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11TH EUROPEAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THORACIC ONCOLOGY
2019 06 14 - 06 15
Radisson Blu Lietuva, Vilnius (Konstitutcijos pr. 20)
An initiative of the Chinese – European Alliance of Oncology in collaboration with
National Cancer Institute (Lithuania), Vilnius University, Lithuanian Society of Oncology,
Medical University of Bialystok, Euroregional Medical Centre for Research and Education,
Mannheim University, Lithuanian Society of Pulmonology and IASLC
We are proud to invite you to participate in the "11th European Regional Conference on Thoracic Oncology: Where We Are Now?", which will be held on June 14-15, 2019 in hotel "Radisson Blu hotel Lietuva".
Information about registration:
13 June: from 16:00
14 June: from 7:00
15 June: form 8:00
Conference topics:
1. Young Investigators Session
2. Epidemiology / Lung Cancer Screening / Tobaco Control
3. Pathology / Molecular Diagnotics
4. Medical Management of SCLC
5. Medical Management of NSCLC: Surgery, Medical Oncology, Radiotherapy
6. Immuno-oncology of Lung Cancer
7. Treatment of Pleural Mesothelioma
8. Selected Case Reports
Conference is for doctors of all medical specialties
Hotel Venue
Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva****
Konstitucijos ave. 20, Vilnius
Largest conference venue and hotel in the heart of Vilnius
Conveniently located near the city's historic and business districts, this Vilnius hotel overlooks Old Town and the river. The 291 comfortable rooms include Free high-speed, wireless Internet, and the on-site Riverside Restaurant serves international specialties while the hotel bars provide creative cocktails and light snacks. Guests can also enjoy the fitness center, sauna and beauty salon.
We have reserved hotel rooms at Conference centre, please contact conference secretariat by email: info@creativa.lt
ABOUT VILNIUS
Vilnius is one of the cities in The Central Europe, laying the farthest east, which experienced a strong interaction between the Eastern and Western cultures. In 1994 the historical centre of Vilnius (old town) was globally acknowledged due to its exceptionality and was included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO. Vilnius' old town is the largest old town in The Eastern Europe, covering 359,5 ha.
From 14th to 18th centuries the city produced a huge impact on the architectural development throughout the whole region. The city boasts a well-preserved example of a street network and urban structure, characteristic to The Middle Ages. The city landscape has preserved a rich variety of the buildings with plenty of houses in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism styles. One marvels at the mesmerizing panorama and perspectives.
The streets and buildings reflect the signs of living, once led by Lithuanians, Jews, Poles, Russians, Germans, Belarusians, Caraites and Tatars. Here peace reigns among the representatives from different confessions such as Catholics, Greek-Catholics, Orthodox, Evangelic-Lutherans, Evangelic-Reformists, Jews and Muslims. The historic centre of Vilnius (the old town) stands for a proof of harmony between a human being and nature.
Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO
GETTING TO VILNIUS
Vilnius International Airport (VNO) (Rodūnios road 10A) is the largest civil airport in Lithuania and is located 6 km south of the city centre. There is a number of international aiepines operating in Vilnius airport.
GETTING TO THE CENTRE OF THE CITY:
By bus:
No. 1 AIRPORT-RAILROAD AND BUS STATION
Runs every 40-50 minutes. First bus leaves from the airport at 05:49AM, the last one at 22:23PM;
No. 3G AIRPORT-CENTER-FABIJONIŠKĖS
Runs every 8-10 minutes. First bus leaves from the airport a 05:22 AM, the last one leaves at 23:11 PM;
No. 88 AIRPORT-KONSTITUCIJOS PR.
Runs every16-17 minutes. First bus leaves from the airport a 05:16 AM, the last one leaves at 01:39 PM.
Bus times are available at bus stops or on the website www.stops.lt
Once you have boarded public transportation, you can purchase a one way ticket from the driver that costs 1 euro. You need to mark the paper ticket at one of the several small red metal ticket validators found on the stands in the bus or by placing it in the yellow electronic ticket validator.
Distance from the airport to Vilnius Railway station is about 5 km, the journey takes up to 8 minutes. Trains run approximately every 40 minutes. The schedule can be found at www.litrail.lt. Tickets can be purchased on the train or at Vilnius Railway Station. Train timetable is available on www.litrail.lt
By taxi:
Next to the airport there is a taxi rank. There are always plenty of taxis there. You can also call a taxi by phone or to book a taxi at Vilnius Tourist Information Centre (Airport Arrival Hall). Taxi booking and information www.etaksi.lt.
Conference secretariat | CREATIVA


