This compact sonar range finder by Maxbotix detects objects from 0 to 6.45 m (21.2 ft) with a resolution of 2.5 cm (1") for distances beyond 15 cm (6"). Unlike other sonar range finders, the LV-MaxSonar has virtually no dead zone: it can detect even small objects up to and touching the front sensor face!
The EZ0, EZ1, EZ2, EZ3, and EZ4 versions have progressively narrower beam angles.
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The Maxbotix LV-MaxSonar-EZ family of sonar range finders offers very short- to long-range detection and ranging in an incredibly small package with ultra-low power consumption. The LV-MaxSonar-EZ detects objects from 0 to 6.45 meters (21.2 feet) and provides sonar range information beyond 15 cm (6") with a resolution of 2.5 cm resolution (1 in). Objects between 0 and 15 cm range as 15 cm. The sensor provides three output interfaces, all of which are active simultaneously: digital pulse width output, analog voltage output, and asynchronous serial digital output. The LV-MaxSonar is available in five factory-calibrated beam patterns (EZ0-4).
For a higher-resolution, longer-range version, please consider the XL-MaxSonar-EZ and XL-MaxSonar-AE families of distance sensors.
Since there are 15 members of the XL- and LV-MaxSonar acoustic distance sensor family, we recommend using the Maxbotix sonar range finder selection guide when choosing a acoustic range sensor for your application. There are 5 different beam configurations for the LV-MaxSonar family (EZ0 – EZ4), each pictured below.


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using SSPES.BD;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace SSPES.Models {
    public class PersonaModel {

        public string Nombre_1 { get; set; }
        public string Nombre_2 { get; set; }
        public string Apellido_1 { get; set; }
        public string Apellido_2 { get; set; }
        public string T_documento { get; set; }
        public string N_documento { get; set; }
        public string Telefono { get; set; }
        public string Correo { get; set; }
        public string rol { get; set; }

        Conexion con = new Conexion();

        public int ConsultarIdUsuario(PersonaModel obj) {
            string sql = "SELECT PK_PERSONA FROM PERSONA where(N_DOCUMENTO='" + obj.N_documento + "');";
            foreach (DataRow row in con.EjecutarConsulta(sql, CommandType.Text).Rows) {
                return Int32.Parse(row[0].ToString());
            }
            return -1;
        }

        public string ConsultarNombresUsuario(int pk) {
            string sql = "SELECT NOMBRE_1, APELLIDO_1 FROM PERSONA where(PK_PERSONA='" + pk + "');";
            DataTable dt = con.EjecutarConsulta(sql, CommandType.Text);
            string nombres = dt.Rows[0]["NOMBRE_1"].ToString() + " " + dt.Rows[0]["APELLIDO_1"];
            return nombres;
        }

        public DataTable ConsultarDatosPersonas() {
            string sql = "SELECT t.N_DOCUMENTO as Documento, t.NOMBRE_1 as Nombre,t.APELLIDO_1 as Apellido,t.CELULAR as Celular,t.CORREO as Correo FROM persona t order by t.NOMBRE_1;";
            return con.EjecutarConsulta(sql, CommandType.Text);
        }

        public bool InsertarNuevaPersona(PersonaModel obj) {
            string fecha = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd H:mm:ss");
            string sql = "INSERT INTO PERSONA (NOMBRE_1, NOMBRE_2, APELLIDO_1, APELLIDO_2, T_DOCUMENTO, N_DOCUMENTO,";
            sql = sql + " CELULAR, CORREO, REGISTRO) VALUES";
            sql = sql + "('{0}','{1}','{2}','{3}','{4}','{5}','{6}','{7}','{8}');";
            string[] ar = new string[1];
            ar[0] = string.Format(sql, obj.Nombre_1, obj.Nombre_2, obj.Apellido_1, obj.Apellido_2, obj.T_documento
                    , obj.N_documento, obj.Telefono, obj.Correo, fecha);
            return con.RealizarTransaccion(ar);
        }
    }
}

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A Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame egy amerikai történeti múzeum Springfieldben, Massachusetts-ben. Fő célja a kosárlabda sporttörténetének megőrzése. Nevét a kanadai-amerikai orvosról, James Naismith-ről kapta, aki a kosárlabda sportjának kitalálója. A múzeumot 1959-ben nyitották meg, ebben az évben iktattak be először játékosokat.

A 2021-es osztállyal együtt eddig 426 személyt iktattak be a Hall of Fame-be.

Beiktatási kritérium
A labdarúgó és baseball Hall of Fame-ekkel ellentétben a Springfield nemzetközi és amerikai sportolókról is megemlékezik, illetve amatőrökről is. 2011 és 2015 között hét bizottság, azóta pedig hat bizottság dönt a jelöltekről. Ezen bizottságok közül négy választ lehetséges jelölteket:

 Észak-Amerikai Szűrő Bizottság (9 tag)
 Női Szűrő Bizottság (7 tag)
 Nemzetközi Szűrő Bizottság (7 tag)
 Veterán Szűrő Bizottság (7 tag), olyan személy illik a veteránok közé, akinek karrierje legalább 35 évvel megválasztása előtt befejeződött

2011 óta a Veterán és a Nemzetközi Bizottság is közvetlenül szavaz egy jelölt beiktatására, minden évben.

Az alábbi három bizottságot 2011-ben alapították, hogy beiktassanak közvetlenül egy jelöltet minden évben:

 American Basketball Association (ABA) Bizottság: ezt a bizottságot 2015-ben véglegesen feloszlatták
 Közreműködő, Közvetlenül Választó Bizottság
 A bizottság létezésének ellenére más bizottságok is választhatnak közreműködőket.
 "A játék korai afroamerikai úttörői" Bizottság

Azon személyek, akik legalább hét szavazatot kapnak az Észak-Amerikai Szűrő Bizottságtól, vagy ötöt bármely másik bizottságtól egy évben, azok továbbjutnak a végső döntőbizottsághoz, amely 12+12 tagból áll, akik minden jelöltre szavaznak. Minden bizottság egy adott számú jelöltet jelölhet évente, az Észak-Amerikai 10-et, a többi kettőt. Azon jelöltek, akik legalább 18 szavazatot (a szavazatok 75%-át) megszereznek a döntőbizottságtól, beiktatásra kerülnek.

Ahhoz, hogy jelöljenek egy személyt, a játékosnak, visszavonult edzőnek és a bírónak már legalább három szezonnal korábban be kellett fejeznie karrierjét. Korábban ez öt év volt, majd 2015 és 2017 között négy. Aktív edzőket az után iktatnak be, hogy 25 évet eltöltöttek a pozíciójukban és legalább 60 évesek.

