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Clinical leadership in action
By John Storey, Richard Holti2013-03-05T00:01:00+00:00
A project set out to discover why clinicians often find service redesign problematic, and what can be done about it. By John Storey and Richard Holti
The idea that clinical leadership is crucial for the future viability of the NHS has been stated many times. Funding pressures running alongside rising demand dictate a need for cost effectiveness and improved service quality. Significant improvements will require new ways of doing things.
It is argued that clinicians, rising to the challenge of leadership, provide the solution. They can seemingly offer specialist knowledge, credibility and reputational power.
Despite such expectations, the reality of clinical leadership attempts to redesign services across the extant boundaries of the NHS have not so far been fully studied or demonstrated.
The challenges of leadership within hospitals were previously discussed in HSJ by Chris Gordon.
Extensive collaboration
As important as that topic may be, significant service redesign usually requires the even bigger challenge of leading across organisational boundaries.
'Some senior clinicians complained it was difficult for them to exercise leadership in service redesign'
We set out to find what clinical leadership − as a process − looks like in practice. In particular, we wanted to know how clinicians have been involved in significant examples of service redesign.
We consulted widely within the NHS and we were advised to focus on two relatively understudied, but significant, areas: sexual health services and dementia services.
Both had been subject to relative neglect and they carried the potential for very substantial improvement of a transformational kind. To secure such improvements would require cross-boundary collaboration.
The nature, scope and potential for clinical leadership were explored by focusing on four cases. These were cross-boundary service redesign attempts for dementia and sexual health in London and Greater Manchester. Each case contained multiple organisations, including GPs and primary care trusts, acute hospital trusts, mental health trusts, local authorities and independent sector providers.
This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research's Health Services and Delivery Research Programme. We interviewed 74 informants across the four cases, including hospital consultants, junior doctors, nurses, other clinicians, managers and commissioners.
Feedback events were held with informants where managers and clinicians were able to respond to our findings and to offer insights on how they might work beyond the case sites.
Actively discouraged
The findings reveal: a) the forms which redesign took; b) a series of obstacles to the exercise of clinical leadership in the NHS; c) enablers of clinical leadership; and d) some new ways of thinking about the competencies involved.
In both sexual health and dementia services the general thrust of the redesign was to integrate services. For example, GUM and contraception services were modernised by streamlining services into a "one-stop shop" where multiple needs could be met in a single consultation with a clinician who could deal with diverse needs.
Service users were consulted and, as a result, clinic opening times were extended and facilities greatly improved.
'Distinguishing between moving around the furniture and more significant far-reaching changes could be difficult'
In dementia care, a similar shift was achieved by integrating previously diverse specialist clinics into community-based "memory clinics" so GPs had a clearer idea of where to send patients in need of diagnosis.
Some senior clinicians, hospital consultants in the main, complained that it was difficult for them to exercise leadership in service redesign because they were excluded from the routines of decision making undertaken by the managerial hierarchies of their trusts.
Some reported being discouraged from straying beyond their normal clinic sphere and a few said they were not even consulted about changes which affected their service areas or which were adjacent to their areas.
A further set of barriers to the smooth exercise of clinical leadership was the degree of complexity and fragmentation of the complete system of care, which had to be comprehended and surmounted.
Far-reaching changes
In dementia services, one of the characteristics of current practices is that diagnosis and care are scattered across multiple institutions, agencies and professions. No one "owns" the condition. Before redesign, there was a divide between psychiatric services and geriatric services. GPs might send a patient to either service.
In sexual health, there were similar challenges in understanding and bridging the largely separate worlds of GUM and reproductive health services. The task facing any would-be clinical leader or group of leaders is therefore heightened by the need to engage with cross-boundary issues − including agencies and bodies external to the health service such as local authorities and independent sector organisations.
'Service design is inherently difficult − it involves challenging established habits distributed across a wide range of areas'
A complicating factor for both settings was that other kinds of organisational changes were relatively commonplace. Separate trusts frequently rationalised services, closed and opened units or moved staff from one unit to another but without any notable improvement in service for users. This meant distinguishing between the "noise" of merely moving the furniture, from the stirrings of more significant far-reaching changes, could be difficult.
Service redesign was in each case sanctioned and triggered by national initiatives and policy papers. Mobilisation of local effort was much easier when it was seen to represent fulfilment of national level strategy. Local sponsorship, including funding, from commissioners and from acute trust top management, was much easier when the proposed changes to services were seen to be in accord with policy.
The national dementia and national sexual health strategies were crucial in shaping local cross-boundary service redesigns. Rather than restricting the exercise of clinical leadership at local level, they provided material local actors could work with.
Cross-boundary innovation
The implication is that exhortations for more local clinical leadership need to be balanced by continuation of the clinical effort at national level in developing strategies for particular clinical areas.
Local clinical leadership stems in part from the intrinsic interest of many clinicians − doctors, nurses and allied health professionals − in understanding the wider system of care experienced by their patients.
The motivation to improve interfaces and bring together the forms of care people need often finds expression in informal initiatives to link with other parts of the health service and with social care. This is an important resource for more formal and structured service redesign projects. We found that it is often frustrated by the compartmentalised nature of NHS organisations but continues to thrive nonetheless.
Network organisations linking clinicians and managers across a locality or region have a vital role in fostering this kind of clinical vision and help develop a sense of belonging and commitment. There is a case for extending their scope, bringing in social care and third sector organisations.
Cross-boundary innovation required clinicians to develop a more extensive network. It also required being open to reshaping clinical and non-clinical practices and different components of the service, such as clinic organisation, booking systems, IT systems and tariffs.
Service design is inherently difficult − it involves challenging established habits distributed across a wide range of occupational areas, as well as across organisational boundaries.
Clever negotiation
Engineering these kinds of service changes required tactful persuasion and negotiation across multiple boundaries. Hospital consultants needed to negotiate with each other as they sought to "defend" their clinics and their staff while also seeking ways to design new service provision more suited to patient needs. They also needed to enter into negotiations with commissioners and their trust management teams.
Each of these relationships required the senior clinicians to accept responsibility for leadership. We found the more successful clinical leaders were able to be open to constructive redesigns while also bringing along their colleagues. Clinicians who were too entrenched found they were outmanoeuvred by commissioners and other stakeholders; conversely, those who were too gung ho risked losing the trust and support of their professional colleagues.
'Local clinical leadership is not an alternative to top-down national strategies; they can feed off one another'
Informal, lateral leadership could mobilise and bring along clinical colleagues, and conversely formal project planning on its own could be relatively ineffective. The most effective service redesigns were achieved when these processes worked in tandem.
We identified four main types of clinical leadership at individual level: localised leadership, passive, high-impact cross boundary clinical leadership and leadership that lacked followers.
This was measured against scale of ambition and micro-political capability. Those clinicians who scored low on the scale of ambition and political capability remained relatively passive. The localised leaders used interpersonal and planning skills to achieve incremental service improvements. Leaders lacking followers brought passion and rushed ahead but became exposed out on a limb. While high-impact leaders brought both an appropriate scale of ambition and a set of micro-political capabilities.
Challenges emanating from the national level which have been well forged with high-quality clinical input appear to provide a vital top-down mechanism for shaking up established thinking at local and regional level, providing clinicians who have been thinking about how to improve the structure of the services with an opportunity to make their case and take it forward.
Local clinical leadership is not an alternative to top-down national strategies; rather the two can productively feed off one another.
Key elements of clinical leadership
Clarifying the purpose of care: public health outcomes and user experience.
Achieving meaningful scope of authorisation.
Collaborating with service managers to win resources.
Tackling the range of clinical and managerial practices required for innovation.
Reworking professional roles and relationships.
Finding resources for leadership and improvement: time, project management and analytical techniques.
Download the Possibilities and pitfalls for clinical leadership in im- proving service quality, innovation and productivity report
John Storey is professor of human resources management at the Open University, Richard Holti is senior lecturer in human resources management at the Open University
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Eighth weekly sum of daily notes, in the run-up to Silence: 2014, a cross-border artistic witness. See the Soulographie site (soulographie dot org) for the day-to-day.
O death! what drawes thee from a present praye?
My grace is saide; O death! come take awaye.
And life my living death no whitt amends.
Whose idle hopes and vayne desires are deade.
The deaths I feele in present daungers lye.
Give me again the joy of your help; with a spirit of fervour sustain me.
No; evil is overcome only by good, hate by love, egoism by generosity. It is thus that we must sow justice in our world. To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.
First, a firm determination to live much more simply – as individuals, as families, as social groups – and in this way to stop short, or at least to slow down, the expanding spiral of luxurious living and social competition. Let us have men and women who will resolutely set themselves against the tide of our consumer society… And if this produces surplus income, well and good; let it be given to those for whom the necessities of life are still luxuries beyond their reach.
Third, and most difficult: a firm resolve to be agents of change in society; not merely resisting unjust structures and arrangements, but actively undertaking to reform them. For, if we set out to reduce income in so far as it is derived from participation in unjust structures, we will find out soon enough that we are faced with an impossible task unless those very structures are changed.
And more Arrupe, another trilogy of ideas. Silence (in the sense we're suggesting with this action) is the clarification of respect (abstinence as compassion), a stand against suborning, a dismantling of structures of authority (in language, e.g.) that are accepted as given, but may be revealed as less than absolute.
First, a basic attitude of respect for all people which forbids us ever to use them as instruments for our own profit.
Second, a firm resolve never to profit from, or allow ourselves to be suborned by, positions of power deriving from privilege, for to do so, even passively, is equivalent to active oppression. To be drugged by the comforts of privilege is to become contributors to injustice as silent beneficiaries of the fruits of injustice.
Third, an attitude not simply of refusal but of counterattack against injustice; a decision to work with others toward the dismantling of unjust social structures so that the weak, the oppressed, the marginalized of this world may be set free.


