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Mint Theater's THE NEW MORALITY With Christian Campbell, Clemmie Evans, Brenda Meaney & More Now Streaming
Streaming will continue to be available through December 4th only.
by Chloe Rabinowitz Nov. 07, 2022
Mint Theater Company will continue its hybrid season of live performances at NY City Center along with the on-demand streaming of acclaimed previous productions. Beginning today, Monday November 7th, from 7pm, Mint Theater will be streaming the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of The New Morality by Harold Chapin, directed by Mr. Bank. Streaming will continue to be available through December 4th only. The price of admission is FREE. Available at Mint's virtual theater, MintTheater.org.
The New Morality was first produced in London and later in New York in 1921, five years after Chapin's death on September 26th 1915 at the Battle of Loos at the age of twenty-nine. It received another London revival in 1925. Set aboard a houseboat on a fashionable reach of the Thames in 1911, The New Morality tells the story of how the brazen Betty Jones restores dignity to her household and harmony to her marriage, by losing her temper and making a scene.
Jonathan Bank directed a cast that featured Christian Campbell (best known for his role in the contemporary gay film classic Trick; theater credits include Jonathan Larson's tick... tick... BOOM! Off-Broadway and on the National tour and the original Los Angeles and New York productions of Reefer Madness: The Musical as well as the Showtime adaptation, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, opposite his sister Neve Campbell; other TV roles include Greg Ivey on HBO's "Big Love" and Richard Brune in HBO's "True Detective"); Clemmie Evans (Off-Broadway debut in The New Morality; on film she appeared opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in Freedom; TV credits include: "Crashing" - HBO and "Louie" - FX); Michael Frederic (The Lucky One - Mint; other Off-Broadway: The Great Divorce - The Pearl Theatre, Bill W and Dr. Bob - Soho Playhouse); Kelly McCready (also made her Off-Broadway debut in The New Morality; other Off-Bway credits include The Execution of Mrs. Cotton - IRT Theatre and East Side Stories: Revolutions - Metropolitan Playhouse); Brenda Meaney (The Mountains Look Different - Mint, Little Gem - Irish Rep, Indian Ink - Roundabout; TV credits include AMC's "Hell on Wheels" opposite her father, Colm Meaney); Ned Noyes (Mint: Chains, Love Goes to Press, So Help Me God!, and The Fifth Column; Broadway credits include The Play That Goes Wrong, Cabaret, You Can't Take It With You); and Douglas Rees (Mint: Donogoo, What the Public Wants, A Little Journey, and Mary Broome; other Off-Bway: The Show-Off - Peccadillo, Opus - Primary Stages, The Roaring Girls - The Foundry). The New Morality's creative team included Steven C. Kemp (scenic), Carisa Kelly (costumes), Christian DeAngelis (lighting), Jane Shaw (sound), Joshua Yocum (props), Judy Bowman (casting) and Amy Stoller (dialects & dramaturgy).
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
A writer of "wit, gaiety and skillful craftsmanship," the Brooklyn-born British playwright Harold Chapin (1886-1915) wrote ten one-act plays and four complete, full-length works before his untimely death in an act of heroism on the front. With Chapin's tragic early death, the British and American theater lost an already assured comic talent. The tragedy also shelved plans for Charles Frohman's Broadway production of "a new comedy" by Chapin. Announced in July 1915, this play was presumably The New Morality. London theatre critic Bennitt Gardiner, in a 1957 article for The Stage, called the little-known Chapin "one of the first comic dramatists of quality to work in our theatre after Oscar Wilde," and praised the playwright's contributions to "an unbroken tradition of satiric high comedy" stretching back to the Restoration. Dexterously blending British and American theatrical traditions-sprinkling teatime artifice with Yankee candor-Chapin's plays continue to scintillate with both mirth and matter."
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 15, 1886, Harold and his sister Elsie were raised by a remarkable, iconoclastic mother: the American-born actress, playwright, and feminist activist Alice Chapin (who, in 1909, spent four months in prison after pouring acid into anti-suffrage ballot boxes). When Harold was two years old, Alice scandalously divorced his father Harry Clarke, and expatriated with her son to London, where she nurtured the theatrical talents of her children. Playing young Marcus to his mother's Volumnia, Harold made his stage debut at the age of seven in Coriolanus at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford-on-Avon. Upon graduation from University College School in 1902, Chapin devoted himself to the London theatre, where he proved himself versatile as an actor, stage manager, and producer. In 1908, Chapin joined Charles Frohman's management team at the Duke of York's Theatre, where he originated roles in plays by J.M. Barrie and John Galsworthy. (In 1909, Chapin played the role of Percy in the original production of Chains by Elizabeth Baker, which Mint produced last summer).
Starting with his debut one-act play, 1910's Augustus in Search of a Father, Chapin gained prominence as a dramatist. Chapin also started a lasting association with the actor-manager Harley Granville-Barker, whom he joined as stage manager at the Savoy Theatre. Like both Shaw and Granville-Barker, Chapin "desired to use the theatre to stimulate the desire for social reform," according to historian John Simkin. In The Marriage of Columbine (1910), Elaine (1912), Art and Opportunity (1912), and The New Morality (written c. 1911/'12), Chapin channeled the modern, independent figure of "the New Woman" through "delicious ladies" that are "seductive and contradictory and childish and cunning" (as described by J.M. Barrie).
ABOUT THE MINT THEATER COMPANY
Mint has been investing in creating professionally shot and edited full length archival videos since 2013. These videos are shot during live performances with three high-definition cameras, and edited to create a broadcast quality, intimate and enjoyable experience of Mint programming.
"Of all the countless Off-Broadway troupes with which the side streets of Manhattan are dotted, none has a more distinctive mission-or a higher artistic batting average-than the Mint Theater Company, which 'finds and produces worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten.' If that sounds dull to you, don't be fooled: I've never seen a production there that was a sliver less than superb. Rachel Crothers's Susan and God, John Galsworthy's The Skin Game, Harley Granville-Barker's The Madras House, N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea, Dawn Powell's Walking Down Broadway, Jules Romains's Doctor Knock, John Van Druten's London Wall: All these fine plays and others just as good have been exhumed by the Mint to memorable effect in the 13 years that I've been reviewing the company, a tribute to the uncanny taste and unfailing resourcefulness of Jonathan Bank, the artistic director," said Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal. Mint was awarded an OBIE Award for "combining the excitement of discovery with the richness of tradition" and a special Drama Desk Award for "unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit."
Mint's Off-Broadway presentation of the American Premiere of Noël Coward's The Rat Trap, directed by Alexander Lass, plays at New York City Center Stage (ii) (131 West 55th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues) from November 1st through December 10th. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased online at NYCityCenter.org, by calling 212/581-1212, or in person at the New York City Center box office located at 131 West 55th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues).
For more information about these and other Mint productions, visit minttheater.org.
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w.w.e.d.?: baby bump or too much turkey?
baby bump or too much turkey?
16 weeks along now... thought it would be a good time for a picture. i'm not at that cute pregnancy stage where you have a dainty little button tummy... i'm just kinda ponchy and blah. not a time you really wanna capture on film, but i'm doin' it for our little eggroll and for kin near and far.
i promise i'm happy, i was just really focused.
i might have felt the baby kick once or twice, but i'm not quite sure. my gas affliction could have been the culprit.
you're back, dear friend! where have you been? how is the packing going? can't wait to see you at new years. you'll have an adorable "more than a bump" by then!
Oh, my dear...you are still very tiny! You are going to be one of those pregnant girls that only looks pregnant from the side...one of those girls I will never be.
But, as always, you look fabulous!
oooh erin, how fun! you look better 16 weeks pregnant then most of us do our entire life! i'm excited to see your cute self evolve!
I'm going to say not enough turkey. You look wonderful!
oh sweet, sweet skeener. you look darling. if i didn't hear the heartbeat myself i don't know if i would even believe there is a wee skeen dwelling with you. i'm hoping for an actual bump when i see you at the end of the month. don't disappoint.
cute! i'm excited to meet the little person who's making that bump.
you really do look good.
you do look great! hope you're feeling great too.
You look darling!! Have you been sick at all. 16 weeks was a milestone for me...that's when I stopped feeling sick. I could finally brush my teeth without..you know what!! YUK! Anyway, you look great and I hope you feel great too, this is such an exciting time for you! Take care!
just looking at your cute picture again and realized-- I don't think I've ever seen your hair this long.. it's puuurdy.


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Rajiv earned a degree in management at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand and has participated in academic programmes at INSEAD and Harvard Kennedy School. He has published extensively and speaks nationally and internationally on the issue of migration, labour and livelihoods. He is a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore conducting short terms courses and leading seminars on issues of labour migration for students across NUS disciplines. Rajiv Khandelwal was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2005 and as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010 by the World Economic Forum.

