If you're having trouble trying to work out how to say "I love you" to that special someone for Valentine's Day, Spotify's neat little playlist maker could do the job.
With only a few days left, you might be struggling to find the perfect way to say something special to the lovely person in your life. Fortunately, a web app from Spotify hopes to help out with that, launching this week in the form of "Love Notes".
Think of this as a love message written in the form of mixtape, with Spotify generating the mixtape for you.
The web app making this mixtape asks you to pick an emotion for music out of five categories, ranging from flirty to downright seductive, and then it's over to the genres you want your little love note playlist to pick its music from.
Once you've selected these, you'll have to come up with a phrase you want communicated.
That could be "I love you" or "you're special" or anything else you can think of, though Spotify suggests keeping it classy.
We went with "I adore you".
When you start typing your phrase, the Spotify mixtape system for Love Notes will pick a song for each of the song's first letters, meaning an "O" might yield "One Love" by Bob Marley" while an "I" might deliver "It's Gonna Be Love" by Mandy Moore.
With the phrasing finished, you'll see your playlist ready to be sent, which can be sent to a friend or sent online using Facebook or Twitter.
On the plus side, you don't need Spotify's premium service to play with the Spotify Valentine's Day, so if you are struggling with finding the right way to say "I love you", this could at least hold you off until you find a place that hasn't run out of the flowers they love.


When I take pictures of people exercising, I can feel their energy. It's amazing experience!
I and Jo, who is the founder of Chime Yoga, had a great Yoga Fitness photo session at bluffs park in Scarborough. The place and weather were perfect for the photoshoot.


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Caves & Photogrammetry – Master Photographer Stephen Alvarez
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My name is Stephen Alvarez, I'm a photographer. I've worked for National Geographic Magazine most of my career, and most recently, I founded a nonprofit called the Ancient Art Archive.
I remember being very young, and someone putting a camera in my hand, and suddenly I went from being inarticulate to being able to say anything I wanted. And it was like you said, it was like a light went off, and I realized at that point that I was going to be a photographer. I didn't know what it meant, I didn't begin to think about how you'd make a living being a photographer, but I knew that that was how I was going to express myself my whole life.
Photography for me has always been easy. I've never needed someone to explain to me how to make pictures, how cameras worked. I could do that instinctively, and I was always interested in societies, how societies are organized. How do big groups of people work together and not kill each other? How does that work? So religion was the way I went about looking at that. And then photography is the way I explain all of those things.
You get handed stories for one reason or another. They're kind of like gifts from outside of yourself; someone gives you a story, this is your story to tell. And I feel that's a real important responsibility when I start on a project, on a story. To tell it as best as I can, because I feel like they're given to you, they're gifts. And you need to be careful with the gifts you're given.
Not too long after I got out of school, I had my first national magazine assignment in 1991. I'd been out of school for a few years, working for other photographers. And one of my mentors in photography, Nick Nichols, was offered a story by Time Magazine that he didn't want to do. And he said, call my assistant Stephen. So they did, and that was my first story; it was on caves in the south. So I shot that for Time, and then the next story gets a little easier, and the next story a little easier. By 1995, National Geographic had offered me my first story. And after you start working at Geographic, you don't really want to work anywhere else. I was always interested in really big stories that can take months or years to put together. And that's the place where a photographer can really thrive.
The last story I did at Geographic was called "The Origin of Art." And the story was about what art does for us biologically; we are biological entities, and we don't do anything without a good biological reason. Unless a behavior moves our genes forward, moves it to the next level, to the next generation, we don't do it. So what is it about art? Because we're artists. What is it about art that helps us survive? And so we looked at the very origins of art, which the first evidence of artistic behavior is from 100,00 years ago on the Southern Coast of Africa. People began making paint in vast quantities. By 70,000 years ago, 77,000 years ago, we're carving objects. And by the time human beings expand out of Africa into the rest of the world, we have a complete artistic toolkit that's baked inside of our DNA. And it's one of the things that helps us survive, because it helps us work together in large groups. It helps us — it bonds communities together. People aren't really — as biological entities, we're not particularly fast. We're pretty smart. We're not strong. All we really do well is we work well together in big groups. And art helps us do that.
So the Ancient Art Archive grows out of that last assignment for National Geographic. Usually with a National Geographic story, they're really long, so they can be a year, two years, three years. And at Geographic, the photographer operates much more like a producer in TV, where you do all of the research. You do your budgets, you get into the field, and these are long and intense processes. And usually at the end of a story, you're ready to core dump the whole thing and move onto the next project. I got down with "The Origin of Art" project, and I didn't want to let the subject go. And I saw some of the great works of paleolithic art, and I realized that being in front of them changes you; it makes you into a different person. And I wanted to share that experience with as many people as possible. So I also realized that a lot of the works of art are in danger; they're in danger from climate change, they're in danger from population pressure, they're in danger from religious intolerance. And I thought, I can take the skills that I have as a storyteller at Geographic, and I can apply them to this worldwide story that we tell as a species as we spread out across the world. Because we write down these stories on rocks across the whole world. And I can take that and I want to keep working on the story; I want to help bring that story to as many people as possible. So I started the Ancient Art Archive directly out of that National Geographic story.
When I first started the Archive, when I first conceived of it, I thought it would be a straight photography project; where I could go to these ancient sites and I would use photography to record the art, and let people experience the power of being in front of it through photography. And it occurred to me very early on in the project that that wasn't going to be enough. Some of these sites are so hard to get to, or access is so restricted, that photography alone didn't seem like it would carry forward what I wanted to carry forward. So I thought we should work in VR. And about the same time, photogrammetry programs became more readily accessible. And I realized, we can build these sites in 3D using just photographs and high speed computing. There's a marriage of these two things that happened. And now, you can not just provide what it looks like, but you can get the nuance of the rock. Sometimes people, these ancient artists, they're using the rocks in a very sophisticated way that canvas is not flat, it's wavy. And there are things in the dimensionality that need to be recorded, so 3D modeling is the perfect way to do it.
There are a lot of photogrammetry programs out there, and I settled on Agisoft PhotoScan because it seemed to be well supported, and fairly intuitive for me to use. And it's an off the shelf product, so if need be, other people can be run my models and get the same results. And then for interpreting the models, I rely on Maya heavily. So right now, the best way to look at the model is to fly a camera through it and show someone the video. So we use Maya for that, and Redshift for rendering, it's a fantastic program.
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This couldn't be done without really fast computers though, and really stable computers. And so that's why I rely on my Mediaworkstations machine. The other day, I have a site I'm working on in Alabama. I shot 1,200 photographs for the 3D model. I put them into Agisoft. I set it to run some automated actions. 192 hours later, it was done. And the model is beautiful.
If the machine is not stable, it's not going to run for 192 hours; I literally left town and came back to a finished model. And that's really important, because this is a small shop; we don't have a lot of people looking at stuff. And to be able to do what I'm doing with such a small footprint. You need really good hardware. It's true. Never could have done that on my HP machine, holy shit. It would have caught on fire.
Doing the really hardcore computing that's required to build a dense cloud was just beyond it. And I'd get 20 hours into a model and the machine would freeze. So not only do you not have a model, but you've wasted 20 hours. And that happened time and time and time again. And that's why I called you, Christopher, because I was wondering if doing what I wanted to do, what I knew could be done, was possible.
I got to say, oh my god, you were so much help. That's the problem.
So ultimately, I bought an i-X with all of the RAM it would hold. It changed the way I work, because I can run things unattended now. Tasks that were really hard, or impossible on a Mac, are now trivial. To work as a visual communicator you need to see what you're working on. And to have render happen in real time, it was a game changer.
An example of this is we're working in a cave in Alabama called Unnamed Cave. It has very finely traced engravings on the ceiling; so finely traced that you can't see them with your naked eye. We modeled the entire ceiling. We should 14,000 images. And we are now finding our orc that is invisible. I started that as a proof of concept model. I just picked a little piece of ceiling and I thought, well let's see if we can see if anything's here, and suddenly we're finding large-scale anthropomorphic figures that are unknown in the iconography of the Southeast. So it's opening up this world. I'll show you the stuff, it's nuts. It is freaking — what we found down there is nuts. I've got an anthropomorphic figure that's six feet tall. It's a figure with a headdress holding two rattles. And so it's opening up this world, and it's that high-speed computing, on a relatively small, modest budget that lets us do it.