Beiktatott játékosok listája

Beiktatott edzők listája

Beiktatott közreműködők listája

Beiktatott bírók listája

Beiktatott csapatok listája

Források

 Hivatalos weboldal

Hivatkozások

Kosárlabda témájú listák
Kosárlabda

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Rising from the depths of the bass music world underground, SQUNTO quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with. Gaining support and recognition far and wide, SQUNTO has come on strong combining unparalleled skills behind the decks with genre-defining tracks supported by some of the biggest names in Dubstep. Cinematic intros, dark undertones and bruising basslines, mixed and chopped with the highest degree of technical skill on a deadly soundsystem are the hallmarks of a SQUNTO performance.
SQUNTO's breakout collaboration with German deathstep artist Code:Pandorum "Wall of Death" took the bass music scene completely by storm, creating a cultural movement and further amalgamating the quickly blurring lines between heavy bass music and metal culture. Crowds all over the world have split to 'wall of death' themselves and artists like Downlink and Figure have made it a staple in their sets. Since then, SQUNTO has gone on to redefine heavy bass music with releases such as "Sayim," "Deth Bounce" and "Justa," as well pushing the needle with new classics like "Thunderdome" w/ Subtronics and "Lit" w/ Boogie T.
What especially sets SQUNTO apart from the pack is his ability to perform live. Ushering in a new paradigm of what is possible with audio + video synchronicity are his infamous MegaChop sets which see the master chopping up to eight tracks simultaneously. Not to be outdone with the Ableton-based MegaChop, SQUNTO is also a surgeon behind the CDJ decks with his patented doubles, tripples, mash-ups, and even quad drops.
With a slew of international dates, huge festivals and relentless performances across North America, including the co-headline 'Strike Back Tour' with Boogie T and support on Snails' 'The Shell Tour' in 2018, as well the direct support slot for Excision's 2019 'Apex Tour,' SQUNTO continues to grow and to carve out his unique place in bass music. Those who have witnessed his acts of low-end destruction and follow his online presence know that SQUNTO is destined for very big things.
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At Nabil, our Vision is to be a bank for all across all geopolitical zones and socioeconomic strata of the nation that can provide myriads of financial solutions and create values for all our stakeholders, to stand in the community with our economic and civic roles. We look forward to emerging as a first rate bank across all strata of the nation.
We at Nabil work together up to our vision and to bring it into reality. Our mission is therefore to prove that Nabil is driven by he spirit for realizing those visionary aspirations. With that end in view, we work in partnership with our stakeholders and the community at large. Our roadmap to reaching where we have set our mind on is by maneuvering our strategic action plans through a well-teamed and synergistic workforce into industrial end products – our customized services. Our approaches are to differentiate our products by reengineering them with the best technologies and management philosophy keeping in focus our customers' satisfaction over and above everything else at all times. We have set our goals and objectives to hone the skills of inspired HR force and tailor our products and services to that end. With an all-inclusive approach Nabil engages in customizing ranges of products catering to the entire gamut of society from financing megaprojects to underprivileged individuals and promoting enterprises across all segments of society by adding values to nation building endeavours. We are branching out on a national scale through our wide-ranging points of representation representing different geographic and economic zones along with our broad global network as a 1st CHOICE PROVIDER OF COMPLETE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS.
We surge to turn our services and products into economic values for our treasured customers, taking care of their financial needs. We know the world is changing and to keep pace with that we customize our services and re-engineer our products in sync with changing time and technology. We are always geared up for translating great aspirations of our stakeholders into economic and social values. We know our customers expect unparalleled service standards; our community looks forward to seeing the bank emerging as responsible corporate entities that cherish social and economic harmonies in the community. We go beyond just making profits. Our shareholders value financial returns together with the safety of their investments. At Nabil, values for its employees are always well-defined, for it always knows that staffs are great movers, therefore recognizing their financial, corporate and social values get their spirits always going to the creative end. Nabil fosters corporate governance, realizing the values our regulators always cherish through financial disciplines. Besides, Bank has set C.R.I.S.P. (Customer Focused, Result Oriented, Innovative, Synergistic and Professional) as its values, which it lives by in day to day operation of the bank's business.


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This vacuum is small and powerful. Very lightweight and easy to carry in and out of your car. The dry filter is different from what I'm used to using. It is a blue cloth that covers the wet use filter. Simple enough. I wouldn't mind the hose to be a little longer, but for the size it works great.
The Shop-Vacs are a very good machine. I have had like 4 over 20 years and they all were amazing. They work great for cleaning the car, very handy and I've always liked the suction it is always strong not like others I have tried. The wet ones the buckets are so easy to clean up afterwards, They are just a great machine to have around your home and cars. A 10 here!!!
This might be the next type of vacuum I will try. It seems to have worked well for others.


The NSW Government has funded $36 million to address safety concerns for this section of the highway.
Roads and Maritime Services has upgraded and realigned 6.5 kilometres of the Newell Highway north of Parkes. The work extends from 36.7 to 43.1 kilometres north of Parkes.
The Trewilga Newell Highway realignment project officially opened to traffic on Friday 9 February 2018.
Roads, Maritime and Freight Minister Melinda Pavey officially opened the upgraded Newell Highway at Trewilga, on time and on budget.
Mrs Pavey said work on the $36 million upgrade and realignment started in July 2016 to improve road user safety and address the high casualty crash rate along this busy section of the highway.
"The NSW Government is committed to reducing the number of accidents on our roads and this project is another piece of the puzzle which will benefit motorists and the community for years to come.
Minister Pavey said the local workforce also got involved with the project with around 80 per cent of the workers living locally or within the region.
"This project generated considerable local employment and jobs ranging from traffic control to crane operation and concreting.
"The aim is always to create as much local employment as possible with projects on state roads and the safety upgrade and realignment at Trewilga has done just that.
The Newell Highway extends from the Victorian border to the Queensland border and is an important link for freight movements. Heavy vehicles make up about 31 per cent of traffic along this section of the highway with the majority being 26 metre B-doubles. The volume of heavy vehicle traffic is expected to increase annually.
The majority of the Newell Highway has a posted speed limit of 110 km/h. The section of the highway at Trewilga was posted at 100 km/h and the upgrade has bought this section up to 110 km/h.
The project has improved the safety of the highway for road users and addressed the high casualty crash rate along this section. It has also upgraded the 'missing link' along the Newell by raising the speed limit from 100 km/h to 110 km/h as Trewilga was the only rural section of road between Forbes and Gilgandra that had a speed limit of 100 km/h.
Truck parking areas on the eastern side of the highway.
The community has participated in a two-way exchange of information with Roads and Maritime Services about the Trewilga realignment project.
How has the community been kept informed?
Roads and Maritime staff had one-on-one meetings with affected residents and held staffed displays at the Peak Hill Services Club in May 2012 and Peak Hill Community hall in November 2016.


