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Washington state granted REAL ID compliance extension
UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2017, 10:56 p.m.
In this photo taken April 6, 2016, a sign at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., is shown to inform visitors of the federal government's REAL ID act. (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)
By Rachel La Corte Associated Press
OLYMPIA – With a deadline looming that could affect Washington residents' ability to fly domestically, the state has been granted a temporary extension from the enforcement of federal requirements for state driver's licenses and ID cards.
Last week's letter from the Department of Homeland Security, obtained Wednesday by the Associated Press, says the extension will run through June 6. It notes that the extension was granted with the expectation that the state would pass a bill that has already cleared the Senate and is awaiting a committee vote in the House.
For years, state lawmakers have struggled on how to best comply with the REAL ID Act, a 2005 federal law that requires state driver's licenses and ID cards to have security enhancements and be issued to people who can prove they are in the United States legally.
"This extension is intended to provide Washington with the opportunity to take any necessary steps needed to meet all the requirements of the REAL ID Act and its implementing regulation," the letter reads. "Failure to take these steps may result in the denial of future extension requests, thereby making Washington subject to REAL ID enforcement."
The department said that throughout the extension, federal agencies can continue to accept driver's licenses and identification cards issued by Washington for official purposes. Under the latest schedule released by the federal government, residents of states that are not in compliance and do not have an extension will need additional identification to board commercial flights starting on Jan. 22, 2018. Residents of other states that currently have extensions will have until Oct. 21, 2020.
Tony Sermonti, legislative director for the state Department of Licensing, said the extension acknowledges the work lawmakers have done on the issue.
"Ultimately, the bill the Legislature is contemplating is going to minimize impacts to the public when they want to travel," he said.
Washington state already offers, but does not mandate, enhanced driver's licenses, known as EDLs, and IDs that require proof of U.S. citizenship and are already valid under the federal law.
The measure being considered by Washington lawmakers would keep the current enhanced license and would mark standard state licenses as not valid for federal purposes.
Opponents of the measure sent a letter to members of the House Transportation Committee last week, saying that the measure was unnecessary. Citing the state's current enhanced license, and the ability of those without an enhanced license to fly as long as they have alternate forms of identification, the letter said that the bill "will result increased costs to the state, endanger Washingtonians' privacy, and create a new avenue for discrimination through the marked license."
"The legislature can and should ensure that Washingtonians understand that many different documents are accepted at the airport, including EDLs, rather than implementing federal legislation that will not benefit the state," read the letter, which was signed by more than 30 groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
Just 25 states and the District of Columbia are currently in compliance with the law, though most of the remaining states and territories have extensions, according to the Department of Homeland Security's website. Before last week's extension was granted to Washington, it was among Montana, Minnesota, Missouri and Maine as the only states that were not compliant with the law and without an extension from the federal government.
Published: March 29, 2017, 2:53 p.m. Updated: March 29, 2017, 10:56 p.m.
Tags: airplanes, Department of Homeland Security, drivers licenses, extension, identification, legislature, Real ID, requirement, Washington
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A Life On-Line: First night of Proms, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Samson and Delila in Flanders
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BBC Proms - Nicholas Chalmers & BBC Singers (image from live feed)
On Friday it was the first of the BBC's live Proms, with Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Chalmers conducting the BBC Singers. There was no audience, of course, and the orchestra was spread out far more widely than is usual, but in a way which made the players on film far more easy to see. This became an ensemble of individuals rather than a mass. There were some stunning moments, but the programme was somewhat strange with a trio of American-inspired pieces; a new commission from Hannah Kendall, Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama, inspired by the American artist Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Eric Whitacre's Sleep and Aaron Copland's Quiet City, and then Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'.
Both on the radio and on the TV (the concert was broadcast on BBC Two with a 30-minute delay), the announcers spent a lot of time telling us how special the occasion was, rather than letting the music speak for itself. It would have been good to hear more about Hannah Kendall's inspirations for her piece and see more of Basquiat's images. Her piece was striking, full of imaginative textures and a lovely use of rhythm, though it didn't feel very 1980s and I wondered if it might have been better if we hadn't known about the Basquiat connection. Moving from the Hannah Kendall piece to Eric Whitacre's Sleep, sung by the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Chalmers, there was a danger of it being something of a non-sequitur. But the simply stunning performances that Chalmers and the singers gave us (all from memory), giving a real edge to Whitacre's harmonies, meant that the short work had great intensity. This somewhat disparate group of pieces finished with Aaron Copland's Quiet City, always a moving piece but here counterpointed with images of cities under lockdown, and again the performance particularly from Alison Teale (cor anglais) and Phillip Cobb (trumpet) simply blew away any concerns you might have had as to why this piece after the Kendall and the Whitacre.
There followed a wonderfully architectural performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, the players giving us strong focussed lines and a terrific sense of Beethoven's structure. This wasn't HIP by a long chalk, but it wasn't late Romantic either, and throughout you sensed the players responding to Oramo's feeling for the work's structure. [BBC iPlayer]
Earlier in the week we caught the TV broadcast of a very special Prom indeed from 2007. The BBC Proms debut of the Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in a programme which started with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, and continued with Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and music by Monvayo, Marquez, Ginastera, and Gutierrez. What struck me first was simply how many of them there were, the orchestra was simply huge yet there was no sense of it being unwieldy, and the players responded with almost chamber intensity to Dudamel's direction. The Shostakovich, premiered just after Stalin's death in 1953 and written in the wake of the composer's second denunciation in 1948, is a powerful work. It is also large scale, and what was remarkable was how the young players responded to the intensity of the music, but also followed Dudamel in creating a real sense of scale. Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story are not easy, yet the orchestra threw them off with bravura elan, and followed them with a group of Latin American pieces where their sense of rhythm, and pride in their native composers could thrive. [BBC iPlayer]
Over at Opera Vlaanderen we caught with their 2009 performance of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi & Omri Nitzan, conducted by Tomáš Netopil, with Torsten Kerl and Marianna Tarasova in the title roles. Nitzan and Nizar Zuabi are an intriguing duo, one an Israeli Jew, the other Palestinian, and they brought this contemporary focus to Saint-Saens' opera.
Samson became a freedom fighter, something that a number of other companies have done, but here the directors had flipped our perceptions. The downtrodden Biblical Israelites were portrayed as the modern Palestinians whilst the Philistines were modern Israelis. As a concept it worked well, though if the imagery had been a little less specific it might have been more powerful. The staging of the first act (which is notoriously static) was particularly well done, with a multi-level set which enabled us to see both the Israelites and the Philistines. But where the production rather weakened was that God had been taken out of the equation, which makes the dramaturgy somewhat clunkier. And quite what was going on in Act Three in lieu of the Philistines celebrations in the temple is anyone's guess. Still, there were some powerful performances, particularly from Torsten Kerl as an heroic Samson, still capable of beauty in his love scene with Marianna Tarasova's robust Dalila. [YouTube].
On Saturday it was the turn of Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist James Baillieu to perform live as part of the Metropolitan Opera's series Met Stars Live in Concert, and you can read my article about the concert.
I have always been fascinated by the theremin, and as part of BBC Radio 3's Home Sessions, theremin player Carolina Eyck played the Doctor Who theme on one, definitely something to be seen as well as heard [Facebook]. Still on unusual instruments, Anneke Scott has been playing various ones in her collection, the most recent outing was a 1940s Walzerhorn, a type of French horn popular in the former Czechosloviakia, and here she played a beautiful piece Tre giorni son che Nina which is probably not by Pergolesi but may be by Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi (1719–1762). [YouTube]
British Youth Opera's Summer Festival has been two weeks of on-line workshops, masterclasses, performances, mentoring and other training for a group of young opera professionals, the BYO's website has a lovely selection of snippets from the festival from casting director Sarah Playfair's wise words on the subjectivity of casting to director Max Webster coaching monologues, in this case part of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. These are not public performances but a lovely chance to eavesdrop on training. [BYO website]
The Presteigne Festival has been going on, and as with many other festival, happening on-line. There was lots to enjoy including a festival commission from Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade for narrator and orchestra, Reginald: The Musings of an Edwardian Gentleman, performed by Christopher Good, Nova Music Opera, conductor George Vass, a lovely modern excursion into that rather under-appreciated genre of the melodrama, and Chrisopher Good fabulously captured the wry tone of the text, based on Saki. [Presteigne Festival] And we also caught the terrific recital from tenor Bradley Smith and harpist Oliver Wass, including Britten's Suite for Harp, and folk-song arrangements, plus the premiere of Amelia Clarkson's Through his gaze, three songs for tenor and harp setting WB Yeats, Freya Waley-Cohen's Skye, Howard Skempton's Three Songs for Jennie, and another commission Robin Haigh's No-One [Presteigne Festival]
Soprano Julia Sitkovetsky and pianist Dylan Perez performed live at the 1901 Arts Club, in a lovely programme of Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss' Drei Ophelia Lieder, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliees, and Rachmaninov [YouTube]
Sometimes you explore the internet and fall down a worm-hole into another era. This happened when I came across one of composer Edward McGuire's postings on Facebook, it was referring to an archive recording from 30 years ago of a concert by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, conducted by James Loughran in McGuire's own Glasgow Symphony, Rutland Boughton's Trumpet Concerto and Nigel Osborne's Violin Concerto, a terrific and fascinating programme originally on BBC Radio 3 and now on the Internet Archive. If you find that all this free performance over the internet at bit worrying, with so many artists either not being able to perform or doing so without a reasonable fee, then do try Stage Hub which is providing a range of lovely performances which earn the artists money.