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Score At the Top Palm Beach Gardens serves students and families with varying backgrounds, from those with learning/processing disorders, to those with ADD/ADHD, to athletes, to students from other countries visiting, and the list goes on. We personalize every students' experience to create a custom-fit in our family atmosphere. We have specialists in reading and math, as well as seasoned AP teachers with high pass rates. PBG feels like home! As well as offering private school options, we offer tutoring, test prep, Courses for Credit and College counseling.
Located just east of the PGA Blvd exit off of I95, the PBG location is at the center of it all. Just minutes from Legacy Place, the Gardens Mall, and Downtown at the Gardens, it's easy to find something to do while your student meets with his/her tutor.
The tutoring solutions we offer through Score At The Top's Palm Beach Gardens program work to accommodate students from all backgrounds, situations, and approaches to learning. We fully understand that each student learns in their own way and the traditional academic setting might not be ideal to reach full potential. Our primary goal is to build a versatile learning program that can be molded to fit the individual needs and schedule restrictions of every student. All Palm Beach Gardens students and families who work with Score At The Top get the luxury of choosing to have sessions take place in their own home, online, or at our local facility. Whatever their needs are, we will make it work.
SAT scores play a huge role in determining a student's next step upon completing their K-12 career. The results are used by schools across the country to gauge college readiness and decide who gets accepted. In many ways, a student's SAT score influences how and where they gain the knowledge to launch their career and set up their adult life. That being said, students and families need to do everything they can to be successful.
Learn excellent reading strategies to maximize comprehension.
Improve grammar and expand vocabulary.
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Learn practical writing skills to perform well on SAT essay section.
Put newly-learned concepts to use on all-inclusive SAT workbooks.
24 total hours of test prep for up to 8 weeks.
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Maximum class sizes of 10-12 students.
Prepping for the exhaustive ACTs is a process that needs to be taken very seriously by both students and their families. The score a student receives more or less determines their options for colleges and universities. It is meant to gauge how ready a student is for higher education. The test itself covers all the major areas and competencies learned throughout K-12, including: English, Math, Science, Reading, and Writing. Knowing what to expect and how to develop good test taking strategies is crucial to the success of any student.
Polish grammar skills and expand vocabulary.
Learn worthwhile strategies to sharpen mathematical problem solving and time management skills.
Refine scientific reasoning skills and learn time-saving test strategies.
Familiarize with the ACT essay criteria and develop high-scoring writing skills.
Practice some of the best test-taking strategies with our comprehensive ACT workbook.
24 total hours of ACT prep for up to 8 weeks.
Simulated tests are time and proctored to mimic the real test environment.
The shift between high school and college is one of the biggest changes a young adult will experience. Moreover, this transformation happens in a VERY short period of time. As many surely know, the process of going off to college can be incredibly stressful – in addition to the extremely high price tag. Over the course of about three months, students are expected to go from high school to living on their own and making a huge investment in their future (while still in their teens). Failure to effectively prepare for this monumental chapter in life can have many negative consequences.
We strongly recommend that students begin thinking about college as early as freshman year. Starting college admissions counseling early on can do a lot to maximize the high school experience and develop a roadmap to give students a competitive edge when applying to college. Solidifying a plan for the remainder of high school can also help students gain scholarships to help set them up for success both during and after the college experience. Students in Palm Beach Gardens get access to Score At The Top's extensive college preparation services with the goal of finalizing a plan by the spring semester of junior year.
Formulate a realistic plan to maximize the remaining years of high school.
Identify academic weaknesses and work on a plan for improvement.
Look into academic enrichment courses and extracurricular activities to gain valuable credit outside of normal school hours.
Understand and prepare for the college interview process.
Draft and refine a resume to accompany college application.
Channel students' interests towards a future focus.
Score At The Top's core forte is immersing students in 1-on-1 and/or small group sessions. Our undying goal is to understand the unique situation and schedule of each student while assessing their academic needs, personality, and learning styles. With this insight, we can create a customized curriculum to accommodate everyone individually. At our Palm Beach Gardens location, students get prime access to a number of skilled educators across an array of backgrounds. Each educator at Score At The Top is equipped to help students achieve success at every level including: honors, AP, remedial, and more.
Our facility offers ongoing courses throughout the year (including the summer) at all grade levels. Score At The Top's far-reaching course catalog gives students the ability to explore all kinds of areas ranging from journalism to sports medicine to horticulture all the way to neuroscience – to name a handful. If you are in Palm Beach Gardens and are looking for an "academy near me", Score At The Top is a valuable option where students can capitalize on their potential to the fullest extent.
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Home Entertainment Tom Cruise Returns as Maverick in the Top Gun Sequel and Here is Everything You Need to Know
EntertainmentTV and Movies
Tom Cruise Returns as Maverick in the Top Gun Sequel and Here is Everything You Need to Know
by Alan Daniel January 13, 2020
written by Alan Daniel January 13, 2020
Tom Cruise returns in his iconic role as a military pilot in Top Gun. The sequel took 34 years, and most of us are at the edge of our seats, expecting the same thrill and dramatic story line we saw in 1986.
A Bit of Recap
Now, in case you've been living under a rock, Top Gun is a movie about Lieutenant Pete Mitchell (Maverick) who would have to return to training after he decided to be reckless in the field and pull stunts. He falls in love, loses his best friend in the world, and it goes on. Remember that this is the movie that makes middle-aged people jam to 'Take My Breath Away' and 'Highway to the Danger Zone'.
Here's one of my favorite quotes from the initial movie "Iceman: "Maverick, it's not your flying, it's your attitude. The enemy's dangerous, but right now you're worse. Dangerous and foolish. You may not like who's flying with you, but whose side are you on?"
From what we know, watching the trailer, we see that Pete is now an instructor. You might also notice that the Top Gun anthem is also slightly different. Remember that the Top Gun anthem was a massive hit in the 80s. It won a grammy, and hopefully, the producers won't end up tweaking it too much for the sequel.
One of the more confusing aspects of the trailer is we see Maverick using a Navy Tomcat, which was what he flew in the first movie. But if we've learned anything about Tomcats, we see that the US has already retired all Tomcats. Is the film set to take place before that year? It is undeniable that the machine looks pleasing from a cinematic point of view, and production decided to go with it.
The Likely Plot
It seems that the trouble on the horizon this time is fighter pilots becoming obsolete. Ed Harris says that Mitchell's kind is headed for extinction. He talks about drones taking over the role of military pilots.
As a plot, this feels like it was about a reflection on a lot of personal journeys. The movie will be memorable to many people who are veterans of their respective industries.
Likely Connections
There is a link in the new movie to Maverick's old best friend Lieutenant Nick Bradshaw, aka Goose. In the new film, his son Lieutenant Bradly Bradshaw, is played by Miles Teller.
Another compelling character is going to make a return in the movie Val Kilmer who played Lieutenant Tom Kazansky, aka Iceman, who was also a key rival to Maverick in the first movie.
The best and most awaited part is probably the part of the story line where Maverick goes on a mission.
The first one was a classic, since then, Cruise has been busy with a wide variety of fantastic films and I don't know for sure if this one will turn out to be on the same level, but I'm going to go check this one out too. Are you?
Surprisingly, Rotten Tomatoes gave the the first film a mere 55%, a rather poor rating, it'll be interesting to see how they view this next film.
How do you think that Tom Cruise and the general cinematic experience will be different with this particular film?
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Much to my surprise, the Walt Disney Company has released a film that is chock full of fish, not one of which talks or sings. Strictly speaking, Disneynature, an independent Disney label based in France, is the outfit responsible for Oceans, which opened in celebration of Earth Day. (Here's the film's official site, but warning: brace for flashy multimedia overload.) And strictly strictly speaking, this is actually the English international release of Océans, which debuted in France last year.
As you might expect, the cinematography is spectacular, especially during the film's first hour. (It's probably equally good during the last third, but there may be limits to just how much gorgeous underwater imagery the human brain can absorb without growing scales.) In contrast, the informational content connected to all that beauty is disappointingly low. The narrative carries viewers from ocean to ocean, pole to equator, surface to sea bottom; the individual moments seem to link together at least loosely but there's no clear sense of a master plan or theme guiding it. Pierce Brosnan's narration works so hard to be lyrical that all the earnestness starts to grate, and the writing lets its attitude of wonder overrun any genuine curiosity about the subject.
Scientific American's Steve Mirsky and I both emerged from a preview screening of Oceans last month with the same thought: the film should really be called Ocean Life. Almost the entire running time is occupied with showing fish, whales, sharks, jellies, coral, diatoms, crabs, cetaceans, anemones, kelp—living stuff. But aside from some beauty shots of angry waves breaking over rocks, seascapes under different temperaments of sky, icebergs calving into the sea and so on, the film shows almost no interest in nonbiological matters of oceanography. If you want to know more about currents, seafloor spreading, the chemistry or even the origins of seawater... make your own movie.
Can one really watch rocket launches from the shores of the Galapagos Islands? The film seems to imply as much, showing Galapagos marine iguanas crawling across rocks while a rocket takes off in the distance? I genuinely don't know, and perhaps there is an equatorial floating launch platform that has held that position.
Oceans has extraordinary sequences that show, for example, schools of small fish attracting schools of larger ones, which in turn draw flocks of seabirds, and then shoals of sharks. It's a brilliant, bloody frenzy. Did the photographers simply get amazingly lucky about documenting this event from start to finish? Did they know how enough to improve their chances somehow? Or did they somehow make it happen? I gather that the filmmakers behind these new Disneynature productions take exceptional journalistic integrity in compiling their footage honestly, and I would want that to be true. Still, given the long record of fakery in wildlife documentaries described in this Audubon magazine article by Ted Williams, I do have to wonder.
All in all, Oceans is worth seeing as eye candy and as a gorgeous enticement to learn more about its subject, but I can't help but wish that Disney had included a few talking fish. They might have answered some questions that the filmmakers didn't.


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Currently, Washington is trying to overthrow the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua and has bought off the Ecuadorian government with oil purchases and the usual personal bribes. Evo Morales government in Bolivia is also targeted by Washington. The Obama regime succeeded in removing the reform governments in Honduras, Argentina, and Brazil.
All Latin American reform efforts have made the foolish mistake of leaving the oppressor class with their newspapers and their traitorous connections to Washington in place, including the government of President Ortega in Nicaragua. One would think that Ortega would know better. Washington has been trying to get rid of Ortega and the Sandinistas since the Reagan administration. His government has survived the latest Washington-led coup attempt, but Washington is pouring more money into the effort. Read Kevin Zeese's report.