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Lewin's 3 Stage Model of Change Explained
Muhammad Raza
Change behavior—how humans accept, embrace, and perform change—is the core of modern change management. ITSM frameworks incorporate various approaches to change management, but one started it all: Kurt Lewin's 3 Stage Model of Change.
Initially a popular concept, current ITSM thinking criticizes Lewin's model for being too simplistic and abstract to manage change in a real way. In today's speedy, complex, and dynamic landscape of enterprise IT, the three-step model provides limited actionable guidance. Still, understanding these steps provides an essential view into change management, so let's have a look.
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What is the 3 Stage Model of Change?
A leader in change management, Kurt Lewin was a German-American social psychologist in the early 20th century. Among the first to research group dynamics and organizational development, Lewin developed the 3 Stage Model of Change in order to evaluate two areas:
The change process in organizational environments
How the status-quo could be challenged to realize effective changes
Lewin proposed that the behavior of any individual in response to a proposed change is a function of group behavior. Any interaction or force affecting the group structure also affects the individual's behavior and capacity to change. Therefore, the group environment, or 'field', must be considered in the change process.
The 3 Stage Model of Change describes status-quo as the present situation, but a change process—a proposed change—should then evolve into a future desired state. To understand group behavior, and hence the behavior of individual group members during the change process, we must evaluate the totality and complexity of the field. This is also known as Field Theory, which is widely used to develop change models including Lewin's 3 Stage Model.
The 3 Stages of Change
Let's look at how Lewin's three-step model describes the nature of change, its implementation, and common challenges:
Step 1: Unfreeze
Lewin identifies human behavior, with respect to change, as a quasi-stationary equilibrium state. This state is a mindset, a mental and physical capacity that can be almost absolutely reached, but it is initially situated so that the mind can evolve without actually attaining that capacity. For example, a contagious disease can spread rapidly in a population and resist initial measures to contain the escalation. Eventually, through medical advancement, the disease can be treated and virtually disappear from the population.
Lewin argues that change follows similar resistance, but group forces (the field) prevent individuals from embracing this change. Therefore, we must agitate the equilibrium state in order to instigate a behavior that is open to change. Lewin suggests that an emotional stir-up may disturb the group dynamics and forces associated with self-righteousness among the individual group members. Certainly, there are a variety of ways to shake up the present status-quo, and you'll want to consider whether you need change in an individual or, as in a company, amongst a group of people.
Let's consider the process of preparing a meal. The first change, before anything else can happen, is to "unfreeze" foods—preparing them for change, whether they're frozen and require thawing, or raw food requiring washing. Lewin's 3 Step Model believes that human change follows a similar philosophy, so you must first unfreeze the status-quo before you may implement organizational change.
Though not formally part of Lewin's model, actions within this Unfreeze stage may include:
Determining what needs to change.
Survey your company.
Understand why change is necessary.
Ensuring support from management and the C-suite.
Talk with stakeholders to obtain support.
Frame your issue as one that positively impacts the entire company.
Creating the need for change.
Market a compelling message about why change is best.
Communicate the change using your long-term vision.
Step 2: Change
Once you've "unfrozen" the status quo, you may begin to implement your change. Organizational change in particular is notoriously complex, so executing a well-planned change process does not guarantee predictable results. Therefore, you must prepare a variety of change options, from the planned change process to trial-and-error. With each attempt at change, examine what worked, what didn't, what parts were resistant, etc.
During this evaluation process, there are two important drivers of successful and long-term effectiveness of the change implementation process: information flow and leadership.
Information flow refers to sharing information across multiple levels of the organizational hierarchy, making available a variety of skills and expertise, and coordinating problem solving across the company.
Leadership is defined as the influence of certain individuals in the group to achieve common goals. A well-planned change process requires defining a vision and motivation.
The iterative approach is also necessary to sustain a change. According to Lewin, a change left without adequate reinforcement may be short-lived and therefore fail to meet the objectives of a change process.
During the Change phase, companies should:
Communicate widely and clearly about the planned implementation, benefits, and who is affected. Answer questions, clarify misunderstandings, and dispel rumors.
Promote and empower action. Encourage employees to get involved proactively with the change, and support managers in providing daily and weekly direction to staff.
Involve others as much as possible. These easy wins can accumulate into larger wins, and working with more people can help you navigate various stakeholders.
Step 3: Refreeze
The purpose of the final step—refreezing—is to sustain the change you've enacted. The goal is for the people involved to consider this new state as the new status-quo, so they no longer resist forces that are trying to implement the change. The group norms, activities, strategies, and processes are transformed per the new state.
Without appropriate steps that sustain and reinforce the change, the previously dominant behavior tends to reassert itself. You'll need to consider both formal and informal mechanisms to implement and freeze these new changes. Consider one or more steps or actions that can be strong enough to counter the cumulative effect of all resistive forces to the change—these stronger steps help ensure the new change will prevail and become "the new normal".
In the Refreeze phase, companies should do the following:
Tie the new changes into the culture by identifying change supports and change barriers.
Develop and promote ways to sustain the change long-term. Consider:
Ensuring leadership and management support and adapting organizational structure when necessary.
Establishing feedback processes.
Creating a rewards system.
Offer training, support, and communication for both the short- and long-term. Promote both formal and informal methods, and remember the various ways that employees learn.
Celebrate success!
Lewin's 3 Stage Model of Change provides an intuitive and fundamental understanding of how changes occur, in context of the social behaviors observed at an individual and collective level within a group. Since the theory was first introduced in 1951, change management has taken both supportive and opposing directions. This is a vital reminder: when modern-day change management frameworks are not working for specific use cases and business needs, consider these fundamentals of understanding social behavior in light of change.
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According to a new report in The Washington Examiner, a conservative paper, Republican operatives believe that Trump is once again going to lose the popular vote but will still win the electoral college and get reelected. This would be unacceptable, and there should be more public demand for abolishing this system that let's the loser walk away with the prize. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
According to a new report in the Washington Examiner earlier this week, which by the way, Washington Examiner is a very conservative paper, but the Washington Examiner spoke to several republican sources and repel a Republican operatives. And they told us that these Republican operatives believe Donald Trump is once again in 2020 going to lose the popular vote. But they are confident he's gonna win that Electoral College. So he will once again be elected president. So Republican's according to a Republican paper, are actually counting on the fact that yeah, there's no way Trump's going to win the popular vote, but because of this outdated antiquated system we have in place, the electoral college, he still has a very clear path to victory. Um, this is, it makes me so angry here. I'm going to read you this quote from the paper here. This is from GOP strategist David Carney, who says, California, Illinois in New York make it very, very difficult for anybody on our side to ever again to win the popular vote president shouldn't worry about it. 270 electoral votes. That's what people remember.
I still cannot wrap my head around the level of stupid that it takes to think that we shouldn't have the person that most people in this country want. Being President of the United States, that doesn't make any sense folks, and these more on Republicans like Carney that I just quoted, we shouldn't have people in California that he's never going to win the popular vote because of them. What? What the hell are you talking about? Do do you on it? Do you think everybody in the country lives in California and New York and Illinois that that that's not how that works. That's really not how it works. They get electoral votes because those states have large populations, so by your logic, shouldn't we be arguing for the abolition of the electoral college if you don't want those few states to pick the president? That's what I don't get is that every single time one of these Republicans tries to tell us why we can't erase the electoral college.
They end up making the point for erasing it because the points they bring up light like carny here, and this is all over Republican Twitter, is that we can't just have a few states are a few counties choosing the president. You Idiots. That's what's happening right now. How do you not know this? How can you be so painfully stupid and yet still be taken seriously as a political pundit, as a political operative, as a strategist, as a founder of a group like tp USA like Charlie Kirk, you guys are dumb. I'd say you're dumb as dirt, but that's an insult to cause at least dirt is useful. You guys are not, the electoral college has to go and if Trump's own team is banking on the fact that that electoral college is going to keep him in office because there's no way he'll win the popular vote, shouldn't that be a warning sign to all of us? Because I guarantee you if this situation was flipped and it was a Democratic president sitting in the Oval Office who didn't win the popular vote, the electoral college would have been disbanded before the end of that night on the election. Republicans wouldn't have stood for it, and we're not going to stand for it no matter who is in the White House. This system doesn't work, and we as a country could and should be doing much better than stick in the guy that nobody wanted in the White House because we're stuck with this old system that doesn't even make sense in a modern world.


