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9/11: A Flag Raising
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Award-winning photographer Thomas E. Franklin joins Tim to tell his story of Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, and the story behind that now iconic photo he took that day, one that gave a nation in shock and mourning, something new. A sense of hope. And something to rally around. Our collective sense of patriotism. He captured that image of those three firefighters raising the American flag amidst the ruins of the World Trade Center. This episode is part of our special series, "9/11: A Generation Removed."
Tom Franklin had just gotten back from an assignment in the Dominican Republic. It was 8 a.m. on September 11, 2001, and he was in the newsroom at The Bergen Record in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was ready to get back into a normal routine, coving the New York and New Jersey region. It was a beautiful, sunny day.
That all changed at 8:46 a.m., when the first of two jets would plow into the World Trade Center towers as part of a coordinated terroristic attack on America. Tom had to gram his camera and equipment and go.
About 9/11: A Generation Removed
On September 11, 2021, America will mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the country that happened on September 11, 2001. In remembrance of the event, the Shaping Opinion podcast will release a series of nine distinct episodes centered on the 9/11 attacks, starting on Friday, September 3rd and culminating on the 20th Anniversary, September 11, 2021. The series, entitled, "9/11: A Generation Removed," will feature six new and original episodes for 2021, and three encore episodes, all based on the personal experiences of guests and stories of people who were there in New York, in Washington, D.C., and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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About this Episode's Guest Tom Franklin
Thomas E. Franklin is an award-winning photographer, multimedia journalist, documentary filmmaker, and educator, based in northern New Jersey.
Since 2016, his multimedia work has explored issues related to immigration and forced migration, shedding light on the highly complex circumstances surrounding global migration and reporting on the personal experiences of many who have been forcibly displaced or seeking asylum. Currently, his project, Seeking Refuge, is display at the Paterson Museum in a virtual exhibit. Originally planned to debut at the Museum in May 2020, the physical exhibition was postponed due to the museum's COVID-19 closure.
While working on Seeking Refuge, Tom traveled on assignment to Central Mexico, and the Southern U.S. border with Mexico, where his dramatic footage of migrants who breached the U.S. border fence by the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana was published by the Los Angeles Times syndicate. He also traveled to Lesvos, Greece, where he produced, The World Arrived at Our Doorstep, a 10-minute documentary film about a British couple living there who worked tirelessly to assist Syrian refugees, but have been vilified by locals for helping the unwanted arrivals. The documentary and story with photos was published on the i24 News website and appeared on TV segment, broadcast in English, French, and Arabic to countries around the globe, and streamed live on its website.
Tom is perhaps best known for photographs taken at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. His iconic image of three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag above the rubble of the World Trade Center following the attacks is one of the most widely recognized images in history, and was featured on the United States Postal Service's Heroes stamp, generating over $10 million for those affected by 9/11.
In 2002, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his 9/11 photo. Life cited the image as one of the 100 Photographs That Changed the World, and the photo is part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, the National September 11 Museum, and the Newseum. The image has been widely reproduced in the decade since it was first published, and was the subject of The Flag, a documentary broadcast on CNN in 2013, and America's 9/11 Flag: Rise from the Ashes, broadcast on the History Channel in 2016, and chronicles what happened to the flag after it disappeared shortly after 9/11.
His other photography and multimedia work has been widely recognized by POYi, NPPA, SPJ, and has been published worldwide via the Associated Press, and in publications such as the Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, VICE, and several other major media outlets.
From 1994 to 2007, Tom worked as a staff photographer for The Record, a regional newspaper in Bergen County, NJ, where he covered news, sports, entertainment, and local features. He traveled on assignments to over 15 states, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada, and covered many news assignments such as the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and NHL finals, presidential campaigns, and several heartbreaking and tragic events including natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
In 2007, the focus of his work shifted towards multimedia, where he led The Record's foray into news video on the web at Northjersey.com. As the senior video journalist, he produced award-winning multimedia and trained journalists within the North Jersey Media Group in video storytelling.
Tom has been an educator and mentor throughout his career. He joined the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State in 2015 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Multi-platform Journalism, after serving as an adjunct at Ramapo College for 11-years. He has developed several new courses at Montclair in the areas of visual storytelling and multimedia, and has led student reporting trips to Greece to report on Syrian refugees, to Puerto Rico to report on the recovery from Hurricane Maria, and to Yellowstone National Park, for a collaborative reporting project on conservation and environmental issues. In 2017, he also was visiting professor at UNIVA University in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Franklin's teaching has helped foster student transformation and has helped students become better prepared for entering the media industry, as well as helped Montclair State gain national recognition as a premier public university. Under his mentorship, students have won several coveted student journalism awards, including a national RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Video Reporting, two national collegiate Emmy® awards, including the prestigious Bricker Humanitarian Award at the Television Academy Foundation 39th College Television Awards, and several photojournalism and multimedia awards in the annual by the Associated Collegiate Press competition.
He is a frequent on-air guest and has appeared on NBC's Today show, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, CNN, Good Morning America, Oprah, Al Jazeera, Dan Rather Reports, CNBC, Fox News with Shepard Smith, NPR, and The Brian Lehrer Show.
He has served as an invited moderator for several panel discussions on topics related to photojournalism and multimedia; including the Montclair Film and Book Festivals, and the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. He has also served as juror for several media contests, including the Pulitzer Prize, NPPA, AEJMC, Newswomen's Club of New York's Front-Page Awards, Boston Press Photographers Association, Virginia Press Association, and the Utah News Photographers Association.
Tom is a highly sought-after public speaker and consultant providing multimedia training for journalists, students, and corporate media professionals. He can be reached here for availability.
While many of his assignments focus on news and other difficult subjects; his favorite photography comes from traveling to new places, as well as capturing the beauty of moments in everyday life in and around New Jersey.
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The Food and Nutrition Board at the Institute of Medicine recommends adults to consume slightly less than 100 mg a day, but supplement producers expound the benefits of higher dosages.
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LONDON — Burt Kwouk, who played Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato Fong in Blake Edwards' "Pink Panther" movies, has died at the age of 85.
Kwouk featured in seven "Pink Panther" pics, starting with 1964's "A Shot in the Dark" through to "Curse of the Pink Panther" in 1983. He played Cato, which was initially spelled Kato, a martial arts specialist who regularly attacked Clouseau, played by Peter Sellers, to keep him alert.
Other movie appearances included James Bond films "Goldfinger" and "You Only Live Twice," as well as Fred Schepisi's "Plenty," Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" and Roger Spottiswoode's "Air America."
TV series credits included "The Avengers," "The Saint," "Doctor Who," "Hart to Hart" and "Tenko," in which he played Major Yamauchi. One of his last dramatic roles was in BBC sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine," in which he played Entwistle from 2002 to 2010.
Kwouk received an award from Prince Charles, the Order of the British Empire, for services to drama in 2011.
A statement from his agent said: "Beloved actor Burt Kwouk has sadly passed peacefully away 24th May. The family will be having a private funeral but there will be a memorial at a later date."