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After 17 Years Using ACT!, Lawsuit Financial Corp Realizes 50% Increase in Time Savings with Mighty's Automation
Previous Core System
ACT! CRM
Losing time and money with slow, inefficient data workflows
Difficult accessing analytics and reporting
Creating strategic relationships made difficult by inability to easily access case data
50% reduction in time to process applications, saving time and money
Clean and easily-accessible data to drive decision-making
Improved strategic relationships
An Outdated System In Today's Competitive Market
When Founder Mark Bello and Lawsuit Financial Corp (LFC) got their start in 2000, they utilized a server-based instance of ACT! CRM software to support their legal and medical funding operations.
For many years, ACT did a great job. Mark's custom buildout of ACT even seemed like a competitive advantage against funders without software systems. However, as LFC's business continued to expand and the legal funding market became increasingly competitive, the system's deficiencies began to negatively affect LFC's business.
From a leadership perspective, the old system made it difficult for Mark to get the information he needed in order to make informed decisions. Mark needed digestible, consistent, and actionable data at his fingertips, and his old system wasn't built to record, manage or display complex legal funding data.
Mark also became aware that he was limited by his server-based version of ACT, which made it challenging for him to keep an eye on his business as he was often out of the office driving new business.
Others in Lawsuit Financial's management team experienced similar issues. Jennifer, Head of Operations, faced challenges at nearly every stage of the funding lifecycle. During intake, she had to navigate to multiple screens and tabs to enter information, which was both time-consuming and often resulted in important fields being missed due to the urgency of legal funding
During processing, these problems persisted since it was difficult to get all of the information about a case on a single page. Often, the information they needed to make funding decisions was spread across multiple tabs and screens.
The problems didn't stop there. When they approved a case, the system couldn't automatically generate the entire contract, including the legal terms and financial schedules, so a lot of the work had to be done manually. This made costly typos a constant risk and wasted time.
Similar problems cut across servicing. The lack of workflow made case tracking more difficult, and the system could not quickly and accurately generate payoffs and lien statements.
Mark recognized that his system was old and cumbersome. He was determined to find a viable alternative at an affordable cost.
And then, after a few months of searching, Mark found Mighty.
If It Ain't Broken, Should We Still Fix It?
Mark was one of the first legal funders introduced to Mighty's core software system for funders in June of 2016. As a first step in getting to know Mighty and the software, he saw a demonstration of one of the earliest versions, before many of today's standard features were built.
Mark was impressed by Mighty's vision and the software's capabilities at that time. He realized the software would already solve some of the major problems facing him and his team. Because he had a functioning system that his team was used to, Mark could take the time to thoughtfully explore all the angles and ensure he was making the right decision for his company in the long term. He had to be sure that Mighty was going to be around for the long haul and be worth the switch. He also needed to be sure that he could trust Mighty to execute a flawless migration.
In December 2016, Mark took the next step and flew out to New York to meet Mighty's co-founders, Dylan Beynon and Joshua Schwadron. Like Mighty, he understood software to be a long-term partnership, and he wanted to get to know the people behind it. During his visit, Mark learned more about Mighty's goal to become the leading technology and service provider to the legal funding industry, Josh and Dylan's deep belief in the industry as a force for good, and their vision for how their software would drive maturation of the industry.
During this meeting, Mark also saw an updated version of the software and was impressed by the extraordinary amount of progress that had been made since June. There were still a few features not yet part of the software, but he could see that once those functionalities were added, Lawsuit Financial Corp was willing to make the switch.
While waiting for those features to be released, he had to make sure that his team running the day-to-day operations was onboard. Jennifer and her teammates received a demo of the software and were sold on it after learning about the improved automation and workflow Mighty would provide them.
Some of the features they were most excited about were:
Automated, custom contract and payoff generation
Automated one-click emailing
Workflows for case processing
Workflows for servicing
Investor reporting
Jennifer saw Mighty as a comprehensive program that was "clearly going to save us a lot of time in processing applications, calculating and providing payoffs, retrieving updates on cases, and investor reporting. We saw value in the time we could save, working with a more comprehensive and reliable system."
From the start, Mark's primary questions were "Would Mighty make us a better business? Is it easier and more seamless than what we're currently doing?"
After meeting Mighty in NYC, experiencing the software for himself, and hearing the overwhelmingly positive review from his team, the answer to both questions was a resounding "Yes!"
17 Years of ACT! Data Transferred to Mighty
Once Mark made the decision to switch to Mighty, the next step was for Mighty to migrate 17 years of historical attorney, plaintiff, case, and funding data from ACT to Mighty.
The primary challenge was not the sheer volume of data, but rather that LFC's instance of ACT had undergone multiple updates. As a result, their data lacked a coherent structure, making it clear why the system's reporting capabilities were inoperable.
"The team at Mighty worked extra hard to get our data migration completed. They were very responsive to our questions and concerns throughout the process and especially in the final stages."
Jennifer Bello
This was a positive stress test of Mighty's migration capabilities, and Mighty passed with flying colors. Thousands of investments were migrated, in addition to their payoff, contract, and document request templates for auto-generation.
Once the data was successfully migrated and their account fully customized, the Lawsuit Financial Corp team received training on how to use the software. But according to Jennifer, using the software from the start was "simple because the program is so user-friendly!"
50% Time Savings Across The Funding Lifecycle
Switching to Mighty has been nothing short of transformational for Jennifer, Mark, and the Lawsuit Financial Corp team.
Jennifer's day-to-day operations have been completely streamlined. Some of their favorite features include automatic payoff generation, automated contract generation, and emailing directly from the system. "Our office has become way more efficient. Mighty cut our application processing time in half." Ultimately, Jennifer notes that they have "saved money through the efficiency and time saved."
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Teaching skills for an unpredictable future
31 March, 2019 By Margo Metcalf Leave a Comment
written by Adrian Camm
Globalisation and the accelerating rate of technological development provide new and unparalleled opportunities for the evolution of our species. Children entering primary school in 2019 will be young adults in 2030. What will the world look like? What career pathways will be available to them?
Experts argue that the world of 2030 will be shaped by advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology and the field of Big Data, particularly as the appliances and accessories that we wear and have in our homes gain greater tracking, storage and analytical power through the ubiquity and accessibility of next generation internet services. Automation is already forcing many industries to rethink traditional blue collar professions. The jobs that were once human endeavours are quickly changing as some jobs become obsolete and new jobs are invented.
As Artificial Intelligence applications become increasingly sophisticated, we are seeing glimpses of the inevitability that one day in the not too distant future, machines will exceed our abilities in many, many areas. Intelligent algorithms have even started to exhibit traits like creativity, traits that we once thought would solely exist in the human domain. Even the way we interact with others has changed dramatically. Everything and everyone has at once become more connected through social media and yet more isolated, as "screen time" takes away from much of our face to face communications.
The young people graduating from schools in 2030 will face some of the world's most pressing and intractable problems: The political, environmental, economic and societal implications of global warming and climate change, the ethics and morality of our ability to genetically modify our unborn children, an increasing and ageing population that has come about through advances in medicine and increased life expectancy, dwindling natural resources and the merging and augmentation of human intelligence through the use of technology and pharmaceuticals. The call for schools to adequately prepare students for an uncertain future can be seen throughout the 60's, 70's and 80's under the guise of school reform and the risk of irrelevance. Whilst the argument today largely remains the same, we have never before been in the grips of such rapid technological development. Change is now the one known against the multitude of unknowns.
Schools play a critical role in shaping the competencies and capabilities of young people in their care. There has always been debate about the kind of skills people will need to thrive in the future. An in-depth knowledge, skillset and expertise of a particular specialization is still absolutely important, but increasingly major discoveries are happening at the interstices between disciplines and this requires depth in a specific field but also an ability and the capability to see and make connections more broadly.
Schools need to create the conditions for students to develop a disposition toward learning. These conditions must not stymie or stifle curiosity, should free children's imaginations and enable them to be resilient in the face of adversity. The role of the teacher will still be to teach, but also to model, mentor, facilitate and assist in the development of character and emotional intelligence. Students will need help in developing a certain comfort with being uncomfortable. They will need to be put into situations where they have to make decisions in order to become skilled at making good decisions. They will need to learn how to navigate the multitude of new technologies at their disposal in safe, effective and ethical ways. If schools tailor their approach to develop students who have a sense of agency, then a variety of teaching and learning approaches must be used that are experiential, project-based and interspersed with purposeful periods of direct instruction. By creating these conditions, students will be equipped with the dispositions, tools and networks to embrace any possible future.
So, is it possible to teach skills for an unpredictable future? Yes. A breadth and depth of knowledge can be gained through a combination of explicit and implicit teaching and via opportunities for students to grapple with complex problems through inquiry. Through community service programs and local and overseas expeditions, students develop an understanding of their place in the world and how they can be leaders, giving back to others and contributing as active, productive and informed citizens. Through a focus on emotional intelligence, students learn how to recognize and regulate their emotions and how to see situations from the perspective of others. Skills like creativity, communication and critical thinking are developed in a number of ways through the experiences teachers develop for young people.
What does this look like in schools? How can this be operationalized? What are some specific examples?
Come and meet me at the Leading a Digital School Conference where I will present a Keynote and two Workshops.
See you at the conference on Thursday 8th August, 2019!
Adrian Camm.
Filed Under: Advancing Cultures of Innovation, Innovation Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, future driven, Innovation