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Generic Competitive Positions, Part 2
Foundations of Business Strategy
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Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, top-ranked faculty will help you explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as well as Strategy Maps.
Capabilities Analysis, Business Strategy, Competitive Position, Strategic Analysis, Industry Structure
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Determining Competitive Position
Welcome to the final module. In these lessons, we'll explore firms' competitive positioning relative to rivals and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of four generic competitive positions firms occupy. We'll use an easy and intuitive tool--strategy maps--to visually communicate information about firm positioning, and discuss which position is best for a particular firm to see maximum value. Happy analyzing!
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We're continuing to talk about generic competitive positions. And remember, these are sort of for ideal types of competitive positions that a firm can occupy. And it arises from understanding the firm's generic source of competitive advantage, either cost leadership or differentiation, and also understanding the competitive scope of the firm's product or service offerings within the industry. So we're gonna talk about two of these specifically. And we're gonna talk about, first, focused, low-cost strategies. So, what is this? This is a lot like the cost-leadership strategy, except it has a narrow competitive scope. Right? So, once again, it's about firms keeping their cost lower than those of the competitor's, but it's in a narrower segment of the market. Oftentimes, this is used as an entry strategy by new firms attempting to enter a mature market, or an advanced industry segment. Right? So, it's easier to come in and not try to offer everything, but offer just a few things, but offer them at a better price. So, oftentimes, we'll see it Implemented that way as sort of an entry strategy. Right? So what are some examples? We might think of, in automobiles, Kia. Again, it's a low cost auto manufacturer. When it enters the market it doesn't have a wide range of models, it just has a few. But it's focused on competing on cost against a couple of specific models that are offered by competitors. We might think of generic drug manufacturers, right? So, once a particular formula, or a patent, lapses and the formula becomes widely available for a particular drug or medicine, a generic drug manufacturer that has some good cost structure can go in and say let's execute and make that formula. And, of course, then by doing so, we're going to compete with the name brand, but we can do it at a lower price. So what are the strategic approaches that we often see here? One big key is to attempt to deter rivalry by kind of dividing the market up. Right? So, if we can focus on a narrower segment of the market, but we can go into and go after that segment of the market with a lower cost structure, then we might have a chance of really making a difference there. So, budget airlines would be a great example of this. So, it's a lower cost, but you can't fly anywhere and everywhere on these budget airlines. They're much more constrained about where they fly to and from. But given certain routes by the major carriers, those budget airlines can come in and compete head to head on just those routes. Right? And so, they leave other parts of the market to other competitors. Another way to compete here, another strategic approach, can involve trying to capture some narrow economies of scale. So, again, it's trying to achieve some economies of scale in manufacturing, say, but it's not across a wide, broad range of products. It's over just a very narrow set of products, or maybe a product. Right? So the generic drug manufacturers might be an example of this. Let's talk about the second strategy that we're going to focus on today, and that's the niche strategy. And this is a strategic position, again, that sort of occupies that place on the chart where we have a narrower scope of offerings, a narrower, strategic scope, competitive scope, but we're trying to compete based on uniqueness or differentiation instead of low cost. So, again, just like the differentiation strategy, the objective here is to generate profits from higher willingness to pay on the part of consumers or buyers. But in this case, in the niche competitive position, we're doing it by targeting a smaller, often a premium segment, of the market. So what are some examples? We might think of Tiffany's in jewelry and clothing, and that sort of thing. We might think of Porsche in auto-manufacturing. Again, it's a very different kind of auto manufacturer than Kia, that we talked about a moment ago. Even in things like professional services we can think about sort of botique, these specialized boutique consultancies that offer very specialized consulting services, right? And they're well-known, they're considered high quality. So, what are the strategic approaches that a firm can take if it's attempting to occupy this competitive position? They might focus on really leveraging, ironically, the narrowness, excuse me, the narrowness of the knowledge and expertise from that narrow sort of product or service segment. Right? In other words, the very narrowness of the scope, of the competitive scope, is something that can be perceived by buyers and consumers as expertise. And these firms really try to understand their target buyers and really meet the specialized needs of those buyers. So, you know, in network systems we might think of Juniper Networks as doing that. Right? It's really focused on gaining knowledge and expertise, and leveraging that in that narrow area that they operate in, and that's where they're able to realize greater profits than some of their competitors. Brand loyalty is a big thing here. So, again, if you're in to nice sports cars, Porsche's a very well recognized brand, right? And so, they don't make a car for everybody. But they make this particular type of automobile, they're well known for their quality, and how fast the cars can go, and how well they are manufactured. And so, there's a lot of brand loyalty around that particular brand. So, that's the niche strategy. We talked about the sort of more focused, cost leadership strategy, and again, as we sort of zoom out and think about these generic competitive positions, they're sort of ideal types, if you will. You know, it's a little bit of a stylized thing. A lot of firms don't necessarily occupy one particular quadrant or another. Some firms try to occupy what I would describe as an integrated competitive position, and employ an integrated strategy. And this is an attempt to sort of capture the best of both worlds. It's trying to offer differentiated products, but also offer them at a low cost. So, let me talk about that just for a minute. There are a lot of examples we could think of, but maybe in auto manufacturing, we've talked about that a little bit, Toyota might be an example, where, again, they offer largely lower kind of lower cost type automobiles. They aren't expensive like Porsches, right? But Toyota offers something else in its value proposition. It's sort of well known for quality. So they try to differentiate on quality and resale value, and those sorts of things. So they're trying to achieve kind of the best of both worlds. In low cost airlines, Southwest might be an example of this, right? So, on one hand, it's a low cost airline, so the ticket price is probably gonna be less expensive than a competing route plane ticket price from United or Delta, or a major carrier. But they also offer a differentiated kind of experience. Southwest offers this point to point, so maybe you'll have fewer layovers if you happen to need that route that Southwest happens to offer. And the experience itself, in terms of fun they try to have on airplanes and that sort of thing. They do try to differentiate in a way. So there are a lot of firms that will try to achieve kind of several different competitive positions at the same time. And to do that, they might use several different strategic approaches. They might really focus on total quality management, or lean production. That would be an example like Toyota, where they really focus on bringing manufacturing costs down, but it also increases quality, and that helps achieve a differentiator for them. We might invest heavily in R and D or innovation. I mean, there's lots of things we can do to try to achieve both. The thing is here, you've gotta be careful about getting stuck in the middle. There's lots of examples of firms who have tried to achieve both differentiation and cost leadership but haven't really been able to achieve both. I mean, we might think of, in automobiles for example, we might think of General Motors over the last ten to twenty years. They've really tried to compete based on cost and price for the consumer, but they've also try to differentiate in a way, and I think they've struggled to achieve both of those things. So, at any rate, it's possible to try to shoot for an integrated strategy, but it's difficult, and one has to be careful.


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package com.jivesoftware.addon.example.tile;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.api.entity.TileInstance;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.api.tile.JiveGaugeTile;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.api.tile.data.GaugeSection;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.api.tile.data.GaugeTile;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.client.JiveClientException;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.event.TileInstanceEvent;
import com.jivesoftware.sdk.event.TileInstanceEventListener;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import javax.inject.Singleton;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.TimerTask;

/**
 * Created by rrutan on 2/4/14.
 */
@Singleton
public class MyExampleGaugeTile extends JiveGaugeTile implements TileInstanceEventListener {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyExampleGaugeTile.class);

    public static final String NAME = "jersey-example-gauge";

    @Override
    public String getName() {   return NAME; }

    @Override
    public boolean accepts(TileInstanceEvent event) {
        boolean accept = (event.getTileName().equals(getName()) &&
                (
                        TileInstanceEvent.Type.RegisterSuccess.equals(event.getType()) ||
                        TileInstanceEvent.Type.Unregister.equals(event.getType())
                )
        );
        if (log.isTraceEnabled()) { log.trace("accepts[name="+event.getTileName()+"], type=["+event.getType()+"] => "+accept); }
        return accept;
    } // end accepts

    @Override
    public void process(TileInstanceEvent event) throws TileInstanceEventException {
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { log.debug("process[name=" + getName() + "] ...");   }
        if (event.getType().equals(TileInstanceEvent.Type.RegisterSuccess)) {
            onRegisterEvent(event);
        } else if (event.getType().equals(TileInstanceEvent.Type.Unregister)) {
            onUnregisterEvent(event);
        } // end if
    } // end process

    private void onRegisterEvent(TileInstanceEvent event) {
        TileInstance tileInstance = (TileInstance)event.getContext();

        new Thread(new TileTimerTask(tileInstance)).start();
    } // end onRegisterEvent

    private void onUnregisterEvent(TileInstanceEvent event) {
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { log.debug("onUnregisterEvent[name="+getName()+"] ..."); }

    } // end onUnregisterEvent

    /******
     *
     ******/

    class TileTimerTask extends TimerTask {

        private TileInstance tileInstance = null;

