National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH ) was asked by the Actors' Equity Association and the League of American Theatres and Producers to investigate the possible health effects of theatrical "smoke" on Broadway.
"People who always insist that where there's smoke there's fire probably haven't spent much time in the theatre," is how the New York Times' Ben Brantley opened his review of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. The April 7 edition of Back Stage reported that fire trucks were called twice during the show's first preview when smoke detectors raised the alarm. One savvy theatregoer remarked, "That's the first time I've walked out of a theatre saying, 'That's a fog show!'"
Jesus Christ Superstar may be making the news because of its heavy fog, but it is certainly not unusual in using it. Fog is ubiquitous in pop music concerts and Broadway musicals, and is also used in many straight plays, industrials, and theme park rides. It's used because it works. It can be a theatrical effect, like a puff of smoke to help advance the plot, or it can be used as a subtle atmospheric effect to make beams of light visible, and to turn a visually mundane scene into a magical one.
Fog is a handy tool for the designer, but its use in professional productions has been controversial for at least 10 years. In July and August 1990, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH ) was asked by the Actors' Equity Association and the League of American Theatres and Producers to investigate the possible health effects of theatrical "smoke" on Broadway. The results of that study were reassuring to those using fog. The researchers found lots of complaints from the performers, but no objective evidence that the fogs were doing anyone any harm. Peak expiratory flow rates were used as a measure of respiratory disease, and the researchers found that restricted airflow was just as likely to be found in performers working on shows without fog as on shows with it. Based on this finding, NIOSH concluded that there was no evidence that theatrical "smoke" is "a cause of occupational asthma among performers."
The NIOSH study didn't end the controversy about theatrical fogs, but the theatre industry has matured in the subsequent years and responded to the continuing concerns in a variety of ways. The performers' unions have worked to limit their members' exposure to fog, while also trying to establish scientifically if there is actually a problem. ESTA's Fog and Smoke Working Group has been working to set standards for glycol and glycerin fogs and to help educate the public on how to use fog responsibly. The specifiers and users of fog equipment have also become more sophisticated in their choices of fog effects and fog technologies. The fog machine manufacturers have tried to serve their customers by offering a range of machines that use a variety of fog-making materials.
One objection to the NIOSH finding was that asthma was only one of the performers' concerns. If fog and pyrotechnic smoke irritates a performer's vocal apparatus, that is also a problem because it threatens the performer's ability to work. To investigate this possibility, Actors' Equity and the League of American Theatres and Producers embarked on a jointly funded epidemiological study in 1997. This joint Equity/League study, conducted by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Environ Corporation, attempts to measure any changes in the upper respiratory tracts of actors from before a show to after it that might be caused by theatrical fog or pyrotechnic smoke. It also attempts to measure any changes in lung vital capacity. The final report on the study was due in December of 1999, but, as of this writing has not been published yet.
In the meantime, fog is permitted on Broadway productions, as Superstar shows, but Actors' Equity has restricted its use under many of its other collective bargaining agreements. According to Equity field representative Keith Sklar, while the study is going on, it only makes sense to limit the use of fog to the technologies Equity believes are virtually harmless, which are dry ice and liquid nitrogen. The standard Letter of Agreement Equity offers many theatres also limits fog effects to these methods. However, the LOA is subject to negotiation, so some theatres have responded to the restrictions by crossing out the anti-fog text before signing the letter. The American Guild of Musical Artists also has tried to limit its members' exposure to fog. Many opera houses are working under an agreement that allows only "water-based" fogs. This, of course, permits dry ice and liquid nitrogen fogs, but it has been interpreted in some cases to allow glycol and glycerin fogs in which a substantial portion of the fog fluid is water.
ESTA's Fog and Smoke Working Group--which has members representing users, specifiers, and distributors of fog equipment, as well as fog machine manufacturers--has been addressing the controversy in two ways: by working to educate the public on the differences between types of atmospheric effects and how to use them safely and effectively, and by working on a draft of an American National Standard for glycol and glycerin fogs. The education project was started first, with the working group publishing the first edition of the Introduction to Modern Atmospheric Effects in April of 1996; however, the projects have become intertwined with the research conducted in support of the standard adding a lot of information that has been put into the current third edition of the book and on the ESTA website (www.esta.org).
The first step in trying to set any standard, particularly one that affects health, is to find out what is already known about the subject. Fog machine manufacturers had done their research and found results that made them confident they could make and market fog machines without unreasonable liability, but the standards-making body needed to do its own research. ESTA issued a request for quotations for a survey of the relevant literature on the toxicity of the components used in glycol and glycerin fogs. The RFQ was sent to 51 companies that have a certified industrial hygienist (CIH) on staff, and a dozen bids were received. Two companies were selected to conduct independent literature surveys: the Cohen Group of San Mateo, CA, and HSE Consulting and Sampling of Omaha, NE. Their reports are posted on the ESTA website.
The Cohen Group report and the HSE Consulting report are substantially the same in their findings. Both reports state that glycerin and the five dihydric alcohols studied are of low toxicity. Some of the chemicals are of such low toxicity that no maximum allowable concentrations have ever been established for them, even though they are used in a wide variety of industries. A few of the chemicals have exposure limits defined by governmental bodies in the US, UK, and Germany, but these exposure limits are higher than the levels needed to produce a reasonably foggy theatrical environment.
The CIH studies gave the working group good information on what a long-term, time-weighted average exposure limits for glycol and glycerin fogs might be, but they were little help in trying to determine appropriate short-term limits. That is, sometimes a show needs a burst of fog for an effect--such as the burst that is used at King Herod's entrance in Superstar--and that burst will be at a higher level than the general level of fog, but for a very short time. What might an appropriate short-term, higher level be? Finding that answer requires the expertise of a group more experienced with setting occupational exposure limits than the Fog and Smoke Working Group is, so the F&S Working Group has asked the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists to help in the project. The ACGIH is the group that sets the voluntary exposure standards on which most of the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits are based. The F&S Working Group has not received an official reply to its proposal yet, but there has been some correspondence that indicates interest.
The fog machine manufacturers have not been idle while the above has been going on. Over the past five years, customers have become more particular about the fog effects they buy or rent. While there is nothing to suggest that one fog technology is safer than any other when used according to the manufacturer's instructions and with a reasonable amount of care, some customers are looking for fog-making technologies that they can call "the safest" or "the best" and will have a preference for one over another. This has led to experimentation and product development with the general results of simplifying the fog fluid formulas, reducing the total quantity of chemicals in the air, and increasing the use of chemicals that have published exposure limits.
"Rosco Clear is a market response," notes Rosco product manager Eric Tishman. "People were telling us, 'I don't like the smell of your fog,' so we made an unscented fog. It just so happens that the scent is built into the color." Thus, Rosco Clear Fog Fluid was born. The intent may have been to give customers an unscented fog fluid, but the result also has been to give them one that is part of the trend toward simpler fog fluids with few or no proprietary ingredients. Rosco Clear contains no chemicals that were not part of the F&S Working Group's CIH literature search, and no chemicals that are not likely to be covered by the working group's standard when it is finally issued.
High End Systems has modified its fog fluid formulas to make them produce a longer-lasting effect while using less fluid. "If you can make a machine that uses the slower-evaporating glycols in a better way, then perhaps you don't need to put as much in the air for the same level of haze," explains High End Systems' vice president of engineering Mike Wood. "That was the intent [with the Nebula]." The Nebula machine made a fine haze of triethylene glycol or PEG 200, two glycols that evaporate very slowly. In contrast, propylene glycol, another popular component of fog fluids, "evaporates almost immediately, so you have to keep pumping it out there to keep anything going at all," says Wood.
Ultimately the Nebula machine was not a popular product, but the work on it led to changes in the fluids for the F-100 fog machine. "We've reduced the amount of propylene and increased the amount of triethylene to try to produce effects that last longer with less glycol in the air," explains Wood. "That's the way our sales have gone: the fluid with that mix is by far our best-selling fluid. People have realized they don't have to use as much of it."
Le Maitre's haze fluids are an example of two responses combined: simplification of the fluids and the use of materials that have published standards. "All of our haze fluids use a glycerin particulate," says Randy Segeren, Le Maitre Special Effects' research and development manager. Glycerin has exposure limits set for it in the US, and the UK and Australia as well. The Neutron machine uses a fluid that is almost entirely glycerin, while Le Maitre's haze fluid for the G300 and H150 is a mixture of glycerin and over 50% water.
Another fog fluid component that has a well-recognized exposure limit is highly refined mineral oil. "So far all the tests that have been done show that if you stay under the government mandated 5mg per cubic meter, there are really no ill effects whatsoever," says Jim Gill, vice president of Reel EFX, the manufacturer of the DF-50 haze machine. The atmospheric effects used on the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar are oil fogs created by machines from MDG Fog Generators. MDG's machines are relative newcomers to the Broadway market, but are proving particularly popular for a variety of reasons, among them that oil fog has virtually no odor and no taste, and the machines use relatively little fluid. "That's because of the way that we do it," says Martin Michaud of MDG.
The mineral oil machines in the MDG product line mix an inert gas with the oil and then vaporize it, which results in droplets 0.5 to 0.7 microns in diameter, according to the company's literature. Most heated fog droplets are on average one order of magnitude larger. The smaller the droplet size, the more light scattering per liter of fluid, so smaller droplets reduce the amount of fluid put into the air for a given sized fog effect. The trick of adding gas to the fluid is not MDG's alone--Rosco's Model 1600 has a compressed-air input port, and CITC's Hi-Lo DigiFogger also mixes CO2 with the fluid--but MDG has been perhaps the most successful in marketing the reduced fluid consumption that results from the technique.
Of course, some people are not going to be happy with the notion of breathing any chemical, no matter how benign it is. For them, water is the fog fluid of choice. Pure water fogs are dry ice fog, liquid nitrogen fog, liquid synthetic air fog, and high-pressure water mists.
The latter two are where the most action has been over the last five years or so. Liquid nitrogen machines are preferred for many applications, because among other things, a lot of nitrogen fog can be added to the air before it displaces enough oxygen to cause a problem. However, this can happen, for example, on extended movie shoots in a closed studio. To address the problem, Liquid Synthetic Air (LSA) has been developed for use in liquid nitrogen machines. It's a cryogenic mixture of nitrogen and oxygen that mimics natural air. The mixture must be monitored to make sure the nitrogen does not boil off and leave an oxygen-enriched mix, but as long as this is done, an unlimited amount can be used in a venue.
High-pressure water mists are not new, having been developed to make fogs in 1969. However, most of the time their use has been confined to ice shows and equestrian spectacles where the wet fallout from the mists is not a problem. Recently CITC has been successfully marketing the portable Jungle Mist system to theatres and opera companies. Mists have large droplets, so they tend to fall rather than hang in the air, but the falling particulate is a powerful atmospheric effect, particularly when back-lit, and some people appreciate the added water in the air. "Opera singers and people who are hard on their voices really love the higher humidity," says CITC president Gary Crawford.
One thing that all the fog manufacturers are doing is trying to educate their customers on the safe and responsible use of their equipment. "We put the safety information on our website; the information about oxygen-deficient atmospheres and guidelines for safe use of CO2 and dry ice," says Gary Fails, president of City Theatrical, the manufacturer of the Aquafog dry ice machine. "Of course, we give away the ESTA booklet with our fog machines, and encourage people to read it."
"If you provide information, people are less concerned," says Four Star Lighting's Lee Iwanski, a member of the F&S Working Group. "The unknown is the most frightening."