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Biografia
Nato da Marie e Cliff, aveva due fratelli (Colin, nato nel 1944 e Winston, nato nel 1947). Ha vissuto nel quartiere di West Ham, fino al 1960, per poi trasferirsi a Richmond. Lasciò la scuola a 15 anni e per un po' di tempo farà vari lavoretti, prima di trovare il suo impiego nella musica.

Lavora con Nik Turner per gli Sphynx, con Steve Hillage per due album e con gli Hawkwind, prima di essere chiamato a suonare con Robert Smith nel disco dei The Glove, Blue Sunshine nel 1983, e successivamente nei Cure di Smith dal loro manager Chris Parry, a riempire il posto di batterista, lasciato vuoto per il passaggio di Lol Tolhurst alle tastiere.

Andy rimane con i Cure per i successivi due anni: registra un singolo (The Lovecats, la loro prima hit nella top 10 britannico), un album (The Top) e il live album Concert: The Cure Live.

La sua abilità tecnica è sempre stata riconosciuta dai membri del gruppo. Con il passare dei concerti, però, Andy comincia a sviluppare una dipendenza dall'alcol: il tutto sfocia in una tremenda notte in un albergo di Tokyo dopo la data del 17 ottobre, che sarà la sua ultima con la band, in cui Andy, fuori di sé, gira per l'hotel picchiando le persone che incontra, fino a finire chiuso nella sua stanza, sorvegliato dall'esterno da un poliziotto. Robert si è trovato costretto a cacciarlo dalla band, procurandogli un biglietto aereo per il Regno Unito. Al posto suo è stato chiamato in fretta e furia Vince Ely, ex Psychedelic Furs, che suonerà 11 concerti con loro, prima di essere rimpiazzato a sua volta, per impegni inderogabili, da Boris Williams.

Dopo un po' di settimane di riposo, Andy è andato a suonare nella band di Zeke Manyika, ex-batterista degli Orange Juice. Da allora ha registrato musica per varie altre band e composto jingle pubblicitari.

Muore il 26 febbraio 2019 dopo una lunga malattia.

Discografia

Con i Nik Turner's Sphynx
 1978 - Xitintoday

Con Steve Hillage
 1979 - Live Herald
 1979 - Open

Con The Glove
 1983 - Blue Sunshine

Con The Cure
 1983 - Japanese Whispers
 1984 - The Top
 1984 - Concert: The Cure Live

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Hawkwind
Batteristi rock progressivo

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Do nurses work 3 days a week?
November 7, 2020 By Author Popular
1 Do nurses work 3 days a week?
2 How many hours do nurses work per day?
3 How many hours do nurses work in Australia?
4 Are nurses happy?
5 How difficult is nursing school?
6 How many days off do nurses get?
7 What are the happiest careers?
8 Are nurses rich?
Twelve-hour shifts usually translate to three-day work weeks, but a majority of nurses are not frolicking through life as four-day weekend warriors.
How many hours do nurses work per day?
Approximately nurses work 8 hours per day. Sometimes there may be shorter days also. Full-time working nurse's weekly working hours are usually 36-40 hours depending on shifts.
How many hours do most nurses work?
RN's that work 8 or 10 hour days typically work around 40 hours per week. However, nurses that work 12 hour days may end up working around 36 hours per week. In either case, the 36 hour and 40 hour work weeks are commonly considered full-time work for registered nurses.
How many hours do nurses work in Australia?
Working Hours of Australian Nurses Australia's work week consist of 38 hours. However, most midwives and nurses work a total of 33 hours on average. Keep in mind that most nurses will work an average of 38 hours but overtime opportunities abound.
Are nurses happy?
Nurses are one of the least happy careers in the United States. At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, nurses rate their career happiness 2.7 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 13% of careers.
Is nursing a hard major?
You're headed for a great career, one that's rewarding, challenging, and always exciting. But nursing school is notoriously difficult. Most nursing programs require high GPAs and impressive scores in math, chemistry, biology, psychology, and other demanding subjects. It's also extremely fulfilling.
How difficult is nursing school?
Nursing school isn't for the faint of heart. In fact, it can be extremely challenging. Because nursing programs tend to be more demanding in terms of credits, many students are forced to fast-track their degrees by taking multiple hard classes at once.
How many days off do nurses get?
Nurses receive an average of 26 vacation days, while all workers get an average of 23 vacation days.
How much do nurses get paid per hour in Australia?
The average registered nurse salary in Australia is $79,500 per year or $40.77 per hour. Entry-level positions start at $76,879 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $97,500 per year.
What are the happiest careers?
31 of the happiest jobs
Teaching assistant.
Ultrasonographer.
Sound engineering technician.
Early childhood education teacher.
Esthetician.
Heavy equipment operator.
Are nurses rich?
What is this? Nursing certainly provides a good, stable income. But with the median salary of a new RN sitting at around $64,000, if someone asked you "are nurses rich?", I'm guessing what you'd probably say.
What's the hardest class in nursing school?
Hardest Nursing School Classes
Pathophysiology. In this course, students learn how different anatomical systems work and how diseases or injuries affect these systems.
Pharmacology.
Medical Surgical 1 (also known as Adult Health 1)
Evidence-Based Practice.
How do you handle an overworked employee?
Is Herbalife shake a supplement?