The thing that has me continually committed to photography is the image's ability to convey emotion. And to connect people across all of these things that separate us; across economic gulfs, across a gulf of language, across a gulf of time. Because of the way we evolved, we evolved to understand images. And we don't need language to communicate, we can communicate with these images. And that still has me, even after 35 years of doing it.
Special thanks to Kamilo Bustamante for his wonderful camera work and editing, and to Evan Unruh for his color correction and post polish of this interview.
Houdini System Requirements And Benchmarks – GPU Rendering With Houdini – Part III of III
Houdini Software System Requirements And Benchmarks – Cache Disk and RAM – Part II of III
Houdini Software System Requirements And Benchmarks – Part I of III
128 core laptop? TWO of the most powerful GPUs available? 4TB of RAM?
a-XP Portable Threadripper Workstation PC
Houdini System Requirements – Hardware Optimization For Houdini

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After four great days in Phoenix it was time to travel north toward the scenic views of Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Neither Zach nor I had ever been to the Grand Canyon, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, so we were ready to go into the great wide open.
After driving through the brilliant scenery from Phoenix to Sedona we stopped at the Red Rock Cafe for a light lunch.
Margie convinced us to stop and hunt for the famed energy vortexes.
We started at Bell Rock, said to be one of the strongest vortexes. The beginning of the climb was uneventful, but about halfway up the base of the rock, my hands and feet started to tingle (also a side effect of Lyme, but this was different). I felt a surge of energy and was able to keep climbing.
We found "Meditation Rock" and I sat quietly to soak up the view.
Despite the energy from the vortex, the climb eventually became too challenging (and potentially dangerous), so we turned around and hiked down the hill.
But I wanted to experience the feeling again, so we decided to go to the Airport Vortex.
The Airport Vortex is where we saw the most twisted tree, said to grow that way because of the energy.
Again, halfway up the climb I felt a surge of energy. This time I really did feel invincible. We sat on top of the butte and looked out over Sedona. We were about a hundred feet in the air, but I wasn't the least bit scared.
The view from the Airport Vortex was breathtaking and the clouds seemed to be being sucked into the energy of Bell Rock.
We drove from Sedona to the Grand Canyon area and checked into our hotel. We drove out the the canyon with enough time to glimpse at it before the sun set.
There was a flood of people to the restaurants from the lookout points, so we ended up grabbing appetizers at a bar and going back the hotel.
The short glimpse at the canyon, made us excited for the day ahead.
We woke up bright and early on a crisp early spring Arizona morning. We made to the Canyon and found a place to park. The elk were grazing in the grassy patches of the parking lot, not phased by the hundreds of people pouring into the park.
We ate breakfast and started our hike. The plan was to hike the Kaibab trail. The park ranger told us it was one of the easier descents into the canyon with some of the most spectacular views. He was half right.
The views were spectacular, but it was not an easy hike. Going down into the canyon there were areas where we were (in my opinion) dangerously close to the edge. We slipped many times on the gravel path. But it was completely worth it.
We made it to "Ooh Aah Point," about three quarters of a mile into the canyon. Ooh Aah Point was our original goal, but we wanted to keep going. We made it about another half mile, until the path got a little too treacherous for me. The climb up was difficult and I had to take many breaks, but it was truly a spectacular experience.
From there we needed some sustenance and a small break, so we ate at the Market Plaza Deli.
Then we took the bus all the way to Hermit's rest, the farthest point of the south ridge of the canyon. We got out along the way to take pictures of different views.
We stayed though sunset and watched the light cut across the canyon. The clouds were not as brilliant as I've seen in pictures, but there really are no words for experiencing the Grand Canyon for the first time.
On the way back to Phoenix before our departure we stopped along the way at Bearizona Wildlife Park. I was enticed by the opportunity to drive through paddocks of animals with no fences.
All the animals were rescued and not able to live in the wild. I liked that they had plenty of space to roam around.
After Bearizona, we returned to Phoenix and spent time with Zach's aunt until our flight.
It's a trip I will cherish for the rest of my life. There is only one "first time" you see the Grand Canyon.
When I planned our spring break getaway for this year I knew it had to be someplace for healing and renewal.
So, what better place than sunny, warm, and dry Arizona (although it wasn't any of those things for most of the trip, but we'll get to that later)?
We spent a little over half the trip in the Phoenix-area, mostly in Scottsdale. Then, we spent a few days at the Grand Canyon.
Our plane landed at 6:40am, so after we picked up our rental car, a bright red Fiat 500 (because, why not?), we drove to DeSoto Central Market. I chose this place, because of a drink called Teaspressa, which I saw featured on Shark Tank. It's tea brewed like coffee and crafted into latte drinks. It's available at Tea and Toast Co., housed in DeSoto Central Market.
Let me tell you it was worth the stop. Turns out tea brewed like coffee is pretty darn tasty. We also had a small breakfast and some time to rest and recover from the flight.
Our next stop was the Japanese Friendship Garden, which was only a few blocks away from DeSoto Central Market.
I would definitely recommended buying the Koi feed for $1. That alone provided an hour of entertainment.
From there it was only a short distance to the Phoenix Public Market, a daily farmer's market in the middle of downtown Phoenix. It was good to be in a place where most of the taste tests were gluten and dairy-free. We had lunch at the organic Cafe on site.
From there we drove to Papago Park. I'd seen images online of the "Hole in the Rock" formation and wanted to see it for myself.
It was an easy short hike up to the formation.
Being up since 3am we took a catnap before dinner. After the rest we headed to dinner at Cien Agaves, a short walk from the hotel. Tacos, tacos, tacos.
Then, what I'd been waiting for all day - "An Evening with Ana Gasteyer." I've adored Ana Gasteyer ever since her start on SNL. People have said I look like her and I take it as the greatest compliment. I love all of her SNL characters from Martha Stewart to Celine Dion. When I found out she was going to be in Scottsdale the day we arrived, performing at a venue only a short walk from our hotel, I jumped on it. The show was FANTASTIC. Two hours of songs and stories. As expected, she was brilliant and hilarious.
After the walk back to the hotel we crashed. It was a long day, but the perfect way start to our vacation.
We woke up early hoping to beat the Easter brunch crowd, but still had a bit of a wait at Butterfield's Pancake House. I loved the waffle lights.
Sloan Park is a small, well-kept ballpark, bustling with Cubs fans, both transplants and travelers. Our seats were in the first base deck.
In the middle of the game a swarm of bees attacked the center fielder and cleared some of the lawn seats. I got texts from friends asking if I was getting stung. Luckily, we were far away from the swarm.
At one point Clark the Cub walked by our seats. I had to get a picture with him and Zach.
The Cubs didn't have the best outing and lost to the Mariners 12-9, but it was a great experience.
For dinner we hit up a local restaurant called Brat Haus. Their food consisted of many different sausages. It was nice to eat outside.
The atmosphere trumped the delicious food with outdoor games, like giant jenga. And it was super dog friendly, so there were lots of four-legged friends roaming around. I took the chance to write on the giant chalk board wall.
An end to another successful day.
Road trip day started with breakfast at U.S. Egg. Another breakfast establishment with a gluten-free menu.
We took the scenic drive toward the mountains from Scottsdale to Apache Junction. There we took a stop at Goldfield Ghost Town. A fun tourist trap with the backdrop of the Superstition Mountains. Fun fact, the Superstition Mountains are the 2nd most photographed landscape in Arizona. Second to The Grand Canyon.
In the Ghost Town we took a tour of a brothel, took an epic old timey photo, and rode the train.
We continued on the drive to Tortilla Flat, a tiny town with a population of 6. The drive is one of the most scenic in Arizona and we stopped along the way for many photo ops.