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Last month I read Oscar Wao and Tree of Smoke.
I finished 2666 last week. I loved it.
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I've read Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, but the rest I have not.
I'm reading 2666. On the first book right now and can't put it down. So far so good. I've read most of DFW except Infinite Jest. Prefer his essays, but that's just my taste.
read The Savage Detectives (loved the first half, alright in the middle, really liked the end) – liked it so much that I . . .
bought 2666 and it is on "The Stack"
Infinite Jest shows up on "The Stack" sometimes, but usually comes out before I get to it (though sometimes I start it before deciding I don't have time right now).
am reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. about half way and would probably enjoy it more if I knew more Spanish (but I can get by). I think it might come off as heavy-handed in its "geek culture" references (for lack of a better term), but at least I haven't found more than one that I don't get immediately. if I didn't have the Spanish AND I had never spent much time with comics and hanging out in comic book shops I think I would be very lost.
I read Oscar Wao last year, and I loved it. I am not a comic book reader and have never read Lord or the Rings, but I still loved the book. As soon as I finished it, I ran out and bought Diaz's book of short stories Drown and enjoyed it very much too. I think Oscar Wao is a classic in the making.
I'm about 200 pages into 2666, and the book led me on a side trip, as they always do, to the book by journalist Teresa Rodriguez, "The Daughters of Juarez" A true story of serial murder south of the border."
I'm reading 2666 now, savouring it slowly. It is my first venture into Bolano, it has been very interesting this far. The Savage Detectives is buried somewhere beneath the mountain of coursework.
Just finished Netherland Great read. Tried infinite Jest but just could not get into it.
Read Bolano's 2666, DFW's Supposedly Fun Thing, and O'Neill's Netherland. Netherland was a bit of a disappointment after all the hype, while 2666 was simply amazing even with the hype. It's been a few months since I read 2666, and I still find anything I've read since lackluster and uninteresting. I remember enjoying a number of the essays in this collection by DFW, but I read it so long time ago that my memory can't be trusted. I, too, prefer his essays to his fiction.


I am loving this year's tomato season. The tomatoes this year are sweet and juicy and perfect for bruschetta. The best part to making bruschetta is it takes only a few minutes and an oven is not necessary. Simply dice tomatoes, and add salt, pepper, extra virgin olive oil, finely sliced basil and minced garlic to taste. Serve with sliced sourdough baguette that you can brush with olive oil and toast on your barbecue grill.


