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Increasing social interaction
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Read the following scenario:
A high functioning 9-year-old child with autism spectrum disorder, Level 1 (i.e., IQ > 100, academic skills commensurate with age and grade placement) has apparent difficulty in initiating social interactions.
Evaluate each of the following interventions as a method of increasing social interaction: (a) imitation/modeling, (b) shaping, and (c) forward or backward chaining. What would you recommend as an intervention for this child, and why?
*In this week's discussion, evaluate means discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each. What are the pros and cons of each? How is each approach used? Then make a recommendation and support.
Sample Solution
This bit of work will examine and assess procedures on change plan for the First Response Team. It will portray the statutory work in the First Response Team and the speculations that support the work practice around there of kids' administrations. Also, utilizing the speculations of progress the board and reflection, this paper will portray a zone of training that I consider could be changed. It will additionally recognize obstructions to change which may should be survived. The First Response Team is the 'front way' to the Buckinghamshire County Council Children Services, whose essential capacity is to take phone, email, fax, postal and in person referrals and request from individuals from the general population, accomplice offices and associations. It is one group split more than two locales, in Aylesbury (North) and another in High Wycombe (South) – it includes a Team Manager, Assistant Team Managers, Business Support Administrators, Domestic Violence Specialist and Social Workers. The group is another improvement inside the administration and it is a piece of the reaction to an audit of procedures, focussing on the youngster's voyage and advancements the nation over after the Munroe Review. The group is a solitary purpose of contact though referrals to social couldn't care less and for counsel on shielding worries for kids and youngsters. There is one phone number and one secure email address for experts and the overall population to contact social consideration. A referral is an enquiry to Social Care in connection to a named kid, who is accepted to be a 'kid out of luck' or in danger of enduring 'huge damage'. New referrals to social consideration, incorporating kids with inabilities, are handled by this group; they are answerable for screening and surveying every single imaginable referral, regarding whether the case meets the limit as characterized by Section 17 and Section 47 of the Children Act 1989. Also the group survey the reality and desperation of the worries, guaranteeing the referral arrives at the proper group inside characterized timescales. Nonetheless, those not meeting the limit for evaluation of kids' social consideration are signposted by the group to the early help arrangement, all inclusive administrations or other authority administrations. This model is the initial phase in progressing in the direction of a Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) which, it is proposed will be worked on a multi-organization premise and will incorporate multi-office data sharing and recording game plans. Because of aggressive behavior at home, the First Response Team work in association with the police consistently, inspecting abusive behavior at home reports where a kid is a piece of the family unit or engaged with the episode. In any case, where data in the report shows a youngster might be out of luck or in danger of damage, the First Response Team will pursue the referral system and record as a referral on ICS. Data about the referral, enquiries and prescribed results are recorded in the ICS referral record. A director will at that point total the referral authorisation arrange on ICS, recording the choice made with reasons. The obligation supervisor is dependable with surveying activities required, dispensing the case to a Social Worker and mastermind the kid to be seen quickly in the event that it is a segment 47. This paper will examine the enactment, strategies, techniques and speculations that supports the training in the First Response Team. Under the segment 17 of the Children Act 1989 neighborhood specialists have a general obligation to give a range and level of administrations suitable to the kids in their general vicinity who are 'out of luck' in order to protect and advance their welfare, and, so as far is reliable with that point, advance their childhood by their families (DoH, 1989). Also, segment 17 of the Children Act 1989 states that a youngster or youngster is out of luck on the off chance that he/she is; 'probably not going' to accomplish or keep up, or have the chance of accomplishing and keeping up, a sensible standard of wellbeing or advancement without the arrangement for him/her of administration by the nearby position (Holmes and McDermid, 2012). The legitimate meaning of damage under the Children Act 1989 is abuse (counting sexual maltreatment and non-physical types of abuse), or the hindrance of wellbeing (physical or mental) or advancement (physical, intellectual,emotional, social or conduct) (Brammer, 2007). The assemble for expert to work all the more viably on the bleeding edge developed emphatically in the administration Green paper Every Child Matters (2003), which was distributed nearby the administration's proper reaction to Lord Laming investigation into the heartbreaking demise of Victoria Climbie (Garret and Lodge, 2009). Cheminais (2010) states that Every Child Matters is an administration activity intended to address the prosperity and necessities of the entire kid in connection to guaranteeing that all kids and youngsters are sound, safe, appreciate and accomplish, make a positive commitment and accomplish financial prosperity. The Children Act 2004 gives the statutory premise to the foundation of the Children's Trust by setting out an obligation for every single 'applicable accomplice's to collaborate in arranging and giving administrations to youngsters and youngsters in a nearby power (Garret and Lodge, 2009). These accomplices are locale committees, police, probation board, youth irritating groups, instruction, wellbeing, learning and abilities Council (in the same place). The Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) plans to enable experts to comprehend what they have to do, and what they can expect of another, to shield youngsters. It further tries to stress that powerful defending frameworks are those where the youngster needs are 'fundamental' – all experts share data in an auspicious manner and furthermore all experts add to anything that activities are expected to protect and advance a kid's welfare (HM Gov, 2013). The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (DoH, 2000), built up an essential piece of the 'Quality Protects' program, giving a methodical method for comprehension, examining and recording what is befalling kids and youngsters inside their families and more extensive setting of the network in which they live (Horwath, 2001). Likewise, the structure gives a reasonable guide to undertaking appraisals of kids out of luck and their families which ought to guarantee that experts, chiefs and policymakers keep up a youngster center, regardless of how the universe of the kid changes and creates after some time (in the same place). The 'frameworks' approach stresses Social Workers to look past the youngster's exhibiting issues, evaluating the complexities and between relationship of the kid's life circumstance (Zastrow, 2010). Furthermore, it empowers Social Workers to consider how the elements are continually modifying as every part manages life both inside and outside the family (Walker, 2012). The group 'biological' approach includes considering the formative needs of the kid, yet in addition of the parent or carer's capacity to react to these necessities, the child rearing issues that may affect child rearing limit and the family, and ecological components that impact both the kid and family (Cleaver et al. 2009). A biological model attempts to improve adapting designs with the goal that better match can be achieved between the youngster's needs and the attributes of their condition (Walker, 2012). The group practice a 'youngster focused' approach whereby evaluations perceive kids and youngsters as people with rights, remembering their entitlement to take part for choices about them in accordance with their age and development (Munro, 2011). Moreover, Munro Review brings up that despite the fact that the focal point of work is frequently on helping guardians with their issues, it is essential to continue evaluating whether this is prompting adequate improvement in the limit of the guardians to react to every one of their youngsters' needs (in the same place). This article will keep on talking about the sorts, causes, advantages and boundaries of progress the board – I will likewise portray a zone of training in the group that I think could be changed. The Oxford English Dictionary (2013) characterizes change as making or getting extraordinary; substitution of one for another, assortment. As indicated by Singh (2005) change is an adapting procedure of moving from the present state to an ideal express that people, gatherings and associations attempt because of dynamic interior and outside components that adjust current substances. Change can fill in as a way to address numerous significant difficulties, for example, those identified with approach, administration, rule of law, theory, and dissemination of data, rights, and assets, difficulties of proficiency, adequacy, quality, and aggressiveness, and difficulties pivoted of shared qualities, comprehension, and participation (Lewis, 2011). These difficulties length crosswise over numerous segments of society, including private division associations whereupon we depend for merchandise, administrations, and the premise of our economy; open segment associations that run our networks, state, national and worldwide administration; and non-legislative or non-benefit associations that advance network and relaxation movement just as accommodate various helpful, logical, proficient, social, and social administrations (on the same page). The three kinds of progress are transitional change, formative change and transformational change (Anderson and Anderson, 2010). As per Anderson and Anderson (2010) formative change is the improvement of existing authoritative methods for working, for example, improving aptitudes, expanding correspondence and making a business procedure progressively proficient. Formative change doesn't request that individuals modify their current method for working, however it triggers fewier human elements that change and doesn't influence the aorganisation's way of life (on the same page). Transitional change happens when an issue is perceived in the current reali>
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Jack White Returns: Record Store Day at Third Man Records
Or, how the World's Fastest Studio to Store Record was made.
Carson O'Shoney
April 20, 2014 | 7:36pm ET
I'm not the first to suggest that Jack White is music's modern day Willy Wonka and Third Man Records is his Chocolate Factory. When I received an invitation to tour the Third Man HQ ahead of his latest Record Store Day stunt, I truly felt like Charlie finding his golden ticket. That stunt — if you don't already know — was to create the "World's Fastest Studio to Store Record," where White would record his new single direct-to-acetate live at Third Man, rush the masters to United Record Pressing (URP) to go through the pressing process faster than anyone else had done before, and have the record in the hands of customers at his store in just a few hours.
Photo by Jo McCaughey
Located just a few blocks away from Third Man, URP is the largest vinyl record pressing plant in the United States and enjoys a great partnership with White's label. Third Man was their third biggest client in 2013, just behind Universal and Sony. Together they've created a multitude of innovative vinyl releases: the liquid-filled vinyl, the triple decker, the tri-color, the 3 rpm, and more. It's been a fruitful partnership for both parties, and together they push the boundaries of vinyl regularly. Naturally, this year's Record Store Day stunt was no different.
Photo by Carson O'Shoney
Third Man doesn't allow press behind the scenes at Third Man often, so it was a rare treat to peek behind the curtain and see the full scope of their operation. We congregated in the storefront and were met by original Third Man employee – one of two, now expanded to 17 – and Dirtbombs drummer Ben Blackwell. He led us through the hallway and into the offices. We went directly to the room where the live cutting would happen the next day and learned all about the intricate process. It's the only place in the world that can record a live show directly to acetate. The room also houses their new Rupert Neve-designed mixing board, a stark contrast to the '50s technology of the cutting lathe.
Blackwell then led us across a former alley and into their new extension of the building next door, which they bought and annexed near the end of 2012. The large warehouse-type room is stylized like a '50s hotel and has all the touches and flourishes you'd expect from Jack White. Each "hotel room" is an office that houses a branch of the Third Man operation; the ground level is their mail-order hub, and the rest of the warehouse is used for storage space. The one takeaway Blackwell wanted us to have was that anything that can be done under their own roof gets done. They ship their own records, create all their graphic design work, control their online presence — really, everything you can imagine is done in their Nashville offices. The only thing they can't do in-house is record production, though that's where their partnership with URP comes in handy.
After seeing their new offices, we circled back around to the blue room through the back porch, which was large and beautiful, complete with grills, bathrooms, and a unique area of the floor filled with tri-color records of the past. (A huge upgrade from the early days of Third Man shows, where it was just an alleyway leading to a seedy backstage area.) We then got to see the office's main lounge, complete with an array of taxidermy and a kitchen area that they call "the hospital kitchen." The area looks like an old '50s-style soda fountain, and the hospital part comes from the red crosses on the wall. In the corner of the lounge is White's office, where the door reads: "John A. White, III Family Dentistry."
Everything in the entire building was handpicked by White: the colors, the designs, and the concepts. It was as eccentric as it was impressive. Everywhere you looked, there was an interesting flourish, from wooden records in door frames to pillows stitched with album cover art. It was all uniquely Jack White, and I wouldn't expect anything less.
After our tour of Third Man, we were shuttled over to the site of the other side of the process: United Record Pressing. Blackwell explained that he's likely their most frequent customer, as he's over there at least once per day. He's the only non-employee who can just walk in and lead a tour and everyone is okay with it. He led us through some of the history of URP, including the "Motown Suite," where black musicians and label executives would stay in the early '60s, no thanks to Jim Crow laws that were still in effect.
Eventually, we made it to the main floor, which was in full swing and louder than a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant to borrow a phrase. They were pressing records of all kinds, including some Third Man materials, and to see the process in person was fascinating. From barrels containing literal tons of loose vinyl to the actual pressing of the product… it was quite an experience.