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Is the purge real happening in real life 2022
Is the purge real happening in real life 2022: Since people heard about the new law in Illinois, they have been talking about Purge. The comparison to the movie has made many people wonder when the first purge took place, if it ever did.
People on social media have a lot of theories about the Safe-T act, which is going to become law next year.
People in the US have mixed feelings about it, and some have wondered if a real-life Purge has ever happened.
Looper says that Purge did happen in real life, and the events that took place also inspired the movie. But it happened hundreds of years ago when Roman Pagans held a festival called Saturnalia.
The news source said that from December 17th to December 25th, during this "celebration," people could do anything they wanted without worrying about the consequences.
People mostly went to the festival to get drunk and live out their wildest dreams. Because of this, there was a lot of vandalism and violence. Since most people took part, the Roman courts were closed during this time and everyone had to take care of themselves.
Did The Purge Ever Happen In Real Life?
As was already said, the movie Purge was based on things that happened hundreds of years ago. But it wasn't the only movie that borrowed ideas from the festival.
The news source says that Star Trek was the first movie to use examples from this event to illustrate a point. It was called "Return of the Archons."
The plot of the movie Purge is based on a time when all crimes, no matter how bad, are legal for 12 hours. This happens once a year in the United States. The story continues to be about a family that gets into trouble when a stranger breaks into their house.
All of the movie's parts can be seen right now on Netflix.
What Is The New Safe-t Act
Rockford Register Star says that when the Safe-T Act goes into effect on January 1, 2023, about 400 people who have been in jail will be let back into the community.
This Act was passed in 2020, but it's getting more attention now, because there are only 111 days until January 1, 2023.
The news source says that the law says that people can't be detained for "aggravated batteries, robberies, burglaries, hate crimes, aggravated DUIs, vehicular homicides, drug-induced homicides, and all drug offenses, including delivery of fentanyl and trafficking cases," unless there is "clear and convincing evidence" that the person is likely to run away to avoid being prosecuted.


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Die Batrachedridae  sind eine Familie der Schmetterlinge.

Merkmale
Die Vertreter der Batrachedridae erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 10 bis 15 Millimeter. Die Fühler sind etwa so lang wie die Vorderflügel, das basale Fühlerglied (Scapus) ist kurz und besitzt eine einzelne Borste. Die Augen sind moderat, Ocellen fehlen. Die Labialpalpen sind ziemlich lang, nach oben gebogen und vorn nicht mit Haarbüscheln oder Schuppen versehen. Das dritte Segment ist etwas kürzer als das zweite. Die Vorderflügel sind gerade und haben zwei auffällige schwarze Punkte in der Kostalfalte. Die Ader R5 der Vorderflügel ist reduziert, die Adern M1 und M2 sind an der Basis unscheinbar. Die Hinterflügel sind sehr schmal und gerade, die Adern M1 und M2 sind gestielt. Am Außenrand sind nur vier Adern vorhanden. Auf den Hintertibien befinden sich vor dem Tibienmittelpunkt ein Paar Sporne. Die Abdominaltergite II bis VII haben ein Paar in Längsrichtung verlaufende Reihen tief eingelagerter, spezieller lanzettlicher Schuppen.

Die Larven sind lang, schlank und zylindrisch. Sie sind gelb und haben keine sekundären Borsten. Sie sind sehr beweglich.

Die Puppen haben exponierte Labialpalpen und Vorderfemura. Die Abdominalsegmente IV bis VI sind beweglich. Eine Kremasterspitze ist nicht ausgebildet, es sind lediglich kleine Dornhäkchen an der Abdomenspitze vorhanden.

Die Kokons sind spindelförmig, doppelwandig und mit Raupenkot und Detritus bedeckt.

Verbreitung
Die Familie Batrachedridae ist nicht sehr artenreich, die Gebiete mit der größten Artenvielfalt befinden sich in Amerika und in der Afrotropis. In der Paläarktis kommen nur 10 Arten vor.

Biologie
Die Falter der Familie sind hauptsächlich an Waldgebiete gebunden, manchmal findet man sie auch in Parks oder Alleen. Die Larven leben in Gespinstgalerien zwischen oder in den Reproduktionsorganen von Pflanzen. Als Larvennahrung dienen überwiegend zweikeimblättrige Pflanzen, aber auch einkeimblättrige und Koniferen. In den Tropen und Subtropen gelten einige Arten als Schädlinge an Palmen. In Ausnahmefällen wurde auch Myrmekophilie beobachtet.
Man findet die Falter häufig ruhend an Baumstämmen, wo sie eine auffällige Ruhehaltung zeigen. Dabei ist der vordere Teil des Körpers aufgerichtet und die Vorderbeine zeigen nach hinten. Werden die Falter aufgescheucht, dann laufen sie schnell über die Rinde oder springen davon. Die Falter kommen bereitwillig ans Licht.

Systematik
Bei den Batrachedridae handelt es sich um eine spezialisierte Gruppe von Faltern, die durch zwei Autapomorphieen charakterisiert ist. Die Flügel sind extrem schmal, zeigen eine reduzierte Aderung und die Falter haben eine sehr auffällige Ruhehaltung. Die meisten Genitalmerkmale (mit Ausnahme des manchmal sehr langen Aedeagus) und die Morphologie des Kopfes sind für die Gelechioidea eher plesiomorph. Verschiedene Merkmale wie die unspezialisierte Lebensweise der Raupen, die Bindung der Raupen an die Reproduktionsorgane hauptsächlich von Bäumen sowie die geringe Artenvielfalt und das Fehlen eines geografischen Diversitätszentrums sprechen dafür, dass es sich bei den Batrachedridae um eine kleine, hochentwickelte Gruppe von Faltern mit besonderen Merkmalen handelt. Die Batrachedridae werden daher als monophyletische und gut abgrenzbare Familie behandelt, die mit den Coleophoridae eng verwandt ist.

In Europa ist die Familie mit drei Arten vertreten:
 Gattung Batrachedra
 Batrachedra parvulipunctella , 1915
 Batrachedra pinicolella (, 1839)
 Batrachedra praeangusta (, 1828)

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The curriculum in fifth grade reading uses a novel-based approach. Emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking, comprehension, and fluency. There is a focus on understanding relationships between and among the characters, as well how events in the stories provided a foreshadowing of things to come.
In addition to the novels, students read and discuss short stories, with and emphasis placed on comprehension and the ability to show their understanding of the reading through thought provoking questions. Independent reading is encouraged both in school and at home.
Students build on the foundation laid in earlier grades to write complex sentences, organize and develop coherent paragraphs with topic sentences and descriptive details. Students continue to write descriptive, expository, persuasive, and creative compositions. The Step up to Writing program is the foundation of the writing program in the lower school.
Grammar lessons reinforce and extend the skills taught in fourth grade using Sadlier's Grammar Workshop, students will demonstrate a working knowledge of eight parts of speech in all capacities, which gives them a foundation of language and a solid understanding of the structure of writing.
Vocabulary Workshop is the basis for the vocabulary curriculum as well as important vocabulary terms taken from novels read in class.
Using the Math in focus curriculum, students master place value from millions to thousandths. Students increase their knowledge with the four basic math operations and apply their understanding to decimals, percents and fractions. The students know and use metric and customary measuring units to determine length and area. They also use formulas to find the volume of simple geometric figures. Students develop fluency of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers. Problem solving skills and practical applications are emphasized throughout the year.
Fifth grade social studies looks at Louisiana history, including its European roots, colonial period, and transition into statehood with a study of Louisiana's role in the broader context of American history. The course finishes with an emphasis on the history of the southern United States up to the early 21st century.


