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Photo by Jim Guilkey from "Virtual Learning: The Future of Classroom Training."
BHS – How Did Being Virtual Affect You?
BHS Opinions On Virtual Learning And Instruction.
Autumn Crutchley and Madison R Crowl
2020 was a hard year for everyone. We grew apart from one another and learned in a hard way what was to come. The hardest thing for students was online learning. We had to learn this experience by ourselves with no help and unprecedented expectations. We were misled into believing that this would be better than being back in the classroom, but that was wrong. Majority of students can tell you that this was the hardest way to try and learn. You had incoming freshmen who had no high school experience at all, you had freshmen going into their sophomore year and then seniors having their final moments of high school over a screen. We had no clue what was in store for us to come as students, we were going into the unknown.
We went around the school and asked some fellow seniors their opinions on being virtual and being back in school for the remainder of their senior year. We interviewed teacher and student preferences on learning environments at BHS. Shelby Johnson, a fellow senior, and Mr. Jeremy Johnson, a history teacher here at BHS —no relation— answered the following questions on pandemic learning.
"What was it like spending your sophomore and partial junior year online?
It started to become more of my routine; waking up, turning my computer on, and then joining a meet where no one spoke and no one had their cameras on. It's just crazy how fast everything changed."
— Shelby Johnson
Shelby Johnson thought, "I honestly thought it was cool at first, since we've never experienced it before and all that. But then I started to realize we might not go back to school the rest of my sophomore year. It was upsetting and kind of surreal. Going back to school on the first day of my junior year in my room was sort of sad to think about. It started to become more of my routine; waking up, turning my computer on, and then joining a meet where no one spoke and no one had their cameras on. It's just crazy how fast everything changed. I went from seeing these people every single day to not seeing them in person for up to a year. The class of 2020 didn't get a prom or a graduation, and 2021's class was stuck at the high school for their graduation. I'm extremely grateful that I've been one of the lucky ones to have in person everything as of right now, but it's just scary to think about what can change in the next four months that can affect my entire life all over again."
"Did it affect any of your friendships?"
"If you asked me when I was a freshman what I pictured my senior year to be like, I would've told you something entirely different than how it is. I mean, yeah, everyday not seeing some of my friends caused us to grow apart," said Shelby Johnson, as she recalled previous friendships. Losing friends was, and still is, a very common thing during this pandemic and keeping connections was tricky for many people.
"What was the hardest thing to learn online?"
"Probably team sports or English," was Shelby's hardest class. Learning gym and sports online had to be difficult because you're not in an actual gym, the majority of students don't know how to perform the given exercise or activity. For English, it was difficult for students because they didn't have a physical book in front of them, it was all online.
"What was the easiest part of teaching online?"
Mr. Johnson had some thoughts on what worked well as a teacher teaching virtually: "I would say, like from a teaching perspective, [a] playlist which allowed kids to explore content with options, so like if you imagine stations but in that station you had to get this information you could have option one, two, or three, that kind of choice allowed kids freedom to work independently which was the hardest thing to get them to do—especially because they were all Skittles—'cause we couldn't see their faces—when they had some choice in an activity I think gave them that freedom." So even the easiest things online became hard for teachers because of the disconnect with students.
"Was there any part of teaching online that discouraged you from teaching?"
"I would say the awareness and apathy that kids weren't actually engaged. That they would have their computer on but were playing Xbox and stuff like that. Not that I think, that what I'm teaching was so valuable that it hurt my feelings that way. It was more just seeing that we were completely disconnected from the material in school. There's a social element to that in learning with other people that I really think helps you retain what you learn, and that wasn't happening so that was discouraging for sure."
There's a social element to that in learning with other people that I really think helps you retain what you learn, and that wasn't happening so that was discouraging for sure."
— Mr. Johnson
"How did you give support to students who needed it?"
"I just tried to show students we were there and try to show them my personal life. Using those intermittent breaks to talk about what I'm doing in my life to try and get kids to open up. I feel like I built some relationships with kids that way."
What we learned from this experience, that we're still living in, is that virtual learning and instruction impacted everyone in their own way and that it was difficult to connect with one another behind a screen. Our screens were like a mask that we're still wearing today. We need to bring more awareness to the community, BHS staff and students, that this was a challenging time for everyone and we're still learning.
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Bettie Crutchley • Feb 18, 2022 at 4:55 pm
This was a great article and teaches us life throws us curves and we have to learn to adapt. I have felt so bad for these kids who couldn't connect physically. Try teaching a kindergarten child virtually. The pandemic posed many challenges but also has shown the human spirit to adapt and survive.
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Judith Weaver Counseling
Batterers Intervention Program
Professional Counseling Services
About Judith
Provides individual, family, couple, and group counseling in an outpatient setting, treating pre-adolescents, adolescents, and adults. Conducts assessments and evaluations for a broad range of mental health and substance abuse concerns, both in the practice and as a consultant for the Courts and employers. Specialties include brief therapy, domestic violence, and working with survivors of sexual and other abuse, and childhood trauma. Skilled in treating depression, anxiety, ACOA and codependent behavior, and issues relating to gender, adolescence, relationships, life transitions, and parenting.
The BIP serves the Courts and localities of Harrisonburg/Rockingham, Winchester/Frederick, Clarke, Page, Warren, and Shenandoah counties. Since 1992 the BIP has offered a means for batterers to examine their behavior and the belief system supporting it. It covers topics such as violent vs. nonviolent conflict resolution, emotional abuse vs. respect, and intimidation vs. non-threatening behavior.
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Q: ElasticSearchClient Search Functions We are trying to implement nested queries like this provided example:
And was wondering if it is possible that we can add the query objects dynamically depending on the number of the query objects created.
For example if I want to search only byName or byMaxPrice or having both of them byName and byMaxPrice. Is there an easier way of adding the query objects to the search function instead of using the if/else statements?
Using Elastic version 8.3
Appreciate any help
Example
if ( name != null ){
          Query byName = MatchQuery.of(m -> m
               .field("name")
               .query(searchText)
             )._toQuery();
}

