New London — For the nearly 150 years of its existence, the Thames Club has been a private social club, available for members — many of whom have, over the decades, been movers and shakers in the region — to meet, mingle, chat and dine.
Now, though, the club is opening its doors on certain days for the public to come in and have a meal. It's part of an effort to attract more and younger members.
Robert Salmonsen, the club's president, said the rationale for the shift has to do with the fact that society has changed.
"We're the oldest social club in Connecticut, but there are precious few social clubs that remain. It seems most apparent that the younger generations rely much more on social networks than they do on personal interaction," he said.
The idea is that getting people who are younger or who aren't members into the Thames Club for public dining will let them see what the club is like and what is has to offer — and that might lead to more folks wanting to become members. Instead of sitting in their apartments on their hand-held devices, Salmonsen noted, they could be at the club with friends, playing pool or chatting by the fireplace.
The Thames Club was established in 1869, when two officers of the New London Northern Railroad company found themselves stranded in an inhospitable Amherst, Mass. They returned to New London and decided to organize a social club where members could find "a room with a tub," according to the organization's history.
The list of the original members reads like an index of city streets: Learned, Coit, Jennings, Bentley, Hempstead, Chappell, Converse and Whittlesey. While it was men-only for decades, women now are accepted for membership.
The club has had the financial wherewithal to exist for a century and a half, Carr noted.
"It's not like we're in extremis here, but we are looking forward, and we'd like to try some new things to see how would we structure the club going forward from 2018," Carr said.
Hence, opening its doors for public meals on a limited basis. The schedule has to work around the club's events and commitments. There is also a duck-pin bowling alley in the basement, and on some nights the downstairs club pub will be open to the public.
Recent menus show that a Sunday brunch might boast such offerings as bananas Foster French toast for $12 and classic New England breakfast (johnnycakes, bacon, poached eggs, cranberry chutney, green onion crema and dressed greens) for $15.
A recent prix fixe menu for dinner was $43 for three courses, with entrées choices of flank steak braciole (rolled with spinach and goat cheese and simmered in tomato sauce, roasted garlic, potatoes and lemon chili Swiss chard), pan-seared scallops (roasted beets, red pepper hummus, dressed arugula, brown butter and caramelized honey Miso), or braised chicken thigh (cannellini bean, cranberry and corn succotash, white wine pan sauce and crispy chicken skin).
And a Pub in the Club Bar Bites list has featured sticky soy wings ($10), housemade meatballs ($13) and beet salad ($12).
The chef at The Thames Club since three months ago is McKenzie Mahn, and he has a lot of experience in the restaurant world. He started out at age 17, working at Paul's Pasta in Groton as a dishwasher and at Herb's Country Deli in Uncasville as a prep cook. He earned his bachelor's degree from Johnson and Wales University in Providence. He has been a line cook for Bobby Flay's Bar Americain at Mohegan Sun, as well as working at the Engine Room, Oyster Club, and Grass & Bone in Mystic.
At the Thames Club, he is not tying himself to a specific kind of cuisine but is aiming to use fresh and local ingredients whenever possible.
"We're just trying to do anything we can from scratch. ... Everything we can do on the premises, we do," Mahn said.
He said that the club isn't staffed like a full-fledged restaurant. It isn't trying to serve hundreds of meals but rather dozens. There are atmospheric advantages, he notes. The tables, for example, are spread out a bit more than at a restaurant, which allows for a little more privacy.
For members, The Thames Club offers plenty beyond a delicious meal, of course. One feature is a monthly lecture, which has brought in everyone from best-selling author Jeff Benedict to puppeteer Heather Asch, who has won four Emmys for her work on "Sesame Street." A string quartet from the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra has played, and the Chelsea Players' Cabaret Ensemble performed "Songs from the World Wars" in November in honor of the centennial of the World War I armistice.
Wood, who is executive artistic director of Flock Theatre, runs his business mostly off his laptop and cellphone, but said that, since becoming a Thames Club member, he's been able to hold auditions and rehearsals there and can meet clients there, as well. And, he added, he can just go to the club to put his feet up and relax or to have interesting conversations with fellow club members.
People interested in perhaps joining can call the club and talk to manager Nancy Blair or email Bill Richmond, who is in charge of membership, at wrichmond5@comcast.net, to learn about the process.
Salmonsen recalled that when he and his wife moved to New London in the early 2000s, they didn't know anyone. Through work-related contacts, he was introduced to the Thames Club.
"Overnight, my wife and I met over 100 wonderful people. So we really felt the immediacy of being put into the fabric of New London in a very short, concentrated period of time. It's been wonderful," he said.
Editor's Note: This version corrects the spelling of Jim Giordano's name.
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The Arts and Culture Commission is no longer accepting proposals for the City's second Poet Laureate as of June 11, 2018. The expected term will be from September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2020.
Please see the Poet Laureate Request for Proposals ("RFP") for more details.
The Arts and Culture Commission (ACC) established the Poet Laureate Program with funding from the City's Arts in Public Places Program. As envisioned by the ACC, the City's poet laureate will encourage the poetic energy of the El Cerrito community.
The poet laureate will perform two public readings and develop and lead three community events during each year of the two-year term.
The laureate will create and lead activities that inspire writing and performances of poetry among all age groups while initiating a dialogue between local poets, cultural organizations, and community institutions.
The laureate will promote literature and the arts in the city, bring attention to poetry in less traditional settings, and encourage residents in their writing and personal expression.
The laureate will receive a stipend of $2,400 for the two-year term.
Submit a complete proposal by 4:00 pm on Monday, June 11, 2018. Submissions will only be accepted in electronic format (PDF files sent via email).
If you have questions, please contact Arts and Culture Commission Staff Liaison Maya Williams, Assistant to the City Manager, at 510-215-4318.