"Vinyl coming back is no longer a story," Blackwell explained, asking: "The story now is, where does it go from here?" URP is producing at a rate higher than it has in decades, possibly even more than when vinyl was the only format. Because of this, Blackwell wonders if these old plants can keep up with the demand.
After all, the last record-pressing machine was made in the early '80s, and it takes a very unique specialist to work on the current machines. As such, the turnaround times are getting longer as production goes up, so losing machines is a real concern that could hurt their production. Regardless, Third Man is one of the few labels really asking these questions.
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Kevin M. Cherry, Plato, Aristotle and the Purpose of Politics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 232. ISBN 9781107021679. $95.00.
Reviewed by David J. Riesbeck, Dartmouth College (david.j.riesbeck@dartmouth.edu)
Version at BMCR home site
[The Table of Contents is listed at the end of the review.]
Aristotle's Politics opens with a rejection of the claim that all forms of rule or authority are fundamentally identical. The view Aristotle rejects is prominently developed in Plato's Statesman, where the Eleatic Stranger holds that kingship, statesmanship, and household management are merely different names for a single sort of theoretical expertise. Commentators on the Politics routinely observe its opening echoes of the Statesman, yet there have been few sustained efforts to set the two texts in dialogue with each other. Kevin M. Cherry's Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics does just that, identifying a set of deep disagreements between the Eleatic and the Stagirite on the nature of politics and promising to enrich our understanding of both thinkers. Though some of the book's arguments are underdeveloped and its interpretive approach is bound to frustrate some readers, it is on the whole an engaging and highly readable treatment of some irresistibly interesting problems of political philosophy.
After a brief introduction, Cherry opens Chapter One by considering the Statesman's identification of all forms of rule with a single sort of theoretical knowledge. All three elements of this claim are perhaps counter- intuitive: that all forms of rule are in fact one thing, that they are all a kind of knowledge, and that they are all a kind of knowledge that is exercised through thought alone rather than through action or production. Cherry finds this view prima facie unattractive and poorly defended, and he explains its easy acceptance as a product of the Young Socrates' enthusiasm for mathematics. The Eleatic Stranger approaches the study of politics with an excessively mathematical model of knowledge, seeking to reduce the heterogeneous phenomena of politics to merely quantitative differences, abstracting too readily from the realities of political life, and deploying an allegedly value- neutral method of division that neglects the hierarchical distinctions of quality so central to ordinary political discourse. Aristotle rejects these tendencies in his critique of the Stranger's identification of the varieties of rule. For Aristotle, communities differ in kind and not merely in size because they aim at different ends and are made up of different sorts of people. Because a person's character is crucial to the kinds of community in which he can participate, Aristotle also denies that knowledge is a sufficient qualification for rule. Finally, Aristotle appreciates that political knowledge is concerned with action and with the assessment of complex particular circumstances. It is therefore an essentially practical sort of knowledge that requires experience, not a merely theoretical expertise that can be acquired and exercised through study alone.
In Chapter Two, Cherry extends his account of the disagreements between Aristotle and the Eleatic Stranger with a consideration of their respective visions of humanity's place in nature. As he reads it, the cosmological myth of the Statesman presents a pessimistic view of human beings' prospects in the Age of Zeus. Humans, left to fend for themselves without divine aid in a cosmos marked by increasing disorder, must devote their energies to preserving their lives against the threats posed by the natural world and by human nature itself. This dismal view of the human condition helps to explain the Stranger's limited ambitions for politics: political communities, like all others, are directed primarily to preserving life, and considerations of the citizens' virtues are strictly subordinate to that goal. Aristotle, by contrast, regards political communities as distinctive because they uniquely aim at the good life as a whole. Aristotle acknowledges that politics must attend to the needs of preservation and stability, but he treats these only as necessary conditions for the achievement of the highest good. Cherry links this comparatively ambitious conception of politics to Aristotle's relatively optimistic view of nature as an ordered whole conducive to the overall flourishing of its parts. Though the world does not exist for the sake of human beings, it is hospitable to us and has provided us with the means to live well provided that we observe nature's limits.
Following these broad contrasts between the two philosophers' conceptions of politics, Cherry moves in Chapter Three to their evaluations of specific political arrangements and their opposed views of the relationship between knowledge and power. The Stranger, by taking a robust theoretical expertise as the sole qualification for rule, finds existing regimes defective by comparison and advocates the rule of law as a safeguard against the abuse of power by rulers lacking that knowledge. Where Aristotle assesses regimes as more or less conducive to the common good, the Stranger ranks them as more or less protective of stability and safety. Because the ignorant are no more likely to make their laws better than worse by changing them, the Stranger insists on a radically conservative policy of unquestioning obedience to unchanging laws, and because he regards political knowledge as beyond the reach of most human beings, he prefers lawful regimes that concentrate power in the hands of a few. Aristotle's alternative conception of political knowledge tends in the opposite direction. Because political knowledge is a kind of practical knowledge, citizens can acquire a level sufficient for participation without becoming theoretical experts. The practical nature of politics also allows individuals to exercise a level of political knowledge collectively that none could exercise alone. Since participation in collective deliberation and judgment is itself an important component of the good life, the inclusion of the multitude in rule also promotes the good for which the city exists. Aristotle therefore makes a strong case for political inclusion against the Stranger's inclination toward a narrow concentration of power.
Chapter Four further explores the contrasting views of political knowledge in the Statesman and the Politics by concentrating on their accounts of political inquiry. Where many scholars have seen the second half of the Statesman as anticipating Aristotle's account of practical wisdom, Cherry instead emphasizes the apparent ethical neutrality of the Stranger's appeal to the notion of "the mean". The Stranger's science of measurement more closely resembles Aristotle's notions of technical knowledge (τέχνη) or mere cleverness (δεινότης) in its severance of intellectual competence from a concern with the ethical propriety of the ends that it serves. Cherry links the purported value-neutrality of political knowledge to its non-practical character, and he argues that the Stranger's pessimistic conservatism renders political inquiry all but useless. Because political life is so fragile, non-ideal regimes should resist innovation and tolerate no questioning of their laws. Furthermore, even someone who managed to acquire full-blown political expertise would be resisted as a would-be tyrant. Political inquiry is worthwhile not because it will lead to action, but because it affords an opportunity to sharpen one's skills in dialectic. For Aristotle, political theory exists for the sake of political action, and because political action aims at the good life rather than preservation alone, Aristotle has a favorable view of inquiry into political innovation. Provided that it respects the demands of stability, Aristotle is willing to accept the risks involved in efforts to improve a city's laws and policies. Politics is a peculiarly valuable subject for theoretical inquiry because of the distinctive value of its practical aims.
With his account of the dialogue between the Politics and the Statesman complete, Cherry turns in Chapter Five to its implications for our understanding of Aristotle's relationship to Plato and Socrates. As he explains in the Introduction, Cherry rejects the assumption shared by developmentalists and unitarians alike that the Eleatic Stranger speaks for Plato and expresses views to which Plato hopes to make his readers sympathetic. Unlike unitarians, Cherry stresses what he sees as the fundamental contrasts between the Stranger and Socrates. Yet unlike developmentalists, he does not take these differences to reflect a change of mind on Plato's part. Rather, the Eleatic Stranger is Plato's spokesman for a certain sort of sophisticated theoretical alternative to Socratic politics. Where Socratic politics consists in highly individualized philosophical encounters intended to make others aware of their ignorance, Eleatic political science is an impersonal expertise in managing human herds. Cherry positions Aristotle in the mean between these two extremes: against the Eleatic Stranger, Aristotle shares Socrates' view that "politics exists primarily for the sake of the good life of the soul" (163). But with the Stranger, Aristotle takes politics to be essentially "about communities . . . whereas Socrates understands politics to be about individuals" (166). Cherry contends that this understanding of Plato's relationship to his characters helps to make better sense of Aristotle's relationship to both.
The book's final chapter considers the relevance of Aristotle's dispute with the Eleatic Stranger for contemporary political theory. He finds parallels between the political theory of the Statesman and the thought of early modern thinkers like Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke. Like the Stranger, these thinkers had limited aspirations for politics and posited security and stability as its chief aims at the expense of a concern for virtue or the good life. Similarly, they conceived of politics as an artificial means for coping with the pressing necessities of nature. For Cherry, these analogies between the Statesman and the early moderns tell in favor of Aristotle's continuing relevance as a resource for critics of modernity. Since Aristotle himself confronted a surprisingly modern conception of politics in the pages of Plato's Statesman, it is not mere anachronism to turn to his writings for an insightful alternative to dominant modern political paradigms. Nor, Cherry argues, can Aristotle be dismissed as an adherent of a pre-scientific metaphysics or an anthropocentric worldview. On the contrary, a careful and critical appreciation of Aristotle's view of nature shows it to be fundamentally consonant with important strands of contemporary environmentalist thinking, which share Aristotle's view that "nature is hospitable toward human beings, provided they do not transgress certain natural limits" (192). Cherry's conclusion suggests that Aristotle's thought can also help reorient contemporary political theorists from a reductive conception of politics as power to a more nuanced and illuminating view of politics as shared, reasoned discourse about the good and the just.
As my summary suggests, this is a book with broad vision. Its admirable breadth is unfortunately not always matched by a comparably impressive depth. On the contrary, its treatment of many issues is disappointingly superficial, and its arguments at times somewhat thin. Cherry's interpretation of the Statesman is bold and controversial, rejecting a tendency among scholars from different interpretive traditions to find a more optimistic, liberal, and inclusive account of politics in the dialogue. Though he is helpfully detailed in documenting his disagreements with earlier readings, his defense of his own interpretation is surprisingly abbreviated at important points, such as his dismissal of the three-stage view of the cosmological myth (39), his rejection of the common view that Eleatic politics cares for citizens' souls (53-4), and his resistance to the claim that the second half of the dialogue anticipates Aristotle in important respects (121-6). Most pressingly, his interpretive approach to the Statesman leads to a preference for readings that emphasize problems that more charitable scholars would seek to resolve. By contrast, when discussing Aristotle, Cherry occasionally resorts to mere paraphrase, eschewing any attempt to explore apparent problems and tensions or to tease out the implications of Aristotle's views. Thus despite the centrality of Aristotle's distinctions between practical, theoretical, and technical knowledge to Cherry's argument, we are not treated to any discussion of the problems that philosophers have faced in making sense of them. Readers who come to this book puzzled about these distinctions will not find their aporias resolved therein.
Despite these shortcomings, Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics is a valuable addition to the literature on both the Statesman and the Politics. Students of Greek political thought can be grateful to Cherry for his clear and careful statement of the major interpretive issues surrounding the relationship between these two texts and for his provocative attempts to answer challenging questions that continue to deserve further study.
I discovered only two editorial oversights: a missing period after "situation" on p. 106 and a misplaced accent on εἴδη on p. 120.
1. A place for politics: the household and the city
2. The beginnings and ends of political life
3. Political knowledge and political power
4. Political inquiry in Aristotle and the Eleatic Stranger
5. Philosophy and politics in the Eleatic Stranger, Socrates, and Aristotle
6. Modern politics, the Eleatic Stranger, and Aristotle
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Having recently purchased both Nest and AI startup DeepMind, Google is currently on a high tech spending spree. Even Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson has claimed that the search giant's recent acquisitions have helped it take the lead over Apple when it comes to innovation in 2014.
But Apple is also putting its $159 billion worth of cash and investments to good use by carrying out its fair share of acquisitions.
According to a Wednesday regulatory filing by Apple, it paid $525 million on deals last quarter — almost twice what was spent one year earlier.
While smaller than the aforementioned Nest, the acquisitions — which include the likes of motion-tracking company PrimeSense, data analytics firm Topsy Labs, search engine Cue, and mapping software company Broadmap — show that Apple has been aggressively seeking out companies that can help with future Apple product launches. According to a research note from Maynard Um, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co, Apple has focused particularly on companies that can help improve its mapping services.
Unlike Google, Apple tends to shut down the services of the companies it buys and then integrate the technology into its own lines.
Still, this should at least put paid to anyone claiming that Apple is just sitting on its money and not doing anything with it.