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est une série de six films d'horreur japonais et trois remake américains, mis en scène par le réalisateur Takashi Shimizu, se déroulant au Japon. Il commence ce projet alors qu'il étudiait à l'école de cinéma de Tokyo, où il rencontre Kiyoshi Kurosawa, qui lui apporte son aide.
Le titre de ces films fut traduit par  (La Malédiction) ou  (La Rancune).

Résumé
L'histoire est un classique sur le thème de la maison hantée dans la culture japonaise : un fantôme vengeur hante une maison et se venge sur tous ceux qui y pénètrent. Cependant la particularité de Ju-on réside dans la rencontre du fantôme d'une personne tuée par « la rancune » (le fantôme vengeur). Toute personne qui le croise est à son tour tué et ainsi de suite. Ainsi le fléau ne se limite pas à la maison.

Dans une maison isolée du Japon un père tue sa femme en lui brisant le cou, et noie son fils et le chat dans la baignoire  après avoir appris l'adultère de sa femme. C'est ainsi que la malédiction voit le jour. Kayako et son fils Toshio hantent désormais la maison et quiconque entre dans la demeure est destiné à une mort certaine. Kayako Saeki était la fille d'une Itako, une Sorcière qui pratiquait des exorcismes et transférait le mauvais sort sur sa fille. Ainsi, Kayako a développé en elle des gènes de prédisposition au mauvais œil, la rendant redoutable.

Malédiction

Dénouement
Dans The Grudge 3, un nouveau personnage apparait, Naoko la sœur de Kayako. Elle part à Chicago pour enquêter sur ces étranges meurtres dont elle connaît très bien la cause. Sur place, elle réussit à convaincre Lisa et Rose de pratiquer un rituel pour anéantir définitivement la malédiction. Mais le rituel est interrompu par Max, le frère de Lisa et de Rose, qui lui aussi est pris d'une folie meurtrière. Il tue Naoko en lui transperçant la gorge avec un couteau. Pendant ce temps, Rose boit la potion de Naoko ce qui permet de finir le rituel et de détruire la malédiction des Saeki. Cependant Naoko ayant été tuée par folie meurtrière elle devient elle-même une furie vengeresse, tue Max et poursuivra à son tour Lisa et Rose jusqu'à ce que mort s'ensuive.

Analyse
On ne sait pas exactement comment Kayako et Toshio tuent leurs victimes. Cependant dans le troisième volet de la saga, on peut voir Jake traverser sa cellule avec violence et il est expliqué que tous ses os ont été brisés. Plusieurs fois également, les victimes ont la mâchoire inférieure arrachée (Kayako), ou sont pétrifiés et incapables de bouger et de parler (Toshio), voire possédés par l'esprit maléfique de Takeo, comme c'est le cas pour Katsuya Tokunaga dans Ju-on: The Grudge, pour Matthew Williams dans une scène coupée de The Grudge, et pour Max dans The Grudge 3.

Production
Les deux premiers films de la série, Ju-on et Ju-on 2 en 2000, étaient destinés uniquement au marché vidéo, mais remportèrent un succès inattendu. Pour poursuivre le succès de ses deux films, ainsi que le succès international de Ring (1998) d'Hideo Nakata, Kurosawa et Hiroshi Takahashi (le scénariste de Ring) aidèrent Shimizu à développer Ju-on comme un dispositif théâtral. Appelé Ju-on: The Grudge, le film sortit en 2003 avec Megumi Okina et Takako Fuji et fut acclamé par la critique. Les américains rachetèrent alors les droits pour en faire un remake sous la direction de Shimizu lui-même et avec Sarah Michelle Gellar qui sortit en 2004 sous le nom de The Grudge, pendant que sortait au Japon un deuxième film cinéma, Ju-on: The Grudge 2 avec Noriko Sakai. Deux suite du remake sont produites aux États-Unis : The Grudge 2 en 2006 et The Grudge 3 en 2009. À l'occasion des dix ans de la série, deux nouveaux films sont tournés au Japon pour le marché vidéo prévus simultanément pour le , Ju-on: White Ghost and Black Ghost, le premier avec Akina Minami et le second avec Ai Kago, ex-chanteuse des groupes Morning Musume et Mini Moni.

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A SOTW poster found an interesting Buescher 400 advertisement that had the actual claims Buescher made for the 400 model. Unfortunately, the pictures are really small. Below are some pics from the ad and then my "translation". Things I completely made up are in parenthesis ().
Buescher craftsmen have long dreamed of creating and developing superlative saxophones that would transcend the modern conception of playing excellence. It meant breaking with tradition -- grinding out on new paths of research to blaze the trail to the stars.
Right away -- from the first test you make of a Buescher "400" you'll recognize the supreme playing qualities that mark the "elite" of the saxophone world. See and try the new Super "400s" by Buescher -- the saxophones musical America is talking about.
"Our Greatest New Model Announcement"
For more than a half a century, Buescher True Tone has been a symbol of supremacy in band and orchestra instruments. Buescher Saxophones are world famous for beauty of tone -- same of playing. This lends significance to the announcement of two new Saxophones -- the finest ever created by Buescher -- the new "400" Alto and Tenor.
... For many years the goal of the Buescher Company has been to (create) the perfect Saxophone. In the Super "400" models, we believe we have achieved that goal. After you are (ready), try a new "400" we are confident yoiu will agree that here at last has been create the perfect Saxophone.
Without hesitation -- and after due reflection on all the great advancements the Buescher Company has made in the past, I say -- the Super "400s" mark the greatest new model announcement in our entire history.
The new Super "400" Bueschers are infinitely improved from mouthpiece to bell!
New improved upper octave key mechanism for better altissimo response.
Exclusive (neck-lock design holds the neck in place better so) it can't leak.
All Long Rods are made of Nickel Silver.
Key action is higher to promote truer action -- yet (completely illegible and I'm not creative enough to come up with something) -- this greatly improves (something).
Independent (low B and Bb keys).
INTENSIFIED HARDNESS ASSURES YOU OF PERMANENTLY FINE, FAST feather-touch ACTION!
Here, (pictured), is a remarkable improvement in saxophone design. All keys which were previously subject to frequent bending and getting out of adjustment are now made of "Buescher Super Brass", relieving you of annoying adjustment difficulties.
This is an outstanding development. It permits (sax) craftsmen to regulate the mechanism to a much finer degree. The strength of these keys is substantially greater than that of an ordinary saxophone mechanism. This makes possible a permanently fine -- fast "Feather Touch" action. Many keys on an ordinary saxophone will bend under slight pressure. (This changes the pad shape and the (seal) below and permits small air leaks to develop.) On the new "Buescher Super Brass" mechanism, these keys are so solid, so tough that the instrument remains in perfect adjustment under the most adverse conditions.
Brilliance when you want it -- tone all the time.
Buescher utilizes a different type of pad, called the "Snap On Pad". It is snapped in place like the fastener of a glove. The snap button is a large metal disc which holds the pad securely in place and acts as a sonic resonator. This brightens tone -- greatly increases brilliance and power.
Makes low register more brilliant: tone quality uniform.
On the new "400", the bow is wider. Bell keys have been moved from the side to the back of the bell. By experimentation, we found that these changes in the saxophone's design greatly increased the response of the low register tones and (illegible; possibly "made the tone more brilliant").
Greatly improves tone quality -- yet action is shorter.
An important reason for the superior tone quality and resonance is the "400"'s use of higher key posts, which increases the tone space between pad cup and tone hole. Now, when a key is open, the pad is almost parallel to the socket, instead of at right angles to it.
New Type Bell. New Proportions.
Brings clarity to low register tones.
Note the remarkable way the low tones play. We have developed a very impressive bell which has a silver (two words illegible: possible "plated and soldered") tone ring around the rim. The bell of the tenor is 6.5" in diameter. These new proportions help you play low tones with expressiveness or extreme fortissimo and improve quality in the low register.
Note something about the serial number and model number ranges above. There were two horns called "400" that had the Top Hat and Cane engraving, but had different model numbers -- and then those model numbers were recycled for the Super 400. Additionally, there is significant evidence to indicate that the TH&C, Super 400 and the "Post Top Hat" 400 were all available at the same time. This might indicate that you could get 400's at different price points, with the "Top Hat & Cane's" beauty being at the top of the rung.
After all, what's the difference between the Super 400 and the TH&C? The S400's only available in the two-tone finish of lacquer with nickel-plated keywork and it had a nickel-plated tone-ring, rather than a silver one. And, of course, different engraving.
Oh. Also note that while the "Post TH&C" is a decent hornm, when someone is talking about the greatness that is the 400, he's talking about the Super 400 and "TH&C". The Selmer instruments are considerably lower quality.
There are Super 400 sopranos. These are produced by Yanagisawa and were produced under Selmer's ownership.
Like the Aristocrat of the same era -- and prior to Selmer's cheapening of the 400 line, these horns also had gold-plated Norton screw-in springs.