It was a very twisty turny road, but Zach navigated it like a pro. Probably due to his mountain driving experience in Ireland.
We ate lunch at the famous Superstition Saloon with bar stools made of saddles and dollar bills covering every inch of wall space in the restaurant. Good atmosphere, but very little food for spoonies.
For dessert, we headed over to the General Store and had some famous Prickly Pear Gelato. It's gelato made from the fruit of the Prickly Pear cactus. It was not Lyme Diet friendly, but I allowed myself the treat. How often do you get to eat gelato made from a cactus?
In the evening we took a stroll around Scottsdale, past the Arabian Horse Fountain in the middle of a shopping district.
We ate dinner at The Original Chop Shop Co., which quickly became my favorite meal spot of the trip.
Then, we walked along the riverfront on the way back to the hotel. Ah, palm trees.
We ended the evening with a lovely sunset.
Our last day in the Phoenix area started out with breakfast at Daily Dose. From there is was onto Ponderosa Stables for a trail ride. I've always loved horses, but since childhood, never really rode one. We signed up for the hour long trail ride.
When it came time to choosing horses, we made sure the wrangler knew we were beginners. One of my favorite moments from the trip was when they put Zach on a gigantic Clydesdale named R.J. My horse was a tall, white horse named Diamond. We held up the back of the line, because R.J. was the anchor. Diamond was a pretty slow old girl, but made me feel safe as we scaled up and down the rocky hills.
I can't wait to do it again. Maybe next time, on flat Illinois land.
After the trial ride we took a break at the hotel before our next destination. We drove to Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's southwest masterpiece.
We took the hour and a half tour of the property and learned a lot about the life and architecture of FLW.
For dinner, we met up with Zach's aunt Margie, who calls Scottsdale home. She took us to a fabulous place called Tru Food Kitchen. The kitchen was exposed and you could see a ton of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Then, it was back to the hotel to rest up and pack for our next destination, The Grand Canyon (look for future post).
Let's face it. Our sweet home Chicago is not known for health food. We are much more famous for our hot dogs and gluttonous deep dish pizza. I recently visited Phoenix, Arizona and was thrilled by all the healthy, organic eateries there were to choose from. Let's hope one day Chicago will be known as the healthy restaurant capital of the Midwest, but, in the meantime, here are 30 great options for you to try.
This bucket list of "good for you" restaurants in the Chicago area features restaurants with options for the most common dietary restrictions gluten-free and dairy-free. Here's to many more healthy places coming to Chicago in the near future.
The menu here is centered around, you guessed it, The Amazing Kale Burger, and that's okay, because it is amazing. You can find the kale burger at farmer's markets and small grocers, but I recommend visiting this great lunch counter in Evanston. Order a souped-up kale burger with a delicious organic, local side. Talk up the owner, he is super friendly and knowledgeable.
This Asian vegan restaurant is on every healthy Chicago food list out there. The menu features "healing noodle soups." You don't get much healthier than that. Located on the far Northwest side of the city in Norwood Park.
Most of the food at this salad restaurant in the loop is vegan and gluten-free. They also serve hormone-free meat and wrap. They have six homemade gluten-free, vegan salad dressings. Six! Plus you an feel good about what you are eating, because the company has a commitment to locally sourced food and sustainable practices.
A long standing vegetarian cafe in Evanston with tons of vegan and gluten-free options. You'll love the pleasant atmosphere and friendly staff. Blind Faith has a green restaurant certification for sustainable sourcing, composting, recycling, and conserving energy, among other things.
Cassava is a dedicated gluten-free facility, which makes it a great option for people with celiac disease. The menu consists of gluten-free empanadas, cassava rolls, grass-fed beef chili, and smoothies. Get this, the cheese is also grass-fed and they only use coconut oil. Can't get to Lakeview? You can buy frozen empanadas at all Mariano's and many Whole Foods locations.
Everything on this menu looks doggone amazing. Raw food is basically guaranteed to be healthy. Everything is 100% plant-based and uncooked. Go online and scroll through the menu. You will not believe so many delicious things can be made raw.
Serving vegetarian food in Lakeview since 1983, the diner recently opened a second location in Logan Square. The Chicago Diner is synonymous with vegetarian food in Chicago. They also have a separate gluten-free menu.
This Ravenswood bakery is as healthy as it can get with gluten-free and dairy-free options. Perfect for special occasions. Pick up a small treat or an entire cake. Birthday celebration here I come.
Similar to above, located in Andersonville. You can also buy their tasty flourless treats at many Whole Foods locations and other outlets. Can I have two birthday celebrations?
Both Farmhouse locations are perfect for a farm-to-table date night. Good ambiance and creative made-from-scratch recipes. Also, good for craft beer lovers.
This healthy restaurant and catering business offers more soup options than you can shake a stick at. They have a soup calendar online with new soups daily. Also features sandwiches, salads, and desserts.
An upscale vegetarian restaurant serving seasonal small plates. The focus is on locally produced, and seasonal fruits and vegetables. A good choice for a special occasion.
A restaurant described as serving vegan and vegetarian comfort food? I'm there. No designated gluten-free menu, but has gluten-free options. Surprisingly affordable for local, organic, food in Wicker Park.
On a quiet street in Rogers Park you will find this cozy eatery. Great outdoor patio. The menu focuses on local, organic, and sustainable foods. Many gluten-free and vegetarian options.
The falafel is a favorite among healthy eaters. The falafel here is made in house with organic chick peas. The menu is clearly marked with vegan, gluten-free, and organic options.
Do yourself a favor and head on over to Karyn's website and look at Karyn's picture. She is 68 years old, but looks much younger. It's one of the best testaments to healthy eating I have seen. She has both a raw and cooked vegan restaurant.
Just because you are eating healthy doesn't mean you have to miss out on one of the most popular restaurants in Chicago. Little Goat has a separate gluten-free menu.
In the heart of Uptown is a sweet vegan cafe. Friendly service and lots of menu options for those with vegan and gluten-free restrictions.
A popular farm-to-table option in Logan Square. Upscale, but fair prices for local, organic fare. They list their local providers right on the website, so you know where your food comes from.
This is a national chain of healthy fast-ish food. They offer complete gluten-free and vegan menus, which have just as many choices as the regular menu. It makes it easy and affordable to eat healthy on the go.
Another national chain, which features made from scratch vegan food. Gluten-free foods are listed on the menu. They also offer cooking demos, so you can learn to cook delicious vegan dishes at home.
With a tagline like "...for the love of good food...," you can't go wrong. They serve all-natural and locally sourced food. Gluten-free bread is available for sandwiches and they also have an array of raw juices and smoothies.
This now National chain started in Chicago with the goal of offering a healthy fast food alternative. The menu features protein filled salads, wraps, and bowls. Also, offers out of this world juices and smoothies.
Reasonable prices for farm-to-table fare. Gluten-free is noted on the menu and there are many options. Also, quite a few gluten-free options for brunch. Range is also committed to giving back to the community.
Portion controlled healthy take away food. Every single ingredient is listed on the container and they have options for all dietary restrictions. They also carry pantry items. You'll never had to cook again.
It is worth a trip out to the suburbs for this Indian restaurant. You'll be surprised such a nice atmosphere can be found in a strip mall. The menu specifies gluten-free and vegan and they mostly use olive oil in the dishes. With gluten-free bread options, you don't feel like you have to miss out.
Protein Bar's newest concept. Menu is similar with more customizable options. As always, gluten-free and vegan are noted on the menu.
The Wrigleyville location partnered with the organic brewery next door and the Edgewater location has a rooftop organic garden, which brings a new meaning to farm-to-table. With 20 years in business it is one of the original organic Chicago restaurants.
A menu that is 100% gluten-free and celiac safe? That is music to my ears. Only open for lunch and brunch, but when was the last time you had a gluten-free panini or vegan doughnut?
What's your favorite healthy restaurant in Chicago?


