Gotens: Captain, there are reports of fires in the mess hall.
Red: Impulse engines are offline, and we can't make a stable enough warp field in this nebula.
Gewdeque: We have multiple hull breaches. Initiating containment fields now. Deck 7 has lost gravity control. Captain, life support is down to 30% operational.
Daniel: Wallace, scan for the nearest Federation vessel.
Wallace: The Enterprise is about to passing through.
Daniel: Send a distress call on an emergency channel.
Perim: Commander, I'm picking up a distress beacon emanating from a nebula about a light year away. There's heavy distortion in that area. Can't get a proper sensor sweep. It's has a.... Starfleet signature.
Data: Ensign, set a course to intercept. Captain to the bridge. Doctor, be prepared for injured.
Data: Captain, it's the Pheonix-X. They are damaged. The nebula seems to be eating away at the ship. If they don't get out of there, they'll be destroyed in moments.
Picard: Get a tractor beam on them and pull them out.
Perim: Reversing course at one quarter impulse.
Data: Ship is almost clear of the nebula.
Picard: Phoenix-X, respond. This is the Enterprise, please respond.
*Shane: Wrong room, you want the bridge.
*Daniel: Thank you Enterprise. We are in your debt.
*Gotens (whispers): Till all repairs are done.
*Daniel: I was saying, I can't wait till all my hair is done. You see, it's moulding right now in this special cap.
Picard: I see. Well, do you require any assistance?
*Daniel: There's no need for that Captain. In a few hours, the ship will be as new as before we went in that nebula.
Data: Captain, sensors show that their damaged hull is rebuilding itself.
*Daniel: Yes. How did you know?
Picard: I can sense them somehow. Anyways. We better be on our way then if that's all. Be careful.
*Daniel: Oh we will. Thanks a lot. Phoenix-X out.
Gotens: Ow, why did you have to hit me?
Daniel: If you learn to keep your mouth shut at the proper time, maybe it wouldn't of happened. An outburst like that again, and I can have you demoted so fast, your first host will feel it. Do I make myself clear Commander?
Daniel: Attention all hands. This is the Captain. This ship has become more of a sort of zoo lately. And I admit, I have been letting things go. Some of you think that a great writer from the heavens wrote your stupidity. But you are wrong. Though there is a writer. That writer is called laziness. And you all have been written on. So let me make one thing clear. You either get into shape, or get off my ship. And those of you know who I am talking about. Captain out. Kugo, how are we on repairs?
Kugo: I have propulsion engines working as new. All hull breaches are sealed and the hull itself is repaired. Life support is up to 100%. As far as I know, everything is in working order. We just need to get the interior bulk heads of the ship redone. And that could take about an hour with a proper team.
Daniel: Understood. Assemble your team at once. Good job Chief.
Kugo: Yes sir. Kugo out.
Daniel: Commander, you have the bridge. I'm on my way to the Science Lab.
Gotens: Phew! What is his problem?
Armond: You have to admit, we have been a sort of laid back crew.
Red: You all are a pathetic excuse of a crew. It's about time the Captain did what he did.
Gotens: I'm in charge here, who do you think you are to talk to me like that?
Gotens: Red, I guess you are right about that pathetic thing.
Daniel: What is everyone looking at?
GoyCho: Uhh, sir, you are holding hands with uhh... Shane.
Daniel: Oh, but we are just linked. Shane was communicating this great game he just played. It's faster and more efficient.
Shane: Oh, that's what we were doing.
Daniel: So what do you make of that chamber we found?
Kayl: Well, it's a sort of habitat chamber of some sort. Heavily sealed. Unknown elements.
Shane: You mean something lives in that thing?
Kayl: Hold on, I'm scanning for life signs... Okay. The tricorder is picking up organic compounds. There is a... person in there?
Daniel: How can a person be in there? The thing is only 2 feet tall.
Daniel: Glad we let the Enterprise on their way. So can you open it?
Kayl: There's no way. It's totally stronger than anything we can throw at it.
Shane: How about this latch?
Kayl: Oh. Or you can do that.
X: Ahhh, it's good to be out of that thing. It's been a while.
Daniel: I am Captain Daniel of the starship Phoenix-X. Who are you?
X: Well, Caaaptain. You can call me X.
Kayl: Captain, my readings show he is fully human.
Unknown: Heh, not really. Maybe you know me by my previous name. Q.
X: No, it's X now.
Daniel: What have we done? Whoa, whoa, whoa. What were you doing in there in the first place, X?
X: I was locked in there. By the other Q's. They said I was defiant. They really hated it when I changed my name. So they locked me in that chamber for all eternity.
Daniel: Like I said before, what have I done?
Q: You were always the nosy one, Daniel. Just like that Janeway of Voyager.
Daniel: I forgot about her. Wait, it's you.
Q: Yeah, it's me. But I'm not here for you Captain, or for you, Kayl. I'm here for X. I have to undo what you undid.
X: You aren't putting me back in that thing. One more step and I destroy the whole Federation.
Q: Wait, stop. Don't do that. You know how important the Federation is to the Continuum.
X: Exactly. So stay where you are. I'm not going back in that thing.
Daniel: Can't you just put the Federation right back?
Q: It's not so easy, if he destroys the Federation, it doesn't matter what I do. The Continuum will be destroyed.
Q: The Federation is-- wait, you are not to know this. X, give up. What are you going to do? You'd only be destroying yourself. You are fighting the whole Continuum.
X: Captain, I seek asylum upon your vessel.
Q: Hahah, what's that going to do?
Q: Face it, there's nothing else to do. Just go back in that box and everything is ok.
Q: No, I cannot allow this. Stop this at once.
Daniel (distorted): What is happening?
Wallace: Commander, sensors indicate a distortion in the science lab. It's tearing space apart, yet pulling it together.
Gotens: All stop. Bridge to science lab. Please respond.
Gotens: Get a security team down there. Try to beam all who is in there out to sick bay. Doctor, expect some injuries.
Shane: Hey, why didn't they beam me out?
Q: X, you musn't do this.
Shane: Wow, what a feeling. What has happened to him? And where is X?
Q: X is gone. He has passed on his X abilities to Daniel here.
Shane: Can't you do anything?
Q: Nope. I can't do anything. This has never happened before. The passing of Q. Q's are immortal. We thought this could happen, but it never occurred. Who'd want to give up Q.
Daniel: X did. His abilities were only a prison for him.
Q: Well, I guess you are omnipotent now.
Daniel: I'm still the same. I can just outlive everyone else.
Q: I guess I'll catch you later. Wait till the Continuum hears about this one.