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There are many reasons why folks could, and should, choose to do philosophy with children. Some of the other articles in this very issue go on at length about the benefits to the children – the wonders of seeing eyes sparkle with joy at the thought that they had an idea that mattered, the wonder of seeing that ideas are important, etc etc. I do not mean to dismiss those noble goals. I must admit they are part of why I do philosophy with young people. But I also have a confession to make. Doing philosophy with children has made me a better philosopher. It is rather self-centered to put it that way, and while most of the time my own interests are not what is salient when I enter into a session at a middle school, I cannot deny that at some level I am always aware that doing philosophy with young people makes me a better philosopher.
Regardless of which method is used in doing philosophy with young people, the primary methods keep coming back to one central theme: ideas matter, and young people are capable of grappling with ideas. This may seem to be a silly aspect to be reminded about, but it is far too easy for philosophers, academic or not, to become enchanted with the intricacies of an argument, and forget what exactly is being argued about. For example, if we consider Kant's first antinomy – the idea that space and time both must have and must not have limits – it is far too easy to become enamored with the argument itself and forget the point Kant is making: namely, that there are limits to how far our reason can take us. Philosophers can, have, and will continue to be swayed and hypnotized by Kant's careful arguments against both finite and infinite space and time; but in doing so we have looked past the idea being considered, to the structure of the argument.
Now imagine having a discussion about Kant's first antinomy with a fourteen-year-old. Is she likely to be enchanted by the structure of Kant's argument, or is she likely to puzzle over our lack of ability to determine whether space and time are finite or infinite? In my experience, it's the latter. Young people have this amazing ability to pay attention to what is, well, really cool. All apologies to logicians (and certainly I get worked up on occasion when talking about valid and invalid syllogisms), but in general, what is cool about philosophy is not the formal structure of an argument, but its contents. Or in other words, it's the ideas that matter, not the skill in arguing for them.
Perhaps this is just a variant on the prior point, but it's an important variant: doing philosophy is more than just talking about ideas. And to be honest, some of what passes for philosophy with children is just talk. It can be really easy to slip into the mode of just talking about ideas without engaging with them, challenging them, testing them, or seeing how the ideas connect to other ideas. Being aware of this danger when working with young people has made me aware of the same risk in college classrooms, and in my own writing.
A: In an interesting variant of a thought experiment first put forward by Bernard Williams, a lepidopterist wandering in South America discovers twenty villagers lined up to be shot. The army Capitán says he will let these folks go if the lepidopterist will shoot one of the villagers himself. Should he do it?
B: What is a lepidopterist?
A: That doesn't matter. Should he do it?
B: Well, yes. He saves nineteen lives.
A: Good. You are a utilitarian.
A: Let's think about the difference between doing an action and allowing it to happen. If you could keep nineteen people you believe are innocent alive by killing one person, would you do it? If you do not kill the one, all twenty will die.
B: Can I stop all the killing?
A: No. You can kill one, or let twenty die.
B: My, that is hard. I would probably feel guilty either way. Saving the nineteen seems good, but I am not sure I could actively kill someone to do so.
A: What if you hunted butterflies? Then you would be used to killing innocent life. And in that occupation you do not have the benefit of saving other butterflies by your action.
B: I guess we do accept killing of innocents on some occasions, but clearly there's a difference between a butterfly and a person.
And so it goes. The first situation is one that can all-too-often occur, not only when doing philosophy with children but also when doing philosophy with adults. We have a tendency to show how smart we are by trotting out examples and terms that others are not aware of, and not pressing on to examine the idea behind the question. In the first example, A and B are talking about philosophy, but they are not really doing philosophy. In the second example there is at least the beginning of a philosophical dialogue. Both use a popular variant of Bernard Williams' 'Jim and the Indians' thought experiment, and interestingly, the first sticks closer to Williams' attempt to display potential weaknesses in utilitarianism. But it is the second version which moves beyond talk to actual philosophy.
In my experience, philosophers are a wonderful bunch. Set us to work on a concept, and we will come at it from multiple angles, think through the etymology of the terms, delve into the manners in which societies from the Greeks to the Germans have used it, and in the end (far too often) think we have accomplished something. As Catherine MacKinnon notes, you have not actually deconstructed "power relations by shifting the markers around in your head." In other words, simply becoming clearer on what a term is does not mean that one knows how to go on and use it.
I may be biased, in that much of my non-children work is in ethics, and we ethicists like to be able to determine if something is right or wrong. But I hold that the same is true for metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and even the history of philosophy. Yet while we don't get far discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, the status of free will does have an impact when we come to thinking about if someone is liable for her actions or not. But it goes beyond applicability. The ideas which we examine, whether with children or adults, need to be ones where it seems possible to reach an end. We need to keep in mind Wittgenstein's admonition at the end of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: "Whereof one cannot speak, we must pass over in silence." Many considerations of abortion, for example, would be improved by keeping this stance in mind.
The more that I have worked with children, the more powerful I have found good examples to be. It is all well and good to have a lovely argument, and even better if the argument advances an understanding of how the problem works. But if there is not a clear example, strong analogy, or good story accompanying it, others will have a difficult time joining in.
One of my favorite lines in philosophy comes from Judith Jarvis Thompson. She wrote "Suppose it were like this…" The power in those words is amazing. They draw the reader in, invite the imagination to go forward, and (perhaps most importantly) remind us that we need to grant the premises of thought experiments: we are not to refute the example, but suppose it was the case. These words for me are the philosophical equivalent of "Once upon a time…" – they bring everyone together to a new starting place, with an understanding of what will follow. Only here, instead of a fairy tale, we get the examination of ideas, the opportunity to discuss, and to (hopefully) see the point of examining ideas.
Stories are important. Indeed, I think that those who think about philosophy should be regularly reminded that in Plato's Republic, the earliest means of controlling and shaping the citizenry was to come through a careful censorship of what stories were allowed to be told. What Plato's Socrates was well aware of was that stories have the power to provoke the examination of ideas, and provide the foundations of morality and a common set of cultural references, not only for the youth but for the larger population. Whether it is working with middle school students, undergraduates, or writing a scholarly paper, I endeavor to make sure that I have a story, a narrative, or an example which brings together the issue we are struggling with so that we can move forward with a touch-point to continue the conversations.
As I've mentioned, the majority of the pre-college philosophy work that I do is with middle school students, aged between eleven and fourteen. I love working with them. By and large they have acquired the skills to think about cause and effect, consider abstract ideas, are open to the possibility of being wrong, and perhaps most importantly, they're honest in their assessments.
One thing we need to be honest about is that sometimes (admittedly rarely), we make mistakes, reason incorrectly, or perhaps are just wrong. For this reason it is worthwhile to return to ideas and problems we've previously worked through. Certainly the periodic examination of beliefs is in keeping with Descartes' challenge to remove one's false knowledge.
In a more contemporary manner, Heidegger's examination of the nature of Being proposed to end at its beginning. When I have the opportunity to work with the same group of students over a period of time, I have found it highly useful to introduce a puzzle on the first day that we revisit on the last. This repetition started with middle school students, where we would discuss honesty several times throughout the sessions. In my college classes I also often return to early topics later in a semester, both to display how much better we are now at working through problems, and to give everyone a chance to reevaluate their stances. In my own writing I do this in a more subtle way – revising throughout to ensure that I have remained on point and still believe what I wrote months prior. This reinvestigation of what came before, the thinking again over what has already been thought, is crucial to philosophy. Doing philosophy is not thinking in a straight line, but rather a circuitous path through interconnected puzzles, problems, and ideas.
Early in our education in philosophy, many of us had explained to us that 'philosophy' derives from the Greek for 'love of wisdom'. For many of us, that bit of trivia gets filed away for use in introductory classes, cocktail parties, and first dates. (I do not recommend the last use.) But when I work with young people encountering philosophy, they want to see what the point of it is. The same happens when working with undergraduates, schmoozing at parties, or attempting to woo. This is the great moment of challenge. Do we philosophers get up on our high horses and explain that we who love wisdom are searching for Truth, and will not be diverted by small-minded muddling malcontents who are not worthy of thinking the great thoughts? No. We need to remember what it means to love wisdom, and not just that philosophy is the love of wisdom.
Ideas, wisdom, and knowledge come from many sources, and many different ages. I am far less likely to find an eighty-year-old who plays video games, than a middle school student who is intrigued by the morality of using 'cheat codes' for them, so that conversation, and the wisdom derivable from it, can only occur in that audience. Similarly, I can have marvelous discussions with fellow professional ethicists about variable moral valance; but it is only with undergraduates that I am likely to have a conversation about campus parking restrictions. Socrates spoke with the youth, the merchants, the priests and the politicians in his search for truth. We should do the same.
The last thing I want to point out that I learned from doing philosophy with children, is the importance of wrapping up a discussion by summing it up. This simple aspect, of looking back to see what has been done, is all too often left off as philosophers go forward to new problems. But we philosophers have learned quite a bit. So just as we should end a session with young people by reviewing what has been discussed, we need to recall that we are not in the same place philosophically as the pre-Socratics. We have come far – although we still have far to go in our quest for wisdom.
I've found that any time I teach a topic, my own understanding of it improves. But the better understanding of philosophy that I get doing philosophy with young people is not all I have gained. I have become a better philosopher. Whether it is in a classroom or in my own work, I have come to (re)appreciate the importance of ideas, of emphasizing philosophical discourse, having a point, telling a story, being honest, retracing and rethinking what has gone before, and of closing by looking back at what has been done. Individually these seem simple observations – as indeed the transcript of a philosophical discussion with a ten-year-old may appear to be full of simple observations. But if we step back and evaluate that session, we often see some good philosophical thinking occurring – just as, if we step back from these tips, I think we can see how by working with children some basic truths about philosophical methods come back into focus.
Rory E. Kraft, Jr. is editor of Questions: Philosophy for Young People, an annual journal dedicated to the work by, for, and with pre-college philosophers. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at York College of Pennsylvania, and has been working with elementary, middle, and high school students for about ten years.