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Easy funding source for schools gets complicated
Mike Szymanski | March 22, 2016
Principal Joe Martinez with Carpenter Community Charter fifth-graders at a Studio City Neighborhood Council meeting.
Neighborhood councils in Los Angeles have served as easy and reliable sources of funds for public schools. The councils have $37,000 a year to dole out to the community, and many have set aside a portion of their budgets specifically for schools.
But recently some of the councils have learned of a restriction that would tie their hands in giving to schools.
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), which runs the 97 unpaid councils, told them through the city attorney's office that a state conflict-of-interest law would prohibit their boards from giving money to a school if even one of the 15 board members has a child going to the school. That could affect many neighborhood council districts, especially those that have only one middle or high school within their boundaries.
"It seems problematic," said LA Unified school board member Monica Ratliff, mentioning the situation at a committee meeting last week. "That will impact our budget and the budget of the schools."
She pointed out that if a school, for example, wanted to start a mariachi program, it could come to the neighborhood council to pay for costumes. This new ruling could "prevent the neighborhood councils from reviewing a request if there's a member that is a parent at that school." She asked staff to review the issue for their next Budget, Facilities and Audit Committee meeting.
Fellow board member Richard Vladovic pointed out that many schools go to the neighborhood councils to get money for special events or special needs.
For example, when students were going to paint a mural at Taper Avenue Elementary School, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council gave them $1,500 to kick off the project. When Walter Reed Middle School needed expensive timpani drums for their school orchestra, the Studio City Neighborhood Council stepped up with $5,000. And when the garden at Eagle Rock Elementary dried up because of a broken irrigation system, the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council granted them $750 to fix it.
"The schools come to the neighborhood councils when they have a need," said Garry Fordyce, who has served on the North Hills West Neighborhood Council and has started one of the few education committees among the councils. "We are a bit groundbreaking because we are reaching out to the schools to see their needs and how the neighborhood council can help."
But Fordyce said that restricting councils from giving money to schools if a member had a child going to the school would be harmful. "That is a stupid law, and it would have destroyed the neighborhood council system," said Fordyce. "You want people to get involved, and I think the city attorney's office overreacted at first when they told us this."
DONE issued a statement last week that made the potential for conflict less daunting, according to Steven Box, DONE's director of outreach and communication. "The concern would be if only one person's child who is on the board would benefit from the grant to the school," Box said.
In the clarification, DONE noted that the city attorney's office "does not believe that the conflict of interest laws would preclude a [grant] being provided to a school for a general item that is available to all students, e.g., if the grant is for a playground, a board could award the [grant] even if the board member's child will use the equipment."
DONE recommends that the board member "disqualify himself or herself so as to avoid any issue under the common law bias doctrine and/or any appearance of a conflict. Disqualification means the board member may not nominate his/her child's school to receive the grant, may not negotiate with fellow board members to nominate the schools of each other's children" and more.
Fordyce and some other council members still find the wording restrictive and isolating, but they said they're going to have to work with it.