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South America 2016
Meet the rock masters
Cusco was the capital of the Inca empire, which stretched from southern Colombia all the way to the middle of Chile. It was divided into four different sectors, all of them meeting in Cusco. Therefore, it has been a large and important city for centuries. It was home to thirteen different Inca kings, who built large palaces and temples all over the city.
A statue of one of the Inca kings at the main square in Cusco
When the Spanish arrived, they believed that the Inca were pagans, as they had different gods – the sun and the moon – and a strong connection to Pachamamma, mother earth. As a result, the Spaniards destroyed those buildings and placed Catholic churches on top of the remaining foundation walls. These remnants still show the superior masonry techniques of the Inca, who prepared each rock individually, working without mortar.
Catholic churches were built on top of important Inca buildings
The remains of many Inca walls are still present in the architecture of Cusco
To get a better idea of the Inca culture, we took a tour to the "Sacred valley". In Pisac we encountered the first ruins, located on top of a mountain. There were houses and terraces, which were used for growing all kinds of potatoes and other vegetables. The storage house had many windows and was located on top of the mountain, as it provided for a natural cooling by the wind.
First sight of the "Sacred valley" of the Incas
The ruins of houses and wide terraces at Pisac
More ruins are located in Ollantaytambo. Here, we climbed nearly 150 steps to the top of the hill, where more houses and an important temple of the sun is located. Once again only the foundation walls remain, but it's still quite impressive. Equally impressive is the system of little canals that run through the old town, bringing running water to every household.
It does rain from time to time, since we're in the rainy season
The "Temple of the sun" in Ollantaytambo is a perfect example of superb Inca masonry
The last stop of our tour was Chinchero, a small village with more Inca ruins and an ancient Catholic church. However, the village is more known for its handicraft, as most inhabitants work in groups to make colorful ponchos, sweaters, scarfs, table runners and more. They also show, how they clean and split the raw alpaca wool. Afterwards, the yarn is colored with different materials, all natural and organic. The only remaining question is, how they can produce so much that the whole country is full of places, where these textiles can be bought for cheap? The answer might be related to sheep wool, mechanical fabrication and China.
A demonstration of the natural cleaning of alpaca wool in Chinchero
Coloring is also purely natural with different plants and bacteria
The next day we booked another tour to Moray. This is a huge terraced area, which was used by the Inca to experiment with different fruits and vegetables to adapt them to the height of the Andes. They managed to create a micro-climate, where each terrace had an average temperature difference of about 0.5° C to the next terrace. And it gets even better, because the ground works as a natural filter and prevents the basin from getting flooded during the rainy season.
The terraces at Moray had their own micro climate
The other destination of that tour were the salt mines of Maras. Here, a mineral-rich stream is diverted over hundreds of basins, where the water slowly evaporates, leaving the salt behind. They have been used since pre-Inca times and have been extended several times since then.
The salt terraces of Maras have been used and extended for centuries
As a tourist we could walk right into the terraces
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Development of a national convention centre will create substantial economic benefits, both for the tourism industry and the wider New Zealand economy, the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) says.
TIA is welcoming the expected resumption of negotiations between the government and Skycity to develop a national convention centre, following yesterday's (Feb 19) release of the report by the Office of the Auditor-General into the expressions of interest process.
"We look forward to participating in the process to develop a national convention centre," said TIA Chief Executive Martin Snedden.
Conference delegates are high-spending visitors, spending an average of NZD$365 a night, compared to an international leisure visitor who spends around NZD$200 a night.
It is estimated a national convention centre will boost New Zealand's economy by more than NZD$90 million a year. It is expected to create 1000 jobs during construction and another 800 positions when it is operational.
It will also support many more jobs across the economy, including in the accommodation, catering, transport and retail sectors.
"Development of a world-class convention centre will not only create a major new market for our tourism industry, it will contribute significantly to New Zealand's economic recovery," Snedden said.
The lack of a world-class convention centre prevents New Zealand from hosting large international conferences.
"We have been losing conventions to other destinations, particularly Australia, because we don't have an international-scale convention centre. Development of such a facility will enable the industry to target a whole new market that can't be accommodated by existing conference facilities," Snedden said.
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Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is characterized by the growth of numerous, large epithelial-lined cysts from the nephrons and collecting ducts of affected kidneys. It is one of the most common lethal genetic diseases in the U.S. and worldwide. Cyst formation is initiated early in fetal kidneys, suggesting that the disease is caused by an abnormality in the differentiation of renal tubules. Most cases of human PKD are known to be caused by mutations in two unlinked genes, PKD1 and PKD2, with mutations in the PKD1 gene being associated with ~85% of PKD cases. The PKD1 protein product, polycystin-1, is a very large, membrane-associated glycoprotein. The N-terminal, extracellular region is ~3,000 amino acids in length, the membrane-spanning region (including 11 transmembrane domains) is ~1,000 amino acids in length, and the C-terminal, cytosolic domain is ~200 amino acids in length.
A number of protein motifs have been identified in the N-terminal, extracellular region and in the C-terminal, cytosolic region that suggest that polycystin-1 may function as a plasma membrane receptor, possibly to regulate cell differentiation as a ciliary mechanosenor. The PKD2 protein product, polycystin-2, is a calcium channel that directly interacts with polycystin-1. Thus, polycystin-1 may regulate polycystin-2 channel activity. The proposed role of polycystin-1 as a membrane receptor is supported by evidence from other labs and by our own work showing that expression of polycystin-1 fusion proteins in transiently transfected cells activates a number of cellular signaling pathways, including activation of the AP-1 and NFAT transcription factors (Parnell et al., 2002; Puri et al. 2004). Much of our current work is based on our evidence that polycystin-1 functions as a heterotrimeric G protein coupled receptor (Parnell et al., 1998; 2002).
To test this, we carried out in vitro protein binding assays using bacterially expressed polycystin-1 fusion constructs, which showed that the C-terminal cytosolic domain can stably bind G proteins. The binding domain was found to be within an evolutionarily conserved region of polycystin-1, and to contain a 20-amino acid peptide sequence that can activate purified G proteins in vitro. These results were the first to demonstrate that polycystin-1 may function by initiating heterotrimeric G protein coupled signal transduction.
Several key observations made over the past several years have suggested that cAMP is central to the pathogenesis of PKD. First, cAMP has been shown to be the driving force in the activation of the Ras/MAPK pathway and in the resulting cell proliferation that is required for cyst formation and cyst growth. Second, cAMP activation of CFTR has been shown to be the driving force for the fluid secretion required for cyst enlargement after cysts pinch off from the nephron. The central role of cAMP has recently been further confirmed by a series of experiments in which animal models of PKD were successfully treated with a vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist, presumably because the antagonist lowered renal cAMP levels.
However, while these experiments support the view that cAMP is important, it is not known how a defect in the polycystins can cause misregulation of cAMP-mediated mechanisms associated with increased cell proliferation and fluid secretion, both integral to cyst growth and enlargement. The polycystins are thought to regulate intracellular calcium mobilization in response to some yet-to-be-determined ligand-mediated or mechanosensory stimulus. As stated above, polycystin-2 has been shown to be a calcium-regulated non-specific cation channel, and polycystin-1 is thought to regulate polycystin-2 activity. Recently, we showed that polycystin-1 alone is capable of elevating intracellular calcium through a heterotrimeric G protein-coupled mechanism. Both polycystin-1 and polycystin-2 have been shown to be required for ciliary mechanosensory increases in intracellular calcium; however, it is not known how these calcium fluxes are linked to cAMP signaling or to cell proliferation.
Recently, we showed, using three cell culture model systems, that PKD-like cell proliferation is dependent on cAMP-mediated activation of the Ras/B-Raf/ERK pathway (Sutters et al., 2001; Yamaguchi et al., 2004). This was shown in primary cultures of ADPKD cyst epithelial cells, in M-1 cells stably transfected with a dominant-negative polycystin-1 construct, and in M-1 cells treated with calcium channel blockers. All three systems displayed the same phenotypic switch from cAMP-inhibited to cAMP-stimulated cell proliferation. Yet, despite these common observations, it is not clear whether and how the polycystins may be involved.
As such, we are determining if the PKD-like cAMP-stimulated phenotype is a characteristic of Pkd1 deficient mouse cells. For these studies, we are using the Pkd1(m1bei) mouse, which has a single amino acid missense mutation that causes a PKD phenotype, and we are generating two new mouse models that will carry, single amino acid (aa) mutations in the heterotrimeric G protein binding region of polycystin-1 (to mimic known human mutations), and a 52 aa frameshift mutation in the heterotrimeric G protein binding region of polycystin-1. We are also utilizing metanephric kidney cultures from these mice to determine whether the PKD-like phenotypic switch occurs in embryonic kidney cells at a time when cysts begin to grow in human PKD (Magenheimer et al., in preparation). Finally, we are testing polycystin-1 mediated signaling activity under conditions of fluid flow mediated ciliary bending to determine if polycystin-1 can generate a calcium signal that can lead to altered calcium-regulated gene expression.
Another project in the lab is looking into the regulation of PKD1 gene expression by analyzing 5' proximal promoter elements that function to up- or down-regulate PKD1 mRNA levels. We were the first to isolate and analyze the PKD1 promoter, showing that it is a target of the beta-catenin pathway (Rodova et al., 2002). More recent work has shown regulation of PKD1 promoter activity by Ets factors (Puri et al. in press) and by retinoic acid (Islam et al., in preparation). We have also determined that the last intron of the PKD1 gene (intron 45) has exceptionally high sequence conservation (Rodova et al., 2003). Pairwise comparisons for intron 45 showed 91% identity (human vs. dog) to 100% identity (mouse vs. rat) for an average for all four species of 94% identity. In contrast, introns 43 and 44 of the PKD1 gene had average pairwise identities of 57% and 54%, and exons 43, 44, and 45 and the coding region of exon 46 had average pairwise identities of only 80-84%.
Intron 45 is 90 to 95 bp in length, with the major region of sequence divergence being in a central 4-bp to 9-bp variable region. RNA secondary structure analysis of intron 45 predicts a branching stem-loop structure in which the central variable region lies in one loop and the putative branch point sequence lies in another loop, suggesting that the intron adopts a specific stem-loop structure that may be important for its removal. Although intron 45 appears to conform to the class of small, G-triplet–containing introns that are spliced by a mechanism utilizing intron definition, its high sequence conservation may be a reflection of constraints imposed by a unique mechanism that coordinates splicing of this last PKD1 intron with polyadenylation.