Hello, I am a Duke of Edinburgh's Award (aka DofE see https://www.dofe.org/what-is-dofe) leader. Way back in 2013 when I was just starting out as a leader and Raspberry Pi's were a relatively new thing, I ran three months' of sessions for a group of young people to learn to program for their DofE Skills activity. We all got Raspberry Pis and I made it up as I went along teaching them Python while dissecting the code for a computer game to show them how it worked. I've previously had jobs as a software developer since the 1980s and I'm now a product manager for a IoT technology company, so I had the experience to do this fairly effectively.
However, I now have a new group of 14 to 15 year-olds interested in learning to program for their Skills activity and having observed that Raspberry Pi Foundation has done a tremendous job since 2013 with creating and promoting educational programmes, I'm thinking I should try leverage some of the materials/curriculum now available. I initially started looking at the Code Club stuff, but then realised it was targeted at a younger age group. There was a recommendation made to me to look at CoderDojo, but I'm wondering if this a good fit for doing once-a-week two-hour sessions for 3 months. I'll have a good chunk of time with them, so I could do a fairly comprehensive course with the young people and ideally do some more involved physical computing projects with them.
I'm about to start perusing the posts on this board for resources I can use, but I'm guessing someone already has done something similar in scope to what I'm thinking of doing and might have some good tips.
1. Is there particularly suitable programme or set of materials (e.g. lesson plans) that you would be a good fit for weekly sessions over 3 months?
2. Any other advice on "not recreating the wheel" given what I'm trying to do?


To create a direct cost (an invoice, expense, or payroll).
Direct Costs are the costs your business incurs that are not associated with commitments; for example, general conditions and self-performed work. The different types of direct costs that users can create in Procore are invoices, expenses, and payroll. Invoices are received from a vendor and are costs that are not tied to a commitment with that vendor. Expenses are used to track costs that are allocated from the company to the project, for things such as computers, phones, internal equipment rentals, etc. You can also track monthly payroll costs and classify them by cost code, so that the payroll amounts reflect each month on the budget. Users will see the direct costs they create in the "Direct Costs" column in the budget for that line item (as long as the status is not 'Draft'). If you choose to pre-fill payment application data, the Direct Costs with a received date that falls within the billing period of the payment application will pull into their matching division and/or cost code and cost type matching line items on the payment application SOV.
'Standard' on the project's Direct Costs tool and the permission template assigned to the user must be granted the 'Create Direct Cost' granular permission. See "Grant Granular Permissions in a Permission Template" in the See Also section below.
Navigate to the project's Direct Costs tool.
Click the + Add New Direct Costs button.
Type: Select Payroll, Invoice, or Expense from the drop-down menu.
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Action on water, climate needed for Paris goals, climate justice
November 9, 2016	Comments Off on Action on water, climate needed for Paris goals, climate justice 488 Views
Organised for the first time in the history of UN Climate Change Conferences (Conference of the Parties, or "COPs"), the Action Day for Water at the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22) created through the Global Climate Action Agenda calls for more attention to water as a way of providing solutions to help implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Charafat Afailal, Minister Delegate in charge of Water of Morocco
Countries have identified water as a key to adaptation in 93% of their national climate action plans (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or "INDCs"). Water is fundamental for food security, human health, energy production, industrial productivity, biodiversity, in addition to basic human needs and its availability, says the Global Climate Action, adding that ensuring water security means ensuring security in all these domains.
The body adds that water is critical for successful climate change mitigation, as many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions depend on reliable access to water resources. It notes that systematically addressing these challenges is, therefore, key to adapting to climate change and reducing the negative impacts of water-related disasters.
On this occasion, the "Blue Book on Water and Climate" will be launched by the Moroccan Government and its partners as a concrete outcome of its interim International Conference on Water and Climate, hosted in Rabat in July 2016, in cooperation with the Government of France and the World Water Council.
The publication collects the orientations and recommendations brought forth by the international water community to support the implementation of climate commitments and propose a variety of concrete and applicable solutions related to adaptation and resilience through water management.
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"This aligns perfectly with COP22, which is striving to be a COP of action!" said Mrs. Charafat Afailal, Minister Delegate in charge of Water of Morocco. "Now, we need to realise what is at stake, since water insecurity leads to increased conflicts, tension between populations, and also provokes migration that threatens overall stability."
Climate justice is also a priority of the Water Action Day, as evidenced by the launching of the "Water for Africa" initiative, established by the Kingdom of Morocco and supported by the African Development Bank. This initiative aims to render justice to Africa through the adoption of a specific action plan that will mobilise different international political, financial and institutional partners to improve water and sanitation services and management in Africa, for those most affected by climate change.
"While humanity experiences increasing demographic and socioeconomic stresses, recent episodes of extreme climate around the world bring additional complexities in finding solutions to reduce these stresses. Water is one of the most impacted resources, but water also provides solutions to these challenges," said Benedito Braga, President of the World Water Council.
In addition, the three alliances for basins, megacities and businesses, created at COP21 in Paris and strongly engaged in water and climate action, which today represent more than 450 organisations worldwide, signed a common commitment to mobilise jointly their partners, identify and disseminate good practices and support the development of new projects by actors on the ground engaged in adaptation and resilience of the water sector.
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These three Alliances reported, in particular, during the hater showcase event on the positive progress made with the Flagship Projects on water adaptation launched at COP21, such as the hydrological information system of the transboundary Congo River, the integrated management of the Hai River in China, the strengthening of the new Mexico Metropolitan Organisation for Urban flooding drainage or the "Eco-cuencas" Climate adapt cooperation project between European and Andean countries and on new adaptation projects announced at COP22 Water day, for example, the Sebou River management in Morocco, the creation of the Water Adapt Training Centre in Brasilia or the future use of the SWOT satellite for Hydrological observations, inter alia".
"Adaptation of water resources to climate change must be organised at the natural level of national or transboundary basin of Rivers, lakes and aquifers, where water is flowing from up-stream to down-stream, and mobilise all actors in the field, including local authorities, economic sectors and civil society to achieve, in concertation and in due time, a common vision to face the climate change challenges," said Roberto Ramirez de la Parra, the President of the International Network of Basin Organisations.
France and Morocco's global climate champions have set out their detailed agenda to boost cooperative action between governments, cities, business, investors and citizens to cut emissions rapidly and help vulnerable nations adapt to climate impacts and build their own clean energy, sustainable futures.
Climate champions, Hakima El Haité and Laurence Tubiana, said: "A year after COP 21, the great dynamic of climate action is now growing strong. As we all gather to Marrakech time has come to start to take stock of what has been achieved during the last year.
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To be consistent with the long-term goals, all actors will have to work together, not only to achieve the national targets of the national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Contributions), but also to go further and bridge the gap of emissions. This sense of urgency should guide us all in accelerating immediate efforts and delivering ambitious action. We must identify what concrete policy options and what tools we will have to mobilise in the short term.
"The science is clear: the path towards achieving the long-term goals should bring us to peaking greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. This is a challenge, and we are not there yet. On the current trends, we will be in 2030 between 11 to 14 GT above Paris-compatible pathways. The purpose of these events is to strengthen all efforts and take them to the next level to stay on track for the objectives: stay well below 2°C and if possible 1,5°C, increase adaptation and resilience capacities and reorient financial flows. It is our responsibility, as champions, to make the link between the real world and the COP process. Political leaders from all around the world should hear and be inspired by the solutions at our reach."
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Home F1 News Jos Verstappen: 'You would think that Mercedes learned from Abu Dhabi'
Jos Verstappen: 'You would think that Mercedes learned from Abu Dhabi'
September 5, 2022 September 5, 2022 F1 News, Lewis Hamilton, Opinions
Max Verstappen's father Jos made fun of Mercedes' decision to keep Lewis Hamilton on medium tyres at the Dutch Grand Prix, by making a reference to the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. We give our response.
At the Dutch Grand Prix, Mercedes decided to keep Lewis Hamilton in P1 on old medium tyres during the Safety Car period, leaving him vulnerable to Max Verstappen, who switched to fresh softs.
The situation which happened then was kind of reminiscent of what happened in the final lap of the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with Verstappen easily overtaking the Briton.
