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Taking full benefit of supercomputers in Europe
EU funding for new 'supercomputing' can help SMEs that would never be able to afford it by themselves (Photo: Michael Schwarzenberger)
By Mariya Gabriel
Brussels, 18. Jan 2018, 17:36
Companies able to take full advantage of digital infrastructures, process and disseminate digital products and services will be the ones who will benefit the most of today's data economy and society.
However, among today's digital industry giants (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft), none of them is European.
Digital commissioner Mariya Gabriel (Photo: European Commission)
This is one of the reasons why the Digital Single Market is one of the top priorities of the European Commission.
It is also why the European Union needs to build, as soon as possible, state of the art digital infrastructures including a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure, built around super powerful and efficient machines able to process large amounts of data, and perform calculations thousands of times faster than a normal computer.
I am hopeful that the EU can make real progress under the Bulgarian presidency which has put digital high on its agenda for the next six months.
Already today supercomputers allow our society to take advantage of innovations in health care, engineering, renewable energy, car safety and cybersecurity and other technologies.
The applications are countless and I am pleased that European citizens can already benefit from them.
High-performance computing allows us, for instance, to design and simulate the effects of new drugs, provide faster diagnosis and better treatments and predict future epidemics.
Slovenian doctors used supercomputing infrastructure to massively accelerate genetic diagnostics, passing from more than one month to less than a few days, sometimes just a day.
Supercomputing helps health diagnosis
The use of supercomputers also allowed more comprehensive analysis of genetic material, which is crucial for diagnostics of patients with severe epilepsy, of critically-ill new-borns, in pre-natal diagnostics and for precision treatment of people with rare diseases.
Supercomputers are equally used for ever higher resolution simulation in climate change, for example, studying the behaviour of the oceans, weather forecasting and earth resource evolution.
Simulations like these are useful for early warning of storms and for long-term climate scenarios and adaptation strategies concerning climate change.
They are also a resource for improving our knowledge of geophysical processes and the structure of the interior of the Earth.
Life-saving earthquake predictions
In Italy, for example, an international team of researchers has developed a model of the lithosphere below the entirety of Italy based on highly accurate seismic wave imaging, providing a greater understanding of earthquakes in the region.
I am persuaded that this technology can help us saving hundreds of lives.
Car makers are now focussing on the future smart mobility: driverless cars. With the huge amount of data these cars will exchange, evaluated at more than four terabytes (approximatively the amount of data you can put on 1,000 DVDs) in about an hour and a half of driving, this sector will become a huge supercomputers user.
These are only few examples showing the increasing potential of supercomputers. And as a response to the exponential growth in data, high-performance computing is already moving towards its next frontier - from petascale to exascale - at least 10 times faster than the fastest machines currently in operation and more than 100 times faster than the fastest machines available in the EU.
However not all EU countries have the capacity to build and maintain such infrastructure, or to develop exascale technologies.
Moreover, overall, Europe is even losing its place in the top rankings for high-performance computing infrastructure capabilities, having been overtaken by China, the US and Japan.
Without world-class supercomputing facilities, Europe will not achieve its ambition of becoming a vibrant data economy.
Europe cannot take the risk that data produced by EU research and industry will be processed elsewhere because of the lack of supercomputing capabilities. This would increase our dependency on facilities in third countries and would encourage innovation to leave Europe.
This is where the European Union's added value stands and why the European Commission and the member states came together on 23 March 2017 in Rome with the 'EuroHPC declaration'.
On that day, seven member states - France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain - signed a declaration in support of the next generation of computing and data infrastructure.
Since then, six more countries endorsed the declaration (Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Greece and Croatia).
Thanks to these 13 pioneers, we can now go a step further by pooling more investments to establish leading European supercomputers infrastructure.
As proposed by the European Commission, the new legal and funding structure – the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking – shall acquire, build and deploy across Europe world-class supercomputers.
At this stage, the EU's contribution will be around €486 million under the current EU multi-annual budget, matched by a similar amount from member states and associated countries.