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Landa, Carapaz and Amador to lead Movistar at Giro d'Italia
By Cycling News 06 May 2019
Team look to multiple leaders for overall bid
Mikel Landa (Movistar) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Mikel Landa wins stage 2 at Coppi e Bartali (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Movistar's Richard Carapaz gets ready to start stage 6 at Tirreno-Adriatico (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Richard Carapaz (Movistar Team) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Sport)
Andrey Amador relaxes on the front of the peloton during stage 8 at the Vuelta (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Not chastened by their experiences at last year's Tour de France, Movistar are taking a three-pronged approach to the Giro d'Italia this May. The Spanish team will look to Mikel Landa, Andrey Amador and Richard Carapaz for their general classification ambitions.
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Amador, Bennati, Erviti extend at Movistar
Landa takes first victory in over a year with stage win at Coppi e Bartali
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One notable omission from the team is Alejandro Valverde, who was meant to be riding the Corsa Rosa but had to pull out after a training crash ahead of Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Given their previous performances, Landa – who is expected to leave the team at the end of the season - is likely to be the team's best hope for the overall classification. Though, Carapaz has been on fine form recently and will be looking to improve on last year's performance.
Landa took his first Grand Tour podium at the 2015 Giro d'Italia, after duking it out with his Astana teammate Fabio Aru and eventual winner Alberto Contador. In 2017, he just missed out on the podium at the Tour de France, while riding in support of Chris Froome at Team Sky, while he was Movistar's best-placed finisher at last year's Tour with seventh overall.
Landa's history with the Giro d'Italia has been mixed. After making the podium in 2015, he returned to the race as a leader for Team Sky but was forced to abandon in the second week after falling ill. In 2017, he was joint leader with Geraint Thomas but they were both caught up in a crash caused by a motorbike on stage 9. Landa was able to continue but his GC hopes were done, though he still finished the race with a stage win and victory in the mountains competition.
The 2019 season did not get off to the best start for Landa after he broke his collarbone in a crash. Since returning to action, he took a win at the Coppi e Bartali and finished seventh at Liege-Bastogne-Liege. However, on Sunday, he dropped out of the Vuelta a Asturias due to discomfort in his right foot.
Carapaz turned professional with Movistar in 2017 and made his Grand Tour debut that same year. He was one of the revelations of last year's Giro d'Italia after winning stage 8 and going on to take fourth overall. Carapaz has had a busy season so far with 32 days of racing under his belt already. His form seemed to be heading in the right direction recently after he took overall victory at the Vuelta a Asturias.
Like his two teammates, Amador has been in the top 10 at the Giro d'Italia in the past. In 2015, he finished just off the podium in fourth place and took eighth the following year, while also wearing the maglia rosa for a day. With plenty of big names within the team's ranks, Amador rarely gets his own chances at a Grand Tour.
After joining the team in 2017, Hector Carretero will make his Grand Tour debut in Italy, while Lluis Mas is making his first Giro appearance. Antonio Pedrero is back for his second Giro d'Italia while Jose Joaquin Rojas and Jasha Sutterlin will provide both experience and power on the flat.
Movistar team for Giro d'Italia: Andrey Amador, Richard Carapaz, Héctor Carretero, Mikel Landa, Lluís Mas, Antonio Pedrero, José Joaquín Rojas and Jasha Sütterlin.


