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Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly stunned the NFL on Tuesday night when he announced his retirement at the age of 28. Kuechly was the 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and he was named first-team All-Pro five times. His 1,092 tackles over his eight-year career were the most since he came into the league in 2012, the year he was drafted in the first round.
Kuechly missed seven games due to concussions from 2015 to 2017, but he played all 32 regular-season games the past two seasons. He joins Andrew Luck and Rob Gronkowski as under-30 players who have retired over the past year.
Kuechly and Chicago Bears guard Kyle Long, who announced his retirement earlier this month after playing seven seasons, won't be the last NFL players to walk away from the game this offseason. We asked NFL Nation reporters to weigh in on more players who have spoken publicly about the possibility of retiring after the season, what they said and their timetable for making a decision.
Here are the 16 players, listed in alphabetical order by team:
Guard James Carpenter
He didn't say publicly that he's considering retirement, but Carpenter's body might end up making the decision for him. He signed with the Falcons coming off a season-ending shoulder injury with the Jets, then was placed on injured reserve this past season with a concussion. Carpenter, who turns 31 in March, is likely mulling his future even with two years and $10.5 million remaining on his contract -- not to mention he didn't play up to expectations for a Falcons team that figured he would enhance the offensive line. -- Vaughn McClure
Guard Marshal Yanda
The eight-time Pro Bowl guard is 35 and acknowledged that he might have retired after the 2018 season if he had not finished the year healthy. Yanda, who is signed through the 2020 season, was asked if he had made a decision about retirement after Baltimore's 28-12 playoff loss to Tennessee. "I am not going to talk about my future right now," he said. "Tennessee questions. Anything other than that, I will divert to later on." The Ravens will give Yanda all the time he needs to decide whether he wants to continue playing. -- Jamison Hensley
Running back Frank Gore
Third on the all-time rushing list, Gore tailed off toward the end of the 2019 season -- his 15th in the NFL -- as the Bills tailored their offense toward rookie Devin Singletary. With little left to prove and his son entering his freshman season at Southern Mississippi, one of the NFL's staples over the past decade and a half could be calling it quits. Gore, 36, proved he can still play at a high level, but the ability to watch his son play will weigh heavily into his decision. -- Marcel Louis-Jacques
Tight end Greg Olsen
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Olsen, 34, doesn't want to be a part of a rebuild, and that's what the Panthers are likely to go through with new coach Matt Rhule. The retirement of Kuechly likely increases Olsen's desire to walk away. He could get an offer from a television network to be an analyst, which is what he wants to do after playing, so that would make the decision even easier. -- David Newton
Tight end Jason Witten
The 37-year-old returned from a one-year absence after working as ESPN's Monday Night Football analyst and started every game while finishing with 63 catches for 529 yards and four touchdowns. Late in the season, he said coaching was in his future, but he wasn't sure he was ready to walk away from playing, although he expected to make a quick decision. With a new coach in Mike McCarthy and a new staff, Witten could conceivably look elsewhere to play in 2020. Sean Lee, a free-agent-to-be, is also a possibility, but the feeling is the veteran linebacker will continue to play. -- Todd Archer
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Defensive tackle Damon "Snacks" Harrison
Harrison said he's considering retiring after an injury-filled 2019 season in which he didn't play up to his own standards. He said his mind is still there, but if he can't get his body to a place where he believes he can return to form, he'll contemplate walking away. Harrison was one of the best run-stoppers in the NFL entering the 2019 season, and he signed a one-year extension in training camp that takes his contract through the 2021 season. The 31-year-old had 49 tackles and two sacks last season and has a cap hit of $11.75 million for the 2020 season. -- Michael Rothstein
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The 31-year-old is spending the first couple weeks of the offseason deciding if he wants to retire or likely re-sign with the Colts. "I just got some thinking to do," Castonzo said the day after the regular season ended last month. "That's what it's going to come down to. I've got a decision to make, then I gotta live with it." Castonzo, a first-round pick in 2011, has started all 132 games he has played during his nine-year career. "We think he had an unbelievable year," coach Frank Reich said. "I think he is the best left tackle in the league. I really do. I mean, I think this guy is a stud player. I think he had his best year of his career and I am looking forward to hopefully getting him back." -- Mike Wells
Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick
The veteran quarterback has yet to decide if he will return to Miami for his 16th NFL season. He has sidestepped questions about his future, deferring them to the offseason, but admits the fire to play is still there and that it would be more difficult to retire than play football. The early expectation is that Fitzpatrick, who is under contract with the Dolphins for $8 million with half of that guaranteed in 2020, will return for Year 16 under new Dolphins offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, who has coached him in two different stints. The 37-year-old Fitzpatrick is coming off a solid season, leading the rebuilding Dolphins to a 5-4 record after taking over while finishing eighth in Total QBR. He is likely to make a decision by this spring. -- Cameron Wolfe
Tight end Benjamin Watson and quarterback Tom Brady
Watson, 39, hinted that this was it for him after 16 seasons. He retired after the 2018 season, only to return for another year, but this time it seems like it will be final. Meanwhile, the 42-year-old Brady has declared his intentions to play in 2020, but there is a caveat: If the right opportunity doesn't present itself for him -- albeit unlikely -- he could potentially revisit the decision. -- Mike Reiss
Quarterback Drew Brees
Brees, who turned 41 on Jan. 15, has said for the past three years that he is taking his career "one year at a time." And he has not yet committed to returning for a 20th season. But it's hard to imagine him walking away after he just had the best passer rating of his career in 2019 (116.3) and finished the regular season so strong, with 15 touchdown passes and zero interceptions in December. And it's even harder to imagine him walking away on such a sour note, with his only two-turnover game of the season in New Orleans' wild-card loss to Minnesota. Brees won't be hurting for options whenever he does decide to retire. At least one TV network has already reached out to him to express interest, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. -- Mike Triplett
Quarterback Eli Manning
Manning said after the season that he is going to take some time to contemplate his future but wanted to make a decision rather quickly. He's 39 years old, a free agent and didn't enjoy being a backup, and retirement is admittedly among the options. Manning has spent all 16 years of his career with the Giants. He thinks physically he can still play. Whether the right opportunity presents itself will likely determine his future. -- Jordan Raanan
Wide receiver Quincy Enunwa
Enunwa said he "would love to play" in 2020, but it hinges on how well he recovers from a neck injury that caused him to miss the final 15 games. A similar injury cost him the 2017 season. Enunwa, who turns 28 on May 31, recently revealed that he has spinal stenosis. He's rehabbing with the intent to play, but Enunwa is a smart, levelheaded person and won't risk his future if he's in danger. -- Rich Cimini
Center Jason Kelce
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Word got out that Kelce, 32, was pondering retirement last offseason following a grueling, injury-filled year. He returned to have an All-Pro campaign in 2019, but questions about his future understandably came up as the season was winding down. "I mentioned it last year. This is something that goes through your head and has been for three or four years, so I don't want to say this offseason was any different at all [from the previous ones]," Kelce said. "The bottom line is I'm a Philadelphia Eagle. I'm playing until I'm not, and the only reason this ever got mentioned is because the media found out and leaked it." -- Tim McManus
Tight ends Jordan Reed and Vernon Davis
Neither player addressed his status in full because both finished the season on injured reserve with concussions. Davis did tell ESPN he wasn't sure yet what he wanted to do, but he's a free agent and turns 36 on Jan. 31. In Reed's case, a concussion caused him to miss the entire season. There have been mixed signals about his return; some close to him have said he'll play again, but others aren't sure. Reed has had seven documented concussions since his freshman year of college and has had multiple other injuries during his NFL career. At 29, there is a chance he'll retire -- but with a base salary of $8.25 million in 2020, he might get released first (with only $1.8 million of dead money) and decide on his future later. -- John Keim