Our PYP Readers and Companions are specially designed to motivate younger learners and help them develop vital inquiry-based reading strategies.
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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'sinatra/reloader'
require 'sqlite3'

def init_db
	@db = SQLite3::Database.new 'lepersorium.db'
	@db.results_as_hash = true
end

before do
	init_db
end

configure do
	init_db
	@db.execute 'create table if not exists Posts
	(
		id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
		created_date DATE,
		content TEXT,
		author TEXT
	)'
	@db.execute 'create table if not exists Comments
	(
		id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
		created_date DATE,
		content TEXT,
		post_id INTEGER,
		author TEXT
	)'
end

get '/' do
	# выбираем посты из базы

	@results = @db.execute 'select * from posts order by id desc'
	erb :index
end

get '/new' do
  erb :new
end

post '/new' do
	content = params[:content]
	author = params[:author]

	if content.length <= 0
		@error = "Введите что-нибудь"
		return erb :new
	end

	if author.length <= 0
		@error = "Представьтесь, пожалуйста"
		return erb :new
	end

	@db.execute "insert into Posts (content, created_date, author) values (?, datetime(), ?)", [content, author]

	redirect to '/'
end

def get_post_details
	post_id = params[:post_id]

	results = @db.execute 'select * from Posts where id = ?', [post_id]
	@row = results[0]

	# выбираем комментарии для поста
	@comments = @db.execute 'select * from Comments where post_id = ? order by id', [post_id]
end

# вывод информации о посте
get '/details/:post_id' do
	get_post_details
	erb :details

end

# обработчик post-запроса
post '/details/:post_id' do
	post_id = params[:post_id]
	content = params[:content]
	author = params[:author]

	if content.length <= 0
		@error = "Введите что-нибудь"
		get_post_details
		return erb :details
	end

	if author.length <= 0
		@error = "Представьтесь, пожалуйста"
		get_post_details
		return erb :details
	end

	@db.execute "insert into Comments
		(
			content, created_date, post_id, author
		)
			values
		(
			?,
			datetime(),
			?,
			?
		)", [content, post_id, author]

	redirect to '/details/' + post_id

end

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Automatic textbooks billing: an offer students can't refuse?
New report says deals with publishers could make college textbooks more expensive
USPIRG Textbook Automatic Billing Feb2020 (Illustrated Ver.)
U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Attending college in America is one of the largest expenses someone will ever have in their lifetime.
For more than 30 years, textbook publishers have added to that financial burden by using their power in the market to drive up textbook costs through a variety of tactics. Three companies — Pearson, Cengage, and McGraw-Hill — control 80 percent of the college textbook market. These publishers have historically driven up prices by issuing new editions with limited changes and taking advantage of a captive market of students who cannot choose an alternative to the assigned textbook. The result is clear: the rapidly increasing cost of textbooks has students now spending over $3 billion of financial aid dollars each year on course materials.
In the internet age, students have found new ways to work around high textbook costs. The past decade has seen the creation of a thriving online marketplace that facilitates trading, renting, and selling of books. And, a growing movement of openly licensed textbooks that are free or can be printed at low cost are creating real competition for traditional publishers — and saving students hundreds of millions.
Requiring students to purchase access codes for a proprietary publisher platform to submit homework or other course materials is crucial for publishers to stay relevant in this shifting marketplace. These codes lock students into high cost textbooks without significantly increasing educational value. Instead, students continue to struggle to afford critical educational material and often lose access to the materials at a later date. This is a continuation of the broken textbook market, not a radical solution. Rather than making changes that are more consumer-friendly, access codes are a last-ditch attempt from the publishing industry to maintain — and even strengthen — their monopoly.
To increase use of access codes, publishers have sought out partnerships with institutions to steer faculty into these products and automatically bill students for these materials. Variously known as inclusive access, innovative pricing, or other names specific to the publisher, contracts between publishers and institutions set in place the conditions and discounts under which students are automatically charged on their tuition bill via an opt-out charge for each assigned class material.
Under federal law, these materials must be sold to students below market price if they are to be automatically billed, and students must be able to opt out of such charges. However, are these programs worth the trade-offs on transparency and choice to students, faculty, and institutions? Are discounts significant? Do they last? Do students have real decision making power in opting out? What other conditions exist?
U.S. PIRG Education Fund undertook a first of its kind review of automatic billing contracts across the country at public institutions big and small to help answer these questions, shed light on these programs, create a framework for evaluating such programs and recommend alternatives. The review covered 52 contracts between 31 colleges that represent a cross-section of the nation's higher education institutions, and affect more than 700,000 undergraduate students. The review found five major problems:
Nearly half of automatic billing contracts we reviewed fail to fully disclose their discount structure. Students and faculty will struggle to tell how significant a discount they are getting. When contracts disclosed the discount, it was undercut by the use of a national automatic billing book list that could be hard for members of the campus community to access.
42 percent of institutions signed at least one contract that put limitations on publicity around these partnerships, which could potentially allow the publisher to veto any campus marketing materials that would inform students and faculty about program value or how to opt-out.
68 percent of publisher contracts include a clause where the discount would be eliminated, reduced, or the contract cancelled for a missed quota of students enrolled in the automatic billing program, which could be as high as 90 percent% of the course.
Only one institution in our study capped price increases. 33 percent of publisher contracts had the potential for annual uncapped price increases, and 21 percent had the potential for twice-annual price increases.
One fifth of automatic billing contracts limited the number of students who could purchase print versions of their materials, typically capped at 15 percent of the course.
In addition to reviewing legal contracts signed by the institution and the course materials provider, we analyze how implementation of automatic billing programs failed to provide students or faculty a chance for input, prevented students from opting out, or otherwise impacted such efforts.
The solution is simple: rather than using automatic billing in college classrooms, colleges should switch to options that preserve faculty and institutional control, and enhance student choice. We urge campus leaders to say no to automatic billing proposals on their campus, and if one is already in place, fight for these changes to improve student and faculty choice:
Have a clearly marked pricing structure publically available that shows the original price of the assigned material, the discount off the national list price, and multiple format options.
Reject attempts to restrict marketing materials that can be issued by the institution to educate students on their course materials purchasing options.
Eliminate quotas. The discounts alone ought to be enough to get students to participate at a high enough level to make the program worthwhile.
Cap annual price increases to no more than the rate of inflation, which is currently at 2.3 percent annually.
End any restrictions on the number of students who can obtain print copies.
Have the billing mechanism be opt-in, and listed as one of many methods of payment alongside credit cards, cash, etc. that students can use at the bookstore. There is nothing wrong with institutions seeking to negotiate bulk discounts for students, but students should be able to choose whether to take advantage of it and how they pay.
We lay out further recommendations and next steps for various stakeholders to engage on the issue of automatic billing, and provide appedices with guiding questions and examples to support their efforts.
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Waterproof Library Bags are available from Mrs Cook.
At Canning Vale Primary School all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 have the opportunity to borrow library books to encourage a love of books and reading.
Borrowing books from the library on a weekly basis encourages children to explore a wide range of topics/subjects/genre. It also fosters the responsibility of looking after the books whilst in their care, and remembering to return or renew their books every week.
All students must have a library bag in order to borrow.
Students from Kindergarten to Year 2 may borrow one book.
Students from Year 3 to Year 6 may borrow two books.
Students may renew their book if they have not finished reading the book within the week.
Teacher will receive a list of children with overdue books the day after their library session.
Children with overdue book/s do not need to wait until their next library session to return their book/s. They may return either before school or after school to the returns trolley in the library.
At 15 days overdue, a notice will be sent by mail/email to alert the parent of their child's overdue book/s. Children with overdue books may not borrow.
At 21 days overdue, an invoice will be issued and mailed out. Borrowing is not permitted until the invoice has been paid.
If a book is damaged whilst on loan to a student, an invoice will be issued and mailed out.
Borrowing is not permitted until the invoice has been paid.
On the invoice, an administrative fee of $2 is charged to cover the costs of replacement barcode and plastic covering etc. GST has to be charged as the school no longer 'owns' the book.