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Q: SqlAlchemy get all strings (don't cast to boolean or datetime) How can I change the way that sqlalchemy cast the return values of my select, so it only returns strings, instead of Booleans or Datetime objects? I'm reading from a postgresql db.
For example I'm getting this:
>>>result = connection.execute("SELECT * FROM some_table").first()
>>>result
(123, 'some string field', True, datetime.datetime(2015, 06, ....))

When I would like to get this:
>>>result
('123', 'some string field', 'true', '2015-06-13....')

A: How about:
result = tuple([str(col_value) for col_value in result])

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What Do Leather Jackets Protect You From?
A proper leather jacket will not only last forever, it is timeless and versatile. Leather jackets insulate you from cold weathers. With weather that is mostly cold in the USA, leather jackets are extremely popular here.
How People Want To Wear A Leather Jacket?
Not only wearing a leather jacket but many of them add style quotient to what they wear. So, they buy or custom design their leather jacket with logos, alphabets, animal images and many more embroidered on their jackets.
You may shop the latest collection of embroidered leather jackets from the most popular stores either online or visit the store near you. Find the best collection!
Leather companies design the embroidered jacket with features like floral pattern with zippers and back panelling. These jackets are designed for both men and women.
There are a handful of animal skins used for Leather Jackets US. Cow skin and lamb skin are the most common. Some of the other hides used for men's and women's leather jackets sold in the US are calfskin, goat, horse, deerskin, pig, bison, alligator/crocodile and kangaroo.
Where Do We Buy Embroidered Leather Jackets?
The embroidered leather jackets in the US are sold in many stores. Many high-end fashion houses also sell leather jackets.
One can buy them off the shelf or order a custom made leather jacket. Custom Men's Leather Jackets US can be ordered from a retailer or online.
Go for genuine leather jackets instead of faux leather material jackets. Feel the leather, good leather will be soft, grainy and oily. Genuine leather has great looks when worn by men or women. Also, it gives great comfort levels when compared to faux leather products.
There are certain points one should keep in mind while cleaning or washing a leather jacket or an embroidered one.
If one does not follow the above Dos and Donts when using an embroidered leather jacket, there is always a danger that not only the leather gets worn out of quality and/or the embroidery done on it would also get spoiled while washing improperly.
Embroidered leather jackets do come in colors like black, brown, grey, pink, Yellow and other colors sold by leather companies either online or physically in store.
Order them anytime online casually, for birthdays, for parties, or for any occasion that you need them for.


Surfside Beach is a small beach community located south of Houston and southwest of Galveston. Fishing, swimming, surfing, beach combing, horse back riding, or just relaxing are among the things to do here. There are several restaurants with great food. Beach houses can be rented from local rental companies, or stay at local hotels and RV parks.


Watch Sproggi's plans go awry when you discover a rival civilization on the rise to greatness. Will you choose to befriend these curious Mushroom people and stand together, or will you crush them and claim Sproggiwood for your own? Seize the day and civilize Sproggiwood now!
Sproggiwood distills the roguelike genre down to its core fun ingredients: inspired character classes, loads of interesting loot, and procedurally populated dungeons with monsters and traps that combine to produce totally unique tactical challenges. In Sproggiwood, adventure sessions are compact and chock-full of interesting choices for you to make. Each dungeon dive follows the heroic rise of one adventurer from your civilization. Journey through teeming forests, haunted swamps, teetering cliffs, and glacial mazes to uncover your civilization's whole story.


The Treasury Department's announcement last week that the federal budget deficit grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal 2018, the highest level in six years, was pretty big news around these parts. But most registered voters surveyed in a new Morning Consult/Politico poll say they haven't heard much about it. Only 17 percent of those voters say they've seen, read or heard "a lot" about the rising deficit, and another 29 percent say they've gotten "some" information on it. More than half of those polled say they have seen, read or heard little (26 percent) or nothing at all (28 percent) about the new deficit number.
The same poll found that 52 percent of registered voters say that reducing the federal deficit should be a "top priority" for Congress, with another 30 percent saying it's an important but lower priority.
More than three-fourths of registered voters said passing a health care reform bill was a top priority (53 percent) or an important but lesser priority (24 percent).
Forty-two percent called "reforming entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare" a top priority, and another 26 percent said such reform was important but less of a priority.
The poll of 1,968 registered voters was conducted October 18-19. Its results have a margin of error of 2 percentage points.


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Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe, being founded upon the approval of Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, is a professional female Yue-opera performing group. It has accumulated a number of plays and developed a large group of outstanding performers over years of performance. The renowned Yue opera performing artist Mao Weitao is the director of the Troupe.
The play Lu You and Tang Wan received the 3rd Wenhua Award for New Drama Prize from the Ministry of Culture and was among the top ten dramas in the first national dramatic art program in 2003. The Romance of West Chamber won Grand Wenhua Award and several single awards in the 4th Wenhua Award issued by the Ministry of Culture, Award of China Traditional Opera Society and other awards. Wrong Red Silk received New Drama Prize in the 5th Wenhua Award from the Ministry of Culture, and has been filmed to a drama movie of the same name. The Tale of the Ancient Book Collector received New Drama Prize of the 11th Wenhua Award from Ministry of Culture. The Butterfly Lovers, a key play in Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Cultural Program, received Gold Prize in China Yue Opera Festival 2006 and Award of China Traditional Opera Society, Excellent Play of China Drama Award in the 11th China Drama Festival, and First Prize for Play in the 3rd national outstanding local opera play contest. The Story of Shunkin received Drama Award in the 12th Wenhua Award issued by the Ministry of Culture.
Birthday Celebration by Five Daughters has been performed in public nearly 800 times in China and overseas. It has been filmed to a drama movie and won Golden Roster Award, and Best Drama of Baihua Award. A Suddenly Recall-Mao Weitao Performing Art Show won Gold Award in the firet China Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Festival. Desolate Emotion, developed from the legend of Jin Ke assassinating Emperor Qin, attended the 1997 International Stage Art Festival in Tokyo, Japan and gave commercial performances in Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka and so on. In 2000, it attended the 7th BESETO International Drama Festival in Korea. Xiaobaihua Troupe, Japanese Kabuki Troupe and Korean Changgeuk Troupe performed the famous Korea opera Chunhyang on the same stage. In 2003, the troupe visited Paris to attend cultural exchange for the Sino-France Cultural Year. In 2008, the new version of the Butterfly Lovers as the only Yue Opera was performed in the 31st World Drama Festival.
The Party and the State leaders watched the troupe's performance for many times. Since the establishment, the troupe has visited the U.S., France, Holand, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other places.
The troupe has Marketing Department, Art Production Department and Administration Department. The troupe's journal World of Yue Opera and the Yue Opera Club are highly welcomed by the audience. Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Art Center, located at the foot of the Baochu Hill, West Lake with an area of 1.8 hectares, is under construction.