• SORRY, class is full To be placed on waiting list, please send in registration & deposit. If space does not become available, a full refund will be issued.
This workshop begins with an intense study in the "creation of line(s) and their spatial relationships" when grouped together with other line(s). All lines will be cut freehand while sharpening one's eye to stronger proportions. These initial exercises will be done in solid black and solid white. Many small sewn-together compositions will be created. It is hoped that participants will begin to see line as a very important element in quilt-making.
Afterwards, this workshop will begin to address other kinds of geometric shapes such as curves and circles in machine-pieced compositions while moving into color and more degrees of values. These new design exercises will investigate evermore sophisticated relationships within a composition.
All work will be done in direct machine-piecing using a broad range of solid colors (commercial or hand-dyed). NOTE: Marbled fabrics are not appropriate for this class nor are splotchy hand-dyed fabrics.
Students will be given timed exercises that explore classical design concerns such as COLOR, VALUE, PROPORTION, SHAPE, CURVES, CIRCLES, AND LINE RELATIONSHIPS. Lots of SEED IDEAS will be GENERATED.
An energizing and thought-provoking (different from those in PART I) group of design exercises has been developed for this new workshop with the intention of strengthening one's understanding and practice of figure/ground composition. Students will work freehand, cutting by eye all the parts of each compositional exercise while learning to better engineer the construction of a composition. Lines, shapes, and curves will be used to develop geometric configurations.
There will be a STRONG EMPHASIS on geometric LINE AND SHAPE CONFIGURATIONS…plus…the USE of FLAT & GLOWING COLORS/VALUES. In this workshop, a variety of sewn-together compositions will be created that will incorporate percentages of FLAT & GLOWING COLORS/VALUES making it very important that each student bring appropriate fabrics. Fabrics of choice will be a broad palette of hand-dyed or commercial solids and values. NOTE: Marbled fabrics are not appropriate for this class nor are splotchy hand-dyed fabrics. All sewing will be done in direct machine-piecing.
Students will be given TIMED EXERCISES that explore classical design concerns such as COLOR, VALUE, PROPORTION, SHAPE, CURVES and LINE RELATIONSHIPS. SEED IDEAS will be GENERATED that could be used for working-in-a-series. One-on-one and group critiques will be integrated into the class.
• MAKE SURE YOU BRING A GOOD SKETCHBOOK (not a yellow lined pad of paper), DIGITAL CAMERA and SMALL PRINTER!!!
• Do not come with an agenda! Be open to experimentation and working quickly!
• SOLID COLORS (commercial or hand-dyed) in the widest range you can afford to bring & be sure to include both flat & glowing colors - 80 to 100 different colors. We will use a lot of solid colors so bring a good range that includes darks, medium and light values of Browns, Blues, Greens, Reds, Golds, Yellows, Oranges, Purples, Violets, Etc.
• Please wash and shrink all fabrics! No need to iron though if you fold at end of drying cycle.
• Please bring the glowing version … AND … the flat version of as many colors as possible.
• We will use everything listed above so do not decide to leave anything out!
• Bring enough variety so you are not hamstrung!
• Do not bring prints.
• Please bring the glowing version… AND… the flat version of as many colors as possible.
• Remember that ANY COLOR … and … ANY VALUE of ANY COLOR can be GLOWING or FLAT.
GLOWING colors: Are colors that are mixed with yellow which creates a glowing effect radiating off the surface.
FLAT colors: Are colors that are mixed with black which increases the dullness, creating a subdued and flat sensibility to the surface. There is absolutely no glow radiating off the surface.
• This brand new 10-day class has been specifically developed for students desirous of working in a series in order to explore one idea in depth using machine-piecing techniques.
This workshop is intended for anyone who wants to begin or who has begun to develop a group of quilts that significantly relate one to the other in concept, composition, figure/ground relationships, use of motifs, scale, use of color, use of surface design fabrics, etc. This 10-day workshop will accommodate any of the following three approaches. Registered students must email me by August 20, 2018, telling me which APPROACH below they plan to follow.
Approach #1: The student begins a series in fabric at home and adds to this series exploring new territory during the 10-days. Size of works is up to the student. Help and critiquing will be offered as wanted. ***For this approach, students will be in charge of the fabric selection they bring to class knowing that whatever they bring should support what they hope to achieve.
Approach #2: The student comes prepared to class with initial ideas only - perhaps as sketches in sketchbook or worked up as paper collages. Once in class the student begins creating a group of fabric sketches or small pieced compositions, experimenting with these ideas that could possibly become a series. Help and critiquing will be offered as wanted. ***For this approach, students will be in charge of the fabric selection they bring to class knowing that whatever they bring should support what they hope to achieve.
Approach #3: A group of formal exercises will be presented to loosen up creative energy. These exercises will be done using machine-piecing and fabric and will activate imagination and thought processes towards developing a series. Help and critiquing will be offered as wanted. ***For this approach, students will be in charge of the fabric selection they bring to class knowing that whatever they bring should support what they hope to achieve. If wanting to do APPROACH #3, then it will be imperative to bring 6-8 yards of black and 6-8 yards of white. I have no way of knowing exactly how much black and white will be used but both will be well stocked.
Each student must come prepared to give a well-organized, thoughtful talk about their work. This talk can either be built around 6-10 or more actual quilts or be presented as a digital talk. This articulate (5-8 minutes maximum) presentation must include a reference about future goals and why one is taking this class. The quality of the presentation should be as well done as possible as though asked to present at a museum to an audience. The Crow Timber Frame Barn provides use of a digital projector connected to a laptop.
• SOLID OPAQUE COLORS (wide range in light, medium light, medium, medium dark, dark values so you can be free to work) - reds, pinks, blues, teals, greens, limes, violets, browns, yellows, golds, oranges, purples, maroons, turquoises, rusts, etc.
Working in color does not mean only using BOLD colors or HOT colors; working in color means learning to be versatile in all types of colors. Overall during the class, we will use many solid colors, but still.... please bring the requested prints. When choosing both solid colors and prints to bring to class, be sure to bring both glowing (warm) and flat (cool) tones.
Many students arrive with their own hand-dyed solids or stacks they have purchased from other dyers. By all means, bring hand-dyed if you want but they need to be opaque and not have multiple values swimming across them ... meaning white or light splotches on dark colors unless these are being used purposefully in works-in-a-series.
Flat solids (dyed commercially) are equally acceptable.
I cannot specifically tell you to only bring 1 yard cuts of each color because I know we will be using at least a yard or more of some to many colors depending on each student's color preferences. If you bring a yard of each – say 5 blues, 5 reds, 5 yellows, 5 greens, etc., but one each in light values, medium light values, medium values, medium dark values, & dark values, that would be better than not having enough. So bring 1 yard of as many colors as you can afford and shorter lengths for the rest.


