The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) from University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been working on the Paramos of Colombia since 1970, collecting information on different aspects of plant ecology. The data source is the field data from professor Antoine Cleef (collected in one field campaign in 1978) as part of his PhD thesis, finished in 1981. The study provides information on the occurrence and location of 90 plant species from the Paramo in this area. For the purpose of the GBIF data-publishing, vegetation releve data were converted into species occurrence data.
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 90 records. 1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3953ab4f-958f-4943-8608-ca5da345447c. University of Amsterdam / IBED publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.
The paramo area is located in the "Sabana de Bogota" which is a plain or a high plateau located in the center of Colombia on the eastern cordillera of the Colombian Andes. The paramo is located close by the Chia municipality in de Cundinamarca province. The average altitude of the plateau is 2600m.a.s.l. and the dataset covers an altitudinal range from 2720m.a.s.l. up to 2950m.a.s.l.
Field data from Antoine Cleef as part of his PhD study.
The paramo locality for this data set is located in the Chia municipality in the Sabana de Bogotá (eastern cordillera) on the southern part of a larger plateau called Altiplano Cundiboyacense which is the largest plateau in the Colombian Andes.
The study was done in the paramos area close to the municipality of Chia - Sabana de Bogota (Cundinamarca province) in september 1891.
The original data was taken in field books, consisting either of a valid species name or a code of the specimen with collection of it for its later taxonomical identification (when identification on the field was not possible). In total 3 releves were produced consisting of a species list with its cover, date, location, altitude, slope, etc. The data of "Sabana de Bogotá-Chia" remained in paper until 2011, when the NLBIF financed digitizing the data. The data was digitized using the software TurboVeg, which is a software design for this type of vegetation information and then exported from community data into species occurrence data. The data stored in TurboVeg was checked to identify errors in the information or gaps needed to be filled. The two main fields identified to be checked/completed were the georeference data with its precision and the validation of the taxonomy of each species.
Releve data was stored in the software TurboVeg and then exported into species occurrence data. The species list used in TurboVeg was checked by an expert to confirm the valid taxonomy (taking into account taxonomy changes, synonyms, etc). (Guido van Reenen, paramo species list. This list was cross-checked with The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org/), for the period July 2011 until February 2013 (during this time frame the names where the accepted). All the dataset lacks georeference and precison information. Also there is no specific habitat indication. In 2013 to improve de dataset quality, this data was completed as detail and precise as possible, but due to time restriction no georeference was given to the data and only a general indication for the habitat type was given (paramo).


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Mirtill Makovits (née le  à Dunaújváros) est une gymnaste artistique hongroise.

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Mirtill Makovits remporte la médaille de bronze au concours par équipes aux Championnats d'Europe de gymnastique artistique féminine 2020 à Mersin.

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2009 Ogden Marathon
I did it!!
I can't believe I actually did it! I was getting quite nervous leading up to the marathon, but it turned out to be really neat, and a lot of fun (yes, fun!).
The last 3 miles were really hard, but in all honesty it wasn't nearly as bad as I have heard it could be.
I do think I had some extra help doing it. As the marathon started I prayed that my legs and back would be strong enough for the marathon and that everything would go well, and I really think that God gave me extra strength to be able to have it be as enjoyable as it was, and to have a really quick recovery.
So here's the long story:
The race started at 7:00 am, and in order to get the 2000 half-marathoners and 2000 marathoners up to the starting points on time, we had to get on the busses at 4:30 am. That was a little annoying, but honestly I wasn't sleeping anyway…
The ride up was fairly uneventful, except when a couple busses (including the one I was in) took a wrong trun and had to turn around… Ever been in a bus doing a 10-point turn? On the first back-up the back of the bus started grinding on the (higher) ground, and then the engine quit. That was a little interesting, but the bus driver merely muttered to himself and restarted the engine and we continued on our way.
The next part was waiting at the starting area for about an hour while everyone was carted up. It was really cold up there, but there were lots of fire-barrels set out, and volunteers kept the fires going, so we kept pretty warm. I had a chance to talk to several others up there–there were a lot of first-timers like myself, and lots of really experienced runners–one person had been running for 12 years and this was his 39th marathon!
When the race was ready to start, they had us get in according to our estimated time–the area right behind the starting point was for those running a 6 minute mile or better, and then there were sections for 7, 8, 9 and 10+. I was in the 8 minute mile section.
The race itself really was a lot of fun! The first few miles was quite easy and it was really cool to see the mass of people stretching on for such a long distance–it reminded me of the army of Helaman, as our group was about that large…
Another thing that was kind of funny while the runners were still packed was hearing all the garmin watches go off at 2 miles. I had mine set to give an alert ever two miles, and apparently I wasn't the only one to have done that…
For a lot of the race I had to be careful to not try to run too fast. I tried to concentrate very much on taking it easy and just enjoying it. However, I do tend to get rather competitive and it sometimes took a fair amount of effort to not be bugged by someone passing me.
The course is really nice–virtually the entire race is at a pretty easy downhill grade. You head down towards a lake, and run around it. Somewhere in there is the halfway point, where the half-marthoners started. There was a live band playing the "SpyHunter" theme, which I thought was pretty funny.
After the lake there is an uphill stretch to get you into Parley's canyon (I think that's what it is called). Then it's downhill again through the canyon, and into Ogden. Even most of the course in Ogden is rather nice–it is on a riverside trail. Finally you turn onto the last stretch (about 3/4 mile or so), and it's straight down the street to the finish.
A couple things that helped me with the marathon: One was definitely my mp3 player. I do want to get to the point where I don't need it, but for this first marathon it was really helpful to have some music playing while I ran.
Another was when there was steep downhill (to the point where you are more trying to control your run and/or slow down), I would try to run just to the side of the road rather than on it. That way I would be on gravel or sand, which was obviously much nicer on my feet and knees than the asphalt.
The third was a hint from someone I chatted with on the marathon, and that was to walk a little at the aid stations rather than run straight through them. This did help a lot, although I worried a little about walking through the last couple aid stations–I was afraid I wouldn't be able to start running again…
This marathon was really well organized–there were lots of aid stations along the whole course. For most of it the aid stations were about 2 miles apart, which at the very beginning seemed almost too much. By the end of the race, however, they had them about every mile, and that just wasn't nearly close enough together.
The very best part had to be coming out of the canyon. At that point you have about 3 miles left, and the race is getting really, really hard. But right there was my family cheering me on (thanks a TON Em for getting that put together–it was sooooo encouraging!). And then at the finish they were there again, cheering me on! That helps out so much, it's hard to believe.
I actually finished the race relatively strong, although when I stopped running after the finish line I realized just how tired I was. They had a separate area for the runners to rest/stretch in after finishing before going back into the crowd. That was actually quite nice. They herd you into this blocked off area, and someone hands you a water bottle, and then someone else hands you a bag of ice. There were 3 or 4 stands there that gave out some snacks to eat (Jamba Juice was handing out small smoothies, which was exceptionally nice).
My official finishing time was 3:45:45.90.
My rankings are as follows:
Division (30-39 male): 58 / 136
Gender: 295 / 933
Overall: 401 / 1693
For a first marathon, that really is pretty good (if I do say so myself). My pace was about an 8.5 minute mile. As I said earlier, I do think God gave me some extra help, and I also had a ton of encouragement/excitement from Emily and Rosanne especially–thanks a ton!
I'm definitely going to do that again. Emily and I are now planning to work towards qualifying and running the Boston Marathon (In order to qualify, I'll have to do a marathon in less than 3:10, which is about a 7 minute mile pace).
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Another day, another heart scan for Chunk. Yes I may sound a bit blasé, but he has been having them for the last two years since he was diagnosed with PDA, a heart condition that was undetected at birth.
Thankfully the doctor had his tablet with him this time, so Chunk could watch Peppa Pig whilst they spent a while measuring his heart and such like.
They confirmed the left side of his heart is working very hard and is quite enlarged and that Chunk is now a good weight for them to operate.
So someone is going to be playing with my boy's heart and main artery in the next few weeks and it has FINALLY HIT ME.
I'm scared, and as soon as they give me the date I will be petrified.
It's times like this I really hate being a single parent, as I have nobody to bear the worry with and to give me hugs during the procedure when I will be a complete mess.
This will be the scariest thing I have ever had to face in my life, because somebody will be performing risky surgery on the person I created and love with my entire being.
So facing this alone is not a nice prospect, but Chunk and I have been through so much during his little life, that I know I will deal with this, because I have to.
I am stronger than I give myself credit for, and I will be strong for both Chunk and I on that imminent day, because THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.
Any tips on getting through this would be greatly appreciated fellow parents!
Massive hugs to you and Chunk! Be strong! When my girls went in for open heart surgery I was a mess, stressing so much....By the time it was all over I felt like such a fool for wasting so much energy!
I have never been in your position in regards to my child having to undergo such a worrysome operation, however my Mother was at deaths door due to a worn out valve and she got an replacement within the week and it saved her life. All I think I can say to help is that that his operation obviously needed, but please try to focus on the fact we do have a magnificent NHS who are there for us all when we are in need. Please let us know when he has had his procedure and will be thinking of you both.


