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Building a Career in Canada: The World of Marketing
by Anisa Stoli September 21, 2020
As a marketer, I absolutely love networking with other marketing enthusiasts. When I met Manuela it was an instant connection - her and I have had the opportunity to collaborate in various environments and let me tell you, she is the real deal!
Prior to moving to Canada, Manuela lived in three beautiful countries: Colombia (where she was born), Ecuador (where she attended middle school) and Peru (where she graduated high school).
In 2014, her curiosity about people's backgrounds and passion for story-telling inspired her to pursue Journalism. She spent four years at Carleton University, where she was able to work on her communication and writing skills, and made life-long friendships.
Today, Manuela is a content marketer, community builder, and personal growth enthusiast. She works at a thriving tech startup called Fellow.app, where she leads the creation, production, and distribution of all content!
How did she do it? Here's Manuela's career journey and her best advice on how you can do it too!
Q: What is the most impactful thing you did for your career while completing your studies?
One of the lessons I learned during my four years at Carleton was the importance of getting involved in extracurricular activities and internships. In fact, I probably wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for one of those experiences.
In 2018, after debating for a while if I wanted to become a journalist or a digital marketer, I decided to apply for a content marketing internship at Startup Canada. This internship not only introduced me to the startup community in Ottawa, but helped me understand that a career in social media management, content creation, and digital marketing would make me very happy.
Following my (newly developed) passion for startups and digital marketing, I applied for a great program called Venture for Canada. It was thanks to this program that I learned about the wide diversity of startup companies looking for new talent -- and it was thanks to a networking event organized by VFC that I met the team at Fellow.
Two years later, I couldn't be happier to be a part of that team. As a content marketing manager at Fellow, I get to work with an extremely talented group of individuals, while producing content (such as ebooks, podcasts, articles, and newsletters) to help our community of managers and leaders.
Q: What was the biggest challenge you faced being an international student in Canada?
One of the biggest challenges I faced as an international student was being away from my family. As an international student, it can be very easy to feel lonely and isolated, especially when your friends have the ability to visit their families during holidays such as Easter, Thanksgiving, and reading week. I think the best way to overcome this challenge is to take advantage of these periods of time to explore the city, tour around with your friends, and immerse yourself in Canadian culture (for instance, by attending a traditional thanksgiving dinner).
The other challenge was the fear of speaking in public - or raising my hand in class - because I knew my English vocabulary and accent weren't perfect. This is a challenge that a lot of immigrants face, and the only thing that helped me overcome it was practice. My biggest advice for other international students facing this challenge would be to step outside their comfort zones, get involved in groups and classes where public speaking is encouraged, and of course, remember that we're lucky to live in an inclusive, welcoming, and highly diverse country, where it's very unlikely that somebody will judge you for your accent.
Q: Can you describe your experience looking for work after graduation?
Job hunting can be hard. I remember applying for a long list of jobs - and not getting replies from any of them. This, of course, can be very frustrating and intimidating.
My advice for any international student would be to network with other professionals in their field - ideally, before graduating university.
Attend networking events. Follow other professionals on LinkedIn. Reach out to people who have your dream job and ask them what they did to get there. All these things will help you build a network and understand what employers in your field are looking for.
And one more thing: don't give up. I know job hunting can be overwhelming, but I've seen a lot of my friends get their dream jobs because they didn't stop reaching out to companies and putting their best effort into every single job application.
Q: Why marketing?
To me, marketing is the perfect blend between content creation, community building, and business strategy. I love that I get to apply a lot of the skills I learned in Journalism (writing, interviewing, and editing) -- and on the other hand, get to influence a business's growth and development.
Q: What sets a marketer apart?
One important part of growing a career in marketing, in my opinion, is building your personal brand across different platforms. I've seen it at companies such as Drift and Gong -- where a lot of people follow the PEOPLE inside the company, and not necessarily the corporate brand. In today's saturated market, companies must differentiate themselves and stand out. I think that empowering employees to build their personal brand is an important part of this.
Q: Can you share 3 things you did that made all the difference in your career path so far?
Be open to feedback
One of the skills that I've tried to develop over the last two years is seeking feedback on my work and not taking constructive criticism so personally. Everything changed once I started seeing feedback as a growth opportunity rather than a threat.
My advice for you would be to ask your manager and coworkers for feedback on your work and be open to constructive criticism. This is one of the fastest ways for you to learn and improve.
Don't be afraid to reach out to people
I've reached out to many professionals via LinkedIn and Twitter. Take advantage of these platforms to follow people in your space and let them know that you admire them. This mentality has opened many doors for me - including becoming a member in exclusive marketing groups and getting exclusive previews before a book gets published.
Last but not least, make sure you're always consuming content and learning skills that are relevant to your career. Think about where you want to be in the future and the skills you need to develop in order to get there.
Personally, I'm always learning about things such as content marketing, search engine optimization, and leadership. I subscribe to newsletters, youtube channels, and services such as Audible to make sure that I'm always up to date on trends and knowledge.
This growth mindset has made a big impact on my career.
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Davante Gardner is a 6'8 senior out of King's Fork in the 757 (the same school where Jaquon Parker hails from, if you remember he committed to ODU before reneging on his commitment to play at Cincinnati). Gardner is following in Parker's footsteps and heading to the Big East to play for another former C-USA member in Marquette. There was definite recruiting interest from VCU this past season and Gardner was seen at VCU games at the Stu this past season as well. The big man was named 1st-team All-Tidewater as well as 1st-team All State at the end of the season. It is unknown exactly how serious Gardner was about VCU and vice versa, but VCU had already filled out all the spots for the 2010 class well in advance of Gardner's decision.


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Q: how to have multiple ASP.NET MVC projects in a solution that merge to form a single web we have a web application(asp.net mvc3) distributed to many clients. most of the controllers and views are same for all clients, but there are some controllers and views which are customized to each client.
currently we are duplicating the solution for each client, with customized controllers and views.
but by this way we are facing a problem that when we change a controller that is common to all clients, we usually have to modify it in each solution.
i m looking for some way to have a common mvc project contains common controllers and views, and for customized controllers i would like to have different mvc projects, all placed into the same solution.
for e.g
myApplication.web.ui.Core    => contains common controllers.
myApplication.web.ui.Client1  => contains client 1 custom controllers.
myApplication.web.ui.Client2   => contains client 2 custom controllers.

so when i need to build for client 1 , i will set myApplication.web.ui.Client1 as startup project, and when i need to build for client 2 i will set myApplication.web.ui.Client2 as startup project.

A: You could define areas in your main App. For each area, you can either have the standard area or a complete MVC project.

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Peter Joseph Kaminski Jr., 82, of Ocala, Florida died on January 13, 2019 after a long battle with Alzheimer's type dementia. He was born on December 23, 1936 in Bristol, Connecticut to Marie Isabel (Chagnon) Kaminski and Peter Joseph Kaminski Sr. He was raised in Bristol with his sister Pauline and his brother William.
Peter served in the United States Navy and was loaned to the United States Marines serving as a corpsman in the Middle East during the Beirut conflict of 1958. He earned a Good Conduct Award that same year and an Honorable Discharge on July 12, 1963. Peter's passion for serving his country and the public continued as he worked for the Connecticut State Police as a Trooper retiring after 21 years as a Trooper First Class (TFC) with his last six years spent as the Resident Trooper in Bethlehem. In Bethlehem he was a charter member of the Lions Club, and was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department. In 1967, he received a Meritorious Service award for a water rescue on Lake Warmaug.
Peter's next door neighbor Beverley was his best friend. They were married on October 3, 1964. Pete & Bev had three beautiful children and moved to Bethlehem where they lived for almost 30 years. Following retirement, they moved to Ocala, Florida. Peter loved spending time with his family, volunteering at the Church, long walks with his beautiful wife Beverley and day trips to Disney World.
Peter mourned the loss of his best friend and wife Beverley on May 12, 2018. He is survived by his daughter Robin and son-in-law Barry Wilcox; son Peter and daughter-in-law Melissa Kaminski; son Jason and daughter-in-law Kelly Kaminski; Anna Stoughton who was like another daughter to Peter & Beverley and Anna's husband Todd. He is also survived by his loving grandchildren Brandon Wilcox and his wife Lora; Courtney Kaminski; Peter C. Kaminski; Kelsey Wilcox; Emmalisa Kaminski; Anna Kaminski; Ryan Kaminski; Caleb Kaminski; Elizabeth Kaminski; Lillyanna Kaminski; Madelyn Kaminski; Serenity Kaminski, Ellis Stoughton and several nieces and nephews.