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26 January 2017 • 10:30am
Omar Abbosh, Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture
Mr Abbosh is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company's strategy, innovation programs and investments. In this role, Mr. Abbosh also has management responsibility for Accenture Security, Accenture's Dublin Centre for Innovation, Accenture's Ventures & Acquisitions, Industry programs, Research and Corporate Citizenship. Mr Abbosh is a member of Accenture's Global Executive and Global Management Committees. Previously, Mr. Abbosh held several management roles including senior managing director - Growth & Strategy for the Resources operating group, managing director of the Resources business in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Global Utilities managing director, managing director of Accenture Smart Grid Services & Accenture Energy Consumer Services.
David Abraham, CEO, Channel 4
David Abraham became Channel 4's sixth Chief Executive in May 2010. His focus on Channel 4's unique remit and on its market leading commercial and digital innovation has steered the corporation into long-term financial sustainability with revenues above £900m since 2011 enabling record content investment since 2012. This has supported a major creative overhaul attracting over 15m registered viewers and a record number of major industry awards. In 2014 Mr Abraham gave the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on the importance of Public Service Broadcasting to British Creativity.
Karen Boswell, Head of Innovation, adam&eveDDB
Karen Boswell is a change enabler. She helps brands and organisations evolve their marketing from both a strategic and implementation perspective, weaving together people and ideas to create and maintain cultures of innovation and agility. Having instigated a culture of positive disruption and rapid innovation at adam&eveDDB, Ms Boswell currently leads the teams and clients alike to look at things differently; constantly challenging the norm, lifting the bar and breaking the rules. Ms Boswell is there to insure 'innovation' isn't a buzzword, or the jazz hands of technology, but that clever, future proof thinking leads to excellence in both creativity and effectiveness, for today and tomorrow.
Andy Day, Chief Data Officer, Sainsbury's
Andy Day has a lifetime in data which all started with a degree majoring in geographical information systems then setting up an information consulting business, which then led to a five-year stint at Sky TV a couple of years at Orange, he then spent 11 years at O2. In August of 2016 he joined Sainsbury's as Chief Data Officer with responsibility for galvanizing the business around data and analytics. Mr Day is directly responsible for a team of data engineers, analysts and data scientists in the Data & Analytics Centre of Excellence.
Thomas Dubaere, Managing Director, AccorHotels UK & Ireland
Thomas Dubaere has headed up AccorHotels' UK business since 2012, including overall responsibility for a portfolio of over 220 hotels including the Mercure, Pullman, Novotel and ibis brands. Mr Dubaere is in overall charge of spearheading AccorHotels' digital transformation in the UK, which has seen it adapt to huge changes in traveller behaviour with a wide range of digital innovations, from acquisitions in sharing economy companies to reinventing the guest experience with employees working exclusively on mobile devices, and heavy investment in mobile platforms.
Dominic Frisby, Commentator, MoneyWeek
Dominic Frisby is a financial writer from London. He writes a weekly investment column for Moneyweek, as well as contributing to various other publications. His books are Life After the State and Bitcoin: the Future of Money.
Sinead Greenaway, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, UKTV
Sinead Greenaway has extensive industry experience in technology, business strategy and broadcast operations, and is a member of UKTV's Executive Leadership Team. Since joining UKTV in March 2015, Ms Greenaway has been responsible for leading a successful technology refresh, spanning business systems and digital app development, and driving the company's data strategy programme. Ms Greenaway joined from international consultancy and talent business The Lighthouse Company, where as Managing Director she was instrumental in building and developing board level teams across the media and technology spectrum.
Vijayanta Gupta, Head of Product and Industry Marketing, Adobe Systems Europe
Vijayanta Gupta is the Head of Product and Industry Marketing at Adobe Systems Europe. He leads Adobe's Industry-specific Go To Market initiatives as well as the Adobe Marketing Cloud Product Marketing initiatives across Europe, Middle-East and Africa regions. He advises senior executives across industries on their Digital Strategy and his perspectives on digital transformation is regularly published at CMO.com. Mr Gupta also serves on the advisory board of Jigserv Digital, a digital marketing company in India, of which he is one of the co-founders. Prior to joining Adobe, Mr Gupta has held multiple leadership roles in Accenture, Microsoft and Tata Consultancy Services across UK/Europe, USA and India.
Dr Caroline Hargrove, Technical Director, McLaren Applied Technologies
Caroline Hargrove is a founding member of McLaren Applied Technologies, the advanced technology, innovation and design company that is part of the McLaren Technology Group. Dr Hargrove has played a pivotal role in developing McLaren Applied Technologies and is actively engaged in forging partnerships with international leaders in R&D to enhance Applied Technologies' position as an innovative and forward looking technology company. Dr Hargrove obtained a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. After lecturing there for four years, she joined the McLaren Racing team.
Allister Heath, Deputy Director of Content and Deputy Editor, Telegraph Media Group
Allister Heath is deputy editor and deputy director of content at the Telegraph. In addition to his broader editorial responsibilities, he leads the business, comment, personal finance and technology departments and their output across print and digital platform seven days a week. Mr Health also writes a weekly column for the paper's comment pages, as well as daily columns on economics and finance for the business section. He was previously editor of City A.M., the daily business newspaper distributed in and around London and digitally. Mr Heath is a regular contributor to the broadcast media and is frequently interviewed on the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky. He chaired the 2020 Tax Commission, which released a report on the future of the UK tax system in 2012.
Prof Nick Jennings, Vice Provost, Research, Imperial College
Professor Nick Jennings, CB, FREng, is responsible for promoting, supporting and facilitating Imperial College London's research performance and for leading on the delivery of the Research Strategy. He also holds a chair in Artificial Intelligence in the Departments of Computing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Before joining Imperial College London, Professor Jennings was Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and the UK Government's Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security. Professor Jennings is an internationally-recognized authority in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cybersecurity and agent-based computing.
Annabel Kilner, Commercial Director, MADE.COM
Starting out as an intern at L'Oreal whilst at university, Annabel Kilner loved the brands but decided fast-growing start-ups interested her most. She launched her career marketing FreshMinds where she established the brand in the competitive fields of market research and recruitment before moving to the client side to set up the retail division. Along the way Ms Kilner met Brent Hoberman and under his mentorship realised that ecommerce was her future. They have since worked together at mydeco.com on business development based in London and New York; at Founders Forum; and now at MADE.COM. Ms Kilner now heads up five of its markets including the UK and France.
Peter Kim, VP of Digital Consumer Engagement, The LEGO Group
Peter Kim has a global focus on creating integrated experiences to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. He has been working in digital strategy since 1999, helping global brands harness emerging technologies. Prior to LEGO, Mr Kim was CEO of digital agency Barbarian Group, Chief Digital Officer at Cheil Worldwide, and led Dachis Group, a startup focusing on big data and business strategy, from concept to acquisition. Mr Kim holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia and is based in London.
Dr Mahiben Maruthappu, Co-Founder, NHS Innovation Accelerator
Mahiben Maruthappu is a London-based doctor and Co-founder of Cera, an award-winning technology company transforming social care. He advised the CEO of NHS England on £100 billion of health spending, co-founding the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) which benefitted 3 million people in its first six months. Dr Maruthappu has a strong interest in research with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 50 academic awards. He has advised a range of organisations, from startups to multilaterals, including the Swiss government, the Experiment Fund and the WHO. He is Chairman of the UK Medical Students' Association (UKMSA), and has authored three medical books.
Rob McLaughlin, Head of Analytics, Sky
Rob is an experienced digital marketing professional and a proven leader in the field of data and analytics with a track record of bringing customer data into the complex marketing and technology landscape. A combination of visionary and pragmatist, Rob creates solutions which blend established business processes with bleeding edge digital techniques. Having worked both as a consultant and in-house, he has in depth knowledge of how businesses from multiple verticals can leverage data to power efficiency and growth.
Dora Michail, Managing Director, Digital, The Telegraph
Dora Michail is currently the Managing Director, Digital at The Telegraph. Prior to this she was responsible for running the Yahoo EMEA Programmatic & Audience Marketplace. Her team focused on data-driven programmatic video, display, and native media sales via the Brightroll Exchnage, as well as Brightroll DSP sales, supply & data acquisition, analytics and insights. Prior to this Ms Michail was Yahoo's Head of Optimisation, where she led a team of analysts across six markets and was responsible for campaign management, analysis, and performance.
Kate Pain, Digital Marketing Lead, UK, Pfizer Innovative Health
Kate Pain is Digital Marketing Lead, UK, for Pfizer. She oversees the digital strategy for Pfizer's Innovative Health division, which comprises Internal Medicine, Rare Diseases, Inflammation and Immunology, Vaccines and Oncology. She is also leading the development and implementation of Pfizer UK's digital roadmap. Prominent in the digital space since 2006, Ms Pain has won two awards for leading digital transformation. She has worked in the healthcare/pharma sector for a decade and has held several international roles based in the UK, US and Australia.
Kathryn Parsons, Founder, Decoded
Kathryn Parsons co-founded Decoded in January 2011. A technology education company on a mission to demystify the digital dark arts. Ms Parsons sits as a non-executive on the board of The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Chairwoman of the UK Institute of Coding sits on the London Mayor's Business Advisory Board and UK Government Cyber Security Skills Advisory Board. She is a champion for code on the curriculum and women in technology and business. Ms Parsons is passionate about languages studying Japanese and Mandarin in her spare time and Latin and Ancient Greek at Cambridge University.
Joe Rospars, Founder and CEO, Blue State Digital
Joe Rospars is Founder and CEO of Blue State Digital, the creative and tech agency for causes and brands looking to transform how they engage people. From Google to UNICEF, from Obama to MIT, from Tate Modern to Ford Motor Company, Blue State Digital helps grow communities, build platforms, and transform organizations for the digital age. Mr Rospars was President Barack Obama's Chief Digital Strategist for both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, overseeing the digital integration of the unprecedented fundraising, communications and grassroots mobilization effort. The digital arm of the campaign engaged a record-breaking number of Americans through mobile, social, video and the web, and raised more than a billion dollars in mostly small donations from ordinary Americans.