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Philip Varone (born December 4, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing with HC Spartak Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Varone was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the fifth round (147th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career

Amateur
Varone played major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) from 2006–07 to 2010–11, collecting 78 goals and 152 assists for 230 points in 228 games.

Professional
Varone attended the San Jose Sharks training camp in 2010, but was sent down to London for the season. By July 2011, the Sharks had not signed Varone to a contract, making him a free agent. Varone attended the Buffalo Sabres training camp in 2011, but did not make the team. He instead signed a one-year AHL contract with the Sabres' affiliate Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL). He led Rochester in scoring with 11 goals and 41 assists.

On March 19, 2012, the Buffalo Sabres signed Varone to a three-year entry level contract. Varone was recalled to the Sabres' active roster on January 22, 2014, and scored his first career point with an assist on a goal by Brian Flynn the next night against the Carolina Hurricanes. Varone scored his first goal in his fourth career game, against Braden Holtby of the Washington Capitals on January 28, 2014.

Following the 2014–15 season, Varone became a restricted free agent under the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Buffalo Sabres made him a qualifying offer to retain his NHL rights and, on July 5, 2015, Varone filed for salary arbitration. The two sides reached an agreement on a one-year, two-way contract on July 13.

In the 2015–16 season, Varone played in a further five games with the Sabres, but was on assignment with the Rochester Americans when on February 27, 2016, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators as part of a seven-player deal. Varone was called up to Ottawa for the final game of the season, April 9, 2016 and recorded an assist. In the following 2016–17 season, Varone split between Ottawa and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Binghamton Senators. Serving as an alternate captain he appeared in 65 regular season games for Binghamton, where he recorded 36 assists and 51 points. He was scoreless over 7 games in the NHL with Ottawa.

On July 1, 2017, having left the Senators as a free agent, Varone signed a two-year, two-way contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. At the end of the 2017–18 regular season, Varone was named the AHL's Most Valuable Player.

On December 7, 2018, Varone was recalled by the Flyers. He made his Flyers debut on December 8 against the Buffalo Sabres. He scored his first goal as a member of the Flyers on December 22 in a 4–3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

As a free agent Varone left the Flyers to sign a one-year, two-way contract with the Montreal Canadiens on July 3, 2019. Assigned to AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket, to begin the 2019–20 season, Varone although limited through injury contributed with 14 points in 27 games. On February 20, 2020, Varone was traded by the Canadiens along with Riley Barber to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Joseph Blandisi and Jake Lucchini. He was immediately assigned to join affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Varone registered 5 assists in just 6 games before the remainder of the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the following North American season delayed due to the pandemic, Varone as a free agent opted to sign abroad for the first time in his career, joining Kazahstani based club, Barys Nur-Sultan of the KHL on October 26, 2020.

On July 7, 2021, Varone joined Lausanne HC of the National League (NL) on a one-year deal. On November 17, 2021, Varone was shipped to SC Bern for the remainder of his contract.

As a free agent from Bern, Varone returned to the KHL in agreeing to a one-year deal with HC Spartak Moscow on July 21, 2022.

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J.S. Bach / Zecchi - Complete Solo Recordings & Selected Additional
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Complete Solo Recordings & Selected Additional Apr Recordings
Review Text Carlo Zecchi (1903-1984) studied with both Busoni and Schnabel and had a brief, but meteoric, career as a soloist, before switching in 1942 to conducting, with occasional forays into chamber music. Like his fellow Italians Michelangeli, Vidusso and Fiorentino, he possessed an immaculate technique, which gives his playing a sense of lightness and ease in even the most difficult passages. The recorded Liszt etudes are almost unrivalled in their virtuosity and in Scarlatti and Bach the evenness of his finger-work has to be heard to be believed. But he was a poet and a colorist too, as the more lyrical works of Chopin, and the Debussy Poissons d'or reveal. Sadly, Zecchi's recorded repertoire is small and this release includes an example of every piano work he recorded on 78s. Long known as a cult pianist to a select few, it is hoped these new transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn will bring his small but priceless legacy of piano recordings to a wider audience.

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Anglagnostus is a genus of trilobite in the order Agnostida, which existed in what is now Shineton, England. It was described by Howell in 1935, and the type species is Anglagnostus dux, which was originally described as a species of Agnostus.