However, the Abu Dhabi situation only happened because race director Michael Masi broke the rules which govern the use of the Safety Car, and Mercedes had no way of knowing this would happen while they were deciding on Lewis' strategy.
Verstappen then easily won that race and the 2021 championship, but the situation led many to consider this win not legitimate.
Well, Max's father Jos Verstappen chose to make fun of Mercedes' strategy choice at Zandvoort, with a reference to said race.
"It was super exciting, but Red Bull was back on top," Jos told De Telegraaf.
"And Max has tried all the tires and indicated which compound would work best. Mercedes also went well, they definitely had a chance to win. But luckily it turned out well for us.
"And you would think that Mercedes learned from last year's race in Abu Dhabi, but apparently not," the Dutchman concluded with a smile.
Not only is it somewhat not wise for Jos to remind everyone of what happened in Abu Dhabi, especially since the FIA themselves removed Masi from the position of race director, and admitted he had made "a human error", but also because to say that Mercedes chose the wrong strategy back then, is completely false.
As we already previously wrote, the last lap of the race would not have happened had the rules been followed.
In short, once the Safety Car came out due to Nicolas Latifi's crash at the exit of turn 14, five laps before the end of the race, Red Bull called Max Verstappen into the pits to put him on fresh soft tyres.
Mercedes, however, decided to keep Lewis Hamilton (who had a comfortable lead at the time) out on old worn-down medium tyres, because they didn't want to give up his track position to Verstappen.
It has to be understood that, since Verstappen didn't have the pace to overtake Lewis on the track, Red Bull had to always do the opposite of what Hamilton does, in hopes that if luck strikes, he'll have an opportunity to overtake through strategy.
Since Lewis was ahead on the track, Mercedes were the first team to decide if they were going to pit, and they decided against that, because had they pitted Lewis, Red Bull would have kept Verstappen out, and he would take the lead of the race.
Now, this is where it gets tricky. Mercedes knew that with only five laps remaining, it was impossible for the marshals to clear the track of Latifi's wrecked car in time for the race to be restarted.
The rules state that once the track is cleared, the lapped cars need to unlap themselves, and only at the end of the following lap can the race be restarted.
This means that by allowing Verstappen to gain track position over Lewis, Mercedes would have given the Dutch driver the race win on a silver platter, because there were not enough laps left for the procedure to be followed and for the race to be restarted. At that point it was clear that the race would end under the Safety Car.
However, race director Michael Masi then arbitrarily decided not to follow the rules, supposedly because race control wanted the race to end under green flag conditions.
To make this happen, Masi broke two rules on the penultimate lap of the race. First he allowed only the lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to unlap themselves (those behind them were not allowed to do so), and then he restarted the race immediately upon the start of the next lap, not allowing for the required one more lap under the Safety Car.
Needless to say that this allowed Verstappen, who was now immediately behind Lewis and on fresh soft tyres, to easily overtake him on the final lap, a lap that according to the rules should have ended under the Safety Car.
So, the finish of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix had nothing to do with Mercedes' strategy, it was actually a case of the race director deliberately choosing not to follow the rules, which favoured one driver over the rest of the field.
For Jos Verstappen to point to Abu Dhabi in an effort to poke fun at Mercedes, considering what actually happened there, is at the very least unwise, but possibly even in poor taste.
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American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with Diane Nash, 1 of 3
[bars and tones] [sustained bars and tones] [Interviewer] So tell me, what you thought when you first heard about the first wave of the Freedom Rides? [Nash] The first I heard of the freedom rides um, I was in Nashville and another young lady from Nashville movement and I were working on the Nashville newsletter and we received something in the mail that said that CORE was going to begin the freedom rides in Washington and it gave their itinerary, that they would come down the east coast and then across into, and then west towards, into Alabama, Mississippi, and
our objectives in the Nashville movement were in complete agreement with CORE's objectives, which was to desegregate interstate bus travel and after looking at their itinerary it was clear that they might need help somewhere along the way. So I remember putting a blurb in the Nashville newsletter describing that the freedom ride would take place and that we in Nashville would stand by in order to help if they needed our help at some point. [Interviewer] Why did you think they might need help? [Nash] Well, the south was such a violent place in 1961, that-- [Interviewer] Ok, let's cut. Don't cut, okay? I'll look at you and just try to get my signal.
Hold on. We'll start again. And so my question was why-- [Nash] The south was a very violent place in 1961, and it was entirely probable, more than probable even, that riders, freedom riders, would be attacked when they tried to desegregate waiting rooms and the buses. [Interviewer] One of the things that's really fascinating, and this is kind of a change in subject a little bit, is just I want to talk in a second about what bus travel was like for black people back then, you know, in the south. Because we found an ad for Greyhound, you know, it's a big color ad, and it's all these white people kind of smiling,
getting on the bus, and there's this woman who looks just like Aunt Jemima, a black woman, and she's got a basket full of food, getting on the bus, and so you know, what was it like traveling on the bus for black people back then? [Nash] Travel in the segregated south for black people was inconvenient is is a-- is not an adequate term. It was humiliating, it was difficult, blacks had to ride at the rear of the bus, there were inferior waiting rooms at the rest stops, there were of course separate waiting rooms and the-- the side that blacks went into was never as adequate as as the one that whites could use. Very frequently blacks
carried their own food with them to have to confront a minimum of adversity and insult. [Interviewer] One of the things that we don't understand, and a lot of people who weren't around at that time don't understand, it's almost 50 years ago now, is kind of not knowing, you know what I mean, what you might encounter when you travel, and when you were in those situations, just kind of that not knowing. [Nash] Not knowing what to expect was certainly a part of traveling throughout the south. Black people just based on the color of our skin were hated and treated with contempt. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to
black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that the general public used, and that was so demeaning and so humiliating. There were-- Supreme Court even at one point said that there was no right that a black person had that white people had to respect and white people throughout the south acted like that. So you never knew quite what would have happened by the time you got where you were going. [Interviewer] We'll get back to the Freedom Rides now, I wanted to talk about you know-- so when the Freedom Rides started you know, they were-- they had kind of no press, there were 12, 13 of them,
they had a couple black reporters from the black press but none of the major press was there, but once they burned the bus and had the riot in Birmgingham, this became huge news. Talk about the sense of what happened when this bus was burned in the riot. [Nash] We had a member of the Nashville movement that started with the initial freedom ride in Washington, John Lewis was part of the central committee in Nashville and that that was the group that gave guidance to the sit-in movement and we had been together for a year and had successfully desegregated lunch counters. So the Nashville movement, since one of our own was taking part in the freedom ride, had a stake in, a personal stake in how the freedom ride went.
I heard about the buses being burned in Anniston and attacked in Birmingham and I realized that-- Let me do that again. When the freedom riders were beaten in Birmingham and bus was burned and the riders attacked in Anniston, I guess it felt like an attack on us, as well as on them. There was a strong bond of camaraderie of freedom fighters then,
we understood clearly the courage that it took to face those kinds of mobs, and we had a principle of not leaving people isolated but joining them when there was an attack or adversity and I think that that occurred to us. [Interviewer] Talk a little about-- how did you think, what you feel when you heard that the freedom rides-- the first wave of freedom rides was going to be stopped, the freedom riders were going to be stopped and abandoned? [Nash] Well through the news media we heard that
the freedom riders had been beaten so severely and so frequently actually that it was just physically impossible for them to continue and we knew that that was true. However it was clear to me that if we allowed the freedom ride to stop at that point just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence and that would end it. Well had that message been sent we would not have been able to have a movement about any issue,
about restaurants, and lunch counters, about other public facilities, about voting, or about anything else. We would not have had the opportunity to have a movement about anything without huge numbers of people being killed or injured because the opposition would have been determined to inflict massive violence and stop the campaign. So it was important that the freedom ride continue. Some people said "well why not let things settle and cool off and maybe you know try again in a few weeks or a few months?" And that was really-- that would've been a really huge mistake
because it's like metal, if the metal is hot you can fashion it and shape it. Once it is cold you you can't shape it anymore, so the situation was similar to that. We had to move at a critical time and we had to make certain that the freedom ride continued. Especially since there had been a great deal of violence. [Interviewer] Just a little bit of that over again, just want to make sure-- [Nash] Oh, that's so hard, what did you ask me before? [Interviewer] Something that starts like "when we heard the freedom rides would be stopped, we knew" something like that, okay? [Nash] When we heard-- oh wait, before we do it, you want me to through the whole thing again? [Interviewer] Just a short version, we want something for a beginning, middle, and end.