Najoh Tita-Reid, Vice President, Country Division Head, UK & Ireland, Bayer HealthCare Consumer Care
Najoh Tita-Reid is vice-president and country division head at Bayer Consumer Health for the UK and Ireland. She is responsible for the country profit and loss at the organization. Ms Tita-Reid is a member of the European leadership team and the UK executive sponsor for digital innovation, women's health, and marketing excellence. Prior to joining Bayer, Ms Tita-Reid was the general manager for Merck & Co.'s consumer care unit in Western Europe. Ms Tita-Reid established her career at Procter & Gamble for over 18 years. As a marketing expert, she managed several billion dollar brands including Global Pampers, Luvs, Always, and Tampax.
John Vary, Innovation Manager, John Lewis
A thought leader in the field of retail disruption and tech-enabled innovation, John Vary heads up the IT innovation team at John Lewis. He is responsible for the UK department store's in-house skunkworks, named 'Room Y', where he oversees the creation and developments of special projects geared around multisensory experiences. Mr Vary is also responsible for the design and development of JLAB, John Lewis' technology accelerator, which has helped build and define numerous early stage start-ups. He joined John Lewis from Burberry, where he held the position of innovation architect.
Jeanine Vos, Executive Director, Connected Living, GSMA
Jeanine Vos is Executive Director within the Connected Living Programme at the GSMA. She leads initiatives that help unlock the consumer and business benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). The GSMA represents the interests of 1000+ companies in the mobile communications industry worldwide. Prior to this, Ms Vos managed key policy and regulatory programmes and communications at the GSMA as Director of Regulatory Affairs. Before joining the GSMA in 2005, Ms Vos worked in the mobile industry for five years in the areas of Public Policy and Strategy.
Nick Williams, Managing Director, Consumer & Commercial Digital, Lloyds Banking Group
Nick Williams is the Managing Director, Consumer & Commercial Digital for Lloyds Banking Group. He runs the largest digital Retail Banking franchise in the UK and supports 80% of the FTSE 250 in the Commercial Bank. His responsibilities span the 12.5m online users (of which 8m are mobile) across Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Scottish Widows. Mr Williams is passionate about the digital inclusion and financial wellbeing agendas, proactively engaging in public policy setting and external media relations. Mr Williams is also the Group's Ambassador for the North region, managing relationships with central and local government, MPs and LEPs.
Steven Zuanella, Group Chief Digital Officer, RSA PLC
Steven Zuanella is RSA's Group Chief Digital Officer, with responsibility for RSA's digital transformation globally. Steven's role is to put digital at the heart of RSA's business and stretches from strategy development to sales & marketing effectiveness, new business models and greater efficiency. Together these aim to deliver a consistent, world-class digital experience for RSA customers. Mr Zuanella joined RSA from Zurich where he was Chief Digital Officer for their UK business. Previously Mr Zuanella was Chief Digital Officer for Bupa and was responsible their global digital propositions and the creation of a digital centre of excellence to drive best in class customer experiences and business performance.
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Cultural heritage includes both tangible cultural heritage (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art and artefacts) and intangible cultural heritage (such as folklore, traditions, language and knowledge).
Greater Shepparton contains a wide variety of cultural heritage places of local, regional and international significance owing to its richly-layered history, dating back over 40,000 years.
Shepparton's cultural heritage is an integral part of the rich tapestry that connects each of us with our past, tells the story of who we are as a community, as well as adding character, appeal and interest to our Municipality. Greater Shepparton is notable for the great diversity and variety of cultural heritage places, and the sometimes subtle remains of past uses and activities. Respect for our cultural heritage involves retaining and managing those tangible and intangible elements that have importance to us as a community. The inclusion of new places in the heritage overlay will ensure the conservation of Greater Shepparton's unique cultural heritage for present and future generations to view, interpret and appreciate.
Heritage studies to date have uncovered a variety of principal historical themes, including settlement and migration, utilisation of natural resources, and the development of primary and secondary industries. These themes are integral to the Municipality as it exists today.
Immigrants to the region, the squatters, selectors, closer and soldier settlers were vigorous in their development of agricultural and pastoral industries. The post-World War II settlement by European migrants greatly enhanced these industries.
The earliest irrigation pursuits in the State were attempted in the Ardmona district. The subsequent history of farming, including dairying, fruit and vine production, is also strongly evident, with the latter a particularly distinctive feature of the Mooroopna, Murchison, Tatura and Dookie landscapes.
However, unlike any other locality, Greater Shepparton is the site of an unusual diversity of memorials to the dead. These include the graves of the last of an Aboriginal tribe, the early pioneers and the war dead. As the districts of Tatura and Murchison were the site of World War II internment and prisoner of war camps, memorials to the foreign war dead are also especially significant to the area.
Less unique to the area, but still distinctively local, is the cultural heritage associated with religious practice, transport and communication, and the establishment of education.
All of these themes and places combine to give the City of Greater Shepparton its individual character and unique place in Victoria's cultural heritage.
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News, Views, and Advocacy From the Oncology Nursing Society
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Meet Your ONS Leader: Anne M. Ireland, MSN, RN, AOCN®, CENP
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Anne M. Ireland, MSN, RN, AOCN®, CENP, director-at-large on the ONS Board of Directors from 2018–2021
Get to know Anne M. Ireland, MSN, RN, AOCN®, CENP, director-at-large on the ONS Board of Directors from 2018–2021. Anne is the executive director for community nursing practice at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA.
How long have you been a nurse?
I have been a nurse since 1984.
What led you to oncology nursing?
My first job as a nurse was on an inpatient oncology unit which I accepted (mostly) because it was at a hospital close to where I lived in Toronto, which was a new big city that I did not know my way around! I immediately fell in love with oncology and have never left.
What was your first experience with ONS?
My first experience was as a member when I lived in Canada. I enjoyed the journals tremendously. My first true exposure to ONS was when I attended my first Congress in 1986, and I was totally overwhelmed by and impressed with the resources ONS had to offer. I immediately felt that I had found my professional home.
What role has ONS served in your career?
ONS has been my teacher, mentor, and coach and connected me to thousands of oncology nurses across the country. ONS provided opportunities for me to lead, initially at the chapter level when I helped charter the Northern Vermont ONS Chapter in 1999, then on projects and the ONS Steering Council, and now on the Board as a director-at-large.
ONS and the Oncology Nursing Foundation have also helped support my career, financially. Over the years, I have been granted an ONS Congress scholarship, the Nursing Excellence in Management Award, and, recently, a doctoral scholarship.
What relationships or connections have you made through ONS you wouldn't have found otherwise?
ONS has granted me the opportunity to meet so many fabulous oncology nurses and truly iconic nurse leaders. When I first moved to the United States, I had the opportunity to meet Carol Curtiss, MSN, RN-BC (who at the time was the ONS president). To this day, we see each other at ONS Congress and she has always been a beacon for me and my career.
Over the years, the connections and relationships have included phenomenal nurse leaders—Brenda Nevidjon, Ruth McCorkle, Sandra Mitchell (although we were colleagues in Canada before we both landed in the United States), Betty Ferrell, Marylin Dodd, Rose Mary Carroll-Johnson, and many others. Each and everyone have impressed me and helped me grow.
Recently, Tracy Gosselin and I served on the ONS Board together. We immediately formed a friendship and have since had the opportunity to present together on incivility in nursing. We are now in the midst of publishing on the same topic.
How did you get involved in ONS leadership?
It all started with leading the development of a chapter in Vermont. The closest chapter was NH/VT Chapter, and far drive in the middle of winter (which is long in Vermont!) was just not possible. A small group of oncology nurses in Burlington met in the waiting room of the practice where I was working, and that's how our new chapter began.
What has been your proudest moment as an oncology nurse?
Without a doubt, my proudest moments are when I knew I had made a difference in a patient's (and their families') life. Several come to mind, but one that stands out was when I supported a five-year-old granddaughter of a special patient to have a "milk and cookies" party for her grandfather because she thought it would make him happy. He passed away shortly after the party. She has lasting memories (and so do I) of how special he was to her. I learned in that moment the power of a loving family at end of life.
What is your biggest challenge in oncology nursing today, and how can ONS help?
It is challenging to stay current when new therapies, new equipment, and new technology keep us all on our toes! I have the distinct advantage of working in a large comprehensive cancer center with lots of educational support, and it is still challenging. I recognize that many of our ONS members work in small settings (as I did when I lived in Vermont), so keeping up to date takes time.
ONS can help by continuing to synthesize and share information that oncology nurses need to deliver quality care. Providing tools and "ready-to-use" resources that support nurses in caring for patients and families is very helpful and ensures that oncology nurses are delivering evidence-based education and care to all patients.
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What is your favorite song, and why?
"Desperado," written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and made famous by the Eagles. First, it is a stunning melody, but it also has complex and convoluted lyrics. I think I love the confusion of the young man who is trying to find his way to love before it's too late. I recently danced to this song at my older son's wedding which was amazing!
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As we all know to help needy the Bollywood star, Salman Khan, established a non-profit charitable trust "Being Human Foundation" in 2007.This foundation work in the areas of education and healthcare to underprivileged in India.
This foundation accepts direct donations. Anyone who wants to give donation to this foundation send cheque or demand draft to donor box made for this purpose. With the name "Being Human" Salman launched brands of clothes, accessories, and recently it launched e-cycles. A percent of sales of these brands is used for the foundation. Usually popular faces of Bollywood launch new collection of being human, But this time he launched his new campaign with seven new faces, who are involved in being human activities in some way or the other. These peoples run non-profit organisation to help poor and needy peoples. Among them one is involved in social development activities, other is involved in show making for physically disabled person.
Some of us wants to know how to join Being Human. So to answer this question Salman said, just help needy peoples in their education, in their health or do any kind of social activities. To become a part of this foundation there is no need to funding in this foundation only, u can funding in other charitable trust also, or u can do it from your house also, only important is "Be Human" , this is the only way to be a part of "Being Human".