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Departure:	Otter Lake Elem. School on Wednesday, June 16 at 5:50pm. Eat supper before arriving.
Returning:	Sunday between 2 - 3pm. Scouts will be dropped off at their homes.
Sign-up:	Sign-up sheet will be at the troop meetings. Cancellations after June 8 will be charged $20. Cancellations after June 14 will be charged $40.
This camp trip will consist of a lot of biking. The scouts will have the opportunity to work towards their cycling merit badge.


If you're a member of our quarterly French wine club, you might have read our recent guide to understanding what fancy wine terms like "forest floor" and "toasty" actually mean. This time we're going to talk about a few more descriptions that get thrown around by sommeliers and wine experts all the time to describe the texture and structural elements of a wine.
While this might sound like a cringeworthy pick-up line, any wine expert or sommelier who talks about the "legs" of a wine is actually talking about the drops that flow down the side of the glass after you swirl the wine. In France we're a little more poetic, so we like to call these the "tears" of the wine.
But what do these legs actually tell us? You might hear some people exclaiming with delight when they spot "long legs" that seem to stick to the glass for a while. The truth is, though, that legs or tears don't tell you anything about the quality of a wine. Usually long legs are caused by the wine being more viscous. This is either caused by the wine having a higher alcohol or higher sugar content.
You can try this out for yourself by getting a bottle of sweet Sauternes wine or a robust red like the Chateauneuf-du-Pape Roque Colombe wine from the Rhone Valley that our French wine club members enjoyed in your recent shipment. Pour out a glass and give it a good swirl, putting the base on the table to avoid spillage if you prefer. Hold the glass up to the light after swirling and you'll be able to observe the legs slowly trickling down inside the glass. Don't forget to conclude the experiment by drinking up your samples!
You can tell if a wine is tannic by swirling it around in your whole mouth. If it helps, imagine it's mouthwash! Wines which are higher in tannins will leave a drying or grainy sensation which you'll feel most intensely between your upper lip and your gum and on your gums at the sides of your mouth. You can also experience tannins by drinking a strong cup of black tea.
So where do these tannins come from and what do they mean? Well, tannins are more commonly noticed in red wines since they come from the seeds, skins and stems of the grape. Red wines are usually fermented with the skins, while white wines are usually fermented after the skins have been removed, so tannic wines will typically be red wines.
Although they might seem a bit unpleasant when you taste a wine, tannins actually help to give structure to a wine and play an important role in how the wine ages. Tannins help wines to age well in your cellar because they guard against oxidation. Over time the tannins will slowly soften, making the wine much easier to drink. This is why some wines like fine red Bordeaux which tend to be tannic can benefit from several years or even decades of ageing.
If you don't have the patience or the means to store a highly tannic red wine, you can still enjoy it right now if you pair it with the appropriate food. In this case, fat is your friend. When you combine fat and tannins the two balance out, easing the drying sensation of the tannins and the cloying effect of the fat. Try serving a fine rib eye steak or even Mac and cheese with a young red Bordeaux to experience the effect for yourself.
This is another tricky one because, like with tannins, some people love high acidity wines and some people can't stand them! Acidity is a natural part of wine which helps provide balance and also helps a wine to age gracefully in the cellar if you choose to keep it a while.
You can immediately tell if a wine has high acidity by using the mouthwash trick we talked about above to coat your whole mouth with the wine. Then tilt your chin down and notice how much the wine has made your mouth water. The general idea is the more saliva you produce, the higher the acidity in the wine!
Acidity is usually perceived as a kind of fresh, tart or even sour sensation which can put people off drinking these kinds of wines. However, this quality also makes high acidity wines an excellent match for seafood, fish or lighter salad dishes thanks to that freshness which complements the food. Sommeliers especially love high acidity wines as they know they are perfect gastronomic wines which can pair with everything from spicy Asian dishes and vegetarian mains to creamy cheeses and cured meats.
If you're a member of our quarterly French wine club, you may remember the Chablis from Domaine de Vauroux from our recent shipment. This elegant Chardonnay is bursting with citrus fruit and a fresh, clean acidity that makes it perfect for hot summer days. Another example, this time a red, is the Domaine Montangeron Fleurie from the region of Beaujolais, a classic example of the wonderful Gamay grape which produces light and graceful wines with plenty of racy acidity.
Want to put your new wine knowledge to the test? Don't forget that we organise private French wine tastings in and around San Diego. All you need is a space like your living room or backyard and a willing gang of family or friends – we take care of all the rest! Email us at info@sommailier.com to find out more.


I'm a pulmonary rehab coordinator here.
I've been a respiratory therapist for about 21 years.
I graduated from El Centro.
They have a great program, prepared me for the field of respiratory therapy.
It gave me an opportunity and since it's a different career for myself it opened up new doors for me.
And it's been a rewarding career.
Instructors at El Central we're very knowledgeable and very helpful when it came to respiratory therapy and explaining what it was and guiding us during our education at El Centro.
Well when I moved down here from Canada, I wasn't allowed to work so I went to school and I didn't know what respiratory therapy was.
When I went to El Centro it was convenient for me, the location.
And it was centrally located with all the hospitals around it so it was real convenient to do clinicals.
El Centro had a good reputation.
It was very affordable -- the education -- and for the quality of the education that you're getting.
I think El Centro prepared me quite well and I'm very qualified to do what I do.
And I've worked in different areas.
This is where I've settled right now but I've worked in ICU and they prepared me for ICU.
They've prepared me for floor therapy and it it's a well rounded education.
I think I'd recommend El Centro to anybody, and I always do.


Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России) was the Russian government's international radio station. The station before it, Radio Moscow was the official radio station of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It closed in 2014.
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Four students charged in connection with bomb threats at Madison this week
Zach Tuggle
MANSFIELD - Four students have been arrested in connection with two bomb threats made this week at Madison High School, Maj. Joe Masi of the Richland County Sheriff's Office said in a press release.
A girl was arrested Friday in connection with the first threat of the week, in which a note found at 11:50 a.m. Tuesday in the girl's bathroom. The note read: "School will blow up at 2:00 p.m." School officials evacuated students with the assistance of the sheriff's office. The school was searched and nothing was found.
Officers arrested the girl they believe wrote and placed that note and took her to the Richland County Juvenile Attention Center. Masi said she will be charged with second-degree felony inducing panic. Madison's school administration and sheriff deputies worked jointly on the investigation.
Deputies then arrested three more students Friday in connection with a note found at 1 p.m. Thursday at the school. Those three students were taken to the Richland County Juvenile Attention Center. Two of the students were charged with inducing panic and the third student was charged with third-degree felony obstructing justice after providing false information to deputies.
"These two incidents of bomb threats were taken very seriously by Madison Schools and the sheriff's office," Masi said in the press release. "With the recent tragedies across the nation involving school violence, the sheriff's office has consulted with the Richland County Prosecutor's Office to charge these students with the most serious offenses in hopes of deterring future threats. We encourage students that if they see or hear of any threats towards other students or the school to report the information so that it can be investigated immediately."
ztuggle@gannett.com
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All Bills for the Current Session (42nd Parliament, 1st Session)
42nd Parliament, 1st Session
An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act (borrowing of money)
Sen. Wilfred P. Moore
Introduction and First Reading in the Senate (2015-12-08)
An Act to amend the Canada Border Services Agency Act (Inspector General of the Canada Border Services Agency) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Third Reading in the Senate (2016-10-25)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of children against standard child-rearing violence)
Sen. Céline Hervieux-Payette
Second Reading in the Senate (2018-05-31)
An Act to modernize the composition of the boards of directors of certain corporations, financial institutions and parent Crown corporations, and in particular to ensure the balanced representation of women and men on those boards
Boards of Directors Modernization Act
An Act respecting National Seal Products Day
National Seal Products Day Act
Statute of Canada: 2017, c. 5
Royal Assent (2017-05-16)
An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (communications with and services to the public)
Sen. Maria Chaput
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Statute of Canada: 2018, c. 15
Sen. Mobina S.B. Jaffer
An Act respecting National Sickle Cell Awareness Day
National Sickle Cell Awareness Day Act
Sen. Jane Cordy
An Act for the advancement of the aboriginal languages of Canada and to recognize and respect aboriginal language rights
Aboriginal Languages of Canada Act
Sen. Serge Joyal
An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Parliament of Canada Act (Speakership of the Senate)
Sen. Terry M. Mercer
Committee Report Presented without Amendment in the Senate (2017-03-28)
An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (cruelty-free cosmetics)
Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act
Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen
First Reading in the House of Commons (2019-04-12)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing for violent offences against Aboriginal women)
Sen. Lillian Eva Dyck
An Act to provide the means to rationalize the governance of Canadian public corporations
Canadian Public Corporations Governance Act
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (detention in custody)
Sen. Bob Runciman
Second Reading and Referral to Committee in the House of Commons (2017-03-08)
An Act respecting Latin American Heritage Month
Latin American Heritage Month Act
Sen. Tobias C. Enverga Jr.
An Act to deter Iran-sponsored terrorism, incitement to hatred, and human rights violations
Non-Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran Act
Sen. David Tkachuk
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (international fraud)
Combating International Fraud Act
An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (Property qualifications of Senators)
Constitution Act, 2016 (Property qualifications of Senators)
Sen. Dennis Glen Patterson
An Act for the promotion and advancement of Canada's linguistic plurality
Linguistic Plurality Act
An Act to amend the Firearms Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential changes to other Acts
Strengthening Canadians' Security and Promoting Hunting and Recreational Shooting Act
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Trouble in Paradise. Is Kubuntu going its own way?
Author Topic: Trouble in Paradise. Is Kubuntu going its own way? (Read 1182 times)
The Ubuntu Community Council has announced it is no longer recognising the authority of Jonathan Riddell, the leader of the Kubuntu Council and former Kubuntu project leader. Basically he's been told to take a long vacation and not to come back. This has enraged the Kubuntu world and has caused a huge rift in the Ubuntu familly. Are Kubuntu getting ready to go it alone? We'll have to wait and see how this drama pans out .
https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/making-sense-of-the-kubuntucanonical-leadersh
https://skitterman.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/information-exchange-between-the-ubuntu-community-council-and-the-kubuntu-council/
Re: Trouble in Paradise. Is Kubuntu going its own way?
since this happened maybe they should actually change the name of the distro as a way of saying 'jump in a lake'
and maybe do their own thing and create somethign new but still keep their users. I've noticed the ubuntu community
is not as friendly and easy going as peppermint/elementary/mint communities maybe because their all jealous their basing
distros on theirs and making it better
And all because Canonical/Ubunntu/the CC have never clarified the legal position after they made those demands of Mint .. and don't like someone demanding they do so ?
If that's the case, it STILL seems like sour grapes and obfuscation on Canonical/Ubuntu/the CC's behalf.


The Center on Communication Leadership & Policy's research team of Mark Latonero and Erin Kamler have returned from a fruitful exploratory trip for the Technology and Trafficking in Person project the Center is launching in Southeast Asia. According to a report prepared by the research team, an information sharing platform could provide significant assistance to agencies and organizations working to combat human trafficking in the Region. The full report of their findings can be downloaded here.
Latonero and Kamler are working with Senior Fellow Jeremy Curtin to move the project forward after a promising start.
From August 8 to August 15, the team met with numerous NGOs and government organizations in Bangkok, Thailand and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The team conducted a needs and assets assessment of organizations working against human trafficking. CCLP proposes to focus on two interrelated immediate needs where technological solutions could have a significant impact: A regional cross-border SMS and voicemail enabled hotline; and a standardized victim identification and case management system to serve as an information sharing platform.
The TIP project was conceived out of a working group held in Washington, D.C. on June 3 in coordination with Alec Ross, Secretary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation. Participants included Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, head of the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, other U.S. Government representatives, leaders in the technology field, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and academics active on TIP issues. Latonero and Kamler's trip was originally announced on the CCLP blog on August 2, 2010.