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Pekka Halonen, The Factory of Leppäkoski, 1917
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Factory landscape in Ladoga Karelia
This year marks the 150th anniversary since the birth of artist Professor Pekka Halonen (1865–1933) who is known for his depictions of forest interpretations of Finnish winter landscape. In winter 1917, he painted two winter landscapes at Leppäkoski mills (Leppäkoski Fabrikers Aktiebolag) in Karelia on Lake Ladoga. Both oil paintings belong nowadays to Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation's collections.
Mill owner Gösta Serlachius from Mänttä acted as the chair of the board 1913–1918.Posterity has no knowledge of whether Serlachius commissioned the artworks directly from the artist himself or whether they came from another source. The artworks depict a view of a snowy factory site with its chimneystack and buildings made of bricks or painted with red ochre paint. The artist has outlined one of the paintings so that behind the snow stack standing on the foreground, one can see a dammed rapid through which the water from Jänisjärvi flows toward Lake Ladoga.
Leppäkoski was located in the rural municipality of Sortavala, subsequently called Harlu municipality since 1922, in the middle reach of River Jänisjoki, north of the industrial centre of Läskelä, which lied closer to the Lake Ladoga shore. Factory complex consisted of a power plant, a saw mill as wells as paper and brick factories. The area was familiar to Pekka Halonen for his wife Maija (formerly Mäkinen) was born in Myllykylä, a quite a small village of the rural municipality of Sortavala. The distance between Myllykylä and Leppäkoski was by road about 35 kilometres.
The paintings were completed one year before Serlachius gave up his position as the chairman of the board of Leppäkoski mills in 1918. Paper industry suffered of recession after Finland became independent. This resulted in Serlachius selling his shares of Leppäkoski in 1924. Four years after this he stated that businesswise Leppäkoski had been the biggest act of stupidity he had taken in his life.
Halonen was presumably commissioned to paint the artworks. It must have been closer to his heart to paint the snowy old pine trees of Karelia than the industrial production plants. The forest was an unending treasury of motifs for Halonen whereas Serlachius saw it as a stock of raw material that he, however, also could enjoy spending his free time there hunting or fishing.
Beside Leppäkoski, Gösta Serlachius has another point of reference in Karelia. In 1915 he has acquired at Suistamo and Impilahti several forestry holdings, which in 1916 constituted the over 6000-hectare-wide Syskyjärven Hovi Oy. Serlachius owned the forestry holding until the Spring 1928.
Finnish artists had made pilgrimages to different parts of Karelia since the first part of 1890s. Serlachius invited artists to Syskyjärvi to work and "to be hosted in an genuinely Karelian environment". Also Pekka Halonen was invited there just before Syskyjärvi was sold. Presumably he never made the trip to Syskyjärvi before it was sold.
In late 1927 Serlachius had delivered a batch of paper. After receiving the delivery the artist had suggested an exchange where Halonen would trade one artwork depicting possibly Syskyjärvi to a second batch of paper. In exchange for paper sheets Serlachius would receive, according to Halonen, "a canvas slightly smeared with colour".
Marjo-Riitta Simpanen
Curator, art historian
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Jen Stirrup
Does Your Organisation Need A Data Whistleblower?
Does your organisation need data 'whistleblowers'? You may think that there's enough noise about data as it is. Sometimes, data quality in an organization is bad, but nobody takes any ownership. Improvements can permeate through the whole organisation by proposing that organisations sometimes need a data 'whistleblower' to expose the issues.
What is a whistleblower? Well, a data whistleblower is basically an individual who raises issues, sometimes subversively.
A data 'whistlerblower' is a 'go to' person, to whom employees can raise issues around data quality. It's basically a role, which denotes someone whom anyone can go to, in order to express a confidential concern about the quality of a piece data. There could be more than one whistleblower, for example; you could have one for each department.
Alternatively, team members could take turns to be the data whistleblower. This might help to promote adoption of data as a corporate-wide asset, in which it is everyone's interest to protect and maintain assiduously.
There are different ways in which this role could function. As a technical function, it could be as simple as setting up a wiki or a post-it noticeboard where people can go and record data quality issues anonymously or publicly. Alternatively, a more formal approach could be taken, whereby the data 'whistleblower' will take the collated data issues to a monthly business intelligence meeting. Results and feedback regarding data quality issues could be given via a SharePoint portal, or a monthly email newsletter.
Why might you need a data whistleblower? In my experience, I've seen cases where team members don't feel that they can raise data quality issues with source data owners, because it is simply too political and contentious, and they don't want to be in the firing line. This could be an indicator of the 'Anger' stages in Data Quality: please read Jim Harris' blog for more details on the Data Quality stages.
I've also seen cases of the Bystander Effect in data quality. The 'Bystander Effect' is where people don't intervene to help when they see a problem, perhaps because they think that the problem is so well-known, or highly-visible, that someone somewhere must be doing something about it. In other words, they might see a problem and do nothing about it, because of the dissemination of responsibility throughout the organisation.
What would a 'whistleblower' role mean to a business? It would allow users to become more involved in the data quality issues in an organisation, thereby allowing the 'business' in business intelligence to have a greater say in shaping their own data. It also means that data quality, which should be a corporate habit rather than a one-off project, can be made a part of the business culture.
Data is a corporate asset that belongs to everybody, so everyone can help to look after it without risking their own comfort in the workplace; yes, data quality can be that contentious! The idea of a data 'whistleblower' is to try and find a way through it. If you have any other ideas, I'd love to hear about them!
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RV CEO responds to new Sydney spring races
Racing Victoria's chief executive says the traditional features in Melbourne will retain their prominence despite Racing NSW announcing another new rich race for Sydney's spring program.
RV's chief executive Giles Thompson issued a statement in reaction to Wednesday's announcement by Racing NSW that a new $7.5 million race, the Golden Eagle, would be run for the first time at Rosehill on November 2 for four-year-olds.
It will be on the same day as the Victoria Derby program at Flemington in Melbourne.
Two other $1 million races were also announced for Sydney on the Saturdays either side of the Golden Eagle, adding to Sydney's spring carnival.
Thompson said it would be in the best interests of Australian racing if the bodies could act more collaboratively.
"We hope that New South Wales' programming initiatives do serve to grow the overall fan base of racing by encouraging new people into our sport and we wish them well in their endeavours to achieve that," Thompson said.
"On face value, it would appear that there will be an impact on the existing Australian Pattern of races as a result of this announcement and we will be working to understand this over the coming period.
"This announcement has not changed our focus on ensuring that Victorian racing remains successful and continues to deliver nation-high attendances, wagering, field sizes and international participation.
"The marquee events of the (Victorian) Spring Racing Carnival have been built over more than 150 years and retain an important place in the heart of Australians. This announcement is not going to change that."
The Golden Eagle purse is slightly higher than the current Melbourne Cup prize money so Wednesday's announcement means Sydney will have Australia's two richest thoroughbred races with The Everest and Golden Eagle.


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Nicolaus Mulerius (* , Bruges, Bélgica - † ), Groningen) foi professor de medicina e matemática na Universidade de Groningen, na Holanda, onde também exerceu o cargo de primeiro bibliotecário.

Vida
Seu nome original era Nicolaas des Mulier(s), filho de Pierre des Muliers e de sua esposa Claudia Le Vettre. Toda a sua infância ele passou em Bruges, onde teve aulas com Cruquius, dentre outros. A partir de 1582 estudou medicina na Universidade de Leiden, onde Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614), Rudolph Snellius (1546-1613) e Otto Heurnius (1577-1652) foram professores. Em 1589 casou-se com Christina Six, e em 1603 ganhou celebridade como médico em Groningen; em 1608 assumiu o cargo de mestre de escola na cidade de Leeuwarden. Em 1614 tornou-se professor de medicina e matemática na Universidade de Groningen. Entre 1619 – 1621 e 1626 - 1630, assumiu o posto de bibliotecário da Universidade de Groningen. Seu filho, Petrus Mulerius (1599-1647), mais tarde se tornaria professor de física e de botânica em Groningen (1628).

Em 1616, Nicolaus Mulerius publicou um livro sobre astronomia baseado na obra Tractatus de sphaera ("Tratado sobre a Esfera"), escrita por João de Sacrobosco, (c.1195 – c.1256) também conhecido como John of Holywood.

No mesmo ano de 1616, publicou a terceira edição, atualizada e com anotações de Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("Sobre as Revoluções dos Corpos Celestes").

Um relato da vida de Ubbo Emmius, manuscrita por Nicolaus Mulerius, foi publicado, com as vidas de outros professores de Groningen, nessa mesma cidade em 1638.