We are excited to be a part of the Chefs Cycle Rooftop BBQ Fundraiser for No Kid Hungry!
Rosewood Washington, D.C. is sponsoring a special rooftop barbecue hosted in support of Chefs Cycle, a fundraising event benefiting childhood hunger organization No Kid Hungry, on Saturday, September 15th from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Inspired by Sous Chef Colin Graham, who will participate in the upcoming Charlottesville Fall 2018 Chefs Cycle, the all-you-can-eat barbecue will feature cuisine and cocktails presented with the support of Rosewood Washington, D.C.'s valued partners and purveyors. The evening will also include a silent auction offering items such as indoor cycling classes from boutique fitness studio Soul Cycle. Tickets are priced at $50 per person and limited.
Chefs Cycle is a fundraising endurance event featuring award-winning chefs and members of the culinary community fighting hunger outside the kitchen. For the past four years, Chefs Cycle has engaged culinary talents who want to push their limits by completing a three day, 300 mile ride while raising funds and awareness in support of No Kid Hungry. The fall 2018 ride will take place September 25-27 in Charlottesville, VA with a goal of 150 chefs riding to help raise $1.5 million, which translates into 15 million meals for kids facing hunger!!
We hope you can join us for a fun evening to support a great cause!


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Tennesseans are overwhelmingly Christian. We break down the numbers from Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Survey from 2014.
Awaken Nashville, a month of unified prayer for everyone in the city, started with a kickoff event at the Ryman Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 27.
Awaken Nashville is a citywide movement of prayer and fasting.


BaitRageous: The secret life of a bobber!
The secret life of a bobber!
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Q: Connexion lost after exactly 1 minut / 60 seconds of execution I have a web server run by node.js
It uses Express, Socket.io, and MySQL
I use socket.io to transmit data from client to server, and also to call queries.
After implementing SQL connexion and queries, the server started to stop after exactly 60 seconds running it.
SQL part in the index.js file:
// SQL

var mysql = require('mysql');
var con = mysql.createConnection({
    host: "...",
    user: "...",
    password: "...",
    database: "..."
});

//Socket.io

var io = require('socket.io') (serv, {});
io.sockets.on('connection', function(socket) {

    // Select

    socket.on("recherche", function(data) {
            if (err) throw err;
            con.query("SELECT * FROM ..", function (err, result, fields) {
                if (err) throw err;
                socket.emit("...", {data: result});
            });
    });

    // Insert into

    socket.on("...", function(data) {
        con.connect(function(err) {
            if (err) throw err;
            var sql = "INSERT INTO ... VALUES (...)";
            con.query(sql, function (err, result) {
                if (err) throw err;
                console.log("1 record inserted");
            });
        });
    });

});

Everything is working just fine for 60 second after start the server.
Then, I have this error message in the nodejs console:
C:\Users\...>node index.js
events.js:187
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
...
Error: Connection lost: The server closed the connection.
...
fatal: true,
code: 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST'

Thank you in advance to read my question :D

A:           connection = mysql.createConnection(db_config); // Recreate the connection, since

          connection.connect(function(err) {
            if(err) {
              console.log('error when connecting to db:', err);
              setTimeout(handleDisconnect, 2000);
            }
          });

          connection.on('error', function(err) {
            console.log('db error', err);
            if(err.code === 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') { // Connection to the MySQL server is usually
              handleDisconnect();
            } else {
              throw err;
            }
          });


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Nicki Minaj and K-Pop Superstars BTS Join Forces on a Hard-Charging New Song
"What's good, Korea?"
Sensational K-Pop Band BTS Just Got a Brand New English Name
BTS is the K-pop boy band that's slowly but surely taking over the world, t...
BTS is the K-pop boy band that's slowly but surely taking over the world, thanks to the seven-member squad's immense popularity on Twitter and some recent recognition in the form of a Billboard Music Award...
Rap Monster of Breakout K-Pop Band BTS on Fans, Fame and Viral Popularity
"We're just a normal group of boys from humble backgrounds"

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Compsopogonophyceae es una clase de algas rojas pluricelulares. Es una de las tres clases (Florideophyceae, Bangiophyceae y Compsopogonophyceae) del subfilo Rhodophytina que son fundamentalmente pluricelulares, y cuyas células se pueden distinguir entre sí por diferencias ultraestructurales, especialmente por la asociación del aparato de Golgi con otros orgánulos. Así, en las células de Compsopogonophyceae el aparato de Golgi se encuentra asociado únicamente al retículo endoplasmático y se presenta un único cloroplasto estrellado o bien varios. El grupo incluye desde algas filamentosas microscópicas (e.g. Erythrocladia) hasta pluricelulares macroscópicas (e.g. Compsopogon), que viven en agua dulce o marina. La reproducción asexual es por monosporas formadas por la división oblicua de las células. Se conoce también la reproducción sexual y la alternancia de generaciones en algunas especies.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 http://shigen.nig.ac.jp/algae_tree/CompsopogonophyceaeE.html

Rhodophyta

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Pogba and Lindelöf goals in the last minutes avoided Burnley´s win (2-2). Juan Mata played the complete game and was amongst the best of ManU. Leicester, on Sunday, will be the next rival.
Manchester United drew with Burnley at Old Trafford (2-2) and ended its winning run in eight victories. A stunning reaction from Solskjaer's men in the last stretch of the game avoided the defeat. Juan Mata, again in the starting XI, was one of the best of the local team.
Before the beginning of the clash there were a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the plane crash in Munich (1958), and as a tribute to the footballer Emiliano Sala and the pilot David Ibbotson, who disappeared a few days ago.
The goals from Barnes (minute 51) and Wood (81) seemed an insuperable distance, but Pogba from the penalty spot (in the 87) and Lindelöf (92) saved a point for the Red Devils. Mata, who played the whole game, was very active throughout the attacking positions. He took three shots, gave four key passes and had 84% pass effectiveness. He was one of three candidates for Man of the Match chosen by United fans.
All this when it has been five years since the Spanish international debut with ManU (against Cardiff, managed by Solskjaer). Juan's next appointment will be on Sunday, in their trip to Leicester.


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was a Japanese physician, a Hansen's disease researcher, the first director of Matsuoka Hoyoen Sanatorium(1909–1947). He repeatedly reported turpentine spirit preparation he named TR as effective for leprosy.

Life
Suketoshi Chūjō was born on November 7, 1872 at Yonezawa city, in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. He was qualified as a physician in 1902 and became the chief doctor of Hokubu Hoyoen Sanatorium, now Matsuoka Hoyoen Sanatorium on April 1, 1909 when the sanatorium opened.  On April 25, he was appointed by the prefecture as its director. In 1910 he was appointed as the director by the state  and he had remained in this position until his death on March 1, 1947. In 1922 and 1923, he studied in Leipzig, Germany under Prof. Hooke on the mast cells in histology  and became Ph.D. In 1939, he was the president of the leprosy congress at Aomori.

Administrator of a sanatorium
This sanatorium was one of the earliest public leprosy sanatoriums in Japan and he paid extraordinary efforts in its administration. In 1928 and 1936, it experienced  big burns. He asked for the establishment of another sanatorium in Tohoku area and in 1934, Tohoku Shinseien Sanatorium opened,

Character
He was very kind to patients and was said to be the father of them. He spoke strong Tohoku dialect, but impressed other people such as Kensuke Mitsuda, Keizo Dohi and Rokuro Takano by singing oiwake, a folk song of Tohoku District, without hesitation. He had many episodes.

Published Papers
On congenital leprosy Saikingaku Zasshi, 193, p771, 1911.
On congenital leprosy Tohoku Igaku, 8, supplementary num. 1922.
Tetrodotoxin therapy of leprosy, Saikingaku Zasshi, 197, 153, 1912.
Moxabusion therapy of leprosy, Tokyo Ijishinshi, 1768,1912.
Serodiagnosis of leprosy, Report 1, Report 2, Saikingaku Zasshi, 227, 1914.
Mast cells in histology, Nisshin Igaku, 17,3,457,1927(paper for PH.D)
Studies on TR, Repura 2,108,1931.
He made many studies on TR, or turpentine oil preparations.
Histologic studies on erythema nodosum leprosum. Repura 4,107,1933.
Survey of leprosy patients living in towns and villages. Repura 6,156,1935.
On the same theme. Ikai Jiho, 2151,2352,1935. ibid.2152, 2406, 1935.
Ueber die Zuechtung von Tuberkelbazillen aus den Auswuerfen von Leproen. Tohoku J Exp Med 31, 431,1937.
There were many other papers.

Turpentine preparations
As possible remedy for leprosy, especially with coexisting erysipelas, he paid great efforts to the spirit of turpentine, or oil of turpentine, first developed by Klingmuller and he named it TR. He had repeatedly spoken on this between 1928 and 1944, and in 1940 gave a special lecture for 2 hours at the leprosy congress, but in the 1941 Japan Congress of Leprosy, he finally he admitted that TR was inferior to Prontosil, a sulfa compound.

On the segregation of leprosy patients
On 19, 20, December 1919, there was a meeting of related persons on the problems of leprosy.  Suetoshi Chujo spoke, "It is idealistic to send leprosy patients to a remote island, but in reality, difficult. I think it is better to send the patients accustomed to life to the remote island, and to send those in the houses to the present sanatoriums for their own money, and send riot persons to a prison island.

References
Dr. Suketoshi Chujo(1983) Dr. Suketoshi Chujo publication society. Aomori.

Footnotes

Japanese leprologists
Japanese dermatologists
1947 deaths
1872 births
Japanese healthcare managers


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Maurice Léger né le  à Paris et mort le  à Belle-Île-en-Mer, est un ingénieur français, inventeur d'hélicoptères.