Overall, around €1 billion of public funding would be invested by 2020, and private members of the initiative would also add in kind contributions.
Beyond the 13 countries, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking can be joined by any other members states and associated countries at any moment provided their financial participation.
This new legal instrument aims to support the development of systems with exascale performance (a billion billion or 1018calculations per second), based on EU technology, by 2022-2023.
European supercomputing infrastructures represent a strategic resource for the future of EU industry, as it becomes more digital.
It is also a great potential source for new jobs. Many small and medium-sized companies need modelling and simulation for their business.
For many of them - if not all - the cost of owning and maintaining such technologies is prohibitively high.
This is the EU's role to support their creativity, innovation and competitiveness.
Mariya Gabriel is European commissioner for the digital economy and society
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.
EU recycles old promise to fund supercomputers
Supercomputing lag could prompt EU brain drain
MEPs target exports of cyber surveillance tech
Europe is lacking tech leadership
The European Commission promised that the EU would spend around €1bn in public funding on the development of 'supercomputers', but a closer look at the legal documents revealed that this is based on old promises.
"We are not in the top-10 or the top-five in the world when it comes to high-performance computing but we have the potential to do it," says EU digital commissioner Mariya Gabriel.
MEPs have introduced a human rights clause into the export of cyber surveillance technology as part of EU-wide reforms to prevent abuse by autocratic regimes. The Strasbourg plenary will vote on the bill on Wednesday.
Despite some 'unicorns', Europe lags way behind the US in tech innovation - and is in danger of being overtaken by China, whilst preoccupied by the online threat from Russia. The EU needs to back France's Macron's new thinking.
Time to stop China's economic hostage-taking of Lithuania
Simply opening the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, sparked a large-scale expansion of China's economic warfare against democracies. China's actions amount to a fundamental attack on the DNA of the European Union: the internal market.
The loopholes and low bar in Macron's push for a global tax
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There are also numerous loopholes in the deal which will enable corporations to keep portions of their profits outside of the scope of the tax, so paying even less than 15 percent.
The strong advocacy of Central and Eastern European capitals for including fossil gas and nuclear power in the EU's green taxonomy only leads to another unsustainable energy lock-in for the region, leaving their grid exposed to third-country coercion.
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Kenny G Holiday & Hits
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
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Kenny G live in concert playing the hits and all of your holiday favorites!
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The sound of Kenny G's saxophone is as iconic as his curly coif; indeed, both are instantly recognizable. His latest release, New Standards, the title of his 19th studio album, fifth for Concord Records and first since 2015's Brazilian Nights, could well be used to describe his four-decade body of work, a vision of jazz that helped launch both a musical genre and radio format. After director Penny Lane's critically acclaimed HBO documentary, Listening to Kenny G – which humorously reconsiders the purist critical backlash to his music – and a demand performance on Kanye West's Grammy-winning Jesus Is King album, it's now cool to not only be Kenny G, but admit you're a fan of his as well.
"I didn't realize how strong the message was until I saw the finished film," says Kenny, who has both the best-selling instrumental album of all time in the Diamond-selling, 12-times-platinum 1992 Breathless, earning him his only Grammy Award among 15 nominations, and the Guinness Book of World Records mark for longest sustained note ever recorded on the saxophone. The feature probes some of the many Kenny G accomplishments, from his song "Going Home" being used as the official end-of-work-day anthem in China to his skills as a golfer and airline pilot. He was also one of the original 10 investors in his Seattle hometown Starbucks Coffee.
Recalling his music spawning the "smooth jazz" phenomenon, Kenny explains, "I'm proud of the fact it was a new style of music that no one was either playing or writing at the time. And it touched a great many people who weren't into traditional jazz, pop or R&B. Somewhere in the middle, they found something they were looking for and liked."
