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Breaking Down the Numbers of Americans' Drinking Habits
A century after Prohibition, we uncork a history of the nation's shifting relationship with booze
Ted Scheinman; Data analysis by Matthew Browne
New Yorkers celebrate the end of Prohibition in 1933. Imagno / Getty Images
Mark Twain wrote a column in July of 1867 bemoaning the "compulsory temperance" movement then gaining ground in Massachusetts: "Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it." The federal government would test that proposition starting 100 years ago in January. Perhaps surprisingly, historians still debate whether the 18th Amendment really improved public health. Some note that drinking fell during the nearly 14 years of Prohibition; others say it just gave folks a thirst for hard liquor, which was readily bootlegged. In any case, alcohol consumption is higher today than it was in 1919.
Graphic by Eritrea Dorcely; Information from Gary B. Wilcox, et al., Int'l Journal of Advertising
Graphic by Eritrea Dorcely; Information from Gallup
Graphic by Eritrea Dorcely; Information from National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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Ted Scheinman is a senior editor for Smithsonian magazine. He is the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan.
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Dancation International; It's Salsa 4Life!!
Dancation International currently defines itself as Ghana's leading Social Dance Training and Events Management Outfit. We were the organisers of Ghana's First ever national salsa competition back in February 2003 which saw the emergence of some of Ghana's most talented Latin dancers who in turn have gone on to become gurus in their own rights. Past trainees have actively spread the Latin Fever beyond the shores of Ghana through the establishing of clubs in countries as close by as Nigeria, Liberia and South Africa and as far away as the UK, the US and China.
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Governor General of Canada
Canada Innovation Space
New Frontiers in Lung Transplant Medicine
Nominated by:
University Health Network
The Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) System developed by Dr. Keshavjee addressed the shortage of donor lungs needed for life-saving lung transplantation. Transplant surgeons can now objectively assess donor lung function outside of the body for extended periods and then confidently decide whether to use a donor lung for transplant. Since the first clinical trial in 2008, EVLP has been adopted around the world, saving hundreds of lives of patients with end-stage lung disease.
About the Innovator
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee is a world-renowned thoracic surgeon and the Surgeon-in-Chief, Sprott Department of Surgery at University Health Network in Toronto. He is also the Director of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program and the Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories—the largest lung transplant research centre in the world. Dr. Keshavjee completed his medical training at the University of Toronto in 1985 and subsequently trained in the University's Divisions of General Surgery, Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery. He then undertook fellowship training at Harvard University and the University of London. Early in his career, Dr. Keshavjee developed a formulation for preserving donor lungs to improve lung function after transplantation that has since become the gold standard worldwide. Dr. Keshavjee further attracted worldwide attention for his pioneering research to recondition and repair injured donor lungs by way of his development of the Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion System. This research has made injured lungs suitable for clinical use and significantly increased the number of available donor lungs for transplant. Dr. Keshavjee has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and the Canadian Society of Transplantation. He currently serves as the President-Elect of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. In 2014, Dr. Keshavjee was named an Officer of the Order of Canada—the country's highest civilian honour recognizing outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation—for his work in saving the lives of end-stage lung disease patients. The Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) System Dr. Shaf Keshavjee MD MSc FRCSC FACS, - New Frontiers in Lung Transplant Medicine Surgeon-in-Chief, Sprott Surgery, UHN James Wallace McCutcheon Chair in Surgery Director, Toronto Lung Transplant Program Director, Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery & Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Vice Chair Innovation, Department of Surgery University of Toronto.
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee MD MSc FRCSC FACS
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Perhaps we cannot know the reason for the universe, if there is any. But is it even possible for the universe to have a reason? If yes, how would natural regularities and rules compare with some kind of goal or God?


A Fort Kent Police Department cruiser is seen in this BDN file photo.
Five teenagers were involved in a single-vehicle crash that destroyed the car they were in on Wednesday afternoon.
All of the teens escaped with only minor injuries, according to Fort Kent police Chief Tom Pelletier, who responded to the crash with another officer.
He said the crash happened just before 5 p.m. near Thibeault Flats on the Frenchville Road.
Members of the Fort Kent Fire Department and Ambulance Service assisted at the scene.
Pelletier said more information will be made available Thursday once the officers have completed their investigation into the crash.
Twins Service Station of Fort Kent towed the vehicle from the scene.


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Q: How to calculate fall velocity of an object in Openmodelica I'm developing a simulation of a swarm of drones in OpenModelica. The problem is that a lot of scenary can happen in the simulation, and two of the most common are

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*battery at 0%

*collision with other objects.

In both cases, i want the drone to fall, until it reaches the floor, which in my simulation is equal to z = 0, and it won't change its position.
I don't know how to do it because my code calculate velocity with derivative functions, here is an example of how my code works:
block drone
if(battery[i] <= 0 or droneDead)
       Trustx := (tmpFx/K.m);
       Trusty := (tmpFy/K.m);
       Trustz := (tmpFz/K.m);
else
        Trustx := if(z > 5) then -(K.m * K.g) else 0;
        Trusty := if(z > 5) then -(K.m * K.g) else 0;
        Trustz := if(z > 5) then -(K.m * K.g) else 0;
end if;
equation
        der(Vx) = Trustx;
        der(Vy) = Trusty;
        der(Vz) = Trustz;

        der(x) = Vx;
        der(y) = Vy;
        der(z) = Vz;
end drone;

If this example is not explaing the question or is not good to read, i will edit it soon or i will link the .mo file