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Bruce Cryst, a member of our detachment since March, 2008, passed on May 18, 2019. Bruce had been an active member of the detachment since joining. You could always count on him and his wife Connie to volunteer at fund raisers, to participate in meetings, and to show up at our social events with a smile and a great sense of humor. He was a strong presence in our group and he will be missed by his friends and fellow Marines. A photo album with pictures of Bruce and Connie over the last 10 years can be found on our Photos page.
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Member Art Beltrone and long time supporter radio host Joe Thomas were both recognized at our Christmas gathering. Art received the Distinguished Service Award for his service as the detachment Public Information Officer and the Marine Corps Birthday Celebration Project Officer from 2006-2018. Joe Thomas received a Certificate of Appreciation for his public support of our detachment over the airways for the past eleven years. From his on-air promotions of our events to his annual live broadcast from our Birthday celebration Joe has been a true friend to our group.
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Many of our members came to honor the 28 local men who lost their lives in the Vietnam War as evidenced by the conspicuous red covers spread throughout the crowd of several hundred. Photos of the event can be found here.
Thanks to all who volunteered to serve and best wishes for a great year.
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Q: Is it possible to create nested generic typeguards in TypeScript I'm in the midst of building out an Angular application, and one of Angular's features is typed response objects on HTTP calls:

You can structure your HttpClient request to declare the type of the
response object, to make consuming the output easier and more obvious.
Specifying the response type acts as a type assertion at compile time.
Specifying the response type is a declaration to TypeScript that it
should treat your response as being of the given type. This is a
build-time check and doesn't guarantee that the server will actually
respond with an object of this type. It is up to the server to
ensure that the type specified by the server API is returned.
To specify the response object type, first define an interface with
the required properties. Use an interface rather than a class,
because the response is a plain object that cannot be automatically converted to an instance of a class.
https://angular.io/guide/http#typed-response

I like the sound of something like that, but would like to have run-time checks as well. Digging through Google, I found that Typescript has "type guards" that, supposedly, serve this function:

TypeScript allows you to create something called a type guard.
The TypeScript Handbook describes type guards as:
Some expression that performs a runtime check that guarantees the type
in some scope.
The key here is "a runtime check". This ensures that the variable is
the type you're expecting at the moment your code is executed.
https://rangle.io/blog/how-to-use-typescript-type-guards/

In particular, since typeof and instanceof don't work as intended for interfaces --which Angular's typed response objects require-- there are "custom type guards" or "user-defined type guards."

The key features of a custom type guard are:

*

*Returns a type predicate, e.g. variableToCheck is Car

*Contains a logical statement that can accurately determine the type of the given variable, e.g (variableToCheck as
Car).turnSteeringWheel !== undefined

https://rangle.io/blog/how-to-use-typescript-type-guards/

Awesome! So I started modeling our back-end's response formats, making some basic type guards, and arrived at something like this:
export interface DefaultBase<T> {
    Status: string;
    Code: number;
    StatusMessage: string | undefined;
    Data: T;
    DataHash: number;
    GeneratedAt: string;
}

export function isDefaultBase<T>(
    obj: unknown
    ): obj is DefaultBase<T> {

    const test = obj as DefaultBase<T>;
    if(test.Code == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Status == undefined) return false;
    if(test.StatusMessage == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Data == undefined) return false;
    if(test.DataHash == undefined) return false;
    if(test.GeneratedAt == undefined) return false;

    return true;

}

export interface DefaultList<T> {
    Count: number | undefined;
    Items: Array<T>;
}

export function isDefaultList<T>(
  obj: unknown
  ): obj is DefaultList<T> {

    const test = obj as DefaultList<T>;
    if(test.Count == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Items == undefined) return false;
    if(!Array.isArray(test.Items)) return false;

    return true;

}

export interface User {
    FirstName:  string;
    LastName: string;
    Email: string;
}

export function isUser(
    obj: unknown
    ): obj is User {

    const test = obj as User;

    if(test.FirstName == undefined) return false;
    if(test.LastName == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Email == undefined) return false;

    return true;

}

// Now I can do something like this to get a list of users:
this.http.get<DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>>>("http://localhost/").subscribe(//etc);

// and now I want to write an interceptor that will check each of the
// relevant types and execute its type guard...

But hold up a minute! How can I tell the interceptor to dive into the nested generics and execute their associated type guards? I've spent the last day or two trying to figure out a way to either:

*

*Have the interceptor look at the type signature passed in DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>> and execute the associated type guards.

*Have the "top-level" type guard for DefaultBase<T> recursively descend
into its child types and execute their associated guards.

I can't find a way to do either of these things. What I want is to be able to get the types and reason about them, and the second, recursive approach might look something like this:
export function isDefaultBase<T>(
    obj: unknown
    ): obj is DefaultBase<T> {

    const test = obj as DefaultBase<T>;
    if(test.Code == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Status == undefined) return false;
    if(test.StatusMessage == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Data == undefined) return false;
    if(test.DataHash == undefined) return false;
    if(test.GeneratedAt == undefined) return false;

    // how to associate type and its guard?
    return T?.type_guard(test.Data) ?? true

}

export function isDefaultList<T>(
  obj: unknown
  ): obj is DefaultList<T> {

    const test = obj as DefaultList<T>;
    if(test.Count == undefined) return false;
    if(test.Items == undefined) return false;
    if(!Array.isArray(test.Items)) return false;

    // how to associate type and its guard?
    return T?.type_guard(test.Items[0]) ?? true

}

I can of course manually call those type guards. Something like:
// some component property...
users: DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>> | undefined;

// some call to an API to set or update the property...
this.http.get<DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>>>("http://localhost/users")
  .subscribe((users:DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>>) => {
    if(isDefaultBase(users)
      && users?.Data ? isDefaultList(users.Data) : false
      && users?.Data?.Items[0] ? isUser(users.Data.Items[0]) : false) {
      this.users = { ...users};
    } else {
      throw new Error('unexpected response shape!')
    }
  });

But the desire is for this to happen automatically, transparently, based on the type signature. The callers shouldn't need to worry about anything other than "we got exactly what we wanted or an exception was thrown." And ultimately, I feel like we shouldn't need to manually call the type guards each time because the compiler knows that the interface is associated with the guard, right? Or is that not the case?
Also, if I take this approach, does it really even matter if the is* methods are proper type guards? My limited understanding is that typescript does code flow analysis to "hone in on" or "narrow" types within a specific scope, and the special obj is X return type syntax is meant to hint at that to the compiler. But if I'm flat-out saying users is of type DefaultBase<DefaultList<User>> in the subscribe call, then I'm not really using the "type guard" feature, am I? Just using the "is this the right shape" logic of the method itself.
Overall, my hunches are that

*

*what I'm looking for relies on run-time introspection, or some other feature that Typescript does not or cannot provide.

*I'm mis-using and/or mis-understanding the purpose of type guards in typescript.