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Michael E. Smith, Untitled, 2019, kayak, theremin, amplifier, hardware, 396.2 x 60.9 x 45.7 cm, 156 x 24 x 18 ins. Photo: Ben Westoby. © the artist. Courtesy the artist & Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Michael E. Smith at its Vyner Street gallery. This is Smith's first solo exhibition with Modern Art.
Michael E. Smith's sculptures are made out of objects combed from the by-products of today's world. Sometimes these are nondescript things, for instance, a black sweatshirt and a fog machine, or a rusty bicycle frame and a used water pitcher. They appear as articles of disuse, retrieved from a wasteland. Other times, death itself is present in Smith's work, such as dried bones of animals, or taxidermy. Combined and arranged, Smith's sculptures become orators in a language that is difficult to pin to words. They operate instead through affective and lyrical registers, suggestive of political and social experiences that may be shared - ecological crisis, capitalist consumption and waste - as well as those that are not always shared – such as violence, death and social injustice.
Smith's approach to exhibition making is characterised by a chilling and powerful sparseness. Space, lighting and atmosphere are as important to the experience as the few, highly-charged artworks, making the exhibition site a virtual extension of the work itself. In the ground floor gallery of his exhibition at Modern Art, the intentionally dim lit gallery is empty save for two aged kayaks upturned on the floor of the gallery. With their once white underbellies exposed, they appear like bloated sea creatures, washed up on some shore. Hidden within each of these vessels Smith has installed a theremin - an electronic musical instrument controlled by two hands but without physical contact, which emits eerie sounds through an amplifier. When played in the gallery Smith's theremin's have a mournful pitch, and echo through the space like the melancholic soundtrack of a seance for whales.
Smith's work is often contextualised in reference to an economically depressed urban landscape. But his work is not allegorical, nor illustrative. Indeed, the qualities of poverty and vacancy with which his exhibitions are imbued recall such conditions, yet these attributes of Smith's work are as much in dialogue with the lineage of minimalism and conceptualism of the USA's 1960s and '70s. Educated at Yale in the class of Jessica Stockholder, Smith's work is at the same time a descendent of the sculptural approaches of appropriation and assemblage, as it is acutely sensitive to the semantic specificity of things: attending both to the affective potential of materiality and to the social value of objects – not as commodities, but as carriers of histories, as a means of communication.
Michael E. Smith was born in 1977 in Detroit, Michigan, and lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including Kunsthalle Basel (2018); SMAK, Ghent (2017); Kunstverein Hannover, (2015); De Appel, Amsterdam (2015); Sculpture Center, New York (2015); La Triennale di Milano, Milan (2014); Power Station, Dallas (2014); CAPC musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, (2013) and Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2011). Smith's work has been included in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2015); MoMA PS1, New York (2014); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2014); and MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, (2013). He participated in May You Live in Interestin g Times , Venice Biennale 2019, the 2018 Baltic Triennial and the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

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Three or four years ago, the folks at the O'Reilly publishing company finally moved into their brand new buildings in Sebastopol, California, after six years of planning and waiting. Very shortly thereafter, they were forced to lay off many of their employees in response to the Great Tech Bust.
This left O'Reilly with a lot of unexpectedly empty space in their buildings, so they decided to bring together a bunch of their collective friends for an unusual kind of self-organizing conference, to be called Foo Camp (FOO = Friends Of O'Reilly). The 150 or so folks there had such a good time that Tim O'Reilly and his team decided to make it an annual tradition, each year inviting some folks who'd been there before and a bunch of others who were new. This year I was privileged to be invited to Foo Camp, and it was held this last weekend.
I flew down to Oakland on Friday afternoon and then drove a rental car up to Sebastopol, arriving just in time for dinner and really having very little idea what to expect. After picking up my badge, getting my picture taken, filling out a little biographical form ("What do you build? What is your favorite tool?"), and receiving my camp swag (a t-shirt and a soft flying disk), I shlepped my little suitcase upstairs to stake out a camping spot.
Yes, the "camp" in "Foo Camp" is literal. Almost all of the attendees camp out, like in sleeping bags, either in tents out on the back lawn or in one or another unoccupied areas of one of the two O'Reilly buildings. I opted for one corner of a big room inside. I didn't bring camping supplies with me on the flight from Seattle, but various O'Reilly folks had sleeping bags, foam pads, and pillows available for loan there in the building.
After dinner that night, Tim gathered everybody in a big room and did the intro thing. After retelling the Foo Camp origin myth (related as best I can remember above), he orchestrated the only kind of everybody-introduce-yourself ritual that could possibly scale to a group of this size: each person got to stand up and say (a) their name, (b) their employer, if any, and (c) no more than three words of bio, introduction, interests, and whatever. Those who exceeded the three-word limit were gonged. (Tim has a really nice, loud, gong for this purpose.) Some people tried to sum up their professional interests in three words, others made it a joke, and some went in quite unique directions (e.g., "baby due tomorrow", which yielded many cries of "go home!"). I ended up going for serious, and kind of slimed my way under the limit with a hyphen: "model-based data collaboration".
After that, we collectively built the schedule of conference sessions. Sara Winge and her team, from O'Reilly, brought out three large foam-core boards covered with a blank session calendar, broken out into a total of about 140 one-hour slots covering Friday night, all day and night Saturday, and Sunday morning. That left plenty of room for nearly everyone to offer a session on something, sometime. Sara tossed a half-dozen marker pens into the audience and quickly stepped out of the way as the crazy, chaotic zoo you'd expect then erupted.
That pretty much marked the end of centrally organized activities for the weekend. Everything else was generated, in advance or otherwise, by the participants. And there was a lot of "everything else".
I attended a session on "Fab @ Home", a visionary Cornell research project to extend existing solid freeform fabrication technology to make a kitchen-friendly machine that can make pretty much anything.
I got to ride a Segway for the first time, using one of several different models (and several homebrew knock-offs) brought to the camp.
One fellow brought a compressed-air-powered, rapid-fire marshmallow gun (seen as the white pipes at left in this shot). Five minutes to load, five seconds to discharge, lots of marshmallows all over the grass.
As you might expect, there were many well-known industry luminaries attending, such as Jeff Bezos, Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Ward Cunningham, Brewster Kahle, Guido van Rossum, and Howard Rheingold.
But there were also many talented and accomplished people who should be far better known than they are, such as playful performance artist Jane McGonigal, Second Life technologist Cory Ondrejka, and Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. I expect to be writing more about all of these folks in future entries.
I've attended many informal conferences that are essentially just gatherings of a wide range of talented and creative hacker-types, including the Asilomar Microcomputer Conference and several years of the Hackers Conference, but none of them offered the stimulation and excitement I felt at Foo Camp. It truly lives up to the almost mystical hype that surrounds it. I hope Tim invites me back again next year.
Melissa: I *promise*: next time, I'll think in advance about setting aside time to meet up. Our next "proper lunch" will be on me.
I was going to berate you for coming to the Bay Area and not even calling us, but then I realized: we still on vacation in the UK that weekend.


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Mariners sign Kameron Loe to minor league deal
By Aaron GleemanFeb 12, 2013, 3:45 PM EST
Kameron Loe has agreed to a minor-league contract with the Mariners, according to Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times.
He'll get an invitation to spring training after throwing 68 innings with a 4.51 ERA and 55/20 K/BB ratio for the Brewers last season.
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In August 2011, Praeger Security International (PSI) published my four-volume series on the philosophy of war and state, and the convergence of political, strategic and IR theory around the nexus of constructive realism -- the millennial effort by theorists across history to render chaos to order with the stroke of a pen.
Formerly called States of Mind: The Realist Tradition and Foundation of Western Order, its now known as The Realist Tradition in International Relations: Foundations of Western Order.
"Heavy reading. Zellen has a writing style that strikes a balance between scholar and poet as he traces Realism from Thucydides to Hitler. This first book in his four volume series is extremely informative. ..."
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-- Dr. Timothy R. Tangherlini. Tangherlini teaches folklore, literature and cultural studies at the University of California, where he is a Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and in the Scandinavian Section. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Religious Studies Program, and a faculty member in the Center for European and Eurasian Studies and Center for Korean Studies.
-- Dr. Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland; author of The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (Routledge 2009) with Michael Dillon.
The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period. Volume 1, State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2, State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3, State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4, State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict.