Obras
Naturae tabulae Frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices, quibus accessere solis ..., 1611
Institutionum astronomicarum libri duo, 1616
Iudæorum annus lunæ-solaris: et Turc-Arabum annus merê lunaris,1630
Naturae tabulae Frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices, quibus accessere solis ..., 1611
Nicolai Mulerii ... Exercitationes in Apocalypsin s. Johannis apostoli, 1691

Referências

Astrónomos da Bélgica
Bibliófilos
Bibliotecários da Bélgica
Escritores da Bélgica
Matemáticos da Bélgica
Médicos da Bélgica
Professores da Universidade de Groningen


ART is the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.
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Art classes run continuously through the academic year. Enrollment is normally available at any time, provided space is available.
For example there are "Mommy and Me" art classes for children ages 3 - 4. In this type of an environment the parent and child participate together. The format is normally freeform, and they are introductory art classes where emphasis is placed on fun. These courses can be single day or may meet one time a week for several weeks.
As children get older, they usually enjoy taking art classes with more emphasis on a form that they enjoy. Look for art classes tailored to that interest. Kids art classes are normally set up with a small group of children. Again, these types of art classes can be offered for one day only, or may take place one day a week for a set period of time.
Art classes are normally divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced groups. Your child will be placed in group based on their skill level and experience. Normally you will find 12-14 students per class.
The art of drawing is not a "gift." It's a skill that can be cultivated and improved over time. It's about seeing and creating form and space.
In a basic drawing class students draw such things as animals, characters, and still life, while learning drawing principles such as line, shape, texture, color, shading and design. In addition, class lessons are developed to encourage personal expression and creativity so that each student produces a unique finished piece.
Working with clay is excellent for fine motor skills and it also helps to improve eye/hand coordination.
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During this course students will explore the incredible flexibility of this medium. The classes will experiment in the different ways to apply the paint and tools to use to produce different effects.
They will learn how to scoop paint from a palette (mixing surface) to the canvas with chiseled shaped bristle brushes. In addition, they discuss brush strokes, how to blend, and spread paint upon a surface.
Painting is actually drawing with a brush. Therefore drawing skills are continuously stressed in any painting class. The better students draw, the better they will paint.
An introductory watercolor course is designed to teach two elementary activities: basic technology of painting with a brush, and use of watercolor as a particular medium.
This type of class will offer your child the chance to discover the fun of creating their own cartoon character. It allows them to put this character into funny situations and to enjoy seeing their comic strip ideas come to life. They will learn basic cartooning methods, explore their imagination and create a humorous illustration.
What Is the Commitment ?
Practice is important with art just as it is with any other sport or activity. It is important to reinforce the instruction taught in class and to constantly express creativity. It is just like learning how to play the piano, practice as much as possible and you will accomplish the task. We dedicate our time, you commit to practice.
Art classes teach students not only what to use, but also how to use and care for their materials.
Proper materials play an important role in a students' training. In most cases the art school will charge a materials fee and will provide appropriate supplies for your child. The choice of supplies used depends upon the age and skill level of the student.
The cost requirements will vary based on the type of class that your child is taking.