*There might be a Better Way of doing what I want

But I'm not sure and am hoping for some guidance and/or confirmation of my hunches before I go too far down the wrong path. And, if there's an established way of doing what I'm looking for that I've missed, I'd love to hear about it :)
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*I've thought about this for a few more days, and I'm pretty damn sure this is the case. I don't have the mathematical chops to formally prove it though.

*My approach doesn't necessarily use type guards in their main purpose of type narrowing, but I still like the idea of labelling functions like this explicitly, so I'm keeping it around.

*Without an ability to perform run-time analysis of types, I don't see how it's possible to get "associated" information. So... yeah. Putting these guards in place manually within services that others then consume is probably the best course of action. (Though I'm of course still open to others saying "well actually" :P)

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Putin Supports Cryptocurrency Mining, Despite Central Bank Stance
Scott CookJanuary 28, 2022Last Updated: January 28, 2022
As per 3 people familiar with the matter, President Vladimir Putin supports the Russian government's proposal to tax as well as govern cryptocurrency mining while dismissing the central bank's proposition to outright ban it. Putin approved a plan, which would enable extraction to proceed since Russia has several regions with surplus power, such as Karelia, Irkutsk, and Krasnoyarsk, according to the individuals who asked not to be named because the info is indeed not public.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, refused to specify what Putin's standpoint was but said that the president had decided to order the govt and central bank to cooperate.
The central bank keeps going to resist extraction on ethical grounds and because it creates incentives to circumvent restrictions, according to a statement issued by its public service in answers to comments.
A request for information on the condition of the discussions was not responded to by the govt's press service.
Putin's role is great news for a sector that has recently suffered a number of disappointments, such as China's total ban last year and Kazakhstan momentarily disconnecting laborers this week due to blackouts. As per Cambridge University data launched in October, Russia will be the third biggest cryptocurrency miner in 2021, trailing only the United States and Kazakhstan.
The government's support, coupled with public comments in the week, suggests that the plans will be accepted. Putin on Wednesday urged the government and the central bank to come to an agreement about how to manage and control cryptocurrency as soon as possible.
Mining Bitcoin, the world's richest cryptocurrency, necessitates the use of special systems that work to handle complicated encoded troubles, and the company's biggest operational expenditure is electricity.
Russia does have a number of places with an excess of power generation, either due to vast reserves from hydro dams or the closure of energy-intensive Soviet-era industrial plants.
Vitaliy Borschenko, the co-founder of BitCluster, stated that laborers were asked to join a working governmental body following the publication of a central bank's study suggesting a blanket prohibition on cryptocurrency.
Scott Cook
Scott Cook got into crypto world since 2010. He has worked as a news writer for three years in some of the foremost publications. He recently joined our team as a crypto news writer. He regularly contributes latest happenings of crypto industry. In addition to that, he is very good at technical analysis.
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"I enjoy sweating the small stuff. It adds to my fitness workout."
Basically, people are looking for any tiny thing in this town that they can use an excuse to not look at you/bring you in. This makes sense. How the hell else would you narrow down hundreds or thousands of people for a single role? Here's the good news, these are the types of things that you have control over! And there are tons of them. The more of these things you do, the better chance you have of getting in the room/cast.
Originally I was going to do this all in one large post, but I realized there are so many in each category, that I'm going to break them up. Today's edition: headshots.
Having something is certainly better than nothing, but your headshot is the #1 thing CDs use to decide whether to call you in or not!!!
This was repeated with EVERY person I've talked to who cast me in a project out here. The easiest way for people to narrow down from hundreds of people to a couple dozen is by your headshot…they don't have time to look at 342 resumes, much less reels…they go by headshots.
Mostly, you'll want to go by the different looks you want (see above). Goal here is to look like you're on whatever show it is that you want to (or have best chance of) getting on.
I had a number of casting people say that it very much helps to have 4 – 6 pictures posted on your Actors Access and other casting websites. Any more is probably unnecessary, but only have 1 or 2 hurts your chances.
These are the most important tips I have, and think they cover most of the headshot issues. Would love to hear any other suggestions you have!
For your reference, here are some of my most recent headshot pics (taken by John Arrington).


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Issue: Sep 2010
ANX Acquires TruArx
Addition of TruArx Expands Compliance Solutions Portfolio for ANX
by Steve Barclay
ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of networking and security managed services, today announced the acquisition of TruArx Inc., a provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. This acquisition reflects ANX's continued commitment to providing comprehensive managed security solutions. The addition of TruArx is ANX's third acquisition within the security space this year and the seventh in the past four years, further strengthening ANX's position in the global, vertical, and horizontal security and compliance markets.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, TruArx provides over 14,000 clients with cost-effective, easy-to-implement IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) solutions. The TruArx software-as-a-service platform supports close to 500 regulations and standards. Clients can quickly implement and continuously review security to improve protection and reduce the cost of compliance and risk. By implementing these solutions, clients can optimize business performance and experience a higher return on security program investments.
"The relationships between IT Security, B2B Collaboration and Governance, Risk and Compliance requirements become more complicated and intertwined daily," said Rich Stanbaugh, President & CEO of ANXeBusiness Corp. "This acquisition is a strategic move on ANX's part to deliver a fully integrated security and compliance monitoring platform that will allow our joint customers to consolidate their compliance and risk management activities. We are very excited about the TruArx products and about the depth of talent we are adding to the ANX team."
In October 2009, ANX and TruArx successfully launched OfficeScreen Complete with TruPCI. This solution provided a fully managed security solution coupled with PCI compliance tools to help retail merchants become and remain PCI compliant.
"A growing number of organizations are struggling to comply and keep up with changing regulatory requirements, while also attempting to minimize exposure to other business risks," said Robert Capinjola, President & CEO of TruArx. "We are excited to join such a dynamic and customer-centric company like ANX and look forward to leveraging ANX's broad range of services to enhance the offerings to our existing customers."
This deal follows the acquisition of S2S Communications and ETSec earlier this year and two years after ANX acquired the assets of CSCI Inc., including the VPN portion of CSCI's OfficeScreen business and the VPN division of Positive Networks Inc. Additionally, ANX completed the purchases of Management Information Systems Group (MISG) in December 2006 and Virtual Services, Inc. in July 2007.
About ANX
ANXeBusiness Corp. (http://www.anx.com), is headquartered in Southfield, Mich., has offices in Research Triangle Park, NC, New Jersey, and San Diego. ANX is focused on providing network and information security solutions, unified threat protection technology, and managed services that enable secure content delivery within and between enterprises. ANX was recognized as one of the world's largest software companies in Software Magazine's Software 500. In addition, the company was also awarded the "Best of the Best Michigan Business" by Corp! Magazine and was named as a "Hot Company" for 2009 by Network Products Guide. The company's foundation is built upon deep technical expertise, broad experience with mission-critical data connectivity, a passion for customer support and a proven record of supporting business needs across multiple value chains.
ANX is owned by One Equity Partners (http://www.oneequity.com), which manages investments and commitments for JP Morgan Chase & Co. in private equity transactions.