As we are now into 2018, we wanted to take an opportunity to reflect on the Agile journey and current state in the Australian market. Over the last few years and considerably in 2017, the awareness and desire to adopt Agile ways of working has skyrocketed in Australia. The desire to adopt these ways of working has been across all industries in the market.
In 2017, we found the discussion moved away from "why should we adopt agile ways of working?" to "how do we best adopt agile at scale?" In this blog, we will cover how we have seen the market for Agile evolve over the last 10 years and our perspective on what is next for Agile in Australia.
Over the past 10 years, we've observed the evolution of Agile in Australia as an 'awareness' journey of sorts evolving across four phases. The adoption started in technology and small teams (1), just like the definition of the original manifesto, but then evolved to bridge the gap between technology and business (2) as it has scaled to deliver complex programs. The past few years has been an adoption of agile in core business functions (3), until we get where we are today, with organisation-wide adoptions of Agile management and ways of working (4).
Agile in technology teams is what most of us are familiar with when we hear roles like Scrum Master and Product Owner, or see a team standing up in the morning for 15 mins, and have teams use sprints to deliver a working outcome. These practices are based on Scrum, which still remains to be the most commonly used Agile practice. Early adopters in Australia were Suncorp and SEEK, and quick to follow this lead were other companies in the finance and telco industry, with the 1st Agile Australia conference kicking off in 2009.
These team practices have allowed a number of the below benefits to be realised, along with a fair share of learnings.
Most organisations have tried this and are doing agile in teams today. The realisation of these benefits is what has influenced the need to extend the dynamics of a cross-functional, collaborative team to multiple teams.
The extension beyond a single technology team has been to use agile to deliver complex programs with multiple teams at scale. Agile at scale started with project teams that had business and technology working more closely, then becoming one team.
In the past 2-3 years, a number of different frameworks – most notably SAFe, have become popular ways to implement and structure an agile at scale implementation.
With the rise of these frameworks, a debate has also started on whether frameworks have a place in Agile. The debate was that frameworks were moving back to a traditional way of working and the intent of Agile was to focus on the mindset and principles. At Deloitte, we have seen that a balance between mindset and practices/frameworks needs to be taken to effectively enable the change in large scale enterprise when adopting Agile ways of working. To learn more about our perspectives, please view our recent blog.
As more and more of the business has been exposed to agile ways of working, there has been a realisation that agile isn't just for technology. This has led to Agile being extended to core business functions such as Marketing, Legal, Sales, Operations, etc. to move towards phase (3).
A local example of this is the Australian Real estate giant REA group, where every core business function in the organisation functions in an Agile way. REA started to adopt Agile practices in late 2010 within the Technology services / Software Development group. Shortly after, the success of the technology teams led the then CIO to embed Agile practices to the whole organisation. By scaling Agile into business, organisations have realised benefits such as accelerated product delivery, ability to adapt priorities based on changing market, and productivity improvements.
As organisations have realised benefits from agile at scale, they are looking to scale these benefits now across the organisation.
Seventeen years since signing the agile manifesto, agile has moved far beyond something that is only for development teams within the technology practice and for complex program delivery. Now, in today's quickly changing market, organisations are seeing the need to use agile ways-of-working to enable their organisation more broadly, which leads us to Enterprise Agility.
Enterprise Agility in our definition is using new ways-of-working across all elements of an organisation to enable how a business creates ideas, plans, executes, makes decisions, learns, manages risk, and empowers teams.
Your classic examples of high performing organisations with Agility at the Enterprise scale are Google, Netflix, Spotify and Facebook who have embedded this way of working since they were start-ups. However newer examples exist with existing traditional organisations who have undergone, or are undergoing an Agile transformation, such as Barclays, ING, and others.
In Australia, the appetite and demand for Enterprise Agility has generated interest on a global scale. ANZ's announcement in May 2017 was the first Australian bank to publicly declare that they are making the shift to be an agile organisation. Later in 2017, Bankwest started moving to a new Agile model and mindset. Both of these organisations focusing on the 'Spotify model and approach' with Squads and Tribes. Telstra has continued investment in digitisation using agile ways of working through feature teams as it aims to bring technology, business and the customer closer together. We are also seeing a number of other large organisations in Mining, Utilities, Public Sector, Aviation, etc., discussing how they will achieve enterprise agility in the next few years.
Organisations are using agile across the enterprise to create a high performing ecosystem, or network of teams, to respond to the market that is being driven by innovative competitors, increasing customer demands, and next-gen technology. Not only that, but given the proximity of Australia to Asia, the competitive advantage is seen as important given low labour costs of some of Australia's competitors in the Asia Pacific region.
Embedding Agile@Scale: Continued from the past few years, we expect further benefits to be realised from agile at scale implementations across industries and teams. The journey towards DevOps will continue to be a big focus to ensure that the technical practises, such as automation and cloud-enabled, exist to support enterprise agility.
New lingo: Continued shift away from using the term agile to other terms like 'ways of working,' as the meaning of 'agile' has become distorted over time. As an example, the agile transformation team at Barclays is now called the 'Better Products Faster Safer Happier' team. This should be a welcome change as a blend of Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean practises are required to support an E2E outcome, and in fact, the goal is not to become 'agile' but to use agility as an enabler for change. Google is another example of this where in certain teams agile-practices have evolved over time without a conscious focus on leveraging any public framework or Agile certification processes.
Agile-ified traditional functions: Procurement, finance, HR, risk, internal audit, etc. are traditional business functions within an organisation that need to evolve themselves to be an enabler of customer-oriented outcomes for the business, as well as, need to embrace new ways-of-working in executing their own activities to embody the culture change required.
More Enterprise Agility journeys to begin: With the likes of ANZ and Bankwest as leaders in the market, we expect an even greater interest in organisation-wide culture changes that enable agile management and ways of working for large companies in Australia. This will mean flatter organisational structures with minimal hierarchy and limited middle management for most. Each journey will take their own shape and path, as no two agile transformations will be alike. The market will be watching closely the journey of successes and failures of these organisations that have already begun.
War on Agile talent: With more organisations looking to enable enterprise agility, there will be a greater demand on talented individuals and teams whom have prior experience in this way of working. People with previous experience, in particular those who have seen what works and what doesn't in different contexts, is critical to the success of an agile transformation. As confirmed by many at the 2018 Business Agility conference globally, organisations are already seeing the 'war on talent'.
We welcome your 2018 agile predictions, observations, and thoughts. Here is to another year of realising benefits and happiness from a way of working that just seems to 'make sense'.
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6 Joanne Gray. Australian Financial Review. "ANZ blows up bureaucracy as Shayne Elliot takes the bank agile." http://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/anz-blows-up-bureaucracy-as-shayne-elliott-takes-the-bank-agile-20170428-gvumc2. May 1 2017.
7 Allie Coyne. IT News. "Bankwest goes all-in with Spotify's agile model." https://www.itnews.com.au/news/bankwest-goes-all-in-with-spotifys-agile-model-477985. November 21 2017.
8 Rohan Pearce. ComputerWorld. "Telstra's investment in digitisation paying off, CIO says." https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/632208/telstra-investment-digitisation-paying-off-cio-says/. January 16, 2018.
9 Jonathan Smart. Barclays. 2018 Business Agility conference.