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Editor's Note: This post is a good reminder to ensure you take good before, during and after photos as you implement projects! Case studies like this become an awesome portfolio for yourselves, and help people to see the practical potential in permaculture. It can be totally inspiring, and help get people moving on the ground!
This is a story about a garden that Nadia and I were asked to establish in 2006. It's a very small space – the area is 95m2. A friend of a friend asked if we could get involved to help to design and implement a garden. Nadia had only recently arrived in Australia and I wanted her and I to put a garden in together as a 'start to finish' job so she could get a feel for how we establish small space gardens in Australia, as she already had experience in small space gardening in Jordan.
The area on the North side of Noela's house.
Noela, a friend of a friend at the time, is now a very close friend of the institute, due to the community friendship that this garden has created. On the north side of the house is the driveway, which is the south boundary of the garden space. The first thing we had to do was to define the area required and then fence that area. A fence was only needed on three sides of the garden because it joined the house on the south side allowing sun into the garden from the northern side. This created a typically 'Zone 1' urban garden design. The house was on an excavated site, slightly lower than the rest of the landscape, which allowed for an eye level view into the garden from three windows of the house – the kitchen, the lounge room and bedroom.
Next to the house was a rockery, which was already established in ornamental plants and our intention was to convert that over to a herb garden with useful culinary and medicinal herbs and nice scented herbal plants that would give a nice aroma as the breeze would blow through the house from the garden.
and digging the trench between the posts.
This trench was dug so that we could sink the wire underneath the ground so it completely excludes any wildlife that might dig under the fence. In this part of Australia, as in many other climates and landscapes, there are all kinds of animals that would like to get in and eat your garden. We have bandicoots, wallabies and kangaroos, to name a few, so to avoid these animals identifying your garden as a food source, it is worth making sure that it is well secured from the outset to avoid problems later on.
Tip: For especially troublesome animals, like rabbits, you can bend the wire at bottom outwards for several inches – if you dig a wider trench – then cover with soil. The rabbits will try to dig under, but will get discouraged to continue when they discover they're hitting a floor of wire.
A low height of wire being sunk down into the trench so that it can be buried.
Also in the photo above you can see that we're starting to shape the garden beds with a 'reach factor' for a completely functional food garden. There are 'single and 'double reach' garden beds (double reach = you can reach to the centre from each side). All garden beds and footpaths are on contour, completely level across the slope, and the soil for the garden beds is literally dug out of the footpaths, which gives the garden a slightly raised bed form and extra topsoil depth to grow your plants in. This is the beginning of the terra forming (earth shaping) of the garden.
The shot above shows the newspaper we put down either side of the wire before backfilling so that there is no soil between the newspaper (no soil contacting the wire). This creates an absolute soil cover and weed exclusion zone which means you don't get any weeds growing against the fence of your garden for the first few months, allowing you enough time to establish useful and beneficial plants which will completely dominate that space. The newspaper simply gives you more time to get on with gardening, and the carbon in the paper enriches the soil as it breaks down.
some compost to inoculate the soil with beneficial organisms.
We've now added a thin layer of straw mulch on top of that plus we've put in a worm farm for Noela (pictured further down this page), half filled with donkey manure and the rest with green leaves and vegetable scraps. Every 3 months we can empty the farm of worm castings by attracting the worms to one end with some lush fruit and veg scraps, pulling them all out 2 days later, taking out the castings and then re-filling it with manure and the worms with fruit scraps.
On each garden bed we've put one bale of straw to 25-30m2 of growing bed – a very thin layer of straw, loosely fluffed, as a scatter mulch. Into this we've sowed a cover crop seed of a vetch, a field pea, and lupin scattered into the straw mulch. As this was winter on the subtropical east coast of Australia, we use the same cover crop as you use in summer in a temperate climate. Before we put the seed down we mixed an inoculant into the seed mix, which is a bacteria suspended in peat with a natural glue. We mix this with some water into a black sticky paste and then stir through the seed, so the bacteria that is associated with those particular plants, are already attached to the seed. When the seeds go into the fluffy mulch water is added. It then quickly germinates and the bacteria adds nitrogen (that is available through the air in the soil) to the plants and the bacteria gets starch from the plant through photosynthesis.
We sow the cover crop seeds 4 times thicker than agriculturally recommended so that we completely dominate the planting area and useful plants take up the potential weed space. The interactions in the soil from the root exudates, not only from their rhizomes, but the plethora of diversity that's added in the scattering of compost is quickly added to the soil and the organisms start to work with the organic matter and produce soluble plant food.
As you can see, we're mulching the footpaths with paper and cardboard, quite thickly, then we're covering it with gravel and fine crushed gravel dust thereby making a footpath that's quite quick and easy and is absolutely weed free for the first few months, whilst we get the garden established. We're doing the opposite to most people in this case by then putting into the footpath some low ground cover plants that can handle light foot traffic, for example Pennyroyal, which also lets off quite a strong smell that is very distracting to any potential pests coming through the garden.
Within 6 weeks you can see that the garden is completely dressed in a cover crop. There are actually vegetables already growing underneath that, which were planted on the day of sowing the cover crop. All Noela has to do is take her kitchen scissors and trim the cover crops if they are overpowering and overshading the vegetables, which in turn becomes the initial fertilising mulch to our seedlings. She also needed to set off a little irrigation timer, purchased from a local farm supply store, to start up the two moveable low pressure sprinklers for just half an hour every day to wet down the garden.
After 2 or 3 months the garden starts to show more vegetables and less cover crop as Noela starts to go to work with her kitchen scissors, freeing the cover crop away from the vegetables as they start to emerge. You can see the edge of the rockery, which we've started to convert from an ornamental to a herb rockery.
Views from the house into the garden.
more straw on top, ready for more seedlings for the next season of cropping.
The garden is coming through quite well in the next cropping stage.
View of the rockery, covering up with herbs quite well.
Perennial plants growing well, rosemary in corner of garden.
The herb rockery is now almost maintenance free, with coloured and scented plants and different forms and patterns of distractions to pests, along with lizard rockeries, birdbaths and ponds, thus favouring predators within the system. No chemicals are being used, only natural fertilisers – very little mulch, manure and compost is required, mainly only worm castings every 3 months.
Noela is now almost completely self-sufficient with fresh food for her vegetarian diet. She picks fresh food out of her garden every day, and all she has to do is look out of her own house windows every day to decide what she's going to eat – as it is right there in front of her. It is so easy to manage and it allows her time to relax in her garden, spend time planting more trees and getting other fruit and orchard systems and ornamental aesthetic gardens established. Surplus food is given away to her family and friends.
This is an example to show that not a lot of space is needed to grow your own food, you can do it very easily as long as you keep it close to your house and follow the basic patterns of establishment so that you avoid most problems.
Noela's donkeys creating manure for the garden.
The garden now 4 years old.
The birdbath to attract birds, i.e. favouring predators.
The established 4 year old garden.
The tap timer that controls the irrigation.
The low pressure sprinkler head.
the garden and worm farms.
worm juice – which is part of the fertilising process.
View of the worm farms with the donkey stables behind.
Noela's deep litter chook yard, which adds some fertility to the garden.
take out any pest larvae, and manure it.
Fantastic garden. Just wondering where i can get the 7year bean? sounds like its a perennial, and looks quite tough, almost weed-like. The sort of indestructible thing i want to eat and use as mulch.
Thank you! Now we just have to integrate permaculture design systems with Christopher Alexander's organic design theory (because permaculture is in its core organic), and we can design our way back to the Garden of Eden.
Thanks for sharing such a nice pictures,,….
Wauw, fantastic ! What an inspiration !
Øyvind Holmstad: check out "Edible Forest Gardens" by Dave Jackie (https://www.edibleforestgardens.com); it actually provides a pattern language for permaculture design.
A superbly illustrated article, which to a beginner in permaculture like me, shows how well the principles and practices work. The garden is an inspiration!
This is awesome! This really shows what is capable for most people to achieve, and inspires me to take the next step in my back garden. Thanks very much.
This is soooooooooo helpful. We are moving to Haiti in less than two weeks. I really wanted to see a good step-by-step simple garden how to before we leave, and this was exactly it. Thank you for sharing!
Great garden, but for a small space there's too much area taken up by paths. A mandala garden of keyholes would maximize planting area in relation to path area.
I hope some on can answer this!
What is the cover crop used in this garden?
Is there a book that explains how to do this garden with a plot or design so one can get started WITHOUT leaning the entire philosophy of permaculture?
Live in harrietville at base of mt hotham, cool climate.
does anyone have a trusted source for seed inoculant within australia?
Thank you for sharing the pictures. I learned from there a lot. I just wonder if the area is really just 98 m2. How about the area used for the livestock and vermiworms plus that of the vegetable area?
May I know the actual area covered please.
That was superb. I learned so much. I will happily pass this on. Thank you and thanks to Cassidy Fry who worked on that garden and shared this story with me.
This is not a great example of a small food forest. It is pretty big.


Local MP Jo Swinson is urging the SNP to reflect on their position in Scotland after yesterday's announcement by the UK government that it will extend free childcare to 20 percent of two year olds.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that 130,000 two-year-olds from some of the poorest families will be eligible for free childcare in England and this will extend to 40 percent of two-year-olds by next September.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have consistently called on the SNP to adopt costed and reasonable proposals to extend childcare to 40 percent of two year olds beginning with those from poorer backgrounds. Last month Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP held a summit in the Scottish Parliament on nursery education in Scotland. The summit brought together over thirty experts in early education policy to discuss what needs to be done to boost the support offered to children and families in Scotland.
"As of today, 130,000 two-year-olds from some of the poorest families will benefit from this policy in England with the number of two-year-olds set to benefit rising to 260,000 next year. This means 40 per cent of two-year-olds will be eligible for free childcare in England by next September however in Scotland the SNP's policy on free nursery care will benefit only 1 percent of two-year-olds. I am concerned that this gap in provision could lock in a gap in attainment.
"The SNP need to match free childcare provision with what's available south of the border. It is surely imperative that Scotland's two-year-olds are not left behind.