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The aim of the first course within the field of corporate finance is to provide the students with essential basic knowledge and skills, so that they can take part in discussions on problems in finance and carry out simple analyses within the field, make correct decisions and communicate the results of the analyses in a comprehensible manner.
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Release: ESDC congratulate movie/TV productions winning Golden Globe awards. All received taxpayer subsidies for work in NYS.
For Immediate Release: Sunday, January 5, 2020
Adam Kilduff | adam.kilduff@esd.ny.gov | (212) 803-3744
ESD Press Office | pressoffice@esd.ny.gov | (800) 260-7313
EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT CONGRATULATES SEVEN NEW YORK-BASED PRODUCTIONS WINNING 2020 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
Seven New York State-based Productions Win Nine Awards
Productions Generated an Estimated $285 Million in New York Spending and More Than 13,300 New Hires in the State
Empire State Development (ESD) tonight congratulated seven New York-based productions that won nine awards during the 2020 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The productions generated an estimated $285 million in New York spending and created over 13,300 hires across the state. The winning productions participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program. Launched in 2004, the program has incentivized more than $35 billion in economic investment across the state and continues to be the principal factor cited by productions when deciding to film and produce in New York.
"Congratulations to the 2020 New York-based Golden Globe winners on their achievements and creative contributions to the industry this year," said Empire State Development Acting Commissioner and President & CEO-designate Eric Gertler. "Their work reflects the Empire State's thriving entertainment industry that is generating billions in spending, hundreds of thousands of new hires and creating opportunity not just for film and television productions but for all New Yorkers."
In 2019, 201 film and television projects applied for the New York State Film Tax Credit Program, generating an estimated 254,400 new hires and $4.8 billion in new spending for New York. The budget allocation, $420 million per year through 2024, has led to significant growth, fostered multi-year productions, and seen investments in production infrastructure.
New York's film incentive program offers the nation's most stable and successful production and post-production tax credits. The New York State Governor's Office of Motion Picture & Television Development (MPTV) promotes film, television and commercial production and post-production tax credits for qualified expenditures in New York State. MPTV helps productions navigate the industry landscape, serving as a liaison between production companies and city and local governments, state agencies, a network of statewide contacts, local film offices and professional location scouts and managers.
The state also offers unparalleled locations, talent and world-class production and post-production facilities. More than 300 soundstages in over 117 Qualified Production Facilities (QPFs) are located throughout the state and can be used in conjunction New York is home to one of the largest and most experienced pools of talent and crew anywhere in the country.
A complete list of the 2020 Golden Globe Award Winners who participated in the New York Film Tax Credit Program is available below.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Russell Crowe ("The Loudest Voice")
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Michelle Williams ("Fosse/Verdon")
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Hildur Guðnadóttir ("Joker")
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Ramy Youssef ("Ramy")
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox ("Succession")
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Laura Dern ("Marriage Story") *
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker")
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Awkwafina ("The Farewell") *
"Succession" (HBO)
* Participated in the New York State Post-Production Credit program.