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1 Prof. Jones: So, north then. That most mysterious of directions, full of danger, trepidation, and horrors beyond the ken of man.
2 Monty: Indeed. Lands bound with ice and snow. Vast and hostile landscapes that strip souls to the bone.
3 Monty: The howling winds of the Wendigo. Trackless and cyclopean wastes populated only by wolves, bears, and worse.
4 Prof. Jones: Actually, I was talking about lutefisk.
Yes, I know they're going to northern Germany, and lutefisk is a Scandinavian thing, and, even more egregiously, the wendigo is an Algonquian legend of northern America, so they're almost certainly not in any danger of encountering either of those on their current travels.
But I couldn't think of anything from northern Germany that was nearly so mind-numbingly horrifying as lutefisk.
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Rural communities 'starved of essential services'
RURAL communities are being starved of essential services, with people in rural areas increasingly left without access to banks and healthcare services, according to Plaid Cymru.
Plaid Cymru's Rural Affairs spokesperson, Ben Lake MP, says rural communities are being let down by both the Welsh Government and Westminster, who have allowed banks – including those in which the public have a majority stake – to abandon rural towns across Wales.
Since 2011, 20 community post offices have closed across Wales, 15% of which were in Ceredigion; and 39 local banks have closed in 2017 alone. With rural Wales also suffering from some of the poorest provision of broadband and mobile data infrastructure, the combined effect is that residents and businesses are forced to travel a significant distance to access essential services, which is made all the more difficult due to the poor provision of public transport.
The Ceredigion MP has also highlighted the failure of the Welsh Government to ensure rural areas have adequate access to healthcare, resulting in people in rural areas being at higher risk due to the time required for emergency services to reach them, and to then reach the medical facility.
Mr Lake has called for both the Welsh Government and the Westminster Government to recognise the challenges being faced by rural communities and ensure that residents and businesses are able to access essential services in their own communities.
Commenting, the Plaid Cymru MP, Ben Lake, said: "Rural communities have been neglected for far too long by both the Welsh Government and the Westminster Government.
"Rural areas are being starved of essential services with post offices and banks disappearing at an alarming rate and healthcare services increasingly stretched.
"By now 84% of people in Wales are deprived of a local dental practice, and both banks and post offices are fast becoming just as hard to find. Both the Westminster Government and the Welsh Government are idle as these vital amenities are disappearing, and abandoning our rural towns and villages.
"The Labour Welsh Government has failed to protect local healthcare services, meaning those living in rural communities are forced to travel significant distances to access services. With our transport system in its current state, that is no simple task either. In this regard, residents of rural areas are disadvantaged for no other reason than the fact that they do not live in a city.
"Meanwhile, Westminster has allowed banks – in which the public hold a majority stake – to turn their backs on rural communities, despite the public bailing them out a decade ago.
"We cannot expect rural towns and villages to thrive if banks and post offices disappear, forcing residents and businesses to leave. The Welsh Government should consider creating a public bank, owned by the people and rooted in our communities.
"Both the Welsh Government and the Westminster government need to recognise these challenges, stop sitting on their hands, and start taking action to protect our rural communities."
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A PARTNERSHIP between Ceredigion Museum and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has attracted £1,000 funding from the Association for Roman Archaeology to display fragments of a unique Roman glass vessel, found at Abermagwr Romano-British villa.
The villa at Abermagwr was discovered during aerial photography in 2006 and excavated by Dr Jeffrey L. Davies and Dr Toby Driver between 2010 and 2015, in a volunteer-led community project. It remains the only known Roman villa in the county and the most remote Roman villa in Wales. The finds have been researched over time and the best have been put on public display at Ceredigion Museum. The finds include parts of Ceredigion's earliest known slate roof, just one of the innovations discovered at the villa.
The most recent Roman finds handed to the museum are the cut glass fragments. The ARA grant will fund a bespoke mount, made by a museum specialist, to enable the delicate glass fragments to take pride of place in the Museum's archaeology gallery. Roman cut glass is rare; only one cut glass beaker is on permanent display in the British Museum and the design on the Abermagwr vessel is unparalleled in Roman Britain. Professor Jennifer Price was struck by the rarity and quality of the glass vessel describing it as 'of outstandingly high quality….[which] must have been an extraordinary item of luxury. Its quality is vastly superior to the rest of the glass vessels found at the villa'
Abermagwr Roman cut glass vessel
Prof. Barry Burnham of University Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, said "Its discovery so far west in Wales is all the more significant because it is vastly superior to the general range of glass material found anywhere in Wales. This raises interesting questions about how it came to be here, who owned it, and what it signifies in terms of social status and economic links."
Carrie Canham, Curator, said "When I was at school we were taught that the Roman's didn't have a significant presence in West Wales, but local excavation results have overturned that assumption. This extraordinary object shows that the villa at Abermagwr was the home of comparatively wealthy Romans enjoying the good things in life. I'm extremely grateful to the ARA for the funding that will enable visitors to the museum to see it displayed to its best advantage."
Councillor Catherine Hughes, Cabinet Member with responsibility for Porth Ceredigion, Early Intervention, Well-being Hubs and Culture said: "It is a delight to hear the history of the rare Roman cut glass here in Ceredigion. Thanks to Carrie and the team at Ceredigion Museum and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales for their work, and the Roman Archaeology Society. We look forward to the day when we can see the pieces in all their glory."
The Covid-19 pandemic is delaying the work to make the mount until later in 2021. The glass fragments are too delicate to courier to the craftsperson making the mount, so he will have to come to Aberystwyth and set up a temporary workshop at the museum. Then the fragments will go straight on display.
THE CONSERVATIVE Party is investigating the attendance of senior Senedd members and staff at a Christmas party held during December's lockdown.
Lockdown restrictions prohibit mixing with people outside your own household.
The Welsh restrictions barring such gatherings follow the basic outline of those imposed by the Conservative UK Government in December.
Those attending the drinks party included Paul Smith, the Conservative Chief of Staff at the Senedd, Darren Millar, the Party's Chief Whip and campaign coordinator, and Preseli Pembrokeshire MS and Conservative Senedd Group Leader Paul Davies.
The Herald understands that a Labour Senedd Member who attended the Party has been suspended by the Labour Senedd Group pending its own investigation.
The Conservatives' embarrassment at talking the talk but not walking the walk is intensified by Darren Millar's presence at the shindig.
If the Conservative Party follows the logic of their previously stated positions, Mr Millar's and Mr Davies' futures look bleak indeed.
If they do nothing, the Conservatives will – at the very least – face claims they are hypocrites.
If the Conservative Party acts decisively, it faces massive internal problems.
The Conservatives responded to our request for a response to our story.
Those involved stressed they did not host a Christmas Party.
The incident happened on December 8, when the above met in the members' tea room to discuss legislation for possible inclusion in the Welsh Conservative manifesto with a Labour backbencher.
During the evening they did drink a glass or two of wine.
They stress that at no point were there more than four people in the room at any one time and that they maintained social distancing.