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Home/Science/Confirmed! The 2014 meteor is the first known interstellar visitor to Earth
Confirmed! The 2014 meteor is the first known interstellar visitor to Earth
Astronomers have confirmed that a suspected space rock that hit Earth in 2014 came from another star system, three years before the famous interstellar visitor Oumuamu.
Researchers found a meteor in the catalog by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) in 2019. At the time, however, some data about the rock's trajectory was kept secret by the US Department of Defense (DoD), whose sensors collected it.
But in March of this year, the Ministry of Defense released a statement confirming the measurements, allowing scientists to complete their calculation of the origin of the mysterious rock.
mini-an asteroidwho entered Earth's atmosphere On January 8, 2014, it arrived at a very high speed of 216,000 km/h. It also followed a strange trajectory, suggesting it may have come from outside Solar system. By modeling the rock's trajectory in the past and estimating its gravitational interactions with the planets in the solar system, the authors of the new paper confirmed that the tiny asteroid was indeed a newcomer to the solar system. the sunfrom the corner milky way galaxy.
Related: Interstellar objects may have crashed on the Moon
The confirmation makes the rock, named CNEOS 2014-01-08, the first known visitor from interstellar space, predating the famous 650-foot-wide (200 m) asteroid 'Oumuamua which flew past Earth in 2017. Just a year later, astronomers discovered a second interstellar object, a 1,650-foot-wide (0.5 km) Comet Borisov. The short interval between those discoveries has led astronomers to believe that smaller interstellar rocks, only feet or tens of feet wide, must be much more common in the solar system and even intersect regularly with our planet.
That is why the authors of the new paper, the famous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleague Amir Siraj, set out to search the CNEOS catalog. In addition to CNEOS 2014-01-08, they found another promising one meteor, for which the necessary data are nonetheless confidential. That space rock cut through Earth's atmosphere in March 2017.
Researchers believe that interstellar space rocks could hit Earth's atmosphere about once a decade. Analysis of those meteors could provide new insight into the chemistry of distant ones, according to the researchers in the paper star systems.
"By extrapolating the trajectory of each meteor back in time and analyzing the relative abundance of chemical isotopes of each meteor, it is possible to compare the meteors to their parent stars and reveal insights into the formation of the planetary system," the authors said in paper (opens in new tab). "[Some chemical] elements can be detected in the atmospheres of stars, so their abundances in meteor spectra can serve as important links to their parent stars."
Because most meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere before reaching Earth's surface, and because retrieving those that do is extremely time-consuming and challenging on a technical levelresearchers propose creating a worldwide network of cameras capable of spectroscopic measurements, analyzing the light absorption fingerprints of incoming space rocks that could reveal their chemical composition.
CNEOS 2014-01-08 exploded over the ocean near Papua New Guinea, Siraj told Space.com in an email, and scientists believe some pieces of rock may have survived the trip through Earth's atmosphere and fallen into the sea. Siraj and Loeb are planning an expedition to try to recover some of the fragments next year.
The researchers also suggest that such a high frequency of interstellar visitors throughout Earth's history could mean that the seeds of life that germinated on our planet over the past 3.5 billion years may have come from another star system.
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After John Urbano was awarded the Real Women FA Feel Fantastic campaign, he shot four years in a row with German ad agency DDB and production company EP Films. The first campaign was shot over eight days in Brazil with big wave surfer Maya Gabeira along with lifeguard champion Thomas Vilaceca. John shot five TV commercials, a documentary, and a series of online tutorials. John teamed up with world-renowned big wave cinematographer Don King to capture all of the in-the-water shots.
The second shoot took place in The Dominican Republic, where John shot four TV commercials and a series of social media photographs and content. Going back to the Dominican Republic for the third and fourth shoots, John created six more TV commercials, print advertisements, and social media content.
John's short documentary was picked up by the Honolulu Surf Film Festival and was screened in 2017 as the opening film for the women's short films program. While John was working with Maya for four years, she became a Guinness World Record holder for the largest wave ever ridden by a woman, at a staggering 68 feet. She then went on to break her own record riding a wave measured at 73.5 feet. In John's documentary on Maya, she talks about what it was like to die and be brought back to life on that wave four years prior.
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Iowa's Vision: "Every child, beginning at birth, will be healthy and successful."
Nothing transforms a home – and the people in it – quite like the arrival of a new baby. All parents need support during this transition. For families facing the additional hurdles of being young, single, or low income, help in making needed adjustments is all the more critical to ensure that families grow and thrive.
A recent addition to the Promise Partners network of quality programming is the Child & Family Resource Network, which is designed to provide a central point of intake for family support services in Pottawattamie County. This system serves to match family needs to program services and avoid duplication of services. A byproduct of this initiative is increasing cooperation among community programs, which can only improve outcomes for families.


This isn't your father's Jerry Granelli record – or even the one from your childhood. Granelli, known for his drumming on Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown records and rock and jazz sideman work, has become a sophisticated compose/arranger since his move to Halifax 1987. Aptly named, What I Hear Now finds the now 75-year-old percussionist showcasing seven of his compositions backed by four Haligonians and one ringer from Upper Canada.
Actually Toronto-based tenor saxophonist Mike Murley was also born in Nova Scotia and his contributions fit in with the others like a Cape Breton kilt matches a local tam o'shanter. Long-time Granelli associates, soprano and tenor saxophonist Dani Oore and bassist Simon Fisk are also featured along with trombonist Andrew Jackson and alto saxophonist Andrew MacKelvey. More than textural embroidery, the horn parts fold over and around one another like sections of a well-designed bespoke suit, adding more vivid colors to a foot-tapper like "Run Danny Run" which also highlights thumping darbuka-like echoes from Granelli's drums. Other allusions are suggested by different tracks, such as McKelvey's barbed tone approximating a figure slinking down an alley on "Mystery"; or the evocative harmonies of "Another Place", where individual horns nimbly move up in pitch before blending into Cool School harmonies.
Unfettered zeal animates "Dance for Me" and "The Swamp", both of which are built up from Fisk's throbbing three-string patterns. A groove tune, the latter is a feature for Jackson, whose fat slide stretches and plunger sophistication lead to a contrapuntal duel with MacKelvey, underscored by cymbal clatter and completed with exciting cross patterns from the drummer. The most outside tune of this session, "Dance for Me" breezes along with an unhurried air, then like a jet reaching the end of the runway gradually revs up, as notes and tones fly from everyone involved.
Depending on how long you've followed his career, this CD may or may not contain the sorts of sounds you expect from Granelli. With its remarkable playing and writing, it aptly illustrates the promise of the title.
Tracks: Prologue; Run Danny Run; Walter White; Mystery' Dance for Me; Another Place; The Swamp.