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Q: Need array of self, children and children childrens in rails I have a table like following

well,here in this table every user has a parent user,then if we select a user then its id ,children ids and children childrens ids should return as array.I need a query to get this values in rails with out using any gem.Thanx for your help:->

A: You are stranding into SQL anti-pattern. Performing operations on trees constructed like that is very inefficient. I don't say, that you should use a gem for that, but consider using some smarter method of keeping this data (searching for sql tree structure should yield some meaningful results).
Query you are looking for needs two self joins:
SELECT t1.id user_ids, t2.id children_ids, t3.id children_children_ids FROM users t1
  LEFT JOIN users t2 ON t2.parent = t1.id
  LEFT JOIN users t3 ON t3.parent = t2.id

On the other hand, if your rails models have defined self-relation, you could easily write:
user.children #=> (array of children)
user.children.flat_map(&:children) #=> (array of grandchildren)

Definition of this relation should look like:
class User << ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :children, class_name: User, foreign_key: 'parent'
end

A: class User << ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.build_tree(reverse=false)
    g = Array.new
    self.find(:all).each do |p|
        if reverse
        g << [p.id,p.parent]
        else
        g << [p.parent,p.id]
        end
    end
    g
  end
  def self.subordinates(man_id)
    g = self.build_tree false
    g.map{|i| i[1] if i[0]==man_id.to_i}.compact
  end
  def self.superiors(user_id)
     g = self.build_tree true
     g.map{|i| i[1] if i[0]==user_id.to_i}.compact
  end
end

When call either Superiors(parents) or Subordinates(childrends) it will gives required result
Ex:- [2,4,6,8]
If you want to get either children->childrends or parent->parents just do iterate call function either superior or subordinates until get the nil or [] array .

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Alcott v Ashworth (No. 2)
Reference: [2016] EWHC 2414 (Fam)
Court: High Court (Family Division)
Judge: Alex Verdan QC sitting as a Judge of the High Court
Date of judgment: 29 Sep 2016
Summary: 1980 Hague Convention - Children Act 1989 - Administration of Justice Act 1960 - Open Justice - Transparency - Family Courts - child abduction - privacy injunctions - reporting the courts - contempt of court
Download: Download this judgment
Appearances: Greg Callus (Interested Party)
Instructing Solicitors: News Group Newspapers & Times Newspapers
The Respondent mother was a children's TV actress and personality. She had a young child, D, with the Applicant father, who was a TV producer in Australia. She moved to Australia with the child, but upon discovering apparent infidelity, flew back to the UK with the child. The father made an application to the Family Division of the High Court of Justice to summarily return the child to Australia, where he said the child was habitually resident. The application was made under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The decision of the judge, after a two-day private hearing attended by the media in which both the mother and father testified, was given in the substantive public judgment Alcott v Ashworth (No. 1) [2016] EWHC 2413 (Fam). He found that the child was not habitually resident in Australia, and that the mother had not wrongfully removed (or abducted) the child in returning to the UK.
The media had made submissions on being able to report the case through Mr Brian Farmer on the morning of the first day of the hearing. Counsel was instructed for the second day by News Group Newspapers and by Times Newspapers, and the judge reserved his judgments.
(1) Were there any automatic statutory reporting restrictions that applied to 1980 Hague Convention cases?
(2) What material should be reportable, by way of lifting the s.12 AJA restrictions or by inclusion of material in the public judgment?
(3) Should the parents be named or anonymised, given that naming them would indirectly identify the child?
(1) The parties were agreed that in pure Hague Convention applications, the reporting restriction in section 97 of the Children Act 1989 did not apply. Accordingly, the media were (and had always been) free to report the names of the parties and the child. Any further derogation from Open Justice in making a reporting restriction would require a privacy injunction under the inherent jurisdiction, which would have to also surmount the hurdles of s.12 of the Human Rights Act 1998. The Mother and Father did not make any such application, and nor did the CAFCAS lawyer appointed by the Court on behalf of the child for the purposes of the media's application. However, because the Family Division could at any time have recourse to the inherent jurisdiction in Hague Convention applications, section 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 did apply to these proceedings, and the evidence heard in private could not be reported unless that restriction was lifted.
(2) Granting the application made by both NGN and TNL, there would be a public judgment with sufficient detail to explain the decision made. However, refusing the application made by NGN only, it was not appropriate to lift the s.12 AJA 1960 restrictions to allow reporting of the evidence – as the media conceded, if sufficient material was included in the public judgment, there was little weight to this application as against the compelling privacy rights of the parents.
(3) None of the parties (neither parent, nor the child's lawyer) sought a privacy injunction anonymising them in reports by the media. The Court considered that, although naming only the parents would allow for indirect identification of the child, this did not override the Article 10 right to report the case with the parties' names. Jigsaw identification was already possible from overseas reports of the case, and from the material the parents had already put in the public domain. However, to give proportionate protection to the child's Article 8 rights, an order would be made under s.39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (as amended) so that no report of the proceedings should use the child's name, or photograph (even if pixillated) or school or address until the child reached the age of 18.
This judgment confirms two discrete questions of reporting restrictions in Family Division proceedings, namely that:
(1) Hague Convention applications (absent any concurrent application under the Children Act 1989) do not engage the automatic statutory reporting restriction under s.97 Children Act 1989, but that
(2) evidence heard in private by the media in Hague Convention applications does still engage s.12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 (as the court may exercise powers under its inherent jurisdiction).
Also adds to the growing corpus of cases on children's rights where their parents are the parties to litigation, and the question of the extent to which their Article 8 rights can be weighed against the media's Article 10 rights. Confirms that jigsaw identification of the child need not be fatal to identification of the parents (at least where s.97 Children Act 1989 does not apply).


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Here are the details! Season tickets are on sale just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts!
Full Season Experience - $110
(Priority Seating for all 5 shows in the season, $113 value plus no service fees)
Season Sampler Experience - $65
(Priority Seating for 3 shows in the season – you select the shows, $69 value plus no service fees)
And the shows are…….
"The Marvelous Wonderettes"
A musical created by Roger Bean
Directed by Jaynie Roberts
This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to the Springfield High School prom where we meet four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their hair-dos. As we learn about their lives and loves, the girls serenade us with classic hits including "Lollipop," "Dream Lover," "Lipstick on Your Collar" and "Respect." Featuring over 30 classic '50s and '60s hits, The Marvelous Wonderettes will keep audiences smiling in this must-take musical trip down memory lane!
Directed by David Roberts
Beatrice and Benedick are adamant in their mutual dislike, while Claudio and Hero are deep in love. The two stories take an unexpected course when their world is shattered by a scheming malcontent who makes a shocking accusation. Throw in some "helpful" friends and relatives against the backdrop of WWII Europe and you have the ingredients for a comedic romp, with a hint of romance and betrayal.
"Wake up, Darling!"
A comedy by Alex Gottlieb
Directed by Alice Tanzillo
Polly Emerson is a pretty young woman who wants to be an actress. Her husband, Don, is a successful advertising man, who yearns to be a playwright. Don understandably isn't too happy when Polly comes home with a very young playwright, Deerfield Prescot, who has written Broadway's next musical hit – or so he tells Polly and Don. Prescot decides that Polly is just the person to star in his show, and moves into the couple's apartment to put the finishing touches to his masterpiece. It's no surprise that havoc ensues!
October 9-24
Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig, from Agatha Christie's novel.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of year, but by the next morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated, and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercules Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again. This is a new adaptation by Ken Ludwig.
"Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story"
Adapted for the stage by Jerry R. Montoya from Charles Dickens novel.
Directed by Julie Richardson
An inspired adaptation of the holiday classic, re-imagined through highly theatrical storytelling. Actors whimsically transform from narrators into characters, and beloved carols are sung to alternately joyful and sinister effect, giving this familiar Christmas story a fresh and energetic feel. A group from the Magenta Rocks! Choir will also perform at this production.
In addition, the company will host 7 improv shows with MIT (Magenta Improv Theater), a Magenta Rocks Choir event, 5 MagenTOTS productions (theater by adults for kids) and 4 Black Chair Projects - staged readings. These are not included in the mainstage shows season ticket prices.
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Box Office 360-635-4358
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"As daiyu entered a silver-haired old lady supported by two maids advanced to meet her."
The boy spike the drinks so everyone at the party get drink.
He poured in a generous splash of rye.
His talk was sugared with funny jokes.
They mixed it with bran to form a poison bait.
They slipped the undercover cop a mickey finn.
She poured a large gin and splashed soda into it from a siphon.
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One of the most intriguing demos I've seen, if the footage in the video is to be believed, is the Myo gesture control armband.
It's an eye-popping demo. The copy on the site reads "unleash your inner Jedi" and you pretty much do look like Obi-Wan using the thing. Which is to say, like a crazy person cosplaying Star Wars in the middle of the street. Adam Lisagor calledGoogle Glass a "Segway for your face" back in April. The Segway was another great idea on paper that failed in part because of human vanity. Segways weren't cool...you looked like a dork riding one. You're gonna look like a dork wearing Google Glass. You're gonna look like a dork unlocking your car with a swipe of your Myo-enabled arm.
But the uncool factor can be overridden in various ways. Nike can make anyone wear anything, especially if it's packaged like a watch with superpowers. A few years ago, you looked like a dork wearing headphones in public but Apple made it cool. Beats By Dre made wearing huge over-the-ear headphones in public cool a few years later. You look like a dork wearing a Bluetooth headset and talking to yourself, but they are cheap and useful enough that it doesn't matter. Mobile phone usage in public used to appear very strange...for awhile it was difficult to tell the brokers-in-a-hurry from the mentally unstable homeless folks muttering to themselves.
That's the challenge for Google Glass and Myo: are these things useful enough and cheap enough to overcome that dork factor or can they somehow be made cool? Because if they aren't and you can't, no one wants to be seen using a Nintendo Power Glove in public and no amount of extreme sports dubstep transitions can save you.
Let's hope, the guy has not to shake hands while he is in control.