New Standards continues the musical path that has seen Kenny G sell 75 million albums around the world, looking back to the classic '50s and '60s jazz ballads for inspiration, updating them with new studio technology, such as the digital ability to piece together songs note by note from different performances. The tracks are almost equally divided between soprano and tenor sax, with one song, "Two of a Kind," featuring him on both, duetting with himself, a slight, unintended hint of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Wind" wafting through, while the wistful, airy "Moonlight" finds him taking a rare turn on alto sax, the instrument on which he first learned to play.
"I wanted to play songs with chord progressions that reflected the classic jazz era of Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley and Dexter Gordon, while doing them my way, creating new standards," he says.
For "Legacy," he sampled the great Stan Getz playing tenor on a live, unaccompanied version of "Happy Birthday," creating a duet with him on soprano sax.
"I took those individual notes and turned them into a melody I'm proud of," explains Kenny. "I don't think that's ever been done before."
Reminiscent of his global hit duet with a filmed Louis Armstrong on "What a Wonderful World," Kenny G expects some jazz buffs night not be happy with his Getz tribute, even though, as was the case with the Armstrong song, he is donating all proceeds to the late musician's estate and family, whom Kenny says are delighted with his version.\
Kenny performs a sprightly soprano sax on the opening "Emeline," named after a close family friend, while the ultra-romantic "Only You" combines a variety of throwback chord changes with a soaring tenor sax gliding its way on top.
"Rendezvous" evokes a smoky jazz ballad of the '40s with its aching tenor, the first song Kenny G recorded for the album."Paris by Night" evokes a foggy night strolling on the bridges across the Seine, while "Anthem" sports a duet between Kenny G on soprano and cello, giving the track a hymn-like, anthemic drive a song Kenny played live with the National Symphony in Nashville in December.
"Blue Skies" is an airy, whimsical melody he wrote with piano player Randy Waldman, a fellow airplane pilot — hence the title — whom he accompanies on soprano sax. "Milestones" offers an homage to classic jazz tropes in name and sound, while the closing "Waltz in Blue," titled for its three-quarter time crossed with a blues beat, ends the album on a rounded low B-flat, the perfect answer to the high E which begins the first track, "Emeline."
The album forms an aural narrative, which makes it the perfect vehicle to demonstrate to film directors and music supervisors that Kenny G, the world's most popular instrumental musician, is overdue to compose his first movie score.
"If any director needs a memorable instrumental for their film…" he offers. "I think I've proven what I can do."
For the last several years, Kenny G has taken to the internet with gusto, his posts becoming memes and going viral, as he continues to have fun with the whole idea of being his iconic self, satirized in South Park, Trolls World Tour (as a frizzy-haired sax player threatens the whole pop music cosmos with his "smooth jazz") and Saturday Night Live's Kenan Thompson-hosted "What's Up With That?" segment, where Fred Armisen plays a certain frizzy-haired soprano sax player.
"I don't know why they just don't have me do it," Kenny G laughs, perfectly in on the joke. "When I was on the show playing with Foster the People, I told them, 'Hey guys, I'm right here.' I can fake playing sax really well."
And, as you can hear on the excellent new New Standards, he does quite fine when he plays for real, too.
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A ring I designed for my wife, it became our icon and people until today love this ring.
Don't do it for the money, you won't make any if this is your reason. Do it because you love making jewelry, the rewards will come as a result.
From anything that give me a reason to turn work into joy.
I don't idolize anyone per say, I believe we are all humans and we as individuals are the result of our own circumstances.
Anyone who appreciates fine jewelry.


Beginning Friday, RetailMeNot will roll out a beta version of its new mobile couponing system at food trucks parked at Texas's SXSW Festival.
For now, they're calling it 'What the Truck?!' but it's likely to get a new brand once they've expanded the offering beyond street dining.
Unlike transaction-driven marketing - when banks track your purchase history and pump discounts for services to your online account - RetailMeNot sends users to a mobile site where they can control exactly which coupons apply to their credit cards.
Once a card is registered, consumers can put single-use coupons available at http://rmn.com/foodtrucks on their credit or debit card. As opposed to waiting for their credit or bank statement each month or logging online to see if the discount was applied, the new card-linked coupons identify the discount on the receipt at the point of purchase - another industry first! A simple swipe of the card at participating food trucks enables consumers to experience instant savings viewable on their receipt.