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A Marshall Plan for rural America
by Thomas Mills | Mar 11, 2016 | Economic Development, Economy, Editor's Blog | 19 comments
My friend Mike Cooper told some truth this week. In an article for the U.S. News and World Report, Mike laid out what he calls Trump's America. He argues that both parties have let down working class white voters in rural America and that those voters are fueling Trump's candidacy out of anger and despair.
Mike's right. In areas like Wilkes County where he lives, less-educated white men are dying younger while almost every other demographic is living longer. They've seen their futures disappear and have turned to alcohol, drugs, and suicide to fight the pain.
Not surprisingly, several people commented that those people weren't left behind, they just voted against their own self-interests and elected Republicans who ignored their needs. That's not true. Most of those people voted Democratic for economic reasons and only turned to the GOP when those economic reasons went away. They've always been more culturally conservative than the Democratic Party as a whole and without the economic incentive to vote for Democrats they voted with their biases, not their pocketbooks.
In rural areas throughout North Carolina, Democrats were competitive up until the first part of this century. Eastern North Carolina was represented in Congress by people like Martin Lancaster. Larry Kissell won in the south-central part of the state just six years ago and Mike McIntyre represented the southeast until just two years ago. Democratic legislators called towns like Laurinburg, Albemarle, Rutherfordton, Shelby and Goldsboro home—and they weren't in gerrymandered districts.
However, trade agreements signed by Bill Clinton and supported in Congress by both Democrats and Republicans sent their jobs overseas. Nobody offered them any support to replace those jobs. As the world became high-tech, the infrastructure in their towns and counties became obsolete. In many areas, the largest employer is the school system and, yet, the schools are falling apart. While Google is laying fiber in the Triangle, nobody's talking about spending the money fully wire rural North Carolina.
Those people turned to Republicans because, if Democrats weren't going to offer them the economic support they needed, at least the Republicans would stand up for their conservative cultural values. A decade or so later, that hasn't worked out so well, either, so now they're siding with Trump.
Republicans seem content to let the free market crush rural America while trying to exploit the anger of people being left behind by blaming immigrants and poor people. They say we can't afford to spend money on rural America because of our massive debt. According them, we need to cut, not spend. They're wrong.
The last time we had a debt-to-GDP ratio this high in America was right after World War II. We didn't cut our way out of that predicament. We invested in infrastructure and people. We built airports, an interstate highway system, schools and universities, and sent a man to the moon. We gave almost every abled-body man a free education through the GI Bill and those people took the knowledge they gained to build businesses and the largest middle class in history.
We paid for it by taxing the rich. Marginal tax rates for the very wealthy were high but everybody paid some tax. Income inequality shrunk while economic well-being for the majority of Americans increased dramatically. With more money in the pockets of the middle class, more money went back into the US economy, spreading the wealth and keeping economic growth strong.
More than fifty years later, we need to rebuild that infrastructure again. We need a Marshall Plan for rural America, better connecting small towns and counties to economic centers with pavement and rail as well as with fiber and cell towers. We need to build new schools and community colleges with the infrastructure to educate and train a work force prepared for an economy based on ideas, technology and creativity. And we need to make sure they come out of these schools with jobs, not debilitating debt.
If Democrats want to take back Congress, they need to have support from working class America again. Liberals need to stop blaming the victims and wooing them instead. Offer them hope for the future instead of criticism for not being progressive on social issues. Education and exposure will change those attitudes more than ridicule or scorn. Donald Trump will only be here for an election cycle but the problems facing working families will be here long after he's gone.
Politically those working class voters are up for grabs.
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I think the longest-standing annoyance I had with the Mac OS line of operating systems was spell-checking. As I'm a fairly good speller, even in English, most of the underlined stuff on my screen were just bugs in their software. I write in three different languages - Polish, Spanish, and English, sometimes even mixing them. That is a usecase that Apple never seemed to have figured out.
Long story short, one of the first things I did when configuring a new machine was disabling it. Well, in the early days I think it was easy to do, but it got a lot more complicated with next versions of Mac OS. Recently, I considered it impossible and came to terms with those vicious red snakes appearing in random places on the screen.
Go to System Preferences » Keyboard » Text.
In the Spelling dropdown set the "Automatic by Language" option.
From now on, you should be fairly free of Apple's failing attempts at spelling suggestions. Enjoy!


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Change is no longer a luxury; it's a matter of survival
When Netflix burst on the market in the late 1990s, becoming popular a few years later with its mail-based movie service, it would have been difficult for Blockbuster - the undisputed DVD-rental market leader - to imagine it had just 10 years left.
It's clear what happened in hindsight: Blockbuster lost out to Netflix because it did not change and adapt to users' evolving needs and the new opportunities that technology offered.
While Netflix made inroads with a service based on a flat monthly subscription fee, Blockbuster remained tethered to its traditional business model that required people to go to a store to rent their movies and pay a fine for not returning them on time.
The changes have only accelerated since then. Today, it is even more common for disruptive technologies to appear and shatter existing business models. Google, Facebook, Apple, Airbnb, Napster, Uber, Instagram, and the list goes on and on. Netflix itself has had to reinvent itself several times.
For this reason, change today is no longer a luxury, but rather a matter of survival. It is no longer about adapting to the changes and trying to catch up, hoping that eventually everything will become relatively normal again. This is the new normal.
The need for a new conceptual framework
Today's changes are so profound that they are constantly altering basic business paradigms.
Understanding and achieving success in today's world, therefore, requires much more than a strategy; a new conceptual framework is needed.
For example, in terms of communications and an organization's reputation management, the old vertical model in which a single actor – whether the government, a company, or an institution – related to others (citizens, employees, customers) by "sending down" different messages to each one is no longer effective.
We're all connected today to hundreds or thousands of people, and we can influence them and are influenced by them. Because of our level of interconnection, it is as though we were living in glass spheres and everything is out in the open.
We all have access to two elements that once exclusively pertained to the mass media: reach and credibility. We all have reach because thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram our comment or photo can reach millions of people, and we gain credibility because people have learned to distrust the media while still trusting people.
The power to communicate has become democratized. Organizations face a new context in which anyone can speak positively or negatively about them. They can no longer control the conversation. The only thing they can control is how they participate in the conversation, and if that participation isn't relevant it's quickly ignored.
In that regard, today's world is no longer vertical; it's orbital: There are no longer positions of power but rather spheres of influence. All of us – whether people, organizations, governments – relate to people who move in different, yet interconnected, orbits. That is why no one can achieve results if his or her objectives are not aligned with the common interest.
And in such a complex world, one mind – or just a handful – is not enough. The consulting guru, the one who would show up at a company to provide the recipe for success, no longer exists.
Today, an organization looking to confront change, discover its purpose and align itself with the common interest to achieve extraordinary results needs consultants who are true collaborators and are eager to accompany it along the fascinating road to the future.
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Keith Yandle (shoulder) played with a sprained AC joint for much of the Rangers' playoff run, Andrew Gross of the Record reports.
Yandle (shoulder) played with a sprained AC joint for much of the Rangers' playoff run, Andrew Gross of The Record reports.
The injury didn't noticeably affect Yandle's playing time or production during the playoffs, but the fact that New York was so banged up on the blue line (Ryan McDonagh, Marc Staal, and Dan Girardi also played through injuries) likely contributed to their demise in the Eastern Conference Finals. The injury shouldn't prevent Yandle from being back at full health when training camp commences in September.