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The funding void and the currency of pro bono
Fitzpatrick: lawyers do so much more than the statistics suggest
Posted by Michael Fitzpatrick, Newcastle regional manager at Litigation Futures sponsor John M Hayes
The dictionary defines pro bono work as work 'done or undertaken for the public good without any payment or compensation' – in other words 'free of charge'. Those three magical words are invariably subjugated by natural cynicism – 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' and 'you don't get 'owt for nowt' spring to mind. Media-driven perceptions of the legal profession might engender similar sentiments.
But no. The legal profession is not just a collection of businesses, it is a public service collective which has justice at its heart, and it is certainly no stranger to working for nothing.
The Access to Justice Foundation
Section 194 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (which came into effect on 1 October 2008) formally recognises this. It subverts the indemnity principle and articulates the power of a court to make what is tantamount to an order for inter partes costs – an order made against the opponent of a litigant with no funding in place. The costs recovered are paid to the Access to Justice Foundation, a charity which provides much needed finance to law centres and other similar advisory services.
The foundation does, of course, receive money from other sources, including unclaimed client account balances from solicitors, legal support trusts' fundraising events, and other generous donations from a plethora of individuals, associated legal institutions and enterprises, including the Law Society, the Bar Council and numerous legal publications
The essential pre-requisites and features of Section 194 are, in summary:
Made only by a civil court;
Recipient has legal representation, all or part of which was free of charge;
Can be made even if counsel was not acting free of charge;
Cannot be made against a party who was also represented pro bono or legally aided;
Cannot exceed what would have been determined by a conventional costs order;
Costs claimed must have been incurred after 1 October 2008;
VAT must not be claimed; and
Onus on winning litigant to apply for the order and to quantify the costs
Positive evidence
The Solicitors Journal reports that since 2008, the scheme has resulted in some 160 pro bono costs orders with a cumulative value of approximately £600,000.
Statistical evidence from the Trustlaw – Index of Pro Bono 2015 (part of the Thomson Reuters Foundation) reveals further positive evidence. A sample size of 8,043 fee-earners in England & Wales suggested an average of 21.9 hours of pro bono work each annually; the percentage who performed 10 hours or more amounted to 35.3%. Partner engagement also showed a consistent and positive trend in line with previous years, with 37.8% recording time on pro bono matters; and the number of pro bono hours performed by partners increased by almost 10% to 14.9 hours.
The recent attitude of government
We live in times of immense change and austerity, something that the last Lord Chancellor (Michael Gove) claimed to be acutely aware of. In his inaugural speech, he said: "The law is more than a marketplace, it is a community, the legal profession is more than a commercial enterprise, it is a vocation for those who believe in justice being done…
"Many of the most prestigious chambers at the Bar and many of the solicitors' firms already contribute to pro bono work and invest in improving access to the profession… it is clear to me that it is fairer to ask our most successful legal professionals to contribute a little more rather than taking more in tax from someone on the living wage."
Laudable though it is for a senior politician to extol the virtues of the legal profession, it is rather less commendable to engage in an almost subliminal shifting of responsibility. In the words of Andrew Caplen, the then president of the Law Society, in 2014: "Pro bono legal advice should never be seen as a substitute for a properly funded legal aid system. It is right to publicise the tremendous work that so many solicitors do free of charge."
There speaks the voice of experience and reality, the incisive summation of an experienced lawyer, as opposed to the politically manoeuvring rhetoric of Mr Gove, a journalist by trade and a (then) Lord Chancellor by design.
The recent attitude of the legal profession
Perhaps there is more potential for pro bono work (on a formal basis at least) but it cannot be a panacea. Statistics suggest that much is being done, and my own experience of clients and friends in the legal profession suggest that they do so much more than the pure data reveals.
Lawyers typically spend a great deal of unpaid time dealing with their clients, providing practical advice, reassuring them, giving them a proverbial 'shoulder to cry on' and just being there for them – instances of pro bono work by every lawyer that go unrecorded.
As committed professionals, their remit is to deliver justice and a high-quality service; the overall framework within which this is achieved, however, is quite clearly the responsibility of government. Sadly an ever-burgeoning part of our society are being denied access to justice in the name of austerity.
In the words of Lord Falconer (shadow justice secretary): "Access to justice has been all but dismantled for the poorest in our society… The number of social welfare cases being granted funding has plummeted, victims of domestic violence are struggling to get help, employment fees are a significant barrier to workplace justice and the essential safeguard that is judicial review has been severely restricted."
The Law Society, Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives have recently launched a working group to explore the feasibility of a contingent legal aid fund; this follows on from a speech by Sir Rupert Jackson earlier in the year. Conceptually this might involve the creation of a pooled fund of resources which would be capitalised and topped up by a contribution from damages in successful civil cases, in which the winning party is backed by that fund – a form of self-perpetuation.
An initial report is due by September and a final report before the end of the year. Whatever conclusions are reached, it is to be hoped that they are done so in a spirit of social realism and in a genuine effort to facilitate greater access to justice.
Concluding thoughts
Ultimately there is a funding shortfall when it comes to access to justice. The government (and lest it be thought that this is a party political attack, governments of all hues for some years) appears to be abrogating its responsibility to effectively ensure access to justice for all, one of the core principles of any democracy worth the name. It is greatly to the credit of so many lawyers that they are mitigating this effect, not because they are obliged to, but because they put the public good before their own.
The legal profession are clearly playing their part and now it is time for government to play theirs – and I can tell you that pro bono!
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Science and technology evolution is driving change in almost every aspect of our lives. Understanding technology means understanding how people use it, and how markets and societies influence and shape it. Bill Sharpe specialises in futures work where science and technology plays a role, and undertakes bespoke projects in business strategy and public policy. He specialises in taking on problems that need fresh approaches and new concepts rather than application of routine methods. He is an Associate Professor at the University of West England.
David Adams
is a consultant, coach, leader and strategist with a fascination for work with collective intelligence. He has trained in native wisdom teachings in North America, is an accredited church mediator, convenes a regular dialogue group, and runs a small farm. His consultancy, Adams Associates (Scotland) Limited, has grown from earlier experience in international corporate consulting, directing and managing voluntary programmes, trade finance and credit management. He works with manufacturing and service organisations in the private, public and third sectors. He is a founder member of the Coaching Forum at Said Business School, Oxford, and a member the Scottish Institute for Business Leaders.
Graham Leicester
is Director of the International Futures Forum. IFF is a non-profit organisation that responds to critical issues facing business, government and communities. Graham previously ran Scotland's leading think tank, the Scottish Council Foundation, founded in 1997. From 1984-1885 he served as a diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service, specialising in China (he speaks Mandarin Chinese} and EU (including Private Secretary to the Minister for Europe. He has a strong interest in governance, innovation and education, is a senior adviser to the British Council on those issues, has previously worked with OECD, the World Bank Institute and other agencies on the themes of governance in a knowledge society and the governance of the long term.
Dr Daniel Christian Wahl, F.R.S.A
Daniel is a consultant and researcher on issues of sustainability and resilience. He was until recently Academic Director at Findhorn College. He works with the International Futures Forum on world modelling and world game facilitation. Hoe also contributes to Gaia Education and CIFAL Findhorn (a UNITAR affiliated training scheme). He is a Ph.D. Supervisor at the Centre for the Study of Natural Design at the University of Dundee. He contributes to the work of the CLEAR Village.Foundation and the State of the World Forum. He holds degrees in biology (Edinburgh), holistic science (Schumacher College) and design for sustainability (Dundee)
Dr Ian Page
Is a research scientist who specialises in research strategy and scenario planning. He is a specialist in investigating impending change that most strategists overlook and picking up early warning signals. As a senior technologist at Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories he also provided for many years the 'grit in the oyster' for many budding inventors. His current interests are in interaction of energy sources, land use, civilisation collapse and human ecological systems. He is a member of the International Futures Forum and an exponent of the three horizons futures model.
Rebecca Hodgson
Holds a BA degree in history from Edinburgh University where she also did postgraduate work on the history and sociology of science. She is an experienced conceptual and information researcher supporting a number of International Futures Forum projects. She co-author and researcher of the IFF World Model and Game. She is currently in training as a Steiner teacher.


10 February 2012, Woodturning in practice, Would you like to leave a comment?
To those of you familiar with wood turning, this is the most 'productive' tool for turning bigger pieces and as far as I am aware, the most enjoyable to use. It is easily sharpened on a bench grinder without the use of fancy jigs and its profile, although important, can be continuously re-shaped to suit different applications.
When I started turning, I was lucky enough to be introduced to the bowl gouge as my first tool and had no real choice, but to master it or stop turning. This may seem harsh, but my tutor recognised the importance of using proper tools and I did end up learning quickly!
The key to unlocking its potential is to understand the delicate balance between its bevel edge (the flat surface created on the grinder) and the cutting tip. At any given time during the turning process, whether detailing a rim or turning deep inside a bowl, the tool should be gliding on its bevel edge, following the shape you are creating. Only a slight, barely detectable motion rocks the tool onto its cutting tip and starts the cutting action.
When I first used it, I found this process impossible to control and couldn't avoid creating ridges and profiles that were unpleasant to look at. There were also the occasions when I got a 'dig' – an annoying moment when the tool is introduced at the wrong angle, ripping a chunk out of the bowl! You have to relax when using the gouge and not grip it too hard. Rough turning is the perfect way to gain experience, since bowl blanks don't need to be finished accurately but you need lots of them.
The gouge should be held and controlled with the right hand. The left hand positions the bevel edge against the work piece and exerts downward pressure on the tool rest. On very dry timber, the tool rest can be used as a fulcrum to apply pressure to the bevel edge and stop the tool moving with the contours of the grain. This takes time to master, but is certainly worth the effort. Scraper tools, whilst easy to use, tear through the timber instead of cutting. These may be okay for rough turning, but require a lot of finish sanding when used on dry wood.
The gouge is without question my favourite tool and certainly the main one I use. However, I have just purchased the Rolly Munro hollowing tool and so far I'm impressed – watch this space for a review!
Hi Jonathan, Just wondering how your getting on with the Rolly Munro hollowing tool. Are you using it for bowl turning? If so do you think it is easier to use than a bowl gouge?
I am thinking of purchasing one myself, thats why i am asking.
By the way I love your work it looks fantastic and I look forward to reading more of your blogging.
Hi Rich, many thanks for your comments. It works very well and cuts beautifully, but does need to be sharpened regularly. I'd definitely recommend buying the TCT cutter block as an upgrade. At the moment I'm using a diamond file for sharpening, but will soon be using a drill press mounted polishing mop which I think will be better.
The only problem I've encountered is with it blocking up. However, I've not been using it long and guess most of this is down to experience.
I'd definitely recommend it - I've been able to turn bowls which I simply couldn't have done with a gouge alone.
Hi Jonathan, great site. That yew bowl is huge! I read your blog on the bowl gouge with interest. I'm pretty new to turning and I tend to resort to the scraper after leaving ridges with the gouge. I'm going to persevere with my new half inch gouge from now on.
Hi Steve, That yew bowl is almost dry, but still weighs a ton! A do hope you are enjoying the turning - it takes a little while to get used the the gouges, but persevere and you will be amazed with what you can achieve. The half inch gouge is a great choice for bowl turning - I'm sure you will master it in no time at all.