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The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has an overall goal to supply safe food across the world. This industry-driven organization provides guidance when implementing food safety management systems necessary in the supply chain, regularly hosting conferences, meetings, and materials for the industry.
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For a food and beverage processor to become certified under GFSI standards, one must determine gaps in the existing food safety management system and decide on a Certification Body (CB) to perform the mandatory third-party audit. GFSI will perform a benchmarking process, which will determine competent food safety schemes in your business.


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Jonathan's soul burned within him as he walked, remembering his father's words.
The quick, low chirruping of a sandgrouse in a cypress tree echoed across the plain. The morning clouds glowed fiery orange against the lightening purple sky.
The boy took off through the prairie grass with the swiftness of youth.


Today quicktype is one year old. After generating one billion lines of code, here's a look back on quicktype's first year.
A year ago, I was writing some Swift to parse and represent JSON when I was struck by how mind-numbingly tedious the process was (especially before Codable was introduced in Swift 4). I had seen some simple JSON-to-code translators, but they were always buggy, had terrible UX, and were hard-coded for a single programming language.
"Mark, I need your big brain," I said to my big-brained friend Mark, before explaining the problem and what I thought a good solution would be like: paste JSON on the left, instantly get lovely code in any language on the right, with functions for marshaling to-and-from JSON strings. The goal would be to generate the same code that a person would write by hand, so the style had to be impeccable and we'd have to infer intuitive names for types and properties.
public static TopLevel FromUrl(string url) => FromJson(new WebClient().DownloadString(url));"""
Then we continuously deployed updates and new features for a year.
Generated over 1.2 billion lines of code, by rough estimate. In San Francisco, you'd have to hire 76 developers at a cost of $7.9 million to write this code, assuming no sick days and all programmers type 40 WPM for 6 hours per day!
As you can see, quicktype has evolved into something quite powerful from its simple beginnings.