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American Airlines pilots to use iPads for flight manuals
The FAA gives approval for the airline to be the first commercial carrier to toss out its paper-based flight manuals in lieu of iPads -- saving the airline $1.2 million in gas costs.
Dara Kerr
American Airlines will be the first commercial carrier to have all of its pilots replace their paper-based reference flying manuals with Apple's iPad.
The airline announced today that it received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to "to use the Apple iPad in the cockpit during all phases of flight."
All pilots fly with a kitbag that contains necessary flight information, navigation charts, and reference materials for when they're in the air. American is dubbing its new kitbag with the iPad an "Electronic Flight Bag." Switching from paper manuals to the iPad will save the airline $1.2 million in fuel, since the iPad is so much lighter than the 35-pound kitbag previously used by its pilots.
"With this approval from the FAA, we will be able to use iPad to fully realize the benefits of our Electronic Flight Bag program, including improving the work environment for our pilots, reducing our dependency on paper products and increasing fuel efficiency on our planes," American's vice president Captain John Hale said in a statement. "We are equipping our people with the best resources and this will allow our pilots to fly more efficiently."
American began its pilot iPad program in 2011 when the FAA approved the use of the tablet in some of its flights. As of this month, all American pilots in the 777 fleet will start using iPads; the airline hopes that all fleets will be approved for the Electronic Flight Bag program by the end of the year. American said that by 2013 it will halt all paper revisions to its manuals and navigation charts.
The program could expand to other tablets too, the airlines said, "if other tablets are approved by the FAA they will be evaluated for use."
In addition to the pilots, flight attendants might be getting iPads in the near future too. The airline has been testing how the tablet could ease attendants' workload by getting more information about customer's flight and travel needs.
"We're focused on building a new American where technology and innovation are fundamental to the company's return to industry leadership and exceptional customer service," American's chief information officer, Maya Leibman, said.
Discuss: American Airlines pilots to use iPads for flight manuals


The Community Health Worker Consortium is a partnership between Oregon Consensus, Portland State University's School for Community Health, the Oregon Community Health Workers Association (ORCHWA), and the Multnomah County Community Capacitation Center (CCC). The Cambia Health Foundation provides funding for the project. The Consortium focuses on creating alignment around best practices in the community health worker field in order to help achieve the triple aim of improving population health, lowering health care costs and improving quality. The Consortium has formed a research team and an education team composed of many organizations committed to the Consortium's mission. The research team, led by the CCC, has developed a research agenda to address issues facing the field and is working with others around the country to identify common process and outcome indicators for community health worker practice. The education team, led by ORCHWA, has developed a toolkit, including a short video (below), to educate health care stakeholders about the role of community health workers in health care transformation and beyond.
Read a summary of the proceedings of the Community Health Worker Common Indicator Summit, a project that grew out of the work of the consortium.


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What a prospect: The venues for the next three World Choir Games from 2021-2024 have already been decided! Three countries on three continents want to warmly welcome the choirs of the world to their homeland and those who start planning now can be part of this "singing world tour".
From July 2-12, 2021, the world of choirs will finally meet in the Belgian region of Flanders. For many, this will be the first opportunity to be back on a big stage since the outbreak of the worldwide Covid 19 pandemic ̶ of course in a "new normal" and with enough distance, but singing together! For detailed information, please visit www.wcg2021.com.
The world tour continues with the "Korean Peace Games of Choral Music" in Gangneung, South Korea, from July 4-14, 2022. In 2018 the region was it was the venue of the Winter Olympics, which went down in history as the "Peace Games" due to the joint appearance of North and South Korean athletes. The unifying power of choral music becomes even more significant as an international symbol of peace at such a place.
Gangneung is known for its breathtaking location by the sea in front of fantastic mountain scenery. The Olympic Park and the Ice Arena were also venues for the 2018 Winter Olympics and are centrally located in the city. A unique opportunity to breathe real Olympic air here during the World Choir Games 2022!
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In July 2024 we will finally go "down under": New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, invites choirs from all over to its "Games of WELCOME". Hallmark of these 13th World Choir Games is New Zealand's spirit of manaakitanga, its warm welcome and hospitality. New Zealand is a singing nation, with a thriving choir culture in every town and city. Especially in Auckland, the country's musical traditions reflect the rich diversity of its multicultural population. Join in for an unforgettable cultural experience! In the spirit of manaakitanga you will be made to feel part of the New Zealand whānau – its family! You can find more information at www.wcg2024.com.
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Nice Things To Do For Your Wife - 50 ideas that will make her happy!
We've had such great response to this post, it was only fair to create one for us ladies! When it comes to doing something nice for us, most guys want to, they just need things spelled out more clearly. So guys, based on this extensive Facebook conversation…here are 51 things your wife or girlfriend would absolutely LOVE for you to do for her.
Hint, hint: Doing something for your girl without being asked will go a LONG WAY in her book!
2. Take the kids for a whole day so she can be a person, not a mom for a bit.
3. Grab her hand in public.
4. Take her for a walk, sans kids.
5. Plan an entire date from start to finish. Book a sitter, a restaurant, and plan an activity. Promise, she will absolutely love this.
6. Give her a no-strings-attached massage.
7. Give her a spa certificate.
9. Take the kids on a date. She will love the time off, and love the fact that you are spending time with them. See some kid date ideas here.
10. Buy her a birthday or Christmas gift without asking her what she wants. Put some thought and effort into surprising her.
You can also surprise her by sending her one of the funny birthday ecards from Hallmark.
11. Bring her flowers or chocolates for no reason.
12. Do she makes a meal, do the dishes after.
13. Cook a special dinner. Give it professional chef effort—she'll be impressed.
14. Send her to get a manicure/pedicure.
15. Look at her and tell her she's beautiful.
16. Give your phone a break and give your undivided attention to her and your family.
17. Let her pick the movie…even if it is a chick-flick. No complaining.
18. Fill up her car with gas. Wash it and vacuum it too.
19. Surprise her with an entire planned weekend getaway. That would blow her mind.
20. Play with her hair.
21. Carry her to bed…and let her take a nap! Uninterrupted.
22. Heat the bed for her.
23. Pick up everything on the bedroom floor.
24. Book a hotel room for her for a day. Give her a break from the craziness at home.
27. Clean something she normally hates to clean.
28. Put the kids to bed and let her read a book.
29. If she typically does the grocery shopping, do it for her.
30. Make her coffee in the morning.
31. Lead her to the couch, pick up her feet, and give her a foot rub.
32. Give her a gift card and to go shopping.
33. Have lunch delivered to her.
34. Write her a song or a poem.
35. Give her a DIY pedicure/manicure.
36. Prepare a bath for her.
37. Hire professionals to clean the entire house.
39. Get her little gifts. Grab her favorite candy bar when you're at the store. Get a single rose, some chapstick…sometimes the little things speak volumes.
40. Get in the car and go for a drive.
42. Get up with the kids on a Saturday and let her sleep in.
43. Pack a picnic and go.
44. Tell her you love her more often.
45. Write her a love note.
46. Bring home her favorite ice cream.
47. Send her a sweet text during the day.
49. Compliment her on something specific.
50. Thank her for something specific.
51. Give her the remote.
There you have it guys…consider this your gentle nudge. And if you want to hear exactly what women want, read this enlightening conversation. Bottom line: it doesn't have to be big…it's the small things that add up.
Any real man does not need a list. I have been doing this stuff for 8 years for my wife.
Exactly! This is a list for shallow men who are self centered takers who need to be pulled out of their caves.
and you found this page how?
Who's the wife, Justin? You or Geoff?
That's exactly what I was thinking! I do all of this everyday.
I love when my hubby writes me poems. The best gift.
Haha! Much emphasis should definitely be placed on the painted toes…but you are correct…I fixed that typo. Thanks so much for your keen eye!
Ladies, don't forget that this works both ways. Have you treated your guy in a way that reminds him that you love and appreciate him lately? Men need to feel loved, just like women.
Hmmm, I have a few issues with the list.
#32. Give her the credit card and let her go shopping. I have my own credit card and nobody "lets" me go shopping. If I want to shop, I shop! This is not 1942!
Some were just very sweet and thoughtful. A lot of the others were what I called "living here and being part of the family." Don't pick up after yourself as a treat. Do it so you aren't a slob and should respect the hard work I put into this house.
it's not about getting permission! It's about having a moment to treat yourself. Apparently, someone is missing the point.
You probably don't have a husband do you?
This list is kind of sexist. You are assuming the women do the cooking and the cleaning. That men are horrible cooks and are always the messy ones.
hear hear!!! I am dating an awesome women and tells me all the time how clean my home is I own a home and take care of the entire thing myself, pick up after myself, wash my own cloths and dishes, it's rare I have a dish in the sink. An in my bathrooms YEP all the seats are down when she walks in the door. I understand that some guys don't get it, that it's no 50/50 it's 100/100%, c'mon boys take care of yourself to show you can take care of her.
Really most things listed here are things that should come automatically as a husband and a parent. So sad that some guys need to be told to wash the dishes as a nice thing, as if washing dishes is the wife's job, or that some guys need to be told that they should read with their kids as a "nice thing". They're indeed nice things but also your responsibility as a husband and a parent.
This list is created for the wonderful mom's out there and single income families. Mom stays home with the kids and Dad's goes to work everyday. This list is not created to tell anyone anything it's just some ideas to help out in different ways that even myself didn't think of.
This list is great. Sometimes, like the ladies, us men get caught up in the many different directions we get pulled in. It can be work, children, family and friends but it's not limited to just these. It's great to have something to allow us to "Center" and not feel overwhelmed. I'm sure the ladies would agree. Thank you for sharing/creating this list.
Okay, I appreciate the context of the list. I appreciate that the ideas actually came from women, and I enjoy discovering new and creative ways to express my appreciation for my wife. With that being said, without the signature at the end or the introduction I could tell it was clearly written by a woman. Not that it wouldn't be, I just mean, in the demeaning and insensitive add ons directed at what the writers opinion of the typical man is. There are very few things on this list that my wife has not experienced, and quite frequently I might add. I do appreciate what you do, I mean that!!! I do have a list of one thing not to do to your man! Talk to him or about him in a way that lifts you up or puts him down, or both.
Thanks for the extra help of helping me figure out a little something different to do for my wife. I already do a lot in this house to help her so she doesn't have to do it, it brings me joy of doing whatever I can to help her day go a little bit better. I forgot about the little things I used to do when we first met but reading this article reminded me of what I already new. So thank you for the reminder.
How is spending time with your kids a gift to your wife. They are you kids too. You are just as responsible for them as she is. If you go into it thinking "being a dad is helping my wife" you are not treating her like an equal partner.
My husband gave me a sketch of my wedding dress. It was the most thoughtful thing he has ever done. I am not a huge gift person, but this was just perfect.
Another thing here is that not all women like surprises. My wife generally hates them. A night out or a weekend away? She wants to be part of the planning process so a LOT of these tips do not apply and I cannot imagine my wife is unique in this regard.
And I agree with the sexist comments. My wife hates to clean (tho she is better at it than I am) and I do not care either way so I do the house cleaning. My wife cooks, and I do not. Nor do I eat her cooking so nothing doing there either.
What if you do most of these things on a regular basis and she still doesn't seem to love you?
Goodness gracious people! Someone is taking the time to create a list and a bunch of people are throwing shade? Is this Twitter? Those complaining, create your own website and write your own list!
I disagree completely that this list is "sexists", give me a break. Yes there are some assumptions in the list, but how could you make a list without the writers perspective. You modern renaissance men can pat yourselves on the back all you want, and you strong woman who feel the list is "sexist" can beat your drum, but this is just a list from someone trying to help.
I do many of these things for my wife of 14 years and I'm sure she would be very thankful of the author. I was looking for more ideas to show my wife my love and found some, thank you.
Totally agree with you, your comment was exactly what I told my wife, everyone needs to calm down and hopefully take at least one idea from the list.
very interesting. but, some of the points may depend on the culture of the raising society. eg. in my context, if a man is too much close to his wife he seems as a lazy man.this not only by the society but also by his wife too.So, man has to look like a master of the home.but i love those all points and i will try them one by one so that i will post the real result. thank you so much sir.