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Q: Changing partial views in the same view based on menu I am creating a website of static pages in MVC5. I want to update the "content" div on the right side , based on the menu item clicked which is on the left side of the page without refreshing the whole page. I have used one partial view for the menu part and for each item in menu , I have created partial views .

A: You could use something like this where 'yourMenuItem', 'partialUrl' and 'rightPanel' refer to the menu option to be clicked, the URL of partial returning the content and the target div where content is to be inserted:
$('#yourMenuItem').on('click', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    event.stopPropagation();
    $.get("/partialUrl", function(data) {
        $("#rightPanel").replaceWith(data);
    });
});

You should probably use @(Url.Action("Action", "Controller")) to derive the partial URL.


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Terry Gilliam Interview
He is the Monty Python animator turned director famed for his creative genius and unique vision, but making films is still a struggle for Terry Gilliam.
"You'll be sure and tell me if I'm talking too quickly," Terry Gilliam says, a grin poking through his lumberjack's beard as he flops onto an enormous couch in the Merrion Hotel. "I've been told I talk very quickly. My films are the same. Sometimes, I worry that it all goes too fast on screen and that there's a lot of stuff going on that people miss." I tap my tablet device and reply that I am equipped to capture whatever he says, at whatever speed he prefers. "A computer", he snorts, "I'm no Luddite but you can't put your trust in computers."
Gilliam does talk pretty fast, as it happens, but then he has a lot of ground to cover. At 73, the director, animator, writer and member of the recently-reunited Monty Python comedy troupe shows no sign of slowing down. He's in town to present his new science-fiction think-piece The Zero Theorem at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and pick up one of the festival's Volta awards, in recognition of his long and unique career. "It's an honour to get any kind of award, especially one bestowed by a great festival in this fantastic city," Gilliam says in a modest gush, "but I'll be perfectly honest, it's even better to be here with a film to show."
Things haven't been easy for Gilliam recently. The Zero Theorem is his first film since The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in 2009, a production almost derailed by the tragic death of his lead actor Heath Ledger half way through filming. At the time of its successful release, Gilliam was quoted as saying he didn't foresee himself making another feature. "I used to think I could will films into existence," he says of that time, "I don't think that anymore." Since then, he has made a couple of short films "from stories that turned me on," directed the English National Opera's production of Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust in 2011 and watched a series of projects burn to a crisp in development hell; including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel Good Omens, an adaptation of Mr. Vertigo, co-written with novelist Paul Auster from his book, and The Defective Detective, a surreal crime caper written with Richard LaGravenese, who scripted Oscar-winning The Fisher King for him in 1990. As we sit over steaming tea cups, watching the furious February rain beat off the windows, Gilliam shrugs his shoulders. "Hollywood", he says with an exaggerated sigh, "is the least imaginative place on Earth."
Little wonder, then, that for his new film, Gilliam stayed as far away from Hollywood as possible. Made for $10 million ("the least amount of money I've had since Time Bandits in 1981") and filmed over the course of a month in Budapest, once it started to happen, The Zero Theorem happened very rapidly. He admits that getting to that point was, in typical Gilliam fashion, something of a complicated process. "The script from first-time screenwriter Pat Rushin came bouncing my way about five years ago. When I read it, I liked that it was full of thoughts and ideas. It seemed to ask questions about the modern world and how we communicate with one another. But I went off and made Dr Parnassus and Zero Theorem floated away, as things sometimes do. The story was always at the back of my mind, though. I keep scraps of notes in a drawer in my desk and I found a bundle of them were about Zero Theorem. Most of all, I liked the characters. I felt they were people I would like to spend some time with, so when the chance came around again in 2012, I took it."
Ask Gilliam to describe the finished film and he winces. "I've never been good at synopsis and sound bites. I can't tell you what I do, I just do it." Ask him what the film is all about and he laughs. "I don't have the answer to that question. That's why I make movies. I hope The Zero Theorem contains some answers but at the same time, I'm always looking to ask more questions that I answer. Otherwise, what's the point?" The film focuses on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a brilliant and reclusive computer hacker in the near future, who works as a programmer for an Orwellian corporation called Mancom. Always referring to himself as "we", Qohen lives in a derelict church, waiting for a phone call that will deliver him from his unbearable life. When Mancom's mysterious 'Management' (played by Matt Damon) charges him with cracking the Zero Theorem, a digital equation that could provide the meaning of life, Qohen sets to work. As he attempts this impossible task, Qohen is visited by the seductive muse Bainsley (Melanie Thierry) and computer prodigy Bob (Lucas Hedges), who disrupt his micro-managed existence, forcing him out into the wider world when all he wants is to be left alone.
Even with the budget restrictions and short production time, Zero Theorem takes place in a distinctly Terry Gilliam world, with inventive production design, complicated, hand-built props and outrageous costumes. The director says that making the film "look the way I want it to under financial and time challenges" was an enormous task. "But in a funny way, finding clever and inventive ways to overcome the difficulties was the most exciting part of the whole process. I got my team together and said, just jump in there and do it. Everything we were doing was reflexive, responsive and intuitive. We were putting it down on paper, then BANG! it was done." To illustrate the point, he tells me about the challenge of creating futuristic costumes for crowd scenes with very little money. "My costume guy found these huge bales of incredibly cheap and ugly Chinese fabrics spewed out of some factory in the middle of nowhere, carpets and shower curtains basically, and turned them into clothes. Incredibly sweaty, uncomfortable clothes that looked amazing on camera and fit the world we were making." Gilliam says he wanted to create a colourful, happy place where the people were always smiling. "Grinning like fools, for no apparent reason. It's buzzing with life. The people are zipping around in their electric cars in their plastic clothes, listening to optimistic pop music, constantly staring into their phones, buying into whatever it is that Mancom asks them to buy into. There's only one guy that's miserable."
Funny and bleak in equal measure, the film can be read as a biting critique of corporate culture and a satire on internet culture. Gilliam says his hero is "thinking not shopping, trying to make connections and ask questions. You'll see it in the endless billboards and advertisements: 'Don't Ask, Multi-task!' and 'Occupy Mall Street.' Qohen only does what he's told so the system will leave him alone. This is a damaged guy but he's got something that the corporation wants – he can form connections, he can use logic and intelligence to figure things out – he has skills that this future society has allowed to atrophy." There is a clear line between Zero Theorem and Brazil, the sci-fi comedy that made Gilliam's name, released in 1984. "When I made Brazil, I was telling a story about the world as I saw it then. This film is a glimpse of the world we are living in now. Brazil was about the misery of bureaucracy and the manufactured fear of terrorism and war that politicians use to control the people. This film is more about the connectivity the internet allows us to have and whether it is possible to separate yourself from it. They are both dystopias, but Zero Theorem is about a private hell. It's about finding solitude in a connected world. How do you know who you are if you're tweeting and twitching all the time about nothing in particular? People have a terrible fear of aloneness now. The internet fills that gap but the side-effect is that nobody wants to spend time with themselves anymore."
Is The Zero Theorem a warning? Gilliam shakes his head, reluctant to stand on a soapbox. "It's a statement of concern more than a warning. I don't have the solution to any of these problems but I wanted to find a way in which to frame the question. What about the sex suit that connects Qohen and Bainsley in the story? That's very nearly a reality. Can you imagine the profits that are coming to the guy who invents a working internet sex suit? Every lonely guy and girl in the world is going to want one and they'll never turn them off again – at least not for long enough to go outside and find one another and have sex in the real world. Why would any of us ever leave the house again? This is what I'm saying in the film. We think we're connected but we're not really. As people, we are in fact entirely disconnected. We think we're part of this endless stream of information but it's not making us any smarter and maybe it's doing the opposite."
The internet can affect positive change too, Gilliam readily admits. It was an on-line campaign that finally brought the Monty Python gang together again for a series of live dates in London in July. He says he's not really looking forward to it. "I'm too busy to think about it, but I suppose it will be fun. It's always fun. We sold out opening night, something like 17,000 tickets, in 40 seconds." He expresses amazement that anyone would care, saying that the Pythons can hardly believe that they are still relevant. "It's not about reminiscing, or at least it's not all about reminiscing. We never thought that anyone would care forty years later, never mind quote the sketches back at us. The way Terry Jones put it to me is that the establishment we were poking fun at in the 60s are still there, even though they've done their best to destroy themselves in the meantime. We'll do what we can to help them achieve that."
Then, Gilliam says, it will be time to focus on the project that has haunted him for more than a decade. "Ah yes, Don Quixote." His version of Miguel Cervantes' 500 year-old novel was half-way through filming in 1998 when a series of misfortunes caused it to be abandoned. There was an injury to his lead actor, a disastrous flash flood that washed away his set and NATO fighter-jet manoeuvres roaring overhead, a disaster chronicled in the entertaining not-quite-making-of documentary Lost in La Mancha. "You say entertaining, I'd use a different word entirely," Gilliam interrupts with a rueful grin, "but I'm still tilting at those windmills. I haven't given up. It's an obsession, a desperate, pathetic, foolish delusion of a film." With some long-overdue luck, Gilliam says he'll start shooting the film, entitled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, on the island of Fuerteventura in the Canaries later this year. "Eleventh time is the charm, right? If everything goes according to plan, we'll shoot in October. He says the film has changed considerably over the years, "becoming more and more autobiographical, and better too, each time, I think. Certainly it'll be a smaller film, more modestly appointed. I must cut my cloth according to my measure nowadays," puffing up his chest and adding a wry aside that my microphone barely picks up; "cheaper cloth too."