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NYICD News
Why NYICD? /
NYICD News /
New York Institute of Career Development Welcomes Thomas Frisco to Faculty
on Monday, 20 November 2017.
New York, NY – November 20, 2017
The New York Institute of Career Development is excited to introduce Thomas Frisco to their team of mentors. In addition to being an educator and licensed pharmacy technician himself, Frisco sits on many pharmacy technician school advisory boards in the state of New York. In that role he is responsible for ensuring all proper protocol is followed to provide comprehensive, quality education to pharmacy tech students statewide.
"It is the responsibility of a pharmacist to ensure that all patients are receiving the proper medications," says Frisco. "With the help of an educated, certified pharmacy technician, that process of delivering medications to those patients can be seamless. I believe that a nationally certified technician, with the proper education, will become detail-orientated enough to help effectively deliver those medications safely."
Students in the New York Institute of Career Development's Pharmacy Technician Course will benefit from one-to-one mentorship from Mr. Frisco. Mentorship is the key to NYICD's online career courses, ensuring that students get professional guidance from experts in the field.
Every student in the course will be given a comprehensive overview of how to accurately perform the standard techniques and procedures required in the pharmacy setting – including medication transcriptions, drug dispensation, and recordkeeping. In addition, through a partnership with national pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens, every student will get to complete a hands-on externship, bringing the course lessons to life.
"Part of our mission here at NYICD has always been to ensure students graduate with the confidence and skills necessary to get hired and start working in a rewarding new field," says Keith Gallagher, Program Director. "I believe that Tom's experience and participation in the pharmacy community will provide our students with invaluable leadership in doing so."
For more information on the New York Institute of Career Development, visit www.nyicd.edu.
About New York Institute of Career Development
The New York Institute of Career Development is part of the Distance Education Company (DEC) cadre of schools. DEC strives to be the leading non-traditional academic institution, educating people motivated to improve their lives and empowering students to achieve that self-improvement through flexible and affordable educational programs. DEC has been providing best-in-class education for more than 100 years via NYICD's sister schools, the New York Institute of Photography and the New York Institute of Art and Design. The New York Institute of Career Development proudly continues that tradition, making online career education as simple and stress-free as it can be.


Isidro Ayora (formerly known as Soledad) is a town located in central Guayas, Ecuador. It is named after Isidro Ayora, a former Ecuadorian president. It is the seat of the canton of Isidro Ayora, the newest canton in the province, created in 1996.
At the 2001 census there were 8,826 people living within canton limits. The main crops are rice, maize, mango, and watermelon.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Released to Parents' Palo Alto Home on $250 Million Bond
December 23, 2022, 1:00 am 2k Views 0 Votes
Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will get to spend Christmas with his family, after a federal judge approved a historic $250 million bond at his first U.S. court appearance, according to a reporter live tweeting from the courtroom.
Following arguments by federal prosecutors and Bankman-Fried's defense counsel, the disgraced crypto mogul was told by a judge that he would be allowed to await trial at his parents house in Palo Alto, California, according to court reporter Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press.
Judge Gorenstein: He will surrender his passport – it has already been surrendered. Home detention with local monitoring, to be installed today. He must live in his parents' home in Palo Alto. No new business without pre-approval of Pre Trial Services
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) December 22, 2022
Nicolas Roos, a New York-based prosecutor, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein that the government was proposing a bail package that included a $250 million bond, home detention, and location monitoring, according to the Inner City Press.
Roos described it as "the highest ever pre-trial bond," and that the bond would be secured by the Palo Alto property.
The 30-year-old Bankman-Fried—also known as SBF—will not be able to spend more than $1,000 except on defense related costs, nor start other businesses, without court approval. He will also have to surrender his passport.
Bankman-Fried's defense counsel said he agreed with these conditions.
"I'd like to emphasize, my client voluntarily consented to come face these charges—extradition can take months or years in the Bahamas," Bankman-Fried's attorney reportedly said. "His parents are Stanford professors. We ask that you accept release."
"The defendant has achieved sufficient notoriety it would be impossible for him to continue financial transactions," Gorenstein said, according to Lee. "This notoriety also goes to risk of flight—he would be recognized—so I am going to permit release."
U.S. prosecutors hit Bankman-Fried with eight criminal charges related to the November collapse of his digital asset exchange, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud on customers and conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the campaign finance laws.
The Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit at the Southern District of New York US Attorney's Office is handling the case.
Bankman-Fried was arrested last week in the Bahamas, where FTX is based, and spent time in a jail there before being extradited and arriving in the U.S. yesterday.
FTX spectacularly collapsed last month in by far the most dramatic fall in the cryptocurrency industry's 13-year history—and one of the 2022's biggest stories.
The company let customers buy, sell, and store numerous digital assets, as well as place bets on the future prices of crypto through derivative products, and was one of the most popular exchanges in the world.
But it crashed after it became apparent that the company did not have sufficient funds to back customers' assets.
This was because trading house Alameda Research—also founded by Bankman-Fried—had the ability to use FTX customer assets for its own means, and without oversight, according to newly appointed FTX CEO John J Ray III.
SBF was famous, courted politicians and donated millions to both political parties. He was not only one the richest men in crypto but one of the wealthiest people on the planet—and claimed he gave all his riches away to good causes.
Ray, an insolvency professional in charge of reorganizing the company's finances, said FTX's collapse was caused by "a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals."
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Conversica, an AI marketing and sales software provider, secured $31 million in Series C funding, bringing the company's total amount raised to $87 million. Providence Strategic Growth Capital Partners L.L.C. led the round with additional participation from Toba Capital, Kennet Partners, CIBC Innovation Banking and Savano Capital Partners.
The company said the investments will be used to fuel product development, as well as global sales and marketing expansion.