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Why Passphrases Are Still Better than Passwords & Fingerprints
Philip Bates May 30, 2016 30-05-2016 6 minutes
Remember the days when you set "password" as your password? Many still use such insanely insecure methods 25 Passwords You Need to Avoid, Use WhatsApp for Free... [Tech News Digest] 25 Passwords You Need to Avoid, Use WhatsApp for Free... [Tech News Digest] People keep using terrible passwords, WhatsApp is now completely free, AOL is considering changing its name, Valve approves of a fan-made Half-Life game, and The Boy With a Camera for a Face. Read More , but even the humble password has evolved.
We now use passcodes or passphrases wherever we go. They unlock your online banking, games accounts, and devices.
But to some, even these have been rendered superfluous, replaced by supposedly-superior validation practices. Here's why you should stick with passcodes and passphrases.
What Are Passcodes?
Most of us use passcodes or passphrases for our smartphones, emails, and other apps and services: they're simply a string of characters and digits, typically longer than a password. So if your password is MakeUseOf, this might translate into M@k3U$£0f2006!
"MakeUseOf" is easy to guess. Changing the majority of vowels into numbers, adding in the year this website was launched, and finishing it off with punctuation makes it much harder to figure out.
Perhaps the most important passcode we use all the time is the one to access Wi-Fi. It's initially a string of numbers, and upper- and lower-case letters. You can change it, but be sure to alter it to a passcode, not the name of your dog.
What's Wrong With These Other Processes?
In a bid to tackle hackers, firms are using or trialing other means of verification.
But nothing is infallible. Passcodes are still king.
We rely on Personal Identification Numbers (PINs). If you pay by card — and don't or can't use contactless payments Are Contactless Payment Systems A Threat To Your Finances? Are Contactless Payment Systems A Threat To Your Finances? Contactless payments have become more popular, but are they secure? What threats surround this new financial fad? More importantly, should you sign up? Read More — you need to put in a four-digit code. Many of us lock our smartphones with PINs. It seems pretty darn secure, especially considering that a four-digit number, consisting of the numbers 0 to 9, can have 10,000 potential combinations. If we factor in 6-digit codes (once again using 0 to 9) even without repeating a number, there are 136,080 possible combinations.
The chances someone would guess your PIN, whatever you may use one for, seem remote, but they might not be as astronomical as you'd initially think. This is especially true if your PIN is 1234 or a similarly-popular code How Safe Is Your PIN? [INFOGRAPHIC] How Safe Is Your PIN? [INFOGRAPHIC] Ah, the trusty PIN number, the 4 digits that separates you from your money. We use our bank PIN number in a wide variety of situations, whether it's taking money out of the ATM machine... Read More . Hackers can predict the action of an average person.
Your date of birth will be one of the first things cyber-criminals will find out about you, and further basic information isn't hard to come by Here's How Much Your Identity Could Be Worth on the Dark Web Here's How Much Your Identity Could Be Worth on the Dark Web It's uncomfortable to think of yourself as a commodity, but all of your personal details, from name and address to bank account details, are worth something to online criminals. How much are you worth? Read More on the Dark web. People set their PINs as something memorable, for obvious reasons, so some might elect to use their anniversary, year of their 21st birthday, or birthdates of parents or children.
More likely, a hacker would use a brute force attack What Are Brute Force Attacks and How Can You Protect Yourself? What Are Brute Force Attacks and How Can You Protect Yourself? Yyou've probably heard the phrase "brute force attack." But what, exactly, does that mean? How does it work? And how can you protect yourself against it? Here's what you need to know. Read More . Very basically, this is a programme that systematically runs through a multi-digit system. It may start with 0001 then continue 0002, 0003, and carry on in a similar fashion very quickly.
Normal Passwords
You might think that setting your password as something obscure should be alright: nobody will ever guess it's in another language, a personal pet-name, or your favorite Chesney Hawkes song… right?
While passwords are preferable to a pattern lock Which Is More Secure, A Password Or a Pattern Lock? Which Is More Secure, A Password Or a Pattern Lock? Our smartphones carry a lot of personal information. All of your text messages, emails, notes, apps, app data, music, pictures, and so much more are all on there. While it's a very great convenience to... Read More , if a hacker finds out enough details about you, they could make an educated guess as to what words you might use. How? They could buy details about you, or scour your blog and social media presence. Just take a look at how Digital Shadow pulls apart Facebook profiles Digital Shadow Exposes What Facebook Really Knows About You Digital Shadow Exposes What Facebook Really Knows About You While it began as a mere marketing stunt, Ubisoft's Digital Shadow remains a very useful (and potentially scary) application that shows you how much people can find out about you from Facebook. Read More and runs through potential passwords.
Even scarier, a hacker could employ a variation of the brute force attack called the dictionary attack. This runs on the same principle but further tries out strings of characters; its first attempts, though, specify words pinpointed by hackers as the most likely passwords. If they're not immediately successful, it might try adding years to the end.
It's worse if you use the same passwords for different accounts.
Arguably, your email password is the most important: if someone gains access to that, they could go through all the other accounts you might have and click "Forgot Password?" then reset them through that. You should definitely make sure you use a password unique to your email address. Wired's Mat Honan says:
"How do our online passwords fall? In every imaginable way: They're guessed, lifted from a password dump, cracked by brute force, stolen with a keylogger, or reset completely by conning a company's customer support department."
Touch ID seems like an ingenious way of securing your devices. Apple introduced it to their smartphones Why The Latest iPhone Announcement Was More Significant Than You Think [Opinion] Why The Latest iPhone Announcement Was More Significant Than You Think [Opinion] Another underwhelming iPhone was announced: the same size, the same basic features, and it doesn't even make your morning cup of coffee yet. Sigh. Read More with 2013's iPhone 5S and their iPads in 2014, and many saw it as a brilliant new security measure. Because fingerprints are unique. It seemed impossible that someone else could copy your fingerprint.
But they can. Of course they can.
We leave fatty fingerprint residue wherever we go, but it's certainly all over the device anyway — what's less certain is if it's a complete, useable fingerprint — so a clever thief might consider Touch ID easier to unlock Does the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner Increase The Chance of Theft? Does the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner Increase The Chance of Theft? The iPhone's new fingerprint sensor seems like a great way to use biometrics to keep the device secure and personal, but could the feature be used against the owner to circumvent existing protections? Read More than a phone that uses a PIN!
That's becoming a widely-held viewpoint, helped along by various techies finding a way around the security protocol. Most notably, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) 4 Top Hacker Groups And What They Want 4 Top Hacker Groups And What They Want It's easy to think of hacker groups as some kind of romantic back-room revolutionaries. But who are they really? What do they stand for, and what attacks have they conducted in the past? Read More , hackers dedicated to exposing such flaws, took a high-resolution image of a fingerprint, printed it out in reverse using excessive printer ink on a transparent sheet, then is smeared with white wood glue.
This process has since been refined using silver conductive ink.
In addition to that, the bio-metric technology itself wears out. Let's take the iPhone as an example. This uses a Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor (CMOS) scanner, and is easily damaged. In fact, just dirt will affect it. Sweaty hands? Your phone might not recognize you, and it might be damaged. CMOSs have a very limited lifespan, which is probably great for Apple because you'll take it as a sign your phone's getting old and you'll buy a new one.
Okay, that's not a security risk per se, but is indicative of their uselessness. If Touch ID fails, you fall back on a passcode. Nonetheless, we admit that fingerprints will probably be secure enough Should You Use a Fingerprint or a PIN to Lock Your Phone? Should You Use a Fingerprint or a PIN to Lock Your Phone? Should you protect your phone with a fingerprint or a PIN? Which one is actually more secure? Read More for the average person — just not if you're concerned about law enforcers wanting you to unlock your device FBI Backdoors Won't Help Anybody - Not Even the FBI FBI Backdoors Won't Help Anybody - Not Even the FBI The FBI wants to force technology companies to enable security services to snoop on instant messaging. But such security backdoors don't actually exist, and if they did, would you trust your government with them? Read More .
How You Can Make Your Passcode Even More Secure
Passphrases are especially useful: you reduce a sentence to the first letter of each word. Maybe you've a favorite song title, quote, or book. Let's say you love The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury. This becomes TGAOTS. You could add RB at the end of that. You could change the "O" to a zero. If you're a Bradbury buff, you could even add its publication date, 1953.
In the end, your passphrase would be TGA0TSRB1953.That looks like complete gobbledegook to an onlooker, and not something easily guessed, but it's easy to remember if you know what the acronym means.
Throw in some punctuation too. Most go for an exclamation mark, so why not use something a little more obscure? An "S" can easily turn into "$", and no one ever uses a back-slash, so that's always an option too.
Mix upper- and lower-case characters, but do so without simply having the first letter capitalized with the rest lower-case. If you've a favorite author, combine two book titles. So if we take Fahrenheit 451 into account, you add "F451" to the phrase.
If you do use a four-digit number (ie. a year), why not bookend the rest of the password with two digits? You'll end up with something like…
19tGa0t$f451\53
And to top it all off, you can test the strength of passcodes at various sites Put Your Passwords Through The Crack Test With These Five Password Strength Tools Put Your Passwords Through The Crack Test With These Five Password Strength Tools All of us have read a fair share of 'how do I crack a password' questions. It's safe to say that most of them are for nefarious purposes rather than an inquisitive one. Breaching passwords... Read More .
What other tips do you have? Which identification method do you think is the most secure? Let us know below.
Image credits: Freewheelin pin pad by Aranami; Volkwagon Password by Automobile Italia; and Fingerprint by Kevin Dooley.
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The problem is that you don't need just one password. The average person has 90 online accounts - http://blog.dashlane.com/infographic-online-overload-its-worse-than-you-thought/
You can't use a method based upon the site because once a site is compromise you have to change all of your passwords. A password manager is the only solution.
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To me, the best option is a univeral mixed acronym followed by the site name. Thus, yahoo password might be something like this hImP2LiYahoo (acronym: here Is my Password to{2} Log into Yahoo). Amazon password would be hImP2LiAmazon.
Of course you can change the acronym to anything you want, such as Cr8PW4yahoo (Create password for Yahoo).
Using a sentence is a good way to have a strong "password".
But to make it extra secure you should not use a grammatically correct sentence.
Those can be brute forced as well. Like after a noun will probably follow a verb so let's check every verb in the dictionary.
Better than "I love horses" would be "horses over bookend green seven" … or something like that.
But that's just to make it extra secure.
As for "how should I remember every password and have a unique one for every site?
Use KeePass!
Or something like LastPass if you really what to. (I prefer to store my database myself)
Just set and remember a secure masterpassword and you can max security on every password that follows.
Randomsite.com allows passwords up to 50 characters with 0-1, a-z and special characters? So let's do this. No need to remember it.
Using a sentence would be a good option. "I love horses, the best of all the animals" would take ages to brute force hack even without punctuation, is easy to remember, and you can let your imagination run wild.
J-Paul
OK, I believe the passcode technique is a worthwhile option. Why, I even use it myself. What I have a great problem with is the apparent ability of a "hacker" to try more than, say, 20 variations of your password without the system locking that account. How is it that a hacker can attempt to login to an account with hundreds or thousands of wrong passwords and no logging of this "questionable" activity ever occurs or is reported to the designated owner by email? I cannot believe in this day and age that kind of activity is condoned [or at least allowed] and regarded as 'just some user trying to remember his password'. Am I missing something here?
I can understand how a standalone device with a password can be hacked, but someone connecting to a server and the thousands or millions of failed password attempts does not raise a flag is certainly a failure of the obligation to provide a "duty of care". Maybe someone needs to get sued so the rest of the community takes proper action and refuses to allow this nefarious activity.
Why can't devices be programmed with short pauses between input attempts so brute force programs would take forever to run?
Adding numerals and special characters just makes the password harder to remember, not safer against a brute force attack. See this: https://xkcd.com/936/
"Why Passphrases Are Still Better than Passwords & Fingerprints"
The difference between 'password', 'passphrase' or 'passcode' is semantics. When you get down to it, they all are just combinations of characters.
It could be argued that '19tGa0t$f451\53' is less secure than a password made up of 15 random characters because the former has been logically formed while the later is illogically random.
" if a hacker finds out enough details about you"
Aye, there's the rub! The problem is that people become very 'chatty' when they get on the 'Net. Normally reticent people get diarrhea of the keyboard when they post on social sites. They willingly reveal details that they would never think of revealing in face to face conversations. The people who are most voluble online are the ones most vulnerable to hacking. To paraphrase the Miranda Warning "You must remain silent because anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you". Or as the posters used to proclaim during WWII "Loose lips sinks ships".
This is so ridiculous. Using your book and author example, you still need to remember 75 different versions of this method, which is the bigger problem. Give us a solution to remembering. Of all the breaches, was it guessed passwords or weak server side issues?
Hi Johng, why 75 different versions to be remembered? Can you explain please?
Because you should never use the same password twice (although I tend to do it with websites where I basically don't care if somebody get's into it. You wanna hack into my codecademy.com account? Be my guest, as it's annoying that you mess up my progress bar, but nobody will ever do that as that makes no sense to them).
For things like ebay, your mail, Facebook, Twitter, Google, other payment sites or things nobody should get to, you should use seperate passwords. That's what he means with 75 passwords.
Personally, I am somebody who is redicoulus at (very bad) wordjokes, so my passwords are easy to remember for me, but nobody else will understand the coherency of the letters or (parts of) words as their mind isn't as f**ked up as mine.
I usually add a separate identifier along with my passphrase based password exactly for this reason. For example, if TGA0TSRB1953 is my passphrase and I am creating an account in MUO, my password will be passphrase followed by mf (first & last letter of the website name). My facebook password will be TGA0TSRB1953fk. That creates unique but still mostly re-used password.
You created a pattern. If one of your passwords is guessed or a breach at one of the sites, the others are easy to figure out. What happens when you have to change your password? Side note, Password managers are the worst because now 1 keylogger and they have all your passwords.
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Stretchia muricina is a moth in the family Noctuidae (owlet moths) described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1876. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Stretchia muricina is 10473.