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Five tech startups launch per hour as business formations reach new record in 2019
More than five new tech startups launched every hour in 2019, contributing to a record 681,704 new business formations over the year – a 2.8% increase from 2018. These are some of the findings of the Centre for Entrepreneurs' sixth annual analysis of Companies House data.
"It is encouraging that despite a politically turbulent year in which business confidence hit new lows, business formations continued to set records," said Matt Smith, director of policy and research at the Centre for Entrepreneurs. "It suggests that entrepreneurial spirit is well and truly embedded across the UK with entrepreneurs continuing to turn their ideas into action".
Over 45,000 tech startups were launched across the UK in 2019, representing 6.6% of all new businesses. 17,401 of these were registered in London (8.2% of total), while tech startups comprised 28% of all new businesses launched in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch. Tech startups were also highly represented in Brighton and Hove (15%), Winchester (12.8%) and Cambridge (12.5%).
This insight is possible for the first time as a result of the Centre's novel analysis of industry classification codes that describe the nature of each business. Companies were launched in over 700 different industries, as varied as raising of llamas and alpacas (10 new businesses), credit bureaus (23), driving schools (429) and repair of watches and jewelry (141).
As evidence of the impact that food delivery startups and street food are having, 14,363 new take-away food shops and mobile food stands registered in 2019, greatly outnumbering both licensed restaurants (9,405) and unlicensed restaurants and cafes (7,182). Ten new wine producers, 314 brewing companies, and 347 distillery businesses also launched in the year.
London continues to dominate; business formations increased by 2.4% to 221,373. While Birmingham continues to outperform Manchester in absolute terms (14,509 vs 9,064), the latter is more entrepreneurial when considering population size. This is not the case in Scotland, where Glasgow retains an absolute and per capita lead against Edinburgh.
Formation agents and virtual offices continue to distort London and other inner-city locations; Companies Made Simple provided registered office services in Hackney to circa 16,000 new businesses last year, with 1st Formations behind circa 12,900 formations in Camden. Meanwhile, contractor accounting firms influence numbers in several towns; Quickstep Contracting Services is behind circa 4,000 of the total 5,522 businesses launched in Bromsgrove last year.
"Formation agents and contractor accounting firms will always have a distortionary effect in a handful of areas," said Smith. "But overall, these figures bring to life the entrepreneurial drive that is evident all over the UK".
Strong figures relative to population size in Cheshire East, Salford, Trafford and Stockport also set the North West ahead of its Northern Powerhouse counterparts, leaving the North East and Northern Ireland alongside Wales, Scotland and the South West as the five least entrepreneurial areas of the country.
"While the Northern Powerhouse has the opportunity to significantly boost entrepreneur-led growth across northern regions, the government must not forget that there remain regional imbalances in the South West too", said Friederike Andres, lead researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurs.
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by Northern Breeze Mar 17, 201912:22 pm
A legal luminary with a vision and dedication
A reproduction of Tribute paid to Kandiah Neelakandan by his friend Nihal Jayamanne PC as appeared in the Sunday Observer, March 17, 2019:
Kandiah Neelakandan – A legal luminary with a vision and dedication
Kandiah Neelakandan
I first came to know Kandiah Neelakandan in 1967 when he and I were law students at law college. I was reading to pass out as an advocate and he as a proctor. When I saw him for the first time, he had three stripes of viboodhi on his forehead and a yellow Sandanam and a red Kunkumam between his eyebrows in addition to one jasmine flower tucked in his right ear.
Many people did not approve of this display of his religion, but I in my heart admired and respected him for it.
'Neela' as I call him, never ever came to Law College or thereafter to courts in the mornings without making this statement that he was a Hindu.
At Law College, I was not a friend of Neela's and hardly knew him except when I contested for the Presidency of the Law Students' Union. He along with many of my Tamil friends voted for me. However, later as lawyers, I became acquainted with him as he and I worked in several committees of the Bar Association. He always worked with a purpose and dedication in whichever committee and in whichever capacity he served in them. In 2003 or 2004, I was the Chairman of the Law Committee of the Bar Association and he was a member. It was then that we got to know each other at a personal level. His devotion to Hinduism and my fascination and respect for Hinduism resulted in a special bond between us.
A bond of friendship blossomed between us through the years and it lasted till he left us forever. I had during a SAARC law conference in Rajasthan bought an exquisite statue of Nataraja made out of Panchaloha – gold, silver, copper, iron and zinc, the traditional five metal alloys of sacred significance. I had placed this statue in a special alcove in my meda midula. For me, it was a work of art which represented the cosmic rhythm of creation, evolution, destruction and the rebirth of the cosmos and the manifestation of the myriad aspects of energy, spirituality and form.
In 2011, I underwent double lung transplant surgery. When I was recuperating at home, Neela phoned my wife Rohini one evening and wanted to speak to me. Although I was not taking any calls during this time, I did take this one. He told me that he had seen the Nataraja statue in my garden and that he too had one in his home and that several of his friends, including the Chief Priest of the Captain Gardens Temple had advised him not to keep it at home and to donate it to a temple. He asked me whether I too would like to donate my statute to a temple, and my answer of course was "no". Subsequently, Neela had requested my wife to persuade me to do so and that he would make arrangements to have the statue installed at a temple. One day he phoned and told us that he would send a priest with his son Saravanan at five in the morning to take my statute away along with his statute to Jaffna in a van. They came one morning while it was still dark and the priest did a brief pooja and took my Nataraja statue and installed it at the Sivapoomi Madam in Keerimallai where it stands venerated to date.
I am happy that it happened in this way, and my gratitude to Neela will always remain unchanged.
Neela and I were engaged in many activities of the Bar Association, especially, with regard to legal reform. I was the Chairperson of the Registration of Title Committee tasked with reviewing and suggesting amendments to the Registration of Title Act. The Committee consisted of J. M. Swaminathan, late Nihal Peiris, Elmo Perera, K. Neelakandan and several other eminent lawyers. We sat for months and came up with a comprehensive Amended Act; the provisions of which have received favourable acceptance. When I was the Chairman of the Law Commission, Neela was one of the Commissioners. During the first month of his being appointed a Commissioner, he submitted amendments to the Mortgage Act which after scrutiny of the commission was accepted with a few amendments by the commission and sent to the Ministry of Justice to have it passed in to law. That was 11 years ago.
Neelakandan with his usual enthusiasm and dedication, represented former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake during her impeachment proceedings. I was during this period away from Hulftsdorp and confined to my home as I was recuperating after my surgery. One day, Neela came home and asked me if I would act as a mediator to sort matters out between the parties. I told him that I would certainly do so if the request comes from the other party as well.
The request did come and I tried my best to bring about some accord so as to prevent impeachment proceedings. However, it failed as both parties could not agree on two or three matters which I thought were not that important when weighed against the consequences of proceedings with the impeachment in Parliament.
This was the extent of the depth of our bond and friendship. I am happy that Neelakandan's two sons, Saravanan and Pranavan, are friends of my son Tilanka. I hope that their friendship will also grow and be of mutual benefit to them.
I don't know where Neela's spirit is, but I am certain that it will find its abode in a pleasant spiritual dimension. Death is never the end. It is just the beginning of an existence in another dimension.
Nihal Jayamanne PC
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I've set up a Microsoft Windows Domain user with AES256 encryption support.
kinit works well with that keytab.
This has worked well when I was using RC4_HMAC for everything.
Tested with both Windows 2k8 and 2k12 as Domain Controllers. Both fail.
> I am trying to upgrade our system's kerberos encryption from RC4 to AES256.
> I've set up a Microsoft Windows Domain user with AES256 encryption support.
> kinit works well with that keytab.
> This has worked well when I was using RC4_HMAC for everything.
> got the above error.
> Tested with both Windows 2k8 and 2k12 as Domain Controllers. Both fail.
Is it possible to specify the salt using ktutil?
> > kinit works well with that keytab.
> > This has worked well when I was using RC4_HMAC for everything.
> > got the above error.
> > Tested with both Windows 2k8 and 2k12 as Domain Controllers. Both fail.
> key will not match.
> Is it possible to specify the salt using ktutil?
btw, for user-account in AD the salt is the UPN attribute of the user.
>> Is it possible to specify the salt using ktutil?
> btw, for user-account in AD the salt is the UPN attribute of the user.
that I cannot decrypt it.
> > > -e AES256-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96\n$DOMAIN_LOCAL_PASS\n"
> > > kinit works well with that keytab.
> > > This has worked well when I was using RC4_HMAC for everything.
> > > got the above error.
> > > Tested with both Windows 2k8 and 2k12 as Domain Controllers. Both fail.
> > key will not match.
> I cannot decrypt it.
Wait, are you registering the same SPN twice to two different accounts?
with the key of the other principal.
No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
Add an entry to the User object in the Active Directory using openldap.
> > I cannot decrypt it.
> Wait, are you registering the same SPN twice to two different accounts?
> ticket with the key of the other principal.
"wrong" salt is used, so your keys cannot work.
a different logic for SPNs.
That's it, there is no other way around.
> No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
> Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
> > > I cannot decrypt it.
> > ticket with the key of the other principal.
> "wrong" salt is used, so your keys cannot work.
> a different logic for SPNs.
> That's it, there is no other way around.
not the individual SPNs, as would be the case for non-AD environments.
> > No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
> > Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
> > > > I cannot decrypt it.
> > > ticket with the key of the other principal.
> that I cannot decrypt it.
You may want to look into a utility called mskutil.
> > "wrong" salt is used, so your keys cannot work.
> > a different logic for SPNs.
> > That's it, there is no other way around.
> > > No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
> > > Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
> > > > > incoming connection gives me a token that I cannot accept.
> > > > > I cannot decrypt it.
> > > > accounts?
> > > > ticket with the key of the other principal.
It will generate the correct key tabs for you.
> You may want to look into a utility called mskutil.
> > using shell scripts).
> > > "wrong" salt is used, so your keys cannot work.
> > > a different logic for SPNs.
> > > That's it, there is no other way around.
> > > > No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
> > > > Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
> > > > openldap.
> > > > > > incoming connection gives me a token that I cannot accept.
> > > > > > I cannot decrypt it.
> > > > > accounts?
> > > > > ticket with the key of the other principal.
> It will generate the correct key tabs for you.
>> You may want to look into a utility called mskutil.
>> > using shell scripts).
>> > > "wrong" salt is used, so your keys cannot work.
>> > > a different logic for SPNs.
>> > > That's it, there is no other way around.
>> > > > No. I am registering an SPN for a single account.
>> > > > Add an entry to the local keytab using ktuil.
>> > > > openldap.
>> > > > > > incoming connection gives me a token that I cannot accept.
>> > > > > > I cannot decrypt it.
>> > > > > accounts?
>> > > > > ticket with the key of the other principal.