Placebo Effect – Real or False?
A placebo is an inactive substance, such as distilled water, saline solution or sugar, which resembles an effective medication and causes an individual to believe that the substance is working. The word placebo, which in Latin means 'I shall please', was first used in the 14th century (Austin). This placebo effect is a measurable, observable improvement in behavior or health that cannot be attributed to medication, and has been much researched due to the fact that it demonstrates control of the human mind. The placebo effect provides a positive healing effect experienced by the individual who believes to be taking an active substance. Placebo effects can be beneficial to an individual by allowing them to trust that the substance is effective for treatment, providing spontaneous improvement of a condition.
The placebo effect extends beyond the medical world and can effect individuals in society by convincing them to believe a concept that is false. One example is a non-medical experiment involving water bottles and tap water to depict how individuals can be convinced to believe in something that is totally untrue. Tap water was placed into brand name water bottles for individuals to taste. Throughout the experiment, individuals claimed to notice a difference in the taste of the water. However, the water tasted was actually the same in each bottle.
When an individual has specific beliefs and hopes regarding a treatment that are combined with some form of suggestibility, there is an enhanced biochemical effects. Non-medical experiments continue to provide insight as to how individuals come to believe something that is false. The results of the placebo effect experiment show that individuals can be decidedly convinced or reassured based on what they hear, see or even taste, presenting the far-reaching effects of a placebo on society as a whole.
Austin Frakt. "The Incidental Economist." The Incidental Economist RSS. 9 Oct. 2014. Web. 28 Apr. 2016.
Cherry24, Kendra. "What Is the Placebo Effect in Psychology?" Verywell. N.p., 24 Jan. 2016. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
FEINBERG, CARA. "The Placebo Phenomenon." Harvard Magazine. Harvard Magazine, 14 Dec. 2012. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
"Outside of Medicine." The Placebo Effect. N.p., 24 May 2011. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty"
MAHATMA GANDHI (1869-1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable") was applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa and is now used worldwide. In India, he was also called Bapu, a term that he preferred (Gujarati: endearment for father, papa), and Gandhi ji, and is known as the Father of the Nation.
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to stop religious violence. The last of these, undertaken on 12 January 1948 when he was 78, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan. Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating. Among them was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, who assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest.
Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence.
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OOPS! NEWLY ELECTED MUSLIM CONGRESSWOMAN Didn't Disclose Funding She Received From GEORGE SOROS
Posted By: Kim December 11, 2018
Last month, Michigan voters in the 13th district, elected Rashida Tlaib to the be their next United States Congresswoman. Tlaib will be filling the seat of the disgraced Democrat Congressman, John Conyers, the longest running member of the House before he was quietly run out of DC amidst several sexual assault allegations against him.
After winning the election, Tlaib, Michigan's first Muslim member of Congress, wrapped herself in the Palestinian flag—not an American flag, but instead, a Palestinian flag. The pro-Palestine, anti-Israel Congresswoman hasn't even been sworn in on the Quran yet, and her ethics are already being questioned.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) did not disclose the name of the source of funds for a fellowship that was paid by liberal billionaire George Soros—as required by the House ethics committee—and also disclosed a lesser amount than she received, according to a review of tax and financial disclosure forms.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained the most recent copies of tax forms for a number of Soros's organizations, including the Open Society Institute, the legal name for the Open Society Foundations, the entity in which Soros pushes millions in funding to a number of liberal causes and organizations.
An expenditure of $85,307 to Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Mich., from 2017 is shown on page 97 of the 321-page report to "to increase involvement of disenfranchised urban communities of color with their local governance process by creating a community benefits strategy for equitable development and creating a leadership training for impacted residents focused on negotiation skills and identifying leverage at the local level."
Tlaib did not report any income in the amount of $85,307 on financial disclosure forms submitted as she was running for office, which identified the names of the sources that provided her income in three of four cases. Tlaib received compensation from the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center, Wayne State University, and Metro Solutions, the forms show.
However, the fourth reported source of earned income is marked as a "Leadership in Government Fellowship," but does not identify who provided the payment.
A press release from 2016 shows that Tlaib was chosen for a "leadership in government" fellowship by Soros's Open Society Foundations along with seven other individuals.
A spokesman for Soros's Open Society Foundations said Tlaib's fellowship was terminated earlier this year when she informed the group she would be running for Congress..
Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, said that Tlaib's failure to report the source of her income is "problematic" due to rules requiring that the income source be identified.
Candidates are required to disclose the name of groups and organizations that provide their source of income, according to the manual on financial disclosure statements from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics.
The $68,307 income marked for the "Leadership in Government Fellowship" on the financial disclosure forms is also $17,000 less than the $85,307 that was marked as being paid out by Soros's group.
Arnold said this discrepancy is not as clear and could be the result of hard costs associated with the program.
Tlaib was paid $139,873 by Soros's group in 2016, tax forms show. Between 2016 and 2017, Tlaib received a total of $225,180.


The mother of a young man who was stabbed to death in Tameside is appealing for people to 'bin the blade' as part of a week-long knife surrender.
Rhian Jones' son Dominic Doyle tragically lost his life when he was stabbed during a night out in Denton. He was just 21 years old when he died.
Desperate to stop any other family suffering the same pain, his mother Rhian is supporting Greater Manchester Police's knife surrender.
The surrender, which takes place 21 – 27 November, will see dedicated bins placed into 11 police stations in Greater Manchester.
Knives – including illegal weapons or any other unwanted bladed instruments – can be dropped off in the bins safely and anonymously, with no questions asked.
Rhian Jones said: "I want to support the 'Bin the Blade' campaign because my 21 year old son Dominic Doyle was killed by a gang of knife wielding youths.
"It was an unprovoked attack, which took away my only child.
"As part of the campaign I want to speak directly to the mums of these youths carrying knives. Be open and honest with them and talk to them about carrying knives.
"Please don't think it will never happen to you because that's what I thought and it could be you burying your son or daughter next time because someone was carrying a knife.
Detective Chief Inspector Debbie Dooley, from the Xcalibre Task Force at GMP, said: "Knives pose a serious risk within our communities and the more we can take off our streets, the greater chance we have of saving lives.
Deputy Police and Commissioner Jim Battle said: "Campaigns like this have proved successful in the past, taking hundreds of knives off our streets before they fall into the wrong hands.
"Now we ask the people of Greater Manchester to once again look to their consciences, do the right thing and bin the blade.


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by R. Bargellini, EDF R&D / AMA
The Gp approach of fracture mechanics enables the prediction of the initiation of a cleavage default. This deterministic approach is valid for an elastoplastic framework, even when unloading occurs. It has been developed at EDF R&D for the past fifteen years and accounts for the effects of small defects and warm pre-stressing.
A barrier to the wide-spread use of this approach is the need for a particular mesh, where the fault is represented by a notch, in front of which particular zones, called shavings, are defined.
The new CALC_GP and RAFF_GP commands allow to overcome the definition of these shavings. The user can now provide any mesh, in which the defect is still represented by a notch (sufficiently refined).
Before the mechanical calculation, the mesh may be refined in the area of interest (downstream of the notch tip) with the new RAFF_GP command. The figure below presents a mesh before and after the refinement.
Figure 1 : Refinement of the mesh in the area of interest with RAFF_GP
The calculation of the Gp parameter is done in post-processing of the mechanical computation through the CALC_GP command, which accepts any 2D mesh (3D meshes must still contain the predefined shavings). The zones are then reconstructed by groups of Gauss points, as shown in figure 2.
Figure 2: Reconstitution of the shavings zones with the CALC_GP command
Available in 11.3.7 and later versions for CALC_GP and in 12.0.15 and later versions for RAFF_GP.


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The southern yellowthroat (Geothlypis velata) is a New World warbler. It has a number of separate resident breeding populations in South America from southeastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, and south Amazonian Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay. It was previously considered a subspecies of the masked yellowthroat.

The breeding habitat is marshes and other wet areas with dense low vegetation.