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Jun 29, 2021 Supreme Court Holds That Private Companies Have A Right Under Federal Law To Seize State-Held Land To Build Natural Gas Pipelines
PennEast Pipeline Co., LLC v. New Jersey, No. 19-1039
Introduction: Today, the Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that the Natural Gas Act delegates the federal eminent domain power to private parties, removing a barrier for the $1 billion PennEast gas pipeline project and reversing a Third Circuit ruling that project developers could not seize New Jersey-owned land.
Background: In January 2018, PennEast obtained under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct a 116-mile pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania to western New Jersey. To facilitate pipeline projects, the NGA delegates federal eminent domain power to private parties that have been issued certificates of public convenience and necessity by FERC.
Shortly after receiving the certificate, PennEast instituted condemnation proceedings in federal district court against the properties in which New Jersey held interests. New Jersey moved to dismiss PennEast's complaints on sovereign immunity grounds. The District Court denied the motion and granted PennEast's requests for a condemnation order and preliminary injunctive relief. The Third Circuit vacated the District Court's order insofar as it awarded PennEast relief with respect to New Jersey's property interests. The Third Circuit concluded that because the NGA did not clearly delegate the federal government's ability to sue nonconsenting States, PennEast was not authorized to condemn New Jersey's property.
Issue: (1) Whether the Natural Gas Act delegates to FERC certificate holders the authority to exercise the federal government's eminent domain power to condemn land in which a State claims an interest; and (2) whether the court of appeals properly exercised jurisdiction over the case.
Court's Holding: In an opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined by Justices Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by FERC pursuant to the NGA authorizes a private company to condemn all necessary rights-of-way, whether owned by private parties or states.
The Court began by addressing the jurisdictional issue, finding that the Third Circuit properly exercised jurisdiction because New Jersey was defending against the condemnation proceeding rather than challenging the FERC certificate, which must be done in the D.C. Circuit.
Turning to New Jersey's sovereign immunity defense, the majority found that the NGA's delegation of the federal eminent domain authority is categorical: By its terms, the NGA delegates to certificate holders the power to condemn any necessary rights-of-way, including land in which a state holds an interest. In response to the argument that the NGA cannot authorize condemnation actions because Congress may not use its Article I powers to abrogate state sovereign immunity, the Court concluded that States implicitly consented to private condemnation suits when they ratified the Constitution.
Justice Barrett filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas, Kagan, and Gorsuch joined, rejecting the majority's argument that New Jersey did not have sovereign immunity to assert against federal eminent domain.
Justice Gorsuch also filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Thomas joined, noting that even if the States consented, the Eleventh Amendment nonetheless divests federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction over a suit filed against a State by a diverse plaintiff.
Read the opinion here.