Biographie
Ingénieur mécanicien de l'École centrale Paris (promotion 1896), il fait son service militaire dans l'artillerie puis est recruté en 1899 par la Société des bains de mer de Monte-Carlo.

En février 1901, il dépose une demande de brevet pour un . En 1903, il crée la Société des hélicoptères Léger avec l'aide de Jules Richard alors directeur du Musée océanographique de Monaco.

En juin 1906, Maurice Léger s'installe au château de Marchais, dans l'Aisne, appartenant à la famille Grimaldi de Monaco pour mettre au point son prototype d'hélicoptère. Il décollera de , avec un pilote à bord le 13 juin 1907, mais ses essais prometteurs s'arrêteront là.

Sa conception est déjà très moderne car elle comporte deux rotors bipales à pas variable tournant en sens inverse et dont l'axe commun peut s'incliner pour provoquer une translation de l'appareil.

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Bibliographie

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Histoire de l'aéronautique
Élève de l'École centrale Paris
Naissance en décembre 1873
Décès en juillet 1948
Décès à 74 ans


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GOQ est un sigle qui peut désigner :
 grand officier de l'Ordre national du Québec, le plus haut grade de l'Ordre national du Québec ;
 Gazette officielle du Québec, le journal officiel de l'État québécois.

GOQ est un code qui peut désigner :
 , un aéroport militaire et civil desservant Golmud, en Chine, selon le code AITA des aéroports.

Code IATA des aéroports


My 7th grade classes have been working on a project based around the early explorers to the New World, from Columbus to Magellan to de Soto. I divided them into pairs and presented them with the challenge of creating a ship's log, complete with a daily log, a biography of the explorer, a map of the journey and a drawing of the ship. I adapted it from a project that I found here: "An Adventure to the New World Project." They also had to research one of the areas where the explorer landed, its flora and fauna, to see what might have returned to Europe as part of the Columbian Exchange. They had almost total freedom to decide how they would create their log. They could use Pages on their Macs, use Word docs or they could handwrite and draw the images. They had a total of 6-7 hours of class and homework time to work on the project.
I put together a list of initial research sites and showed them where to look in our libraries online databases. They also knew that they could use SweetSearch for any other research questions they developed and Creative Commons for images. Then I just let them go, and what followed was silence, hour after hour of focused silence. Occasionally, there was quiet whispering between the partners, or one of them would ask to go to the printer to pick something up or to take a walk to help her think. For the most part, however, they simply worked.
Sometimes they were drawing; sometimes they were typing. Then someone would come for help with research terms or to ask if a new idea would fit in. At every turn, I shifted the decision back to the student. "What do you want to learn about? What other words might you use to describe that?" "How will that add to your log?" My most common response was simply, "What do you want to use to tell the story?" With a smile, though often with a slight look of frustration that I wouldn't simply tell them what was "right by the teacher," she would go to figure out what she wanted without me.
It felt a bit like a miracle, students working independently, totally engaged with very little need of my interaction, hour after hour. I wandered around at times, but for this project, it almost seemed to distract them from what they were doing. It clearly made them think about what I, the teacher, might want, and they immediately started asking questions to verify that their work was alright by me. They lost their own assessing and creating momentum. Without me, they were investigating, doing, making. The project clearly had shifted from being my assignment to their independent task.
When I asked them to come up with a list of aspects that they would want to have evaluated for this project, they wrote: independence, creativity, collaboration, effort, commitment. So, I wrote up a self-reflection where they can discuss what they did and the learning itself. I don't want to take the power of the project away in the grading process. I don't want them turning over the importance of their work to me. I want them to articulate the steps that they followed and how well they did on each one, as well as to figure out what they would do differently the next time.
Last night, the designated last night of the project, my InBox was filled with emails requesting one more day. Over and over, the student said she was so close, but it wasn't exactly what she wanted. She wanted to make it show how much she had learned and wasn't quite there yet.
So I emailed the class to tell them that today's class would be one more work day.
And it was another hour of silent, focused work!
What was my role in all of this? Was I, as the teacher, even necessary? Definitely! As teachers, we plan and create. We listen and learn. We create a safe environment within which each student can learn. We model learning, and we affirm it when we see it. Student independence only happens when we create and sustain it.
It is true. In the last few weeks, I have not been engaged with my digital community. I have been busy with family excitement and planning. One of our sons is getting married in June, and there are all sorts of details to be arranged: food and tents, transportation and flowers. While I shifted my extra energy in that direction, I wasn't really aware of how connected I had become to those with whom I follow and who follow me. The energy I usually directed towards my online community simply hasn't ben available for all of the conversations and connections in which I am normally involved. From spending time each day on Twitter to taking part in #edchat, I just did not had the mental space to learn and change. That others would notice reminded me yet again of that, while this is a new kind of relationship for decades before, it is nonetheless a real community that we are building.
It hadn't really occurred to me that it would be noticed, but people who follow me and who read this blog felt the absence and commented on it. Rather than making me feel guilty for my lack of engagement, it made me recognize the depth of the connections that have been forming over the last few years all the more. It is a real "village" that we are building as we talk and share our ideas. We are getting to know each other and to care about other educators as full people, not just abstract resources on the end of a tweet. We laugh and share joy; we struggle and get upset. We triumph, and we fail…together.
As we grow and share together, as we become friends, we are building a community that trusts each other on many levels. We are becoming like an army that can bring about change. In some ways, the time that we spend sharing our ideas and learning from each other is like boot camp, where individuals from all around the country come together and are made into a team whose goal is always to guard and protect its members. We provide the forum for ideas to be tested, challenged and encouraged, and a place to come for support when the road in our individual schools is difficult.
We are scattered around the globe, but we are learning to be that team, working together to create the best learning for every student that enters our classrooms. While we may never sit in the same room, if we take the time to make the connections and share our stories, we can build the community that will support our own learning and provide the best for our students.
So thank you to those who noticed! I will try to be "around" as much as possible in the coming months. Just know that it is for happy reasons that I am more silent than usual.
I am trying to move away from a system where students are working for the grade that the teacher will give them, a system where their goal is to measure up to our bar. I want to stop being the person who knows what is the right way to do each and every task, and where it is their job is to do it my way. It is the model that I grew up with and that worked exceedingly well when the end goal was producing factory workers for whom there was a single task and one way to do it. I was a master at the art of "figuring out the teacher." It had nothing to do with learning Math or Science or English. It was about how to get the grade.
The problem now, however, is that we are not teaching students who will end up with those kinds of jobs where memorization and rote learning will lead to success. It is our job to train students to think, to experiment and move beyond the old boundaries. We need to take down the fences that surrounded our own education and allow them to test new waters. There is no way that they should do this alone, without the guidance of experienced and wise teachers. It is just the goal that has changed. We must teach them to trust their own thinking and to develop the skills to be independent creators and innovators. Part of being able to do that means that they can evaluate their own learning.
As I was preparing to grade the assessments that I wrote about in the last post, a reading and a writing assessment, I realized that if I wanted to teach the students to be more independent thinkers and to understand their learning process, I needed to teach them how to assess their own work. I had to give them more control over evaluating what they did. So, instead of sitting with a red pen and marking their work, I spent time developing a way to teach them what I wanted them to get out of the lesson – which was how to be more effective readers, annotators and writers. I had to model for them what to looked like to do the task itself effectively. They needed to learn how to ask the kinds of questions that I ask of their work. Do they have control over the material? Can they organize what they know? Did they make progress? How could they do it better next time?
For the reading and annotating part, where they had read the chapter and identified the significant facts and ideas, I simply did that task, creating a model of how it could be done. Instead of criticizing their efforts, by giving poor grades, I annotated the chapter. Then I made copies with my annotations and will use it as a way to show them what it might look like. Many of them want to underline the entire page, so part of the lesson is to show how a few annotations and words underlined can capture all that is necessary. It will not be for a grade, but for them to make a comparison. I also will talk about the fact that my annotations are not "right." Each person's can vary, as long as they capture what is most important and allow the reader to remember what is in the text.
With their writing, I wanted to start by looking at all of their topic sentences, so I created a document that I will project on the SmartBoard that has all of their topic sentences. I didn't put their names on them, just the sentences. Tomorrow, we will go over each one and discuss which ones present a clear idea for their argument and which ones do not. Usually by the end of a conversation like this, they are beginning to get a better idea of what a topic sentence should look like. With the ones that clearly state an idea, we will talk about what facts could be used to support the idea.
I also copied the sentences from the other class, and I will then have them, in pairs, identify which sentences work and which ones do not, and how they could make them better, and what facts they would use. Just more practice in reading strong and weak examples.
The final step will be to write a self-reflection on the process. It includes questions like: What skills are you the most comfortable with? What skills are the most challenging? If you had to do this activity again, what would you change about your work? What would you change about the activity itself?
Hopefully by the end of the process, they will know more about the skills that I want them to learn and also about their own learning. My goal is for each one of them to be able to write their End-of-Term comment, knowing their own learning as well as I am supposed to know them. What a powerful learning experience to feel, as a student, that you are trusted to speak about yourself and what you have done and what you find challenging!
Teaching students to read with strong comprehension and to write their ideas effectively is an ongoing challenge for teachers. In a world of sound bites and text-speak, we have to work to train our students to spend time with the written word and with their own writing. Reading and identifying what is important in a text takes concentration and attention. And then there is the hard work of identifying what they think about it and finding the words to put it down on the page. So often, the ideas are there, but when they try to write them out, they disappear or seem so much less important and disorganized on the page. I have been trying to find ways to help my students work through a reading and a writing process that allows them to show what they have learned with as much success as possible.
I needed to do an assessment in both reading and writing. I assigned them a chapter to read and annotate. They were to read it first to develop an overview of the material and then reread and annotate it, according to the strategies we had practiced. They were to identify significant facts to help them answer the question that I posed to them. In this case, it was "Why had the North won the Civil War?" When they finished that, I handed them a copy of the chapter and had them copy their annotations onto it, so that I could see their work, but they could have their textbooks. For homework, they reviewed the textbook and created a brainstorm to help them answer the question. They included the facts that they had identified as well as main ideas. Once they had recorded those, they organized them into categories and developed an initial idea for their argument.
25 mins. – Write a rough draft of your paragraph. Make sure that the topic sentence contains your answer to the question and that you support your idea with 3-5 facts.
5 mins. – Read and make final edits.
I asked the students about the process at the end of the hour. When faced with an hour of writing, they usually get really nervous and concerned and are exhausted at the end of it. "I am just not a good writer," being the usual refrain. And in truth, not many middle school students are great writers. They are still trying to put together their ideas and find words to express themselves. Finding strategies to help them practice these skills is important.
"I really liked it," was the general response. They liked having time to plan outside of class, with less pressure. One student loved having the 5 minutes to look over her notes and the textbook before the writing time started, realizing that she had spent her homework time writing out facts and not thinking about them. One loved the reading aloud, saying that it really highlighted the mistakes; another thought it was a waste of time. They generally enjoyed the peer editing time, partly for the comments that they got and partly because it gave them a chance to see another person's argument.
For me, I liked the variety of experiences, and I also liked the timing of each activity. Rather than giving them an hour to write with no structure, this supported a variety of different learning styles and allowed them to have intense times of concentration and times to talk and interact with each other. It took the strain out of the room that often comes with long periods of concentrated work. There was much more smiling and then focus. A good combination in a middle school classroom!
At a quick glance, the writing was also much smoother. More on that in the next post.