The southern yellowthroat is usually seen in pairs, and does not associate with other species. It is often skulking, but may pop up occasionally, especially to sing. It feeds on insects, including caterpillars, dragonflies, damselflies,
grasshoppers and beetles, and spiders, which are usually captured in dense vegetation. The call is a fast chattering, quite unlike that of other yellowthroat species, and a more typical sharp chip.

References

 New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle,
 Birds of Venezuela by Hilty,

 A guide to the birds of Costa Rica by Stiles and Skutch

Geothlypis
Birds of South America
Birds described in 1809
Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot


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Brillion Iron Works' Rejuvenation
Once bankrupt, Brillion Iron Works is now a lean, profitable iron casting facility, thanks to the "Fix and Grow" strategy of parent company Accuride Corp.
Shannon Wetzel, Senior Editor
(Click here to see the story as it appears in the October issue of Modern Casting.)
When Accuride's board of directors brought in Rick Dauch to lead the company as its new president and CEO in 2011, the objective was to turn the wheel business into an international company. Six months later, after touring the various machining, assembly and metalcasting plants, Dauch approached the board with a hard truth: The company was not in shape to go global.
"I said, let's put that talk on hold, because our current operations were substandard, especially at Brillion Iron Works and Gunite," he said. "The board's reaction was silence. Some of the members at the time were creditors from the bankruptcy and had not done a deep dive into the organization or operations."
Dauch, who came to Accuride with 16 years' experience in automotive supplier companies, had taken the closer look, and he was dismayed with the iron casting facilities in Brillion, Wis. (Brillion Iron Works), and Rockford, Ill. (Gunite).
"Brillion had tired equipment, an ineffective layout and a challenged operation," Dauch said. "Both Brillion and Gunite were losing money."
After considering each metalcasting facility's role within the company, Accuride determined the units were core to its business. They were incorporated into the organization's new "Fix and Grow" strategy. For Brillion Iron Works, this meant a $23 million investment over three years to address roof repairs, an air management system, building repairs, casting line upgrades, new coremaking equipment and upgrades in the grinding and finishing department. Along with the financial investment, Brillion Iron Works was infused with new management, resulting in the implementation of lean manufacturing that streamlined operations and considerably reduced lead times.
"The last two to three years, we have been working diligently to fix the business. And the culture of the management team has been to invest to make sure the technology is right," said David Adams, president, Brillion Iron Works. "We are now in the growth phase."
Dauch admits he initially viewed Brillion Iron Works as a noncore asset that required significant investment. It was a gray and ductile iron casting facility with some machining operations. It sold cast wheel-end components within the company to Gunite, while also producing components for outside customers in the construction, oil and gas valve and fittings, medium/heavy truck, and farm machinery industries.
"The financials were pretty poor," Dauch said. "The motivation of the salaried workforce was poor. Capabilities were poor. On the floor, the workforce was capable but ignored. They were working as hard as they could with equipment that was broken down."
Part of Accuride's strategy was to sell off its noncore assets. When Dauch arrived, the company consisted of five business units, including Wheels, Gunite, Brillion Iron Works, Imperial Group (a stamping business), and Fabco Automotive (axle manufacturing). Accuride had sold Bostrom (a truck seating manufacturer) the day before Dauch arrived. Within18 months, Imperial and Fabco were sold so that Accuride could reinvest the proceeds in its core business. Brillion Iron Works could have been next, but a closer look at the financials changed Dauch's mind.
"Part of Brillion's business was castings sold to Gunite." he said. "When we pulled the two units' financials apart, we found that Brillion was selling castings to Gunite at lower than market pricing and machining parts for Gunite, losing 30%. After looking at that, Brillion's performance wasn't as bad as we thought."
The Accuride management team began looking at what needed to be done to improve Brillion. All machining was removed from Brillion and shifted to Gunite, where the company was significantly investing in the machining operations. This left Brillion to focus solely on making castings. Its cost and pricing structures were re-evaluated. Money from the sales of Imperial and Fabco helped fund repairs and capital investments at Gunite and Brillion. Between 2011 and 2014, almost 65% of Brillion's managers were replaced.
"The management team that is now in place is focused on profitable operations utilizing modern manufacturing practices and satisfying our customer's requirements," said Brad Rolfe, vice president, sales and marketing.
The new management, comprised largely of engineers, quickly and steadily implemented lean manufacturing throughout the operation.
"We were put in a mindset to have an organized, clear mind for the business," Adams said. "The process wasn't in control, and we used a structured process to identify where we needed to invest."
Profitability Through Lean
As part of the lean process, Adams and the Brillion management team reorganized the facility's four loosely coordinated buildings on site into two business units with separate profit and loss statements. Operations management of each business unit, or plant, is accountable for operational effectiveness and discipline. Plant 1, or Plant Peters as Brillion calls it, melts 20 tons/hour, and Plant Gabler melts 40 tons/an hour. A third building, Plant Larson, houses maintenance and raw material. The Peters and Gabler plants, or business units, have their own melting, coremaking, molding and finishing operations.
Using value stream mapping, the team identified areas in the process that were causing the biggest issues.
"The team developed action plans and have realized fantastic results which include, but are not limited to, improving lead time by more than 30%, reducing days inventory on hand, increasing overall equipment effectiveness, better quality through improved process capability and increased productivity," said Greg Neumeyer, Brillion campus lean manager of manufacturing strategy and Plant Peters manager.
Brillion implemented a schedule wheel in which production control sets the schedule, which smooths and levels production on the mold lines in a sequence that allows for the most efficient operation of the unit.
"It's critical to the foundry that you don't jump chemistries to move a customer in the schedule," Adams said.
Applying lean principles to production scheduling freed up staff time that had been used to figure out when to pour a job.
"We have also used lean for transactions, from order entry to request for quote, and for safety and environment activities," Neumeyer said. "Lean allowed this American company to recover."
By stabilizing scheduling, reducing overtime usage and achieving more uptime on the lines, Brillion reduced its break-even point by 30%. With sales down in 2013, the company was still profitable, despite the lower revenue.
"Lean doesn't mean anything if it doesn't show up in financial performance," Adams said. "Because of lean, we are a viable business, and now, as the market comes back and we remain lean, you can imagine the implications."
In conjunction with implementing process control and lean manufacturing, Accuride invested a total of $23 million at Brillion Iron Works from 2011 to 2014, with more still to come in the next two years for coremaking and finishing equipment.
"Twenty-five percent of that first investment was simple—fixing roofs, drainage, safety-related issues, lighting," Dauch said. "Some of the first investments were to clean up the lunchroom, break rooms and bathrooms so people can have a good working environment."
Next, Brillion began investing in repairing its equipment, section by section. This included about $10 million to the DISA molding line and 1980s-era BMD molding line. Another $8 million was invested in increasing finishing capacity, adding automatic grinding machines and replacing coremaking equipment.
"Since we have added automatic grinding, our production has doubled and injuries are down," said Troy Wendling, finishing coordinator. Brillion currently automatically grinds 20% of its castings.
Over the course of the next three to four years, Brillion will invest $5-$7 million a year to replace 35 existing coremaking machines with 14 new machines that will result in increased capacity and higher quality. Another $6-$10 million is planned to streamline grinding and shotpeening.
"We benchmarked some of our competitors here and overseas," Dauch said. "We see that we need to make these investments. You can't expect to be globally competitive if your workforce doesn't have capable equipment, good tooling and a real, true lean manufacturing system."
Other Brillion priorities for 2014, according to Adams, include improving safety metrics by 25-50%, growing revenues with $10 million or more in new business wins, achieving long-term agreements with customers, and continuous operational improvement and lean system implementation.
"The order of importance for focus is 1) safety, 2) quality, 3) delivery and 4) financial performance," Adams said.
Support of Union Contract
In 2013, Brillion also ironed out a five-year contract with its union that gives a sense of workforce stability for both management and its more than 400 hourly employees. One of the negotiated items that became effective was a pay-for-performance program based on scrap, productivity and safety. Company savings in these categories are shared 50/50 with employees, up to a maximum payout of $1,000 per employee per year. Results are posted on company bulletin boards.
"Right now, the employees are really improving scrap performance," said Thomas Burke, vice president, operations.
Another part of the contract stipulates that Brillion can add work crews as the market dictates for capacity reasons.
"The contract addressed an overcomplicated classification structure and is now competitive," Dauch said. "I give the union leadership kudos for working with the company."
According to Rick Konrad, president of the United Steel Workers at Brillion and maintenance repair technician, the staff at the iron casting operations are responding positively to the changes taking place.
"Relations are a lot better now than they have been," he said. "We had some issues when times got slow on how things were handled. But the relationship has gotten a lot better; we are working together to solve problems. I think people are starting to see that some of the changes have paid off."
With so much changing in a three-year span—new management, new flow of operations on the plant floor, separating into Plant Peters and Plant Gabler, implementing lean manufacturing—engaging the hourly workforce was critical.
"The people need to hear why these changes need to be made," Konrad said. "Once they understood, I don't think the transition was quite so hard. That's the biggest hurdle. If they don't know why, they want to buck it."
When Dauch first started at Accuride, he recognized the casting facility's failings were not due to the plant workers, and he understood clear communication would help convince them to fully participate in the upcoming changes.
"If you give people all the information, they can come to the logical decision we made, as well," he said.
After seeing profits in 2013 and a healthy increase in sales through the second quarter of 2014, Brillion is transitioning into the grow phase of its "Fix and Grow" strategy.
"All the work we have done across Accuride in the last three years has put us in position to be competitive in quality, delivery, safety and cost," Dauch said.
As part of its fix phase, Brillion Iron Works had re-evaluated its pricing structure. It raised prices based on supply and demand in 2011 and 2012 and raised prices on jobs where the operation was selling at a loss. Using this mentality, the organization will seek organic growth through profitably winning market share against its competitors and filling its current capacity of 140,000 tons. At Brillion, continued growth will require additional investment in the core room and grinding operations and eventually in another casting line.
Accuride has committed to making continued investments to enable Brillion to become a globally competitive casting facility. Brillion Iron Works is in a better position now than it was five years ago, when Accuride filed for bankruptcy. With stronger financials, better process control and flow, and upgraded equipment, the iron casting facility is in a much better position to compete in an ever consolidating foundry industry and positively contribute to Accuride Corporation's bottom line.
"The management team brought process discipline and standardization of processes across our plants," said Timothy Weir, Accuride director of public affairs, communications and marketing. "This stems directly from the human beings who drive it and those who support that vision. They are technically strong people, and what they've accomplished has been transformational."