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Softcover. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring American sculpture of the 1960s. 258 pages with 10 critical essays, also includes bibliography and glossary of terms. 36 color plates and numerous other black/white plates. Very good condition, some edge wear and rubbing to the covers. Previous owner's name, date, and location written in pencil inside the cover.


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Luxottica Buys Versace Eye Firm
MILAN — Versace eyewear has a new home.
Confirming a report in these columns, Luxottica Group SpA has acquired IC Optics, the firm that produces Versace eyewear, and has inked a licensing deal to produce and distribute the Versace, Versus...
Confirming a report in these columns, Luxottica Group SpA has acquired IC Optics, the firm that produces Versace eyewear, and has inked a licensing deal to produce and distribute the Versace, Versus and Versace Sport eyewear lines for the next 10 years.
"Our eyewear was always beautiful but we just hadn't developed the collection enough," chief executive Donatella Versace told WWD.
Luxottica bought IC Optics, which was equally controlled by Versace and the toy manufacturer, Italocremona, for an undisclosed sum. Luxottica said the amount of the transaction was immaterial.
Versace said the sunglasses and prescription eyewear will still have a strong fashion-related component but will appeal to a wider customer base.
"They will be more wearable in a way," the designer said. "I think that Luxottica is the company best placed to make eyewear for people who aren't just wearing it as a fashion item."
Luxottica, which has been looking for ways to compensate for the loss of its Giorgio Armani eyewear licenses late last year, said it expects the three Versace lines to generate sales of about $95 million in the first 12 months of the contract. The pact is renewable for an additional 10 years. Dollar figures have been converted at current exchange rates.
The new collections will be launched in March of this year.
Luxottica, which issued a profit warning in November after Armani terminated his licenses with the group, said the deal should boost its 2003 earnings per share to 77 cents from an original forecast of 75 cents, assuming euro-dollar parity.
"Our plans for growth are not complete with this transaction," Luxottica chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio said in a statement. "In fact, we are currently evaluating additional alternatives both on the retail and wholesale front."


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Your Dream Vacation for $1,000 or Less: A Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip
What's your dream vacation? Glamour asked 1,000 women that question—and then had 13 top travel bloggers plan your most-wanted trips, all for under $1,000! This week, we present everything you need to know about planning your best getaway ever. The first stop: California
Jessica Wray/Curiositytravels.org
Forty percent of you say your idea of the perfect vacation is a road trip. And it doesn't get any better than this ocean-hugging drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles—think endless Pacific views, towering redwood forests, and pods of migrating whales.
HOW TO GET THERE: Brooke Saward of worldofwanderlust.com recommends starting in San Fran: "That way you'll be driving along the cliff edge. It's a long way down, but that's the adrenaline rush of the trip!" If you're renting a car, book it one way between the San Francisco and L.A. airports from lesser-known companies like Sixt, says Jessica Wray of curiositytravels.org: "You'll avoid the drop-off fee—and get huge daily savings."
WHERE TO SLEEP: In Big Sur, a rugged stretch of coast three hours south of San Francisco, "book the Human Nest at Treebones Resort [$150], which is exactly what it sounds like: an open-air wooden structure high in the sky with a killer view of the Pacific," says Christina Pérez of insideelsewhere.com. "I love Santa Barbara, but the town of Goleta, 15 minutes away, is even cooler. Stay at the Goodland [from $167], a surf-inspired boutique hotel with morning yoga, DJs by the pool, and paddleboard tours."
WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK: "Load up at roadside produce stands for picnic lunches on the beach and at lookout points," says Saward. Or watch the crashing waves from the patio at Moss Beach Distillery, 45 minutes south of San Fran. "In Carmel-by-the-Sea, pop into the Mediterranean-esque Dametra Café, for sure my favorite stop on the trip." Lucy Laucht of theseforeignlands.com recommends Big Sur Bakery ("heavenly for morning coffee and a glazed donut"). In San Luis Obispo, Wray suggests a day exploring the vineyards. (Leave the driving to Wine Wrangler wine tours.)
WHAT TO DO: "Go kayaking in Moss Landing to see humpback whales, sea otters, and seals," says Wray. Adds Laucht: "In Big Sur take a short hike to McWay Falls, an 80-foot waterfall that splashes right onto the beach." En route to Santa Barbara, tour Hearst Castle (the inspiration for Citizen Kane's Xanadu), and climb the dunes at Pismo Beach. "And definitely stop in Ojai, 45 minutes south of Santa Barbara," says Pérez. "It's a mystical little town with a ton of intriguing shops, cafés, and galleries." Wrap up your trip with a wildlife cruise through the Channel Islands ($38 from Ventura).
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Gary and Nathan continue their conversation about leadership lessons from sports. They reflected on John Wooden's leadership style with the historic UCLA Bruins basketball team a generation ago. Wooden modeled a tough and demanding style of leadership that was generally positive in tone and sparse in content. He focused on formative feedback about progress instead of excessive and premature orientation to outcomes. His interventions and commentary were succinct and occasional, and thus salient, instead of constant background noise that the nervous system naturally tends to tune out.
Gary related this to his work for the U.S. Army on good training for situations that require adaptability. That work revealed the importance of the experience of events on the order of tens of seconds to tens of minutes. He pointed out that these micro-experiences can be observed rigorously. An important class of micro-experiences is the participation of individuals in dialog during an event that requires teamwork, collective situation assessment and response planning, and adaptation in stride. Such events even can be measured with body-mounted sensors such as sociometric badges. As with work in education and sport psychology in the 1970s, a common theme is the balance of individual initiative and accountability in the salient social context of a team and a values-based organization.
Gary and Nathan re-emphasized that management style is context dependent. It is valuable, for example, when leaders guide subordinates to develop a balance of initiative and accountability. This can be an advantage with professional athletes who can use their exceptional subject matter expertise to adapt to changing or ambiguous situations with maturity of selfless team play and dominate teams with less maturity. Nathan and Gary talked about the thirteen-time NBA champion, Phil Jackson, as an example. From the perspective of science, it is noteworthy that one can observe on the scale of micro-experiences what makes Jackson's leadership work when it is in play.
Gary and Nathan address practical constraints in sporting events and in the classroom. They discussed the role of maturity and self-efficacy of learners as well as transparency and consistency of teachers. They also addressed ostensibly difficult issues such as class size and student-to-teacher ratio. With regard to the latter, they talked about the critical role of students as de facto teaching assistants who rise to the occasion of leadership without authority. These opportunities for decentralized teaching are pervasive and relatively easy to manage at the level of micro-experiences. Formal roles are not required, and they need not persist beyond the moment.
Learning with and through peers is vastly more important than ameliorating high student-to-teacher ratios. In many situations, it provides experience with the type of learning that continues to occur outside of formal learning events. Arguably nothing is more important than learning to learn on the job and to learn from others during performance on the job. It helps one develop the skill of contributing to collective intelligence and benefiting from it. It helps individuals and teams apply learning and learn applications.
A collaborative environment for learning also provides a way to recognize one's own assumptions and deal with uncertainty. Others can cover one's back as it were. The sense that others are coping with uncertainty and providing a more complete set of perspectives on a situation helps reduce the anxiety that almost always attends uncertainty, especially in extremis. Reduction of anxiety can be transformational insofar as anxiety is a distraction that tends to reduce one's observational acuity. Others thus can help one be more connected with a situation by being a better observer and a better learner. Individual adaptability and collective agility follow.
Kolditz, T. A. (2010). In extremis leadership: Leading as if your life depended on it (Vol. 107). John Wiley & Sons.