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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Aircraft leasing firm SMBC Aviation Capital, a major customer of Boeing's (N:) 737 MAX jet, does not expect the grounding of the plane to be lifted until early next year, and warned it would take time to bring it back into service.
The Dublin-based firm, which owns or manages 17 MAX jets, has 89 firm orders and is committed to a fleet of 133 in total, also said on Thursday the unwinding of its delivery backlog for the jet would take "quite a bit of time."
"We are taking a rather prudent view about how that is going to play out," Chief Executive Peter Barrett said in an interview.
"We think it is likely to be a Q1 ungrounding rather than this year. But … whenever that happens there is also the challenge of getting them all in the air and returned to service and that's going to take a lot of time," he said.
Earlier this month, Boeing said it expected the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to lift the MAX's grounding in mid December. The FAA said it would take whatever time was needed.
The MAX was grounded in March after two fatal crashes and Boeing has been upgrading an anti-stall system which inspectors believe had a role in the disasters.
Barrett said recent reports of structural issues on earlier versions of the 737 were normal for a maturing fleet and there had been no sign of lease rates weakening for such models.
SMBC, which also reported a 19% annual increase in pretax profit to $200 million for the six months to Sept. 30, said lease extensions linked to the MAX grounding and production delays at rivals would likely continue over the coming 6-12 months.
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Controlling the spread of invasive species in the critical salt marsh bay habitats of San Francisco, California has been an evolving process since the 1970's. Since the intentional introduction of Spartina alterniflora (a species of cordgrass native to the East Coast) to restore marsh habitats, it has bred with the native cordgrass to produce a hybrid that spreads much faster, thrives in a wider ecological range, and grows more densely than the native variety in the bays. Unintentionally, the hybrid grasses are threatening to push out hundreds of acres of native flora and fauna in the waters surrounding San Francisco. In response to the threats of spoiling the habitat for dozens of native and endangered species the California State Coastal Conservancy launched The San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project (ISP). Starting in 2000 ISP has been mapping the threats posed to ecosystems by the "hybrid swarm".
The challenges that ISP has taken on to map the threats of the invasive Spartina alterniflora include tracking and eradicating invasive hybrid cordgrass, selectively spraying herbicides to eliminate hybrids, and using DNA tests on grasses that are hard to distinguish from the native variety. To meet these challenges ISP field teams collect location and genetic data throughout the 30+ acres of nonnative infestation coverage area that still exists. Managing the amount of data collected (30,000+ records a year) has proven to be one of the most difficult tasks. To meet this challenge, ISP called on mobile GIS solutions professionals, GeoMobile Innovations Inc., to provide a custom data collection workflow for the field and a database management solution for the GIS manager.
The Invasive Spartina Project is a coordinated regional effort among local, state and federal organizations dedicated to preserving California's extraordinary coastal biological resources through the elimination of introduced species of Spartina(cordgrass).
The solutions that GeoMobile supplied enhance the 'out-of-box' ArcPad and ArcGIS software framework, such as writing custom validations and coded rule sets particular to the Spartina project. Because the project does not have a programmer in house, they outsourced the custom programming to GeoMobile Innovations.


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It creates two slightly detuned copies of the original audio, which can be spread in the stereo field.
EMONIZER is available for free as a 32bit VST plugin for Windows.
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Eduardo Madina is a political and economic analyst. He is known for his political trajectory and for being a survivor of an attack by the terrorist group ETA. He was an appointed MP between 2004 and 2017, having served in relevant positions within the Spanish Socialist Party PSOE. Nowadays he is the director of the Kreab Research Unit, a job he combines with the academia and regular contributions in various Spanish media.
As a speaker, Madina analyzes the current political and economic scenario in great detail. Moreover, his own relation with terrorism combined with his insights on politics make him a great keynote speaker on terrorism and conflicts. His deep knowledge on Spanish terrorist group ETA, along with his personal wish for dialogue makes his talks an unforgettable, noteworthy event. Furthermore, he also speaks about overcoming hardships.
Madina had been affiliated to the PSOE from an early age, which led him to gain political relevance in his region, Euskadi. When serving as a PSOE councilman in 2002, ETA targeted him with a car bomb. Further from hiding from the public arena, Madina endured all the hardships and continued his career in politics. By 2004 he was appointed member of the Spanish Parliament. While serving as MP, he was member of the federal direction board of his party, being later appointed as General Secretary of the PSOE at the Parliament, a position he held from 2009 to 2014.
Nowadays, retired from politics, Madina is the director of the Kreab Research Unit, where he uses is knowledge and insights to analyze international politics, with a special focus on Spain and Latin America. Simultaneously, he is the director of the ESADE master in Public Agenda, power and counterbalances. He is also a regular contributor to many Spanish media, namely El País and Cadena SER.
He is a Contemporary History graduate from Deusto University and holds a master in European Integration and International Relations (País Vasco University). He has worked in the European Parliament and has lectured on International Relations and European Building in many universities. In 2003 he was awarded the Spanish Medal for Constitutional Merit.