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I'm having a hard time all the site I usually use to check doesn't work for this for some reason...
I got $$\frac{\ln(\cos x)}{2}$$

A: Hint: Take $ u =\cos x$ then $du = -\sin x dx$ then
$$-\int \frac{\ln u}{u} du = -\frac{\ln^2 u}{2} + C$$

A: Just set $u=\ln(\cos(x))$, $du=\frac{-\sin(x)}{\cos(x)}dx=-\tan(x)dx$
Thus, the required integral is
$I=\int u\cdot\tan(x)\cdot\frac{du}{-\tan(x)}=\int -udu=\frac{-u^2}{2}+c=-\frac{\ln(cos(x))^2}{2}+c$

A: let $$u=\ln(\cos(x))$$
$$du=\frac{-\sin(x)}{\cos(x)}dx=-\tan(x)dx$$
$$\int u(-du)=\int-udu$$

A: One way of thinking about substitutions is
$$\int f(u(x))u'(x)dx = \int f(u)du\text{ , where }du=u'(x)dx$$
An alternative view is
$$\int f(u(x))u'(x)dx = \int f(u(x))u'(x)dx\frac{\frac{du}{dx}}{u'(x)}$$
In particular
$$\int \ln(\cos x)\tan x dx=\int \ln(\cos x)\tan x dx\cdot\frac{\frac{d\cos x}{dx}}{\frac{d\cos x}{dx}}=\int\frac{\ln (\cos x)\tan x}{-\sin x}d\cos x$$
The benefit of this approach is that it visually reminds me that I need to divide by the derivative of the subsitution (so I can easily see what is going to disappear). This eliminates the guesswork of robotically applying a $du=\dots dx$ procedure.
Continuing
$$\int\frac{\ln (\cos x)\sin x}{-\sin x \cos x}d\cos x = \int\frac{\ln (\cos x)}{- \cos x}d\cos x=\int\frac{\ln u}{-u}du=-\int\frac{\frac{1}{u}\ln u}{1}du=$$
What is $\frac{d}{du}\ln u$?

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Last month, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, together with the Department of Music and the Orange Pan-Hellenic Association, presented "A Musical Tribute to the Poetry of Iakovos Kambanellis." The concert featured the talents of mezzo-soprano Lina Orfanos, along with seven musicians who are active in the Greek music and jazz scenes in the New York Area: Igor Begelman (clarinet); John Benitez (bass); Charles Blenzig (piano); Spiros Exaras (guitar); Mathias Kunzli (percussion); Chris Papson (bouzouki/mandolin); and Brandon Phelps (cello).
Iakovos Kambanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and novelist. In 1942, Kambanellis was arrested after attempting to escape Nazi-occupied Greece. He was imprisoned at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp for the remainder of the war. Kambanellis wrote extensively about his haunting experiences as a Holocaust survivor, including several poems that were sung at the Oct. 22 concert.
From the upbeat tunes of songs like "Dolls from Pangrati"—the Princeton Athens Center's neighborhood—to the haunting melodies of "Song of Songs" and "The Fugitive," the audience thoroughly enjoyed the moving performance of Orfanos, Exaras and the other talented musicians.