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April is Parkinson's Awareness month. The Walk for Parkinson highlights movement and exercise as a symbol of hope and progress in finding a cure for Parkinson's disease. This annual fundraiser raises awareness and funds for our local community programs and research to find a cure.


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You may think renting a portable toilet is as easy as picking up your phone, but there are a lot more options and factors involved than you may think.A lot of people used a mobiles restroom at some time in their life, but when the time comes to finally acquire one for an event, the process can bemore difficult than you would think.
Your porta potty arrangement could end up being the most vitale aspect of your special occasion, since the party would be short lived if your guests can't relieve themselves rapidly enough. If you're hosting a big gathering, the selection of a portable restroom may be the last thing on your list to acquire, but the fact is it can make or break the success of your special occasion. There are many more types of portable toilets than you may realize and you'll want to ensure you select the right options to avoid long lines or disruptions.
The first thing you'll want to consider the variety of options the vendor you are considering has to offer. One of your selections could be between basic porta potties and toilet trailers, a decision that can be made based on the amount of people you'll have and how upscale your occasion will be. Ask your vendor about cleansing stations and if the units will have inside hand washing basins or not as well as lighting options if your party will be during the night hours. Also, don't forget to inquire about how the toilets are serviced during especially long parties, events in hot weather, and events with a large number of guests.
If you are someone who is looking for a basic portable toilet and the cost is your most important factor, then single-stall facilities similar to those typically utilized at work sites and carnival grounds are probably the most beneficial choice. Forbusier or more classy events, you can opt for the entire bathroom trailer choice, which provides a full restroom area for guests to use. The portable toilet services include toilet paper, and some of them also have antibacterial hand sanitizer. If you have a smaller event and just need the most basics of porta pottys, you can always opt for an outside hand washing sink. The VIP portable toilets come with with all of the supplies that are required, including a appealing smell in an air freshener.
You'll want to think about porta potty placement at your occasion or jobsite, as it's a critical factor that could affect the success of your gathering or bog down jobsite performance. The best placement for a portable toilet is a location that's dry, even, and is centrally located for all event guests or construction site workers to access. Fortunately, you can change your porta potties to fit your occasion and requirements by adding additional options. Even the nicest event can be spoiled by low quality bathroom facilities, which is why you need to think about the quality of your portable toilet rental.
There are a range of other options to consider when considering which type of portable toilets to choose. The main aspects are the type of event, number of guests and length of time you'll need the rentals for. You will want to remember that your gathering is going to need some setup regardless of the type of occasion you're hosting, so it's important to ask your vendor how long they will need to set up the porta potties and that way you can make sure they'll be ready in time for your guests. Handicap access is also something you want to make sure not to overlook, and it's often a good idea to have an accessible portable toilet at larger events.
A good host should also consider cleaning services and resupply of paper products that you will probably need during your gathering for the stalls. This includes different things such as toilet paper and hand drying refills along with cleaning or sanitizing the units. You may want to ensure that there are toilet paper supplies available at all times, since the last thing you want at your special occasion is for a person to come up and remind you they need more facilities in the rental toilets.
When renting the average portable toilet then you're looking at an average fee of between fifty and seventy-five dollars each day. These fees could also change depending on the vendor and season. The higher end mobile toilets can possibly run up to 0 each day, and if you desire a fully loaded option you could be looking at forking over as much as 0. Thinking about these factors are important when selecting a company to rent your porta potty from. As long as you have a basic understanding of amenities as well as asking the proper questions with your rental business, you can't go wrong and your event will go on smoothly.