[Nash] When we heard that the freedom riders had been attacked and beaten in Birmingham and the bus burned in Anniston, and we heard that the original freedom riders would be leaving, we knew that it was true that they had been beaten so frequently and so severely that it was just physically impossible for them to continue. We knew that well, Nashville was in a position to pick up the freedom ride, we had had a successful movement the year before and had de-segregated lunch counters, we had a group, a very cohesive
effective group of students who were well educated in the philosophy of nonviolence and actually had some experience in using it. The Nashville group was very committed to desegregation and we had been watching the progress of the freedom ride, had anticipated that at some point they might need help, and we were standing by in order to provide the help that we could. [Interviewer] Why did you feel that you could succeed where the original freedom riders had failed? [Nash] The original freedom riders did not fail. They I think accomplished a very valuable and remarkable
feat. They simply had been beaten so severely and so frequently, there is a limit to what a human being can endure. The group in Nashville we were fresh troops and so we felt like we could enter at that point and continue the freedom ride. [Interviewer] I think also one of the things that you all were able to do was to from the beginning, you understood that you needed more people, that you didn't start out with 12 or 13, so talk about that piece of it, that you understood that it was going to take more than 12 or 13-- because if you had sent another 12, you could have been beaten back. So the need for more people, I guess.
Okay. [Nash] During the 1960s blacks in the south did not have a lot of money. We did not have a great deal of political power, in fact in many areas of the south we couldn't even vote. We did have numbers and we did have commitment. One of three principles of nonviolence is that with large numbers of people witnessing against an injustice and not cooperating with the injustice, that we could be successful at ending that injustice.
Another principle was that we could wear the opposition down, and, you know keep coming in large numbers and we understood that very well, we had put it into practice before so we applied it to the freedom ride. [Interviewer] If I could ask you Diane, I just want to get the last piece, that someone's cell phone was making some interference at the end. Even if it's off it might give some data. I'm going to move your purse a little bit. [Nash] Let's see if it's off.
[Interviewer] There were massive amounts of people that you could mobilize and that was the way to go, so if we could get that again. Anyway-- [Nash] We appealed to the moral consciousness of the country and we felt that we could ask numbers of people to join us who-- people who agreed that racial segregation was wrong, and we we recognized that adding numbers to demonstrations could be effective. So the first thing we did was decide to add ourselves to pick up the freedom ride where the original riders had left off. [Interviewer] One of the things that
C.T. Vivian told us about, his version of that happened was that you had a meeting and then I think you said "everybody go think about it and then we'll come back and decide what we're going to do" is that how you remember it? [Nash] Well the first thing I remember is after the-- it was clear that the freedom riders, or the original freedom riders, were going to have to leave the project and understanding that the freedom ride just had to continue we needed to have a meeting of the central committee, which was the leadership committee in Nashville, the student leadership committee, and the young man that I was dating at the time had a car and he was also
involved in the movement. And I remember going around campus finding people who were on the central committee, to the extent of saying you know "have you sane Catherine Burke, have you seen Jim Bevel, have you seen, you know, various people?" and people would say "yeah, they were in the cafeteria about twenty minutes ago" and we'd go to the cafeteria and followed the trail, other people said "yes, they passed here ten minutes ago and they went that way" and so we would go there and keep asking people and finding the people on the committee in order to get a meeting together. We did have a meeting, the Nashville group of students did decide that it was critical that the freedom ride
continue, and we decided that we would go. Many, a number of the people from the central committee decided that we ourselves would go. We-- the next thing we needed was money. We needed to be able to buy tickets, bus tickets. We needed for the people who were going to have enough money so that they'd be able to buy lunch or whatever. It was a minimum amount of money, but for the people who were going it was-- it was money that we needed. The Nashville group the year before had a very close cooperation. Well not just the year before but it was continued. The student
group and the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, the local group in Nashville, we called them the adults. We had a very close working relationship and we had asked the adults to collect and keep track of the money because we the students were far too busy sitting in and going to jail and demonstrating and what have you. So at the mass meetings and I guess that was probably the main source of collecting money at the time. We had to have the adults approve giving us money, allocating money for this purpose
and I can remember being in a meeting hours into the night one night trying to persuade the NCLC members to write a check giving us the the money we needed to continue the freedom ride. Their big hesitation was that they were afraid for us. They had seen the pictures of the bus burned and the victims of the violence and they were afraid that we would be killed or seriously injured and they felt a responsibility. So it was really hard to convince them to make the money available for us to continue. [Interviewer] You also kind of make the decision to go, you make the decision to go right
away. You know, to pull those things together there, so you have this meeting, you made the decision to go and it wasn't like "we're going to go in three days, four days," it's like "we're just going to go." [Nash] What's the question? [Interviewer] The question is, tell me about making the decision to go, and when did you decide to go? [Nash] We had a meeting of the student central committee in Nashville and agreed that it was critical that the freedom ride not stop and that it be continued immediately and we decided that we would go immediately. One of the decisions that was made was that we recognized that we needed one
person to be out, be off the-- not be on the freedom ride and not be arrested. It needed to be one of us who were planning to go. We recognized that sometimes people could take over a project and if it wasn't one of us who planned to go, sometimes those people would have their own agendas and we didn't want that to happen. We needed coordination. By then there were several communities involved: there was Birmingham and there were several Birmingham and Nashville and others and there were several
organizations involved because now there would be CORE and the Nashville movement. We intended to involve more and more people and so someone had to be recruiting, steadily recruiting more people to go on the freedom ride. We needed someone to train people who were planning to go on the freedom ride, we needed them to be trained in nonviolence and what to do to best protect themselves and other riders if they were attacked. We thought it would not be right to send people with absolutely no orientation who we
knew would probably be arrested, that there are things that you can do to prepare to be in jail and to avoid becoming demoralized and to make the jail sentence a little more livable, We needed coordination between the justice department and the freedom riders. We wanted them informed of what we were doing and then the news media, it was important for the media to be able to obtain accurate information. So there clearly was a need for someone who would not be on the freedom ride on the bus and in jail to come and to coordinate things plus there was the whole idea
of unanticipated things. That as the ride progressed we didn't know what would happen and so as things came up that needed to be done there needed to be someone to do that. So the people who were going on the freedom ride from Nashville elected me to be the coordinator and that was a really heavy responsibility because the lives and safety of people who I loved and cared about deeply, who were some of my closest friends depended on my doing a good job at that. There was also the stress, I guess is a good word, of
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Ubisoft has officially announced Far Cry 5, the newest entry in its open-world first-person shooter series.
Ubisoft has officially announced Far Cry 5, the newest entry in its open-world first-person shooter series. The game was revealed just before the company's earnings call.
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Patrick Jennings blasted onto the children's book scene with his critically acclaimed" Faith and the Electric Dogs," which received numerous starred reviews and is now in film development. Known for his wide range of topics and styles, Jennings is the author of the recent "We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes," "The Wolving Time," and "The Beastly Arms." He has turned his focus to writing funny, easily accessible stories that will appeal to middle-schoolers, including his recent Egmont releases "Guinea Dog," "Lucky Cap," and" Invasion of the Dognappers." A former resident of Bisbee, Arizona, Jennings now lives in Washington State. You can visit him at www.patrickjennings.com."


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Making A Murderer Season 2, Episode 1 Recap
Making A Murderer Season 2 Premiere Recap: Unmasking Mr. Kratz
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix.