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Jessica Speas, CVPM, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP, CCFP.
Jessica Speas, CVPM, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP, CCFP (La Crescenta, CA)
Jessica has been the Hospital Administrator of her family's small animal practice in Southern California since 2002. Her practice is truly a family affair, her father is a veterinarian, and her sister is an RVT, all working together. Jessica decided against a career in medicine early on but fell in love with the profession and the celebration of the Human-Animal Bond.
Jessica completed the Veterinary Management Institute (AAHA/VMI) program at Purdue in 2008, she earned the Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) designation in 2010 and achieved the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification in 2015 with a specialty certification for California Human Resources (PHRca). Additionally, in 2015 Jessica earned the Society of Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). Jessica completed the Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional certification in 2017. To reaffirm her commitment to the Human-Animal Bond Jessica earned the Human-Animal Bond Certified designation in 2019. Most recently, Jessica completed the Workplace Wellbeing Certificate in 2020 and the Brave Space Certificate in 2021, both from the American Veterinary Medical Association. Jessica lives by the motto, perfection is not realistic; continuous improvement is.
Since 2013 Jessica has served on the VHMA Board of Directors. She served two terms as a Director, one term as Secretary, and most recently Vice President. In addition to her roles on the board, she has served as the Program Committee Chair, transiting the committee to the Education and Programing Advisory Group and serving as co-chair. Jessica has a commitment to lifelong learning and has provided innovative and new educational opportunities for VHMA members.
Kim Drummond, BSN, CVPM
Kim Drummond, BSN, CVPM (Seattle, WA)
Kim's passion for the veterinary industry began when she started working at a small-animal hospital in Seattle while earning her BS in Nursing from the University of Washington. This experience fueled her excitement for education, leadership, mentoring, working with diverse teams, and promoting the success of individual team members. After becoming a VHMA member in 2000, she realized the opportunities for developing personally and professionally in veterinary medicine were endless.
She found her permanent home as the Hospital Administrator of AAHA-accredited, Elliott Bay Animal Hospital in Seattle where she has worked for 26 years and considers herself extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to work for a practice owner that supported her desire to enhance her education in veterinary hospital management. Through her leadership and collaboration with the team, they have grown from a one and a half DVM hospital to an 8-DVM, 40+ team member practice. In 2018, Elliott Bay Animal Hospital was awarded the Readers' Choice Poll Winner as the Best Veterinary Practice in Seattle.
Kim's enthusiasm and involvement with the VHMA encouraged her to earn her Certificate in Veterinary Practice Administration from Purdue University in 2001. With her owners' support and encouragement from the VHMA, she was inspired to earn the designation of Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) in 2006. This continues to be one of the accomplishments she is the proudest of. For three years, she volunteered by serving on the ACE committee for the AAHA to develop management continuing education programs. She has volunteered and supported the VHMA as a member of the Education and Programming Advisory Group and has served the last two years on the VHMA Board of Directors.
In 2021, Kim was offered and accepted the position of Hospital Administrator and COO for four privately owned practices in the greater Seattle area that employs 15 veterinarians and approximately 85 support team members. She is thrilled to expand her role and work with an extremely talented group of people.
Kim is eternally grateful for the benefits of being a member of the VHMA. She is excited to continue sharing her passion, experience and energy to give back to our association!
Kim Jacobs, CVPM, CCFP
Kim Jacobs, CVPM, CCFP (Hickory Creek, TX)
Kim's career was the best happy accident ever. She stumbled upon a help-wanted ad for local veterinary practice in town. After spending 13 years in retail leadership, she was ready for a change. At first, she was the only employee, so she worked every position within the practice. She was promoted to practice manager in 2004, and all the tumblers fell into place and unlocked her passion. With her leadership and the help of a supportive practice owner, they have grown the practice to four doctors and 14 support staff. Kim's innovative thinking led to a daycare for clinic staff in a new hospital she helped design and build.
Kim joined the VHMA in 2007 and was awestruck with the education and information that was available to her as a new manager. In 2010 she earned the Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) certification and welcomed a growing network of colleagues who achieved this milestone. She found herself thinking "My People"!
In 2014 she volunteered to serve on the VHMA Ethics Committee, and in 2019 she was promoted to the Chair role. Outside of VHMA, she has worked with other colleagues in the Compassion Fatigue sector to moderate an online group providing support and hope for those dealing with compassion fatigue and burnout. She earned certification in Compassion Fatigue in 2020. She looks forward to the opportunity to give back by serving on the VHMA Board.
Christine Shupe, CAE
Christine graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego with a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Political Science. Christine started her career as an administrative assistant for the lobbying firm of Shea and Gould in Albany, NY. Christine continued her career at the New York State Legislature as the Legislative Aid to Assemblywoman Frances T. Sullivan. Christine joined the association management firm of Capitol Hill Management Services where she first started serving as the Executive Director to the VHMA in 1998. In 2003, Christine earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation awarded by the American Society of Association Executives. After moving from New York to Florida, Christine started her own management company, CQS Management Service, LLC where she continues to serve as the VHMA Executive Director.
Scott Zimmerman, BFA, CVPM
Scott Zimmerman, BFA, CVPM (Decatur, GA)
Scott began working veterinary medicine in 2010 as the Practice Manager for Dearborn Animal Hospital in Decatur, GA. Prior to his current position he spent 25+ years working in the field of non-profit management, working for mainly youth leadership and development programs such as Boy Scouts of America and Camp Fire USA. He also spent time as the Managing Director for a professional theatre Company. Scott has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Technical Design and Production in Drama from the University of Oklahoma.
Scott has had many highlights during his time as Practice Manager, including overseeing the design and build-out of a new hospital. He led his team, meeting the standards of AAHA and becoming an accredited hospital. Growing his practice from three to seven doctors and more than doubling his staff and budget in the past nine years. Joining the VMHA has allowed him to continue to grow his knowledge and build a network of other top professionals. In 2015, he achieved one of his goals, becoming a Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM).
Scott joined the VHMA Membership Committee/Advisory Panel in 2014 and in 2015 stepped into the role of committee chair, until Joining the Board of Directors two years ago. Since then Scott has been serving on the VHMA Board, first as a Director and then as Treasurer. He is a member of the task force on Value Based Pricing – Strategic Pricing in Veterinary Practices. He always enjoys serving as a conference buddy for our new members and/or first-time attendees at the VHMA conferences.
Meghan Bingham, CVPM
Meghan Bingham, CVPM (Houston, TX)
Twenty-five years ago, Meghan started a summer job as a Kennel Technician at her neighborhood vet clinic and never left! She worked her way up over the years from Kennel Technician to Veterinary Technician to Receptionist and eventually settled in as Practice Manager. She's helped grow the clinic from a one-doctor, to a 12-doctor practice and jokes that she has held every position but veterinarian!
Meghan earned her CVPM certification in 2017 after being elected one of the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association's Emerging Leaders and was chosen as a finalist for DVM360s Practice Manager of the Year in 2018!
A VHMA member since 2016, Meghan is proud to have served on VHMA's rebranding committee, which created the new VHMA logo and branding. She learned so much in the process and was excited to serve as the Chair of VHMA's Marketing Committee.
Meghan is so thankful for all the VHMA has provided her personally and professionally. Through this group, she's made life-long friends and learned how to be a better manager. The support from the VHMA has been tremendous and crucial to Meghan's professional growth.
Meghan enjoys almost everything related to practice management and feels like it's her job to help set her team up for success. She's passionate about making preventative medicine a priority and increasing heartworm and flea compliance. She's also extremely proud for having the first Fear Free Certified Clinic in Texas!
Jessica Molina, CCFP, CVPM, PHR
Jessica Molina, CCFP, CVPM, PHR (Rye, NH)
For the last 19 years, Jessica has not only been a veterinary professional but a military spouse. She spent her career relocating with the Navy, which offered her the opportunity to work in several practices around the country. Like many managers, she's held just about every position in a clinic along the way. She is a Georgia native and a University of Missouri graduate, where she completed a Bachelor's in General Studies focused specifically in the areas of Business, Education, and Human Development. In 2008, while working for Pet Care in Virginia Beach, she was promoted into management. A few years later, she moved to Whidbey Island, WA, where she shifted into remote recruiting and management consulting for Pet Care while serving in an HR role for a manufacturing, distribution, and retail company. In 2016, she earned certification through HRCI as a Professional in Human Resources. That same year, she landed a full-time management position back in the veterinary industry with a multi-doctor Fear Free companion and exotic clinic, Best Friend's Veterinary Center. The following year, she was inspired to become a Fear Free Level I Certified professional. Another military move in 2018 landed her in the Pensacola area and a new adventure as Hospital Administrator for Lee Veterinary Clinic, a large multi-doctor mixed animal practice in Atmore, AL. This same year, she earned her Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) certification and certification as a Compassion Fatigue Professional. A year later, she was named Practice Manager of the Year by DVM360 and the VHMA. In 2020, she pushed herself a bit further, digging into her passion for innovation and leadership, obtaining her certification in the Human-Animal Bond as well as becoming a Fear Free Elite! In the fall of 2020, she was asked to join her VMG DVM peers as the Director of Operations leading Hospital Administration and Practice Manager coaching for their group of hospitals in the New England area. Jessica has been a member of the VHMA since 2016 and has actively supported the CVPM program volunteering her time to examination development.
Leslie Boudreau, BASVT, RVTg, CVPM, PHR, PHRca
Leslie Boudreau, BASVT, RVTg, CVPM, PHR, PHRca (Huntington Beach, CA)
Leslie has been a Veterinary Technologist and Practice Manager in Southern California for over 30 years. She earned her A.S. in Veterinary Technology from Mt. San Antonio College and her BASVT in Veterinary Technology – Hospital Management, from St. Petersburg College. In 2011, she became a CVPM (Certified Veterinary Practice Manager). Leslie also holds three human resources certifications which she uses every day at her busy practice of 50 staff members. Leslie is currently the Practice Manager/Administrator at Animal Hospital of Huntington Beach, an eight veterinarian, AAHA-accredited, small animal and exotic practice.
In addition to practice management, she is very passionate about veterinary technician issues and is the immediate past President for CaRVTA (California Registered Veterinary Technician Association). She sits on the advisory boards for two veterinary technician colleges and volunteers on AVMA site visit teams as the RVT member. She was appointed to the AVMA task force on Technician Utilization as a representative for VHMA.
Leslie has authored practice management articles for Firstline Magazine and was a practice management consultant for Novartis Animal Health. In addition, Leslie speaks on a wide range of practice management topics as a presenter for local practice management and veterinary technician conferences and programs.
Leslie is very active with the Orange County Veterinary Hospital Manager's Group and is a founding member and frequent speaker. The goal of the group is to mentor and encourage local managers to become CVPM's.
Leslie is avid about all aspects of veterinary practice management and helping the profession grow and adapt to future changes. Since 2013, she has enjoyed volunteering her time with the VHMA. She served on the Program Committee and then in 2017 was elected as a Director and in 2019 as the Secretary to the VHMA Board.
Karli Carter, CVPM (Payson, UT)
Karli started her career in veterinary medicine after obtaining her veterinary assistant certification in 2005. She was hired on at Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, UT after completing the required internship hours for the program. She worked as the lead technician for three years, and in 2009 she accepted the office manager position after the current manager retired. The two positions melded together into a practice manager role.
During her tenure at Payson Family Pet Hospital, the clinic grew from one doctor and eight staff, to eight doctors and 50 staff. They built a new building in 2009 and that same year they became AAHA accredited. In 2016, she bought a portion of Payson Family Pet Hospital and is now one of three owners of the clinic. The hospital is continuing to grow and is currently expanding their building and staff even more.
In 2014, she discovered the VHMA, and it forever changed her career. She was awarded the 2015 Emerging Leaders scholarship and earned her Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) designation in 2015. Since then, she has had a chance to serve on the Partner's For Healthy Pets Advisory Board and Chair the VHMA Membership Committee. In 2019 Karli was elected to serve as a Director to the VHMA Board.
Michelle Gonzales-Bryant, CVPM
Michelle Gonzales-Bryant, CVPM (Tempe, AZ)
I began my veterinary career over 27 years ago as a Kennel Attendant and a Veterinary Assistant. I put myself through Veterinary Technician School and spent my first two years as a surgery technician. I have worked in every department of an animal hospital and, through my years, focused on learning everything I could about the operations of an animal hospital. I found my home at University Animal Hospital in Tempe, AZ. University Animal Hospital is a small animal hospital with 12 doctors and 70+ staff and a large boarding facility with 156 dog runs and 50 cat condos. I started at University Animal Hospital in 1995. In June 2016, I took on a new role as a Regional Operations Director. This new position requires me to oversee the operations of multiple animal hospitals. I appreciate that I have worked in various positions, as this helps keep me grounded to appreciate what every associate provides to the success of any hospital. Building strong relationships is as important to me as everything else.
In 2010, I earned my Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) designation, and I have been an active member of the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA) since 2006. I currently serve on the VHMA Board of Directors as the President.
My husband and I recently adopted two daughters. They are sisters and are 11 months apart in age: Lyric and Harmonie. We call them our forever song!
We also have three amazing pit bulls. Ages 11, 10, and 7. Lulu, Buddy, and Levi, and we have had them since they were each a puppy. They enjoy hanging out with our daughters and hoping they get to steal some snacks.