So you're working with a query that you have loaded from a saved file. And now you want to open the folder up that the file is in… or you want to get the full path for that query file. Thankfully, this is easy to do in SSMS.
The "Copy Full Path" does just that: It copies the full path of the file to the clipboard. If the path contains a space, then the entire string will be quoted with double-quote characters. The "Open Containing Folder" opens a Windows Explorer window to the folder that the file is in, and it selects the file.
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Apple AirPods' Live Listen feature, designed for hearing-impaired people, can also be used to secretly listen to others' conversations, according to a media report.
The Live Listen feature, upon being activated, looks like an ear icon. People with hearing loss need to place their iPhone close to the person they can't hear properly. As per Apple, the feature also allows people listen to conversations in noisy environment or hear someone's voice from across the room
"But people can commandeer Live Listen to snoop on their boss or partner by hiding their iPhone in the same room as their victim. Anyone using the tool can simply turn up the volume on their iPhone's microphone to listen through AirPods," says a report by The Sun.
As per several discussion threads on Reddit and Twitter, Apple users can listen to conversations going on in another room — as long as their iPhone is present in that room. The user just need to have the AirPods in with the Live Listen feature turned on.
We have been hearing rumours about Apple's next-gen HomePod audio device but nothing concrete is known about the AirPod's successor. A Bloomberg report last year talked about a couple of new features that one can expect from the upcoming wireless earphones. The report also talked about Apple's plans to launch a new Homepod and a studio-quality over the ear headphones as well.
The Cupertino-based tech firm's upcoming AirPods are said to come with noise cancelling tech and water-resistant build. However, users won't be able to swim wearing them. The firm is being said to increase the range of Airpods too. These are supposed to cost more than the current models that cost $159 and could be coming in 2019. Also underworks is a wireless Airpods charging case that would work with the upcoming AirPower charger.
Citing sources, the report said that the team internally discussed on adding a heart-rate sensor in Airpods to expand the health-based offerings it has to offer beyond the watch and the iPhone. As for this year, the company will reportedly be updating the earphones with a new chip and support for hands-free Siri activation.
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MIT Built a Theranos for Plants
Tom McKay
Filed to:MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab's failed "personal food computer."
Screenshot: Seeker (YouTube)
The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a "personal food computer" that worked so poorly that demos had to be faked Theranos-style, per a weekend report in Business Insider. Word of the project's troubles comes as the Media Lab's attempts to cover up its extensive financial ties to late financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have seriously damaged its credibility and led to resignation of its director, Joichi Ito.
According to Business Insider, the project—a plastic hydroponic grow box filled with "advanced sensors and LED lights" that would supposedly make it possible to replicate crop conditions from any part of the global—was a sham, with MIT's Open Agriculture Initiative director Caleb Harper resorting to faking demos:
Ahead of big demonstrations of the devices with MIT Media Lab funders, staff were told to place plants grown elsewhere into the devices, the employees told Business Insider.
In another instance, one employee was asked to purchase herbs at a nearby flower market, dust off the dirt in which they were grown, and place them in the boxes for a photoshoot, she said... The aim was to make it look like the devices lived up to Harper's claims, the employees said. Those claims, which included assertions that the devices could grow foods like broccoli four times faster than traditional methods, landed Harper and his team articles in outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Wired and National Geographic.
All told, Business Insider's sources said, the "personal food computers" amounted to hydroponic boxes that don't work. Dietitian and former Open Agriculture Initiative project manager Paula Cerqueira told the site that the devices she worked on were "glorified grow boxes... with some sensors for collecting data," and that on multiple occasions staff filled them with store-bought plants that had to be washed of dirt before presentations with funders. The boxes also weren't air-tight, Cerqueira added, meaning that users couldn't control for things like carbon dioxide levels or temperature and humidity.
Cerqueira told Business Insider that out of dozens of units sent to schools in the Boston region, only a handful ever worked. On one occasion, the Media Lab sent 30 of them to schools, and "It's fair to say that of the 30-ish food computers we sent out, at most two grew a plant," Cerqueira told the site. On another, the Media Lab couldn't make the boxes work in time for a demo with a representative from the Bezos Family Foundation, something Cerqueira told Business Insider was "super embarrassing."
In other words, this sounds a hell of a lot like Theranos, the disastrously failed startup that also promised a magical technology box (though in their case, it was fake blood-testing technology that helped the company achieve a valuation of $9 billion.) The food computer certainly doesn't come anywhere the scale of Theranos, but Harper touted it with similarly grandiose claims: In a March 2019 video by Seeker, Harper stated that "You think Star Trek or Willy Wonka, that's exactly what we're going for."
According to Business Insider, Harper directed an email requesting comment to an MIT spokesperson, who "didn't provide a comment."
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Seattle Camera Club (SCC) byla organizace fotografů působících v Seattlu ve Washingtonu během dvacátých let 20. století. Klub byl založen v roce 1924 japonskými přistěhovalci a prosperoval dalších pět let. SCC byl jediným japonsko-americkým fotografickým klubem, mezi nimiž byli členové bílé pleti i ženy fotografky. Díky své inkluzivitě patřili členové spolku v té době mezi nejvystavovanější fotografy na světě.

Historie
Zpočátku bylo 39 charterových členů klubu všichni Japonci. Na rozdíl od jiných významných klubů japonských fotografů se na začátku rozhodli přijímat ženy i žadatele bílé pleti. Hnací silou formace klubu byl Dr. Kjo Koike, který byl uznávaným lékařem v Seattlu v komunitě Issei.

Setkávali se každý měsíc na 508½ Main Street poblíž ordinace doktora Koikeho. Na těchto setkáních si členové navzájem kritizovali tisky a diskutovali o aktuálních představách o fotografii. Dr. Koike zaznamenával tyto diskuse ve svém měsíčním bulletinu, stejně jako popisy fotografických výletů, které členové podnikli, jména těch členů, kteří vystavovali a komentáře o fotografii obecně.

Bulletin klubu se jmenoval Notan, což je japonský výraz, který se zhruba překládá jako "světlo a stín". Jednalo se o vlastnosti, které definovaly primární prvky japonského stylu piktorialismu, které si většina původních členů cenila. Mnoho z jejich fotografií obsahovalo silné osvětlení a rytmické vzory, které zdůrazňovaly uměleckou kvalitu scény.

V roce 1925 klub zahájil provoz vlastního salónu, který původně obsahoval fotografie jeho vlastních členů, ale později se rozšířil do mezinárodního pole fotografů. Uměleckou sílu jejich členství naznačuje skutečnost, že v roce 1926 členové klubu vystavili sbírku 589 tisků na různých výstavách po celém světě. Téhož roku časopis Photo‒Era nabídl trofej pro fotografický klub, jehož členové získali nejvíce ocenění v soutěžích časopisu. Prvním vítězem trofeje se stal Seattle Camera Club.

Klub dosáhl svého vrcholnu počtu členů v roce 1925 s 85 členy, včetně několika fotografů, kteří žili v jiných oblastech země. Mezi členy klubu byly do té doby dvě prominentní ženy z Seattlu, Ella McBride a Virna Haffer. Pouze jedna čtvrtina členů byli tehdy japonští Američané.

Brzy poté se počet členů v klubu začal snižovat, a to především kvůli rostoucím ekonomickým obtížím, které vedly až k velké hospodářské krizi v roce 1929. Mnoho členů zastávalo málo placená místa a se zvýšenými cenami na trhu a nedostatkem pracovních míst si již nemohli dovolit kupovat fotografické filmy nebo jiné fotografické potřeby. Dne 11. října 1929 se v klubu uskutečnilo rozloučení. Zúčastnilo se pouze 7 členů, kteří v té době formálně klub rozpustili.