        TileTimerTask(TileInstance tileInstance) {
            this.tileInstance = tileInstance;
        } // end constructor

        @Override
        public void run() {
            for (int x=0; x<10; x++) {
                if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { log.debug("pushing data"); }

                /*** PUSH DATA TO TILE ***/
                try {
                    pushData(tileInstance, getBogusPush(tileInstance,(x % 5)));
                } catch (JiveClientException jce) {
                    log.error("Unable to Post to Tile",jce);
                } // end try/catch

                /*** PAUSE BETWEEN PUSHES TILE ***/
                try {
                    Thread.currentThread().sleep(6000);
                } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
                    /**** WOKE-UP *****/
                } // end try/catch
            } // end for
        } // end run

    } // end class

    private GaugeTile getBogusPush(TileInstance tileInstance, int index) {
        GaugeTile gaugeTile = new GaugeTile();

        gaugeTile.setMessage("Jive SDK (Java) - Jersey - Example Gauge Tile");

        List<GaugeSection> sections = Lists.newArrayList();
        GaugeSection s1 = new GaugeSection();
        s1.setColor("#ff0000");
        s1.setLabel("Hot");

        GaugeSection s2 = new GaugeSection();
        s2.setColor("#ffb6c1");
        s2.setLabel("Warm");

        GaugeSection s3 = new GaugeSection();
        s3.setColor("#cecece");
        s3.setLabel("Unknown");

        GaugeSection s4 = new GaugeSection();
        s4.setColor("#b0c4de");
        s4.setLabel("Cool");

        GaugeSection s5 = new GaugeSection();
        s5.setColor("#4169e1");
        s5.setLabel("Cold");

        sections.add(s1);
        sections.add(s2);
        sections.add(s3);
        sections.add(s4);
        sections.add(s5);

        gaugeTile.setSections(sections);
        gaugeTile.setMessage("Example ["+index+"]");
        gaugeTile.setActiveIndex(index);
        gaugeTile.setStatus(""+index);

        return gaugeTile;

    } // end getBogusPush

    private GaugeTile getBogusFetch(TileInstance tileInstance) {
        return getBogusPush(tileInstance,1);
    } // end getBogusFetch

} // end class

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Dawn McKenna; a Certified Kitchen, Bath and Residential Designer has joined Clairmont, Ltd. The announcement was made by Patrick Franz, owner of the 26-year-old building firm.
Burr Ridge-based Clairmont, Ltd. recently acquired Artisan Builder and Co. of Joliet. Artisan's owner and founder Dawn McKenna; a Certified Kitchen, Bath and Residential Designer has joined Clairmont. The announcement was made by Patrick Franz, owner of the 26-year-old building firm.
"I have known Dawn for at least 20 years. Her dedication to design will be a tremendous asset to Clairmont. She is highly accomplished and loves working with clients," said Franz, who met Dawn through the Southwest Suburban Home Builders Association (SSHBA); where both began the Remodelers Council together there in 1999. The SSHBA is chapter of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Through her association involvement she has demonstrated commitment to elevating professionalism in our industry.
Dawn has been the owner of Artisan Builder and Co. a full service design and remodeling company in Joliet since 1989. She became a Certified Kitchen (CKD) and Bath (CBD) Designer in 1996 through the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA). In addition to being a member of the NKBA, Dawn has served as past president, vice president and on the board of directors of the Southwest Suburban Home Builders Association. She has also served in various leadership capacities for the Home Builders Association of Illinois (HBAI), the National Association of Home Builders and its Remodelers Council. Her work has garnered multiple Remodeler of the Year honors from the HBAI and she has been featured on HGTV's "New Spaces" TV program.
Clairmont Ltd. recently introduced 10 custom home sites in Downers Grove at 57th St. and Carpenter.
Clairmont Ltd. was named Best Of Houzz 2016 for Customer Service and was also ranked 116 of the top 550 remodeling companies in the country by Remodeling Magazine in its December 2015 issue 2015 Remodeling Top 550.
Follow Clairmont Ltd. on Houzz http://www.houzz.com/pro/clairmont-remodeling/clairmont-ltd, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/clairmontltd/?fref=ts or visit their web site at http://www.clairmontltd.com/ or call (630) 325-5058.


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As part of our dedication to creating more environmentally friendly operations, Ampco Pumps Company has embarked on a major solar energy project with our partners at Arch Electric. In 2019, we first announced plans to construct nearly 75,000 square feet of solar panels on the rooftop of our corporate headquarters in Glendale, Wisconsin. Today, we are proud to reveal that the installation is finished!
Investing in a cleaner, renewable energy
The project–an investment of $380,000 ($600,000 before rebates and funding)–is a solid step toward more sustainable operations. At just over 1,000 photovoltaic panels, the installation is expected to result in an energy cost savings of more than 70%.
More important is the reduction in our carbon footprint. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), electricity production generates the second-largest share of greenhouse gas emissions. Approximately 62.9 percent of our electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, mostly coal and natural gas.
The projected yearly output of over 500,000 KWH (Kilowatt hours) of electricity will reduce 394 tons of CO2 output, which is like replacing 393,734 pounds of coal being burnt to create electricity. It would take 467 acres of US forests to remove that same amount of carbon in one year.
Why protecting the environment and clean energy is important to us
The project grew out of our dedication to being good stewards of the environment. We believe that maintaining a healthy ecosystem is important to the communities in which we operate, to our customers, to our employees and our families, and most of all to our planet's good health.
Learn more about Ampco's commitment to corporate social responsibility
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Thyroid Test: When is the Right Time to Take a Thyroid Test?
Almost twenty years ago, the American College of Physicians, a pretty conservative organization, stunned the medical community by issuing a guideline that women over 50 should have a thyroid test at least once every five years. At that time, most physicians thought that they could diagnose thyroid problems themselves and that testing guidelines were unnecessary.
At our clinic, however, we weren't stunned: we were excited! We knew first-hand how challenging it can be to identify and treat thyroid symptoms without testing. It felt like the beginning of a new understanding among conventional medical practitioners. Sadly, even all these years later, with testing guidelines in place, many practitioners still fail to diagnose thyroid concerns. That's because over or under active thyroid problems can be hard to pin down; the symptoms may also resemble those of many other conditions, including aging.
In fact, a couple of years ago, Time Magazine reported that hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) is one of the top 15 leading conditions doctors most often get wrong.
At our clinic, we have helped thousands of women to restore healthy thyroid function. We know how an under or overactive thyroid can wreak havoc on your life, weight, health, and mood. It's not just a part of getting older and you don't have to live with it!
For the longest time, no one seemed to pay the thyroid much attention. Some of my patients would come to the clinic thinking that their symptoms were coming from somewhere else. They were thinking it was menopausal, just a part of getting older, or simply stress. Now, with all the media exposure, more women ask to see me wondering if they should have their thyroid checked. Let's talk about when you should take a thyroid test if you are wondering about your thyroid health.
Your thyroid looks like a mini bow tie and it wraps around your windpipe at the base of your throat. Its primary function is to regulate your body temperature: it's your own internal thermostat. The thyroid takes orders primarily from the pituitary gland (via the hormone TSH) to produce thyroid hormones T3 (triiodthyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). These thyroid hormones also regulate our metabolism, impact our bowel function and affect our energy levels and mood.
The most common thyroid concern is hypothyroidism, which occurs when you fail to produce enough thyroid hormones. This will make your metabolism slow down and leave you feeling sluggish and lacking energy.
The opposite concern can occur when the thyroid works too hard, resulting in hyperthyroidism. In this case you will feel like you're all revved up. This may leave you with trembling hands, a racing heart, and troubling falling asleep.
If either of those sounds like you, you should definitely consult with your practitioner about taking a thyroid test.
Be aware that symptoms of thyroid dysfunction are easy to miss; it is estimated that as many as 1 in 5 people may have sub-optimal thyroid function and do not even know it. So what should you look for? Here are some of the common thyroid symptoms I see in my patients.
Everyone goes through times of stress or busy periods that can disrupt their sleep or leave them feeling burned out. If you find yourself hooked on caffeine to get through the day, constantly dragging, or in need of a lot of sleep (more than 9 hours on a daily basis), you may have an underactive thyroid.
You might be wondering what your thyroid has to do with your stomach, but your thyroid actually plays a role in healthy bowel function. If you feel bloated, constipated or have that heavy feeling in your stomach, your thyroid may not be functioning optimally. In this case, hypothyroidism can be ruled out. Conversely, if you experience excessive diarrhea, your thyroid may be overactive and hyperthyroidism should be considered.
We all lose hair on a daily basis. If your hair loss becomes more frequent or heavy, or if hair becomes dry or brittle and breaks off easily, your thyroid may be impaired. In addition, hypothyroidism can make your skin become dry and scaly. Often unusual loss of hair in the outer edge of the eyebrow can occur when your thyroid is underperforming. When your thyroid is overactive, your skin may become thin and very fragile and your hair loss even more severe.
Because the thyroid also regulates your mood, mood changes – especially if they come on suddenly or severely – may be a sign of thyroid dysfunction. Depression, anxiety, and even sudden panic attacks, especially if they do not respond to traditional pharmaceutical or natural antidepressant treatments, are common symptoms of thyroid impairment. Generally, depression is associated with hypothyroidism while panic attacks may be a sign of hyperthyroidism.
Whenever one hormone is disrupted, there is often a disruption to other hormones up or down stream. If you are still menstruating, heavy, more frequent, or more painful periods can be a sign of hypothyroidism. Shorter, lighter or more infrequent menstruation may accompany hyperthyroidism.
Because of menstrual cycle disruptions, infertility may also be a concern. If you are trying to conceive, thyroid testing may be helpful, especially if you do not have consistent menstrual cycles. In fact, some infertility specialists recommend thyroid testing to all patients. In addition, impaired thyroid function can lead to miscarriages, so if you are experiencing difficulty carrying to term, thyroid testing is suggested.
Memory and concentration can be impacted by either overactive or underactive thyroid function. In particular, hypothyroidism is commonly known to impair memory. While it may start out small in the early stages, like simply misplacing your car keys, over time memory loss, fuzzy thinking, or trouble concentrating can become more disruptive.
These are just a few of the more common symptoms; there are many more listed on our website. You'll notice that these common thyroid symptoms also are common menopausal complaints and general aging concerns as well, which is why it can be hard to determine whether your symptoms are a result of hormonal imbalance, thyroid or adrenal concerns, or a combination without testing.
Now that you know some symptoms to watch out for, let's look at a few other areas of concern, and what you can do to address them.
If you drink a lot of water, you'll want to know that a British study made headlines in 2015 when it reported results that hypothyroidism rates were higher in areas with higher fluoride concentrations. When the parts per million of fluoride concentration was above 0.3, hypothyroidism rates were much as 30% higher. In addition, when comparing one area of England that fluoridates to another that does not, scientists found that hypothyroidism rates were double in the fluoridated areas as compared to the non-fluoridated region.
In a healthy 154-pound adult, 3.5 mg of fluoride was found to disrupt thyroid function. If you are already iodine deficient, even small amounts of fluoride can wreak havoc: as little as 0.7 mg a day could lead to thyroid dysfunction. According to the EPA, the average American ingests 3 mg a day, but many of us consume as much as 6 mg a day or more.
If you consume a lot of fluoridated water and/or do not consume iodine-rich foods such as sea vegetables, saltwater fish and other seafood, or iodized sea salt, you should definitely think about a thyroid test. A study almost twenty years ago estimated that one in seven women is iodine deficient, though I think that number may well be much higher now given our diets today.
Thyroid cancer has doubled in incidence since the 1970's and it is now the fastest-growing cancer among women. That said, to keep it in perspective, the incidence rates of thyroid cancer overall are still relatively small compared to many other cancers, such as breast cancer. Some scientists even question how much of the incidence rate increase is simply due to better diagnostics enabling more cancers to be detected.
Nevertheless, there does appear to be an increase in thyroid cancer rates that concerns researchers. They attribute the increase to changes in our diets, increasing exposure to chemicals such as fluoride, chloride and bromide, and higher exposure to environmental and medical radiation.
Many symptoms of an impaired thyroid can often attribute to menopause, or just simply getting older. Since not everyone experiences symptoms at all, taking a thyroid test is really the best way to know if your thyroid is functioning properly.
If your thyroid is not functioning properly, it is important to provide it the nutrition and lifestyle support it requires for optimal function. You will need additional nutritional support to repair and rebalance a stressed, overworked, or sluggish thyroid. In fact, you will need more than what you can typically find in today's food supply.
We have had great success helping to restore optimal thyroid health in our patients with our Thyroid Program. Thousands of women have experienced symptom relief and renewed thyroid health with our products and support. We can help you too. thyroid test.