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In standard blackjack games, switching cards between hands to advance the status of a player's chances of winning is considered outright cheating. However, Blackjack Switch allows this action, and is a very popular game in online casinos.
The biggest rule in Blackjack Switch is that two bets of the same value must first be made, then the player may switch the second cards dealt to each of his or her hands. There are, however, advantages built in to this game for the house as well.
A dealer in Blackjack Switch can reach a total of 22 without busting. This means that a dealer's 22 results in a "push" and blackjacks only pay out even.
For example, if a player is dealt a 4 and a jack in one hand and a 10 and a 5 in another, the jack and the 5 may be switched to total 20 in the second. This creates a much better playing position versus a 14 and a 15 hand.
In order to give the house an advantage, there are some other rules which must be adhered to also. Blackjack Switch allows the dealer to reach a total value of 22 without busting, and if this happens then all bets are pushed.
The only exception to this rule is when a player gets a blackjack and wins the hand. However, a 22 for the player results in a bust and he or she loses the hand.
Payouts are very much the same in Blackjack Switch versus standard blackjack. A total of 6 standard decks are used in this version of the game, but there are some other additional rules which set it apart.
The first difference is that a payout for a blackjack hand is only 1:1, versus the standard 3:2. This is mostly due to the fact that switching hands can greatly increase the chances of winning a hand.
Rules similar to standard blackjack include that the dealer must reach a soft 17, and splitting and doubling down is permitted. Splitting is only allowed one time, and players can double down after a split.
Another unique feature of Blackjack Switch is that a side bet is played, which is called a "Super Match". These side bets are placed prior to dealing the cards, and allows for additional winning opportunities outside of the blackjack game.
The Super Match side bet will pay 1:1 when a player is dealt a pair, and 8:1 in the case of two pairs. The largest payout from the Super Match is 40:1 when four of a kind are dealt to a player. However, these winning combinations must be dealt within the first four cards of any hand.
Super Match side bet winnings are completely separate from the blackjack wins. A player may or may not win both pots, but the Super Match gives him or her additional chances to increase winnings.


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Evolution is a Discipline: an Interview with Steve Sun, CEO, GENEWIZ
In 1999, armed with a PhD and post-doc training in life sciences, an idea, and no previous work experience outside of academia, Dr. Steve Sun partnered with his fellow biochemist, Dr. Amy Liao, to form GENEWIZ in a 300 square foot lab. Now GENEWIZ is the leading player in the global DNA sequencing industry. Currently with several hundred employees, the company is rapidly expanding globally, keeping pace with the rise of biotech and pharma research, particularly in Asia. Dr. Sun (CEO) and Dr. Liao (COO) have been so effective in their leadership that both were recently awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2010 Award in the Service category for New Jersey.
We spoke with Dr. Sun and explored his perspective on business growth and evolution, coaching, and leadership development. His warmth was as evident as was his clear desire to always develop. Near the end of our conversation, he asked for feedback on how he could improve, underscoring his conviction that "leaders have to want to evolve." more...
Getting to the Heart of Better Execution: an Interview with LP Frieder, COO, Gentex
LP Frieder is the COO of Gentex Corporation, which is headquartered in Simpson, Pennsylvania. The company has been privately held for three generations, and LP is the fourth generation involved in the business. Engaged with Growth River since early 2009, Gentex has undergone major restructuring, positioned itself successfully against the largest corporations in its space, and won a major new contract with the federal government. But it is the establishment of new values—"the DNA" as LP calls it—across the enterprise of 700 employees that is the source of their sustained success. Among his many priorities, orchestrating the adoption of new values is "number one because it's at the heart of how to get better at execution. It drives results."
We spoke with LP about leadership mindsets, executive coaching, enterprise evolution, and his unique understanding of the change process within the senior leadership team and across the broader enterprise. more...
An Interview with Alex Hunter, CEO, Ethos Partners
Alex Hunter took Ethos Partners, a healthcare services company, from zero to $36m in five years, and sold it this month to Navigant Consulting. He has led several companies over his 22-year career. He conveys that experience with a style that is both direct and unassuming, describing how founders and CEOs have to evolve in order to successfully lead others. As he states emphatically, "An organization is simply not going to grow beyond it's leadership."
He spoke to us about factors that lead to failure and to success, why a clear system-of-roles is essential for growth, and how executive coaching has enabled him to negotiate conflict and cultivate an environment of trust and creativity among his leadership team. more...
An Interview with Randy Jordan, CEO of HOPE worldwide
Randy Jordan is at the helm of an international charity that works in 72 countries, employs over 2000 people, and coordinates volunteerism from among a community of 50,000 Christians. Meeting him does not reveal his years in the rather unforgiving environs of senior partnership in a successful DC law firm. It instead reveals a dignified and focused commitment to relieving the burden of poverty around the world. A few days ago, in responding to an article about a new US-created university in contentious North Korea, he emailed us, "We don't do work in North Korea but I carry a rare piece of North Korean currency in my wallet as a reminder of the need."
He spoke to us about the clarifying use of shared business language, the Enterprise Map as a powerful tool for building and aligning his executive team, and the relationship between executive coaching and enterprise restructuring. more...