What would make any story, told anywhere, at any time, understandable to anyone else, anywhere and at any time?
In each of these cases context annotates content so that the content can be better understood. The first is minimal; the second fanciful; the third a near failure; and the fourth only a partial success. The reason this matters is that, as I said back in the first of my eight observation posts, most projects that involve helping people work with stories involve the paradoxical elements of narrative compression (which requires context trimming) and narrative distance (which requires context for translation). Manipulating the interplay and tension between compression and distance is important to maximizing the utility of story projects.
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about: on this site, the students of Copper Giloth at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have created traditional and modern versions of many of Aesop's fables, exchanging the troubles of foxes and birds for the dilemmas of today's young people. The fox invites the stork to a baseball game; belling the cat is starting a neighborhood watch; sour grapes are a potential girlfriend. This is a perfect example of narrative translation and shows the potential of the idea, which could go much further.
Consider for example the division between city residents, usually immigrants, who butcher livestock in their back yards and residents who have their butchering done by others in remote locations. Each has a story to tell, but important elements of context are left behind, and the gaps are filled by assumptions on each side.
Our original work on this idea revolved around tools that might give people easier ways to annotate and view stories with contextual information added, to make what is unsaid in the story explicit. At the time I built a very simple Flash prototype to play with the ideas, which simply displayed some "canned" contextual notes I had added to a fable from Aesop. I've tried to duplicate it here using the "title" attributes of links. The links go right back to this post, so don't click on them, but if you hover over them you should be able to read the annotations.
A shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, "Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock."
From playing with this idea I learned a few things.
The process of adding context annotations is both difficult and useful. Both attributes are important, and neither can be taken away by automation without losing something. It's difficult because it's hard to see context when you are in it, and it's useful because you find out things you had not realized about the story by forcing yourself to make context explicit. This less obvious utility complements the more obvious utility of communicating context to story readers.
The technological part of the task is much the smaller one, and we already have the tools we need to do it. Everything is hyperlinked today, and with services like diigo, adding "sticky notes" to content is easy. At this point it's more about habits, social cues, and group techniques than anything to do with technology.
Software tools could embody understandings and social cues about story context annotation for translation and sensemaking. But my feeling is that people are so overwhelmed with helpful tools that they can't keep up with the scaffolding they have already. My rating of what would be useful in this area is techniques first, habits second, and software tools a distant third. Group exercises that more explicitly address drawing out context for translation might be a helpful addition to the body of techniques for narrative sensemaking. For example, perhaps two groups with different backgrounds could come together and pick apart each others' stories, asking questions like, "Why do you say he is an outcast?" and so on. This could be revealing for both groups and for the combined community.
Without full realization of this idea, whether in tools or techniques, how could you use it today in your work with stories?
First, just try out the idea of context annotation, by yourself or in a group. Take a story you know well -- a favorite folk tale, something from your childhood, the story of your wedding -- and pretend you are telling it in the year 1200, or on the planet OOpahN, or in an ant colony. Explain everything, the way you did when "explicating" poems in English class. If you can get some naive outsider to help, that's even better. Why do people throw rice at weddings? (Or why don't they anymore?) Why do little pigs go out into the world and build houses? Why do wolves blow houses down? And so on. It's a great way to understand more of what is riding along unstated in a familiar story. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing insights that open your eyes to what is in plain sight.
I've been doing this a lot lately because my son loves to have long conversations with every character we read about. Lately Gulliver (he of the Travels) has been asking a lot of questions about the crazy things we do every day, like put our dishes into a box and talk into a stick and poke our fingers into boxes of little marked buttons. (He knows a lot more than we do about leeches, though.) Kids are in fact great helpers when it comes to bringing unspoken context out into the open. Tell a kid your story and ask them if they have any questions; you may be surprised by what you didn't tell them.
For eliciting stories, think about possible areas of context: character, plot, setting, conflict, subtlety, subtext, for example. Look at any book on narrative form to find areas you can think about. Then during interviews or when planning story collection forms, ask follow-up questions that fill in any annotation gaps you see. Pretend to be ignorant about the subject you are asking about, even if you are not. Think what people will need to understand it. If you do this well, you will not annoy your storytellers, because they will gain their own insights during the process. Make the storytelling a sensemaking session for them, and you'll get better stories as well.
For facilitating narrative sensemaking, think about the needs of the group in question and what areas of narrative context might be useful to bring out. For example, if the subject matter is full of taboo topics, help people bring out story subtexts. If people need to think about players in a situation, ask them to annotate elements of character. Plot elements can be useful if you want to help people think about knowledge use or decision making. One way to do this is to ask people to write out a story on pieces of paper, one word at a time (leaving out "a" and so on), and then think of what they would need to add to each word to make the story fully intelligible to someone from a century ago, or from another profession, or from another country, or anything that will draw out detail. Going through this process will not only help people surface issues they have not noticed; it will also bring out taboo topics with an excuse that allows them to be more freely talked about.
So in coming back to this idea, I'm not sure a fully universal story translator has any real utility, because the boundaries around human groups do have beneficial uses. But there are times when bridging boundaries has great utility in context, and for that this idea can come into useful play.
Cynthia, this reminds me of a recent experience. My sons asked me to read them some of "the Odyssey" after we had gotten to talking about the Trojan War and what happened after.
Reading the real poem, in verse, I realized that the poetic language, mythical allusions, etc., were way way over their head, even if they understood most/all of the actual words.
So I found myself reading a few lines, then saying, "OK, the Cyclops is a son of Poseidon, so it's going to be difficult for them to escape via water, but that's the only way for them to leave. So, Odysseus is likely to find more trouble."
I was annotating like this every few lines. I think the kids got it, but it amazed me how much of the meaning was between the lines or connected in some fashion to the mythology, history and way of life of ancient Greece.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about, and the greatest thing is that you and they probably learned something not only about ancient Greece but about OUR time and culture as well.