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Taean Tulip Festival is chosen as one of the top 5 tulip festivals in 2017, following the World Tulip Summit in 2015. This year's festival venue has moved to Kkotji Ocean Park. The ocean and sandy beach as well as millions of tulips are welcoming all visitors with additional events like magic performance, traditional folk experience and aroma experience, etc.


Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life falls in love with Ali, an more than ten years younger Arab guest worker.
Beautiful, very interesting elipses. E mentioned that work ruins his health - very itneresting to include that.
The first two thirds worked very well for me as an unfortunately still timely depiction of racism. The fact that overcoming it was due to material concerns is an interesting observation. But it overall lacks so much social/class analysis. The third part exemplifies it: out of the blue sky, Emmi refuses to go towards Ali who, in utter disregard of his previous characterization, starts wandering away. Except for allusions, virtually no social analysis is provided.
26 August 18 & Fassbinder's spectacular space use, simple yet impressive camera movements and the minimal performance of the acting is impressive. I haven't seen such a fragile film in a long time.
Finally a movie that depicts the dark reality of people purchasing drinks and then not drinking them.
Among Fassbinder's most visually attractive films, and yet the sparseness that occupies every shot (extending to the script) is a great device for establishing open spaces that you can feel. I'm sure this is all very conducive to analysis, but analysis is not the first thing I feel like conducting so shortly after having seen it. The fact is, it is a very simple film, and much of its' power comes from not beating around the bush.
The open ending is what makes this a masterpiece. Racism is not just beaten. Everyone is flawed. I felt intense weltschmerz while watching this film. I can easily see why this is among Aki Kaurismäkis favorites.


The Norsemen proved true to their words and have so far delivered 7 albums and one DVD, which each received high praise from critics and fans alike. VREID chose a course of constant evolution that is marked by thematically denoted phases regarding their often historically inspired lyrics. This became particularly clear with albums 'I Krig' (2007) and 'Milorg' (2009), which both revolved around concepts dealing with resistance and liberation of Norway during World War II. With their following three records, VREID returned to their Norse roots, especially on latest full-length, 'Sólverv' which received high critical acclaim in 2015.
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The appellate tribunal, however, said there appeared a conflict between this RBI norm and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) rule that a company should continue as a going concern till a resolution of its stress is found under the Code.
The RBI on Tuesday told the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that it was imperative on part of the banks to declare a loan account as NPA in case of default exceeding 90 days, showing its steadfastness in protecting its regulatory mandate which has recently faced some challenges from the judiciary and the quasi judiciary.
On February 25, NCLAT observed: "We make it clear that due to non-payment of dues by the IL&FS or its entities, including the 'Amber Companies,' no financial institution will declare the accounts of IL&FS or its entities as NPA without prior permission of this appellate tribunal." It offered moratorium on repayment of loans regarding the accounts of IL&FS and its over 300 group companies.
Seeking clarification on the order since banks were closing their accounts for FY19, RBI counsel Gopal Jain said banks cannot be relieved of their duties of reflecting these NPAs in their accounts.
According to him, true reflection in the books is important for fair accounting because it has early warning signals. "You have to know the real state of the accounts of the banks otherwise, if you do not show NPA, you would constantly booking interest on the loan principal. You would have a rosy picture," he argued.
Recently, the SC quashed the RBI's controversial February 12 circular that sought a one-day default rule for firms and sought to quicken the process of salvaging stressed assets under the insolvency code.
The RBI's February 12 circular stipulates a one-day default rule on term loans — a borrower who misses repayment even for a day will be treated a defaulter and banks need to finalise a resolution plan for defaults of over `2,000 crore within the next 180 days, failing which insolvency proceedings will start.
RBI had earlier submitted that preventing banks from following its prudential norms — the latest master circular of which was issued on July 1, 2015 — "shall have far-reaching overall repercussions and cascading effects on the banking sector of the country and the interest of the depositors could be jeopardised".


Look what came in the mail today and is going to be happening to Risa this week. Hello, 70s flashbacks, and here's hoping for a "normal" conversation that doesn't bring horror ("the blood comes from inside you"), hysteria ("sometimes boys get an erection for no reason at all"), or a downright refusal to grow up ("by the time you are 13 or 14, your hormones are working overtime on your sebaceous glands"). But, uh, you get to pick a super pretty bra and not experience an erection in front of your whole classroom?
We already read "Where did I come from?" to her and she wasn't traumatized by the dancing sperm....So I think it'll be smooth sailing.