The offer will run from March 9-13 at more than a dozen participating food trucks.
If you haven't hit up coupon aggregating sites to save on shopping, what are you waiting for? Here are a few of our favorites: RetailMeNot, CouponSherpa and FatWallet.


The World Heritage City of Úbeda is located in the province of Jaén, west of the Cazorla and Segura mountains near the Guadalquivir River. You will find the Parador in the old quarter, housed in a 16th-century palace on Renaissance-styleVázquez de Molina Square. The local architecture will remind you of an Italian Renaissance city, but with the folklore, age-old handicrafts, cuisine and joyous atmosphere of Andalusia. The hotel façade conceals an extremely beautiful interior courtyard and some of the guest rooms offer a spectacular view of the square.
Just a short stroll separates the Parador from some of the loveliest buildings in Úbeda, including El Salvador Chapel, the palace of the Marquis of Mancera and Vázquez Molina Palace, now home to the city hall.
The city's wealth of cultural heritage is reflected in its walls, palaces, churches, monasteries and convents. Begin your tour on Redonda de Miradores Street, Úbeda's viewpoint overlooking a sea of olive trees. Continue along its winding streets, visiting antique shops, museums, neighborhoods such as San Millán, and picturesque Valencia Street, where you can still find artisan potters working in their shops. You will discover a truly unique place.
Úbeda is 39 km from Bailén on the N-322, 210 km from Albacete on the N-322, 57 km from Jaén on the N-321 and 330 km from Madrid on the N-IV via Bailén.
The quality and state of preservation of its many Renaissance buildings and the unique urban environment led this municipality in the province of Jaén to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 3, 2003.
Known as the 'city of the hills', it is located in the La Loma district (top producer of olive oil in the area), near the Sierra Mágina mountains. The essence of Úbeda lies in its magnificent Renaissance buildings and monuments, in its palaces, walls, monasteries, convents and stately homes. It is truly the jewel of the Andalusian Renaissance.
Antonio, our waiter provided excellent customer service. He served us with courtesy, professionalism and a friendly smile. We would not have know that the hotel was having labor issues. Antonio is to be commended.


mums – jen wewers, m.div.
My brother David brought me the two most beautiful potted mums this fall – one bright yellow and the other deep red. Watering one day I noticed one small flower "that was not like the others" (please hum the Sesame Street tune). This sweet little bloom, more coral than red, stood out in the see of sameness. It got me to thinking. My mom always pumped us kids with how unique and special we were…we could be anything we wanted to be. I took that and ran with it….in all honesty I still am. Still not sure what I want to be when I grow up. My mom challenged all of us to think big….to dream…to imagine.
One day I came home from a neighbor's house. I was probably 7 or 8 years old. My friend had informed me she was going to grow up to be a secretary. She planned on sitting at her desk, painting her nails and putting on make-up. Still makes me smile that this was her vision of working. For some reason, I shared it with mom.
Now, this was in the mid 1970's – my mom had been doing assertiveness training and certainly reading a number of feminist books. On our car rides, we popped in the Helen Reddy eight-track and sang "I Am Woman Here Me Roar" as loud as we wanted.
My mom saw all the possibility she imagined for me being eclipsed by a playmate who was dreaming different dreams.
In that moment she asked me to think beyond who I imagined could be.


Panasonic created a game-changer years ago when they released the AG-DVX100 camera. It soon gained a legion of fans and a cult status. The AG-DVX200 is destined to do the same in the 4K World.
The AG-DVX200 debuts as the world's first* 4/3-type large format camcorder with integrated zoom lens. Combining digital video technology that Panasonic has developed over its long history of producing broadcast equipment with its expertise in professional camera recorder, the AG-DVX200 blazes an entirely new trail in video production.