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Home » Articles » Kawneer systems help line the path to new care standards Over 46154 entries
Kawneer systems help line the path to new care standards
Kawneer's healthcare windows and curtain walling feature at Atherleigh Park.
Windows specifically designed by leading UK manufacturer Kawneer for the healthcare sector are bringing four-fold benefits to a new £40 million mental health hospital.
Kawneer's AA®3110HW windows maximise ventilation while minimising the risk of self harming. They feature anti-ligature elements such as a wraparound gasket that breaks into harmless pieces when there is an attempt to remove it, together with a drive mechanism for opening the window that cannot be used as a ligature point.
At Atherleigh Park hospital in Leigh, Wigan, the windows were installed alongside Kawneer's AA®100 zone-drained curtain walling and AA®543 tilturn and AA®541 top-hung casement windows by Polar (NE) Ltd.
The AA®3110HW window used at Atherleigh Park was enhanced by Polar for use in this project – a medium-secure mental health facility. The fabricator designed special extrusions (which Kawneer have now developed from Polar's designs), a reduced ligature drive mechanism for opening the window and a unique removable security mesh.
Built by Kier Construction on the former Leigh East Amateur Rugby League ground, the 3.9-hectare site provides high-quality inpatient services for adults with mental health problems and patients with dementia and memory loss conditions. Specifically, it provides 100 per cent single-bed with en-suite occupancy comprising 40 adult acute beds over two wards and the eight-bed PICU complete with public access entrance building and ancillary accommodation.
The two-storey building is constructed of steel and timber panel SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) and SFS (Steel Framing Systems), with all the wards and services for inpatients and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on the ground floor and staff accommodation on the first floor. Externally, cedar and red brick cladding is complemented by large areas of full-height glazing while internally the colour scheme is bright and fresh.
For regular Kawneer specifiers AFL Architects, key drivers for the project were to design a building that acted as a catalyst to help implement a new clinical care pathway for North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, improved the patient experience and staff effectiveness, and de-stigmatised mental health.
Providing a healthy environment for patients was one of the main priorities of the project. The hospital's facilities include a sports hall, gym, outdoor courtyards, therapy rooms, landscaped gardens, a nature trail and a cafe for patients, visitors, staff and the general public.
AFL associate Neil Milling said that as the site was in a residential area the plans required early presentations and regular updates with local residents.
"The Kawneer systems provide security and aesthetics and maximise daylight and ventilation for the service users. Aluminium's sustainability played a small part. Robustness and costings played a larger part."
He added:
"Our integrated design ensured bespoke products allowed the design to be implemented through construction."
North West Boroughs Healthcare's project manager Paul Jackson won a design champion award at the Design in Mental Health Awards 2017 for his part in the project.
Polar also developed an anti-climb window for this project.
For a virtual tour of Atherleigh Park, go to: www.nwbh.nhs.uk/atherleigh-park.
Kawneer UK