if( price != null ) {
         Query byMaxPrice = RangeQuery.of(r -> r
             .field("price")
             .gte(JsonData.of(maxPrice))
          )._toQuery();
}

if ( name != null && price != null) {
SearchResponse<Product> response = esClient.search(s -> s
    .index("products")
    .query(q -> q
        .bool(b -> b
            .must(byName)
            .must(byMaxPrice)
        )
    ),
    Product.class
);
} else if ( name != null && price == null ) {
SearchResponse<Product> response = esClient.search(s -> s
    .index("products")
    .query(q -> q
        .bool(b -> b
            .must(byName)
        )
    ),
    Product.class
);
} else if ( name == null && price != null ) {
SearchResponse<Product> response = esClient.search(s -> s
    .index("products")
    .query(q -> q
        .bool(b -> b
            .must(byMaxPrice)
        )
    ),
    Product.class
);
}

A: You can use QueryBuilder class to build such type of conditional queries in Java. Here is the simplified code for above example -
BoolQueryBuilder queryBuilder = QueryBuilders.boolQuery();
    if(name != null){
      queryBuilder.must(QueryBuilders.matchQuery("name","searchText"));
    }
    if(price != null){
      queryBuilder.must(QueryBuilders.rangeQuery("price").gte(maxPrice));
    }
    SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder();
    searchSourceBuilder.query(queryBuilder);
    SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest("products");
    searchRequest.source(searchSourceBuilder);
    esClient.search(searchRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

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var test = require('tape');

var functionBind = require('../implementation');
var getCurrentContext = function () { return this; };

test('functionBind is a function', function (t) {
    t.equal(typeof functionBind, 'function');
    t.end();
});

test('non-functions', function (t) {
    var nonFunctions = [true, false, [], {}, 42, 'foo', NaN, /a/g];
    t.plan(nonFunctions.length);
    for (var i = 0; i < nonFunctions.length; ++i) {
        try { functionBind.call(nonFunctions[i]); } catch (ex) {
            t.ok(ex instanceof TypeError, 'throws when given ' + String(nonFunctions[i]));
        }
    }
    t.end();
});