Monday, November 21 – Get over to Momo's Greek Restaurant and hear the jazz stylings of the Jim Manley and Randy Bahr Duo. Starts at 7, no cover.
Wednesday, November 23 – At the Sky Music Lounge in West County you'll hear the Hulapoppers. They bill themselves as the town's best party band and when you hear them, you will likely agree. Their renditions of pop, rock, Top 40, and R&B will have you on the dance floor. Starts at 8, $10.
Friday, November 25 – A frequent visitor to these here parts, Cody Jinks once again brings his lonesome, dark-hued bluegrass and country songs to the Old Rock House. He'll be playing cuts off his newly released album, I'm Not the Devil, which jumped to number four on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Doors open at 7, $20.
Saturday, November 26 – From the college town of Columbia, Mo., comes the modern hard rock of Cost of Desire. Tonight they headline at Cicero's in University City, where several other hard rocking bands are also on the bill. Show starts at 9, $10.
Sunday, November 27 – The 15th annual Baby Blues Showcase features a wide range of young St. Louis blues artists under the age at 30. No crying, and BYOP (Bring Your Own Pacifier) to BB's Jazz, Blues, and Soups. Starts at 5, $15.
What the Locals Know: Every Tuesday at Hammerstone's you'll find Naked Mike (fully clothed). His acoustic guitar work is enviable, and his spin on classic rock and pop has a strong following in these parts. He starts at 7, no cover.
Music Note of Note: Self-taught on guitar, Mel Bay moved to St. Louis in 1933 and fronted his own trio. In 1947 he published his first of many guitar books, and would eventually sell over 25 million, teaching people all over the world to play. His company, Mel Bay Publishing, is still in business today, run by his son and grandson.


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Washington Wit & Wisdom
PMD Prior Authorization
Will nationwide application be a reality later this year?
by Cara Bachenheimer
In late January, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued "Medicare Paid Suppliers for Power Mobility Device Claims That Did Not Meet the Federal Requirements for Physicians' Face-to-Face Examinations of Beneficiaries," the sixth OIG report in as many years focusing on the sufficiency of medical documentation for power mobility device (PMD) claims. This OIG report, however, focuses on physician use or nonuse of the G0372 billing code, which indicates that all information necessary to document the PMD prescription is included in the medical records and that all necessary documentation has been delivered to the DME supplier. The OIG looked at the Medicare program's optional G0372 code and concluded that PMD claims without this code were far less likely to have medical documentation that met the Medicare PMD face-to-face examination documentation requirement. In 2010, 6 percent of PMD claims were associated with a physician billing the code. The OIG looked at paid claims data for PMDs ($576 million), culled $84 million in claims for other issues, matched the remaining claims to physician-billed G-code claims, then separated those where the G-code was billed by the prescribing physician versus another physician. From the 7,187 PMD claims with corresponding G-code claims, the OIG randomly selected 100 PMD claims for review. From the 164,300 PMD claims without corresponding G-code claims, the OIG removed 133,776 PMD claims that had a corresponding "evaluation and management" service provided by the prescribing physician within 120 days before delivery of the PMD. The OIG considered the remaining 30,524 PMD claims as high risk, and from these claims they randomly selected 100 claims for review. Of these 100, 53 claims met the requirements. For the 47 claims that didn't, the physicians did not conduct the required face-to-face examinations for 19, and the physicians' medical records did not meet the minimum documentation requirements for 28. In a not too startling observation, the OIG concluded that many physicians were unfamiliar with the G0372 code, and that many physicians were not aware of the documentation requirements for face-to-face examinations. The OIG reached this conclusion, not just by observing medical records, but also by interviewing physicians. As a result of these observations, the OIG made several recommendations to CMS, including: (1) require physicians to use the G0372 billing code (and stating that any increased expenditures here would be more than offset by a significant reduction in paid PMD claims); (2) require Medicare Part B contractors to educate physicians on the use of G0372 code and documentation requirements for the face-to-face examination requirement. In an interesting response, CMS disagreed with these two OIG recommendations. CMS stated that its "3-year demonstration program testing the use of prior authorization for PMDs reduced Medicare expenditures for PMDs and was a better alternative for ensuring accurate payment of PMD claims than requiring use of the G0372 code." CMS also rejected the OIG's recommendations to educate physicians: "CMS stated that it did not believe efforts to educate physicians on the use of the G0372 code were appropriate and that the use of prior authorization was the most ideal method to ensure physicians conduct required face-to-face examinations and supply all necessary documentation to suppliers." One peculiar aspect of CMS's response: in a prior authorization process physicians would still have to be educated on the correct billing and documentation associated with physician use of the G0372 code, because the prior authorization demonstration uses the same coverage and documentation requirements. The CMS prior authorization demonstration is slated to end Aug. 31. Last summer, CMS issued a proposed rule to establish a prior authorization program for many items of DME, but at press time had yet to finalize. It is theoretically possible that CMS could establish a permanent prior authorization process for PMDs that could start nationwide by Sept. 1. Another observation: In following up with one sample of PMD claims, 10 of 16 suppliers the OIG contacted were out of business; the OIG conducted this followup in 2013 based on 2010 paid claims. Finally, the OIG does not identify a significant reason physicians don't use the G0372 billing code—that payment is only about $21 and therefore not worth billing, or actually complying with the extensive documentation requirements.
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A cute puzzle adventure flash game involving cute friends. Lots of interactive elements!
The Friends Escape is a puzzle flash game with multiple interactive elements. You can bend gravity, rotate levels, twist platforms, jump, use elevators, push switches, push boxes and open doors in order to get the two alien friends back to the mothership. Teletubbies hahaha!