This new camera recorder captures stunning images with the shallow focus and attractive Bokeh effect of its 4/3-type large-format sensor, and the latitude made possible by the 12-stop V-Log L processing inherited. High-speed processing of these high resolution images by a new 4K engine enables high-quality, multi-format (4K/24p, UHD/60p, FHD/60p) recording.
The AG-DVX200 also features a number of high-end functions to meet video production needs, including Full-HD, 120-fps Variable Frame Rate(VFR) shooting and dual codec recording. And it integrates a newly developed LEICA DICOMAR 4K 13x zoom lens. High-speed, high-precision full-auto functions and professional-level manual functions provide operating ease and mobility that are possible only from a lens-integrated body.
The crimson red coloring and stylish carbon-black textured body form a highly impressive and innovative design, in response to the artistic sensibility of video creators. This color scheme also reflects the expressive capability of the AG-DVX200's vividly detailed 4K images together with its superb mobility and intuitively easy operation, supporting the everyday demands of active professionals.
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Small legacy cities, especially in Ohio, are often home to unique and historic downtowns. Whether it be the ornate bank building on the corner or the quaint shops along the square, these urban cores are a huge asset to smaller communities. But as most residents can tell you, downtowns are also not the bustling centers of industry and commerce they once were. For decades, as suburban and exurban communities have grown – they have drawn away people and investment from the center city.
Research by Greater Ohio Policy Center has suggested that a regional focus on reinvesting in downtown can pay long-term dividends for the city and region as a whole. In weaker market cities, however, this is often much easier said than done. Development in the weak market downtowns of legacy cities is often risky and it can be hard to finance projects through traditional bank loans.
This dilemma was true even in a larger city like Cincinnati, until the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) was founded in 2003 by a collaboration of corporate and city partners. This nonprofit development corporation, initially funded primarily with private capital, sought to facilitate economic development throughout Cincinnati's urban core through real estate redevelopment. Since 2003, it has received national attention on the role it played in the revitalization of the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The transformation of this urban core neighborhood was made possible through heavy investment and subsidy by regional corporate leaders and the Cincinnati taxpayers.
Not every city or town is going to have the millions (if not billions) of dollars to replicate the success of Over-The-Rhine in their community – but the model still provides value for smaller communities.
Inspired by the success of Cincinnati's efforts, however, Hamilton, OH saw an opportunity to adapt the 3CDC model to bring urban core revitalization to Downtown Hamilton. Thus, in 2012, the Hamilton CORE Fund was launched through a public-private partnership of the City of Hamilton, the Hamilton Community Foundation, and local lending institutions. In Hamilton, the fund provides financial resources for real estate projects within the city's urban core.
Today, Hamilton's CORE Fund engages in three different activates. First, it provides gap financing for large development projects undertaken in Hamilton's urban core by private developers. Second, it purchases key underutilized commercial properties and works to repurpose them to their highest and best use. Third, CORE has begun to acquire historic residential properties and works with potential homeowners to renovate and occupy the homes.
The CORE fund has had tremendous success in continuing the strides being made in Hamilton. One of the larger successes the organization boasts is the redevelopment of 150 High Street, which was a 167,000 sqft building that is now home to a STARTEK call center, a diabetes center, a fresh food market, and an art studio. When fully operational, STARTEK will employ almost 700 people at its downtown location.
This model of real estate acquisition and gap financing for urban core projects exists in other communities across Ohio as well.
In Springfield, SpringForward was launched 2015 after the Springfield Foundation, Turner Foundation, Quinlan Trust, the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Springfield Regional Hospital, Speedway, the City of Springfield, and the Clark County Commission began meeting to decide what could be done to help revitalize downtown Springfield. Leaders in Springfield chose to model their effort closely after Hamilton's CORE fund. Just like in Cincinnati and Hamilton, SpringForward provides financial support to revitalization efforts through low-interest loans, real estate acquisition and tax incentives. The organization is already midstream on a catalytic rehabilitation of a downtown building to create an artisan marketplace, shared kitchen, food hall, and event space for local businesses.
This model for targeted downtown reinvestment has also found a home in Piqua, a smaller city of only 20,000. Through private sector donations from individuals and businesses, the iPiqua Fund has raised approximately $1 million to accelerate redevelopment through targeted real estate investments.