This is overwhelming evidence that the Islamic religion is an exact duplicate to the Roman Catholic torturous and murderous fruits of their inquisition during the prophesied 1260 year rampage of the Popes. Yes, it was prophesied that the "great tribulation" that saw hundreds of millions of Christians killed for their faith would end in the exact year 1798ad. But it was also prophesied the Vatican church would regain its church and State power as well as begin its horrific killings again. Sadly today, most look at the 165,000+ martyred Christians each year as a normal fact of life in today's society when it's not normal at all for the human race to do this to each other. But it is normal in the last days as everyone alive knows is happening right now.
Not long after Mussolini and Cardinal Gaspari signed their long prophesied pact in 1929 that we saw the Vatican create, cultivate and place in power Roman Catholic Emperor Adolph Hitler and the killing seen during the Inquisitions began again using the same torturous techniques of the Vatican priests. They had to use Hitler this time instead of openly killing Christians as they did all over Europe in the dark ages because they knew everyone on the planet knew about the Pope's bloodthirsty desires. Especially since the man of sin was identified via the work of the prophesied 9th hour church. And so Hitler Rome's stealthy way to kill again without being noticed. But even here they were outed as Hitler was a declared Roman Catholic and so after he failed to help them kill off all the Christians and the Jews, they regrouped to build up a pawn they had already been cultivating for centuries. You see, even the Popes of Rome has not the long-term livability as does their dying god Beelzebub; and so he used them centuries earlier to set the stage he needed to build up Islam long so as to use them during the very last days.
Satan's plan was so well built that some poor souls even to this day believe Islam to be the king of the north so as to help hide Rome's bloody actions by using Islam to kill once again. Their disobedience the Lord in whatever realm the enemy souls was able to lure them into afforded him the perfect pawns to build up his last ditch effort to rid the planet of Christians. And now that we are very near the end, his zeal for spilling blood has gone far beyond the Vatican rituals we see every Easter wherein Catholics and Muslims whip themselves bloody on camera. But no one dies during this bloodletting and so Satan now needs to spill the blood of dying victims so as to cultivate more pawns as well as generate more fear so as to have many Christians failing in the faith.
We now have the testimony of ex-Muslims as well as dogmatic proof that the Popes of Rome actually wrote the Koran. There was even an exPriest that outed them on this who was murdered by the Pope for doing so. This is why both the Catholics and the Muslims display the same fruits in their walks and many strange religious rituals. (See a list here) And so when you see the killings of the Christians escalate during "holy days" of Muslims you have to know it's due to their obedience to the words penned by Vatican prelates in their Koran.
What's worse, Muslims leaders have already declared their loyalty to the Popes of Rome. You can see this in how they con their underlings into saluting the Popes in the exact same way Hitler taught his Nazis to salute the Pope. In fact, I have well over a dozen videos exposing the Vatican love affair with Islam posted here if you would like to share this with any Catholics the Lord leads your way.
As prophesied, the wound of the beast in Rome was to be healed so as to grant the Pope power to kill again. I actually confirmed this as a prophetic fulfillment back in January of 2014 in yet another video posted here. And no, the apostate SDA church never caught that or even declared it as a fulfilled prophecy even to this day; even though the structure of the prophecy is quite clear in how it was to be fulfilled. And why did they miss this prophesied fact along with every other church in agreement with Rome? It has to do with obedience that is key in understanding prophecy. In fact, this is also why you see all the churches proclaim Allah s god and all the nations allow the so called Muslim "refugees" to enter their nations by the millions so as to assure Rome has the bloodthirsty troops needed to generate the fear and terror in the hearts of every nation they place under their thumb so as to assure the enforcement of her mark is a soon to be reality worldwide. And yes, this is also why Trump's recent pick for FBI director is tied to Shariah-compliant deals. As prophesied, religious laws are coming to America and they're coming much sooner than most Christians are aware. And so, it's time to trim those lamps brothers and sisters. We have some amazing work to do and we will need all the Holy Spirit inspired help to do so!


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Das Scottish Masters 1985 war ein Snooker-Turnier im Rahmen der Snooker Main Tour der Saison 1985/86. Das Einladungsturnier wurde vom 17. bis 20. September ausgetragen. Nachdem das Turnier zuvor dreimal umgezogen war, fand die fünfte Ausgabe des Scottish Masters wie im Vorjahr im Hospitality Inn in Glasgow statt.

Der Weltranglistenerste Steve Davis, der das Turnier zuvor dreimal in Folge gewonnen hatte, trat nicht zur Titelverteidigung an. An seine Stelle trat der Zweite Cliff Thorburn aus Kanada. Er besiegte im Finale Willie Thorne mit 9:7.

Preisgeld
Im Preisgeldtopf lagen in diesem Jahr 2.500 £ mehr als im Vorjahr. Für die beiden Finalisten waren jeweils 500 £ mehr vorgesehen, alle anderen bekamen 250 £ obendrauf.

Finalrunde
Von den Top 8 der Weltrangliste waren vier Spieler vertreten, drei weitere kamen aus den Top 16. Vervollständigt wurde das Teilnehmerfeld vom bestplatzierten Schotten Murdo MacLeod. Der Turniersieg wurde unter den 8 Teilnehmern in drei Ausscheidungsrunden ausgemacht.

Finale

Century-Breaks
Dem Turniersieger Cliff Thorburn gelangen im Finale und Halbfinale als einzigem Spieler Breaks von mehr als 100 Punkten im Turnier. Zwei Jahre zuvor hatte Steve Davis ebenfalls 3 Century-Breaks erzielt. 500 £ gab es als Zusatzprämie für den Kanadier.

Quellen

Snookerveranstaltung 1985
1985
Billardturnier in Glasgow


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ENRIQUE'S RIP RUINS RANGERS
By Evan Grossman
August 8, 2003 | 4:00am
The Yankees would like Alfonso Soriano back in the lineup as soon as possible, and that might be as soon as today against the Mariners.
But if Enrique Wilson continues hitting the way he has the last two games in his stead, how could another day off for Soriano and his sore thumb really hurt?
"He's a good backup player for us, there's no question," Joe Torre said of Wilson.
Wilson made his 22nd start of the season yesterday and got the Yankees their first four runs of a 7-5 rubber-game win over the Rangers with a grand slam in the second inning. It was the third slam of his career, the first since last June 1 against Boston.
Yesterday also was his first curtain call since then.
"When you do good," Wilson said, "the manager looks at you and says, 'I can count on this guy.' "
Why shouldn't Torre count on Wilson? He's done nothing but produce when called off the bench. This year, he's batting .221 in 86 at-bats with 19 hits, 10 runs scored, six doubles and seven strikeouts.
Time and time again, he gets summoned to sub for the regular infielders (he's gotten 10 starts at short; six at third; five at second), and each time he seems to produce.
Remember when Soriano and Derek Jeter got mowed down in the first inning against Boston last month? Wilson came off the bench that afternoon and became the first Yankee since Don Mattingly (1995) to record more than one extra-base hit in a game he did not start.
"I'm ready all the time," Wilson said when asked how he's able to contribute.
Said a nostalgic Jeff Nelson, "I think that's how this team has won in the past. . . . It doesn't take superstars to win. It takes everyone."
Yesterday, with two outs in the second and the Yankees trailing 3-0, Wilson worked the count full against starter Joaquin Benoit after Jorge Posada singled, and Hideki Matsui and Karim Garcia walked to load the bases. The first 3-2 pitch Wilson saw, he drilled foul down the first-base line (he later admitted it was ball four, if he hadn't swung).
The next pitch landed somewhere over the 314-foot sign in right field. Wilson said he knew what was coming the whole time.
"I knew he was going to throw me a fastball," he said.
But nobody expected Wilson would turn it into a grand slam.
THUMB'S DOWN FOR INJURED SORIANO


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Q: Making an l_2 distance out of l_1 distance If we think of the l1 distance as a grid-distance between points, then we can think of l2 distance as what we get when we "shortcut" the grid by going "inside" a cell.
Making the grid finer doesn't change the l1 distance, so there's no obvious sense in which the l2 distance can be seen as a limiting version of the l1.
So here's my question: is there any way to take an l1-like distance and extract an l2 like distance from it (possibly as a limiting case). I'm asking because i have a distance defined in a discrete space that has an l1-like behaviour, and I'd like to generalize it as the discrete space gets finer and finer, but I want to end up with a distance that goes "directly" through the space like l2.
apologies if this is way too vague.

A: L_2 can be viewed as the limit of a sequence of metrics whose metric balls are (in the plane) regular polygons with 2n sides, where n goes to infinity. In higher dimensions one doesn't have enough regular polytopes to make a limit out of them, but it works just as well to use irregular ones. This technique is sometimes useful in computational geometry, because the polygonal metrics allow for faster range searching data structures than the Euclidean one.
If you want a distance in some sort of discrete graph (the way that L_1 can be viewed as distance in a regular grid) but that approaches planar L_2 in the limit, try using the pinwheel tiling. If you measure the shortest path along tile edges between any two points on the edges of any two tiles, and then repeatedly subdivide to produce a finer pinwheel tiling, the shortest path distance will approach the Euclidean distance in the limit.
As for Kore min's suggestion of looking into metric embedding: any metric can be embedded into L_infinity with no distortion at all. And in the plane, L_1 is the same as L_infinity (though they are quite different in higher dimensions) so it might have something to do with what you're talking about. See e.g. this Wikipedia article.

A: In some cases, you can recover L_2 information in the limit by considering random walks, or said differently, basically by counting paths. When you say "discrete space with L_1-like behavior," I imagine a big grid of points (something like Z^d) that are connected to their nearest neighbors by edges, with the distance between two points being defined in the natural graph-theoretic way as the length of the shortest path between them. If that's the case, you can consider a uniform random walk along the edges of the graph, and then successively refine the grid. This is important: if you refine the grid, say, by a factor of two (so each step of the random walk becomes half as big), then you have to refine the walk by taking steps four times as fast. (In general, when you refine by a factor F, you have to take steps F^2 times as fast.) As you keep refining, the probability of the walk ending up near a particular point at a fixed time in the future may stabilize to something that looks like a function of L_2 distance from the starting point.
If this construction works in your case, then you can think of the logarithm of the probability of ending up in a small neighborhood as being roughly proportional to the volume of the neighborhood and the square of its L_2 distance from the starting point, but except in very special cases, the approximation probably won't be good for all pairs of points, especially if they aren't very close to one another. Note that computing such probabilities basically amounts to counting paths of particular lengths between points, as opposed to just finding the length of the shortest path (which would roughly corresponding to the L_1 distance).
How much that computation will actually resemble an L_2-like distance depends on many things. The construction will work basically as stated when you successively refine a grid like Z^d because of the central limit theorem. If your "discrete space" isn't very similar to that, then the construction might not work at all, or it might give you something that isn't quite right but is "close enough for government work," so to speak. You'll have to be the judge of that.