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Sherlock Holmes Releases Today on DVD!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series by writer/director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) starring Robert Downey Jr., with Jude Law as a much younger, slimmer and much more appealing Dr. Watson. The supporting cast includes RocknRolla's Mark Strong as the film's villain, Blackwood, and Rachel McAdams as love interest, Irene Adler.
Though many have critisized the film for veering widely from Conan Doyle's idea of the taciturn detective, Robert Downey, Jr. won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
Rumour also has it that the costumes are incredible. Jenny Beavan, the Oscar-winning costume designer of "A Room With a View," spoke to Vanity Fair about how she shied away from relying upon Holmes's iconic props – the deerstalker, the pipe – when dreaming up costumes for Sherlock Holmes. In part Beavan said, "The whole thing about the perception of Sherlock Holmes as played by Basil Rathbone and many other great actors, it comes from a Sidney Paget illustration in the The Strand magazine. Conan Doyle published his stories weekly in a magazine, they were illustrated, and then Basil Rathbone adopted the deerstalker and the pipe and all that. It's never in the Conan Doyle [books]. So, in fact, we weren't taking any liberates at all–we were simply doing our version. The other was never Conan Doyle's version; he never described any of that clothing. From [a sartorial] point of view, if you actually read the stories, it's very all over the place."
As to the sets, Visit Britian's website includes a Sherlock Holmes itinerary that offers details about the movie's key locations throughout the UK, as well as a slideshow of those spots with both day and night views. I can only hope the scenery is as spot on and atmospheric as it was in the Johnny Depp version of Sweeney Todd. Cor, but whennat ship drawed up ta them docks in the beginnin', Oy didn't half fink I were in Lunnon!
To learn more about the making of the film, click here.
To watch a movie trailer or play the Sherlock Holmes game on Facebook, click here.
And finally, here's the new Sherlock Holmes/Robert Downey, Jr. figure unveiled at Madame Tussaud's this past December.
Have you seen the film? Please leave a comment and let us know what you thought of Downey, Law, the costumes, the sets and the 21st century version of Sherlock Holmes. Gad, I love that suit. There's just something about a standing collar and a cravat I can't resist.
Author Kristine HughesPosted on March 30, 2010 Categories Films, Uncategorized1 Comment on Sherlock Holmes Releases Today on DVD!
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty "
Now that the Academy Awards are over and one of my favorite movies was shut out (and only nominated in one category), I want to alert everyone to see Bright Star, a lovely film directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, 1993). I know it's not research, but we all love to watch movies. And there have been some very good ones lately – meaning in the last couple of years, such as The Duchess, and The Young Victoria (which did win one Oscar). Bright Star is the name of a poem John Keats (1795-1821) wrote to his true love, Fanny Brawne. Any lover of England, poetry, fashion, or film should adore it, though the ending is sad. And it has not a single explosion (except of emotion), not a vampire nor avatar, not a chase scene, no shooting, and no noisy soundtrack. It is beautiful and true.
The stars, Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny, are excellent, as is Paul Schneider as Keats' friend and mentor Charles Brown. The whole cast measures up admirably.
Although I am far from an expert on Keats, I found the film quite moving. And historically accurate, with beautiful settings and costumes. Except for one thing. As a good friend remarked, why didn't they film it at the actual house where it all happened in Hampstead, just north of London? I visited the Keats House years ago and it is a treat! Here is the real house that Keats and Fanny's family lived in.
But, there must have been a good reason the producers used a different house, far from the congestion of Greater London. In Keats' time, Hampstead would have been quite rural.
Perhaps we research nuts are too picky!! The Hyde, Bedfordshire, right, is where Bright Star
was filmed instead.
Bright Star was nominated for the coveted Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival; its only Oscar nomination was for costume design. It has won several other awards and was nominated for many more, but it is a quiet and intelligent film, not the kind of flashy star-studded production that pushes Hollywood's buttons and pulls in millions at the box office. But don't miss it. Victoria
Author Kristine HughesPosted on March 27, 2010 Categories Films, Uncategorized5 Comments on "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty "
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Commissioning and Service Transformation through the lens of ABCD
"Real, Practical, and strategic in the best sense of the word…The course has acted as a catalyst, becoming infectious, with people framing their work through an ABCD lens"
– Charlie Croft, Assistant Director (Customer and Communities) City of York Council
I worked with Cormac Russell and others at Nurture Development to develop this course through 2020 and the start of 2021, with it becoming ready to launch by the summer of this year (and a thank you to Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, in helping initially promote the course to other Local Authorities).
The driving idea behind the course was an analysis of the current reality, as noted by Cormac that:
In a democracy, effective central and local governments and not-for-profit institutions function as an extension of civic life and serve to protect it. When institutions begin to replace civic life—doing things to or for citizens that they can do themselves or with each other—a shift from a democratic to a technocratic way of life takes hold. Technocratic governing relegates citizens to second place; it turns them into clients and consumers of government services and positions "experts" and "officials" as superior to the people they serve'.
This was backed by a recognition, particularly in my experience, that although there are many examples of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) across the UK, there were few places, or major organisations, where there was a strategic framework or vision in place to substantially proliferate ABCD and asset-based ways of working as core business across the organisation.
(Further thinking on the background to establishing the course can be found in this earlier blog by me and Cormac)
Nevertheless, in prototyping our offer, we at Nurture Development & The Community Renewal Centre were aware of a number of organisations (Local Authorities, NHS Organisations and Large Third Sector) interested in and committed to bringing about positive change and in embracing ABCD and asset-based ways of working and crucially, that there were others who had started on this journey and were willing to share their experiences.
We always knew that the course would need to be online, making use of the fantastic Community Renewal eLearning Platform which we developed to host much of Nurture Development training. Our courses take learning and change-making experiences beyond traditional course delivery to offer a mixture of: direct facilitated sessions (via Zoom) delivered by Cormac and myself; life-long access for those on the course to a wide range of resources (Videos, Documents, Interviews) hosted on the e-learning platform; and the need for participants to do assignments in between the facilitated sessions.
Content across the 5 facilitated sessions included:
'Outline of ABCD' and how it relates to the specific organisation(s) taking part in the course;
Moving from 'Theory into Practice';
'Implementation at a Strategic Level' (whether commissioning or service transformation);
'Evaluation and Monitoring'; and
'Relocating Authority'.
Just as importantly, as part of the overall offer from Nurture Development, there was pre-course development work with the organisation to both customize the course to meet their specific situation/requirements and also work to establish an organisational 'baseline of readiness for ABCD'. Then at completion of the course, a further session with the organisational leadership is provided to review the implementation of the learning and how Nurture Development can support this.
Another key element of the courses we have successfully delivered so far was that although the sessions were to be delivered by me and Cormac, the materials shared with participants include contributions from a wide range of sources, and a big thank you to Penny Germon from Bristol City Council, Cath Roff from Leeds City Council, Katie Kelly from East Ayrshire Council, and Jim Diers for doing video interviews for the sessions, and to many others for allowing us to share practical examples of good practice.
Once we knew we had everything in place, we put out material on the course to test interest, crucially, we offered a discount to the first organisations to take it up, as we knew we would need more from them for these first few courses as we worked together to refine content and delivery we were therefore really pleased that the first organisation to contact us was City of York Council (Communities Directorate) and in particular to hear from Joe Micheli, Head of Communities, as both Cormac and I have had the pleasure of working with Joe many times over the last few years. This was swiftly followed by interest from Newcastle Council (especially those within Adult Social Care and Health and Care partners) and York Complex Needs Network. Again, huge thanks to representatives from these organisations for helping further develop the course and to ensuring that delivery went so well.
In regard to delivering the online facilitated sessions, I personally focussed on presenting and outlining examples of practical implementation of ABCD and asset-based ways of working relating to the various elements that Cormac skilfully outlined within each session. To be honest, I was initially nervous that many of these related to my work in Leeds in my previous role (and its ongoing focus on ABCD) and that people would get annoyed, and feel as if I was saying, Leeds was all sorted and everyone could learn from this (which was definitely not my message!). But in fact, participants really liked the real-world examples of implementation of ABCD (inc. those where it hadn't worked as planned). And also, as I shared these, it was easy to highlight how the work in Leeds had itself been developed from learning from other cities and organisations in the UK and from around the world.
Of course, we have done full evaluations for each of the 3 courses so far and pleasingly they have been overwhelmingly positive, both in regard to content and delivery. But more crucially, in each of the three areas, there have been significant commitments made to implementing ABCD and asset-based approaches. This was nicely summarised in comments made by Alison McDowell, Director of Adult Social Care and Integrated Services in Newcastle City Council:
'The ABCD training was an excellent launchpad for us in Newcastle. We had already started to think about how we change our approach as a system and were building on some great relationships, but the framing (or frame-breaking!), challenges, and tools that Mick and Cormac provided has really helped take our thinking to the next level.
The impact of the training will reach far and wide across health and social care locally. Within the local authority, it has already given us a new lens through which to design services and is helping to shape our commissioning practice going forward.
Looking ahead, we are seeking to co-develop more neighbourhood alternatives to services and to transform the way we deliver strength-based assessments. The knowledge, tools, and relationships we have gained through the course have equipped us with the essential skills we need to take this forward in a truly neighbourhood-led way."
For me, this commitment to implementation by participants and the relevant leaderships was the most crucial element, and of course why I wanted to be involved in the first place, and I know that all of us at Nurture Development (ND) are really looking forward to seeing these develop over time. Indeed, one idea that has come out of the courses so far, is the need to convene a national network of organisations working to facilitate ABCD efforts at a strategic level. This is something ND are happy to support. We do however want to co-create such a network, and will be testing this out further in 2022 – so do keep an eye out for more on this coming out in the near future.
We now have a number of other organisations lined up for the next phase of delivering the course early in 2022 (and positively this is a mixture of Third Sector, NHS and Local Authority) but we still have some capacity to deliver more if your organisation wants to go deeper in implementing ABCD. – Just get in touch!
Further information on the course can be seen here.
Or feel free to contact me directly to discuss any element: wardmick@rocketmail.com
Mick Ward
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Wage growth during the Great Recession occurred among top earners, but has since become more broadly shared.
Since 2010, however, wage growth has accelerated for all workers, and particularly for the lowest-paid workers. One explanation for recent wage growth among low-wage workers is the legislated increase in the minimum wage in many states.
Despite the more rapid increase at the bottom of the income spectrum, along with continued growth at the top, wage growth for workers in the middle quintiles has continued to be sluggish. One possible factor limiting wage growth in the recovery is that, during the recession itself, wages were to some extent prevented from falling (e.g., by employee reluctance to accept wage reductions).


