geneva Motor Show, and 2003 Frankfurt International Motor Show. There was some confusion with the name, which the car shares with the 24 Hours of Le Mans winning R8 Le Mans Prototype (LMP). 6-time 24 Hours of Le Manswinner Jacky Ickx described the R8 as "the best handling road car today". It is also the first production car with full-LED headlamps. Check out below, we are sharing the latest Collection of Audi R8 HD Wallpapers, Photos & Images.
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From left to right: 2009 Grantees, Marisol Morales and Elena Alvarado from the National Latina Health Network; Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, Former Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Tim Gunn, Project Runway mentor and Chief Creative Officer of Liz Claiborne Inc.; Kim Jefferies Leonard from The Links Foundation, Incorporated; and Meredith Green and Emily Lard from The Cardiology Associates Foundation.
The Heart Truth® Community Action Program
Sharing The Heart Truth® in local communities, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) formed a public-private partnership with the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) to address the lack of awareness about women and heart disease through a Community Action Program.
The FNIH's Community Action Program, in support of The Heart Truth, aims to empower community organizations to assist women—especially those of color, low income, or in rural areas—in identifying personal risk factors for heart disease and motivating them to take action to lower their risk.
The Community Action Program seeks to:
- Increase awareness among women that heart disease is their #1 killer.
- Promote The Heart Truth, Red Dress symbol, and the campaign's key messages.
- Provide heart disease risk factor screenings to inform women of their personal risk for the disease.
- Educate women about lifestyle behaviors that promote heart health and lower their risk for developing heart disease.
- Encourage and motivate women to take steps to adopt a heart healthy lifestyle.
- Increase outreach to underserved women, particularly those of color, low income, or in rural areas.
The Community Action Program, a public-private partnership with FNIH and the NHLBI on behalf of The Heart Truth in support of women's heart health education and research, has awarded more than $500,000 in grants. In 2012, FNIH awarded an additional $300,000 in grants to community organizations across the country. Funding is provided by Heart Truth and FNIH partners.
The Heart Truth Community Action Program's 2012 Grantees are:
- Northeast District Department of Health, Brooklyn, CT
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc., Edgewood, KY
- North County Health Consortium, Littleton, NH
- Dallas County Health Department, Buffalo, MO
- Refugee Women's Health Alliance, Seattle, WA
2012 Community Action Program Grant Recipients
Northeast District Department of Health, Brooklyn, CT
The Northeast District Department of Health selected more than 100 women, ages 25-60, to be "Models of Heart Health" for rural northeastern Connecticut. They will team together as year-long subjects of highly-publicized education campaigns/activities to identify and reduce risk factors for heart disease. "Truth Teams" will recruit a coach and cheerleaders who will empower them to achieve heart-healthy lifestyles. Their transformative journey will be chronicled through social media/networking and will culminate at the Red Dress Divas Fashion Show in December. By achieving healthy outcomes, their success stories will raise awareness and serve as fifty real-world reminders that anyone can be a model of heart health.
St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc., Edgewood, KY
The Women Take CARE: The Year for YOU program utilizes Heart Truth outreach curriculum to actively engage Northern Kentucky women in an effort to increase awareness of the risk factors of heart disease, provide an alert for women to identify their personal risk, and empower women to reduce their risk and live a heart healthy lifestyle. This will be accomplished through inviting women ages 25-60 to join activities in a 52-week action plan. The plan will give women weekly opportunities for community support, education to change unhealthy behaviors, and actionable programs to reach their goals of a heart healthy lifestyle.
North Country Health Consortium (NCHC), Littleton, NH
NCHC will increase awareness of women's heart disease through active yoga, evidence-based heart healthy cooking instruction, and education workshops. Community partners that currently serve rural and low-income women will provide health screenings and information booths in their communities. NCHC will use its extensive programs and networks to distribute The Heart Truth message, promote the Red Dress symbol, incorporate goal-setting, and follow-up with women to ensure positive behavioral change regarding their risk of heart disease. As a trained CDSMP leader, NCHC's knowledge of critical preventative measures and ways of managing chronic disease will enhance services provided through this grant.
Dallas County Health Department, Buffalo, MO
The Women, Numbers, Heart, Lifestyle (WNHL) Program campaign will consist of cholesterol and glucose screenings for income-eligible women ages 25-34, followed by one on one lifestyle education sessions, and a follow-up cholesterol screening. The campaign will also include two; eight-week physical activity, nutrition and weight loss challenges, a Red Dress Day campaign, a Heart Truth Walk, and community presentations.