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When she died of Covid-19 on Oct. 6, Elvia Ramirez was only 17 and had started her senior year at Parshall High School on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She had intended to marry her long-term boyfriend and had hopes of attending college. She had promised to take some of her younger siblings to Disneyland one day.
Elvia Rose Ramirez was born on Feb. 3, 2003, in Grand Forks, N.D., the third of nine children. Her family was part of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Her father, Elias Ramirez, grew up as a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Phoenix; Elvia, who was extremely proud of her heritage, became a member of that tribe. She struggled with asthma and high blood pressure but was a vivacious, active teenager who loved drawing anime characters and had dreams of becoming an artist and a "cat mom."
Always a curious, empathetic child, she helped raise her younger siblings, her mother said.
"She always thought of everybody else first," Ms. Three Irons said. "She was always there to cheer up her friends and volunteer to help out when people needed her."
Elvia Ramirez Dies at 17; Youngest Covid-19 Victim in North Dakota
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Is there a way to tell WCF Data Services on the client side to ignore this property? Or should I move to RIA Serivces? I've read that setting the property to internal will do this, but I need the property for binding and I have the client UI code in a different project (de-coupling my SL applications from my data service).
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Спартак — советский футбольный клуб из Воронежа. Основан в 1935 году. Последний раз упоминается в 1985 году.

Достижения
 В первой лиге — 13 место (в зональном турнире второй группы 1948 год).
 В кубке СССР — поражение во 2 круге зонального этапа (1938).

Известные игроки
 Шаповалов, Дмитрий Васильевич

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 Клуб в базе footballfacts
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Андрей Валерьевич Панов (23 марта 1960, Ленинград, СССР — 20 августа 1998, Санкт-Петербург, Россия, более известный как Свинья или Свин) — советский и российский рок-музыкант, основатель, лидер и вокалист панк-группы «Автоматические удовлетворители», пионеров жанра в Ленинграде и СССР.

Ранние годы
Андрей Панов родился 23 марта 1960 года в Ленинграде в семье артистов балета. Его отец Валерий Матвеевич Шульман (Панов) незадолго до окончания в 1957 году Хореографического училища женился на начинающей балерине Лии Петровне Пановой и вскоре взял её фамилию. В детстве мать часто брала Андрея с собой в театр на репетиции, где он, сидя за кулисами, по собственному выражению, «наблюдал почти голых женщин».

В 1965 году, после того как Валерий начал танцевать в Кировском театре, семья переехала с улицы Рубинштейна в большую квартиру на проспект Космонавтов.

В 1972 году из-за желания Валерия Панова уехать из страны семья распалась (Лия Петровна уезжать не хотела и, кроме того, не могла оставить больную маму). После отъезда отца у Андрея начались неприятности в школе. Кое-как доучившись восемь классов, он пошёл сначала в медицинский техникум, а потом в обычное медучилище. «Мне кажется, что именно там он начал пить, — вспоминала его мать, — в школе он вообще не пил, даже вина». Тогда же 16-летний Панов познакомился с 15-летним Евгением Юфитом, который годом позже, услышав по западному радио Sex Pistols, произнёс историческую фразу: «У них появились такие же идиоты, как и мы…».

Музыкальная карьера

Начало: 1977—1979
Увлечение музыкой началось с пластинок. Уйдя из училища, Андрей окончил курсы и стал работать продавцом в магазине звуковой аппаратуры, а каждые выходные проводить на пластиночном «толчке». Там он познакомился с первыми единомышленниками: Владимиром Дубровым — Вольдемаром, Игорем Покровским — Пиночетом и Игорем Гудковым — Монозубом (позже Панкер). Компания быстро росла, её главным идеологом был тогда Юфит.
Когда мы начали идиотничать, ещё не было никаких панков… Тогда мы все находились под влиянием Юфы. Никакие панки здесь вообще ни при чём — никакие Роттены, никакие ПИСТОЛЗЫ. Все это Юфины телеги… Вообще, это очень заразительный человек. Он может своим психозом заразить кого угодно. Все эти некрореализмы и прочее… Все эти чепцы, очёчки, все эти параллельные кины…
Потом, по воспоминаниям Пиночета, в продававшейся у нас французской коммунистической газете напечатали статью про новое молодежное движение — панков. «Там такие фотки были!!! Не подражать этому было фактически невозможно». Панов: «… И мы сразу завелись… А как-то показали, что они ещё булавками обвешиваются. Нам понравилось. Мы типа тоже меломаны, давай булавки… На улицах нас сначала никто не трогал. По той причине, что про панков не знали. Ну, идиоты и идиоты. Идиотами и были». Альбом Never Mind the Bollocks появился у Панова достаточно быстро, а перед этим у него уже были пластинки Stranglers, Damned и Iggy Pop. При этом любимым его коллективом ещё долгое время продолжал оставаться Chicago. Идею сделать группу предложил знавший к тому времени «Россиян» и Гребенщикова Монозуб: «Я просто поехал в пункт проката и взял в прокат две гитары и барабанную установку. Всё это припёр к Свинье. Притом за какие-то копейки. То есть такси, по-моему, стоило дороже, чем вот эта вот аппаратура». Играть, разумеется, никто ни на чём не умел, название поначалу было соответствующее «Х..».