A: I guess you are thinking something about metric embedding. Any metric can be embedding into l_2 with the distortion bounded by O(log n), which is tight in general.
See this lecture notes for more information: http://www-math.mit.edu/~goemans/18409.html
Also, the Kashin's decomposition is closely related to your problem, see http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/szarek/SzarekICMslides.pdf


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History of Interior Design
What is Interior Design?
Technically, interior design is the process or art of designing the interior and frequently the exterior of a room or building. In a more subjective sense, it is about how we experience spaces.
Interior design is an essential part of everyday life and it affects how we live, work, play, and heal. When we observe and experience comfortable homes, functional attractive workplaces, and even beautiful public spaces, we are seeing interior design at work.
Interior designers are able to create spaces and forms that anticipate our needs and appeal to our emotions. They are able to shape the experience of interior space through the manipulation of space and surface treatment. Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes the development of a
concept and the management and execution of a design through communication with the stakeholders of a project. It is distinct from the role of interior decorator which is a commonly used term in the U.S.
An interior designer or team of designers can coordinate and manage projects. They work with architects, engineers, contractors, craftsmen, furniture dealers, and business and homeowners.
To become successful in the profession, exceptional communication and organization skills. You also need a well-rounded education and the skill set to engage with many disciplines including architecture, graphic design, decorative arts, and furniture, textile, and lighting design.
An interior designer needs to have a working knowledge of:
Structural requirements, health, and safety issues, and building codes.
Textiles, materials, color, space planning, and sustainability.
Software applications for 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM).
No description of 19th-century interior design could have any validity without referencing Owen Jones. Owen Jones was one of the most influential design theorists and practitioners of the 19th century.
Beginning as an architect, he became a significant figure in popularizing and making accessible interior design theories to the middle class.
His theories on flat patterning and ornament continue to resonate two hundred years after his birth.
His innovative theories on the use of color, abstraction, and geometry became the basis of his seminal publication, "The Grammar of Ornament", a design sourcebook that formulated 37 key principles of interior design and decoration—and which was still in print 150 years later.
Prior to Jones, England was dominated by historic styles such as Gothic Revival and Neo-classicism. Eschewing those conventions, Jones searched for a modern style and sought to recognize the common tenets behind the best examples of historical ornament. An internationalist, he looked for inspiration in the Islamic world. At the age of 23, he embarked on a grand tour which included Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt before arriving in Spain to study the magnificent Alhambra Palace.
The publication of those studies established architectural polychromy as a topic for discussion. Jones reached another milestone in 1851 when he decorated and arranged he exhibits for the immense Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition. Using only the basic colors of red, yellow, and blue for the interior ironwork, Jones generated significant criticism and debate.
However, the building was unveiled by Queen Victoria to great acclaim and ended up receiving six million visitors. He chose objects from the Great Exhibition to be included in the first School of Design which was founded in 1837. Later, Jones was by Henry Cole, a prominent figure in design reform, to design a series of galleries known as the "Oriental Courts" which was made up of two galleries: a Chinese and Japanese Court and an Indian Court. Click here for pictures of Owen Jones's works.
Mid-to-late 19th Century
From the middle-to-late 19th century, interior design services expanded in the industrial economies of the West. As the middle-class in Europe and America expanded in size and prosperity, they began to want the domestic symbols of wealth to showcase their new status.
Large furniture firms began to evolve into general interior design and management, offering full house furnishings in a variety of styles. English feminist author Mary Haweis wrote a series of popular essays in the 1880s in which she criticized the enthusiasm with which aspiring middle-class people furnished their houses according to the rigid models offered to them by the retailers. She preferred the individual adoption of a particular style, customized to the individual needs and preferences of the customer.
In the 1850s and 1860s, upholsterers began to expand their businesses. They presented their business more broadly and in more artistic terms and began to advertise their products. To satisfy the growing demand for contract interior work on projects such as hotels, offices, and public buildings, these organizations became large and complex. In order to service their expanding clientele, they began to employ furniture and textile designers, builders, joiners, plasterers, and artists, as well as technicians and engineers to execute the job requirements.
Companies started publishing and circulatingcatalogs with prints for different extravagant styles to attract the attention of expanding middle classes. Agnes and Rhoda Garrett were the first women to train professionally as home decorators in 1874. In 1876, their work, "Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture", promulgated their ideas on artistic interior design to a wide middle-class audience. In 1882, the London Directory of the Post Office listed 80 interior decorators. By 1899 with the founding of the Institute of the British Directory, there were almost 200 decorators throughout the country.
Independent Designers Take Over in 1914
By 1914, general interior design and management firms began to be usurped by independent, often amateur, designers. This paved the way for the emergence of professional interior design following World War II. Beginning in the 1950s, spending on the home increased. Formal interior design courses were set up which required the publication of textbooks and reference sources. The historical accounts of interior designers, separate from the decorative arts specialists, were made available. Organizations to regulate standards and practices, qualifications, and education were established for the new profession.
Since interior design has many ties to other design practitioners which involved the work of industrial designers, architects, builders and craftsmen, and engineers, the regulation of interior design standards and qualifications was assimilated into other professional organizations which involved design. Organizations such as the American Designers Institute, founded in 1938, and the Chartered Society of Designers, established in the UK in 1986, oversaw different areas of design parameters.


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The Global Studies office has a copy of: Careers in International Affairs, 8th Edition (2008), Georgetown University Press, Washington DC Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Guide to Global Volunteering, 12th Edition, (2008), Institute for Food and Development Policy, Food First Books, Oakland CA The books can be loaned out for 3 hours at a time. Students will have to leave their student ID as a deposit.


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Mayor Scott Appoints Dana P. Moore as Baltimore's First Chief Equity Officer
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Dana P. Moore (photo courtesy of Baltimore City)
Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott today announced the appointment of current Acting City Solicitor, Dana P. Moore, to serve as the City's first Chief Equity Officer, a cabinet-level position.
As Chief Equity Officer, Moore will work closely with the Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer to ensure city government operates through a framework of equity across all agencies, boards, and commissions. She will help city agencies shape their equity platforms, offer guidance, and ensure compliance with local equity laws. Moore will also be Director of the Office of Equity and Civil Rights, tasked with advancing equity, upholding local and federal civil rights laws and local living and prevailing wage laws, and providing oversight of local law enforcement.
"Baltimore's legacy of inequitable policies and practices has been further exacerbated by the current public health pandemic. Over this term and beyond, we must be unafraid to confront our past and lay the foundation for an equitable city," said Mayor Scott. "That will require the kind of leadership, hard work, expertise, and collaboration that have been hallmarks of Solicitor Moore's career. From her legal experience to her personal commitment to the mission of equity, she is the perfect choice to serve as Baltimore's inaugural Chief Equity Officer and lead the Office of Equity and Civil Rights."
According to a press release:
Moore is the first woman to serve as City Solicitor in Baltimore, a role she assumed in March 2020. She has led the City's legal response to the pandemic, helping convert the Baltimore Convention Center into a field hospital, establishing testing sites throughout the city and negotiating terms to convert hotels into respite sites. Prior to serving as Acting City Solicitor, Moore served as Deputy City Solicitor, a role in which she also made history as the first woman.
Before that, she was a commissioner on the Planning Commission and the Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners, where she instituted major reforms and a city-wide community outreach program. She also served on the Board of Ethics, where she authored the Board's first annual report.
Moore is deeply involved in the Baltimore community. She has also served on numerous non-profit boards, including Mother Seton Academy, the Bates College Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the Monumental City Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Elijah Cummings Youth Program, Marian House, Inc. and CLIA – Community Law in Action.
Moore earned her bachelor's degree in English from Bates College and her juris doctorate from Washington & Lee University School of Law. Moore has been recognized for her leadership in the field of law. She founded her own practice, where she assisted small, minority and women owned businesses. Additionally, Moore has served as a pro bono attorney, in addition to practicing law at Venable LLP, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, and Tydings & Rosenberg, P.A.
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Day 79 - We went to HSBC to take out a little money from an ATM. We are lucky to have found our bank in all of the countries in which we've spent winters so far. It's nice not getting dinged for a cash withdrawal.
We've not been using much cash here though. It is easy to use credit cards in Malaysia. In Canada, we applied for cards which charge no foreign transaction fees. These are a bit of a rarity nowadays, but it's been worth the trouble in the savings we've accumulated. All supermarket transactions add up over time.
The HSBC is pretty close to the Merdeka Square, although it's on the other side of the river. As we were walking, I stopped to snap this picture of the Malaysian flag flying on the far side of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building. I am thankful for my camera's zoom capabilities.


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School District 67 Okanagan Skaha is a school district in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. It operates the public schools in Penticton and Summerland.

History
School District 67 was created by the merger of the Summerland and Penticton School Districts in 1996.