Brooke and Rhonda ensured we were in mixed groups of grade levels and subject areas by giving each teacher a sticky note numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. We then went to our assigned table (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) so that each group has an established starting point. Each table had a question for the group to consider; the basic protocol was that you wrote your individual response, and then the group discussed and shared the responses. We spent roughly 5 minutes at each table before rotating to the next "station' or table with question. You could also place a check mark next to responses from your peers that reflected your own practice or experiences.
As we moved through the stations, we could see what other groups had written and shared. After we added our own responses and placed a check mark next to all answers that applied to our own practice/experience, we discussed the ideas shared from the other groups. We rotated through all stations until we returned to our station that was our starting point.
We then looked at the responses shared by all groups at our initial station and grouped the responses into categories and tabulated our response to collect data to look for trends and patterns in the responses. Some groups created simple bar graphs or charts by hand; we had a teacher in our group who was an Excel expert, so she created a beautiful graph for our group.
We then did a large group share out; this part of the activity was especially meaningful as fellow teachers not only shared the data, but teachers had the opportunity to talk about specific responses. This small and large group work gave us ideas and strategies for using Desire2Learn in our classrooms and was a terrific springboard for the mini-lesson on Desire2Learn presented after the activity by Brooke Webb. The learning experience and subsequent mini-lesson left me feeling energized and excited about incorporating Desire2Learn into my daily classroom instruction as well as PBL experiences for my students.
After we finished the activity and mini-lesson, Brooke and Rhonda hung up our work as a gallery on the ends of bookcases in the library (our beautiful learning space for the week) so that we could browse the work more closely during our collaborative work time and breaks.
This is another great variation on written conversation strategies that can encourage inquiry and crowdsourcing of ideas and knowledge. I'm already thinking about how I can use this with my 11th and 12th grade readers and writers come August! Kudos to Brooke and Rhonda for leading us through a rich and meaningful learning experience!
On a side note, the learning space also facilitated this learning activity. I felt right at home in our beautiful media center because the Artcobell tables and chairs on wheels supported this kind of learning activity that involved movement as well as small group to large group work. Over the last three years, I've been lucky to work in a library or classroom space where I had this kind of furniture; the one year I did not, I was absolutely miserable and felt stymied by immobile heavy tables and chairs. These kinds of learning experiences are much easier to facilitate when you have a learning space that supports the design drivers of the kind of learner experience you're trying to create. As more schools incorporate inquiry driven and active learning activities, I think it is more important than ever for schools to closely examine their learning spaces and determine what they need to change in common learning areas as well as classrooms to support the vision for learning.
Today was the first day of our three day 2017 Lanier School Academy Institute, a professional learning experience for returning and new to the Lanier cluster teachers. This academy provides teachers of all grade levels and subject areas opportunities to talk about project based learning across the Lanier cluster, to unpack how our cluster thinks about PBL, and to share and brainstorm ways we can craft meaningful and authentic PBL experiences for our students (and ourselves!). I will be joining the faculty of Lanier High this July as an 11th grade English teacher, so I am excited to participate in this three day institute.
After we brainstormed our list of ideas for each question, our facilitator, Dr. Kyle Jones of Lanier High, asked us to pull out the one idea from our list of ideas for each question. He then asked us to distill the idea to its essence and to write each "essential" big idea that stood out to us as a group (consensus!) on a medium sized sticky note. Each group then shared out their responses for each question; similar responses were "bundled" together by Dr. Jones to be placed in a slice of the perspective walk "pie".
Once Dr. Jones had placed the responses for the first question in the perspective walk slices, we gathered in large circle around the perspective walk pie. He then asked us to look at the responses and to step inside the slice that resonated most strongly with us. You could not "straddle" a pie with a foot in two slices; you needed to choose one that you connected with the most. Once we had selected a slice, we then turned and talked in our small groups about our ideas and thinking about the response we had selected. Once we engaged in small group talk, we then had an opportunity for three groups to share out to the entire group. We repeated this process for each question, and for each round, Dr. Jones asked for volunteers to share who had not previously shared before though you could also add to the discussion if you had previously volunteered to share.
For our last round, we first considered the question, "What is your perspective?" where we picked a perception about PBL that we found most important to address or challenging. After we discussed this question, Dr. Jones challenged us to think of ways to change that perception, and after small group discussion, we then shared out once more. Approximately 50 teachers participated in the perspective walk, so this is an activity you could do with a large group or combined classes as well as an individual class. During our lunch break, Dr. Jones took each group of responses and hung them on the mobile dry erase board that is our "parking lot" of ideas (more on this tomorrow).
I found this activity to be powerful because I got to hear so many interesting ideas from my fellow teachers, and the small and large group conversations gave me food for thought and pushed my thinking as well as "idea sparks" for the upcoming school year. This is an engaging activity with tremendous synergy that is participatory and builds on the power of crowdsourcing ideas and the social aspect of learning. I cannot wait to try that this activity with my new students this fall!
I hope to do some additional posts about our thinking and other great learning activities we're engaging in this week in our institute. Kudos to Dr. Jones and all the Lanier cluster teachers for such a provocative and fun morning of thinking and sharing today!
We worked on this part of the activity for about 30 minutes last Friday and finished up during the first ten minutes of class this past Tuesday. Students then formed groups of three, and we reviewed the See, Think, Wonder strategy and discussed how our ideas could come from the individual activity and/or collective discussion. Although some groups needed a little nudging to get the conversation going (they were sitting silently and not conversing or trying to do the activity without talking), all groups eventually warmed up and engaged in some meaningful discussions. Groups worked for about 20-25 minutes, and then each group presented their ideas using their See Think Wonder poster they created. Afterwards, each group hung their poster on the wall in the classroom. We ended with a short discussion about each work; nearly every student wanted to read at least two of three texts!
Today, I provided printed copies of interviews with each of the authors so that students could read more about each writer's craft and approach to writing in the author's own words. Today we also did a final wrap-up activity to pull together our noticings as we try to read like writers.
I will take this list and with help from the students, craft a poster that we can hang in the room as well as mini-version for them to put in their writer's notebooks. I think I will try this approach to introduce poetry and some genres of creative nonfiction works to the students in the upcoming weeks as they seemed to really enjoy it. How are you introducing genres of writing to your students? How do you help your writers read like writers?
After attending a session at NCTE on reflective notebooks with Dr. Susan James and then doing some additional research on interactive writing notebooks over the holiday break, I decided to implement a hybrid version this semester with my War Eagle Studio writers. I love the idea of using the right side of the notebook to present content and using the left side for students to reflect, write, and/problem solve based on the mini-lesson and content for that day. I am hopeful this approach might help us use our writer's notebooks in a more robust way that will give students some meaningful structure yet still have enough flexibility to stay true to a traditional writer's notebook.
While browsing the wonderful Ethical ELA blog yesterday, I came across a post about visual thinking strategies by Dr. Sarah J. Donovan. You read more about VTS here, but this page on VTS and a description of how a Fulton County teacher used VTS with her students in their writing notebooks, I just knew I had to give this strategy a try with my students. I plan to use both photography and artworks as our discussion starters, but I felt starting with a current event photo would be the best choice for our kickoff effort with VTS in our interactive writing notebooks today. I decided to use the photo from the "Dabbing in Congress" prompt from the New York Times library of picture prompts.
When students arrived today, I had made mini-versions of the photo with our prompt, "What do you see? What do you notice?" I reviewed instructions for gluing or taping the photo prompt into their interactive writing notebooks (this was our first entry!), and then projected the color photo onto the board with Google Slides. I told students to look at the photo and write down everything they saw; students could list their noticings as a bulleted or numbered list. I encouraged them to keep their pencils moving as much as they could and to keep digging for any detail they saw even if it didn't seem significant. After 5-6 minutes, we then stopped and every student shared at least one noticing/observation; I recorded these in a Google Document as I wanted to see patterns of observation. I was astonished by the level of detail as well as students' enthusiastic participation in the activity; even my 8th graders, who have been my most challenging group of learners this school year, were full of energy and excitement.
What do you see? What's going on in this picture?
The "What makes you say that?" question was especially powerful in drawing out student responses and nudging them to further explain their answers or go back to the photo for "textual" evidence and details. After the first round of sharing, I asked students to look at the photo more closely and to see if they could find at least two new noticings or things they didn't see before. This was a shorter time period of observing and brainstorming–roughly two minutes. This piece of the activity comes from the third part of VTS facilitation, "What more can we find?" I was beyond impressed by the breadth AND depth of noticings by students in every single grade level (6-8).
We did one more share aloud with these noticings. I then read them a short news story about the actual event and showed a short video clip. We then pulled together the VTS activity with the actual facts of the event to talk about the teen's actions, his father's response, and why/when dabbing might be considered appropriate or inappropriate. It was one of the best discussions we've had this entire school year!
Write an opinion paragraph. State whether or not you think it was appropriate for the teenage son, Cal Marshall, to dab at his father's Congressional swearing in ceremony. Support your opinion with at least two reasons and explain your ideas.
I asked students to use the left side of the notebook to begin brainstorming and then writing their selected piece. While it was not my intent in designing these prompts, both are similar in nature to the kinds of written responses/constructed responses they might see on the Georgia Milestones test in April.
We'll finish our writing tomorrow, and students will volunteer to share an excerpt or all of their writing tomorrow in class for a class share-aloud. I have our school's awesome wireless microphone speaker system on standby so that we can elevate the level of sharing (the kids love it), plus it helps my more soft-spoken students share with their peers.
I'm excited to hear their writing tomorrow and to explore the possibilities for our hybrid interactive/reflective writer's notebooks. I also plan to make the VTS a weekly part of our writing/thinking routine as the kids were incredibly engaged with this method; I think it will also be a wonderful way to grow our powers of observations and attention to "textual evidence" and details as writers. Are you using VTS or interactive/reflective notebooks with your writers? I'd love to hear what you are doing and how it is impacting student learning.