Летом 1979 года Андрей Панов поступил в Театральный институт (примечательно, что в одном потоке с ним шли Николай Фоменко и Максим Леонидов). На деньги, полученные от отца, он сразу купил музыкальные инструменты (включая барабаны) и, оборудовав место для репетиций прямо у себя в комнате, с утра до вечера стал играть на электрогитаре. «Квартира Свина была нашим клубом, репетиционным помещением, студией звукозаписи, фонотекой — в общем, базой. Здесь мы отдыхали, обменивались новостями, пили, играли, пели, даже танцевали», — пишет познакомившийся ранее через Вольдемара с Пановым Алексей Рыбин. В свою очередь через него в компании появились Андрей Михайлов и Олег Валинский, втроём они играли в хард-роковой группе «Пилигрим». Другой группой, оказавшейся в компании Панова, была «Палата № 6» Максима Пашкова и Виктора Цоя. Как отмечает Рыбин, играли или хотели играть тогда все, причём делали это самозабвенно. Сам он ради «Пилигрима» даже бросил ВТУЗ, то же самое сделал Валинский. Цоя за прогулы исключили из художественного училища. Ради музыки же, не проучившись и семестра, бросил институт Панов

Личная жизнь
Официально был женат дважды. Оба брака были спонтанными и продлились недолго. После второго предпочёл «потерять» паспорт.

В 1988—1991 годах фактической женой Панова была бас-гитаристка группы «Ситуация» Ирина «Мява» Гокина, вскоре после начала отношений ставшая участницей «АУ».

С 1997 года фактическая жена — Ольга Король-Бородюк. За 5 недель до смерти Андрея у них родилась дочь, которую назвали Екатериной.

Смерть

Умер 20 августа 1998 года в Санкт-Петербурге после неудачной операции по поводу перитонита. Лия Петровна, мать Андрея, утверждала, что врачи его «просто убили», не проверив на аллергию перед общим наркозом. Поминки были организованы в тогда уже закрытом рок-клубе на Рубинштейна, 13, который специально открыли на один день.

Похоронен на кладбище Петербургского Крематория (2 колумбарий, 9 квадрат). Адрес: C.-Петербург, Шафировский проспект, 12.

Позже, 6 сентября 1998 года, в клубе «Полигон» прошёл концерт памяти Свина с участием известных панк-групп, все вырученные деньги от которого были переданы Ольге и новорождённой дочери.

Дискография

Студийные альбомы
С Алексеем Вишней
 Надристать! (1983)
С группой «Автоматические удовлетворители»
 Рейган — провокатор (1987)
 Шестисотый (1990)
 Тел.1979-1994. Претензии не принимаются (1995)
 Пейте с нами! (1995)
С группой «600»
 Песенники и пёсенники (1988)
С группой «Аркестр АУ»
 С особым цинизмом (1995)
С группой «Rock'n'Roll City» («ФАУ»)
 Праздник непослушания (1998)

Отражение в культуре

Музыка
Собранная Пановым в начале 80-х песня «Батька-атаман» (в оригинале «Комиссар») получилась настолько удачной, что впоследствии воспринималась как народная.

В 1981 году Майк написал для Свина песню «Я не знаю, зачем» («Бу-бу»), которую потом пытался ему неудачно продать за несколько бутылок сухого вина. Через два года Свинья всё же взял песню и, изменив строчку в припеве, записал её под названием «Надристать!».

В 1981 году Виктор Цой сочинил песню «Мои друзья». Строчка «Мой дом был пуст, теперь народу там полно» вдохновлена атмосферой в квартире Панова, в которой юный Виктор проводил много времени. В начале 1985 года на акустическом концерте в Москве Цой представил песню «Мама Анархия» как посвящённую Андрею Панову. В августе того же года, после рождения у Цоя сына Александра, они поругались и больше никогда не общались.

На концертах во время исполнения песни «Похороны панка» Михаил Горшенёв в числе «умерших рокеров» всегда упоминал Андрея Панова, а «Песенка пьяного деда» с альбома  Король и Шут «Жаль, нет ружья» 2002 года посвящена ему персонально.

На трибьют-концерте «День рождения Виктора Цоя» (2002) ведущий концерта, известный музыкальный критик Артемий Троицкий во вступительном слове отдаёт дань уважения Свину.

Свин упоминается в песне Константина Кинчева «Rock-n-roll», для записи которой в студии «Нашего радио» в 2006 году было приглашено множество исполнителей, в том числе и Антон Павлов (F.P.G.), которому досталась эта строчка.

Кинематограф
В фильме 1987 года «Взломщик» с Константином Кинчевым в главной роли Андрей Панов исполнил эпизодическую роль соседа Хохмача.

Андрею Панову посвящён документальный фильм «Сон Свина» (2010).

Телеканал «Дождь» в начале 2018 года снял документальный фильм о трех поколениях русских панков (от «Автоматических удовлетворителей» до «Порнофильмов») «НАТЕ!», одним из ключевых героев которого стал Андрей Панов.

Панов послужил прообразом Панка в художественном фильме Кирилла Серебренникова «Лето» о Цое и Науменко, вышедшем в 2018 году. Прототипа Свина в картине сыграл Александр Горчилин.

Книги
Значительная часть четвёртой главы автобиографической книги Дмитрия Спирина «Тупой панк-рок для интеллектуалов: "Четыре таракана" и "Тараканы!"» (2004) посвящена их знакомству со Свиньёй.

Свин стал одним из главных героев повести Алексея Рыбина «Кино с самого начала» (1991) — художественного изложения ранней биографии группы «Кино».

Статьи

Примечания

Выпускники Театра юношеского творчества
Музыканты группы «Автоматические удовлетворители»
Умершие от перитонита
Умершие от наркоза
Умершие в результате медицинской ошибки
Анархисты России