Laurie L. Levenson is a Professor of Law and David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy at Loyola Law School. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1989 and served as Loyola's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996-1999. She has taught Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, White Collar Crime, Ethical Lawyering, Terrorism and the Law and Advanced Trial Advocacy. Professor Levenson is also the Founding Director of Loyola's Project for the Innocent.


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Finally got the battle report up for our Adepticon Mech Attack game.
It ended up being a very good game with a result that was in contention right up until the very last turn.
Of course it was also my yearly chance to put together a massive 8x8 layout with my whole sci-fi city. I've phased out the last of my contemporary 1-story warehouses and now almost everything is 2 stories or taller.
No surprise that the 3 objective spacecraft were the stars of the show.
I'll have a separate post for each spaceship in the next few weeks with lots of detail shots.
wonderful! I look forward to seeing more.
looks like a FUN Game!! a lot of Hard work went into that setup.
Thanks guys, we did indeed have alot of fun.
We're using "Mech Attack" by armorgrid games. I describe it as kind of like Battletech except with 1/10th the rules and it plays in 1/4 of the time.
Best 6 bucks you can spend in gaming, IMHO. As written it works well for 6, 10 or the included printable 2.5d 15mm units. We play it occasionally at the club as-written using rebased 10mm Mechwarrior clix but we double the ranges and distances for the big 28mm convention games.


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Our work in Ghana
Our brothers in Ghana live in nine communities, based in Accra, Damongo, Kaleo, Nandom, Tamale, Tumu, Wa (2) and Zebilla. They are mainly involved in primary, secondary and professional education of the youth, with a preference for the poor, especially in remote areas, in agricultural and building projects, in formation of religious, in work for streetchildren. Quite a number of the younger brothers is studying for professional qualifications, in Ghana as well as abroad.
Helping streetchildren
In Accra, capital of Ghana, roughly 18.000 socially dislocated children live their lives on the streets. It is a problem known to most big cities in Africa. The Brothers FIC are involved in the work of the Catholic Action for Street Children (CAS) of the Archdiocese of Accra, and of the Street Girls Aid (SAID). These two programmes reach about 3.500 of the streetchildren.
CAS and SAID aim to know the streetchildren and their needs and expectations, in order to console them and enable them to decide what they want to do with their lives. To do so it is vital to show love and concern to these children, and to create safe havens in houses of refuge.
We assist children who wish to be reunited with their families and co-operate with other organisations to reintegrate street children into their communities. We also provide assisted health care and health education to the children, and a safe place during pregnancy and delivery of babies. Moreover we help the children to get educated or find a job.
Catholic Action for Streetchildren (CAS)
A short history, based on information by brother Jos van Dinther, fic
In Lartebiokorshie, Accra, the Brothers FIC are engaged in a big project to help street children in the capital of Ghana. In the early days the workers of CAS met the children in the streets. It took a while before we found and rented a place where we could have good conversations with the children without noise and distraction.
Most streetchildren have jobs, for instance as shoeshine boys. They earn small amounts of money to feed themselves and find a place to sleep. We do not want them to become dependant on us, so we don't provide accommodation or feed or clothe them. But even if we wanted to, our House of Refuge is too small to accommodate the estimated 18.000 streetchildren in the city.
Instead we try to support the children in their struggle to survive. Thanks to the Salvation Army Church we have a clinic at CAS and trained nurses are available daily to clean wounds, fix bandages and providing medicine. In the beginning the nurses also took care of the street mothers from Konkomba Market, who visited the House of Refuge for consult with their babies. Soon we received more mothers and babies than streetchildren. We then opened crèches for babies from street mothers were opened and a baby care-programme was handed over to our sister NGO S.AID, Street Girls Aid.
In our House of Refuge we welcome streetchildren and advise them when they decide to leave the streets. Most children need some time in deciding what to do and what they want to learn. We exercise social supervision on children who take the initiative to be educated. A sponsorship scheme is in place.
Hopeland Training Centre is meant for those who want to leave the street but are not yet ready to go to a school or workshop. At the Centre, the staff pays more attention to them.
With the assistance of Misereor we built a multipurpose hall and an administration block. We also employed a permanent social worker and a literacy teacher. At the moment CAS has forty permanent members of staff. We intend to employ more fieldworkers, since the majority of the streetchildren don't visit the House of Refuge. This program is called Street Corner Education.
You can find us on the Internet at: www.cas-ghana.com or contact us by e-mail at ficcas@ighmail.com
Vocational School in North-Ghana
In the late 1960's, while building Nandom Secondary School, the Brothers FIC experienced great difficulties to find skilled labour. They even had to import craftsmen from the southern part of Ghana. Therefore the Brothers founded St. Basilide's Vocational School, which was opened officially in 1973, under the auspices of the Catholic Diocese of Wa.
The school offers courses in carpentry and joinery (woodwork), welding and fabrication, electrical installation and building technology. Basic book-keeping, English language, mathematics and religious instructions are also taught as complementary subjects. Thus we help young men and women in the region not only to acquire skills that will enable them earn a decent living, but also to acquire values that will guide them through life.
Nandom
The first Secondary School in Ghana
This school was the first secondary school to be established by the Brothers FIC in Ghana. The construction of the school started in 1965. It was admitted to the public system in 1973. The school was under management of the Brothers FIC between 1968 and 1991. After that we had to limit our involvement due to the shortage of personnel.
The congregation is still showing interest in the school, for example by helping to refurnish some of its vital infrastructure.
Food farmers co-operative movement (NACOP)
In 1977 a project was initiated to address the food storage and marketing needs of farmers in the area. Most farmers were compelled to sell the bulk of their annual food products cheaply at the time of harvest to 'middlemen', only to buy back the same food at exorbitant prices during the lean season.
The project promoted the establishment of village groups, taking care of the purchase, storage and resale of food stuffs within their own communities. Thus getting around the middlemen, the cost of food would be reasonably low, even in the lean season.
The Brothers FIC first participated in the project in 1997, when one the brothers took over responsibilities for the management of the project. Since then the project shifted its orientation from the establishment of village groups to the promotion of viable co-operative societies. These societies stimulate the initiation and growth of a diversity of economic activities in the area.
Besides the provision of village level storage facilities, the project has also been engaged in the promotion of co-operative societies through community animation and leadership training programmes. It also supports the groups with credit facilities, either directly or via intermediaries, to provide them with the capital required for the grain storage programmes and other income generating activities.
Chinchang, Tumu, Wa (2) and Zebilla
FIC is involved in five basic education institutions in the diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga. This involvement ranges from the provision of brothers to serve as classroom teachers and/or headteachers of the school to the development of the infrastructures of the schools through our solidarity fund.
Agricultural Station
The Tumu Agricultural Station is currently managed by Brothers FIC. Their community in Tumu was originally established to cater for their members who were studying at the Kanton Teacher Training College. One of the Brothers started the Station, one of five in the Wa-diocese, to address the agricultural problems in the area. The station developed educational programmes to promote the agricultural productivity in the region.
Currently, the station is focusing on promoting animal traction and organic farming as well as other intensive agricultural practices, as opposed to the extensive practices used by the farmers.
In-Service Training Centre
This centre used be the St. Louis Preparatory School, where boys were prepared for the secondary school. After the education reforms in Ghana in 1987, the school was converted to an In-Service Training Centre, which started in 1991.
The centre provides workshops, seminars and conferences for the updating and on-going formation needs of personnel of church and civil organisations within the Wa-diocese. This is done in accordance with the developmental policies of the diocese, that wants to ensure evangelisation through effective and sustainable pastoral ministry.
Currently the centre is developing a youth programme that will address the issues of Christian formation, and a syllabus for the teaching of religious education in primary and junior secondary schools.
PEPS-C: helping craftsmen to develop themselves
The upper-west region of Ghana is one of the poorest of the country. In the 1980's it became clear that building vocational schools and training craftsmen was not enough to help the people to develop themselves. Therefore we created PEPS-C: Producer Enterprises Promotion Services Centre.
Between 1986 and 1993 the aim of PEPS-C was to mobilise graduates of the vocational schools into viable co-operatives. However, it became clear that we should also support sole entrepeneurs, although we still encourage them to form partnerships and where possible co-operatives. At the same time we try to form an association of enterprises, to educate and support each other and work together solving problems.
In 1998 we formed a charitable trust in the regional capital Wa, in order to work closer together with the regional government and sister organisations. Without the work of PEPS-C many young skilled artisans would have left the area, drifting down to the more lucrative urban areas of Southern Ghana. PEPS-C enables graduates of the vocational schools, boys and girls, to live through gainful employment and thereby increase their retention rate in the region, thus contributing to the development of the region.
Impact of PEPS-C on beneficiaries
An appraisal team undertook focussed group discussions and interviews with beneficiaries in order to gain insight into the impact of PEPS-C on their lives and that of the general society of the Upper West Region. The following are the highlights of impacts.
Employment and retention of the youth
So far, PEPS-C has mobilised and retained 90 enterprise groups comprising over 384 skilled graduates of vocational / technical schools and other graduate apprentices. In the absence of PEPS-C, these graduates would probably not have found self-employment in the vocations that they studied at school; PEPS-C 's programme has given the encouragement, confidence and the means to the youth to engage in viable producer enterprises.
Development of work skills
PEPS-C's intervention has helped the region to develop a cadre of professional skills that has hitherto not been available in the UWR. Beneficiaries indicate that, previously, certain skilled jobs required the importation of experts from outside the Region.
Presently , most skilled jobs are being undertaken by skilled craftsmen and women from within the PEPS-C enterprise network of groups.
Improvement in Beneficiary Welfare
A few enterprise groups, particularly the building and carpentry/furniture making groups, have really improved their welfare. Their annual audited financial statements have shown a consistent increase in their total net worth over a three-year period.