Schools

See also
List of school districts in British Columbia

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An Informed Faith
John T Squires
The Word of God, Scripture, and Jesus Christ
Marrying same-gender people: a biblical rationale
Interpreting the creeds "in a later age"
Affirming the Teachings of Jesus
To articulate faith contextually
Let your gentleness be known to everyone
What can we know about the birth of Jesus?
"An orderly account": a quick guide to Luke and Acts
Costly discipleship, according to Luke
In the wake of the verdict about Pell …
Another Time, Another Place: towards an Australian Church
Holy Week: the week leading up to Easter
Sacrificial death and liberating life: at the heart of Easter
The death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus in Luke's "orderly account"
Easter in Christian tradition and its relation to Jewish tradition
The cross-cultural nature of the early Jesus movement
Jesus and his followers at table in Luke's "orderly account"
Once again: affirming our diversity, celebrating joyous marriages
Ten things about Pentecost (Acts 2)
The Paraclete in John's Gospel: exploring the array of translation options (John 14, 15, 16)
"Do you believe in the Triune God?"
The DNA of the UCA (part I)
The DNA of the UCA (part II)
Harness the passion, but restrain the rhetoric. Musing on the role model which Paul offers in Galatians.
Providing for the exercise by men and women of the gifts God bestows upon them: lay people presiding at the sacraments in the Uniting Church
Freedom and unity: themes in Galatians
Australian Religious Leaders support renewable energy
Human sexuality and the Bible
Dividing the unity, splintering the connections: more ACC agitation
Giving Voice, Telling Truth, Talking Treaty: NAIDOC 2019
Advocacy and Climate Change, Growth and Formation, Treaty with First Peoples: Synod 2019
Climate Change: a central concern in contemporary ministry
On earth, as in heaven: the key to The Lord's Prayer (Luke 11)
Ramping up the rhetoric, generating guilt and provoking panic: the failed strategy of conservatives in the UCA (part I)
Ramping up the rhetoric, generating guilt and provoking panic: the failed strategy of conservatives in the UCA (part II)
Ramping up the rhetoric, generating guilt and provoking panic: the failed strategy of conservatives in the UCA (part III)
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
In the wake of the verdict (and appeal decision) relating to Pell …
Where will we find hope? When will we see justice?
Supporting the Climate Strike
Gracious openness and active discipleship as key characteristics of church membership
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Stones singing and rivers vibrating … a liturgy for Holy Communion
Faith in Action: a religious response to the Climate Emergency (Part One)
Faith in Action: a religious response to the Climate Emergency (Part Two)
Faith in Action: a religious response to the Climate Emergency (Part Three)
Celebrating Transitions: into a strange and graceful ease … (part one)
Celebrating Transitions: into a strange and graceful ease … (part two)
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On the move. A reflection on Christmas.
Reflecting on faith amidst the firestorms
"My anecdotal feedback from contact with ACC and other evangelical congregations is that at least 3000 people have left since the 15th Assembly. Sadly, many members have just drifted away in hundreds of congregations, one, two, three or four at a time, perhaps some not even noticed, or worried about by ministers and leaders."
So writes a leader from the Assembly of Confessing Congregations in their latest magazine, ACCatalyst. It seems to me to be a massive overreach in rhetoric, an attempt to generate a feeling of guilt amongst the faithful across the Uniting Church. "Look what terrible things have resulted from your decision about marriage", is the implied message. I don't know how the figure of 3,000 has been calculated. Inflated overestimates, I reckon.
It is also an inaccurate representation of the current situation. Personally, I know of some people in the context where I currently minister who have been upset by the decision. They have all received follow-up from pastoral carers, or myself as minister. Some have left, others are "hanging loose". I spoke just two weeks ago with one person who had left the UCA last year because of the decision about marriage. He and his family are happily attending a church, geographically more convenient and theologically more suited to their views. I suspect there are more such stories amongst those who have left the UCA.
I know also of a number of Congregations where people have decided to come along to the Uniting Church, to take part in worship and fellowship, to align themselves with this denomination, precisely BECAUSE the Assembly made the decision that it did! I would not say there are 3,000 such people—in fact, I have no idea how many such people there might be—but I do know that there are, most certainly, a number of such people, who have JOINED the UCA since last July!
In talking with colleagues, who have similar stories, overall, of some small number of departures, as well as some stories of people joining, my sense is that the impact on numbers in the UCA over the past 12 months is small. Very small. And for most of those, there is another church, another spiritual home, where they have been welcomed. So it is not as bad as the ACC leader makes out.
This kind of scaremongering rhetoric is familiar and well-worn. I seem to have heard something very similar after each "controversial" decision relating to sexuality that has been made within the Uniting Church. Each time a decision was made, after much care, thought, prayer, and discussion, the noises about people leaving the church in droves have been heard. Each time, it is claimed, the Uniting Church is about to divide and die. And each time, we know, the church goes on, continuing to gather for worship and fellowship, maintaining its faithful witness in society, and providing loving service to people in the community.
The thread of a disenchanted reactionary minority, puffing and panting with an increasingly excessive rhetoric about the imminent demise of the church, has run through the Uniting Church for four decades. And we are still here. And still strong. The experience of the most recent Synod meeting I attended in Sydney attests to this: There was a significant contingent of younger members; in fact, we were told that one third of the members at this Synod were attending for the first time. Not all of them were "young"—but this in itself testifies to a strong commitment to the church across the board.
Why is it that we have had this irritant reactionary stream throughout our 42-year history?
I. The formation of the Uniting Church in Australia
When the Presbyterian church decided not to adopt the "one in, all in" approach that the Methodist church was utilising, in the voting about church union, the foundation was laid. Less involvement in the new denomination from Presbyterians, with their valuing of critical thinking and academic resourcing of thoughtful preaching, meant that, in some places, there was a higher proportion of Methodists, with their emphasis more on personal piety and evangelical fervour, within the new Uniting Church.
Had the Methodist Church allowed for more conservative dissidents not to join—as the Presbyterian and much smaller Congregational Churches did—the conservative thread in UCA history would have been much smaller. And the new church could have developed an even stronger focus on contextual theology, actions for social justice, and moving into the post-Christendom era. But such was not the case.
There was, to be sure, noise back in the 1970s to the effect that the new church was a rearguard action against declining numbers. Most often this came from disenchanted conservatives, frustrated at the fledgling church's failure to stand for an understanding of the Bible as the "inerrant, infallible Word of God". The church was going to die, they maintained, because of this failure.
However, the new church refused to die. It has continued on throughout the ensuing four decades of the Uniting Church. It remains the third largest denomination (counting by the census numbers) in Australia. True, like all other mainstream denominations, overall numbers have been falling. There is nothing different about the Uniting Church in this regard. Yet the UCA continues apace.
In those years since 1977, we have seen, one after another, the Evangelical Ministers of the Uniting Church, which in the early 1980s was renamed to Evangelical Members of the Uniting Church (EMU); then in the early 2000s, the Reforming Alliance (RA); and, in more recent years, the Assembly of Confessing Congregations (ACC).
The family resemblance is very clear. Each of these organisations advocated for a regressive conservative position on matters of morality (largely, sexuality) and veered towards a flat, literalist reading of scripture. They each made lots of noise about these issues but made little or no headway in achieving their aims. And, over time, the reactionary rhetoric has become more defensive, more rabid, more overreaching.
II. EMU, the Bible, and women in ministry
The ACC and RA are the children of EMU. What was Evangelical Members of the Uniting Church started as Evangelical Ministers of the Uniting Church, formed in South Australia out of a concern about the so-called "liberal" tendencies dominant in the Uniting Church. Over time, the SA group grew with branches formed in other Synods, and then a national organisation emerging.
In the early years of the church, various evangelical members and ministers had opposed the church's commitment to equality and mutuality, specifically arguing against female ministers. In my first parish, for instance, in 1981-1983, I worked hard with parishioners and members of other nearby UCA congregations who held to that view and argued that the UCA was doing the wrong thing by ordaining women.
I was a member of a Synod working group later in the 1980s that produced resources addressing the issue of mutuality in ministry, and the ordination of women, in direct response to evangelical members pushing the counter position. I know that women in ministry in the UCA continued to experience discrimination and marginalisation into the 21st century.
EMU was strongly focused on the issue of biblical authority. (This stance has been used to undergird the claim that the Bible does not support the ordination of women). The doctrinal statement crafted by EMU had strong resonances with the general conservative evangelical assertion that the Bible was inerrant, infallible, and completely authoritative, even though the founding documents of the UCA had explicitly not included such terminology.
For a summary of the doctrinal position taken by EMU, see http://www.confessingcongregations.com/emusite/All%20About%20emu/Doctrinal%20Statement.pdf
On the commitment to an informed faith in the Basis of Union, see https://johntsquires.com/2018/08/15/what-i-really-like-about-the-basis-of-union/