Refugee Women's Alliance, Seattle, WA
The Refugee and Immigrant Community Healthy Hearts (RICHHs) project will: 1) increase awareness about heart disease amongst women who are from Somalia, Burma, and Nepal; and 2) educate women on the prevalence of heart disease in women and offer preventive measures for a heart healthy life style. Key activities include: Healthy Heart Workshops, Food Tasting gatherings, and Red Dress Day Potlucks, Production of a Cookbook, and Community Presentations. As a result of this project, approximately 270 women will learn about heart disease and take measurable steps to adopt a heart healthy life style.
Divas, MPH, College Park, MD
The proposed program would take place over 10 months. The first two events will promote awareness and education through a social media campaign, and in-person event launch activity. The core of the program will encourage women to adopt and maintain a Heart Healthy Lifestyle over the course of 20 weeks through the identification of personal risk factors, skill-building, goal-setting, and social support and accountability. Intended outcomes include, increased awareness, increased knowledge of risks, measurable behavior change, and improvement over time in blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
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Not my mum
When I was around six me and my younger sister shared a room and we had bunk beds. I slept on the bottom bunk and the door into our room was at the end of the bed but facing so that whoever entered walked past the end of the bed to get into the room. I had a nightmare one night and called for my mum in fear and as expected she came into my room. I vividly remember her walking into the room, although I don't think I remember the door opening, and the lights were off so I could only really see her outline. She walked to the side of the bed and crouched down so she was at head hight and I started telling her all about my nightmares; she hadn't said anything at this point but I remember vividly talking to a person about my dreams.
After at least a couple of minutes of talking to my mum about this nightmare my bedroom door opens and my mum walks in. I remember being confused because I'd already been speaking to someone crouched by my bed but my mum walked through the door and asked me what was wrong so I started to retell my nightmare.
To this day I have no idea who I was talking to first, whether it was my six year-old mind playing tricks on me or whether the scared shouts of a kid summoned some friendly mother spirit I could vent to. It's only in hindsight I'm scared by the encounter. At the time I was comforted and then confused but never scared and it never happened again.
I've never spoken to my mum about this either. It's my only experience that really makes me believe in the supernatural.
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On This Day in 1973, Skylab Launched
On May 14, 1973 NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in 1979.
Skylab itself was a heavily modified third stage of a Saturn V rocket—the same system we used to send Apollo missions to the moon. The station was huge, measuring more than 80 feet long, with a 21-foot diameter. During launch, Skylab 1 suffered major damage to its solar array, which delayed launch of the Skylab 2 crew (originally intended to launch the day after Skylab itself reached orbit). The Skylab 2 mission was modified to include repair work to the solar power system and installation of a solar heat shield, as the original one was lost during launch. The Skylab 2 crew launched on May 25, 1973.
The Skylab missions resulted in new information about long-term space habitation (including an awesome space shower). The first crew spent 28 days in space; the second 59 days; and the last crew (Skylab 4) spent 84 days up there. That last record was not broken by an American for two decades. Skylab also focused on solar science, earth science, and microgravity experiments.
Skylab was something of a bridge between the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. Indeed, Skylab was supposed to be serviced (and its orbit boosted) by the first Shuttle, but it wasn't ready in time. Skylab's orbit decayed, eventually causing it to disintegrate and fall to Earth in 1979. Chunks of the station made a bit of a fireworks display streaking through the atmosphere, and ultimately littered a swath of Australia. No injuries were reported from the falling debris, though media coverage of the re-entry was intense.
Here's a half-hour NASA documentary on Skylab, explaining the story of the station and focusing on the science conducted in orbit. Have a look:
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Ahmed Driouchi-OECD
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Ahmed Driouchi, Dean and Director of the Al Akhawayn University Institute for Economic Analysis and Prospective Studies, attended the OECD Universities' Joint Congress 2011 in Paris (July 6-8, 2011), organized by the OECD, Oxford University, and The Open University. The meeting gathered economists from universities in the UK, United States, France, Italy, Canada, Austria, China, Ireland, and others, to discuss the "new welfare" economics, poverty, health and education. Dr. Driouchi presented his paper on "New Economics of Skilled Migration: The Case of Medical Doctors," provided input to dozens of other papers and projects on topics related to IEAPS' work, and explored possible collaboration with participants from Canada, Italy, Austria, Ireland, and China.