The nuns in The Sound of Music asked: How do you solve a problem like Maria? Making a Murderer Part 2 has a similar problem almost as soon as it begins. How do you solve a problem like being a massive Netflix hit that became so ubiquitous, it was later referenced in Riverdale? Making a Murderer was a cultural phenomenon, something that the second season seeks to disavow immediately. Sort of like how celebrities insist that they're "low-key." (Sure, Lady Gaga!) Yes, this show was a big deal. The opening moments of the season 2 premiere features a montage of Megyn Kelly reported on it. Avery's defense lawyers earned the title of national sex symbols. Steven Avery, however, is still in prison. So is Brendan Dassey. To some extent, the people involved in the first season are themselves in prison, shackled to this one portrayal of Steven Avery's case.
In other words, Making a Murderer Part 2 has a lot to discuss, almost more than it had the previous season. The first episode primarily concerns itself with the arrival of Kathleen Zellner, an attorney known for winning "unwinnable" wrongful conviction cases. Zellner isn't just working to free Steven Avery; she's effectively doing the work the first season did in discrediting Ken Kratz, the prosecutor assigned to Avery's case.
Kratz, by the way, didn't fare so well post-Making a Murderer. He's one of the people involved in the first season who hasn't been able to escape it. His Yelp page is littered with angry reviews, and he's been receiving death threats. In this first episode, Kratz reads one threat aloud that wishes rape upon Kratz's daughter. Off-camera, he's been working to discredit the show entirely, publishing a book dedicated to Avery's guilt. (The week the show premiered, Kratz had also appeared on a podcast to disprove the second season preemptively.) Kratz also later resigned, something that will come up in later episodes.
Avery's lawyers did a little better. They went on a speaking tour of the country, chatting with audiences about this strange, strange case. They're no longer assigned to Avery, but, like Kratz, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting are irrevocably invested in Avery's future. Just now, they are on the sidelines, despondent-looking soccer moms hopeful that Zellner (and Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, the filmmakers behind the series) will win this game. They remain optimistic, per a scene from one of their national tour talks.
If Strang and Buting are the well-meaning hand-wringers of the PTA, then Zellner is the newly elected president with steel in her smile. Avery himself recruited Zellner via Sandy Greenman, the woman who, as of season 1, was his girlfriend. (Her title card now reads "Steven's friend.") She climbed aboard the Avery train with his innocence set in her sights. Zellner is going to single-handedly drive this season, so get used to her presence. If, last season, Demos and Ricciardi were quietly persuading us of Avery's innocence, Zellner is going to shout it from the rooftops.
Here's how: First, per Zellner, she has to disprove every piece of evidence that Ken Kratz told the jury in 2006.
"It's demonstrably false, what he told them. And I intend to do that on each piece of evidence that he presented to the jury," Zellner declares.
Here's what she disproves in the first episode alone:
The DNA evidence via the blood from a cut on Avery's finger is in the car.
The prosecution assert that Avery's finger dripped blood near the driver's seat of the car. Zellner consulted Stuart James, a blood pattern expert, who agrees that the spatter in the front seat — a few streaks of blood — doesn't look like it matches the cut on Avery's finger. The blood would be in a "higher volume" if it did come from the cut, which was significant.
The blood pattern on the back door of the car.
Once again, Zellner recreates having an associate pick up a bloody mannequin and simulate the act of putting Theresa's body in the car. The result? Virtually no blood spatter.
Remember, though, that Kratz insisted that Avery's sweat was under the hood latch. You can't plant sweat evidence. How do you solve a problem like sweat evidence?
Check out the episode 2 recap here.
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Hear now - the news! #LGBTWellness Roundup of the week!
CDC Finds Disparities among LBT Women
The CDC released a new study that examined five healthy behaviors: not smoking, drinking in moderation, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, and sleeping well. They found that lesbian (5.4%) and bisexual (6.9%) women were less likely than heterosexual women (10.6%) to engage in these healthy behaviors. The results for transgender women suggested that they may be more likely to fall to one extreme or the other with healthy behaviors.
Understanding Gender Dysphoria and Youth
Researchers found that adolescents who experience gender dysphoria during or shortly after puberty often first expressed a non-heterosexual orientation (41%) and frequently had been diagnosed with a mental health or neurodevelopmental issue (62%) before gender dysphoria. The vast majority (83%) had been assigned female rather than male at birth.
Some Doubt Importance of Orientation
Johns Hopkins University reported on a new study finding only 52% of providers in a sexual health professional group asked for patients' sexual orientation, and 42% said sexual orientation was not relevant to their care. One of the study's authors said that this demonstrates that even providers who focus on sexual health may not understand the importance of LGBT identities.
Celebrating Health Centers
Fenway Health celebrated National Health Center Week and the role that centers play in providing healthcare to millions of people, including those who otherwise might go without care. NJ Spotlight also reported on a kick-off event in conjunction with this special week of a new health program especially for LGBT individuals, which was championed by state officials.
An Avatar to Help Treat HIV?
A Chicago-based study of Black men who have sex with men explored using an avatar-like personality in an app to help with HIV treatment. The focus groups generally liked the idea of the avatar keeping them informed and adherent, so long as concerns were addressed around topics like privacy and stigma, as well as some of the qualities of the avatar.
Turning Your Facility Tobacco-free
The National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco & Cancer Control released new resources on how facilities of various types can transition to being tobacco-free campuses. The resources may be of interest to LGBT community centers and healthcare centers that focus on LGBT populations, given the high tobacco use disparities facing the community.
Centers Play Big Role in LGBT Health
LGBT CenterLink and Movement Advancement Project released their biennial report on LGBT centers nationwide. The 128 centers that participated in the report represented 40 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico, and served an impressive 40,550 people per week. Additionally, the vast majority – 68% – offered health services, marking centers as a critical facet of LGBT health.
Additional Barriers as First Offenders
ABC News reported on a study finding that LGBT youth who are first offenders in the criminal justice system face health disparities compared to their non-LGBT peers. These included internalization of problems, self-harm, and substance use. Additionally, the study found that about one-third of the first offenders studied were sexual minorities, suggesting disproportionate involvement in the system.
Youth Really Want HIV-related Care
A new study found that 62% of teenage young men who have sex with men were willing to participate in clinical trials for PrEP (HIV prevention treatment), but some had concerns about confidentiality. Researchers cautioned against undue influence because many said they would participate just to receive free care, which should be concerning to researchers – and to advocates of better access to HIV-related care.
Family Acceptance Campaign Launched
CBS News reported on a new initiative from former Vice President Joe Biden designed to increase family and community acceptance of LGBT youth. The campaign is currently collecting stories on personal experiences as well as investigating best practices to reduce rejection and increase acceptance, which could be critical in improving LGBT health outcomes.
New Clinical Strategies for Trans Care
Researchers evaluated the creation of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center, an innovative clinical approach that sought to provide more holistic care to transgender patients. The study explains how the creation of the center uncovered prior gaps in care, which included adolescent care, care coordination, and certain types of surgery.
E-cig Company Investigated
Reuters reported that Massachusetts is investigating a leading manufacturer of e-cigarettes, specifically on whether the company has done enough to prevent online sales to minors. The article notes that the product is especially popular with teenagers – and research shows that LGBT teens are significantly more likely to "vape" than their non-LGBT peers.


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A key appointment: The Assembly of the Global Campaign for Education
Posted: Jan 22, 2015 -
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), celebrated its World Assembly from the 23th to the 26th February. The Assembly, that unites all member of this international network every three or four years, allows these organizations to reflect about their achievements and challenges in the fight for the right to education.
Furthermore, this time they have ellaborated various recommendations for the new Sustainable Development Agenda, that will be approved in September, highlighting the important role of education.
February 23th in Johannesburg (South Africa) started the First Day of the World Assembly that sponsored the Public Forum 2000- 2030 Right to Education, where all members and allied of the global Campaign for Education of every corner of the planet met to discuss crucial and emerging topics in education, focusing on the progresses made and lessons learnt from 2000 to 2015, and in our goals as civil society for 2015-2030. The week closed with a two days Global Learning Event that united more than 50 education coalitions supported by the Civil Society Education Fund.