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In Stars by Brian Koberlein 16 March 2014 0 Comments
A new paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics heralds the discovery of a yellow hypergiant star known as HR 5171. Such stars are exceedingly rare, with only 12 such stars known to exist within our galaxy.
An image of HR 5171. Credit: ESO.
A yellow hypergiant star is a very massive, very luminous star. They typically have a mass between 20 – 50 times that of the Sun, but their temperature is roughly similar to that of the Sun. What makes them particularly rare is that they are unstable. They are so bright that their light pushes away the outer layers of the star. Because of this, they are stars in transition.
What makes this particular yellow hypergiant unusual is that it is also a binary star. The team analyzed observations of the star and found that it is an eclipsing binary with a period of about 1300 days. This is surprising because the star itself has a diameter about 6 times that of Earth's orbit. Given its size and mass, the companion star must be so close that they touch, known as an interacting binary.
Because the two stars are in contact, they each have an impact on the other's evolution. The companion can strip material from the primary, and in turn will increase in mass. As the primary hypergiant continues to expand, the two stars will interact more strongly.
Needless to say, things could get very interesting for this system.
Paper: O. Chesneau, et al. The yellow hypergiant HR 5171 A: Resolving a massive interacting binary in the common envelope phase. A&A 563, A71 (2014).
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CRT upgrading from a previous device is common across ESC countries
Prof. Cecilia Linde
Upgrading patients with a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is still widely practised across ESC member countries despite there being no trial evidence for its benefit compared with no upgrading, Professor Cecilia Linde (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden) reported in a late-breaking trial presentation yesterday (LBT8).
Prof. Linde describes the rationale behind the current CRT Survey II.1 "In 2008–2009, a joint initiative between the ESC sister associations, HFA and the European Heart Rhythm Association, investigated how CRT was utilised within Europe.2 The study included over 2,400 patients from 13 countries, mainly within Western Europe. We found that 26% of patients receiving CRT had previously been implanted with a pacemaker or ICD." CRT Survey II was conducted to give a picture of the situation 10 years on. "This time," says Prof. Linde, "we wanted to include a greater number of countries to increase our knowledge of CRT utilisation over a wider region. CRT Survey II included 42 ESC countries over a broad geographic area, including Eastern Europe and North Africa. Information on over 11,000 patients was obtained mainly from university and teaching hospitals, with some contribution from smaller centres." The findings for upgrading were remarkably similar to those recorded a decade ago.
"A quarter of patients (23.2%) were upgraded from either a previous pacemaker (61%) or a previous ICD (40%) and 76.8% had de novo implantation."
"The patients undergoing upgrading were on average five years older than those receiving de novo implantation and tended to be in poorer health," Prof. Linde explains. "They more commonly showed ischaemic aetiology and atrial fibrillation, had more comorbidities and worse renal function and were more likely to be pacemaker-dependent. In addition, their heart failure disease state was worse than that of de novo patients, with higher New York Heart Association class and NTproBNP values." In terms of outcome, "the success rate of implantation was similar for de novo and upgrading implantations," Prof. Linde says, "and, even though the upgraded patients were sicker before undergoing the procedure, there was no difference between the groups in the duration of hospitalisation and the incidence of complications." However, at discharge, upgraded patients tended to be receiving less optimal medication. "We're not really sure why this is," she says, "but it could reflect their relatively poorer clinical condition; it is possible that doctors are particularly cautious with medications for patients who may be less able to tolerate them, or—and I believe this to be the predominant reason—it might be that this patient population is more likely to be overlooked."
Although the 2016 ESC Guidelines3 for heart failure give only a grade IIb recommendation for consideration of CRT upgrading from a pacemaker or ICD—and then only in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), whose condition worsens despite optimum medical therapy and who have a high proportion of right ventricular pacing—the group were not totally surprised by the extent of CRT upgrading revealed by CRT Survey II. "Since the previous survey, it has become firmly established that right ventricular pacing may induce heart failure and it is possible that clinicians perform CRT implantation to avoid this eventuality. This is a perfectly sound scientific rationale," Prof. Linde continues, "but we still have no clinical trial evidence to confirm if this approach is or is not beneficial." This should soon be rectified. "The ongoing prospective, randomised, multicentre BUDAPEST CRT Upgrade study4 is comparing CRT-defibrillator upgrading with upgrading to ICD only in patients with intermittent or permanent right ventricular pacing and symptomatic HFrEF," says Prof. Linde. "Hopefully this will give us a definitive answer regarding the value of CRT upgrading."
1. Dickstein K, et al. Eur J Heart Fail 2018:Feb 19.Epub ahead of print.
2. Dickstein K, et al. Eur Heart J 2009;30:2450–2460.
3. Ponikowski P, et al. Eur Heart J 2016;37:2129–2200.
4. Merkely B, et al. Europace 2017;19:1549–1555.


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A wide street by Cunningham Park and M.S. 74 in Windsor Park is slated for pedestrian safety improvements and a two-way protected bike lane alongside the park [PDF]. The Queens Community Board 11 transportation committee voted unanimously for the DOT plan last night.
The two streets that form the eastern border of Cunningham Park — 210th Street and Oceania Street, which merge south of M.S. 74 — are wide and rife with speeding and double-parking. There were 25 traffic injuries on the two streets by the park between 2010 and 2014.
To reduce speeding and improve bike access, the project calls for a two-way protected bike lane (with similar dimensions to the Prospect Park West bike lane) next to the park. The protected bike lane will transition to buffered lanes on each side of the street where Oceania crosses over the Long Island Expressway. At the other end of the project, the bike lane will connect to the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway bike trail.
In 2015, a head-on collision between two motorists killed a mother and daughter riding in the backseat of one vehicle and injured four other people. The crash happened right outside M.S. 74, and the project includes major safety improvements around the campus. Oceania Street and 210th Street, which surround the school, would both be designated school slow zones with 20 mph and 15 mph speed limits, respectively.
DOT will also expand pedestrian space around the triangle where the two streets merge, adding crosswalks and stop signs. A small sliver of 210th Street will be converted to one-way northbound traffic flow to simplify what is currently a dangerous convergence of two two-way streets at an unusual angle.
Two M.S. 74 administrators attended last night's meeting to make a case for the project, according to John Kelly, who sits on the committee but is not a member of the full board. "Both of them said, 'We need this done tomorrow, this is super-important for us,'" Kelly said.
The transportation committee endorsed the proposal last night, though most members declined to express strong feelings one way or another, according to Kelly. He said it was not clear whether the plan would get a vote from the full board when it meets next Monday.
any #sneckdown photos of the triangle ?
suspect the pedestrian space could be expanded even more than designed, but this is a decent first phase.
Check the DOT presentation – most of the traffic there is pickup/dropoff of kids by parents who choose to drive. So closing sounds doable – not sure it's politically feasible given today's climate.
ya think in 5-7 years Moms will realize walking to school has benefits that outweigh any risks ?
What is not mentioned and definitely needed near this school is a dedicated crossing signal for pedestrians crossing EB Horace Harding. Much of the traffic from SB Oceania St makes a left turn at the Horace Harding to get on the LIE ramp, making it a dangerous crosswalk for pedestrians, many of them school children.
How about chopping another foot of the parking lanes so that the bikeway can be a decent width? Only eight feet isn't quite enough for a bidirectional facility, especially near a park.


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In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, we are introduced to Mrs. Mallard. She is portrayed an unloving, heartless, woman who is overjoyed by the passing of her husband-— or at least that is the common misconception. Mrs. Mallard although perceived as inhuman, is actually more human than most would like to believe. While her actions may seem questionable or even to be condemned, they are hardly unthinkable in light of the issues involving marriage and the woman's role throughout history. The story itself presents a valid argument in favor of Louise as she is portrayed as the oppressed wife finally set free after her husband's death.
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Otherwise known as mrbrown, he is a Blogger and sociopolitical commentator known for his outspoken views on Singapore's media restrictions. Known by his fans as the Blogfather, he hosts several shows including the podcasts the mrbrown show, the WTF! show, and See What Show.
Before becoming a Blogger, he studied at Anglo-Chinese School and Hwa Chong Junior College.
In 2013, he made an appearance in the Singaporean comedy Ah Boys to Men 2.
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WooCommerce is one of the best and most popular WordPress plugins that site owners use to sell products and services on the platform. It is a robust solution for eCommerce site owners, no matter how big or small it is. Similar to Shopify, you can make buying from your site much easier for customers. It also offers a wide variety of third-party integrations to suit your needs and improve your site's performance.
However, every eCommerce site boils down to sales. If you're not able to sell enough on your site, then you need to reassess your tactics and strategies so you can improve your conversion rate.
Part of what makes online selling confusing are the different processes involved. Even if you have a comprehensive profile of your target audience, you still need to execute on your site to not only convert them into customers but also convince them to visit your site in the first place.
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I absolutely love engaging customers in Marketing Automation. I just have a Lightspeed Webshop, not on WordPress. Automation with mailchimp and some integration, but nothing like described in this post.
I'll be recommending Woocommerce to my clients. A lot more integrations.
Is marketing automation necessary for every business? Best tool in the market? and please brief me about WooCommerce by comparing it to Aritic Pinpoint.
WooCommerce is the e-commerce platform, and this article talks about tools and services, like Moosend, that you can use in your eshop in order to automate your marketing.