test('without a context', function (t) {
    t.test('binds properly', function (st) {
        var args, context;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                context = this;
            })
        };
        namespace.func(1, 2, 3);
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3]);
        st.equal(context, getCurrentContext.call());
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('binds properly, and still supplies bound arguments', function (st) {
        var args, context;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                context = this;
            }, undefined, 1, 2, 3)
        };
        namespace.func(4, 5, 6);
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]);
        st.equal(context, getCurrentContext.call());
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('returns properly', function (st) {
        var args;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                return this;
            }, null)
        };
        var context = namespace.func(1, 2, 3);
        st.equal(context, getCurrentContext.call(), 'returned context is namespaced context');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3], 'passed arguments are correct');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('returns properly with bound arguments', function (st) {
        var args;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                return this;
            }, null, 1, 2, 3)
        };
        var context = namespace.func(4, 5, 6);
        st.equal(context, getCurrentContext.call(), 'returned context is namespaced context');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 'passed arguments are correct');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('called as a constructor', function (st) {
        var thunkify = function (value) {
            return function () { return value; };
        };
        st.test('returns object value', function (sst) {
            var expectedReturnValue = [1, 2, 3];
            var Constructor = functionBind.call(thunkify(expectedReturnValue), null);
            var result = new Constructor();
            sst.equal(result, expectedReturnValue);
            sst.end();
        });

        st.test('does not return primitive value', function (sst) {
            var Constructor = functionBind.call(thunkify(42), null);
            var result = new Constructor();
            sst.notEqual(result, 42);
            sst.end();
        });

        st.test('object from bound constructor is instance of original and bound constructor', function (sst) {
            var A = function (x) {
                this.name = x || 'A';
            };
            var B = functionBind.call(A, null, 'B');

            var result = new B();
            sst.ok(result instanceof B, 'result is instance of bound constructor');
            sst.ok(result instanceof A, 'result is instance of original constructor');
            sst.end();
        });

        st.end();
    });

    t.end();
});

test('with a context', function (t) {
    t.test('with no bound arguments', function (st) {
        var args, context;
        var boundContext = {};
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                context = this;
            }, boundContext)
        };
        namespace.func(1, 2, 3);
        st.equal(context, boundContext, 'binds a context properly');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3], 'supplies passed arguments');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('with bound arguments', function (st) {
        var args, context;
        var boundContext = {};
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                context = this;
            }, boundContext, 1, 2, 3)
        };
        namespace.func(4, 5, 6);
        st.equal(context, boundContext, 'binds a context properly');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 'supplies bound and passed arguments');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('returns properly', function (st) {
        var boundContext = {};
        var args;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                return this;
            }, boundContext)
        };
        var context = namespace.func(1, 2, 3);
        st.equal(context, boundContext, 'returned context is bound context');
        st.notEqual(context, getCurrentContext.call(), 'returned context is not lexical context');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3], 'passed arguments are correct');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('returns properly with bound arguments', function (st) {
        var boundContext = {};
        var args;
        var namespace = {
            func: functionBind.call(function () {
                args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
                return this;
            }, boundContext, 1, 2, 3)
        };
        var context = namespace.func(4, 5, 6);
        st.equal(context, boundContext, 'returned context is bound context');
        st.notEqual(context, getCurrentContext.call(), 'returned context is not lexical context');
        st.deepEqual(args, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 'passed arguments are correct');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('passes the correct arguments when called as a constructor', function (st) {
        var expected = { name: 'Correct' };
        var namespace = {
            Func: functionBind.call(function (arg) {
                return arg;
            }, { name: 'Incorrect' })
        };
        var returned = new namespace.Func(expected);
        st.equal(returned, expected, 'returns the right arg when called as a constructor');
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('has the new instance\'s context when called as a constructor', function (st) {
        var actualContext;
        var expectedContext = { foo: 'bar' };
        var namespace = {
            Func: functionBind.call(function () {
                actualContext = this;
            }, expectedContext)
        };
        var result = new namespace.Func();
        st.equal(result instanceof namespace.Func, true);
        st.notEqual(actualContext, expectedContext);
        st.end();
    });

    t.end();
});