Někteří z dobře situovaných členů, jako Koike a Macušita, pokračovali v tvorbě fotografií a vystavovali je, kdykoli mohli. Celé jejich úsilí skončilo japonským útokem na Pearl Harbor v prosinci 1941. Brzy poté byla téměř celá japonská americká komunita v Seattlu transportována do japonských amerických internačních táborů v Idahu nebo Montaně.

Částečný seznam členů
 Wayne Albee (1882–1937) považován za čestného člena s poradní funkcí.
 Virna Haffer (1899–1974) fotografka, grafička, malířka, hudebnice a publikovaná autorka.
 Kjo Koike (1878–1947) zakladatel klubu a úspěšný lékař, který měl v japonské komunitě v Seattlu prosperující praxi. Uhradil mnoho výdajů na založení klubu a byl redaktorem klubového zpravodaje Notan. Všechny své fotografie a rozsáhlé záznamy o klubu odkázal svému kolegovi Iwaovi Macušitovi.
 Frank Kunišige (1878–1960) zakládající člen SCC a jeden z mála členů klubu, kteří absolvovali formální fotografické studium. V roce 1911 navštěvoval fotografickou školu v Illinois a poté, co se přestěhoval do Seattlu, pracoval v temných komnatách Edwarda Curtise a Elly McBrideové. Díky svému vzdělání a zkušenostem byl jedním z technických odborníků klubu. Vyvinul a prodával svůj vlastní fotografický papír Textura Tissue, který si oblíbili členové klubu, protože zdůrazňoval měkké vlastnosti, kterých si cenili piktorialističtí fotografové.
 Kusutora Macuki (1879–?) upřednostňoval malé fotoaparáty, pořídil snímky, které se objevily v Notanu, Photo-Era a The New York Times.
 Iwao Macušita (1892–1979) pomohl zachovat dědictví Seattle Camera Clubu prostřednictvím přátelství s vedoucím zvláštních sbírek knihoven University of Washington Robertem Monroem. Monroe získal od Macušity fotografie, archivy a 8 mm filmy, které jsou ke zhlédnutí ve sbírkách Henry Art Gallery.
 Ella E. McBride (1862–1965) umělecká fotografka – průkopnice, byla obchodní partnerkou Albeeho a první mentorkou Kunišigeho a Sunamiho. Ačkoli dříve intenzivně pracovala ve fotografickém podnikání v oblasti fotografie, v době, kdy vstoupila do klubu jako praktická umělkyně, jí už bylo něco přes padesát. Dožila se více než 100 let a v pozdním životě si užívala dlouhou a úspěšnou uměleckou kariéru.
 Jukio Morinaga (1888–1968) jeden z nejtragičtějších příběhů SCC, byl během války rozhořčen svou internací, po propuštění odmítl platit daně a nakonec ve věku 80 let zemřel hladem.
 Riiči Morita (1891–1975) šestý nejvystavovanější člen klubu na počátku své umělecké kariéry, Morita byl také básník, který později v životě spolu se svou ženou vydali knihu básní.
 Hideo Onishi (1890 – asi 1934) byl zaměstnán jako kuchař v restauraci a byl plodným a velmi úspěšným fotografem. V roce 1926 byl vyhlášen nejlepším vystavovatelem klubu a ve stejném roce se více než 1 000 lidí zúčastnilo výstavy jeho fotografií v japonském obchodním klubu v Seattlu. Na této výstavě prodal 233 kopií svých výtisků a zisk poskytl SCC.
 Sóiči Sunami (1885–1971) vystudoval fotografii v Seattlu, když pracoval jako asistent ve studiu Elly McBride. V roce 1922 se přestěhoval do New Yorku studovat na Art Students League, kde fotografoval studenty tance a umělce. Rovněž pokračoval ve vystavování svých fotografií na SCC a byl jedním z nejaktivnějších členů klubu, kteří nebyli rezidenty. Později se stal jedním z hlavních fotografů Muzea moderního umění, kde pracoval 38 let.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