Erie, Pennsylvania, a legacy city of 100,000 just 90 minutes east of Cleveland, recently created its own fund—the Erie Downtown Equity Fund. This $40 million fund has recently started deploying capital, including a $2.9 million purchase of a highly strategic block of buildings on Erie's downtown Perry Square Park.
Programs such as these in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Springfield, Piqua and Erie are poised to become more popular as cities realize the potential waiting to be unleashed in their downtowns. Through this targeted, catalytic real estate redevelopment, cities can jumpstart or continue redevelopment – all in service of creating a place for people to live, gather, and do business.
In his recent post on Urbanophile.com titled "Bribing People to Move to Your City", blogger Aaron M. Renn discusses the Hamilton, Ohio's incentive program to attract talent to their city. Unfortunately, it seems Mr. Renn did not take the time to properly understand the full context of this policy and in doing so misses the tremendous amount of work Hamilton's leaders have put towards revitalizing their urban core and renewing the community's economic prospects.
By Nick Livingston, GOPC High School Intern Pipeline H2O, a water-based startup technology program located in Hamilton, Ohio, has just announced its first class of companies that are working on water infrastructure challenges. Pipeline H2O's main objective is to acknowledge and advance the work of water technology companies improve water services and seek innovative strategies for reusing water, upgrading infrastructure, treating wastewater, and monitoring water quality. This timely news coincides with GOPC recently beginning the Implementation Phase of its Water Financing Project, providing recommendations on strengthening the long-term sustainability of water infrastructure in Ohio.
At the end of the selection process, Pipeline H2O chose eight startup companies to begin the program, including two companies from Ohio: kW river Hydroelctric from Hamilton, and Searen from Cincinnati. Companies that have been selected to participate in the Pipeline H2O program exhibit through their work many of the strategies that GOPC recommends in its recent report, Strengthening Ohio's Water Infrastructure: Financing and Policy. For instance, WEL Enterprise's system that treats and reclaims wastewater on one platform is a strong example of developing new technologies in order to save energy costs, which is a strategy GOPC recommends in its report.
GOPC's report also emphasizes the importance of asset management, which is the process of cost-effectively upgrading and maintaining assets. The companies selected for the Pipeline H20 program are efficient in maintaining resources and saving money while upgrading water quality, demonstrating sound asset management techniques. For instance, the Aquatech startup Searen has created a Vacuum Airlift, which replaces legacy hardware and consolidates pieces of equipment. In addition, GOPC's call for public-private partnership to make projects more flexible and timely can be seen through Pipeline H2O's partnership with government agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Hamilton, and the City of Cincinnati.
Pipeline H20's assessment was handled by a committee composed of water experts, including Greater Cincinnati Water Works, the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, City of Hamilton Water, Confluence, Butler County Groundwater Consortium, U.S. EPA, Hamilton Mill, Cintrifuse, Village Capital, and Queen City Angels. New and innovative ideas concerning water development will be introduced throughout the region from the selected companies, and the Pipeline H2O program will be set in action from February 2017 through May 2017.


We want to look young : The Exercize [sic] song / lyrics Carolyn Schroeder ; music Paul Huberdeau.
Carolyn Joan Schroeder & Paul Huberdeau.
Sermons preached without notes. By Charles W. Koller.
Two of the sermons were prev. pub.
words & music: David Michael Durando, 1963-, Jay Hedberg, 1968-, Rob Parlaman, 1964-, Carl Schroeder, 1965-, Frog Jaguar Mellonball, 1963-, & Ted Murray, 1964-.
Harmony & theory / by Keith Wyatt & Carl Schroeder.
text & compilation: Hal Leonard Corporation, employer for hire.
Christine's lullaby : an elegy for orchestra / by Carl Schroeder.
I love you mi amor, je t'aime.
Between the lakes / by Carl Schroeder.
Some music, front & back cover images preexisting.