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Something that I hear from my friends and family members all the time is that they are scared of the stock market because they perceive it as too risky for them to put their hard-earned money into. They think that if they invest in stocks, the market is bound to go down and they will lose all their money. They wonder why they cannot keep their money in something like a government bond, GIC (guaranteed investment certificate) or high-interest savings account. The short answer is: inflation, which I find far scarier than investing in the markets.
Inflation in any country varies from year to year, but it is quite normal for it to be around two to three percent. These days, interest rates are at historically low rates and as you might have noticed, you basically get nothing keeping your money in a regular bank account. If inflation that year is two percent, you are in effect losing two percent on whatever money you have parked in a bank account. It is certainly not as "safe" as it appears to be since you are consistently losing money year after year after year as long as interest rates remain low and inflation rates are average or high.
Of course, you could get a slightly higher interest rate if you lock your money in for a certain period of time like in a GIC or bond; the greater the time you commit the money, the higher the interest rate. These days though, it is still pretty tough to beat inflation, even when locking your money in for terms as long as five or ten years. You also have an additional danger if you lock your money in for such a long period–interest rates are sure to rise in the next few years because they have nowhere to go but up and if you try to withdraw your money earlier, you will face all sorts of penalties. Do you really want to be holding onto something like a ten year GIC with a two percent interest rate when five years from now, the rates for high interest bank accounts have gone up to four percent? It is a pretty terrible situation to find yourself in.
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Management training vital to the success of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector
Cambridge Judge Business School's Executive MBA aims to furnish senior executives with the knowledge and skills they need to take up a leading role in their organisations
Stefan Scholtes
The Executive MBA (EMBA) at Cambridge Judge Business School aims to furnish senior executives with the knowledge and skills they need to take up a leading role in their organisations. And to an increasing degree, it's a programme that is finding favour with professionals in healthcare and the pharmaceutical sector.
Stefan Scholtes, the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management and a tutor on the EMBA, believes that the programme is ideal for top executives in these fields. Both sectors are going through a period of turbulent change, with old models of management proving inadequate for the realities of doing business in the 21st century. The EMBA fosters not just business knowledge but the adaptability and soft skills that are now proving essential to success.
More integration needed in health service delivery
In the case of healthcare, Scholtes identifies two particular issues that leaders are having to confront – integration and privatisation. On the former, he says: "A big challenge in health service delivery in hospitals and local healthcare systems is around integration of services. Given the increasing degree of specialisation in medicine, that's becoming more and more complicated: services have developed away from the patient."
Coordinating different expertise streams to achieve the best possible patient outcome requires the same leadership skills that are required at management level in any organisation, he believes. "You'll have an expert in 'a', an expert in 'b' and an expert in 'c'. What the patient needs is for all these experts to talk to each other, in a seamless process where everybody knows exactly what they're responsible for. That's the integration that needs to happen."
Private sector participation
The other interesting question relates to the role of the private sector in medical care. "That's difficult to handle," he says. "People have ideological stances. What is needed is for professionals to be able to judge when private-sector participation is sensible, and should be embraced because it can drive efficiencies, and where it is dangerous.
What is needed is for professionals to be able to judge when private-sector participation is sensible."
"As with integration, it's something you need to think very carefully about. And in order to get an understanding, you need a formal business education. You can't do these things on the back of an envelope."
Medical leadership
Ian Abbs
A current student on the EMBA is Ian Abbs, Medical Director of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He has held a broad range of senior clinical and management positions, and joined the trust in 1994 as a consultant renal physician.
He says: "There's a pretty good correlation between increasing levels of clinical engagement in leadership, and increasing the quality and performance of healthcare organisations. One of the problems, though, is that leadership is a bit of a broad term, and my own feeling is that we need to start to professionalise medical leadership.
"Many doctors have taken on increasing roles of responsibility and leadership but there's not been the concurrent development of a set of tools or requirements that might qualify that person for the job."
There's a pretty good correlation between increasing levels of clinical engagement in leadership, and increasing the quality and performance of healthcare organisations."
Abbs believes that an Executive MBA provides clinicians with the right skill set to bridge this gap – not just technical skills but "the self-awareness type of skills – the reflective thought – that doesn't always come with a course in how to understand the balance sheet."
He adds: "I think EMBA programmes are really powerful, and I chose Judge specifically not only because of the reputation of Cambridge, but for its good track record in delivery of technical and development skills – and its emphasis on reflective thought and management practice."
Drug approval process needs to change
It's a similar story with pharmaceuticals, according to Professor Scholtes. He says: "The pharma industry is equally well embedded in science and driven by professionals, and it's running against a brick wall. The reason is that despite an ever-increasing amount of money going into research, the number of drugs that come out has not been significantly affected. More and more drugs fall off the patent cliff and are not being replaced by new ones that come along."
Scholtes believes that the industry remains stuck in a mindset where all that mattered was getting regulatory approval – such as from the FDA in the United States – whereupon its development costs would be reimbursed sufficiently to pay for the failures of other drug projects. Today, with buyers seeking to cut costs and demanding ever-more stringent trial evidence, this simple model no longer reflects the reality.
"There's an enormous pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to get out of this simplistic mode of just engaging with the FDA to get a drug approved," he says. "You have to be far more savvy with your innovations in the industry now. You need to embrace the patient, the payer and the doctor, to embrace technology that goes beyond pure drug development – plus a lot of other variables that the pharma industry hasn't woken up to yet.
"Again, I would argue that an exposure of the leaders of the industry to formal management education – and particularly in an environment like Cambridge, where you have all these stakeholders present – provides the right impetus for progress in that industry."
Shaping scientists into business leaders
Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray would agree. Now Head of Biology at the AstraZeneca subsidiary MedImmune, she began studying on the EMBA in 2011. Previously, she was director of pharmacology at Promedior and a research scientist at Centocor (now Janssen Biotech).
She found the EMBA immediately applicable to her role at MedImmune. "More often than not, the course assignments relate directly to what you're working on," she says. "You look at your own company's business model, look at your own approach to innovation and your marketing angle, which I think is great.
"The EMBA give me a chance to learn the vocabulary and culture of business – which for me, as a specialised scientist, was key."
You look at your own company's business model, look at your own approach to innovation and your marketing angle, which I think is great."
In conclusion, Stefan Scholtes says: "When you look at these two sectors, the pharmaceutical industry and health-service delivery, both are dominated by professionals – scientists in the former case, doctors in the latter. And I think it's becoming increasingly difficult for people without a formal grounding in management to cope with the challenges."
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Timothy Fosu Mensah: Pogba and Bailly say goodbye to departing Man United star
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- Timothy Fosu Mensah failed to make an impact during his six-year stay at Man United
- Mensah managed just 30 appearances during the period, with nine of those coming in the last two seasons
- He is understood to have established a close bond with Paul Pogba and Eric Bailly who took time to see him off as he exited Carrington
- The Dutch star could make his debut for Bayer Leverkusen as early as Friday, January 15, against Union Berlin
Paul Pogba and Eric Bailly have said an emotional goodbye to Timothy Fosu Mensah ahead of the defender's January switch to Bayer Leverkusen.
Mensah managed just 30 appearances during the period, with nine of those coming in the last two seasons. Photo by Tom Purslow.
TUKO.co.ke reported Mensah has already agreed a three-year deal with the Bundesliga giants as he looks to end his six-year stay with United.
The defender joined the Red Devils from Ajax back in 2014 but he has failed to earn a permanent role in the first team.
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During his spell at Old Trafford, he managed just 30 appearances in all competitions, with nine of those coming in the last two seasons.
His last appearance for the Manchester club was on Saturday, January 8, as the side took on Watford in the FA Cup.
He was limited to just 10 minutes of action in what was his last appearance for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side.
Metro UK reports Mensah was desperate for game time having failed to make an impact with United, leaving him with no choice but to complete a move to Leverkusen.
Bailly and Pogba appear to have been affected by Mensah's departure, with the pair who enjoyed a close bond with the Dutch star paying an emotional farewell to him.
Mensah shared a footage of the lovely sendoff from the pair who wished him well as the defender headed for the Carrington exit door.
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Albania coach interview: Gianni De Biasi
World Soccer: It's been almost five years since you took on the role of Albania coach. Now you're in the Euros and you're a hero. Did you ever expect this?
Gianni De Biasi: I hoped so, but it's not normal that a little country like Albania is going to the finals of a European Championship. When I came here I met a very old group of players and it was necessary to make many changes. This was a very problematic situation.
In the first two years, I experimented with many players. I had many trips to meet the players and to understand what they thought about the national team. It was really tough work. There are only two players who started my first friendly who are playing for me now.
My assistant coach is very important because we did, perhaps, 50 trips, and I did about 21-22 of them. He speaks very good English and, for this reason, it's better he meets with the players. I speak Italian-style English. It's not good enough!
When you arrived, no one expected much. Now everyone is talking about exciting young players, improving the domestic league, getting through your group in France. How do you manage such expectations?
It's important to change the mentality of the people – the journalists, the players – because it's just ask, ask, ask. They want to ride to the moon on a bicycle! This is the big problem.
For me, this situation is normal; it's the same as club football. When I was with Torino in Serie B they were going through a financial crisis. At the start of the season the president was saying to me: "Middle of the table is fine this year." When we were doing well, he was like: "We must do better or we'll die." This is the mentality of football.
When you're at lunch, the more you eat the more you want to taste something good. Today, Albanian people expect that we'll qualify from the group, maybe get to the Final.
What will be success for you in France?
Success is realising something unexpected – like what happened in qualifying. Doing it again would be difficult, to say the least!
These days people cheer your name on the streets of Tirana. What's that like?
Oh, that's just football. It's the same in Italy, the same in the US. When something unexpected happens, it gives a great enthusiasm and happiness. The problem is managing it, because if you set the target too high there is a huge problem for everyone because it's an illusion.
Is there a wider goal in terms of developing grass-roots football here?
We have a good base group of players that are doing well, and young players that are waiting on the fringes and progressing at their clubs. Our main problem is we have a terrible World Cup qualifying group, with Spain, Italy, Israel and Macedonia [and Liechtenstein], and only one guaranteed to go through.
We have one stadium capable of staging international club matches. The level of the local league has not increased and there are not enough academies for young players. It's a poor country. A few people have lots of money, but most people have no money. It's not good.
It would have been unthinkable a few years ago that an Albanian player such as Rey Manaj, who is 19 and playing for Internazionale in Serie A, wouldn't be a regular for the national side. Isn't that progress?
Manaj particularly is very young and has rarely played in the Inter first team. For me he's a very good player, but his mind is not in the right place.
How does it feel to have coached in your homeland for so many years, only for Albania to become the biggest highlight of your career?
Well, I've done some important things in Italy too. It was pretty difficult to bring Torino from the third tier to Serie A, let me tell you! But that's just big in Italy.
If you bring a team like Albania to the European Championship, the whole world pays attention – it's a phenomenon. It's an historic moment for Albanian football, for the Albanian people and for the politics here. If I put my candidacy for prime minister in tomorrow, I could win without advertising.
So what does a coach who has achieved such unlikely success do next?
I really don't know. That is very difficult for me to answer.
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Rodgers Consulting, Inc. is seeking Landscape Architects/Planners with a minimum of 3 years' experience in land development feasibility studies, community planning/design, site design and grading for residential and commercial/retail projects. Position requires AutoCAD or Civil 3D experience, Adobe Photoshop, strong presentation, graphics and excellent communications skills. Experience in Montgomery County, Frederick County and/or Prince George's County, Maryland is beneficial.