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AIS new e-commerce platform could excite '5 in 4'
BY BALFORD HENRY
balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com
Leading IT solutions provider Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS) is optimistic that its new comprehensive e-commerce platform, Q-Mall, could open up the Caribbean for Jamaica's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
According to AIS, Q-Mall is the first comprehensive e-commerce platform specifically geared towards Jamaican and Caribbean vendors to provide worldwide reach.
"It aims to provide SMEs with an increased chance of success, and encourages entrepreneurship by reducing capital costs that would be invested in acquiring a physical location for sales," AIS, Jamaica's leading IT solutions provider, announced last week.
In a statement on the new development, chairman and CEO of AIS Douglas Halsall said that the future of retail is digital.
He said that the long-awaited platform, which is now close to public exposure, will enable the SMEs to navigate this fundamental shift in retail operation, by providing a highly innovative and integrated e-commerce platform, with a comprehensive set of tools for managing every aspect of digital commerce, including inventory, ordering processing, logistics and packaging, marketing and loyalty.
"SMEs will now have an avenue through which to market and sell their goods in Jamaica, across the Caribbean, and in other international markets allowing them to expand and provide additional employment," Halsall said.
In fact, he said, the platform could be the fillip that the Government's Economic Growth Council (EGC) needs to motivate its 5-in-4 growth initiative, at this time, as it would greatly assist in achieving a number of objectives leading to widespread economic improvement accessible to all Jamaicans, including the most vulnerable.
"Mobile money is the first step in digitisation that will lead to financial inclusion and a jump in GDP: This could be the impetus needed," Halsall exulted.
"It is also a great opportunity for start-ups who can sell their products without high start-up costs, including rental. The possibilities are endless," he added.
The platform is being likened to Amazon or Alibaba, and could mean a complete transformation and disruption in the local retail sector. It could also mean an expansion of commerce outside of Jamaica, since digital platforms are not limited by geography.
Q-Mall does all the 'heavy lifting', allowing vendors to focus on providing products and services.
According to Halsall, it will be the only platform in the Caribbean to have a payment gateway linked to the Quisk mobile money platform. Quisk is known as a game-changer, opening up e-commerce to persons of all income levels, particularly those who do not have a credit card.
"Over 75 per cent of retail transactions are still settled in cash and less than 15 per cent of Jamaicans have credit cards – major impediment to e-commerce. Quisk solves that issue," he noted.
He added that the combination of Q-Mall and Quisk, two AIS products, could address the issue of financial inclusion and facilitate business development and entrepreneurship.
"Q-Mall will provide merchants with a choice of payment platforms, virtual storefront and back-end logistics support, including delivery, which could unleash a tsunami of entrepreneurial energy in manufacturing, services, transport, remote health care, retail and logistics," he noted.
"It allows customers to engage in various activities online by tailoring their experience to purchase products that are more convenient for delivery," he added.
He said that AIS has already had preliminary discussions with the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) and Jampro, and both institutions were encouraged by the initiative.
"Finally, somebody in Jamaica has opened the door to the 21st century. exceptional work," current president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Howard Mitchell was quoted reacting to the new platform.
AIS also noted that World Bank studies have indicated that the digitisation of cash could add multiple points to a country's GDP.
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The new ownership of Straight Flush Entertainment, LLC wishes to welcome you to the NEW Straight Flush!
As you may or may not be aware, on November 22, 2015, Chris Belflower sold his sole interest in Straight Flush Entertainment, LLC (SFE, LLC) to five league players turned partners. Our group took full ownership of SFE, LLC. on November 30, 2015.
We wish to acknowledge Chris for creating and managing an amazing, strong company and league for our Host Locations and players for the last 12 years. Recently though, Chris noticed his availability to the business, players, and Host Locations weaken, and he decided it was time to step away. While Chris entertained several offers, he ultimately decided that our group would best carry on the legacy of Straight Flush and restore it as the premier bar poker league in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
As the new proprietors of Straight Flush Entertainment, LLC, we are committed to providing a quality experience for both our Players and Host Locations. Together, we have a combined 50 years of bar poker league experience as players and have already been playing regularly as members of the league, therefore we understand the needs of the players. All of the owners are also experienced managers at well established companies in the metro or business owners in their own right, so we also understand the needs of the Host Locations.
We have already begun making the rounds to our current locations. It is our goal to introduce ourselves to the Players and Host Location contacts. If you haven't seen us yet, you will soon. We will be happy to introduce ourselves and discuss any current needs you may have we'll also buy you a drink if you knock us out of the tournament!
Please reach out to us with any questions, comments or concerns. You may email us at info@sfpokertour.com or contact us using the telephone numbers listed below.