Training for devotional life : participant's workbook / Carl Schroeder.
Tucker, Ga. : Lay Renewal Publications, c1979.
Training for devotional life : leader's guide / Carl Schroeder.
Tucker, Ga. : Lay Renewal Publications, c1980.
Training for relationships : leader's guide / Carl Schroeder.
Institute of Church Renewal, Tucker, Ga.
Copyrights records by Institute of Church Renewal, Tucker, Ga.
Training for relationships : participant's workbook / Carl Schroeder.
A Comparison of perceptions concerning differential salary ... / Carolyn K. Schroeder.
Lagrangian analysis and quantum mechanics : a mathematical structure related to asymptotic expansions and the Maslov index / Jean Leray ; English translation by Carolyn Schroeder.
First grade : a parent's guide to the writing process / Beverly Napieracz, Caroline Schroeder.
Delafield Pulbic Library welcomes you to OPAC, our computerized card catalog.
entire text: C. C. Schroeder & C. J. Muchhala.
Orange Tree Imports cookbook : recipes from our staff and cooking school instructors / edited by Carol "Orange" Schroeder ; designed by Judy Ficken ; illustrated by Keith Skeen.
editor: Orange Tree Imports, employer of Carol L. Schroeder.
Assessment and treatment of childhood problems : a clinician's guide / Carolyn S. Schroeder, Betty N. Gordon.
Carolyn S. Schroeder & Betty N. Gordon, employers for hire.
Perceived duration of time and bed rest in high-risk pregnancy : an exploration of the Newman model.
Guide to publishing opportunites for librarians / Carol F. Schroeder, Gloria G. Roberson, editors.
New York : Haworth Press, c1995.
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A professional development experience that transformed classroom instruction.
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Take up coal deficit with Centre, avert crisis: AIADMK urges Tamil Nadu govt
Expressing concern over the rapid depletion of fuel meant to fire the thermal plants, the AIADMK leader said reports indicated that the State has only four days of stock with it.
Chennai: AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam has urged the Tamil Nadu government to take up with the Centre the issue of diminishing coal stock in the State and avert a crisis by having the stock replenished.
Expressing concern over the rapid depletion of fuel meant to fire the thermal plants, the AIADMK leader said reports indicated that the State has only four days of stock with it and that it did not augur well on the power scenario. He said the coal stock at the thermal power stations declined as the Central allocation of coal was reduced by 20,000 tonnes per day.
"This is of grave concern. If this situation continues, then Tamil Nadu will plunge into a serious crisis, including power outages and economic slide. The Chief Minister should bestow attention on the issue and take up the matter with the Union Coal Minister to have the stocks replenished," Panneerselvm said in a statement here.
As a lasting solution, the State government could obtain permission from the Centre to mine in the Chandrabila coal block in Odisha, the former Chief Minister suggested.
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[Avionics Today June 20, 2014] EL AL Israel Airlines has begun flying with its new wireless In-flight Entertainment (IFE) system, BoardConnect. The system is produced by Lufthansa Systems, and gives passengers access to IFE content on their laptops and smart phones or in-seat screens via an aircraft Wi-Fi network.
A graphic showing the in-cabin WLAN structure of the BoardConnect system. Photo, courtesy of Lufthansa Systems.
The Israeli carrier has added BoardConnect to three aircraft so far, a Boeing 737-900 and two Boeing 767-300s. In the near future, El AL plans to install the BoardConnect system across its entire fleet of 737s and 767s.
With BoardConnect, Lufthansa Systems focused on eliminating complicated wiring, and distributing the IFE content through as few access points as possible in the cabin with a regular onboard Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Lufthansa says this elimination of wiring also contributes to lower installation costs for airlines.
EL AL CEO David Maimon believes entertainment is an "integral part of flying today" and calls the BoardConnect system a "state-of-the-art" upgrade to their aircraft.