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wearing them. Short, long, or fingerless gloves it's up on you.
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"The Forever Watch" by David Ramirez just might be one of the greatest dystopian novels of our time, though you wouldn't know it by the way it begins.
The book takes place aboard a giant spaceship "Noah," which carries the last surviving humans from Earth to the planet of Canaan. The voyage will last over a thousand years, but nobody minds it because life is good: cybernetic implants amplify people's natural abilities and turn them into telepaths, healers, super-strong bruisers, etc. There is no war, no racism, no religious discrimination (mostly because religion has been quietly eliminated over the years) and everything is just peachy. Or is it?..
The main character is the administrator of the city planning bureau. The book begins with her waking up after her 9-month-long breeding duty. (In the wonderful space future, you just take a 9-month nap and wake up to find a large cash bonus in your bank account – somebody else will raise the baby for you.) Shortly afterwards, her friend, a bruiser with an enhanced metabolism, asks her to help him out with an odd case he's been working on. As they investigate a bizarre murder, they discover far more than they'd ever expected to find.
At 336 pages, "The Forever Watch" is an impressive novel, especially considering it's Ramirez's first novel. The plot takes course over the period of several years, flowing smoothly from one key point to the next, evenly spreading the introspective chapters and the gory, bloody action scenes featuring telepathically enhanced characters.
The way the story slowly but surely descends from a verifiable Utopia into a dysyopian nightmare is remarkable – a hard sci-fi version of "Faust" if I've ever seen one. Ramirez uses all the genre tropes – spaceships, aliens, mutants, psychics, self-aware computers and so many, many more – and weaves them into the narrative filled with plot twists and surprises that even the most astute reader would find hard to anticipate.
"The Forever Watch" is not a nice book. It's not a happy book. It's definitely not the kind of book you'd want to give your 11-year-old. But it's the perfect book for our age, with its grim, gestalt message about surveillance and secrets, rebels and revolutions, freedom and responsibility. It'll make you think and weep and gasp and wonder, as all great books are meant to do.


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A photo captures laughing people, drinking in a bar.
Happy, cheerful, and carefree, at least it seems so from afar.
But take a closer look and watch, the things they drown in beer and scotch.
For him it's tears, for friends long gone, for her a way through night to dawn.
and 'all is well' for those who ask.
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Paul Shew, 89, of Mocksville, N.C., passed from this life Monday, June 26, 2017. He was born March 25, 1928, in Iredell County to the late Mancy and Nora Parker Shew. Paul was the husband of Margaret Ann Cartner Shew, a longtime member of The Society of John Gaither Descendants.
Mr. Shew was a graduate of Harmony High School, Class of 1947. He was drafted into Military Service in 1950, serving in the Company A 175th Military Police Battalion in Germany during the Korean Conflict. Mr. Shew attended Barber School in Winston-Salem and began his career at Cooleemee Barber Shop in 1958, and retired in 2009.
He was a member of the Salem United Methodist Church where he served as Building Fund Treasurer. Mr. Shew was a charter member of the Davie Academy Ruritan Club, as well as a member of Cooleemee VFW Post 1119 and Woodmen Life Chapter 323.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 61 years, Margaret Ann Cartner Shew; three daughters, Paula Allen (Dean), Darlene Fuller (Phil) and Teresa Santis (Johnny); granddaughters, Jessica Allen (Nick Cash), Julie Holt (Jamey), Stephanie Shoffner (Jeremy), Courtney Allen (Michael Carney), Elizabeth and Rebekah Santis; grandson, Chad Fuller (Eleanor), great¬-grandchildren, Winn and Silas Fuller, Fuller Kate and Seger Holt, and Weston Shoffner; a brother, Glenn Shew (Dorothy) of Turnersburg; and several nieces and nephews.
Interment was in the Salem United Methodist Church cemetery with military graveside rites. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, June 28, at Eaton Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be considered for Salem UMC Building Fund, 1582 Davie Academy Road, Mocksville, NC 27028.


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After working hard on their entries for Show Racism the Red Card annual creative competition, History Teacher Michael Gaffney treated the young people to a trip to Parkhead for the Celtic V Inverness Caledonian Thistle match. Not only had the young people worked hard on producing a drama piece and filming it they also worked on an anti-racism frieze.
At the football match the students took 'Show Racism the Red Card' banners that they had made for this special occasion showing their support and commitment to anti-racism.
Show Racism the Red Card would like to thank the pupils and staff at Ardnamurchan High School for their dedication to anti-racism work and hope this continues well into the future.


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naturalfake: Was there a coup at the Vatican?
"Now Holder has blood on his hands."
Since at least OKC, Apr/95.
Pete: "She [Lynch] seems better than racist-boy [Holder]…"
Not by any measure I can detect.
That bloody photo is painfully memorable. Of the many blogs commenting on Holder's leaving, yours is the first I've seen to recall it.
Y'all really dont get it.
He's resigning to replace Joe Biden on the 2016 Democratic ticket as BO runs for his third term .
JJ, the debate would be great, if you could cut Eric's mic when it wasn't his turn... and maybe when it was. Just to watch the contortions in that cartoon of a face would be worth it.
Thanks, Gabe, JJ, Vic, Gran, and Poppins. My day is off to the right start.
I thought that Hogan's Heroes clip was familiar.
VIA: Actually, that's Holder & co. working with the NSA, trying to prevent ammo sales posts. What's amazing is, Pixy defeated then and you got through!
Mikhail Kalashnikov was the chief dancer in the Russian Ballet's production of choreographer E. Holder's animated adaptation of Fast & Furious.
by: mindful webworker - justice for George!
Did this already come up?


With the special election for New York City Public Advocate set for Tuesday, Feb. 26, nine of the candidates vying for the post attended a UFT forum at the union's Brooklyn borough office on Jan. 10 in the last in a series of four town halls around the city.
UFT members packed public advocate town halls at the union's Queens borough office on Dec. 13 and at union headquarters on Dec. 18 to meet and ask questions of the candidates vying to succeed Leticia James as the New York City public advocate.
The UFT has endorsed New York State Assemblyman Francisco Moya to in the Democratic Primary on Sept. 12 for the New York City Council's 21st District in Corona and Elmhurst, Queens.
UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly to endorse the mayor's re-election bid set for this coming November. "We are blessed that we have a mayor who will stand with every single public school teacher to defend our profession and the right to be unionists," UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.
With the new administration in Washington, D.C., it's more important than ever that our public schools and the students we teach have strong supporters.
The Delegate Assembly of the United Federation of Teachers today voted to endorse Mayor Bill de Blasio in his re-election race this fall.
When the results of the presidential election left many New York City public school students and their families feeling vulnerable, educators across the city mobilized to participate in a Day of Action on Monday, Nov. 21 in support of an inclusive, diverse, safe and respectful environment for all students.
On Nov. 7, 2017, New York voters will be asked to weigh in on a question of vital importance: "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" The answer is NO!
The Nov. 9 Delegate Assembly, coming on the day after Election Day, was suffering from a collective election-results hangover of, well, Trumpian proportions.