test('bound function length', function (t) {
    t.test('sets a correct length without thisArg', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; });
        st.equal(subject.length, 3);
        st.equal(subject(1, 2, 3), 6);
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('sets a correct length with thisArg', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; }, {});
        st.equal(subject.length, 3);
        st.equal(subject(1, 2, 3), 6);
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('sets a correct length without thisArg and first argument', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; }, undefined, 1);
        st.equal(subject.length, 2);
        st.equal(subject(2, 3), 6);
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('sets a correct length with thisArg and first argument', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; }, {}, 1);
        st.equal(subject.length, 2);
        st.equal(subject(2, 3), 6);
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('sets a correct length without thisArg and too many arguments', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; }, undefined, 1, 2, 3, 4);
        st.equal(subject.length, 0);
        st.equal(subject(), 6);
        st.end();
    });

    t.test('sets a correct length with thisArg and too many arguments', function (st) {
        var subject = functionBind.call(function (a, b, c) { return a + b + c; }, {}, 1, 2, 3, 4);
        st.equal(subject.length, 0);
        st.equal(subject(), 6);
        st.end();
    });
});

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Documenting the many people, places and projects defining our country today involves a hell of a lot of travelling. And, as one of the driving forces behind our book This is Belgium (out Friday 25th April), this is something Antwerp-based photographer Joke De Wilde knows all too well. To give you an idea, here's a sample of some of the emails we got from her over the last few months, as well as a selection of six of her favourite images that you might or might not see in the book.
Join us for the official book launch on Friday 25th April here.


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Home #BigTopStory Shaheen's Welfare – A Fearless Pillar Of Support In Hyderabad
Shaheen's Welfare – A Fearless Pillar Of Support In Hyderabad
Aafiya Ayman Baseer
Defying all odds, Jameela Nishat stood up for millions of women. Jameela Nishat is a woman who can don multiple hats with the same ease. She is not only the backbone of Shaheen Women's Resource and Welfare Association, but also an acclaimed poet and artist. Known to be a fearless lady, Jameela faced many hurdles to ensure justice to women who turned to her.
But, what made her start an organisation to cater to women and their problems? This is a story that traces back to the 1980s when she was working with Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies and the whole country came to a standstill with The Shah Bano case. Being a woman who believed in equality of men and women, Jameela eagerly asked what the organisation is doing about it, and was appalled to know that they chose to remain silent because it was a highly politicised case. "I still remember the answer that shook me from inside. It was such an important case and I couldn't understand how people could take it light," she shares.
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Jameela says it strengthened her will to work for women and so, she joined Asmitha. "I wanted to work with an organisation that believes in pro-gender justice," she adds. After working for five years, in 2002, she registered the company Shaheen. "The time when the company got registered is also quite significant because the country was facing communal riots then," she recalls. With so much happening, Jameela thought the time has come to empower women, which she knew isn't an easy task.
Nevertheless, she worked relentlessly to achieve her goal. She chose Sultan Shahi area which was home to communal riots since Independence to set up her organisation. "During communal riots, women were always targetted and were looked at as commodities. That has what pushed me to work with women." Sending across the message was a daunting task so, she started working with a school first, where Jameela would teach students English and also discuss issues like nikahnama and domestic violence. "The difficult task was to make the women speak about it," she recalls.
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The building from where Shaheen operates is a house that was burnt down in communal riots. "I didn't find any better place to begin my work and thus began the never-ending journey," she shares. The women's activist says that she had to struggle a lot in the beginning. "When I was not in the office women would come and throw around the furniture, scaring young volunteers," she recollects. She then decided to invite all mothers for a meeting because they were all suffering, facing violence. "After a couple of meetings, they said 'we have suffered enough, we do not want our daughters to suffer', and this laid a strong foundation," she says.
Even though Shaheen was formed in 2002, its real birth happened in 2009, after they won a court case. It took a while to break the barriers. And now, Shaheen is a noted name with an interesting story behind it. In the initial days, when she was teaching painting to students, one girl painted a bird without wings. "I asked her 'don't you think something is missing' and she quickly added a cage to it. After a month-long discussion, the volunteers came up with this name," she says.
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Jameela was very good at painting right from childhood, but coming from a typical middle class Muslim family, she was never allowed to pursue it. But, when it came to poetry, her family always encouraged her. "It just began with writing letters to my friends and, over the years, poetry just happened," she shares. The activist says that she does not think and write as "I write about anything and everything". "My poetry talks about triple talak, polygamy, domestic violence and other issues," says Jameela and adds that when one looks through a woman's eyes, everything changes.#KhabarLive
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A survey conducted by the National Tourism Board and the Tourism Council of Zambia through the Cornell University in the United Kingdom has revealed that about 60 percent of people in the west do not know about Zambia's existence.
Tourism Board Chairman Timothy Mushibwe says the survey has also proved that the current brand that Zambia is using to market itself as one of the best tourism destinations is not effective.
Mr Mushibwe said this at a briefing to announce the launch of a new project that will be conducted by National Tourism Board and the Tourism Council of Zambia with the support of school of Hotel Administration department of Cornell University of the United Kingdom.
He said the school has been brought on board to package and design persuasive and attractive catch lines to compell more people to visit Zambia.
Mr Mushibwe observed that the current Zambia the Real Africa brand did not contribute to its marketing efforts but has instead left misconceptions among Zambia's potential tourists.
And Cornell school of hotel administration marketing Associate Professor Rob Kwortnik says a six member student delegation from the school is embarking on new ways to analyze every facility that Zambia has and how best to market them.
He says there is need to devise a brand that will set the country apart if Zambia is to sustain its tourism market which attracts about 850 thousand tourists per year as compared to other African states.
Mr Kwortnik however said that the picture portrayed of Africa by the western media as a poor, dilapidated and war tone continent remains a barrier to Zambia's attainment of its targeted market for tourism.
Meanwhile the National Tourism Board says it is putting in place mechanisms to attract visitors that will be attending the 2010 FIFA world cup tournament in South Africa starting in June.