As is clear in its founding document, the Basis of Union, the Uniting Church was formed with a commitment to the mutuality of men and women in ministry; indeed, all three denominations had already ordained women in the years prior to church union. Dr Julia Pitman has traced the long history of ordaining women in the Congregational Church—since 1927, in fact! — see https://www.insights.uca.org.au/reviews/read-this/small-church-big-step-for-women
Dr Avril Hannah-Jones provides a fine overview of the ministries of women in the predecessor denominations. She notes that the Congregational Church ordained Rev Winifred Kiek in 1927; Rev Dr Coralie Ling, a deaconess, became the first woman to be ordained in the Methodist Church in 1969; and Rev Marlene Thalheimer was ordained as the first female minister in the Presbyterian Church in 1974. You can read about these women, and more, at https://revdocgeek.com/2013/06/22/women-in-the-uniting-church-by-a-partial-prejudiced-ignorant-historian-to-quote-the-immortal-jane/
Indeed, the issue of the ordination of women was clearly and strongly affirmed in a UCA paper produced in 1990; see https://www.unitingjustice.org.au/society-religion-and-politics/uca-statements/item/download/947_0ff250e12a2db30ecf2027d7a831e979This has been a consistent practice of the church since 1977.
I clearly recall rhetoric from the 1980s to the effect that ordaining women would see other churches stop talking to us and the life of the Uniting Church would shrivel. Those churches continued to talk to us, and the Uniting Church continued on unabated.
I remember being a member of a Presbytery which had one curmudgeonly old member who regularly voted NO whenever anything to do with women in ministry was considered. He should not have been allowed to do this, as it was inconsistent with UCA policy. Fortunately, his ilk has all but died out, at least amongst clergy and lay leadership.
(… to be continued)
For online articles which reflect on the creation of the UCA and its core commitments over the years, see:
https://journeyonline.com.au/features/three-became-one-christ/
https://revivemagazine.org.au/2017/06/22/making-a-bold-statement/
https://sa.uca.org.au/new-times/40th-anniversary-reflection?
https://crosslight.org.au/2017/05/21/union-not-easy-step-many-congregations/
https://assembly.uca.org.au/about/uca
https://assembly.uca.org.au/component/k2/item/2609-forty-years-forty-days-forty-hours#prayer-1-revisiting-our-inauguration
For my musings on the DNA of the UCA, see
https://johntsquires.com/2019/06/18/the-dna-of-the-uca-part-i/
https://johntsquires.com/2019/06/18/the-dna-of-the-uca-part-ii/
Author: John T Squires
My name is John Squires. I live in the Australian Capital Territory. I have been an active participant in the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) since it was formed in 1977, and was ordained as a Minister of the Word in this church in 1980. I have served in rural, regional, and urban congregations and as a Presbytery Resource Minister and Intentional Interim Minister. For two decades I taught Biblical Studies at a theological college and most recently I was Director of Education and Formation and Principal of the Perth Theological Hall. I've studied the scriptures in depth; I hold a number of degrees, including a PhD in early Christian literature. I am committed to providing the best opportunities for education within the church, so that people can hold to an informed faith, which is how the UCA Basis of Union describes it. This blog is one contribution to that ongoing task.	View all posts by John T Squires
Author John T SquiresPosted on July 25, 2019 July 30, 2019 Categories Scripture and TheologyTags Basis of Union, change and transition
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Thank you John for your insightful thoughts about the church and it's not easy for some of us who can feel disheartened by false information.
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Leaving Luke . . . Meeting Matthew
For our instruction … that we might have hope (Rom 15, Isa 11, Matt 3)
The origins of Jesus in the book of origins: Matthew 1
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way (Matthew 1)
Descended from David according to the flesh (Rom 1)
A young woman? A virgin? Pregnant? About to give birth? (Isa 7:14 in Matt 1:23)
Herod waiting, Herod watching, Herod grasping, holding power (Matt 2)
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Scripture and Theology
An Orderly Account: Luke and Acts
An Orderly Account: the Gospel according to Luke
Scripture fulfilled in your hearing (Luke 4:16-30)
On a level place, with a great crowd. (Luke 6)
Leave everything, follow Jesus (Luke 5:1-11)
The plain, the synagogue, and the village (Luke 6, 4 and 1)
The beloved physician, the lover of God, and loving our enemies (Luke 6)
Bringing his 'exodos' to fulfilment (Luke 9)
A Testing Time: forty days in the wilderness (Luke 4)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem: holy city, holy calling (Luke 13)
Sacred place and sacred scripture: forty days in the wilderness (2)
Hello. Thank you. We are with you. We support you.
The discomfort of ambiguity (Luke 15)
Don't take it at face value: on former things and new things
Don't take it at face value: on what lies behind and what lies ahead.
What do you see? What do you hear? (Luke 19)
A time in-between the times, a space in no-space.
The tomb is empty. He is not here. He is risen.
He Is Not Here Day
In defence of Thomas: a doubting sceptic? or a passionate firebrand?
Discovering new futures … letting go of the old
The calling of Saul and the turn to the Gentiles: modelling the missional imperative (Acts 8—12)
Resurrection life, economic responsibility, and inclusive hospitality: markers of the Gospel (Acts 9)
On literary devices and narrative development (Acts 16)
From Learners to Leaders: deepening discipleship in Luke's "orderly account"
Listening and learning at the feet of Jesus (Luke 10)
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Luke 12)
On incense and injustice, of assemblies and abominations
Coming to grips with the judgement of God (Luke 12 and Isaiah 5)
Disreputable outsiders invited inside: parables in Luke 14
Disturbing discipleship: exploring the teachings of Jesus in Luke 14
Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner? (Luke 17)
Unjust judge, shameless widow (Luke 18)
In defence of the Pharisees: on humility and righteousness (Luke 18)
Zacchæus: patron saint of change and transition (Luke 19)
Look up to the sky? Look down to your feet! (Luke 20)
Ministry and Mission in the midst of change and transition (Luke 21:13)
The First Peoples of Australia
The sovereignty of the First Peoples of Australia
Affirming the Sovereignty of First Peoples: undoing the Doctrine of Discovery
On Covenant, Reconciliation, and Sovereignty
Learning of the land (1): Eora, Biripi, Whadjuk Noongar
Learning of the land (2): Ngunnawal, Namadgi and Ngarigo
The profound effect of invasion and colonisation
"Endeavour by every possible means … to conciliate their affections"
"We never saw one inch of cultivated land in the whole country"
"They stood like Statues, without motion, but grinn'd like so many Monkies."
"Resembling the park lands [of a] gentleman's residence in England"
On Remembering: Cook and Flinders (and Trim), Bungaree and Yemmerrawanne
"They are to be hanged up on trees … to strike the survivors with the greater terror."
So, change the date—to what?
Learning of the land (3): Tuggeranong, Queanbeyan, and other Canberra place names
Learning from the land (4): Naiame's Nghunnhu—fishtraps at Brewarrina
We are sorry, we recognise your rights, we seek to be reconciled
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: learning from the past
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: Bungaree and Mahroot
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: Cora Gooseberry and Biddy Giles
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: "these are my people … this is my land".
Reconciliation on the land of Australia: living together with respect
Dark deeds in a sunny land: the exposé offered by John B. Gribble
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The Basis of Union
What I really like about the Basis of Union
What is missing from the Basis of Union?
Alongside the Basis of Union, there was the Statement to the Nation
Fresh words and deeds
Marriage and the Uniting Church
A diversity of religious beliefs and ethical understandings
Marriage and the matter of being vital to the life of the church
Seven Affirmations
Recognising Pain, Working for Reconciliation
The "additional marriage liturgy" for Uniting Churches
An Explainer, in nine easy steps
Marriage of same gender people: a gift to the whole Church
The Uniting Church is not a political democracy
So, what just happened? (An Explainer, Updated)
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Avengers: Infinity War': Director James Gunn Influenced Groot's Appearance In The Film
Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War — The Art of the Movie has revealed a lot of details about how the biggest superhero movie of all-time was envisioned to be and how it finally turned out. In addition to revealing concept arts designed for various characters, Marvel's concept art team has also offered some interesting reveals from the people who worked on Infinity War.
It has been revealed that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who was involved in the making of Avengers: Infinity War along with director Anthony and Joe Russo, had a major influence on Groot's appearance in the film. Marvel Studios Sr.VisDev Artist also pointed out details from Groot's design which were done on the advice of Gunn.
"James Gunn also wanted to add a bit of an ungroomed attitude where he does not clean up after himself, like trimming his greenery in those awkward spaces and adding a little belly to show him not caring about his appearance," artist Anthony Francisco revealed on Groot's physical design.
The fan-favorite Groot was also one of the victims of Thanos' devastating snap.
Fans must also note that it was Gunn who wrote the comedic "Invisible scene" involving Drax in Infinity War. Its currently unknown if the director was also involved in such a manner for Avengers 4.
Storyboard artist Byran Andrews also revealed that one version of Captain America's return sequence in the movie involved Santa Claus. Unfortunately, the sequence was not finalized to be included in the final cut for it being "too much."
"There were a few versions of the Edinburgh sequence," Andrews revealed. "At first, the Russos had it set during the winter festival. Large crowds, snow, and Cap and the gang were already on-site trying to find Vision and Wanda in a crowd of Santas when the Children of Thanos arrive. Lots of fun stuff, but it was too much. Sometimes less is definitely more."
Recently, it was also explained how Thanos survived Titans' destruction. The Mad Titan was reportedly exiled from his home planet for proposing to wipe out half of the planet's population to save the rest.
It is expected that Avengers 4 might throw some light on Thanos' backstory when it arrives in theatres on May 3, 2019.