References

Further reading

Lafontaine, J. Donald, & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys, vol. 40, 1-239.

External links
Butterflies and Moths of North America

Noctuinae


Have you ever wondered if this isn't your first life? Have you been born into this world more than once, or do you think once it's over you don't come back? Is there even such a thing as reincarnation? Well, some researchers think there could be, and this is how it might work.
There's already scientific evidence that our consciousness and bodies are separate, and that our consciousness or "souls" are released back into the universe after we die. Little microtubules within our neurons seem to hold the energy we call our consciousness, but we still don't know for certain where that energy goes. For years, several different religions such as Buddhism, Sikh, and Hindu have believed in reincarnation. Of course, this has been a pretty difficult idea to prove since most people aren't able to remember past lives. However, in rare cases there are people who claim they have accessed these memories.
For example, in past years there have been instances of people, particularly young kids, recalling past lives and reporting names and incidents that were startlingly accurate. These are children whose knowledge of events can't be explained in terms of general science. People like University Professor Jim Tucker even do research on the subject in hopes of finding better answers, and have found those who have memories from specific periods in our history.
While usually it's children who clearly report these experiences, sometimes adults might be able to get through to long buried memories through past life regression, a kind of hypnosis that can help access them.
There is still a lot to learn about the possibility of life after death, but through the science and extraordinary experiences of ordinary people, we could one day discover something major. It's worth considering that we've all lived other lives and that our current lives are just the tip of the iceberg, with centuries resting below the surface. Our consciousness is a strange and amazing mystery to be unraveled.


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Laura Sharkey is the owner and Training Director at WOOFS! Dog Training Center in Arlington VA. Laura holds a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology and has over 20 years of experience training dogs, fostering and raising litters. Her personal breeding program is the Bosun Dog Project.
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One of my very favorite authors is Nevil Shute. (NOTE: Nevil Shute's full name is Nevil Shute Norway. I will refer to him by his nom de plume in this site.) I have read all of his books and enjoyed them all. Some I have especially enjoyed. My two favorites are "Ruined City" (also known as "Kindling" in the US) and "A Town Like Alice" (A/K/A "The Legacy"). These are not only my two favorite Shute books but perhaps my two favorite books of all I have read.
Most people in the US of a certain age know Nevil Shute only as the author of "On the Beach". Perhaps a few more know him for "A Town Like Alice" as well. "On the Beach" was required reading in high school in the 60's along with "1984" and "Animal Farm". I have always supposed that it was because all of them played into the RED MENACE!!!! that we faced in those years. That's not to say that it is not a great book, though perhaps not in my top five of his works. Simply a reflection on how politics colored the high school reading list in the 60's.
Interestingly, when my son was in the 8th grade, in 1988-89, he also read "On the Beach". He loved it. I spoke to his teacher and asked her why they did not read other Nevil Shute books. Her response was that she did not know he had written any others.
In actuality, Mr Shute was the author of 24 novels and an autobiography between 1926 and 1960. Most were very successful in their day.
Mr Shute was born January 17, 1899 in London. His father was a writer of minor note of travel books. His father's real job (ever noticed how many writers have "real" jobs in addition to writing?) was with the British Post Office. In 1916, at the time of the Easter Rebellion, his office was in the Dublin Post Office building but he was unharmed. Nevil Shute was an ambulance driver with the St John's Brigade and was close to some of the fighting.
Mr Shute tried to get into Sandhurst but failed to do so. He crammed and got into the army but did not leave England during the war.
After the war, he went to school at Balliol College, Oxford and then began working as an aeronautical engineer, first for deHavillands. He then moved to Vickers company where he was involved in the design of the airship R-100. He was initially hired on as a stress calculator but by the time the project ended 5 years later was chief engineer. The Canadian National Air Museum has a very nice site with pictures and text of the R-100's visit to Canada in the early 30's. the trustees of the estate of Nevil Shute have also graciously given me permission to web publish his account of the flight to Canada.
After the end of the airship project, jobs were hard to come by due to the depression so Mr Shute started an aircraft manufacturing company, Airspeed Limited. This company was ultimately successful and built a large number of aircraft during the war. One major type was the Airspeed Oxford. Others for which I have posted pictures and specs are the Airspeed Courier and the Airspeed Envoy. The Envoy was the British "Queen's Flight" (equivalent to our "Air Force One" in it's day).
Nevil Shute was one of the leading aeronautical engineers in Britain during the 30's and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. When he began writing in the 20''s, he feared that a reputation as a writer of fiction might harm his engineering career. For this reason he published under his two Christian names (Nevil Shute) and engineered under his "real" name, Nevil S. Norway.
Mr Shute was bought out in 1939 after a dispute with his board of directors and spent the war in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve working on special weapons projects. A fictionalized account of one of these projects appears in "Most Secret".
Mr Shute wrote his autobiography "Slide Rule: the Autobiography of an Engineer" in 1954. It covers his life up to his leaving of Airspeed Limited. It mainly discusses his professional life and is interesting for the lengthy discussion of the R-100/R-101 airship competition and for his discussion of the trials and travails of starting an aircraft company in England during the depression. He also discusses the aircraft industry in general in those days. It is an excellent book which reads like a novel. It is all the more interesting because it is true.
After the war, Mr Shute devoted full time to writing and, in 1949, moved to Australia. Seven of his postwar novels are set in Australia and, for this, he gained a reputation as an "Australian" writer.
Mr Shute died in 1960. He was survived by his wife Frances Mary and two daughters, Shirley and Heather Felicity. Heather currently resides in the United States; Shirley died in 2009 . There is also a grandson, granddaughter and great-granddaughter.
Seated:- left to right: Don Mayfield, son-in-law (Husband of Heather Norway Mayfield); Heather Norway Mayfield, daughter; Keith Mayfield, Grandson (Son of Don and Heather Mayfield); Shirley Norway, Daughter; Jennifer Mayfield, Granddaughter (Daughter of Don and Heather Mayfield).