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Halloween storm moves 101-year-old Niagara River wreck
Caroline Floyd
Saturday, November 2nd 2019, 10:25 am - Thursday night's windstorm pushed one iconic Niagara River sight closer to the edge.
A Niagara Falls tourist attraction is about 50 metres closer to toppling over the Horseshoe Falls in the wake of Halloween's howling windstorm.
The wrecked iron scow that's been securely lodged about 700 metres from the edge of the falls for the past 101 years appears to have "flipped on its side and spun around" thanks to Thursday night's winds, according to Jim Hill, the Senior Manager of Heritage for Niagara Parks.
The scow after Thursday night's storm. Image courtesy Niagara Parks.
The severe windstorm that swept through southern Ontario on Halloween night is being blamed for the sudden shift. Winds in the Niagara region peaked at 94 km/h around midnight Thursday, and the Buffalo Niagara Airport reported about 35 mm of rain associated with the storm.
The wreck celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. In August 1918, the scow broke away from its towing tug and began to slip toward the edge of the falls. Two unfortunate Niagara Falls Power Company employees were rescued from the scow after it lodged itself on a shoal in the rapids.
Subjected to the constant flow of the Niagara River -- which can reach more than 65 km/h where the scow is, in the Upper Rapids -- much of the ship has rusted and disintegrated in the 101 years since it became stuck in the river.
The scow's position before the storm, as seen in 2009. Image courtesy Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil - The Old Scow, CC BY 2.0.
Hill says it's "anyone's guess" as to how long the scow will be stuck in its new position. Niagara Parks CEO David Adames told CBC staff are monitoring the situation and constantly watching the wreck via security camera.
Sources: Niagara Parks | CBC | Niagara This Week | Niagara Falls Tourism |
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Q: java pattern comparison with boolean i got a problem here with my code, my task is to compare patterns with chars. somehow it returns true instead of false here.
thanks for the help.
public static void main(String[] args){
    char[] chars = {'a','b','c','d','e','f'};
    char[] patterns = {'x','y','z'};
    System.out.println(containsPattern(chars,patterns));}

public static boolean containsPattern(char[] chars, char[] patterns){

                for (int a=0; a<chars.length; a++){
                    if (chars[a]==patterns[a] || chars !=null &&
                            patterns.equals(chars));
                    return true;
                }
                return false;

     }

A: Semicolon. You have a semicolon after your if, so that is counted as the expression to do if the statement is true. Because you don't have brackets, only one expression is in the if's body. The "return true" will be done always.
Also, .equals doesn't work here, it doesn't compare the contents of the two array but only the memory address. It'd only return true if you'd say somewhere either chars = patterns; or patterns = chars;
And also, now you're just checking individual characters: you need to check three (length of pattern) consecutive chars to make sure the pattern is correct. I'm assuming you'd only want to return true when there's xyz n you chars, for example {a, b, x, y, z, c).
So, you need to do something like this
for(int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++){
    boolean matches = true;
    for(int j = 0; j < pattern.length; j++){
        if((i+j) >= chars.length || chars[i+j] != pattern[j]){
            matches = false;
            return;
        }
    }
    if(matches)
        return true;
}
return false;