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Q: Update highstock chart dynamically I am still learning to use Highchart to create a chart with data from MySQL. I have managed to make a chart using Highstock (highchart). Then, I want the chart to update the data without reloading the page. How can the chart update data (plotting points), without reloading the page ? . My question is, how to add point from PHP without reloading the web page ?
My chart

Javascript code :

$(function() {
  $.getJSON('stockTemp.php', function(data) {
    // Create the chart
    Highcharts.stockChart('stockTemp', {
      rangeSelector: {
        buttons: [{
          type: 'hour',
          count: 1,
          text: '1H'
        }, {
          type: 'hour',
          count: 24,
          text: '24H'
        }, {
          type: 'day',
          count: 7,
          text: '7D'
        }, {
          type: 'month',
          count: 1,
          text: '1M'
        }, {
          type: 'all',
          count: 1,
          text: 'All'
        }],
        selected: 1,
        inputEnabled: true
      },
      title: {
        text: 'Temperature'
      },
      yAxis: {
        opposite: false,

        title: {
          text: 'Temperature',
        },
        labels: {
          formatter: function() {
            return this.value + '°C';
          }
        }

      },
      series: [{
        name: 'Suhu',
        data: data,
        marker: {
          enabled: true,
          radius: 6,
          symbol: 'diamond'
        },

        shadow: true,
        tooltip: {
          valueDecimals: 2
        }
      }]
    });
  });
});

PHP code :
<?php

include("connection.php");

$data = array();
$count = 0;
$result = mysqli_query($koneksi,"SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY time ASC ") or die ("Connection error");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
  $x = strtotime($row['time']) * 1000;
$y =    (float)$row['temperature'];
$data[] = array($x, $y);
$count++;
}
echo json_encode($data);
mysqli_close($koneksi);
?>

Thanks for the help.

A: I've concluded that would be better to post the separate answer in this topic.
In order to achieve expected effect, you need to create the setInterval function inside of  the chart.events.load event handler, and in that interval just call $.getJSON('stockTemp.php', function() ... which would do the setData() on the series passing the data you've got when getJSON succeed. I know, sounds creepy, butit should look similar to that:
$(function() {
  $.getJSON('stockTemp.php', function(data) {
    // Create the chart
    Highcharts.stockChart('stockTemp', {
      chart: {
        events: {
          load: function() {
            var chart = this
            setInterval(function() {
              $.getJSON('stockTemp.php', function(newData) {
                chart.series[0].setData(newData)
              }
            }, 5000) // Update the chart every 5 seconds
          }
        }
      },
      rangeSelector: {
        buttons: [{
          type: 'hour',
          count: 1,
          text: '1H'
        }, {
          type: 'hour',
          count: 24,
          text: '24H'
        }, {
          type: 'day',
          count: 7,
          text: '7D'
        }, {
          type: 'month',
          count: 1,
          text: '1M'
        }, {
          type: 'all',
          count: 1,
          text: 'All'
        }],
        selected: 1,
        inputEnabled: true
      },
      title: {
        text: 'Temperature'
      },
      yAxis: {
        opposite: false,

        title: {
          text: 'Temperature',
        },
        labels: {
          formatter: function() {
            return this.value + '°C';
          }
        }

      },
      series: [{
        name: 'Suhu',
        data: data,
        marker: {
          enabled: true,
          radius: 6,
          symbol: 'diamond'
        },

        shadow: true,
        tooltip: {
          valueDecimals: 2
        }
      }]
    });
  });
});

API Reference:
https://api.highcharts.com/highstock/chart.events.load
https://api.highcharts.com/class-reference/Highcharts.Series#setData

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Skencil est un logiciel libre de dessin vectoriel sous licence GNU GPL. Les versions précédentes de Skencil étaient appelées Sketch. Skencil est majoritairement développé en Python, ainsi qu'en C pour certaines optimisations. Le projet est abandonné depuis 2006.

Un fork de Skencil nommé sK1 illustration program était développé en Ukraine depuis 2003 par les développeurs d'UniConvertor, un outil de conversion de format vectoriel utilisé par Inkscape et Scribus. Il se destinait aux professionnels de la PAO. Basé sur la version 0.6 de Skencil, il utilisait Python et Tk, jugé plus stable et plus rapide que Python/Gtk. Une pré-version 0.9 était disponible sur leur site. Les développeurs de Skencil et de sK1 semblaient d'accord pour continuer le développement ensemble. En analysant l'arbre de développement SVN du projet sK1 illustration program, une version a été éditée entre 2009 et 2011, mais le projet est aujourd'hui à l'arrêt. il a été remplacé par le logiciel PrintDesign, toujours développé par la même équipe.

Liens externes
  Site officiel, et La version de 2009/2011 par la team sK1
  sK1, fork de Skencil. Présente aussi son successeur, PrintDesign