Snapshot. If StoreFront is on the Controller, take a snapshot before attempting the upgrade. It's the only way to recover StoreFront if the upgrade fails.
In the Administrator and Scope page, Browse to a group (e.g. Citrix Admins or Help Desk) that will have permissions to Studio and Director. These groups typically have access to all objects so select the All scope. Alternatively, you can create a Scope to limit the objects. Click Next.
Notice there's a blue link to an article that describes the necessary permissions.
After RD Licensing is installed, in Server Manager, open the Tool menu, expand Terminal Services, and click Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.
The tool should find the local server. If it does not, right-click All servers, click Connect, and type in the name of the local server. Once the local server can be seen in the list, right-click the server and click Activate Server.


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Saeid Atoofi
M.S. Communication
Saeid Atoofi holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from University of California, Los Angeles. His research interest and publications are concerned with the area of communication and semiotics.
PhD, UCLA
MA, CSULB
BA, UCLA
Doctoral thesis award, UCLA, 2009
Atoofi, S. (2017). Knowledge as a sign: An edusemiotic theory of heritage language learning.
Atoofi, S. (2015). An edusemiotic approach to second language acquisition.
Atoofi, S. (2016). Innovations vs. traditions in language instruction: A case of Japanese heritage language instruction in Chile..
Atoofi, S. (2015). Farsi (Persian) for beginners: Mastering conversational Farsi.
Atoofi, S. (2013). Classroom has a heart: Teachers' and students' affective alignment in a Persian heritage language classroom. Journal of Linguistics and Education
Atoofi, S. (2015). Context from a social semiotic perspective: a discourse analytical study of the children TV show, Bubble Guppies. Social Semiotics
Atoofi, S. (2015). Epistemic stances in the discourse of children TV shows. Lenguas Modernas
Atoofi, S. (2013). Linguistic markers of affect in heritage Persian: A linguistic anthropological study among Persian heritage language students and their teachers. Iranian Studies
Atoofi, S. (2011). Poetics of repetition in ordinary talk: A case among Persian heritage language teachers and their students. Journal of Pragmatics
Atoofi, S. (2012). The words we can all agree on: A computer-generated environment to test for evolution of lexical agreement. Lenguas Modernas
Atoofi, S. (2014). A semiotic approach to heritage language research and education.
Atoofi, S. (2016). A semiotic approach to Second Language Acquisition.
Atoofi, S. (2014). Learning as a co-construction of content and context.
Atoofi, S. (2010). Affect and linguistic repetition.
Atoofi, S. (2010). Cultural themes or thematic cultures: Future direction and research in creating culturally-sensitive content and instruction in language classrooms.
Atoofi, S. & Rodri´guez, J.P., Atoofi, S. (2014). Dibujos animados como filosofi´a del conocimiento: un estudio anali´tico discursivo de programas de televisio´n para nin~os.
Atoofi, S. (2012). Dora la exploradora, Veloz Mente, o Worldword? Dime lo que tus hijos ven en la televisio´n y te dire´ co´mo esta´n aprendiendo cosas.
Atoofi, S. & Pe´rez, N., Atoofi, S. (2014). El discurso de Bubble Guppies: Una perspectiva semio´tica hacia el contenido y el contexto en el uso del lenguaje.
Atoofi, S., Jane, A., Bazrati, S. (2010). Enhancing language learning through program-wide film festival.
Atoofi, S. (2014). Interactional versus contributory experience in learning English grammar.
Education Doctoral Programs | Walden University


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Triegubowka () – wieś (ros. деревня, trb. dieriewnia) w zachodniej Rosji, w osiedlu wiejskim Czistikowskoje rejonu rudniańskiego w obwodzie smoleńskim.

Geografia
Miejscowość położona jest 25 km od granicy z Białorusią, 2 km od najbliższego przystanku kolejowego (Posiełkowaja), 5 km od drogi federalnej R120 (Orzeł – Briańsk – Smoleńsk – granica z Białorusią), 11 km od drogi magistralnej M1 «Białoruś», 18,5 km od centrum administracyjnego osiedla wiejskiego (Czistik), 24,5 km od centrum administracyjnego rejonu (Rudnia), 41 km od Smoleńska.

W granicach miejscowości znajdują się ulice: Gagarina, Pierwomajskaja, Szossiejnaja, Żeleznodorożnaja.

Demografia
W 2007 r. miejscowość zamieszkiwało 51 osób.

Historia
W czasie II wojny światowej od lipca 1941 roku wieś była okupowana przez hitlerowców. Wyzwolenie nastąpiło w październiku 1943 roku.

Uchwałą z dnia 20 grudnia 2018 roku w skład jednostki administracyjnej Czistikowskoje weszły wszystkie miejscowości (w tym Triegubowka) zlikwidowanego osiedla wiejskiego Smoligowskoje.

Przypisy

Wsie w obwodzie smoleńskim
Miejscowości rejonu rudniańskiego w obwodzie smoleńskim

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In Hale Rise, flex-responsive Active Air® technology circulates natural air flow through biometric pockets and soft superior leathers delivering all-day freshness and comfort.