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Almost 70% of our Missionaries in the Great Plains currently operate monthly on less than 90% of their monthly financial budget. We need to do something about this trend of doing ministry under-resourced. In the long term, it costs Chi Alpha more if a missionary launches ministry with a lack of funding. The Great Plains has always held in high regard the need for healthy leaders in Chi Alpha and this is another step for us to help ensure leaders are healthy.
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Modeling, Up & Down: Statements & Profiles
This is the fourth in a how-to real-time case-study related to Analytics Strategy for Surveys-at-Work: Casey-Fink. In my last post, Slicing and Dicing Data Model Work-to-be-Done, I identified two work-streams for the team to pursue with our analytics strategy, which for all intents and purposes is our integration strategy between a survey being developed as a cmi5 data provider and reporting we'll design and build to answer a bunch of questions.
Modeling-Up with Statements
The first work-stream in that last blog post focused on identifying the different ways cmi.interactions might be expressed (at least a minimal set that supports choice, likert and fill-in question/interaction item-types). Having discussed it as a team, there was sufficient interest in being able to have a data model of the survey itself as a sort of schema — a control against the data that informs a report, from an individual or set of users, so it becomes obvious to know which questions were skipped, if at all.
Up until this discussion, I was not really planning on using xAPI Profiles for this project because technically we had workarounds to go without it, but my colleague made the case — for a whole bunch of "what went wrong?" questions it would be good to have a machine-readable mapping of the survey architecture — question item IDs (I'm guessing) and their hierarchy, in terms of what is delivered to the learner.
...whoa! I've not thought of composing a profile in real-time before, but for the purposes of having a true "this is what the learner was presented with" this would at least be *more accurate* and promote the content experience the user has as being authoritative. Fascinating...
Modeling-Down with Profiles
Anyway, if we're to compose a hierarchy of survey items (some might say a "pattern" of "concepts" in xAPI Profiles vernacular) then we may as well make all the other semantic associations we want there, too. There's pretty low-hanging fruit to be had in terms of easy first-wins for a Casey-Fink Survey integration with our product. For starters, the professional skills content and a user's many interactions with it is already mapped to competencies that align with at least two of the dimensions of the survey. One whole section of the survey itself is focused on levels of confidence with particular clinical skill areas — and the day-job has a WHOLE LIBRARY of content that's semantically mapped already — a few more relationships with the correct identifiers makes this work easy in the background.
Since those associations need to be made, there's two ways to do it — one is to do it all from the content (which was how I was thinking we'd do it, thinking about it on my own); the other is to do it on the back-end, which makes version control of that hierarchy and those semantic relationships something that can be managed independently of the survey (the content).
I finally get to eat all my own dogfood at work and I look forward to the hard learning of the savings it maybe gets us as I look ahead to working with Snowflake, Collabra and other enterprise tools. In the here-and-now, though, my colleague identified important work for us to do in the near-term: a human-readable document that lists everything we want to know from this survey (like, say, a more digestible "human readable" xAPI Profile)
Slicing and Dicing Data Model Work-to-be-Done
Governing How Survey Questions Relate to Concepts
My xAPI Analytics Goals for 2023
auditing, clinical skills, collabra, concepts, control documents, data modeling, diagnostics, graph, json-ld, patterns, schema, snowflake, statements, strategy, survey, xAPI, xAPI Profiles


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Apparently not. Or, more likely, they know we want more.
After 92 million first-day views of the new Beauty and the Beast live action teaser, Deadline.com reports that Disney is exploring the possibility of making Ariel part of our world.
It's far from official (no cast or creatives are currently attached), with many aspects to consider. Perhaps chief among them is what it would take to pull off an authentic underwater environment – with characters swimming, talking, singing and "dancing" – for the amount of screen time that would be required.
Also in the mix: a competing live action Little Mermaid take, produced by Universal, starring Chloë Grace Moretz and written by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually). While that production would likely beat Disney's to theaters, it seems nothing could hamper the Mouse House's production other than Disney itself. As a property, Disney's The Little Mermaid is too beloved to be perceived as an also-ran. Reports also suggest that Universal's adaptation would hew more closely to the darker tone of Hans Christian Anderson's original fable.