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William Cook, has over 20 years of experience in parking, hospitality, and manufacturing operations. Will leads Colonial's Parking Operations, Development Services, Yield Management, Marketing, Customer Care, Facility Care, and Remote Management Center functions, leveraging his extensive experience managing complex facilities with sophisticated revenue control systems. He also oversees the company's consulting practice, focused on modern technology design and implementation. Will graduated with a BA in History from the College of William and Mary and is a past presenter for the National Parking Association (NPA), International Parking Institute (IPI), and the Airport Association of Airport Executives (AAAE).


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We all have a adventure comfort zone, let's chat about how to expand it. An adventure comfort zone will always stay pretty consistent in size — expanding it is all about give + take. You've probably already noticed this in your day to day life as an adventurer. As you're sinking your focus into a newfound adventure you'll be losing proficiency in another form of adventuring. Even as the seasons change you'll notice that you need to retrain your body + brain. It's a necessary evil that really isn't that evil after all. This is actually a good thing. It is one way to keep yourself from getting bored with your adventures — mentally + physically.
So, what can you do to expand your comfort zone, especially when it comes to adventuring?
Say "yes!" to trying something new. Just say yes. Even if it scares you a little…give it a shot. Of course, you'll need to take a few things into consideration. You'll want to consider the trustworthiness of the person you're adventuring with. Rock climbing with someone who doesn't show any confidence in their knots = bad idea.
More importantly, in your quest to try new things don't lose sight of your own personal goals + where you're at financially. If trying out skydiving on a whim is going to murder your bank account don't be afraid to turn it down, for now. If jumping on aboard a raft for your first river trips requires you to cancel a family weekend it might not be worth it. Keep your own priorities in check, but give yourself permission to try new things!
Trust your adventures skills to criss-cross between outdoor activities. The true beauty of outdoor activities is the number of similarities you'll find between them. If you've never been backpacking before but you're a pretty confident trail runner, trust that your endurance will cross over. The knots you learn to tie while rock climbing will come in handy while river rafting. Your ability to cook on the cheap in a hostel will quickly transfer over to low-cost meals at the campground.
Obviously, there is a lot to learn specific to each activity, but don't ever count yourself out as "useless" or "wholly unprepared" for one adventure if you have any experience in another. Give it a go + watch how quickly you learn because of experience you've garnered in another realm of the great outdoors.
Listen to the stories of others…as a grain of salt. Somewhere out there someone else has done something similar to what you're done. We're past the days of Lewis + Clark expeditions. Even if you're doing something no one else has done…someone has done something similar. Being the first person to traverse the Saraha Desert on foot was huge for Charlie Engle. He was the first person to make it into an "ultra race" of sorts. That said, he was still able to pull into a ton of sound advice from people who have done massive desert expeditions or extremely intense ultra adventures.
There will always be someone else out there to offer up advice. It is your responsibility to take all of that advice as a grain of salt. Sift through it + find the nuggets of information that will be truly valuable to your own adventures. The others…well, let them slide through your fingers or tuck them away in the back of your mind for future use. Never feel guilty for not heeding someone else's advice, solicited or otherwise. However, there is a fine balance between letting the advice float on by + being aggressive about it. Let it float…you'll never know when you may need that individual to dole out advice in the future!
Stop caring what everyone else *might* think. Yes, yes, we've all been hearing this since we were about 4 years old + realized that it was possible for others to have opinions about who we are…but it's true + sometimes we need the reminder. Someone will always, always, always have a harsh judgment of your plans. Either it's too risky or it's not adventurous enough or [insert something potentially negative]. This is life + we can't stop it…but we can avoid it.
When you start thinking up "oh, but she will think…" + "maybe he won't approve of…" excuses for ourselves we need to take a hot second to think about what WE think of ourselves. That is what's important + what we need to focus on. Of course, we do need to take into consideration the feelings of those close to us, but at the end of the day, you are the one embracing the consequences of our adventurous choices. Choose wisely + do what you must to ensure your adventure happily!