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Andersen on Kirchhoff, 'Nyt Lys over Oktober 1943'
Hans Kirchhoff, ed.
Palle Andersen
Hans Kirchhoff, ed. Nyt Lys over Oktober 1943. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002. 98 pp. DKR 125.00 (paper), ISBN 978-87-7838-761-5.
Reviewed by Palle Andersen (Historisk Samling fra Besttelsestiden, Esbjerg, Denmark) Published on H-Skand (January, 2003)
Based on a public conference held in 2001 initiated by the relatively new Holocaust Center in Copenhagen, a new book has been released containing slightly revised lecture contributions. The proclaimed aim as stated by the editor, Hans Kirchhoff, is to bridge the increasing gap between the public and history-science, when it comes to understanding the major events in connection with the German action against the Danish Jews in October 1943 and the following rescue-operation, allowing most of the Danish Jews an escape to Sweden. Apparently what has happened in recent years is that science has, if not revolutionized, then at least produced new and critical knowledge and in this way put the established consensus between the public and science, dating back to the 1960s, under pressure. The traditional consensus in relation to October 1943 was, among other elements, based on a perception of a unity not only between Danes and Danish Jews but also among Danes transcending the hitherto established division between resistance and cooperation, offering the whole of Denmark a renewed honourable identity and prestige as a result of the perceived almost heroic civilian rebellion against the Nazi perpetrators.
In the first chapter, Sofie Lene Bak deals with the German side, discussing the possible German motives for initiating the action. In the focus we find the supreme political representative of the German occupation power, Werner Best. His policy of cooperation had failed upon the August 1943 rebellion and the demise of the Danish government. Best accordingly faced the possibility of being ousted from office by Berlin or at least being forced into increased sharing of power. According to Bak, the theory of the Israeli historian Leni Yahil establishing a double play on the part of Best still stands the test of time: Best initiated as well as sabotaged the action against the Jews, thereby aiming at pleasing at the same time both his masters in Berlin (where he needed political-ideological credit) and his future co-players in the Danish administration, who more legitimately could continue the cooperation with Best, who deliberately had distanced himself from the action against the Jews and to some extent had been responsible for the German passivity during the rescue operation. Bak suggests that Denmark still stands out as a special case in the grim story of the Holocaust. On the other hand she also points out that the Danish example seems to suggest that the German occupation power throughout Europe cannot be treated as a solely ideologically run machine, equally determined everywhere. Local factors, including the interests of local German authorities and the power play between the occupier and the occupied, must be used as supplementary explanatory elements. Arthur Arnheim looks into the question of the running and reaction of the Jewish community. Based on a description of the divergence of the Jews in Denmark, not finding representation in the leadership of the community being dominated by the old well-to-do, integrated, and state-loyal and state-trusting section of the Jews, Arnheim picks a highly critical view on the attitudes and policy of this leadership to the effect of a display of fundamental passivity.
Next, Hans Kirchhoff discusses the forgotten plan of internment of the Danish Jews sought by the Danish civil administration. Knowing for sure at the end of September that a German action was close, the administration desperately tried to avoid a deportation. The administration found itself caught in the dilemma not unknown in the history of the Holocaust between right and justice and the need to help. Best turned the suggestion down.
If accepted, the history of the Holocaust in Denmark could have taken a quite different and very tragic course. Kirchhoff uses the term "forgotten," although it is questionable how forgotten the plan of internment was and is. The plan is treated and analysed in a number of studies through the years. Only by taking at face value the handling in the media, where the plan with interim often has been presented in sensational and compromising terms as news, can one talk of a plan forgotten. And Kirchhoffs own analysis suggests that as far as the context and motives are concerned, the plan needs no suppressing or hiding away.
Michael Mogensen points in his chapter at the usefulness of contemporary Swedish sources to be exploited in the future. His own preliminary investigation so far seems to show the distinct working of the market mechanism in the pricing of transport to Sweden during the rescue operation, apparently benefiting the more wealthy Jews, who were the first to escape, forcing poorer Jews to wait in hiding for the lowering of prices or the providing of money.
Hans Sode-Madsen gives an account of the existence in Theresienstadt, the camp to which the arrested Jews were sent upon the October pogrom. Not being a traditional concentration camp and not being a death camp, Theresienstadt functioned as a window in the German propaganda to show the world the German humanitarian treatment of Jews. As a camp for the older and prominent Jews, deemed unsuitable to kill right away, the camp in reality functioned as a transit camp on the way to destruction in the East. Only the Danish Jews were spared, also as a result of an agreement between Eichmann and Best. This account is followed by informative testimonies by two Jewish deportees in Theresienstadt, Hanka Friediger and Heinz E. Hess.
Finally, Therkel Strde delivers an excellent and inspiring overview of the latest tendencies in the international Holocaust research. The intentionalist and functionalist approaches having exhausted themselves, a new combining approach today has upgraded the role of ideology in connection with a focus on individuals, groups, and roles. In Hilberg's original distinction between perpetrators, victims, and bystanders the focus was in effect on the perpetrators. Today, a new focus on the victims and their patterns of reaction has opened up for studies of the interaction (however asymmetric) between the perpetrators and victims, leaving the perception of overall Jewish passivity and shedding new light on the behaviour of not only the victims but also the perpetrators. If the title "New light" is taken literally, then this represents an exaggeration and comes out a bit misleading. Not much of news is presented.