Notes et références

Logiciel libre sous licence GPL
Logiciel de DAO


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First class or coach? —
The billion-dollar question: How does the Clipper mission get to Europa?
"I want to make sure the SLS Block 1 is the rocket you need, and it's on time."
Eric Berger - Apr 16, 2018 12:30 pm UTC
Enlarge / The politics of getting to Europa are anything but straightforward.
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif.—At one end of the conference room, four large window panes framed a view of the San Gabriel Mountains. Outside, ribbons of greenery snaked across the hills, a vestige of spring before the dry summer season descends upon Los Angeles.
Inside, deep in discussion, a dozen men and women sat around a long, oval-shaped wooden conference table. They were debating how best to send a daring mission, known as Europa Clipper, to Jupiter's mysterious, icy moon Europa. Although hundreds of scientists and engineers were already planning and designing this spacecraft, the key decisions were being made in this room on the top floor of the administrative building at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It will not be cheap or easy to reach Europa, which lies within the complicated gravitational tangle of Jupiter and its dozens of moons, 600 million kilometers from Earth. But the payoff, scientists feel, is potentially incalculable. Beneath Europa's ice, perhaps just a few kilometers down in some areas, lies the most vast ocean known to humans. With abundant energy emanating from the moon's interior into the ocean, scientists speculate life might exist—probably just microbes, but why not something krill-like, too?
Inside NASA's daring $8 billion plan to finally find extraterrestrial life
In recent years, scientists have locked down a set of nine scientific instruments to fly on the Europa Clipper probe, which will look, search, and sniff for signs of life during 47 flybys that will skim to within 25 kilometers of the moon's surface. But one big question remains, and it will probably determine whether the mission costs in the range of $2 billion or $3 billion dollars: how best to get the six-ton probe from Earth to the Jupiter system?
This was a key reason for the meeting held in early April outside the San Gabriel Mountains. Barry Goldstein, who is managing the ambitious Europa Clipper mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stood at the head of the conference table. "There's been a lot of discussion about launch vehicles," he said. "So we've prepared a chart."
The physics of that chart displayed the capability of commercially available, lower-cost rockets to throw the Clipper to Jupiter; it also highlighted the capability of NASA's more expensive Space Launch System. The latter rocket is more powerful than any booster flying today, but it has never launched, and when the titanic rocket will be ready for the launchpad is not certain.
Reaching Europa relies on more than physics, and invariably politics matter more when it comes to missions bound for the outer planets. This kind of exploration requires years of planning and development, as well as years of flight. In addition to costing billions of dollars, such missions must be managed across multiple presidential administrations and the comings and goings of Congress.
Why send the Clipper, shown here, to Europa? Because the Galileo mission to Jupiter in the 1990s and early 2000s raised a host of questions about this moon.
This enhanced color image shows the region surrounding Pwyll, a 26km diameter impact crater thought to be one of the youngest features on the surface of Europa.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
View of a small region of the thin, disrupted ice crust in the Conamara region showing the interplay of surface color with ice structures. The white and blue colors outline areas that have been blanketed by a fine dust of ice particles ejected at the time of formation of the large crater Pwyll some 1,000km to the south.
This synthetic color image shows three distinct spectral units. The bright white areas are ejecta rays from the relatively young crater Pwyll, located about 1,000km to the south. Also visible are reddish areas that can be seen along the ridges in the region of disrupted terrain in the center of the image and near the dome-like features where the surface may have been thermally altered. Thus, areas associated with internal geologic activity appear reddish. The third distinct color unit is bright blue and corresponds to the relatively old icy plains.
A close-up of Thera and Thrace, two reddish regions that disrupt the older icy ridged plains. Thera (left) is about 70km wide by 85km high and appears to lie slightly below the level of the surrounding plains. Thrace is longer, shows a hummocky texture, and appears to stand at or slightly above the older surrounding bright plains. One model for the formation of these and other chaos regions on Europa is complete melt-through of Europa's icy shell from an ocean below.
This image compares the size of Europa's ice rafts with a similarly scaled photo of the California Bay Area.
This mosaic of the Conamara Chaos region clearly indicates relatively recent resurfacing of Europa's surface. Irregularly shaped blocks of water ice were formed by the breakup and movement of the existing crust. The blocks were shifted, rotated, and even tipped and partially submerged within a mobile material that was either liquid water, warm mobile ice, or an ice-and-water slush. The presence of young fractures cutting through this region indicates that the surface froze again into solid, brittle ice.
This view of the Conamara Chaos region shows cliffs along the edges of high-standing ice plates. The washboard texture of the older terrain has been broken into plates that are separated by material with a jumbled texture. The cliffs themselves are rough and broadly scalloped, and smooth debris shed from the cliff faces is piled along the base. The height of the cliffs and size of the scalloped indentations are comparable to the famous cliff face of Mount Rushmore.
This composite image shows the distribution of ice and minerals for the structure named Tyre, the largest and likely one of the oldest on the moon. Tyre, at 140km diameter, is the size of the Island of Hawaii and thought to be the site where an asteroid or comet impacted Europa's ice crust. The blue in this image indicates areas with higher concentrations of mineral salts. These salts are similar in composition to those found in the bottom of Death Valley, California. The yellow-orange regions are areas that have a high surface abundance of water ice.
False color has been used here to enhance the visibility of certain features of the Minos Linea region. Triple bands, lineae, and mottled terrains appear in brown and reddish hues, indicating the presence of contaminants in the ice. The icy plains, shown here in bluish hues, subdivide into units with different albedos at infrared wavelengths probably because of differences in the grain size of the ice.
This is the highest-resolution image of Europa at 6m per picture element. The image was taken at a highly oblique angle, providing a vantage point similar to that of someone looking out an airplane window, albeit 500km high. The features at the bottom of the image are much closer to the viewer than those at the top of the image.
A false-color composite image of Europa.
NASA/JPL/DLR
For Europa, one Congressman matters more than all the rest. Since 2004, John Culberson has been on a quest to make a Europa mission happen. In the just-completed budget for fiscal year 2018, the Texas Republican pushed funding for planetary science missions to its highest-ever level, more than $2 billion. And of that, he had funneled $495 million to this NASA facility for Europa exploration.
So before the discussion of launch vehicles began, Goldstein had something he wanted to tell the politician who had flown in from Houston. "On behalf of the entire project, let me start with this," Goldstein said. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And I could go on for what, 60 minutes? We are in really good shape."
Is Block 1 ready?
In a blue dress shirt, sans tie, Culberson shook off the compliment. First elected to Congress in 2001, he started agitating for a Europa mission only a few years later during the presidency of George W. Bush. The White House wasn't having it. At the time, an already cash-strapped NASA was shoveling every spare dollar into the Constellation Program for human exploration, which would ultimately go nowhere.
By the time Barack Obama won his second term in the White House, Culberson's seniority and membership on the House Committee on Appropriations allowed him to begin providing limited funding for a Europa mission. (Scientists have long had Europa atop their wish-list, but NASA leadership had been hesitant to take on such an ambitious, costly program). At the end of Obama's presidency, Culberson had risen to chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that sets NASA's budget, and the Europa Clipper had become an official NASA program.
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Culberson loves space. He views planetary exploration and the potential for finding life elsewhere in the Solar System as the most enduring legacy he can leave behind for humanity. Since last summer, however, Culberson has focused on securing funding for victims of Hurricane Harvey, which dropped four feet of rain on Houston and ranks with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest storm to ever hit the United States. Some of his own family members had only just moved out of a trailer back into renovated housing. But on this Friday, he had come to California to see how the Clipper mission was doing, as well as a follow-on mission to land on Europa.
The missions are coming along nicely, but soon critical decisions about how to get Clipper to Jupiter must be made. The JPL scientists and engineers want to send the Clipper, which is so big that its solar panels have a wingspan as long as a basketball court from end to end, directly to Jupiter. They prefer this because a quicker trip to Jupiter will require less thermal protection, and, more importantly, they want the Clipper to reach Jupiter before the follow-on mission designed to land on and sample the moon's icy surface. Ideally, the Clipper will scout Europa for several years and identify the most interesting, safest landing location.
A direct shot of a six-ton satellite to Jupiter requires a rocket with a lot of muscle. During the briefing, Culberson was told no commercial rocket can do this, even SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, which flew for the first time in February. (It is not clear whether NASA specifically asked SpaceX about the Falcon Heavy and Europa, as Goldstein said figures for all the commercial rockets were provided by a competitor to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance.) In the charts shown in the JPL conference room, engineers had modeled a Falcon Heavy with a small "kick stage," but they had not considered alternatives, such as a Falcon Heavy with a more powerful Centaur upper stage for a direct-to-Jupiter mission.
Because the existing commercial rockets were not powerful enough, Goldstein said only NASA's Space Launch System could get Clipper directly to Jupiter. The first version of this rocket, Block 1, can put 70 tons into low Earth orbit, and its Interim Cryogenic Propulsion upper stage has enough oomph to reach Jupiter in about three years. This is half the time of the commercial rockets, which will require more time to slingshot around inner Solar System planets to attain a Jupiter trajectory.
This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses
What Culberson really wanted to know is whether the big NASA rocket will be ready for a second launch in June 2022. This is a good question. Congress has patiently funded the SLS rocket's development since 2011 and now spends more than $2 billion annually to fund work to design and build it. Even so, the SLS remains at least two years away from the launchpad for its maiden test flight. A few lawmakers have begun to ask questions about why it is taking so long.
Meanwhile, the engineers in California have told the Texas congressman that the Europa spacecraft can be ready for launch in just four years, thanks to his generous funding. Especially important, money has been front-loaded to arrive earlier in the project when development costs are highest.
If the spacecraft will be ready by mid-2022, Culberson wanted to make sure the booster was ready, too. "Block 1 is on time and on target?" he asked. "I want to make sure the SLS Block 1 is the rocket you need, and it's on time."


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This is a Fragment. It is dated 16th–17th century and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is silk and its technique is supplementary warp pile (velvet). It is a part of the Textiles department.
This object was bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf (American, 1887–1961). It is credited Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf.
Hand-woven Sample (USA)
silk, cotton.
Gift of Anni Albers.
Sidewall, Wilde Carnation
screen printed on ingrain paper.
Gift of Clarence House.
Print, "dark green over scarlet", Plate 1 "Color / Moire" Portfolio
screenprint on heavy off-white wove paper..
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with an empty expected value.
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