There are surely more ways to get outside your comfort zone — one step at a time — but hopefully, these four tips will get you thinking. If nothing else, let this be an opportunity to think about where your adventure comfort zone is at + how you feel about it. Maybe you're happy where you are + need to focus on cultivating the comforts of you, well, comfort zone! Either way, adventure happy!
Tell us what you do to talk yourself to the edge of your adventure comfort zone + beyond!


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Jeremy Hunt has said there are 'too many trusts' in the NHS and the health service needs to 'up the pace' of work on hospital chains and other provider reforms.
- Health secretary tells HSJ there are "too many trusts as independent organisations"
- "We need to up the pace" of provider sector reform, says Jeremy Hunt
- Becoming health secretary is "one of the biggest learning curves mankind could imagine"
The health secretary's comments come amid renewed interest in hospital chains in Whitehall and Westminster, and as NHS England is selecting sites for its "acute care collaboration vanguard".
The Dalton review, commissioned by Mr Hunt last year, endorsed a range of organisational forms for NHS providers, including hospital chains, Moorfields style single service chains, and management franchises.
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Asked if he agreed with Salford Royal Foundation Trust chief executive Sir David Dalton that having around 240 NHS providers was no longer a "sensible and affordable" way of delivering reliable care, Mr Hunt told HSJ: "I think we do have too many trusts as independent organisations, but I don't think the way to solve this is by me as secretary of state coming up with a blueprint, and trying to roll it out across the NHS.
"I think there will be different structures that are appropriate in different areas.
"We've already seen some mergers of community trusts and mental health trusts. I'm sure there will be more mergers, more chains that develop, and I think we need to allow people the space locally to work out what the right solution is."
He said "outstanding" FTs like Salford Royal, University Hospitals Birmingham, and Frimley Health had "developed superb personnel systems, superb IT systems, superb quality improvement processes" which could "be rolled out relatively quickly to other trusts".
Asked to give a sense of the pace at which he would like to see these reforms, he said: "I think the answer is we need to up the pace. We need to up the pace for the very simple reason that we have £22bn of savings that we need to find…
"Where you have smart managers like a Clare Panniker [chief executive of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals FT] or an Andrew Morris [Frimley Health chief executive], or a Dame Julie Moore [University Hospitals Birmingham chief executive], really those people and their teams, because they've all built up very good teams around them, would be quite capable of running multiple hospitals, and we should be tapping into their ability to do that.
"I'd say exactly the same thing for smart GP practices, and I'd say exactly the same thing for our best [clinical commissioning groups]. I think we need to allow people who have proven they are able to manage big healthcare organisations… to be able to use those talents more broadly."
Asked if he could imagine the development of a non-geographically contiguous chain of CCGs, he said: "I absolutely can."
He added: "You go on one of the biggest learning curves mankind could imagine when you become health secretary, and there are things you realise three years into the job that you didn't realise at the start of the process.
"One of them is that the pace of change can be really quite rapid if the purpose of the change is improving care for patients and if everyone accepts that's the purpose."
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- Fabric ( from an old dress , shirt or whatever else you don't wear anymore")
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- Card Board ( or any other similar material)
- Glue
Step 1
Cut a large piece of the fabric in large square or rectangle. This will be the base of you shoe hanger. The size of the square depends on the amount of the shoes you want to hang so its up to you.
Step 2
Cut smaller pieces of rectangles. Be sure to bear in mind the size of your shoes. Make sure they are not too big or small. You can simply place your shoes on the fabric. Then cut around it. These will serve as the "pockets" that your shoes will go into.
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Sew the small pockets onto the large rectangle /square base fabric. Be sure to do the "machine stitch" so that it will be more sturdy. If you have a sewing machine , that's even better.
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At the top of the rectangle or square , sew what looks like a little handle. This will be to hang your new shoe hanger. Now , in order to give the shoe hanger a "backbone" , simply glue it onto the cardboard , so that it will hang better.
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Add your shoes! And you are good to go :-)
I hope that i have inspired at least ONE person to go out and be creative. Above all .. be confident :-)


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The Best Of The Worst: 2017's Most Interesting What's Wrong Here Photos It's that time again — when some of the most popular and bizarre Code violations are presented. Thanks to NEC Consultant Russ LeBlanc, who continues to amaze us with a seemingly unlimited supply of electrical blunders from the field, we present (in no particular order) the "best of the worst" What's Wrong Here photos from
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