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Twitter Homework: Which Group of Sabres Makes the Better Roster?
December 1, 2020 December 2, 2020 Chris Ostrander
Mike Schopp asked a great question with the Twitter poll he sent out asking which group of jersey numbers would net the better all-time Sabres team.
You can make a better all-time Sabres team from:
— Mike Schopp (@Schopptalk) December 1, 2020
It's a great question which sparks some juicy debate. Do you go with goaltending (20-99) or the bulk of Buffalo's retired numbers (0-19)? With the poll favoring 0-19, I have a feeling that the quick answer is representative of the first players you can think of within the two sets of digits he provided. It's easy to come up with The French Connection, Pat LaFontaine, Mike Ramsey and Jack Eichel and go with 0-19 over Dominik Hasek and numbers 20-99.
But I felt with a little digging you'd find that you can form two very well-rounded teams from both sets of numbers. Teams which scope out to be closer than you may have thought initially. So I took it upon myself to dig into the Sabres' number history and build what I feel are the two best teams from the groups of numbers provided in Schopp's poll.
Schopp noted in his replies that it should be a full team, not the best six-man, on-ice group. Other ground rules I set were determing a player's number by what they wore for the longest period of time for the Sabres. Or in certain cases, the number they're best known for wearing. So there's no cheating by counting Mike Ramsey as 20-99 since he wore 23 at one point. Same goes for Rene Robert wearing 23 or Craig Ramsay wearing 25. That means Miroslav Satan is represented by #81 while Jerry Korab gets #4.
I didn't follow positions to the strict letter of the law. Handedness on defense isn't a concern to me when filling out an all-time team, nor was picking four right wingers and four left wingers. I was more concerned with finding the 12 best forwards and six best defensemen. In other words, I'm ready to fill out some incorrect postseason ballots.
One other consideration I put in place was evaluating players based off their time in Buffalo. So peel away Jeff Skinner's time in Carolina and everything Doug Gilmour did up until arriving in Western New York.
With that in mind, I went to work on Hockey Reference and in the Sabres Media Guide and came up with the following two teams.
Numbers 0-19
Numbers 20-99
One factor I felt was impacting voting or opinions on the 0-19 group being favored was the quick reference of The French Connection, Mike Ramsey, Danny Gare and others. Most of the franchise's most memorable players wore numbers below 20 and it makes for an easy group to favor as a result.
There's no question that among the most talented offensive players ever to wear the Sabres' crest, many of the truly elite players wore lower digits. It's a formidable group of centers with Perreault, Eichel LaFontaine and Roy. You could certainly put Hawerchuk or Connolly in that fourth slot and feel equally confident in the group. It's a good forward group backed by a strong blueline. Ramsey, Housley and Schoenfeld are three of the very best – possibly the best – in franchise history. Van Boxmeer, Korab and Warrener are no slouches either. Warrener is perhaps the one odd selection here but he was a stalwart on the 1999 Cup run and ultimately I leaned on nostalgia over others who I felt were roughly equivalent to him.
Goaltending for this group is always going to fall short of Hasek, but Don Edwards and Roger Crozier are nothing to sneeze at.
It's a well-rounded group which isn't just top heavy, but quite deep through three lines and with no weak links.
On the surface, it's easy to say that the 20-99 group is all goaltending and nothing else. But as you cull through the last 50 years of Sabres history, you realize you're still spoiled for choice when it comes to this group of jersey numbers.
While you lack the Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, you aren't short on goal scoring talent by any means. You have the franchise single-season goal scoring leader, three top-ten seasons in total points and four of the franchise's top-10 goal scoring leaders. Like with the 0-19 group, you have interchangeable center options with Drury, Hecht and Luce on the wing. You also are loaded with matchup opportunities with O'Reilly, Luce, Peca, Drury and Hecht. It's a solid group of forwards no matter which way you cut it.
The defense boasts more contemporary options than the other group but Hajt is a legitimate all-time great while McKee, Zhitnik and Campbell should earn a rightful spot among the best in Sabres history.
There are two factors which come down to determining which of these sides would be favored as the best. The first is nostalgia. If you grew up with the 70s and 80s Sabres, you're almost guaranteed to favor the 0-19 group with Perreault, Ramsey, Gare and the rest. If your formative years were spent with the 99 Cup run and the post-lockout Sabres, you're likely favoring numbers 20-99. The second factor is goaltending. And that's clear cut.
Hasek really tips the scales in any exercise like this. He's not just the best player in franchise history, he's the best player ever to play his position. His level of dominance over the sport during his time in Buffalo is unparalleled. He never played behind much firepower in Buffalo. Prime Hasek with this group of forwards and defensemen would be formidable, to say the least. Both teams are obviously excellent. Any team with 50-plus years of history will have plenty of quality alumni to pick from when making an all-time team. The Sabres have had a fairly impressive run of forwards in their time and I think that is well reflected here. While you may argue the first group is more skilled, I don't think the gap in their skill and talent is drastically bigger than that of the second group. Add Hasek to the equation and there's no question.
For that reason, I'm saying the better team is made up of numbers 20-99. You have the best goalie ever, a strong group of defensemen with some low-key franchise greats and a group of forwards that boasts the league's all-time leader in power play goals, the single-season franchise goal scoring record and a collection of some of the club's best two-way forwards. This group can score and play matchups in front of Dominik Hasek. I'm taking 20-99.
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Kate Marone joined Healthy Lincoln County (HLC) in 2015. She serves as the liaison to the towns and community organizations in Lincoln County. She is working with the HLC Advisory Board to develop collaborative relationships, and working with HLC staff to achieve our public health goals to help communities in Lincoln County achieve healthier living.
Kate has spent three years in Maine working on a project with the state public health agency. Prior to that, she spent most of her career working in county public health agencies in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in north central Montana. She has an undergraduate degree in social work, a graduate certificate in public health, and a master's degree in health and risk communication.
Growing up in a military family fostered Kate's love of travel. However, she's always been drawn to rural communities and is happy to be settled on the midcoast of Maine. When she's not working, Kate can be found exploring the lakes and peninsulas, cooking, hiking, or gardening. She looks forward to the winter so she can go snowshoeing, and catch up on her reading.
Jess Breithaupt is the Project Coordinator for substance use prevention programs at Healthy Lincoln County. Her role involves building local-stakeholder relationships to implement community-wide interventions intended to reduce young peoples' access to and use of alcohol, marijuana and prescription drugs.
Previously she worked as a Project Manager for a financial services company where she was responsible for the creation and implementation of career path programs and staff trainings.
Jess is a musician, and shares a love of music with her 11-year-old son, as well as her love for nature.
Sally Ingraham joins HLC as our Project Assistant supporting the office with administrative, operational and implementation of project activities. With 17 years of experience as an entrepreneur, a rich background in non-profit work and prior experience in program development, Sally is dedicated to making an impact on her community. Previously employed educating low income and older adult households about the SNAP program and making healthy choices, advocating for quality food has become a passion.
A native Vermonter, Sally and her husband now call Newcastle home. They have one son in Portland Oregon and a daughter in Damariscotta. Sally enjoys spending endless hours with her grandsons, gardening, discovering new places, and breaking bread with friends old and new.
Lindsey Williams rounds off the Healthy Lincoln County team as the SNAP-Ed Nutrition Education Coordinator. She will be working throughout the county to provide nutrition education to both children and adults, as well as collaborating with community partners on initiatives related to food insecurity, obesity prevention, and promoting physically active lifestyles.
Previously employed at a local elementary school as a teacher, Lindsey is excited to connect her joy of teaching with her desire to enhance lives through proper nutrition.
Originally from Vermont, Lindsey received her bachelor's degree in Education with a focus in Nutrition and Food Science from The University of Vermont. After skiing and hiking in North Lake Tahoe, CA, Lindsey relocated to Damariscotta where she now resides with her husband, two young boys, and their black lab.