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Dr Stavros Pelekanos received his undergraduate degree in Dentistry (D.D.S.) in 1991 from the University of Athens, Greece. In 1993, he obtained his doctoral degree in Prosthodontics from the University of Freiburg (Prof. Dr. J.R. Strub), Germany. Following his professional training, Dr Pelekanos established a private practice in Athens, oriented towards prosthodontics, implantology and esthetic dentistry.
In 2002, he was appointed full-time Lecturer at the Department of Prosthodontics, Dental School, University of Athens, Greece, and is now Assistant Professor in the same department. Since 2013, he is an active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED). His professional affiliations include the International College of Prosthodontics (ICP), European Prosthodontic Association (EPA), Greek Prosthodontic Association and many others. He is a faculty member of gIDE Institute (Global Institute of Dental Education, Los Angeles, California) and Dental Tribune CME lecturing internationally and performing hands on courses on implants, esthetics and restorative procedures.
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* Hi Julia, what art form do you work in?
I am a writer. I am mostly writing poetry these days, but started as a short story writer. I find myself writing stories quarterly, whereas I write poems daily.
* How did you first become interested in the arts?
My sophomore year in high school I took a class titled Theme of Loss, and the two teachers, Ms. Klein and Ms. Miller, introduced to me the stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Tillie Olsen, J. D. Salinger, and John Irving. I remember most of what I read in that class and remember too thinking how great it would be to be able to write something that could change the way someone thought about the world, the way their stories changed the way I thought about mine.
* Do you have any advice for aspiring writers or artists in general?
Read as much as you can. Read broadly. Don't let fear stop you. Love what you're doing. Trust that you'll find your way.
* How does teaching affect your own art?
I love being able to spend my days with children and with words. Their words inspire me. It is both work and play and I try to make sure they know this about writing too.
* By the end of a week with you, what are a few things you hope most participants have learned?
To trust their own voice. To not be afraid to say what they have to say. It is so important that they hear their own writing out loud. Words have both meaning and sound. Most students don't read anything out loud in class, so to read their own writing is intimidating. But it is also important. All my favorite poems I heard out loud first. So I read poems to them and have them read theirs. And hopefully by the end of the week, they are more comfortable with words, their own and others.
It's a pretty cool thing to be able to work with students all around the state. And it makes the state feel more like home to me. Just knowing that there are kids in Eyota, Rochester, Roseau, Janesville, St. Paul, Holdingford, Hastings, Detroit Lakes, Mazeppa and Zumbrota that I've worked with over the years, gives all those places faces and names and stories that I remember. Many of them are grown-ups now and I hope stories and poems are still a part of their lives.
It is through the arts that education comes alive. We know the world through our senses and art is something that requires that we use our senses to experience it. I also believe that through our stories, we create both community and understanding. Community, for me, is sharing our experiences, our lives, and the beauty around us.
I write a poem just about every day. Ditto for taking pictures. And when the words aren't coming, I paint.
* You recently had your second book, Untranslatable published. Can you tell us a little about it? What was the inspiration for it?
Untranslatable is a book of poems written from untranslatable words—words that exist in other languages that we don't have in English. January was the inspiration. Winter. I stumbled on a list of ten untranslatable words--words like komorebi (Japanese) that means the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees—and started writing. It was escape mostly. Escape from winter and the closed in world that January in Minnesota has to offer. I loved that words like mokita (New Guinean) the truth everyone knows but nobody says, exists, even if we don't have that word in English.
* What does it feel like to be a published author? Does it feel different the second time around?
It does feel different the second time around. I think it feels a little like running a race. The first time you are so happy you made it to the finish, elated. The second time you know you can finish, and there is a strength in that. I think too, that the focus shifts. It becomes more about the writing, and less about that fact that you are writing it. For me, writing is always best when I'm the least important part of it. When it is about the words or the idea or the feeling or the moment and I am just the means for getting it onto paper.