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Rosemary and Reading Glasses
Reads Worth Remembering
Index of Reviews by Author
Featured Poems (2013)
January 12, 2017 / Carolyn O	/ 10 Comments
What I read last week: Roxane Gay's story collection, debut fiction from Kathleen Arden, poetry by David St. John, and Claire Fuller's second novel.
The first week of 2017 was a good start to the reading year; I had a bit more time to read than usual, thanks to the holiday, so I managed to zip through four books.
First up: Roxane Gay's Difficult Women*, a collection of Ms. Gay's previously published short stories. The women portrayed in these stories are troubled—by violence, abuse, miscarriage, lost children, lost childhoods—and troubling to those (mostly men) around them, who cannot come to grips with their struggles. Recurring motifs include knives, deer, hunting, mold, and sex, though the stories run the gamut in setting (Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Florida) and style (realist to fantastical). The exquisite "North Country" is worth the price of admission, and I loved the title story, which takes on the categories women often find themselves assigned to ("Crazy Women", "Frigid Women," "Mothers," and more). Emotionally difficult but worthwhile reading, which is what I expect from the author of An Untamed State and Bad Feminist.
Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale* is perfect reading for a snowy weekend. In her debut, Ms. Arden (who has quite an impressive background in Russian studies) brings medieval Russia to life as she chronicles the extraordinary days of Vasilisa, the fearless, adventuresome youngest daughter of a boyar living in a small village at the edge of a wild forest. If that sounds like the setup for a fairytale, that's because it is: myth and magic are intertwined with the everyday eking out of survival in Vasya's world, as she and siblings forget their frozen fingers and empty stomachs as they listen to her old nurse's tales of the frost demon and the smaller spirits of their home. While there were a few loose ends (meant for a sequel, perhaps?) and one subplot that was a bit trite, overall I found The Bear and the Nightingale to be a delicious, exuberant foray into a lost world.
Long ago, when this blog was young, it was a way to push myself to memorize poems—less than successful, I'm sorry to say. But the poets I read that year have stuck with me, including David St. John, whose poem "In the High Country" is just lovely. I was happy to find a copy of The Shore (1980) at one of my favorite used bookstores, but while I liked the collection (and a few poems in particular, including "Guitar" and "Until the Sea is Dead"), it's not destined for my all-time favorites list. I'm still glad to have read it, though.
I recommended Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller's debut novel, when it was published in 2015, and her new novel, Swimming Lessons, is another great find (it's an early pick for the Book of the Month club; look for it in bookstores this February). Like Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons offers twin mysteries: in this case, both revolve around the disappearance of Ingrid Coleman, the wife of a semi-famous English novelist and mother to their two daughters. In the present, Flora, the younger daughter, returns to her childhood home to care for her father (with the help of Nan, her sister) and to investigate her mother's disappearance. In alternating chapters, we read Ingrid's letters to Gil (never sent; placed in several of his multitudinous books) that chronicle how she was swept away by their romance—and might explain why she disappeared. If you read and like Swimming Lessons, I recommend Meg Wolitzer's The Wife and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies.
I hope your first (and second) week of reading went well!
*I received a copy of these books from the publishers for review purposes, which did not affect the content of my reviews.
Recommended Reading: Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett
September 13, 2016 September 8, 2016 / Carolyn O	/ 24 Comments
Ann Patchett's Commonwealth* is like an unfamiliar lake on a ninety-degree day that you can't wait to sink into; even if you don't know how deep it goes, you won't want to come up for air.
It starts in Los Angeles, with a bottle of gin and orange trees heavy with fruit. Bert Cousins walks into the christening party for Beverly and Fix Keating's new daughter Franny with a completely inappropriate gift (the gin), which when mixed with fresh-squeezed juice from the backyard oranges leads to revelry not usually associated with christening parties.
Then Bert kisses Beverly, leading to the unraveling of two families and the imperfect attempt to knit together a new blended family. Beverly and Bert move to Virginia with Franny and her older sister Caroline; Bert's four children—Cal, Holly, Jeanette, and Albie—visit during the summers, leaving their mother Teresa behind in L.A. Bert and Beverly are "careless people" in many respects; the children are often unsupervised, and they find their (dangerous) freedom exhilarating: "It was like that every summer the six of them were together. Not that the days were always fun, most of them weren't, but they did things, real things, and they never got caught."
The kiss is the first of three turning points in this excellent novel. The second involves a terrible accident; the third is when Franny, adrift in her twenties, meets the acclaimed novelist Leo Posen and tells him her family's story.
Commonwealth follows eleven major characters over fifty years—and manages to deliver full portraits of their lives in less than 350 pages. Each chapter is as exquisitely paced and revealing as a short story (indeed, several of the chapters could stand alone as stories), and yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ms. Patchett's storytelling makes the ordinary gripping; for instance, when Franny is treated like a cook and maid by Leo's publishing friends in the summer house they've rented together, I started biting my nails, wondering if she would snap. I practically cheered when, earlier in the book, Teresa puts her four kids on the plane to their father (who had pushed for full summer custody) without suitcases but with a list of all the appointments they need (dentist, doctor, etc): "Beverly Cousins wanted her family? Have at it."
I started off thinking that Commonwealth would be a book about divorce; and it is, of course, but it's more about family, bad decisions and living with the consequences of those decisions, loyalty, and friendship. My copy of the book is studded with notes marking favorite passages and lines ("Franny's skin was so translucent it acted more as a window than a shade."); I'm willing to bet that if you pick it up (it's out today), your copy will be too. Commonwealth is highly recommended.
Have you read Commonwealth or any of Ann Patchett's other books?
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review purposes, which did not affect the content of my review.
** Confession: Though I own Bel Canto and State of Wonder (the former acquired at a delightful book swap birthday party in January 2009, the latter at Target, which maybe tells you something about my collecting habits), Commonwealth is the first of Ann Patchett's books that I've read. I admire her work on behalf of independent bookstores, and you can be sure that if I ever visit Nashville, Parnassus Books would be the first stop on my itinerary.
Colorado Reading
June 2, 2015 June 1, 2015 / Carolyn O	/ 15 Comments
I don't know about you, but I find I hardly ever get as much reading done on vacation as I think I will. And that's okay; usually it means there's been sightseeing and visiting and talking late at night and eating and museum-going aplenty.
As I mentioned not too long ago, recently we visited family and friends in Denver, which was delightful. I brought along War of the Encyclopaedists, which I started and finished on the trip, as well as Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories. I figured something with a Western vibe that I could read in short chunks would be a good choice, and it was, if grimmer than expected. Close Range includes Brokeback Mountain, the basis of the movie of the same name, and all things considered it's one of the brighter stories in the collection. Close Range is visceral reading—Ms. Proulx has an extraordinary gift for rendering place, and her characters are both strange and real.
That's two books, and extraordinary restraint in book-packing on my part, I must say. There's a reason for that: I had a list of about a dozen bookstores I wanted to visit in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder, but I only made it to two (guess I'll just have to go back, darn).
First up was the Tattered Cover, Denver's largest and most famous independent bookstore. It has several outposts, and I visited the store on Colfax, where I picked up Gregory Pardlo's Pulitzer-Prize winning Digest. I read it over the next few days and finished it on the plane, and I highly recommend it. The poems are about origins and identity, fatherhood and what it means to be American. They're very, very good, and packed with intellectual energy; I want to re-read them all again.
Next I went to one of my uncle's favorite bookstores, Colorado's Used Bookstore in Englewood. It's an unassuming store, with a huge selection of genre paperbacks, an eclectic poetry section, and a huge set of back rooms for nonfiction and trade paperbacks. The woman I met, who I believe owns the store, was very friendly and helpful, and pointed out that they sell books online, including hard-to-find books.