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PRP's Best of 2006- La Musica!
well 2005 was the year that I realized how much I liked Weezer, but 2006 was all about The Killers. Just like weezer they just kept coming out was some great songs and after "When You Were Young" had been on the radio for while and then "Bones" came out I knew that I was a fan. The killer formed in 2002 in their home town of Las Vegas, Nevada. With 4 members they released Hot Fuss in 2004. Their sophomore album Sam's Town was released this October.
The big surprise for me this year was JT. Talk about bringing sexy back. JT brought it! This song was stuck in my head all year long. It even made it to my ringtone. At one point me and my sisters all had this as our ringtone. Yea, it got confusing when we were all together and a phone rang! Then "My Love" dropped and that was just as good. Even his new single "what goes around comes around" is great. Now since my NKOTB era (1989-1991) I have always had a soft spot for the boy bands.
Joey was excited for the +44 album to come out. We are all aware of his man-crush on Travis Barker. The first single was very Blink-182-esque. After the sudden break-up of one of the best pop-punk band of my generation when Tom left the band. Mark and Travis stayed together and developed the band +44. Named after a European phone code, the album just came out and so far we have liked everything we have heard. Despite a fractured arm, Travis has been kicking ass on drums and Mark has always been one of my favorite voices to listen to, even if its about farts and prank phone call.
On The Phi music front there are 2 cd's that were on permanent rotation in her boom box. (Yes of course my Punk Rock Kid has her own boom box. duh?) The Curious George Soundtrack by Jack Johnson & Friends is still what she falls asleep to every night. With its upbeat kid-friendly and even good lessons lyrics it has been a family favorite. It is a great album and perfect for bedtime. It even has a track called Lullaby. We were not the only ones to like this album. It was the first movie soundtrack since Bad Boys to top the music charts. It was released in February and sold over 149,000 copies!
Thanks to Nino JZ and reinforced by our trip to Oahu we have fallen in love with the ukulele and surprisingly soft voice of Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole other wise known as IZ. Best known for his rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (think Rice Krispies commericals) this CD is filled with fun fast songs, some slow romantic songs, and even songs in Hawaiian. While on our honeymoon we heard IZ music everywhere. The moment this CD comes on, The Phi's little body starts moving. She has her very own little hula dance that she does when she hears that ukulele go.


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Home » Government assistance » FORWARD Announces Over $700 Million in U.S. Government Assistance
FORWARD Announces Over $700 Million in U.S. Government Assistance
FORWARD's technology saves taxpayers money with new integrated program administration platform
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA, Oct. 18, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — FORWARD, formerly known as LiveStories, announces the successful administration of over $700 million in programs ranging from housing assistance relief for low-income households to grants for small businesses. FORWARD is a new Integrated Program Administration (IPA) solution serving local governments with an innovative approach to administer assistance programs more securely, quickly and efficiently.
FORWARD meets the critical needs of state and local governments struggling to fill gaps in the provision of community resources, as the need to administer assistance programs exceeds the capacity of staff to reach constituents.
Formerly known as LiveStories, FORWARD has evolved from a platform for analyzing government data into a streamlined solution for administering government programs.
"FORWARD understands that with the extraordinary financial pressures people are facing, communities need a comprehensive solution that will quickly, securely and affordably distribute taxpayer assistance program dollars," said said Adnan Mahmud, CEO and Founder of FORWARD. "The pandemic has exacerbated the systemic challenges faced by government agencies in providing assistance. We are already seeing how our integrated program administration solution offers government employees a new way to distribute funds efficiently and equitably, strengthening the ability of government leaders to better serve their constituents. »
Over the past two years, the number of aid programs has grown exponentially as federal policymakers respond to the fallout from the pandemic. In 2020, five relief bills provided $3.3 billion in aid and in 2021 the American Rescue Plan Act provided $1.8 billion, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The increased focus on combating fraud and reaching underserved populations has added complexity to the administration of government assistance programs, while government agencies find themselves understaffed with more than 928 000 jobs open in local government according to the Rockefeller Institute. FORWARD's integrated workflow enables government agencies to do more with their existing staff resources by easing administrative burdens. The platform enables governments to deliver more programs and more assistance with a streamlined solution that can be up and running in as little as two weeks. This results in more efficient and safer administration, which means that more taxpayers' money goes directly to the people who need it most.
"FORWARD as a back-office superpower has been invaluable, especially when it comes to assistance programs," said Martha Chaudhry, Special Projects, Economic Development at the City of Kirkland, WA, where FORWARD is used to distributing over $450,000 in small business loans. .
The FORWARD platform brings together all the services, technology and people needed to administer the program. The FORWARD team connects with community organizations to raise awareness of the program, runs targeted marketing and awareness campaigns, collects print and digital applications in multiple languages, and provides multilingual application support via phone, text and email. -mail. Once applications are submitted, FORWARD reviews and processes the applications, screens them for eligibility, and performs multi-factor fraud detection. When it's time to distribute funds, FORWARD distributes payments by ACH, check or prepaid cards. FORWARD also manages all required reporting and provides interactive program dashboards so customers can monitor their program in real time and provide essential data to complement multi-faceted reporting guidelines from regulatory agencies.
"New leaders and the public demand that we reimagine how governments serve their constituents. The FORWARD team already administers over $700,000,000 and is well equipped to support state and local governments through every step of the process of administering their program with fairness and safety at the center of everything we do. Mahmud added.
The FORWARD team works with government departments and agencies on program design and applies their experiences to best practices from other communities. To learn more about the FORWARD platform, visit www.forwardplatform.com.
ABOUT THE FRONT PLATFORM
The FORWARD Platform is the leading comprehensive Integrated Program Administration (IPA) solution for state and local governments across America. FORWARD modernizes the government's approach to program administration by integrating all essential services, components, people and technology into a single, streamlined and secure solution. From application back-end setup, community outreach and marketing, multi-language support, eligibility verification, fraud detection, distribution and reporting , the platform distributes resources faster than ever while reducing waste and fraud. FORWARD has already helped governments administer dozens of programs to deliver resources to their citizens and businesses quickly, cheaply, and securely. To learn more, visit www.forwardplatform.com.
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Facebook had effectively zero mobile advertising revenue at the beginning of 2012, and mobile now represents almost three-fourths of its ad sales.
The smart app of sharing your photos has got fame in very short period. Facebook's Instagram deal keeps looking better time and again.
Three years ago it had 80 million users, and now Instagram boasts more than 300 million active users globally. And it's showing signs of becoming a real business. As per a report by international news website Instagram, it could generate at least $2 billion in advertising revenue next year.
For context, $2 billion is almost 10% the amount Wall Street is estimating for all of Facebook's 2016 revenue. It's also double the $1 billion that Facebook famously offered for Instagram in 2012—which was a surprising number at the time.
It is a way through which Facebook gets ads and this is adding more to the business. By April 2015 we seen most visitors on Instagram as compared to last year. It is a quick and easy way to share and view pictures, so it becomes easier to get ads from online businesses or others.