Pit viper, you can tell it's poisous by the triangle shaped head.
Not a snake guy, but found this green garter and thought it was late for it to be out as well.
Get away from that thing. I think it is a king cobra. LOL. I stepped on one in January a few year back. I was thinking what the heck is this thing doing sitting on trail with it this cold out. Never expected that.


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Einion, the Welsh form of the Latin Ennianus, is a male Welsh given name and may refer to:

Einion Offeiriad ("Einion the Priest") (died 1356), Welsh poet and grammarian
Einion ap Gwalchmai (1202–1223), Welsh court poet
Einion ap Gwgon ( ), Welsh court poet
Einion ap Gollwyn, (possibly legendary) Welsh prince of the eleventh century
Einion Wan ( ), Welsh court poet
Saint Einion Frenin (), a son of Owain Ddantgwyn who reigned as a local king in Gwynedd
Einion Yrth ap Cunedda (; reigned from the 470s), king of Gwynedd

See also
Cefn Einion, small dispersed village in South Shropshire, England
 Anian (disambiguation)
 Anianus (disambiguation)
 Eifion (disambiguation)

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Summary: Choose a minor character from canon to play an important role in a story. Flesh this character out, or even recreate them - just utilize one of the many canon characters who are so very often neglected or overlooked and have him/her serve as one of the leading cast beside Harry and Snape.
Severus Snape comes across a runaway… the boy-who-lived to be exact, and drags him back to his home where a struggling Harry is surprised to find Luna Lovegood. Severus had agreed to take custody of Luna at the start of the summer, but taking on the boy who lived to be a pain in his arse as well? Harry is finding out quickly that he's got everything to lose… and everything to gain. In response to the 'multiple challenges', 'this is home', and 'father to two challenges'.


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Q: Unsupport characters in command line file path I would linke to call java app from PHP:
exec('LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 java -jar /test.jar' . $filepath . ');

But always there are unsupported characters in the file path.
For example: # & ; ? * [SPACE]..., after change them to # \& ... it will be ok.
But a full list of these characters could not be find.
Any ideas to solve this problem?

A: Take a look at escapeshellarg() and escapeshellcmd().
They will take care of all necessary sanitation for you.
If $filepath comes from the outside (e.g. from user input), running escapeshellarg() is mandatory to prevent injections.

A: My problem resolved.
Useful url:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44945

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Top 5 Gadgets To Look Out For In 2017
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Technology comes with new marvels, every year, and 2017 is not an exception to that, as well. Similar to other years, 2017 is also going to see some new products, which will change the way that technological geeks look at the world. Here are the top 5 products are the top 5 gadgets, which are going to be the most popular in the year 2017. If you are looking for similar such articles, you can move on to Look Whats Cool.
If you are an avid lover of Apple, you must be amazed to know that iPhone 7s going to be launched in 2017, and it is having a lot of features and functionalities, which you haven't seen in its predecessors. If previous models will be automatically updated to Apple iPhone 7s, and it is going to have a 4.7-inch screen, with dual lens camera, which is hardly present in any of the available models nowadays. It is also going to be available in various color ranges, which means you can choose the one with the best color.
According to the numerous authentic sources, Samsung Galaxy S8 is going to be the new release by Samsung after it recorded the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 for some technical issues with it. Galaxy S8 is going to come with a 6 or 8 GB RAM, and a Snapdragon 830 processor along with the OLED display, which is covered by glass on the complete body. The handset is going to be water resistant, and for the purpose of phone security, you can use the fingerprint scanner, which is going to be the primary security system for the device.
Xbox 2: Project Scorpio
Xbox 2: Project Scorpio you are going to be one of the biggest inventions for those who love playing on gaming consoles. It is going to be released in late 2017, and it is going to come with a lot of functionalities, which include 4K gaming compatibility, along with VR compatibility. It is also going to come with a powerful graphics card, which can be compatible with Xbox One content. The regular price of the console is going to be around $500-$600.
The Nintendo Switch, which is going to be released in October 2017, can be used as a portable gaming device, and also a home gaming device. It comes with a dock that can connect it directly to the TV, but the game can also be played on the internal screen provided with the product. It comes with the controllers along with the product. The official price of the product is not yet available on the market, but it will be available during March 2017.
Dell Inspiron 15 5000 2-in-1
Dell Inspiron 15 5000 2-in-1 is one of the latest models of the laptop manufacturer. It comes with all the features that you want within a notebook, and it comes with a detachable tablet functionality, which means you can use it as your own tablet, without using the bulky laptop. It is available at an affordable price for the configuration it is providing. It comes with preinstalled Windows 10 within it.
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Five Rulers In Video-Games Who Are Worse Than Rob Ford
James Griffin
Today, Rob Ford confessed to the city of Toronto that he has, in fact, smoked crack cocaine. We here at CGM have been following the Ford case for quite some time now and have decided to compile a list of some of the worst video-game rulers of all time.
1. Baron Praxis (Jak II): Praxis is known by anyone in the Jak series as one of the shadiest rulers in gaming. We first met Praxis at the beginning of Jak II when he imprisoned Jak and performed experiments on him for two years. His platform is an emphasis on stopping the Metalheads, even though he secretly trades with the Metalhead leader. Not to mention his forming of the nasty Krimson Guards! He eventually meets his untimely demise, but not before leaving Jak one final parting gift.
2. Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI): One of the most sadistic rulers in all video-games, Kefka starts as the Emperor's court mage but soon becomes ruler of the world, plunging it into darkness. His political choices also haven't been so grand, including when he poisoned an entire enemy castle, killing women and children. Kefka, like many twisted rulers before him, has a love for destruction and chaos.
3. Adolf Hitler (Wolfenstein 3D): Come on, did you really think we were gonna leave him out? He also appears in Persona 2: Innocent Sin as one of the final bosses…not to mention almost every World War II game ever.
4. Andrew Ryan (Bioshock): Ryan was someone many could get behind. Creating a utopia under the sea that houses creativity and innovation. Unfortunately, this ideology didn't pan out due to Ryan's greed and selfishness. Rapture tore itself apart, with Ryan at the center-piece. Who knows, maybe a society focused on objectivism will one day work (I doubt it).
5. Bowser (Super Mario Bros.): King of the Koopas, Bowser has brought frustration to the Mushroom Kingdom time and time again. Known for stealing women to far away castles, this guy is a true criminal. Luckily, the Kingdom's manual labour division has some upstanding citizens.
There you have it. Feel a bit better about Toronto? Just think, it could be worse. You can also check out Rob Ford's video-game (Stay Mayor) on the Google Play Store here.
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