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Cowboys FanPosts Of The Week: Running The Valley Ranch Circus
By rabblerousr Feb 8, 2012, 8:08pm CST
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One of my favorite books as a child was Dr. Seuss' If I Ran the Circus. In it, a boy named Morris McGurk fantasizes about turning an old lot dotted with tin cans and other debris into the world's most amazing circus, aptly named the Circus McGurkus, replete with peculiar animals (a Foon, for example) and other bizarre attractions. Why do I bring this up now? Well, it seems that our favorite offseason sport is to play a similar and equally fantastic game: If I Ran the Cowboys. Indeed, BTB has been blowing up of late with posts outlining draft strategies, free agent targets, and talent acquisition plans that are a combinations of the two.
Some of these are strange and wholly untenable, an NFL Circus McGurkis, if you will. Others were conceived in the clear light of day, and present substantive, realistic and thoughtful strategies for turning the abandoned lot that was the Cowboys 2011 season into something magnificent. This week's salute to our top FanPosters attempts to collect all of these under one tent--a FanPosting bigtop--for your pleasure, amusement and edification. Sooooo..ladies and gentlemen, step right this way; through this door lie Ol' Rabble's bi-weekly collection of FPs from around the globe. No pushing; there's room for everyone...
Before the marquee acts hit the stage, I'd like to acquaint you with some BTBers who, like Morris McGurk, have a clear vision for running the Valley Ranch Circus (insert as many Jerry Jones jokes here as you see fit). AustonianAggie (talk about schizophrenia!) opines that Dallas needs to focus on the O-line if they're gonna catch the Giants; ChiaCrack pronounces Melvin Ingram the cure to the Cowboys pass rush woes; Michael IceBone Sisemore (handle of the year candidate) maintains that his Cowboys need to get more dog in them (or is it Dogg?). VAFan and Conn Cowboy offer free agent wishlists; CowboysFan4Life and PhillipKDick present offseason blueprints for success. I urge you to read all of these; there's a lot of fine thinking in each and every one of them.
The show begins after the jump...
Our opening act comes straight from the Midwest--from Purdue University, to be exact. Yes, ladies and germs, I'm referring to that run-stoppin' renegade, Anthony Spencer. Number 93 has been a hot offseason topic; immediately after week 17's final gun put a merciful end to the 2011 campaign, BTBers began to call for Anthony's head on a platter. After looking at what's available through free agency and the draft, however, a second view has begun to emerge: it might be more difficult to upgrade the position that initially anticipated.
DCBlueStar, perhaps inspired by Kegbearer's terrific post on Spencer, asked "Is he really that bad?," and concluded that "Spencer is better than fans give him credit for, and LOLB is not a position that needs to be immediately addressed." DCBS's take was further substantiated by a guy whose work is now solidly on my list of required reading: ScarletO. S.O. gathers a lot of important material (citing many of my favorite sources: Keg as well as Bryan Broaddus, Bob Sturm and "the Football Show") supporting his assertion that Spencer could be made much better by upgrading the guy(s) he plays next to. I have to admit I began the offseason on the anti-Anthony bandwagon; thanks to all this clearheaded thinking, I have come around. Now, I'd be happy to re-sign him at the right price. Anybody who can convince stubborn Ol' Rabble of anything gets big props. Congrats, fellas!
If you'll direct your attention upward, you'll see one of our posters performing a high-wire act. Look more closely, and you'll see that its our reigning FanPoster of the Year, Chia Crack, performing such spectacular feats of acrobatic derring-do. He's working without a net; its terrifying, yet you can't look away, because he might go ker-splat. Why? Look at his subject: Chia takes on the difficult proposition that is Janoris Jenkins. Like Scarlet O, the estimable Crack gathers some good evidence, which strongly suggests that Dallas is targeting cornerbacks in the draft, and then speculates upon the likelihood that they might pick the ex-Florida Gator with the 14th pick. What makes this so dangerous is that we've been down this road before with terrifying results (anybody care to recall Dwayne Goodrich or Derek Ross?). The Cowboys seem to have cured themselves of their propensity to draft talented knuckleheads. Might they go back to the well at a position of need? Hard to imagine...and hard not to. That's why Chia's working without a net. Nice work, bro--on this and on all the top-shelf draft knowledge you've been churning out recently.
And, now for the big finale. Please focus your attention on the center ring, where this week's headliner can be found, under the white-hot spotlight of FanPost greatness. Actually, we've already seen him earlier in the show--but a man this talented merits more than one appearance. Yes, one and all, its the Columbus Crusher, the man who always dots the "i" in Ohio, none other than ScarletO. His winning post, a look at Dallas' defensive back play in 2011, presents a combination of superb analysis, statistical acumen and graphic excellence (with a tip of the cap to O.C.C., who, as always helped with the technical aspects). I don't want to give too much away, but do feel responsible, largely for thematic reasons, to share the "If I Ran the Cowboys" aspect of Scarlet's post. Extrapolating from his evidence, he concludes:
Drafting an average cornerback to take the place of Newman would actually be a significant upgrade over Terence's level of performance over the final seven games of the season. From Elam's grades, it is also easy to surmise that a new safety will be starting in 2012.
I know, not earth-shattering conclusions. Then again, as Jason Garrett is always quick to remind us, this isn't about final product; its about process. And Scarlet's detailed process makes him a FanPost RKG. Have any doubts? Go here, and read.
Okay, all, the show is over. As you make you way to the exits, please join me in a rousing ovation for this week's top acts. Wanna job under Rabble's bigtop? Start cranking out FanPosts!
5 free agents Dan Quinn could recruit to the Cowboys in 2023 With Dan Quinn returning to Dallas, there may be some free agents looking to make the move to Big D.


I just finished setting up a Remotec Zxt-120. It is version 1.8. My main issue is that I cannot control fan speed. I see that fan speed can be controlled according to the Remotec manual but it does not explain how to set it up. Has anyone been able to setup fan speed control?
I'm seeing that it is an IR remote control device. I assume you have an IR remote controlled fan then? If you fan is RF remote controlled (like mine were) i dont think this would be working for you. If you have one that uses IR, you will have to program in the IR control codes to get it to work for you.
Sorry. I guess I was not clear enough. I am using this on a ductless AC which is a Daikin. I have the codes programmed fine to use the AC, but the temperature settings run the AC fan speed on low. I can select Auto Fan speed, but I would rather control the fan speed myself as in have the fan run on high for a set temperature. The thermostat layout on Vera though does not have a fan speed option. It only allows Fan Off, Fan Cycle or Fan Auto.
I have the same issue, I would like to control the fan speed, or set the parameter or the fan speed to a higher lever. Anyone who know if that is possible?
Can some one please provide like a luup code to control this under a manual scene?
I wonder if anybody has used this device Remotec ZXT-600, a new IR extender. Does work fine with ZWave? The former ZXT-120 had some isuues.


New research reveals that many FT Global 500 companies are still failing to manage their digital strategies effectively.
The sixth annual FT Bowen Craggs Index shows that an alarming number of companies still don't understand that the corporate website is now one of the most effective communications channels that a company owns.
Bowen Craggs & Co concludes that one of the biggest problems is a lack of senior management engagement.
It's notable that only one US company (IBM) makes the top 10 and that all of the others are European, despite the large number of FT Global 500 companies from elsewhere in the world.
Last year I led an international research project working with the United Nations to publish The Global Social Media and CSR Report 2011– the world's first global research into how the same FT Global 500 companies use social media to support their corporate social responsibility strategies. The results were not too dissimilar with a disappointing low level and quality of activity.
The FT Bowen Craggs Index is a very useful and interesting piece of research, although it might have been better if they'd made it easier to share the story. The Bowen Craggs & Co website is a social web free zone with absolutely nothing to help you report or share the story and send readers to its website. The research isn't on any document sharing website, there is no infographic or even crude 'share' or 'bookmark' buttons. The report rightly criticises companies for jumping on the latest bandwagons by randomly adding Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc to sites without any apparent strategy. But its own strategy appears to be do nothing, which equally certainly isn't right!
UPDATE: Disclaimer – Unilever is a former client where I worked with the global corporate communications team on international social media.


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Q: Non-lattice Veech groups I was thinking of Veech surfaces, which are translation surfaces whose stabilizer under the $\mathrm{Sl}_2(\mathbb{R})$ action is a lattice in $\mathrm{Sl}_2(\mathbb{R})$. They seem to have been studied and examples of such surfaces are rare and somehow well understood in low genus.
I was wondering what other examples of Veech groups were known? For example do we know explicit examples of translation surfaces whose Veech group is non-elementary but not a lattice?
Thank you for your attention!
Selim

A: Infinitely generated Veech groups were discovered by Curtis McMullen and Pascal Hubert and Thomas Schmidt. Both results are more-or-less explicit (in describing a specific translation surface whose Veech group is infinitely generated). Hubert and his collaborators have many other results on Veech groups.

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D23 2017: Mark Hamill's Disney Legend Acceptance Speech And Carrie Fisher Honored
Bespin refugee - July 14, 2017
Today, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were inducted as Disney Legends, you can find out more here.
CARRIE FISHER is known best by Disney fans as Princess Leia, a role she originated in >Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977. In addition to reprising the role in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens<, and the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Carrie's Disney appearances also include Scream 3 (2000) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) for Dimension Films. Outside of her notable acting career, Carrie was also an accomplished author, playwright, screenwriter, and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness
MARK HAMILL is best known as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, but Mark's Disney roots can be traced back to a recurring role on ABC's General Hospital and a starring role in MTM's The Texas Wheelers. A prolific voice actor, he has performed on Disney's Miles from Tomorrowland and Milo Murphy's Law, and has also provided the voice of The Joker in the Batman animated series, a role that recently earned him a BAFTA Award. He returned as Luke in The Force Awakens and will reprise the role in the upcoming The Last Jedi.
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Darren Ennis, co-owner of Sheba Productions and co-owner & managing partner of The Sample Room in Minneapolis, received the Minneapolis Downtown Network's Award of Excellence from the Downtown Network and Minneapolis Downtown Council. Ennis was awarded at the Annual Meeting for his work with the Skyway Open Golf Tournament Presented by U.S. Bank.
Ennis is a recognized leader in many areas of event planning and production. He has partnered with Downtown Network for the past four years to plan and execute the Skyway Open, creating an intriguing and energetic atmosphere for event attendees. The ninth annual Skyway Open Golf Tournament Presented by U.S. Bank ran from March 6 to 8 in the downtown Minneapolis skyway system. Holes were designed by one of the city's leading architects, designers, contractors or artists, showcasing the creativity and engineering, ingenuity and vibrancy signature to Downtown. The result was pure fun and celebration for professionals downtown and families throughout the Twin Cities.
The Downtown Network credit Ennis's passion, sophistication and ability to ensure a successful event from idea to fruition as reasons he was chosen to be the 20th recipient of the Award of Excellence.
Ennis has more than 25 years of experience in the event planning industry. He has worked on high-profile and award-winning events including: Mpls.St.Paul Magazine/ASID Showcase Home, Taste! Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's Ultimate Wine & Dine Event at TCF Stadium, Capella Tower Reveal, Minnesota Children's Museum Grand Family Ball, Moods of Norway Really Really Blonde Launch, Arianna Huffington's ThriveEvent and CRAVE's Pink Carpet Event.