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Randy Goulden
Randy Goulden's years of community work and involvement with provincial and national organizations have kept her in close touch with Yorkton and Saskatchewan people and the issues that affect them.
As a Yorkton City Councillor, she has served on all council committees. She's been very active with the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. She's a director of both, chairing committees dealing with municipal community safety, economic development, social infrastructure, government relations and increasing women's roles in municipal governance.
Randy has served as President of both the Canadian and Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Associations.
Randy is Executive Director of Tourism Yorkton and the Director of the Yorkton Film Festival. She has been active as a volunteer with many Yorkton organizations.
Randy and her husband Rex have lived their adult life in Yorkton. They have three children and six grandchildren, and thrive on spending time with family and their recreational activities.
Rob Currie
Deputy Minister - Saskatchewan Education
Rob believes in the benefits of an active lifestyle and values the opportunity to serve on the Active Saskatchewan Board. He is an avid sports fan having served as VP of Sport for the 2005 Canada Summer Games. In addition, he's been involved as a volunteer, administrator, and athlete within the sports of rowing, curling, water polo and long distance running.
Rob is the Deputy Minister for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. Starting out as a classroom teacher, he worked his way up to Director of Education for the Regina Catholic School Division. He is most proud of his work with the school division's senior leadership team addressing unprecedented student enrollment, the resulting learning program enhancements, and the construction of new school facilities. Rob volunteers his time as a member of the Board of Regents for Campion College at the U of R, is a board member of One Life Makes A Difference, which supports at-risk youth in their quest to obtain quality elementary, high school and post-secondary education, and he also is serves on the Board for the Cancer Foundation of Saskatchewan.
Rob was born in Estevan, SK but raised in Regina. He and his wife, Ingrid, have three adult aged children.
Bethany Dick
Youth Consultant - Lakeland District for Sport, Culture & Recreation
Bethany Dick has been a member of the Active Saskatchewan Board of Directors since June 2018. She's originally from Saskatoon, but has called Prince Albert home for almost two years. She works as the Youth Consultant with Lakeland District for Sport, Culture and Recreation. Bethany holds a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from the University of Saskatchewan. In her free time, Bethany enjoys practicing yoga, kayaking, and anything musical.
Sandra Jackle
Director of Programming, Entertainment Development & Tenant Relations, Regina Exhibition Association
Sandra Jackle is the Director of Programming, Entertainment Development & Tenant Relations at the Regina Exhibition Association Limited (operating Evraz Place). She helps lead one of the largest and most influential sport, entertainment and event complexes in the country. As a centre of excellence for entertainment, agri-business, sport, recreation and cultural activities, Evraz Place boasts over 1 million square feet of indoor space and close to 42 acres of usable outdoor tradeshow space - hosting an estimated 2.75 million guests annually.
Peggi-Lynn Gatin
Population Health Promotion Practitioner, Saskatchewan Health Authority
Peggi-Lynn Gatin provides leadership to Health Promotion in Saskatchewan. She is highly respected among colleagues in her position with the Saskatchewan Health Authority supporting physical activity opportunities through the life span. She also inspires students as a Sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, College of Kinesiology and SUNTEP.
The sounds of kids playing at the nearby park and skateboarders travelling down her street are music to Peggi's ears. So much so that she invests her time and passion in leading and participating in a number of provincial & local initiatives that work to build environments that support daily physical activity. Peggi-Lynn loves to be active with her family, especially walking and biking.
Bernadette McIntyre
Partner, Scoreco
Bernadette McIntyre is a partner in Scoreco Inc. specializing in business consulting and is currently working with Evraz Place. She retired as Chief Executive Officer of Wascana Centre Authority in 2017, where she led the Authority for nine years, implementing major projects such as, a safety program, an expanded ecology program, the Pine Island Finishing Line Facility, Broad Street pedestrian bridge, refurbishment of the Queen Elizabeth II Gardens, multiple play area, trail and washroom rejuvenations and a wide variety of infrastructure projects. Previously she was the Assistant Vice President of Driver and Vehicle Safety Services with SGI. She had worked for over SGI 27 years and had a variety of interesting and challenging positions within the corporation. Bernadette holds two degrees from the University of Regina, a B. A. in Economics and a B. Admin. both obtained with Great Distinction.
Bernadette is an active curler and volunteer. She chaired the Bid Committees for the 2017 Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling, the 2018 Brier, the 2016 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championships, the 2014 CCA/CIS National University Curling Championships, the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and was on the 2013 Grey Cup Festival Leadership Team.
She is the Past President of Curl Regina, on the Access Communications Board of Directors and the GMS Queen City Marathon Board of Directors. She is a past Director of the Canadian Curling Association and was President of the 2006 Tim Hortons Brier Host Committee and the 1998 Scott Tournament of Hearts, chaired the Evraz Place Board of Directors and was a member of the Regina Palliative Care Inc. board.
Bernadette is a past member of the Highland Curling Club Board of Directors ( 1990 – 2015), the University Board of Governors (1995 – 2001), Sask Sport Board of Directors (2002 – 2005) and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Board (2000 – 2004).
Bernadette is married to Rich and has two adult children Lisa and Shawn.
Dr. Harold Reimer
Dean College of Kinesiology University of Regina
Harold Riemer is currently dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina. An avid walker, he enjoys spending time in the outdoors hiking, fishing, and hunting. He is husband to Tammy and father to Nicholas, Hannah, and Christian. His favourite hashtag is #RiemerNotReimer
Darin Banadyga
Executive Director Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport
Tracey Mann
Executive Director, Community initiatives Fund
Tracey is Executive Director of the Community Initiatives Fund (CIF), an agency established by the Government of Saskatchewan to distribute casino profits for the benefit of Saskatchewan communities. Prior to joining the CIF Tracey was employed with United Way of Regina as Vice-President of Community Impact and Investments. With more than 30 years experience in the sector, Tracey has worked with nonprofits in Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Regina.
Kim McKechney
Executive Director, Community Engagement and Communications, Saskatchewan Health Authority
Kim McKechney is the head of the Community Engagement and Communications division of the newly created Saskatchewan Health Authority, a $3.8 billion organization with 40,000 staff serving more than 1.1 million people. He was previously Associate Vice-President (External Relations) at the University of Regina and has served in various ministries in the Government of Saskatchewan, including Health, Social Services and Environment.
Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and Master's degree from Simon Fraser University. Kim and his wife live in Saskatoon and are proud parents to two young boys.