When I signed up to go visit the Chernobyl disaster site, I was imagining the photos of the ghost towns I'd seen—or, what turned out to be the ghost town of Chernobyl, Pripyat.
I didn't really think much about the actual reactor that blew up. It didn't occur to me that we would be able to get very close to it or inside the power plant at all.
I was wrong. Boy, was I wrong. And I was not prepared mentally for what I was to experience while at Chernobyl.
And it's true, you can't go into the actual explosion site. It was quickly covered with a concrete "sarcophagus" after the accident to contain the molten and highly radioactive remains of the blast—a lethal combination of uranium, zirconium, graphite, and concrete that created perhaps the deadliest substance in the world, corium.
When that sarcophagus began to crumble and compromise the quarantine of the amalgam at the core—which had solidified into a shape dubbed "The Elephant's Foot"—several countries around the world pitched in to fund a brand-new safety containment structure.
That one, which was completed last November, covers up most of what was left to see of the rubble. It's expected to last 100 years.
Thankfully, the accident of April 26, 1986 was isolated to just one reactor, Number 4. Reactors 1-3 still worked and were more or less untouched functionally by the accident—though Number 1 had already experienced a meltdown of its own back in 1982 (something that wasn't disclosed publicly until several years later).
The first three reactors were shut down in the wake of the disaster, but only temporarily.
In fact, Reactor 1 continued to operate through 1996. Reactor 2 only shut down in 1991 after it caught fire. And Reactor 3, the final straw for the electricity-producing capacity of the plant, didn't shut down until the year 2000.
By 2015, the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine had ordered all three of those reactors to be officially decommissioned—typically a slow, bureaucratic process to complete.
But those weren't the only reactors at the Chernobyl Atomic Plant (Чорнобильська атомна електростанція).
Construction had begun on two others, Numbers 5 and 6.
And though it was never completed, there's enough of Reactor 5 to walk through and get a pretty clear sense of what Number 4 must've been like before a star called "Wormwood" (чернобыль) poisoned the waters (if you believe in conspiracies and prophecies and such).
Thank goodness we had a nuclear physicist in our group.
...which was so radioactive that we had to limit our meandering to the interior periphery of the hyperboloid-shaped structure.
Most cooling towers for nuclear power plants use water or steam to give off excess (or "waste") heat that's not needed in the process of producing power.
And when you've got a reactor that's designed to generate up to 1000 megawatts, you can bet it's going to get pretty hot.
After the conflagration at Reactor 4, however, its successors—both 5 and 6—were doomed to a state of arrested development, Number 5 having been halted at only 70% complete.
They have not, however, been stabilized into a state of arrested decay.
...the abandonment of anything that was never finished leaves it particularly vulnerable.
And that which is left unfinished is even more susceptible to vandalism and the encroachment of the elements.
...there's a limited opportunity to witness firsthand anything that's recognizable beyond just being a radioactive ruin.
Some of the floors never got their final layer of concrete poured over their reinforcements.
Rebar is rusting and buckling. Rivets are popping out. Catwalks are wobbling. Elevator shafts are ravenous for fallen legs and dropped wallets and phones.
Standing water is collecting, stagnant, and surely irradiated.
What went up is stuck up there, and it's not coming down without a fight.
And when it does come down, it will do so spectacularly, in a cascade of red oxidation and regret.
And yet for now, it still stands there in the shadow of the newly-contained Reactor 4, which is doing its best to not only keep everything in, but also keep everybody out.
Some workers have been assigned to tend The Elephant's Foot, but their shifts last mere minutes.
Initially, the liquidators (a.k.a. the clean-up crew) could only spend a maximum of a minute or two in there—and, even then, many of them perished from radiation illness.
More than 31 years later, the maximum duration that anyone can stand inside Reactor 4 is just double what it was back then.
But since no reactions ever actually occurred inside Number 5, visitors can take their time exploring the relic.
That is, as long as they avoid the radioactive hotspots caused by the fallout, as it was in such close proximity to the epicenter of the disaster, just a mile and a half away (or so, as the crow flies).
Not only that, but every step must be watched. This place is a death trap—yet another disaster waiting to occur.
If I'd been alone, I probably wouldn't have gone in. But since I was with a group, I didn't really have the option of staying behind.
But now, I can't unsee those sights. I can't unthink those thoughts. I can't put my broken heart back together, as it shattered into increasingly tiny fragments every time I visited someplace new in the surrounding area.
And even though I've been back to LA for over a week, I can't shake the feeling that I had throughout my time in the Exclusion Zone.
I wish it would wear off. But I'm not sure that it should.


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Q: Changing the variables around strings in a list of lists I am programming a minesweeper game and i have encountered a problem and i can't solve it on my own. I want to change the 0's around the M's to 1 if one M is close to it, a 2 if two mines is close to it and so on. I have written this code:
hiddenfield =  [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 'M'],
            [0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 'M', 'M', 'M'],
            [0, 0, 'M', 0, 'M', 0, 0, 'M', 0, 'M'],
            [0, 0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 'M', 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 'M', 'M', 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0],
            [0, 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            [0, 'M', 'M', 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
            ['M', 0, 0, 'M', 0, 0, 0, 0, 'M', 0]]

for i in range(0,len(hiddenfield)):
    for j in range(0,len(hiddenfield)):
        try:
            if hiddenfield[i][j] == 'M':
                hiddenfield[i+1][j] += 1
                hiddenfield[i-1][j] += 1
                hiddenfield[i][j+1] += 1
                hiddenfield[i][j-1] += 1
                hiddenfield[i+1][j-1] += 1
                hiddenfield[i-1][j+1] += 1
                hiddenfield[i+1][j+1] += 1
                hiddenfield[i-1][j-1] += 1
        except IndexError:
            continue

def showMineFieldHidden(hiddenfield):
    border = list(range(0,len(hiddenfield)))
    row = [' ']+border
    i = 0
    for rows in [border]+hiddenfield:
        print(row[i], end=' ')
        i += 1
        for lines in rows:
            print(lines, end=' ')
        print()

but all i get is this:
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
  0 0 0 0 1 1 M 1 0 1 M
  1 0 0 2 M 2 1 1 M M M
  2 0 1 M 2 M 0 0 M 1 M
  3 0 1 2 1 M 0 0 1 0 1
  4 0 1 M 1 M 1 1 0 0 0
  5 0 1 1 M 1 M M 2 1 0
  6 0 0 0 M 0 1 2 M 1 0
  7 0 1 1 M 1 0 1 1 1 0
  8 0 M M 3 M 1 0 0 0 0
  9 M 1 1 M 2 1 1 0 M 0

would really appreciate some help.

A: You have 2 problems:

*

*if there is an index error before the end you skip the rest

*you overwrite other mines
for i in range(0, len(hiddenfield)):
    for j in range(0, len(hiddenfield)):
    if hiddenfield[i][j] == 'M':
            if hiddenfield[i + 1][j] != 'M':
                try:
                    hiddenfield[i + 1][j] += 1
                except IndexError:
                    pass
            if hiddenfield[i + 1][j] != 'M':
                try:
                    hiddenfield[i - 1][j] += 1
                except IndexError:
                    pass
            #and so on ..... :(

This is awful and therefore you should put this into a funtion
def update_cell(x, y):
    try:
        if hiddenfield[x][y] != 'M':
            hiddenfield[x][y] += 1
    except IndexError:
        pass

for i in range(0, len(hiddenfield)):
    for j in range(0, len(hiddenfield)):
        if hiddenfield[i][j] == 'M':
            update_cell(i - 1, j - 1)
            update_cell(i - 1, j)
            update_cell(i - 1, j + 1)
            update_cell(i, j - 1)
            update_cell(i, j + 1)
            update_cell(i + 1, j - 1)
            update_cell(i + 1, j)
            update_cell(i + 1, j + 1)

Now that looks way better :)

A: I would start by storing the indexes of your bombs in a list.  Then I would try using a function to get all neighboring elements given a location.
check out Listing adjacent cells
Then you can update this function to take an additional parameter which would be a  function ex increment or decrement to be executed on all adjacent cells found

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Rock thrown through window at children's play centre with toddlers playing inside
The owner of the play centre has called it 'absolutely disgusting'
Christie BannonTrainee Multimedia Journalist
The window that was damaged at the play centre (Image: Charlotte Williams)
A 'mindless thug' has caused damage to a window at a children's play centre, shattering glass all over the equipment where toddlers were playing.
A window was smashed at Toots and Bounce, in Neath, while a group of children aged two and three were playing during a party.
Owner of the play centre, Debbie Matthews, has called the incident 'absolutely disgusting'.
She said: "We had a party and we were open to the public.
"I wasn't in work but the girls heard a loud bang and saw that glass had shattered all over the wavy slide.
"The staff were really good and acted really quickly to isolate the equipment where the glass was - the priority was that the kids were safe.
"The supervisor, Charlotte Williams, rang me to tell me and she was shaking."
She added: "It could have been so different as the children were using the equipment at the time - they were going down the slide.
"It's quite scary really."
A rock was thrown through a window at the play centre causing glass to shatter on the equipment where children were playing (Image: Charlotte Williams)
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Now staff are appealing for anyone who knows anything about the incident to get in touch.
The owner added: "You can get mindless vandalism when you're closed but to do it when we're open with two and three-year-olds playing is absolutely disgusting.
"If one had caught a shard of glass it could have caused phenomenal damage."
A post about the incident on their Facebook page read: "Today during opening hours whilst a party was ongoing and children were using the equipment a mindless thug decided to throw a brick through the window shattering glass all over the equipment.
"It is only due to the quick-acting staff on duty who restricted the area and cleaned the mess up that no children were injured.
"Police were called immediately and the council acted promptly to board up the window.
"I can't thank the staff on duty enough for prioritising the safety of the children and all the customers in the venue."
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A South Wales Police spokesman said: "Police in Neath are investigating a report of criminal damage to a children's play centre on Milland Road which happened between 12.30pm and 1pm on Saturday, May 26.
"An unknown male has approached the rear of the premises and threw a rock through a window.
"He is described as being in his early to mid-teens, about 5ft 6ins and was wearing a black hooded top with his hood up."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 1800188098.
South Wales Police