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1.(SBU) After a lull December 19, Shi'a youth once again clashed with security forces December 20 in the village of Jid Hafs, west of Manama. That afternoon Shi'a leaders, including Al-Wifaq's Ali Salman, and Hassan Mushaima of the radical Al-Haq, led a peaceful procession to the grave of Ali Jassim Mekki (refs C and D). After the ceremonies, several hundred youths returned to the village and began setting rubbish fires and vandalizing shops. The police had deliberately established a light presence there in hopes of avoiding further confrontations. According to interior ministry contacts, a crowd severely beat one of the few policemen present, burned his jeep and stole his weapon. Security reinforcements then arrived and reasserted control over most of the area, but youths continued throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at police well into the night. At least four rioters were injured and part of the village market burned down.
¶3. (C) In his Friday noon sermon in Diraz, Ali Salman told 2000 worshippers that violence was not the way to achieve their goals. A pol/econ FSN present reported that Salman told the largely receptive audience that street violence only played into the hands of those who oppose reform. By forcing Al-Wifaq to focus on re-establishing stability in Shi'a villages, the violence would distract the movement from advancing its agenda with the government. In a veiled criticism of his rivals in the radical Al-Haq movement, Salman said that Al-Wifaq never called for a demonstration that it couldn't control. He called on families to keep their young men out of the streets.


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The Cultural Path (文化のみち, Bunka-no-michi) is located between Naka-ku and Higashi-ku in the centre of Nagoya, Japan. It shows a number of historic buildings that are under heritage protection.

The area was designated in 1999. The area's historic buildings range back from the Edo period to the Meiji era and Taishō era of the 1920s. Included in the list are mansions, government buildings, temples, and shrines. Many of them are registered as Tangible Cultural Property.

List of such historic monuments

Brick and concrete buildings
 Nagoya City Hall main building, from 1933, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
 Aichi Prefectural Government Office, from 1938, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
 former Aichi Credit Unions Association hall, from 1933–38, today used as Aichi Prefectural Office Ōtsubashi branch
 former Nagoya Court of Appeal district courthouse, from 1922, designated as an Important Cultural Property, today used as Nagoya City Archives and municipal museum
 Kinjō Gakuin High School Keikō-kan Auditorium. 1936, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
 Nagoya Ceramics Hall, 1932, architectural expressionism Art Deco design by Ichiei Takasu, Important Landscape Building
 Nagoya Municipal Tsutsui Elementary School, 1936, the only remaining pre-war primary school building in the city
 Tokai Gakuen Auditorium, 1931, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
 former mansion of Nagoya mayor Toranosuke Okita, from 1920, today used as Aichi Prefecture Lawmakers Hall

Wooden buildings
 Kenchū-ji, from 1651, Registered Tangible Cultural Property, Designated Prefectural Cultural Property, Designated Cultural Property and Important Urban Landscape Building
 Sadaso-in, from 1608, built under Tokugawa Yoshimichi
 old Toyoda family house wall (Risaburo Toyoda Teiato), from 1918, Important Urban landscape Building with remaining gate and fence
 old restaurant - Camphor, Taishō era, Important Urban landscape Building
 former Nakai Onorejiro House, from 1911, today used as a restaurant
 former Tetsujiro Haruta House, from 1925, Important Traditional Building and Landscape Structure, European-style building of Design and Preservation
 former Sasuke Toyoda House, from 1923, Sakichi Toyoda's brother, traditional building
 former Sadayakko Kawakami House from 1920, today Futaba Museum of Culture, Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Important Landscape Building
 former Tamesaburo Imoto House, from 1926, today Shumoku Museum of Culture, Specified Tangible Cultural Heritage, Important Landscape Building, traditional building of townscape preservation district
 former Okaya Sosuke House, from 1920, remaining tearoom, storehouse and garden
 Chikara-machi Nagayamon, from mid-Edo period, remaining gate of Samurai mansion
 Catholic Chikaramachi Church, from 1904, Important Urban Landscape Building, oldest Catholic church in the city
 Omori's Residence, from 1916,	Important Urban Landscape Building
 Ito house, from early Taishō era, Important Urban Landscape Building
 Chokyū-ji, from 1610, temple

Museums
 Nagoya Castle
 Tokugawa Art Museum, from 1935, museum exhibiting treasure of the Tokugawa Owari lords
 Hōsa Library, from 1950, public library from the collection of the Owari Tokugawa family
 Rakushi Museum, from 1987, exhibition with a focus on MatsuHana hall in the Edo era and tea utensils
 Hori Museum, from 2006, Setsuko Migishi, Yuzo Saeki, Foujita Fujita, Ryuzaburo Umehara exhibited works
 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Currency Museum, moved in spring of 2009 to the present location, opened in 1961 as the "Tokai Bank Money Museum"

Other
 Tokugawa Garden, gardens of the Tokugawa mansion around the Tokugawa museum
 Sannomaru garden, from 1881, relocated the part of the Nagoya Castle Ninomaru Gardens, including the former army officers club Kaikosha Nantei fortification
 Nanao Shrine, founded in early 16th century, Owari clan chief retainer Naruse family
 Akatsuka Shinmeisha, reconstructed under Tokugawa Yoshinao in 1619 (Kanei 5), some remaining buildings that survived the war
 Crescent mound, from 1743, Basho Matsuo fifty years death anniversary monument

External links

 Nagoya International Center | Nagoya's Cultural Path
 Tourism Aichi | Cultural Path

History of Nagoya
Tourist attractions in Nagoya


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M&M's — The Candy of Love?
Who doesn't love to get candy on Valentine's Day? A box of assorted chocolates, candy hearts with Be Mine stamped on them, or a bottle of red and white M&M's poured out into decadent champagne flutes. But there was a price paid for all of this sweet romance.
Specifically, M&M's.
Forrest Mars, Sr. worked with his father, Frank C. Mars, founder of the American candy company Mars, Inc. In the 1920s through 1930s, Forrest was responsible for the introduction of such sweets as Milky Way, Snickers, and 3 Musketeers. Forrest wished to expand the company abroad, but his father opposed the idea. Not a stranger to disagreements with his parent, he left the company and moved to England.
While there, he manufactured the Mars Bar for the troops. During a trip to Spain, he noticed that soldiers were eating small beads of candy-coated chocolate. Knowing that sales of chocolate plummeted during the summer months due to melting, Forrest found these candies, called Smarties, intriguing. The candy coating protected the chocolate inside.
Forrest Mars returned to the United States and partnered with Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey executive William Murrie. Bruce had also had disagreements with his father on how he ran his company. They packaged their product in cardboard tubes exclusively for rations during World War II. Even during a chocolate and sugar shortage, the Mars and Hershey powerhouses ensured the soldiers would have a steady supply of the candy they named after themselves, M&M's—Mars and Murrie. Later, in 1949, "melt in your mouth, not in your hands" became the ad slogan for the candy they developed.
Eventually, Mars and Murrie had a falling out, not seeing eye-to-eye on the direction of the company. They parted ways, and Mars accepted the one million dollar buy-out. This meant that Hershey chocolate would no longer be filling the candy shells.
The beloved confection we know today had a rocky start with family fallouts, a stealing of an idea, and two partners who couldn't make a go of it for the long haul.
No worries, however. Forrest Mars went on providing the sweet crunchy goodness, developing the candy into what we know today. The Mars company still supports our troops, and that makes the company Aces in my book.
Zadie Fitzpatrick, an artist from New York, is commissioned to go on location in Arizona to paint illustrations for an author of western novels and falls for the male model.
Labels: Candy, Kathy Kovach, M&M's, Mars, WWII
Southern-fried Fiction February 12, 2021 at 8:08 AM
And they never changed the name of M%Ms. That was really interesting, Kathy!
Kathy Kovach... February 12, 2021 at 2:41 PM
True, and the cardboard tubes they used to put in the military rations are still sold as a tribute to those days, except they're plastic now, I believe.
Connie R. February 12, 2021 at 8:10 AM
Thanks for posting! Very interesting. I'm glad the company survived in some form, who doesn't love M&M's?
I like the almond ones. :)
Melissa Henderson February 12, 2021 at 10:18 AM
I love M & M's. How interesting to learn the history. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure. :)
Lori February 12, 2021 at 10:28 AM
wow this is a very interesting bit of history. thanks for sharing. im glad that they continue to make m&m's


I completed this workout today after my 4K interval run. I am pretty stoked firstly, to say, I don't usually go for a jog anymore. It's turned into a run these days as I feel very fast and comfortable running at a faster pace.
Matt managed to drag himself out of bed for this workout as well today, so I was pretty impressed! Perhaps my motivation and enthusiasm has been rubbing off?