The Global Campaign for Education is the world greatest civil society movement that works to make the right to quality education reality for everyone. This Assembly is the government organ of the Global Campaign for Education that makes members of the movement reflect on our achievements and share the adquired knowledge during the previous period, discuss some current and emerging issues of world education and participate in the shared strategic planification for the following four years. As well as members of the Global Campaign for Education, the World Assembly welcomes other relevant actors in the education movement so that is why this is one of the most important international activists meeting in the education field.
The main issues discussed during the Assembly were the progress of the Global Campaign for Education as a civil society movement for the last four years; the analysis and approval of the Strategic Plan for the GCE for the 2015-2019 period; the apprecitacion and revision of the political position of the network. This time, those who were present were able to share their lessons learnt and work skills in a various topics and fields, and also the Directive Board of the Campaign and its presidency where designed.
The Global Campaign for Education is an international coalition lead by NGOs, educative field unions, educative centers and social movements of very different sign. All of us agree in demand the whole commitment of the Dakar Summit (Senegal, 200), where the international community compromised itself to guarantee the access yto quality education for everyone before 2015. The Global Campaign for Education was born to highlight this valuable, necessary and international commitment. Therefore, its goal is to mobilise the citizenship to make them demand their governments and the international community to accomplish their promises and become responsible of the destiny of million of people that are deprived from the right to education.
Tags: global campaign education, johannesburg, NGOs education, south africa


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E-sports is an abbreviation for electronic sports, a global market that reached $700 million in 2017 and is expected to total $1.5 billion next year, according to the analysis company Newzoo, which has its headquarters in the Netherlands.
There are more than 300,000 e-sports players in Hong Kong-93 percent of them male, and 55 percent ages 18 to 21, according to research by City University of Hong Kong. The research also found there were only 50 e-sports professionals working and training in the city. Salaries of professional players range from HK$5,000 a month to HK$25,000.
The most popular e-sports games globally include Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite and League of Legends. Players in the Dota 2 international tournament last year in Vancouver, Canada, competed for prize money totaling $25 million.
"Kids dreaming of becoming professional e-sport players are having a rush of blood to the head. I think it's a bit unrealistic. They should focus on what they have been doing-whether it's their studies or their careers. Being responsible for their lives is the most important thing of all," he said.


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Sony Pictures Networks India Rebrands Channel Portfolio to Align with Sony's Global Ethos
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has rebranded all its network channels to be more aligned with Sony's global ethos.
According to N.P Singh, MD & CEO, SPNI, "The power of the Sony brand and its values have driven our work ethics so far, and today, it reflects in our channel-brand architecture as well. The work that we started three years ago has now reached fruition. We are creating a powerful unified entertainment conglomerate with a broader appeal by refocusing our existing channel portfolio in its latest look and feel."
Sony's networks exist at the intersection of technology and entertainment – and the logos reflect this: the new branding colours are energetic, inspiring and remind us of a brilliant light spectrum. The curve in the logo comes from the swing of the Sony-S, with the dominant background being synonymous with the Sony brand. With this uniform shape and the associative play of colours, Sony has created a visual thread that connects the diverse family of Sony's networks and reflects the 360-degree entertainment experience.
Link: https://www.sonypicturesnetworks.com/logos


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In a coffee shop in Leeds the other day, a couple sat down next to me and I couldn't help but over hear the interaction between them. A couple in their 50's, and there was such an interesting dynamic between them. The wife was complaining about the coffee and she told her husband to change it a couple of times. He was dutifully going backwards and forwards, and there was a definite childlike quality to the way he was trying to make his wife happy. She then proceeded to disagree with all the suggestions about what he was to do about something at work. I'm not going to lie – I felt embarrassed for him. Finally, she spent about 5 minutes adjusting his tie and picking lint from his lapel. That was the moment I felt a wave of embarrassment and had to avoid all eye contact!
I don't want this to sound as if this is a criticism of their relationship. Far from it, I just saw living and breathing a dynamic between two people that didn't seem appropriate for two grown adults. It was a great example of the 'drama triangle' in action. If you haven't come across this, please let me know and I'll send you the link to an earlier post.
When we take the role that the wife did, which is a one up position, it's a perspective where we subconsciously transmit that we know better, and the other person is somehow in capable. Even with positive intent, it encourages the other into a more helpless position and one where the other thinks, feels and acts in quite a childlike way i.e we comply or rebel!
So if you've ever said to yourself 'why do they act like children?', maybe just maybe part of the answer is that we are acting in a more parental way. The psychologists would say that healthy relationships are based on adult to adult interactions, where we communicate with the other in ways that invite discussion, dialogue and a sharing of responsibility.
Do you recognise any of this is any of your own relationships, be that work or personal?
STICK WITH IT – it might take quite a bit of effort, but work to keep the dialogue going. Don't be tempted to drop back to telling, no matter how frustrating!
Please let me know if this helps in any of your relationships. If you would like to work with me more intensively, to address an aspect of your own relationships, please drop me a message.


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Police arrest unvaccinated student who refused to wear a mask in class [VIDEO]
Carrying his arms and legs, an unvaccinated student from Western University in Canada was arrested by police for refusing to wear a mask on campus. The young man was intervened by the authorities in the middle of class and in the presence of his classmates.
In the viralized video on social networks it is possible to see Harry wade, 22, being escorted by the agents for refusing to respect the regulations of the educational institution in order to avoid the increase in COVID-19 infections.
According to the house of studies, teachers, students and visitors are obliged to show proof of vaccination that proves that they have been immunized with the two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
For individuals with an approved exemption, they will need to undergo a COVID-19 test twice a week. According to the institution, 28 students have been expelled so far for breaking the rules.
"While we cannot discuss individual cases due to privacy legislation, we can say that individuals who violate Western's vaccination policy may be expelled from campus and may face other disciplinary action," a university spokesperson said.
In Wade's case, this would be the second time that he has been forced to withdraw from classes for failing to comply with the health measures against COVID-19. The first occurred on November 11 when the officers told him that he was invading the campus.
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East Side Mags is a proud community sponsor and we're super happy to support Planned Parenthood - a rad organization that provides much needed medical attention to the communities that they serve!
A ton of creators (some we know, some we hope to meet soon) have come together and put an anthology together called Mine! in support of Planned Parenthood with profits going to support the organization. We were quick to jump on the Kickstarter when we saw it and now we're buying additional copies so we can bring you a handful of the amazing minds that contributed to this much-required reading material!
Hang out with Dave Kelly (So What Press), Matt Miner (Gwar Orgasmageddon, Toe Tag Riot), Liana Kangas (Independent comic artist and contributor) and Fabian Lelay (Jade Street Protection Services) and Jude Vigants (Independent artist and contributor).
Join us from 1pm-6pm on Saturday, January 27th! Writers and artists will be signing copies of the book that we'll have for sale and artists will be sketching for customers too! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind, East Side Mags event!


I honestly love Trader Joe's because they have unique items that you can't find at your typical grocery store. I shared a few of my favorite items on Instagram and received some DMs asking for more recommendations, so I put together a list of my current "must-have" items.
1. Cauliflower Gnocchi– I feel like everyone is talking about TJ's cauliflower gnocchi right now but it really is as amazing as people say! I cooked mine in a saucepan with water over the stove and added olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, cheese and asparagus. I can't say enough good things about it!
2. Shells with Brie and Asparagus– Trader Joe's frozen meals are always a win for me. I like to try new ones every so often because they're usually delicious and good if you're on the go. Other than TJ's, I rarely buy frozen meals at the grocery store.
3. Riced Vegetable Medley- This is a really great side dish that is quick and easy (just add a little EVOO and seasoning if you like).
4. Blueberry Lavender Almond Beverage– This beverage tastes exactly like a blueberry muffin and I'm here for it. I use this flavored almond milk in my coffee, hot chocolate, and event tea lattes. I haven't tried it yet, but I want to use it in a blueberry muffin recipe.
Head to Trader Joe's to check out these products for yourself. Let me know your recommendations below!