What the book does offer, however, is a qualified, relatively short and clear representation of the research in later years, offering the interested reader and the public an up-to-date version (or rather, versions) of the October 1943 events from different angles. Having these qualities, the book can be seen as a contribution to the effort of bridging the gap to the public. Having said this, it also seems as if this gap is not completely inevitable. This is partly due to the character of the newer research. The research of the later years and decades, indeed having produced new and critical knowledge, still has not fundamentally broken with the consensus of the earlier perceptions. For instance, new knowledge about the vital role of the German passivity for the success of the rescue operation does not change the rather documented impression of a wholeheartedly and broadly founded assistance from the Danish resistance movement and first-time helpers not knowing what we now know about the limited risks involved. An awareness among helpers and assistants of low risks has not been substantiated. Also an acknowledgment of the operating of the market mechanism in the pricing of ship-transport of Jewish refugees does not alter the impression that no poor Jews were left to their own devices. The weak and unpleasant spots, having been uncovered so far in the history of October 1943, should be conveyed in a balanced form, still leaving room for the magic and moral dimension and content of the moment. In this, historians and the media share responsibility. With the book New Light, a group of historians have done their bit in this respect.
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Congratulations to Verenice Ramirez from Duncnaville High School on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Congratulations to Kyndall Levington from Duncnaville High School on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Congratulations to Aymee Hernandez from Bilhartz Elementary on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Congratulations to Evys Pina from Duncnaville High School on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Congratulations to Ashely Yanez from Duncnaville High School on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Congratulations to Ra'Nyia Woods from Hyman Elementary on being one of the 6 students selected in Duncanville ISD as part of the Texas Art Education Association's Virtual showcase TASA/ TASB Exhibit.
Ashelu Yanez is the "Made with pride in Duncanville" student of the month. Ashely is a senior at Duncanville High School who is a dedicated student and talented artist. One of her teachers said Ashely 'exemplifies the high school motto - excellence, everywhere every day. Another teacher said 'Ashely is one of the most relaible, respectful. consistant and hard working peopl she's ever had in her classroom. She is one of the first to volunteer for community service projects with National Art Honor Society. Ashely's artwork was selected to show at the virtual convention fro the Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards. Ashely is currently in Advanced Placement Art, and after graduation, she plans to pursue a veterinary career.
Duncanville High School's a cappella choir has been invited to perform
at the opening session of the 2020 Texas Music Educators Association convention in February. The choir, under the direction of Jesse Cannon, is the only high school ensemble invited to participate in the special performance celebrating the organization's centennial.
"To be invited to perform for the largest collection of music educators in the world, is without question, one of the highest honors any high school ensemble in Texas can receive," said Duncanville Director of Fine Arts, Steven Moss.
As to why Duncanville was selected for the honor, TMEA administrative director Kay Van Landingham called Duncanville High School choral director Jesse Cannon 'the real deal.'
"What he and the district are offering those kids is truly phenomenal."
TMEA's opening program, called 'It Starts with Music,' will take place at the San Antonio Convention Center's Lila Cockrell Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7:00 p.m.
TMEA is an association of more than 13,000 school music educators dedicated to promoting excellence in music education. Click here for more information.
Congratulations to our Choir Students
Congratulations to Junior Trumpet Robert Jones and Senior Xavian Clay who made All-Region Jazz Band
Congratulations to our Choral Department Advancing to Region
The Mark of Excellence consists of the National Wind Band Honors, National Choral Honors, Natonal Orchestra Honors, National Jazz Honors, and National Percussion Ensemble Honors. It is a competition entered by recordings, in which the top quarter ae selected as National Winners and the second quarter receive Commened Honors. This year 320 of the finest musical ensembles in the nation enetered the competition. The project has now received recorded and written comments from the adjudicators, and also a compilation recording of the performances of the National Winners.
Duncanville ISD celebrates national Best Community for Music Education award
Duncanville ISD has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education.
Now in its 20th year, the Best Communities for Music Education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education to all students. To qualify for the Best Communities designation, Duncanville answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music programs, Responses were verified with school officials and reviewed by The Music Research Institute at the University of Kansas.
2019-2020 Texas Bandmasters Association "Exemplary High School Band Program"
Duncanville Band's Legacy of Excellence Recognized at State Music Convention
The Duncanville High School Band was awarded the 2019 Exemplary Band Program Award at the annual Texas Bandmasters Association convention in San Antonio on Thursday, July 25.
The organization presents this prestigious award to the Texas band that has consistently produced an exemplary band program for an extended period of time. One high school and one middle school are chosen each year.
For more than 40 years, the Duncanville High School Band program has been considered a model for other high school programs throughout the state of Texas and the United States. The band program flourished under the leadership of directors Dr. Tom Shine (1980-2010), Brian Merrill (1983-2003), Jeff King (1988-2015) and David Brandon (1996-present).
The Duncanville High School Wind Ensemble has been the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region 20 Honor Band every year since 1980 and has placed in the State Finals ten times. The Wind Ensemble was selected as the 1998, 2004 and 2008 TMEA 5A Honor Band, making it the only band to win three 5A Honor Band awards. Most recently, the Wind Ensemble was the second runner up in the 2019 6A Honor Band Competition. The Wind Ensemble has also been invited to perform at The Midwest Clinic twice and was the featured ensemble at the All Japan Band Conference in 1998.
During those same years, the Duncanville Marching Band was awarded the 'Sudler Shield of Honor,' was selected as the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Champion in 1986, 1990 and 2002 and is the only large classification (5A/6A) band in Texas to advance to the State Marching Band Contest every year since 1988. The 400-member Duncanville Marching Band also received first division ratings at UIL contest for more than four decades.
Gold Medal Ariana Kimball
Bronze Alejandra Terrones
Bronze Carolina Fletcher.