The State Government is poised to turn on Sydney's desalination plant for the first time, in a move which will increase water bills by almost $40 per customer.
It will be the first time the plant in Kurnell, which was opened in 2010, will be officially put to use.
"I think Sydney will always debate whether it's a good investment, but the fact is we've got it and now it's a bit like an insurance policy," Utilities Minister Don Harwin said.
After years of Sydney's drinking water storage levels being high, they have dropped dramatically over the past year due to the drought crippling Australia's eastern states.
The levels now sit at 60.9 per cent — this time last year they were at 81 per cent.
As soon as the levels drop below 60 per cent, the multimillion-dollar plant will be switched on.
When it's on the plant can provide 15 per cent of Sydney's drinking water, turning seawater into 250 million litres of drinking water a day.
While the plant lies dormant, Sydney Water customers pay about $87 dollars a year as part of their water bill.
That increases to around $125 when the plant becomes active.
"The Government can do lots of things but we can't make it rain, in a drought we've got an insurance policy and that's desal and like any insurance policy there's a small cost involved," Minister Harwin said.
"We don't really want that but it's better than running out of water."
Right now the recent rain has been holding off a price hike in water bills, but it seems likely the plant will operate by the end of the summer.
The plant has technically provided drinking water before.
When it was first commissioned in February 2010, it operated for two years to complete testing.
But it has not been on since mid-2012 and has undergone repairs after it was damaged in a storm in 2015.
The Government insists all testing on the plant has been completed and is ready to go as soon as it's needed.


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Lanka Premier League TV commentators named
by Dias November 9, 2020, 2:17 PM
The Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2020 which is scheduled to commence on the 26 November at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium in Hambantota will feature a high-profile television commentary panel, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said on Monday (9).
The six-member panel includes (1) Mike Haysman (from Australia), (2) Aamer Sohail (Pakistan), (3) Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa), (4) Roshan Abeysinghe and (5) Russel Arnold (Sri Lanka), and Darren Ganga (West Indies)…
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Chilling with Russel Ft. Roshan Abeysinghe & Pommie
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Jess & Sam | May 21, 2016 — Twila & Co.
This wedding's colors are after my own heart. I mean, look at that magnificent blue?! It's one of my favorite colors. When Jess sent me her color palette and watercolor ideas, I was so excited to work on these programs and signs for the wedding because it's almost like working with my own brand!
These programs were so much fun to design because the couple included such fun facts about themselves! While it's not a bad thing, a lot of the programs I design have just the basics (order of the ceremony, a thank you, and list of the bridal party). So when I get a bride that wants to do something different and fun, I am all for it! Not to mention working with the fun icons and watercolors was great too.
Congratulations, Jess & Sam! I hope your wedding day was everything you wanted. Thank you so much for including me on your special day!
Programs & Signage | Twila & Co.


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Meet the regal Tigris, a breezy and beautiful cat from Austin Pets Alive!
Katie Friel
It's widely known that many ancient civilizations considered cats to be deities. In ancient Egypt, cats and lions were considered so sacred they could often be found on jewelry, in art and decorating ancient artifacts. When you see a purrfect feline like Tigris, with her regal air and elegant manner, it's no wonder cats were considered other worldly.
Name: Tigris
Breed: Domestic Shorthair Mix
Sign: Leo
Spayed/neutered: Yes
Declawed: No
Adoption donation: $75
Location: On site
How APA! describes Tigris: Elegant, mellow and playful
What APA! says about Tigris:
Tigris is the kind of cat who always seems composed and in charge, so it lends her a regal air. When we first met Tigris, she was relaxing and curled up on a fluffy bed. It felt like we were walking into the bedchamber of a queen. She regarded us coolly with her intense emerald-colored eyes before graciously allowing us to pet her.
She fancies herself somewhat of a hunting enthusiast. Tigris deftly attacks toys and — once satisfied that they're "dead" — carries them around in her mouth with her tail held high just waiting for your praise.
Why APA! says Tigris deserves your love:
You might think that a cat so regal would be difficult to get along with, but Tigris just loves the company of other cats. Tigris is independent, so she would appreciate a home either with or without other animals. She's an excellent playmate and enjoys wrestling matches with other energetic and enthusiastic cats.
Tigris' mellow nature and poise would help her adapt to a variety of families. People looking for a companion cat that is affectionate, smart and interactive but also independent would do well to meet Tigris.
For more information, including where to find Tigris, visit APA!
A queen and her subjects.
Photo by Austin Pets Alive!
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Olivia Colman shines again in movie-centric Empire of Light
Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh / courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
Olivia Colman in Empire of Light
The reason almost all filmmakers start making movies is because they fell in love with movies at a young age. Plenty of directors have attempted to demonstrate that love by making a movie about their experience, sometimes literally and other times filtered through another type of story. The result is typically well done, as the person telling the story fights to get every detail just right.
The latest to do so is writer/director Sam Mendes with Empire of Light. Taking place almost exclusively in and around a movie theater named Empire Cinema on the south coast of England in 1980, the film centers on Hilary (Olivia Colman), the theater's duty manager whose life consists of work and little else. She gets along with her colleagues at work, save for Mr. Ellis (Colin Firth), the boss with whom she is having a deeply unsatisfying affair.
Her life starts to change with the hiring of Stephen (Micheal Ward), a college-aged Black man. The two strike up a quick bond and soon embark on a mostly-platonic relationship, connecting over their appreciation of the theater's history, their respective life struggles, and the shared love of movies they rarely get to watch themselves.
The film is literally surrounded by the idea and allure of movies, but it rarely becomes about them. Notable films like 9-to-5, The Elephant Man, Chariots of Fire, Stir Crazy, Raging Bull, and Being There make their way through the theater, but the characters, busy with their own work, discuss them sparingly. Cinephiles will relish the look back to this particular period in film history, but Mendes keeps the story in check by not going too deep in the minutiae of the movies themselves.
Instead, he keeps the focus on the characters, most of whom bring something interesting to the table. Hilary and Stephen get the most attention, and the film delves into some serious issues through their lives. But equally engaging are other theater employees like Janine (Hannah Oslow), Neil (Tom Brooke), and especially projectionist Norman (Toby Jones), whose quiet demeanor belies a wealth of knowledge.
Mendes, who was last seen wowing with the "one-take" World War I film 1917, brought in the big guns for this passion project, featuring not just two Oscar-winning actors in his cast, but also two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins and two-time Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, among others. The behind-the-scenes artists do yeoman's work, with Deakins bringing every corner of the cinema to glorious life, and Reznor and Ross utilizing a tender, piano-based score to accentuate the themes of the film.
There are a few creaky elements, most notably the lack of examination of similarities between Hilary being used for sex by Mr. Ellis and her pursuing a relationship with Stephen. The same power dynamic of boss and employee exists in each pairing, yet the former is portrayed as utterly toxic while the latter is mostly given a pass.
Colman has reached a new level as an actor in her forties, garnering three Oscar nominations and one win in just the past four years (not to mention an Emmy for playing Queen Elizabeth on The Crown). She is as good as ever here, exploring huge swings of emotion with relative ease. Ward has an ease about him that makes his character pop immediately, indicating he should be able to expand beyond the British film/TV scene if casting directors are smart.
Empire of Light is a period piece layered with some modern sensibilities and, of course, a love for the magic of movies. Mendes keeps the film on an even keel for the most part, telling a story that's relatively small yet still totally cinematic.
Empire of Light opens in select theaters on December 9.
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