In addition to the blog posts that we publish on our website, we also produce a print journal each year that we distribute around Emory. We take submissions of academic papers from writers all across Emory, choose the best, and compile them into a print publication. Here is our latest issue for the Fall 2014-Spring 2015 school year!


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Q: Toggle not working I have a set of div pairs (a 'header' and a 'body'). When the user clicks on the header, the next body section should show/hide (and update the +/- icon). All the divs are written to be "shown" on page load but I'd like to "close" some of them and the user can open them if they wish. Just can't get it to work! Code is below if anyone can help!
Sample section:

          Header text here

      body text here

  ...more pairs of divs like this on rest of page...

Code to toggle:
    $(".expandingSection_head").toggle(
    function() {
        $(this).css('background-color', '#6BA284');
        $(this).find('.imgExpand').attr('src', '../images/treeExpand_plus.gif');
        $(this).next(".expandingSection_body").slideUp(400);
    },
    function() {
        $(this).css('background-color', '#6BA284');
        $(this).find('.imgExpand').attr('src', '../images/treeExpand_minus.gif');
        $(this).next(".expandingSection_body").slideDown(400);
    });

    $("#expanderAI").toggle();

This last line doesn't "toggle" the specified div (i.e. "close" it). Anyone know why? Probably something simple.
Thanks!

A: It won't toggle just by specifying:
$("#expanderAI").toggle();

There should be some event behind it, example:
$('element').click(function(){
  $("#expanderAI").toggle();
});

Update:
Try this:
$('#expanderAI').click(function(){
  $(this).toggle();
});

A: upon re-reading the quesiton.  i'd change this to a .click() then it should fire your toggle handler that were previously attached.
$("#expanderAI").click();

EDIT:
alright: i just wrote a test script: check it out:

Toggle Me

Hello WOrld

so, the div i'm changing SHOULD show as aqua, but on page load it's red. b/c the click() event is firing on the document ready.
so put your $('#ToggleMe').click();  in your document ready section after you attach the handlers and it really should work.  the proof is right here!

A: the toggle function doesn't appear to have a use with no parameters:
http://api.jquery.com/toggle/
try using $('#elementID').click(); instead

A: This is a confusing one
There's two versions of toggle.
Toggle1 - http://api.jquery.com/toggle-event/
Toggle2 - http://api.jquery.com/toggle/#toggle2
It seems that if you're in an event context, Toggle1 will be called. E.g. inside a click function.
If you're just doing toggle() outside of an event function Toggle2 will be called. If you want to toggle with this one you'll have to pass in true/false. True to show, false to hide. Or just pass in durations and animation-types etc... Just check the API :)

A: Just tried a variation on these ideas :). So...
It doesn't work if I just change the last .toggle() to a .click()...but it DOES work if I make that change but call it AFTER the page has loaded. I think there's a timing issue here.
i.e. if I add a button:

and then do:
    $('#tmpbtntog').click(function() {
        $('#expanderAI').click();
    }
    );

then clicking the button toggles the div! However if I just replace the line
$("#expanderAI").toggle();

in my original code above with a .click() it does NOT work! Weird. Any ideas? Can you "delay" these things? I'm calling this in a document.ready, etc. so I don't think that's the prob.