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Northwest Arkansas sales tax growth rose 12.84% in 2022
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by Kim Souza ([email protected]) December 27, 2022 2:49 pm 927 views
The four largest cities in Northwest Arkansas combined for a record $102.686 million in sales tax revenue during the 12 reporting months in 2022, up 12.84% from 2021. It was the second highest growth rate for the combined cities and the highest amount in history.
The increase was attributed in part to inflation and the overall continued population growth in Benton and Washington counties, according to city officials. Over the past decade, the two-county area has grown its population from 446,834 in 2012 to 548,125 at the end of 2022, according to the U.S Census Bureau. In that same decade, sales tax revenue has more than doubled from $50.071 million to the $102.686 million noted in the December report.
December's report reflects October transactions.
Springdale had total monthly revenue of $2.016 million, up 24.82% from the year-ago period. Mayor Doug Sprouse said the growth is somewhat tied to higher prices, but at nearly 25% the city's growth rate is well above the boost it gets from higher prices. He remains somewhat cautious about growth in 2023 and said the city has adequate reserves to weather an economic slowdown should it occur.
Bentonville reported monthly revenue of $1.972 million, up 25.78% from the prior year-period. The December report also reversed 36.88% revenue declines reported in November and 4.78% declines reported in October. Rogers reported monthly sales revenue of $2.327 million in December, up 8.66% from the month last year. Fayetteville had monthly revenue of $2.579 million in the December report, up 7.65% from the same month in 2021.
For the 12 months reported in December, Rogers had total revenue growth of 12.97%, slightly below the record growth rate of 15.6% reported in December 2021. Rogers had total 2022 revenue of $26.875 million, a 12-month record. The stellar revenue growth was somewhat fueled by price inflation but Mayor Greg Hines said consumers were eager to get out and enjoy experiences in 2022 with savings they had accumulated amid the shutdown. Over the past decade, Rogers has grown sales tax revenue from $13.136 million to $26.875 million as of the December 2022 report.
Bentonville reported annual revenue of $22.785 million in the December report, up 8.77% from the year-ago period. Bentonville has seen its annual sales tax revenue growth from $9.265 million to $22.785 million from year-end 2012 through 2022.
Fayetteville reported annual revenue of $29.963 million in calendar 2022, up 10.49% from the year-ago report. It was a record year for Fayetteville in terms of total dollars collected, but was shy of the record growth rate of 14.7% the city achieved in calendar 2021. Over the past decade, Fayetteville has grown its sales tax revenue to $29.963 million in 2022 from $17.46 in 2012.
Springdale added $23.061 million to its coffers, up 20.46%, and also the best year on record for the city. Over the past decade, Springdale has seen its sales tax revenue growth from $10.219 million to $23.061 million.
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Q: Xamarin Refresh Collection from ViewModel from another class what is the best method to add/remove objects to a ObservableCollection in a ViewModel from another class in Xamarin.Forms?
Lets say I have a collection from type "Thing". The Thing model contains name and description as a string.
Now I want to add a "Thing" object from another Page to this collection.
What is a way to do it?

A: The Xamarin.Forms MessagingCenter class implements the publish-subscribe pattern, allowing message-based communication between components that are inconvenient to link by object and type references.
You can use MessagingCenter.Send to send object to the page and use MessagingCenter.Subscribe to receive it.
Here is how I do in the new sample shell app:
DisplayPage:
     public partial class DisplayPage : ContentPage
        {
            public static ObservableCollection<People> mycol = new ObservableCollection<People>();
            public DisplayPage()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
                People p1 = new People("Adam", 20);
                People p2 = new People("Bob", 22);
                People p3 = new People("Candy", 39);
                mycol.Add(p1);
                mycol.Add(p2);
                mycol.Add(p3);
                //recieve message
                MessagingCenter.Subscribe<OperatePage, People>(this, "message",  (sender, arg) =>
                {
                    mycol.Add(arg);
                });
                col.ItemsSource = mycol;

            }
        }

SendObject:
  protected void onButtonClicked(Object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string name = inputname.Text;
            int age = Int16.Parse(inputage.Text);
            People newguy = new People(name,age);
            MessagingCenter.Send<OperatePage, People>(this, "message", newguy);

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The movie Crank 3: trailer, clips, photos, soundtrack, news and much more!
Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys behind the Crank movie series, have been interviewed by Collider and they've hinted at a third Crank movie, even stating that they're thinking about going 3D with Crank 3!
Crank 3 or Crank 3D, whatever the title, I bet Jason Statham will be back as hitman Chev Chelios in this movie sequel to Crank High Voltage: so much fun for him in those movies!
Any idea how Jason Statham could get cranked again in the movie Crank 3?


Step through the door of this restored 1720's farmhouse's and into the kitchen of the Selah Lester Farmhouse where you will find Mrs. Lester stoking the fire in the kitchen's cast iron stove. You'll be invited to follow her and ask questions as she goes through her day -- from baking bread to washing the family's clothes to tending the herb garden and cooking dinner for her husband and 7 children. This will be a fun-filled interactive experience where children and adults can try out old-time kitchen tools and touch antique house furnishings. Everyone is welcome to ask questions about women's daily life on the East End of Long Island's family farms during the 1880's-1930's. While taking a break from her chores, Mrs. Lester will take visitors to see the antique farm tools and equipment on display in the restored barn.


Serious Thoughts officially began shooting our first two scenes November 9, 2013. It was a cold morning but everyone took it like champs. The shoot went well despite some missing characters that unfortunately were unable to make it. However the shoot went great and I can't thank anyone enough for making it out yesterday.
Now for major prep for the next big part of the film. This should be fun and look forward to shooting these scenes.