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2017 Small Business of the Year Awards
FORT COLLINS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 2017 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce announced today the winners of its 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards, which recognize small businesses for their outstanding workplace culture, employee relations and community contributions. The winner for the small category (1-10 employees) is Vern's Toffee House; winner for the medium category (11-50 employees) is Vaught, Frye, Larson Architects, Inc.; winner for the large category (51-200 employees) is Forney Industries, Inc.; and winner for the New Kid on the Block category (business in operation for less than three years) is Senior Life Solutions.
Winners were honored at the Celebrating Small Business Awards & Breakfast event on May 25, 2017 at Drake Center in Fort Collins. The event included a keynote presentation from Mark Driscoll, Colorado Market President for First National Bank.
"These outstanding businesses have exemplified the strong company culture and community involvement that keeps our local economy in motion," said David May, President of the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce. "We are proud to honor these top businesses and say thank you for their contributions to northern Colorado."
The New Kid on the Block winner, Senior Life Solutions, is an in-home service provider that enhances the quality of life of senior citizens and those who care for them in northern Colorado. Through professional care management and counseling services, Senior Life Solutions provides physical, emotional, social and spiritual support. They operate on the values of professionalism, respect, integrity, dignity and excellence (PRIDE) to create a culture that treasures older individuals. In addition, Senior Life Solutions value community service so much that employees are given paid time off for their volunteer time.
Vern's Toffee House, the small category winner, is a family-owned business that has the market cornered on scrumptious, hand-stirred butter almond toffee for 40 years. The company is proud to uphold traditional, small-business values such as hard work, pride in a locally produced product, and outstanding customer service. Vern's Toffee House supports the community through its involvement with several local causes, including Pathways, Ramstrength, Elderhaus, Crossroads Safehouse and many more.
Vaught Frye Larson Architects, Inc., a full-capacity architectural firm, received top honors in the medium category. For more than 30 years, Vaught Frye Larson Architects, Inc., has offered an array of architectural and interior design services and has completed countless projects in the Fort Collins area. This company is involved in the community through its participation in United Way Business Cares and Climatewise, as well as through its support of charities, such as Boys and Girls Club of Larimer and Weld County, Crossroads Safehouse, Animal House and more.
Large category winner, Forney Industries, Inc., dates all the way back to 1932 and is a national leader in supplying the retail and industrial markets with metal working and welding products. This company lives by the motto, "We succeed when our customers succeed," and therefore places great emphasis on innovation, product quality and expert marketing strategy. In addition, Forney Industries, Inc. has integrated itself into the community in numerous ways: participating in Adopt-A-Street events, hosting a Bike to Work Day station, coordinating blood drives with the Garth Englund Blood Center and many more.
Finalists for all four categories are as follows: Small: Onsight Auto Glass, Vern's Toffee House; Medium: FLEXX Productions, Vaught Frye Larson Architects, Inc., Workspace Innovations, Colorado In Motion; Large: Forney Industries, Neuworks Mechanical, Inc., The Women's Clinic of Northern Colorado; New Kid on the Block: Elevate Chiropractic, Senior Life Solutions, Valimenta Labs.
The Small Business of the Year Awards are underwritten by First National Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Adams Bank & Trust, Blue Federal Credit Union, Comcast, Hunt, Spillman & Associates, P.C., Mantooth Marketing Company, Total Facility Care, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Northern Colorado Catering and Sign-A-Rama
2017 Small Business of the Year Finalists Announced
The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce has announced 12 finalists for the 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards. Finalists were selected from four different categories including businesses with 1-10 employees, 11-50 employees, 51-200 employees, and New Kid on the Block, celebrating businesses in operation for less than three years. The 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 25, 2017, at 7:30 a.m. at The Drake Center.
The breakfast will feature keynote speaker, Mark Driscoll, Colorado Market President for First National Bank. During Mark's tenure at the bank, he has served various management and lending roles, and most recently as President of First National Bank's Colorado.
The finalists for the 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards are:
For the small company category (1-10 employees):
OnSight Auto Glass – a family-owned certified auto glass company with trained, experienced professionals
Vern's Toffee – a family-owned and operated maker of award-winning butter almond toffee, distributed across the United States
For the medium company category (11-50 employees):
Colorado In Motion – a locally owned business bringing decades of clinical experience together in the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and the industrial health industry
Flexx Productions – an event rental company providing tents and seasoned expertise for events of any size
Vaught, Frye, Larson Architects, Inc. – a full capacity architectural firm offering comprehensive design, planning and management services
Workspace Innovations – a full service commercial interiors and relocation company
For the large company category (51-200 employees):
Forney Industries – a nationwide leader in the distribution of metal working and welding products into the retail and industrial markets
Neuworks Mechanical, Inc. – providing commercial and residential services for new construction, remodels, and maintaining current systems
Women's Clinic – an OB/GYN medical practice focused on women's health issues and quality of life
For the New Kid on the Block category (business in operation for less than three years):
Elevate Chiropractic – a chiropractic office specializing in advanced, neurologically based corrective care for the whole family
Senior Life Solutions – an in-home service provider enhancing the quality of life of older adults and those who care for them in northern Colorado through professional care management and counseling services
Valimenta Labs – a nano-technology contract manufacturing company in the dietary supplement, animal feed, food and drink market.
The event kicks off a day of celebrating local small businesses and will continue with the annual Business After Hours Tradeshow from 4:30 – 7:30 p.m., also at The Drake Center, 802 W. Drake Road.
Tickets for the awards breakfast are now available for purchase for $25 for individual members, $35 for non-members or $250 for a table of 10. Booth space is also available for the After Hours Tradeshow and both can be purchased at fortcollinschamber.com or by calling (970) 482-3746.
The Small Business of the Year Awards are underwritten by First National Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Adams Bank & Trust, Blue Federal Credit Union, Comcast , Hunt, Spillman & Associates, P.C., Mantooth Company, Total Facility Care, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Sign-A-Rama.
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I read some Robert Frost when studying English Literature and have liked him ever since. Taking his symbols from the public domain, Frost developed, as many critics note, an original, modern idiom and a sense of directness and economy that reflect the imagism of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. If it does not rhyme with line A then it gets B, and so on. Doran, 1927, reprinted, Haskell House, 1969. Married Elinor Miriam White in 1895 whom died in 1938 Most of his poems convey the theme of nature Inspired by poets such as Edward Thomas Won the Congressional Gold medal in 1960.
From The Amherst Monthly, June 1918. The horse is personified as youth and the trepidation young people feel during their first experiences with new and unfamiliar things. Sutton, State University of New York Press, 1976. He dipped his head And snorted at us. The narrator then personifies the horse, which is when an object or animal is given human characteristics.
He never saw it before. There are several types of sonnets, but the most widely-known is the Shakespearean sonnet, which is always written in iambic pentameter. The other part of that message is for those who have already experienced something unfamiliar and frightening, and who witness a younger person experiencing that same fear, to show enough compassion to explain that everything will be alright. Frost's spirituality was very complex, he was outwardly ambivalent to religion, although he had a strong religious education from his mother, and his roots are New England Yankee. All alone with no parents surrounded by your deepest fear, wishing for some hospitality. He got it from the grocery store, But he lost it and can't wear it anymore. In October, 1963, President John F.
A rhyming scheme is a stanza of a story often found in a poem. We heard the miniature thunder where he fled, And we saw him, or thought we saw him, dim and grey, Like a shadow against the curtain of falling flakes. Watts, 1967, enlarged edition published as The Road Not Taken: An Introduction to Robert Frost, reprinted as The Pocket Book of Robert Frost's Poems, Pocket Books, 1956. The little fellow's afraid of the falling snow. Essentially, the message for the youth is that they stay the course and have faith that things will be alright. Robert Frost continues to hold a unique and almost isolated position in American letters. The topic of the poem is a young man who is killed in a saw mill accident when his hand is severed by a buzz saw.
His politics and religious faith, hitherto informed by skepticism and local color, became more and more the guiding principles of his work. Nutt, 1914, Hot, 1915, reprinted, Dodd, 1977. The ballads of Australian bu … sh balladeer A. This man has the good sense to speak naturally and to paint the thing, the thing as he sees it. For example, the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg All of the a's rhyme with a's, b's with b's, c's with c's, and so on. In the poem the colt's mother abandons him most likely because of his fear of snow.
Cont Of Poetic Devices Fear Atmosphere: Gloomy and calm on a winter's day Poetic Voice: Calm and detailed observations. To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. F … or thou art dead, I said. " A little Morgan had one forefoot on the wall, The other curled at his breast.
It is spread by inhaling tiny droplets of saliva from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person. He had become a public figure, and in the years before his death, much of his poetry was written from this stance. It is never a thought to begin with. He'd think she didn't know! The Runaway From The Amherst Monthly, June 1918. He dipped his head And snorted at us. Holt put out an American edition of North of Boston in 1915 , and periodicals that had once scorned his work now sought it.
At the same time, his adherence to meter, line length, and rhyme scheme was not an arbitrary choice. Freedom The colt is forced to be independent without the help of his mother to reassure him of the snow lines 14-21 Neglect The colt is abandoned in the snow without the support of his mother lines 12-14. Parallels to Youth and Fear Despite its straightforward content, a scared little horsey in a field during the first snow of the year and the first time the horse experiences snowfall , there is a deeper theme in the subtext of the poem: fear of the unknown. He dipped his head And snorted at us. This illustrates that Frost like many poets preferred to let his readers interpret his poems for themselves; to let the poem flower in the mind of the reader. In 1885 following the death of his father, the family moved in with his grandfather in Lawrence Massachusetts.