HIPAA compliance issues are a big part of healthcare that many patients are unfamiliar with.
Chiropractic clinics can inform their patients of how compliance issues impact their care by initiating compliance conversations with patients, answering their questions and offering resources for more information.
The rights and responsibilities protecting both practitioners and their patients by regulating healthcare may be difficult for some patients to understand, so be ready to simplify terminology and discuss the relevance of understanding compliance concepts.
Prepare patient education materials and strategies using these suggestions.
Patients may want to know how their information is used, what your clinic is required to do to protect their privacy, and how they can learn more about their rights. As much as possible, you and your clinic should work to make this information readily available and easy to understand.
As needed, point your patients to other resources such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) HIPAA information for patients. This website features HIPAA information in a variety of different formats, such as video, fact sheets and guides and is designed with patient-friendly language and information.
This education is part of achieving informed consent. Just as you would answer your patients' questions about their chiropractic care, you should also be prepared to help your patients understand electronic health records, privacy issues, and other aspects of compliance.
Because many of the terms associated with compliance issues are complex and specialized, some patients may have difficultly understanding how healthcare policy impacts them.
Now that you are preparing to teach your patients about compliance, enlist help from your office and front desk staff. Show them how to share compliance resources, answer questions and educate patients.
¹healthit.gov. "Patient Consent for eHIE: Patient Education and Engagement." healthit.gov. https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/patient-education-and-engagement. Accessed: September 2016.
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On this reflection we analyzed the current challenges companies are facing to manage business processes. Currently people are fighting against the meaning of things. Knowledge is no longer in procedures, in flowcharts, is spread across systems, sensors and streams. Knowledge is not anymore inside of company boundaries.
People interaction connected to companies are changing or are about to change as quickly systems to socialize are spreading. You cannot stop this paradigm. You can block social iteration for a while, but as new generations start working in the company you will need to adapt because these new bright lads don't know how to work differently. There will be no regression.
In part one we saw that people want information that systems cannot interpret because questions are put in natural language.
In part two we discussed the paradigms of ontological management and how it can help to overcome the challenges outlined above, but it must be adaptive, dynamic, and evolve as organization domain changes. Ontologies cannot be a one time snapshot.
In part three it was defined a model for process, domain and organization ontology discovery.
On this last article we integrate semantics on business process management cycle.
So far we focused on a framework to build ontologies for process, domain and organization and how it can support enterprise architecture.
Process ontology: Identifies all the artifacts that describe a process, regardless of whether it is structured or not . It allows building clearly and unambiguously all process elements, linked with the domain ontologies that specify enterprise concepts, as well as the business rules, roles, outcomes, and all the other inter-dependencies.
Domain ontology: its not a glossary of terms, is what defines the company sphere and represents what the company does. This ontology provides vocabulary of concepts and their relationships, about the activities performed and on the theories and elementary principles governing that domain.
Organizational ontology: Identifies who participates in the work executed and how people are connected through the work and responsibilities assigned to them.
Ontology construction and its maintenance are beyond the scope of these articles series, but these references are a good starting point , .
As companies increasingly rely on information systems to run their processes it is necessary that systems provide semantic capabilities that allow them to use and apply ontologies, thus becoming intelligent. As already highlighted before, systems still do not have fully developed intelligent capabilities to interpret information. Continue to be mere repositories of information in relational databases, but do not allow people to get the data they need to work and to reason. Paradoxically, systems turn out to be a barrier to understanding the enterprise as a connected system, unable to capture the characteristics of the organization in various dimensions: processes, domain and organizational.