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Funding the NHS
According to Politics Home this morning:
The chairs of 21 select committees have signed a letter to Theresa May calling for an "urgent" parliamentary commission on health spending.
The MPs warn of a "serious decline in services" unless prompt action is taken by ministers.
"We call on the government to act with urgency and to take a whole system approach to the funding of the NHS, social care and public health," said Health committee chair Sarah Wollaston.
"On behalf of all those who rely on services, we need to break down the political barriers and to agree a way forward."
The letter says a commission could gather evidence and report to the Government by Easter next year.
I have to say that this is wholly unnecessary. We can afford the NHS. I argued the case for that at the Royal Society of Medicine last August. Sarah Wollaston was there. She clearly was not listening.
G Hewitt says:
March 26 2018 at 8:52 am
Listening but not hearing or not understanding. But then she's a Tory. Hunt has the answer though…a hypothecated tax.
I suspect this is just window dressing, appearing to be concerned but actually doing nothing.
Richard Murphy says:
I will repost my thoughts on that
Andy Crow says:
March 26 2018 at 12:11 pm
Which will almost certainly, if pursued, be in the form of an increase in NI contributions which are about as regressive a tax as there is.
And they'll 'sell' it easily enough because the right wing media is right behind the idea of hypothecation. It fits the tax and spend narrative. It will be 'popular' suggestion.
Jim Green says:
March 26 2018 at 11:18 am
Sarah Wollaston et al need to either wake up to or admit the fact that the 'serious decline in services' actually is part of the on-going and successful plan for NHS privatisation. That will be the future of the NHS unless a new government (there is no hope that the current one will change its neoliberal spots) gets forthrightly behind a NHS Reinstatement Bill:
http://www.nhsbillnow.org/
or something similar, plus gets its head around the fact that any sovereign government has the power to fully fund high quality public services.
Tony_B says:
No Hunt is sounding out if a hypothecated tax, or threat of, can be a weapon to continue destruction of our social health service under the heading "Is the NHS worth what we are paying for it?". A chorus to bellow in the Liars Music Hall (House of Commons).
March 26 2018 at 4:26 pm
Interesting take, on the hypothecation issue,Tony_B.
I'm not arguing.
I think it was Chomsky who pointed out that first they underfund it, then when it doesn't work and people want change they say that privatisation is the only answer.
But apparently the NHS is the last bastion of communism, according to Prof K Sikora, cancer specialist, freelance economics expert and medical director of a private health firm who says we need to pay more for health insurance. Meanwhile, another medical expert, Dr Henry Marsh, who thinks private health care is parasitic, likes the idea of a hypothecated tax. But at least they both agree that the NHS (in England) is disintegrating and suffering death by a thousand cuts.
On the other hand, there is another way…..
RobinT50 says:
One question that always bothers me with neoliberal economics is 'do they geninely believe it is better for for the country, or are they knowingly just looking after themselves?' I suppose the former can be forgiven, the latter is beyond contempt.
Does anyone know the answer?
Schofield says:
Hardly anybody understands that money is both a flow and a thing (actually stored promise) preferring to regard it as the latter and if you don't have enough of it saved tough you've got to wait for that vital healthcare procedure. Humanity still at a primitive stage of evolution!
QSR says:
In fully self aware self defeating pessimism, I no longer have support for the NHS because I expect the NHS to be unsupported.
While our society may be able to fully afford the NHS, I have absolutely zero trust that any increases in NHS funding would not also coincide with increased taxation.
I would expect this burden to fall disproportionately on the younger side of the workforce (of which I am part of), and be "justified" by the ever escalating costs of an ageing population.
I would then expect demographic changes to remove the necessity for strong healthcare support for the aged population over time.
This, again, I would expect to undermine the need for political support of the NHS.
The end result is that I expect any sufficient provision of resources for the NHS to be used as a political weapon to harm those in my demographic now, and again in a few decades time.
This is the kind of behaviour that I expect of UK government – irrespective of party.
Therefore while I know that:
* it is in the best interests of society to fund the NHS
* our society can afford the NHS
I expect that:
* the NHS will be used as a weapon to damage those of my demographic by our own government.
It is also true that I cannot afford private healthcare, and any failure of the NHS is a gamble with mine and my loved ones health.
Despite this, it seems to me that it is in my and my loved ones best interest for the NHS to be abolished ASAP, allowing the true cost of healthcare to be made clear.
This should allow for a stronger argument for higher wages ( for those who are lucky enough) to pay for the needed private healthcare to reduce that gamble.
The one important point that I want you to take away is that I have so little faith in the UK, Gov and people, that I do not believe in doing what I think is best, but in minimising the harm that others can do to me via manipulation of the apparatus of the state.
To save the NHS requires not only stropping those who will directly profit from its end, nor convincing those with an ideological opposition to it, nor those who selfishly think they will save money, but in convincing people who think the former groups have already won.
I admit I find that very sad


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Tonight we receive Lil Wayne's Carter V album, but while we stare at the clock and patiently for wait its arrival, some new information has surfaced ahead of time. According to an exclusive report from OnSmash, the late XXXTentacion will be featured on a track off the upcoming Carter V album!
There was no listing of X on the rumored tracklist that's been circulating online the past couple weeks, but then again that's why it was rumored. Unfortunately, there's no other information about the possible collab, like what the song is called or who produced it, but we'll find all that out in a matter of hours.


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O Teatro Nacional Lucian Blaga, em Cluj-Napoca, Romênia, é uma das instituições teatrais mais prestigiadas da Romênia. O teatro divide o mesmo prédio com a Ópera Romena.

A construção do Teatro Nacional Lucian Blaga começou em 1904 e foi concluída em 1906. Foi projetado pelos famosos arquitetos austríacos Ferdinand Fellner e Hermann Helmer, que projetaram vários teatros e palácios em toda a Europa no final do século XIX e início do século XX, incluindo os teatros em Iași, Oradea, Timișoara e Chernivtsi (em romeno: Cernăuți).

Desde 1919, quando Cluj passou para a administração romena, o prédio tem sido a sede do Teatro Nacional Romeno e da Ópera Romena local, enquanto o Teatro e a Ópera Húngara locais receberam o prédio do teatro na rua Emil Isac, próximo ao Parque Central e ao rio Someșul Mic.

Após a Segunda Arbitragem de Viena de 1940 e a anexação da Transilvânia do Norte pela Hungria, o prédio voltou a ser a sede do Teatro Húngaro. Em 31 de outubro de 1944, os atores romenos e húngaros celebrando a liberdade da cidade realizaram uma apresentação conjunta, cuja receita foi doada aos soldados feridos russos e romenos.

O salão tem capacidade para novecentos e vinte e oito lugares, sendo concebido no estilo neobarroco, com algumas inflexões inspiradas pelo  na decoração do foyer.

O prédio do Teatro Nacional Lucian Blaga está listado no Registro Nacional de Monumentos Históricos devido à sua importância cultural.

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Claude Rains (Louis): What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Claude Rains (Louis): The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): I was misinformed.
The uber stand out was Elise Campello as Julia Sullivan. She is such a full package of talent. She brings everything to the show and makes it a tour-de-force every time the lights come on the stage.
Remember that I told you that the former Numark space was about to be re-used as a gallery space?
Amy Morton of Morton Fine Art introduces a pop-up project, a series of innovative, curated art exhibitions and events that "pop-up" at various locations throughout Washington, DC.
The concept for a pop-up project evolved from Morton's desire to introduce strong and relevant contemporary artists to the Washington, DC area in a fresh and exciting format. The project emphasizes the development and exposure of high-quality contemporary artworks in innovative settings and locations. a pop-up project aims to develop and promote local DC talent alongside national talent.
a pop-up project will host pop-up group exhibitions, lectures and events at venues throughout the DC area. For its inaugural exhibition a pop-up project will open I Dream Awake from March 18 to May 28, 2010 in the former Numark Gallery space located in Penn Quarter at 625-627 E St NW.
To the 32 finalists for the Mayor's Arts Awards! Congrats especially to the WPA, Margery Goldberg, Transformer and Andrew Wodzianski on their respective noms!
· Thomas Kingston Pierre, Jr.
My good bud Jeffry Cudlin has his take on last weekend's Armory show in NYC. Read it here.
What is it with visual art critics who are always yearning for the "new"? - that dangling carrot of the art world... I mean the "visual art world" - that doesn't seem to apply to any of the other genres and forms of art as universally speaking as to what critics want from visual artists.
I refer them all to the lyrics of The Beatles' All You Need is Love.
"Kinetics" is the latest solo show by the DC area's superbly talented artist Amy Lin.
The opening reception is on Saturday, March 13, 5-7pm at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, 1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20007. The exhibition dates: March 13-April 24, 2010.