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* Herbert Kroll (Schauspieler) (1902–1985), deutscher Schauspieler und Rundfunkregisseur
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I am not quite sure what you are trying to say. Are you saying that I can use the line that you mention from your script to change the rate for a sapi5 voice or can you tell me where this elusive property rate you talk about can be located.
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In SAPI5 use the rate property to change the rate. I can't remember whether the rate adjust refer to the number of spoken words per minute.
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Jon Hamm, Aisha Tyler among all-stars for S.F. Sketchfest's virtual Festpocalypse!
Aidin Vaziri	December 17, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 7:16 pm
Jon Hamm, shown here in "Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine," is among the performers at SF Sketchfest's virual festival next year. Photo: Lacey Terrell / Netflix
With hopes quashed for celebrating its 20th anniversary in person in January, the organizers of the multiday SF Sketchfest comedy festival will instead mark the milestone online with Festpocalypse!, a one-day virtual variety show and fundraiser featuring new performances, chats, game shows and more.
The live stream is scheduled to take place on Jan. 30, with appearances by film and television stars such as Alan Arkin, Paget Brewster, Chris Elliott, Christopher Guest, Elliott Gould, Jon Hamm and Aisha Tyler, among others.
"Like many other independently run organizations, we didn't know what our future was going to be when the pandemic started," Cole Stratton, one of Sketchfest's founders, told The Chronicle. "As things went on, it was looking very unlikely we would be able to do a festival in-person next year so we tried to think of the next best way to honor its spirit."
The event is expected to also feature one-off reunions of renowned sketch comedy teams, including the Kids in the Hall; David Cross and Bob Odenkirk from "Mr. Show"; the Upright Citizens Brigade; and "Saturday Night Live" veterans Fred Armisen, Dana Carvey, Rachel Dratch, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Meadows, Laraine Newman and Sasheer Zamata.
It is expected to run for about three hours.
"It will be longer than 'The Godfather,' but not as long as 'The Godfather Part II," Stratton said.
Fred Armisen is expected to perform at SF Sketchfest's virtual Festpocalypse! Photo: David Moir / SF Sketchfest
In September, organizers canceled the 20th annual festival scheduled for next month, stating on their website, "because of so many unknown factors … we don't see a path forward for presenting a live, in-person festival in January."
But they're hopeful Festpocalypse! will scratch that funny bone for fans — if they can pull it off, Stratton said.
"The main challenge has been figuring out how to do something like this. We're analog spirits," he said. "What makes Sketchfest special is bringing people in a room together."
Tickets for SF Sketchfest's Festpocalypse! start at $20 with tiered options offering access to after parties with select performers, special merchandise and swag. Ticket holders will also be able to watch a replay of the event through Feb. 1.
"This will hopefully help us get through to put the next festival on," Stratton said.
David Owen, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton are the co-founders of SF Sketchfest. Photo: Penni Gladstone / The Chronicle 2006
The San Francisco festival was founded in 2001 by Stratton, Janet Varney and David Owen to serve as a showcase for Bay Area comedians and sketch comedy ensembles.
In 2020, Sketchfest ran over 17 days in January and featured more than 250 performers at a dozen venues from the Castro Theater to Brava Theater Center and Swedish American Hall, including celebrities such as Tony Shalhoub ("Monk," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") and Sandra Bernhard ("Roseanne").
In addition to their own festival, the producers help book acts for the Outside Lands and Clusterfest festivals — both of which didn't happen this year due to the pandemic.
Stratton said they hope to bring SF Sketchfest back when they feel it is safe to do so.
"If this goes well, at least we will have a new skill going forward."
Festpocalypse!: 5 p.m. Jan. 30. $20. www.sfsketchfest.com
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ASU fall grad achieves ambitious goal of earning dual law and business degrees
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Thomas Grimes may be the only law student in the country who can say he was a "roughneck." While he always dreamed of pursuing a law career, Grimes decided to take an alternate route after earning his undergraduate degree from UCLA, accepting a job working on oil rigs in West Virginia.
"After nearly five years of that experience, I felt I was ready to return to the classroom and pursue my legal education," said Grimes, who ultimately chose the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University to pursue his JD while concurrently studying for an MBA from ASU. He will graduate this fall.
To ease the transition back to school, and working indoors again, Grimes, from Encinitas, California, enrolled in a paralegal program at the University of San Diego and began working at a business defense litigation firm. "After working as a paralegal, I knew the legal field was right for me," he said. "Further, I decided that to better serve businesses as clients, an MBA would prove invaluable."
Question: What's something you learned while at ASU Law that surprised you or changed your perspective?
Answer: Before beginning law school, I heard horror stories about how law students sabotage one another. At ASU Law, however, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the students go out of their way to help one another. While competitive with one another, everyone seems to come together and act as a community.
From a more abstract standpoint, the student body is very diverse — both culturally and geographically. Everyone brings a different perspective to the table. On any given topic, the diversity has allowed me to see multiple perspectives I would have never considered — like how a law might impact a specific group negatively.
Q: Why did you choose ASU?
A: I hate cold weather and wanted to move somewhere with a booming economy. It was also important for me to attend a college with well-respected law and business schools.
Q: Which professor taught you the most important lesson while at ASU?
A: Professor Chad Noreuil ended each criminal law lecture with a two- to three-minute section on mental health. Law school beats people up mentally. His lectures taught me that, regardless of what is going on, it is important to focus on yourself and your emotional well-being.
Q: What's the best piece of advice you'd give to those still in school?
A: No matter how crazy things get, take one day per week and do zero studying. It will help you avoid burnout. Also, have fun and make friends. The Arizona legal community is small — only one other state has fewer lawyers per capita.
Q: What was your favorite spot on campus, whether for studying, meeting friends or just thinking about life?
A: When the weather is nice, my favorite place to study or meet with friends is in the law school's fifth floor mezzanine. If trying to study or read somewhere quiet, I hunker down in the Reading Room. Pro Tip: There are a few leather chairs in the Reading Room. They are the comfiest chairs in the world and are perfect for taking a power nap.
Q: What are your plans after graduation?
A: I will be working as an associate at Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C., an insurance defense litigation firm in downtown Phoenix.
Q: If someone gave you $40 million to solve one problem on our planet, what would you tackle?
A: Elephant and rhino poaching in Africa has risen dramatically over the past decade. If given $40 million, I would use the money to help conserve and protect those at-risk animals.
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Website: Visit the Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill website.
Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill is a historic working watermill between Chesterfield and Mansfield in Derbyshire.
Located on the Hardwick estate, alongside a scenic mill pond, this 19th working watermill has staff who can explain how the mill works. Visitors can see the inner workings and have a go at grinding some flour themselves.
Sales of flour made in the mill.
Gift shop at Hardwick Hall.
Restaurant at nearby Hardwick Hall.
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A Uvalde man, named Edward Vasquez, 71, was arrested on June 21st on a charge of Indecency with a Child / Sexual Conduct.
Court records show the offense date as July 30th, 2017. His bond is set at $100,000.
He has not been released at this time.


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Emblem is een deelgemeente van de gemeente Ranst in de Belgische provincie Antwerpen (arrondissement Antwerpen). Emblem is gelegen in de Antwerpse rand ten zuidoosten van de stad. Emblem was een zelfstandige gemeente tot aan de gemeentelijke herindeling van 1977.

Geschiedenis
Emblem, vroeger ook als Emblehem gespeld, was een zelfstandige gemeente tot einde 1976. De plaats ligt mogelijk mee aan de oorsprong van de nabijgelegen Stad Lier.

Bezienswaardigheden

De Sint-Gummaruskerk aan de De Voortstraat
De Sint-Gummaruskapel aan de Dorpstraat
De Allierse kapel aan de Liersesteenweg
De Sint-Barbarakapel aan de Oostmalsesteenweg

Natuur en landschap
Emblem ligt op de overgang van de zandige Kempen en het Scheldebekken p[ een hoogte van 4-13 meter. De zuidgrens wordt gevormd door de Kleine Nete. Parallel daaraan ligt het Netekanaal.

Demografische ontwikkeling

Bronnen:NIS, Opm:1806 tot en met 1970=volkstellingen; 1976 = inwoneraantal op 31 december

Sport
 KFC Sint Michiel: voetbalclub in Emblem. Op het voetbalveld van KFC Sint Michiel werden de buitenopnamen van de Vlaamse televisieserie F.C. De Kampioenen gemaakt. Deze reeks liep van 1990 tot 2011.

Nabijgelegen kernen
Lier, Broechem, Kessel, Viersel

Plaats in Antwerpen (provincie)
Ranst


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