At Colorado's Used Bookstore I found Ghost Ship by Mary Kinzie and On the Bus with Rosa Parks, by Rita Dove (both poetry), Moral Disorder (a collection of Margaret Atwood stories), Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce (I loved The Orenda and Three-day Road) and Louise Erdrich's Tracks (still can't stop thinking about The Round House). I can't wait to dive into these.
Next time in Colorado, I'll be trying for those other ten bookstores, and I'd like to look up some Colorado writers before I go, to find their work in its native habitat.
And what about you, Dear Readers? Do you race through books on vacation, or pack more than you can read?
"We were born before the wind": Van Morrison's Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics
October 28, 2014 October 27, 2014 / Carolyn O	/ 4 Comments
Van Morrison's collection of lyrics, Lit Up Inside*, is out today, and if you're a fan, you're going to want to pick it up. Famously private, Mr. Morrison doesn't often comment on his work, so this selection (roughly 100), which is about a third of his total output, is itself a statement.
The lyrics chosen range from the famous early work ("Moondance," "Gloria," "Brown Eyed Girl") to songs from his recent catalogue. Many are grounded in the singer's native Ireland, in its cities and working people (the introduction by Eammon Hughes focuses in particular on urban geography), and of course in Van Morrison's romantic lyricism and interest in the divine.
Like his music, the lyrics collected in Lit Up Inside often defy categorization; some are really lyrics alone, requiring music to reach their potential greatness; some read like Beat poetry; some are prayers. All of them made me want to listen to Van Morrison, which is perhaps the best compliment I can pay the book.
Thanks to Lit Up Inside, I just revisited two of my favorite albums. Astral Weeks is just plain brilliant, and who doesn't love Moondance? "And It Stoned Me" is one of the best songs about childhood of all time. "Crazy Love" is on my top-five list of greatest love songs. "Everyone" was our wedding recessional, and now our son likes to dance to it on sunny Sunday mornings.
I have maybe five of his forty-odd albums, so I'm not a die-hard Van Morrison fan by any means, but this selection gave me the opportunity to focus on the lyrics alone, and thus Mr. Morrison's engagement with literature, religion, history, and social concerns (reflected in Mr. Morrison's choice of the venerable and independent City Lights as the United States publisher). But it also made me think about how poetry and music make each other, and I think for Van Morrison, even more than, say, Leonard Cohen, the two are inextricably linked. If you'd like to know Van Morrison better, I wholeheartedly recommend Lit Up Inside.
Here's a link to "Into the Mystic," which is the poem of the week.
"Stay, I said / to the cut flowers": Jane Hirshfield's "The Promise" from Come, Thief
August 26, 2014 August 24, 2014 / Carolyn O	/ 2 Comments
On vacation earlier this month, Mr. O and I visited the well-appointed Island Books in Middletown, Rhode Island. One of the things I liked best about this little shop was its poetry selection, which included recommended titles handpicked by the bookstore's staff. Thanks to their recommendation, I picked up Jane Hirshfield's 2011 book Come, Thief, which I highly recommend.
In this collection, Ms. Hirshfield focuses on small scenes, both natural and domestic, as she reflects on attentiveness, change, and beauty; of special note are several exquisite poems about aging and the inevitable failures of body and mind.
In "The Promise," which you can read here, the speaker wishes that things both small and beautiful (a cut flower, a spider, a leaf) and large and wondrous (the body, the earth itself) would not change or fade or leave, while acknowledging the inevitability of those kinds of losses. It's a wistful but lovely poem.
A Literary Wedding, or, "Earth's the right place for love: / I don't know where it's likely to go better."
August 6, 2013 August 6, 2013 / Carolyn O	/ 15 Comments
Our wedding rings
We were married three years ago this week, back in the olden days before Pinterest provided endless helpful suggestions regarding how to personalize your wedding with monograms and mason jars.
Now, I love a mason jar as much as the next gal, but our last name's initial looks a heckuva lot like a circle, so I didn't (and don't) see much point in monogramming anything. I think it would have confused people. ("Which table are you sitting at?" "Table 0." "Oh, I thought we were at table O." "Oh dear.") Personalizing one's wedding ought to mean something more than splashing one's initials all over it in in perfect wildflower hues, right?
Our wedding would never make the pages of Martha Stewart Weddings. We didn't meticulously handcraft garlands of paper cranes from the pages of vintage books. We didn't do favors, rice, confetti, a "real" wedding cake (we went with the Heart of Darkness chocolate torte, with mango coulis), or a "normal" ceremony.
What we did do was try very hard to make the wedding our own, an event that expressed not only who we are as a couple but where we came from — the people and words and music that shaped our lives.
The program included the line from "Birches" I've used in this post's title, and Juliet's immortal lines, "My bounty is as boundless as the sea / My love as deep. The more I give to thee / The more I have, for both are infinite." The lettering on the front of the program used a font based on Jane Austen's handwriting; on the last page we reprinted Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 in memory of absent friends.
The processional was "Building the Barn" from Witness, because, well, just watch that part of the movie (bonus: Viggo Mortenson cameo!). And the recessional was "Everyone" by Van Morrison because, well, watch the end of The Royal Tenenbaums. But only if you've seen the beginning and the middle.
While guests waited they had the option of tinkering with a crossword we made about us, our friends, and families, or looking out over a little river and falls, or browsing in the bookstore.
Yes, we were married at a bookstore. Well, technically, we were married on a deck that's part of a restaurant that's located in an old mill that's been converted into a used bookstore in a town called, of all things, Montague. But I just tell everyone that we were married at a bookstore. It's easier that way.
[It's lovely to be able to return to a place that holds such beautiful memories for us; we try to go back at least once a year. I'll post pictures from our latest visit tomorrow. I bet you'll want to go there too.]
Our ceremony was comprised of the usual wedding bits, retooled to suit our beliefs and preferred wording, and literary readings. Each of us asked a parent, a sibling, a friend, and an aunt or uncle to read during the ceremony, in groups of two.
Which readings, you ask?
"In Lands I Never Saw," by Emily Dickinson
"The Owl and the Pussycat," by Edward Lear
"Most Like an Arch This Marriage," by John Ciardi
Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare
"The Master Speed," by Robert Frost
a selection from the Song of Songs
a selection from Emma, by Jane Austen
a selection from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
I can still hear each one of these people reading, people we love who shared these words that mean so much to us. Because a marriage ceremony is an act of speaking something into being, and it's important to get the words right.
So, since today is Tuesday, and therefore a poetry day around these parts, I thought today I'd highlight a poem that wasn't read at our wedding.
You read that right. We both love Robert Frost's "Birches" — so much so that my husband's wedding ring is etched to look like birch bark — but it is long, and not really related to marriage, so we chose a different Frost poem for our set of readings. Now, though, after three years and one child together, this poem has taken on even more significance to us. Sometimes I imagine my son as the boy in the poem, confident though solitary. Sometimes I turn to the poem when things get hard, as they are wont to do, when
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
But above all, we love the poem for its abiding love for the beauty and promise of this world and its often-anonymous inhabitants. After all, "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
Three years later, at the Bookmill.
Did you incorporate readings into your wedding ceremony? How did you choose your readings?
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A few days ago power steering in my brother-in-law's car stopped working. Anyone who knew about it, bent over the unfortunate fault, but nothing was established after hours of work. Because we once had the same problem, we thought it was a fluid issue. Unfortunately.
My brother-in-law was not happy because of the prospect of excluding such a necessary car and expenses. I felt great regret for him because of the child's communion, and now such situation!
I started to pray for a car and when my brother-in-law mentioned how much it will probably cost, I suddenly felt a urge to tell him: You'll see everything work until tomorrow, you will not pay a penny for it!
I also asked the Holy Spirit to tell me what it could be, what reason? And I heard one word "a pad". But…. I kept it for myself, I did not share it.
And so we parted with the visible fact: power steering was still not working.
The next day my husband came home and said: You know what, this power steering works! B. once again inspired, looked under the mask and you know what turned out to be? That it was some …… pad! Who would have thought!