Související články
 Fotografie v Japonsku

Externí odkazy

Piktorialismus
Fotografické organizace


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Just as many visitors from Boston must adhere to our left hand rules of the road in Bermuda so too must many Bermudians who travel to Boston accustom themselves to the driving culture there.
the Massachusetts highway department who has found an hysterical way to communicate better driving habits to the motoring public.
send they actually spelled it out in that iconic linguistic style Bostonians have become famous for.
I knew instantly what that suggestion on the electronic sign would sound like if actually spoken by a true Bostonian and it has tickled the funny bones of thousands as this picture has gone viral. And of course, using your blinkah, er, blinker or signaling when you want to change lanes is good advice whether you are in Boston or Bermuda.
road skills an art, but he disagrees and is made furious when another motorist, with what seems like little regard for his fellow drivers, suddenly and without warning suddenly shifts into your lane, just inches from your front bumper and then puts on his blinker. Occasionally you will witness a driver administer just one blink of the blinkah before making his move, but it is rare.
Massachusetts motorists may be considered rude by some, but they cannot even hold a candle to Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi. Those states rank in the top three of the worst states to drive in as assessed by CarInsuranceComparison.com. Compilers of the list looked at drivers' failure to obey traffic signals, the number of speeding tickets issued and the instances of careless driving to evaluate the worst drivers in the USA.
Travel to Namibia, Thailand and Iran and you will find yourself in the deadliest countries when it comes to automobile fatalities.
The world average is 18 deaths per 100,000 people. In Namibia it is 45 according to the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES.
China's driving habits are also legendary.
A great friend of mine who has operated a business in China for over a decade recalls when his friend was riding in a cab only to see it strike down and kill a pedestrian. What shocked him more was that when the police arrived no one was arrested or even charged. The Chinese have recognized that there are far too many cars on the road and according to my friend have instituted a 25-thousand dollar fee just to register your vehicle in Hong Kong.
Of the 196 countries in the world recognized by the United Nations, Germany is considered one of the most proficient in the driving department.
According to the online site examiner.com, German drivers must complete serious and expensive training before getting their driver's license.
That includes 14 theoretical lessons which teach you things we don't even have a clue about like what every little bit of a data on a car tire actually means. Then there are the 12 driving lessons you must take before sitting for your final, exhaustive test.
The Germans don't sound like much fun and you could never imagine them erecting a clevah, sorry, clever, highway sign like the one in Boston.
So feel good about driving in Beantown, (insider slang for Boston) this summer and "Use yah blinkah,"okay?
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Making the grade: WNC's college dining programs get high scores for sustainability
Posted on April 13, 2018 April 9, 2018 by Shawndra Russell
STUDY IN SUSTAINABILITY: Western North Carolina colleges and universities actively work to make their food service programs as environmentally responsible and waste-free as possible. UNC Asheville's dining hall has been designated a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant by the Green Restaurant Association. Photo courtesy of UNC Asheville
Increasingly, U.S. colleges and universities are working to make their institutions as environmentally sustainable as possible. These efforts cover a broad spectrum, from a recycling initiative at Stanford University that diverts 65 percent of the school's solid waste away from landfills to Cornell's plan to be carbon-neutral by 2035, as noted in The Princeton Review's annual ranking of the nation's eco-friendly colleges. Another important area of focus is dining programs.
Western North Carolina schools are among those taking important steps toward going green, especially in their food service operations. In addition to programs that are already in place, many have laid out lofty food-related sustainability goals for the near future.
Recently, UNC Asheville became the first higher-education facility in North Carolina to achieve designation as a Fair Trade University by Fair Trade Campaigns, and its dining hall is now certified as a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant by the Green Restaurant Association. "Because of where we are geographically and the focus on sustainability in this region, it was kind of a no-brainer to make sustainability a huge focus of the dining program," says Sarah Nicholson, marketing manager for UNC Asheville and Mars Hill University.
The school wanted outside entities to grade what it was doing in the spirit of transparency and awareness, she says. But now that the university has earned these designations, it has no intention of resting on its laurels. "We hope to expand our local purchasing program, get more creative with waste diversion efforts and continue with our education and student involvement," says Brooks Casteel, director of UNC Asheville Dining Services. "The students are what is really going to make the difference long term." A path she recommends for organizations looking to increase their sustainability efforts is to frame goals in a way that appeals to business sense by highlighting cost savings and long-range community impact.
UNC Asheville's commitment to sustainability extends far beyond its dining program — the school has a thriving environmental studies department, a weeklong Greenfest that happens twice a year and a student environmental center. The school also brought Meghan Ibach on board in the role of sustainability coordinator in September. She is charged with organizing all schoolwide efforts into one cohesive program.
She has already made headway, creating Farm-Forward Eating and Environmentally Driven Sustainability as a platform that pulls together all of the school's sustainability initiatives under one branding umbrella. She coordinates with UNCA's Fair Trade committee, Nutrition and Food Justice and Mindful Mondays groups, and helps plan Greenfest. But, despite her best efforts, there are some goals the school has yet to meet, such as being able to source 100 percent of the dining program's food items locally. "It would be great if more locally made products were available both commercially and at a more competitive price point," says Nicholson. "Smiling Hara and No Evil Foods are two great examples of locally made products that are widely available, and we use a lot, but it would be great to have other types of local foods at this scale."
UNCA Dining Services partners with Chartwells, a company that focuses on resource and waste management for higher education. Meredith Bracken, Chartwells' director of brand voice and digital strategy, says the business helps campuses be more sustainable by providing "compostable to-go options, reusable container programs, partnerships for school gardens and farmers markets, design and construction builds, kitchen facility equipment and much more, all with a sustainability focus."
Chartwells' software systems, she adds, can even track emissions in the school's supply chain, helping the university understand its overall impact. The company also encourages campuses to offer plant-based meals since these are scientifically proven to have a lower carbon footprint than animal-based foods. UNCA has many such options, including Rosetta's Kitchenette, an outpost of the downtown vegetarian eatery.
Sustainable in the mountains
Since UNCA and Mars Hill share a marketing manager for their dining services, it's not surprising that MHU, too, has committed to being a sustainable campus. "It isn't any one big project but rather smaller things that we've continued doing and building upon over time," Nicholson says. "It's a priority because we want to support the community we're in by donating unused food, sourcing from local farmers, and reducing our waste streams."
Yet Mars Hill's remote location does create some hurdles. "Because we're just enough out of the Asheville area, it can be a little difficult to get the products we need up here," she says. "Being able to have some of these local products available through our larger supplier, Sysco, would be great."
Both universities work with the nonprofit Food Connection to distribute food that otherwise would be wasted to local groups that provide meals to those in need. UNCA has donated over 25,000 pounds of food since it began partnering with Food Connection in 2014, and Mars Hill has a renewed dedication to the program and its dining service's overall sustainability efforts after recently hiring a new management team.
Over in Cullowhee, Western Carolina University has been ahead of the curve, ensuring zero post-consumer or post-production food waste since the 1970s thanks to a partnership with a local hog farmer. "This past year, 232,000 pounds of food waste was collected as feedstock and diverted from the landfill," explains Lauren Bishop, WCU's chief sustainability officer. The dining program also adheres to Aramark's Green Thread program, a sustainability guide created by the campus food service provider, and recycles fryer oil through Blue Ridge Biofuels.
Bishop also says the university's focus on treating the campus as a "living-learning laboratory" is an effective tool for promoting sustainability. "Our unique and beautiful setting definitely helps attract students that love the outdoors. By letting our students act as innovators, designers and problem-solvers to lead the way in shaping our campus, they can gain the experiences and education to be successful in life," she says.
One way WCU students have stepped up to the plate as problem-solvers is through the Sustainability Energy Initiative, a committee of students and staff advisers that apportions money for renewable energy, energy efficiency upgrades, research and internships at the school. Students pay a fee of $5 each per semester to fund the committee. "All projects have to demonstrate a connection to sustainability and educational value to students. It operates like an internal grant opportunity, and any faculty, staff or student can submit proposal ideas," Bishop says. Additionally, she notes that almost all of WCU's programs have some aspect of sustainability embedded in the curriculum, in part because "we see the interest and level of involvement from students increasing every year."
Green goals
Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa has identified four specific sustainability goals, all of which relate to food in some way. One is associated with the school's participation in the Real Food Challenge, which invites institutions to aim for 20 percent of their food purchases to be locally produced, ecologically sound, humane and fair. In 2013, Warren Wilson became the first school in the Southeast to accept the challenge, and now students have committed to doubling the initiative's goal. Their efforts have already helped WWC achieve 30 percent Real Food, the third-highest score in the country among colleges.
Warren Wilson has also committed to sourcing 40 percent of its food locally by 2020 — it currently sits at 34 percent. "We have a strict commitment to quantifying all of our food purchases in dining services," explains the college's sustainability and marketing coordinator, Rebecca Walton. "The Local Foods Crew does an exhaustive annual local audit of all purchases. The results from the audit let us know where our areas of opportunity are."
Another bold effort is Warren Wilson's focus on fossil fuel divestment. "Companies involved in the industries and promotion of renewable energy, organic food, local food, sustainable agriculture, community development and diversity generally invest in companies and investments that demonstrate a commitment to environmental, social and governance principles," says Amy Knisley, the chair of WWC's environmental studies department.
Finally, Warren Wilson intends to achieve 90 percent waste aversion by 2023 with its Zero Waste Initiative, which ensures accountability around waste management practices. "The ZWI ensures that we reach our goal through annual checkups and meticulous data collection," explains Ben Paulson, the college's recycling and solid waste coordinator. And like UNCA, Warren Wilson relies heavily on its students to lead these efforts. Every student is required to be part of one of the over 100 campus work crews, help manage the WWC farm's meat sale and be a part of the student-run Friday garden markets and community-supported agriculture program.
Laying good groundwork is key for institutions that hope to become more sustainable, says Walton. "I think creating solid infrastructure is essential to maintaining sustainable dining programs and really any sustainability program," she says. "Sustainability isn't something that you just do and check a box and move on. It's really a way of doing business that needs to be a priority every day. I think certain systems and specific objectives need to be in place in order to stay accountable and also so you're not reinventing the wheel anytime there's a shift in management or employee turnover. This is especially critical when it comes to sustainable and local food tracking."
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Parafia pw. Świętego Maksymiliana Marii Kolbego w Gdyni – parafia rzymskokatolicka usytuowana w dzielnicy Witomino w Gdyni. Należy do dekanatu Gdynia-Śródmieście, który należy z kolei do archidiecezji gdańskiej.

Od 2008 r. proboszczem parafii jest ks. Władysław Pałys.

Historia
 12 kwietnia 1984 r. – ustanowienie parafii

Bibliografia
 Informacje o parafii na stronie archidiecezji gdańskiej
 Oficjalna strona parafii

Maksymiliana
Gdynia
Śródmieście (Gdynia)
Witomino