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Free movement vote could result in 'Swiss Brexit'
Switzerland may not be in the European Union but it could nevertheless face its own 'Brexit' if the Swiss people were to vote against the free movement of people.
That's the conclusion of commentators following the launch of the SVP's new popular initiative, which wants to ask the Swiss public to decide, once and for all, if they wish to maintain the country's current relationship with the EU or go their own way.
The initiative 'For limited immigration' proposes that Switzerland manage its immigration policy unilaterally. If accepted at referendum, the Swiss government would have one year to put an end to the country's free movement agreement with the EU, which currently allows EU citizens to work and live freely in Switzerland, and vice versa.
Doing so would undoubtedly throw Swiss-EU relations into disarray, since the free movement agreement is part of a package of seven bilaterals signed in 1999 covering agriculture, research, civil aviation, transport and trade.
Under the so-called guillotine clause, ending one of these seven bilaterals would put an end to them all. And the EU is unlikely to shift from this position, since it has always maintained – as it is currently impressing upon Britain – that a country cannot have access to the single market without accepting free movement.
To date, the Swiss public has seemed reluctant to choose one path over the other. In a 2014 referendum the public voted in favour of Switzerland taking back control of immigration, yet surveys showed that most Swiss nevertheless wanted to safeguard the country's bilateral arrangements with the EU.
And since Switzerland signed the free movement agreement in 1999 the public has several times voted in favour of the bilateral path.
That was argument used by the Swiss government when it decided to water down the 2014 initiative in favour of sticking with its EU arrangements.
But the Swiss people would be finally forced to choose should this new popular initiative go to referendum. One thing both supporters and opponents of the initiative seem to agree on is that it would certainly clarify the situation.
"The potential benefit of this text is that it wants to actually end the bilateral agreements and therefore do a sort of Swiss Brexit and leave the European market," Socialist MP Roger Nordmann told broadcaster RTS.
Voting on the subject "will have a clarifying effect, because I don't believe the Swiss population will want to find itself in the same situation as England is in now," he said.
The initiative will "push every political body to justify what they think we should do," agreed PLR MP Beat Walti, who said opponents of the initiative must impress upon voters that it's not just about free movement but a whole raft of bilaterals.
Supporters of the proposal say accepting free movement was "a fundamental error" that hasn't brought the economic benefits that others claim, reported Le Matin following a press conference to launch the initiative.
Immigration from the EU has led to a population explosion and lowered quality of life, said Lukas Reimann, president of Action for an independent Switzerland (AUNS) which has co-authored the initiative along with the Swiss People's Party (SVP).
It is not acceptable that 500 million EU citizens have the right to set up home in a small country like Switzerland, added SVP president Albert Rösti.
Campaigners have 18 months to gather 100,000 signatures to push the popular initiative to a referendum.
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Change is very, very hard. Breaking bad habits isn't, but the way we see ourselves and what others think about us is. That's why in order to change yourself you need to change everything around you.
Yesterday, someone came to our house and when I opened the door, they wondered if I had been taking a nap. At 7pm.
It wasn't the first time someone assumes I was being lazy (or eating more than I should) since I got back from the US.
I don't blame them, that's the version of me they know. The Adrian that left more than 5 years ago is no more, but they still don't know it.
You see, I used to have a 9-5 job (in front of a computer) and I used to do nothing for the rest of the day. A trip every once in a while, but it was mostly sitting on the couch (more screen time) and going out for a few drinks on the weekends.
For many people, the life I have now might not seem all that interesting either. But believe me, it's been a huge change from what I used to do before.
How did I go from waking up really late in the morning to being able to sleep just a few hours and get up to go to a remote location to photograph the landscape? Not only that, but enjoy it much more than staying in bed.
September 2013. We packed our bags and drove 34 hours from Indiana to Portland, OR. The Pacific Northwest was going to be our new home for a few years.
We left everything behind, including family and friends. What was ahead of us was a blank slate, and we were free to do whatever we wanted with it.
There, there wouldn't be anyone to ask me if I just had taken a nap. No one would assume anything about me because no one knew me. I was free to be whoever I wanted.
I just needed to believe it myself, since I'd be the only one judging who I was and what I was able to achieve. This took a while, but having people around you assuming your New You got me really motivated.
Most people in the Pacific Northwest love being outside in nature. I tried to sell the same story to myself, so I started going on hikes and taking some pictures. After a while, I was telling everyone (and myself) I lived for the great outdoors and photography.
It was then when the assumptions started (from me and from everyone else): this time, it wasn't about a lazy guy who enjoyed eating and taking naps, but about someone who loved spending time outside and taking photos.
And I really did, and still do. All I needed was the motivation, a facilitator for change. Moving to the PNW freed me to be who I wanted to be, and even though there are plenty of things I'd love to change about myself and my lifestyle, I'm much happier today than I was 5 years ago.
This is just my story and it doesn't have to apply to everyone. But I believe that in order to change ourselves we need to break with the past. And that includes people.
The best way to accomplish this is to move somewhere else where no one knows you. I realize that'd be very hard or impossible to many, so I'd suggest you start doing whatever you want to do (or stop what you don't want to do), becoming who you want to be right away.
Then tell everyone, and yourself, about it. Most importantly, leave your old self behind: it's not a baggage you want to keep carrying from here.
Let's say you want to write a book: just start doing it. And then tell those around you that you are a writer. Don't say things like "I've started writing" or "I'm going to try to write a book". No. Say: "I write, I'm a writer". Believe it. Keep saying it. Until it happens.
The resistance will be strong at first, but over time the expectations will change making everything so much easier.


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Cindy Sheehan (R) of Gold Star Families for Peace walks with war veteran Dennis Kyne near the president's ranch Since the beginning of his month-long vacation in Crawford, Texas, U.S. President George W. Bush has had an unwelcome guest. Cindy Sheehan, who lives about 3,000 kilometers away in California, has been camping out near his ranch, demanding a face-to-face meeting with the president. Her son, a soldier in the U.S. Army, was killed in Iraq last year. Since then she has founded an antiwar group called Gold Star Families for Peace. In America, "Gold Star families" are those that have lost a relative in combat. Bush already has sent some aides to speak with Sheehan, but she is not satisfied, and says she won't leave until Bush himself appears. RFE/RL spoke by phone with Sheehan, as well as with another mother who has formed a group for the families of military service people.
Washington, 11 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Sheehan said she needs to hear from President Bush himself why the United States invaded Iraq more than two years ago. She also wants to know why he insists that the deaths of more than 1,800 U.S. troops have not been in vain.
If she succeeds in meeting Bush, it will be her second meeting with the president. She was among several grieving families who met last year with the president at a military installation near the northwestern U.S. city of Seattle.
It was two months after her son's death -- and came in the middle of his reelection campaign. She told RFE/RL that to her, Bush seemed unconcerned by the families' plight.
"I just don't think he [Bush] was really there. I felt he was very disconnected from what we were doing there," Sheehan said. "I believe it [the meeting] was a political ploy so he could, during the campaign, say, 'You know, I meet with families [of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq],' and, 'I feel their pain.' 'It's hard work for a president to send his troops off to fight in a war.' He just used our meetings as a political tool."
Sheehan said she didn't challenge Bush during that meeting. At that time, she said she knew nothing about reports disputing claims that Saddam Hussein had illegal weapons -- the reason Bush cited for invading Iraq.
She also said she was simply too traumatized by her son's recent death to question or contradict the president.
"The first time [I met with Bush] I was deeply in shock and grief, and I wasn't as informed as I am now," Sheehan said. "I'm not a mother in shock any more. I'm still a grieving mother, but now I'm an angry mother."
Sheehan said she is now convinced that her son died, in her words, "needlessly." And she said Bush shouldn't keep saying her son and other American troops died for a noble cause, and that for their sake America should continue the mission in Iraq.
Her own mission already is a success, Sheehan said, because it has drawn public attention to what she believes is a waste of lives in Iraq. And she said if she doesn't get to meet with Bush in Crawford before his vacation ends, she'll follow him to Washington and camp out by the White House until he speaks to her.
Tracy Della Vecchia is another mother of a military man who's fought in Iraq. He has served three tours in Iraq, and is now back at home. But the experience of having a child in Iraq prompted Della Vecchia to found an organization called Marine Parents.
The group helps provide support and practical information to U.S. Marines in Iraq, and to their families who live with the stress of having their sons and daughters in a war zone.
Della Vecchia said she believes Sheehan has the right to state her opposition to Bush's policies, especially if they led to the death of her son. But Della Vecchia said her group has a very different mission.
"Certainly she [Sheehan] has the right to say, 'President Bush, listen to me, I lost my son.' I'm very, very, very sad for her that she's lost her son, and she has the right to ask for what she wants," Della Vecchia said. "Just like all of us [in Marine Parents] have the right to say we don't do politics on our board (website). We keep politics out of it, because it's impossible to support each other if we have the politics. The difference between what she's doing and what we do is that ours is ongoing -- my son didn't die over there. And for her, the clock stopped."
Sheehan's criticism of Bush's policies contrasts with the continued support many military families still express for the war in Iraq -- even those who have lost children there. Some have echoed Bush by saying it is important for the United States to complete the mission there.
You won't hear this or any other policy opinion from Della Vecchia. She refers to bumper stickers and other signs bearing the words, "Support Our Troops." She said that many Americans might believe that such signs indicate that its owner also supports U.S. policy in Iraq.
But Della Vecchia stressed that her group acts in no way either to support or oppose that policy.
"In our book, 'support the troops' means let them know that we're thinking about them every day, pray for them every day, send care packages and letters to them every day," Della Vecchia said. "Cindy's method of supporting the troops is to say, 'Hey, Bush, bring them home.' But that takes a political stance that would degenerate the quality of a support group if we took a position one way or the other, for or against President Bush."
Della Vecchia said she is happy to have her son back home -- and safe. But she said she still draws on the support from Marine Parents, because there's no guarantee that he won't be called up for a fourth tour.