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Containment Season 1 Episode 1 Review: Pilot
Miranda Wicker at April 19, 2016 9:59 pm . Updated at April 20, 2016 6:05 am .
From the very moment I heard about the premise of Containment, I was hooked. Reminiscent of Outbreak, set in Atlanta like The Walking Dead, Julie Plec's new drama sounded perfect. Plus there's Chris Woods, so, you know.
Where most pilots spend time setting up the drama, Containment Season 1 Episode 1 jumps right into it revealing that things aren't going so well inside the cordon.
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For the CW, a network which prides itself on churning out some of the best (and only) sci-fi and supernatural television of the five major non-cable networks, Containment marks a turn into a more adult style of programming.
They seem to be gunning for the older end of the coveted 18 to 41 demographic, and they've definitely got me.
What starts as a 48-hour quarantine, we learn in the show's opening credits, has turned into a 13-day attempt at defying death inside a small area of Atlanta.
National Guard members are rolling into the streets. The walking dead are being shot on site to stop the spread of a highly infectious disease which has a 100% fatality rate.
Bombs are going off. Uninfected people are screaming. The chaos is overwhelming. Then we flash back to Day 1 of the quarantine.
It all seems so perfectly normal, and this is where Containment really sucks in viewers.
Containment spends just the right amount of time introducing our major players and their relation to one another before throwing them all into the midst of this threatening epidemic. As the audience we're on a mission to figure out how they'll all survive or if they even will.
Lex Carnahan and his girlfriend Jana have a spat about her reluctance to move in with him. His friend and co-worker Jake (and Jana's ex-boyfriend and friend) is a loner-type, dedicated to his work, with some sort of brokenness hidden inside him. He's good at his job and well-liked by his peers, but, perhaps more than anyone else, he seems afraid of the prospect of dying.
Teresa and Xander are a teen couple facing the impending arrival of their baby. A baby which Teresa's mother insists she give up for adoption. To avoid that fate, the couple decide to run away together.
Katie, a mother and teacher, takes her classroom on a field trip to sing for sick patients in the hospital where Patient Zero has recently received care.
Dr. Cannerts eagerly tries to determine the origins of the virus in order to figure out how they might stop it.
And then the Quarantine happens.
Lovers are separated, perhaps forever. Children can't be reunited with their parents so Katie finds herself caring for all of them while stuck inside the hospital. No one is allowed to touch for fear of spreading the disease.
No one is allowed to touch.
No human contact for (at least) 48 hours so that this disease can be stopped in its tracks. Everyone is supposed to stay 4 to 6 feet away from other humans.
So then I find myself, as a mother, wondering what I would do if I couldn't comfort my children with my presence. A hug or a cuddle. What if I couldn't hold my husband's hand?
Then the show is set in Atlanta and I live here so the sites and places and names are all REAL ones (except the hospital name) and it's just sort of gripping for me in a way other dramas aren't.
Already there are characters I'm pulling for and characters I distrust immensely, one being Claudia Black's Dr. Lommers, a high level executive with the Department of Health and Human Services who is responsible for issuing the quarantine order and locking down a grid of the city.
There's something about her that knows more than she's letting on, but what she knows isn't good. The lack of fear in her voice and demeanor says that there's more going on here than we realize just yet, but our characters will figure it out. While the antagonist of the series is definitely the virus, Dr. Lommers is a close second.
Conveniently, she places herself outside the cordon while those on the inside fight to figure out how to stay alive.
Will they? How many major characters will we lose during the 13-episode run of Containment Season 1? How will they manage to stay safe when they are literally trapped inside a hospital with death all around them?
We'll definitely find out as Containment continues, and I know I'm eager to see it all play out.
What did you think of the Containment Pilot? Are you excited to see Chris Woods back on the small screen? How do you think this season will play out? Let's chat about this new series in the comments below and if you missed the pilot you can watch Containment online!
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Status: Passed on February 09, 2017
This proposal was initially created in the Track subcommittee, but since it is about Chapter 1 of the Rulebook, it belongs here in the Main Committee.
So I just re-created the proposal here, and will "Table" the original proposal in the Track subcommittee.
For the original discussion, see link under References.
The host may decide to make official video of some competitions, for example at the start line and/or the finish line, or the 5-meter-line in case of the 50 m one-foot race. This must be announced before the competition to let the competitors know about their option to protest through this video.
Regardless of whether official video is available, all possible sources of evidence are generally allowed as a means of verification in case of a protest, including (but not limited to) private photos/videos and eyewitness reports. If someone submits a protest and has evidence that he wants to be considered, he must state that with his protest. If possible, it is recommended that digital material is copied onto an 'official' computer for analysis. As an alternative, the evidence must be readily accessible, e.g. through a contact person and phone number.
In case of video evidence (regardless of its origin), a referee without good skills in video analysis should ask for a skilled assistant in order to prevent incorrect interpretations.
The referee decides which evidence he will consider, and the 'value' he assigns to the various pieces of information. Generally, official camera footage and judge reports will have higher 'value' than private evidence. The objective is that all riders will be judged as fairly as possible.
In the discussion, some people argued that every available information that can lead to finding the 'truth' should be allowed to use. How can we forbid a referee to use the information if he wants to use it in order to make a fair decision?
Others maintained that using private video can lead to biased verdicts: one rider might be DQ'd because a private video showed his late foot-lifting in wheel walk, while another got away with it because no footage was available (or shared). Another argument is that with the growing availability of smartphones and other devices that can record video, referees might be swamped in video footage.
My proposal tries to satisfy both lines of argument. It allows the use of private videos, but explicitly states that the referee decides whether he wants to use it, and also that the objective is to judge all riders as fairly as possible. This implies that if using private video would decrease the fairness of judging, it should not be used. This decision rests with the referee.
In the revised proposal, all of the above is still true, but I tried to incorporate a few points on which consensus seems to exist.
Link to original discussion: http://iuf-rulebook-2016.committees.unicycling-software.com/discussions/116
I processed the discussion, notably Olaf's contributions, as follows:
In the first sentence, I added the start and finish lines as possible examples of official video.
The following sentences were literally added (the last one was already partially in the original proposal):
If someone submits a protest and has evidence that he wants to be considered, he must state that with his protest.
If possible, it is recommended that digital material is copied onto an 'official' computer for analysis. As an alternative, the evidence must be readily accessible, e.g. through a contact person and phone number.
The referee decides which evidence he will consider, and the 'value' he assigns to the various pieces of information. Generally, official camera footage and judge reports will have higher 'value' than private evidence.
Finally, for easier reading I changed "Chief Judge or Referee" into just "referee".


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