As dominance of unstructured work increases, integration of ontological management in enterprise architecture becomes more important for knowledge management challenges.
In 2009 it was already pointed out  the rise of knowledge management (although Drucker predicted by the 60's !), a trend coined under the term adaptive case management. As pointed out by Deborah Miller  today with the growth of unstructured work people have to adapt to the unexpected, overcome challenges and achieve the unpredictable nature of our activities to achieve our objectives, management in this context, human judgment, external events and business rules do not determine the paths through a pre-defined (as a process flow) path. Rather, these factors determine in real time the activities that must be performed.
Research: Time wasted searching for information and their intra-relationships.
That is why the ontology management plays a key role allowing people obtain artifacts they need to work with, business rules, and remaining content in a facilitated manner.
The Business Process Management is usually based on these simplified four stages. This model is independent of the nature of the process that is running: structured or unstructured. I still don't believe that BPM does not apply for unstructured processes.
Design phase: It defines how the process is going to be executed. In a structured process includes the process model everybody will have to follow. In an unstructured process, the process is constructed in real time, people define the set of actives and the information they need to work with.
At this stage the existence of a pre-defined ontology supports the understanding of the nature of the tasks that must be performed, and the nature of the concept of each informational entity. Thus it eliminates the ambiguity of natural language usage to the detriment of the concepts that are part of the ontology that is being used (process, domain, or organizational). The process model construction supported by an ontology can later be used during automatic Web Services linkage  if the process is automated all the elements that describe the process can be constructed in a format capable of being interpreted by machines, using for example XML. Another advantage is the possibility of reuse process models something that is a reality on adaptive case management.
Implementation: SOA is here for a while but companies struggle to connect seamlessly systems. One of the biggest challenges of adaptive case management systems is how they address connection in real time with data stored somewhere. A user cannot figure it out or manage to connect to it.
To make it possible endless connection capacity, it's necessary to semantically describe all aspects of the services that are available through the interfaces. The standard WSMO  sets out how services should be described.
The process of building an ontology to describe a particular context is usually time consuming. In order to facilitate the introduction of ontological concepts, especially those that are internationally accepted in a particular industry WSMO was designed to be modular to the point of importing existing ontologies. The WSML  an extension of WSMO that defines a formal language to describe ontologies, goals, Web Services, semantically and a model for managing different language variants encompassing both logic descriptions as logic programming.
Process Automation: Putting the process on execution mode involves the translation of all the artifacts that defines it. If there are no process models and Web services that can be reused, they are created and stored in the shared registry, otherwise it's made the discovery and connection to the process models (or process models parts) when the process is first installed or as you are execution it in adaptive case management mode. It is not necessary to make adjustments on message communication protocols, transport, security, because these features are supported automatically.
Execution: Under a semantic approach services are automatically discovered, linked to activities that invoke them in real time as opposed to a classic design highly coupled used specifically for the particular implementation of a process.
Analysis and monitoring: Both the analysis and monitoring use predefined reports or dashboards, thus limited to fixed content. Semantic Business Process Management allows users to search and correlate information dynamically supported by data recording semantically annotated by a system engine put in place for execution. Despite bottlenecks identification (tasks running more than once), workload balance and KPI's provide important information about execution and improvement opportunities, the dawn of running unstructured processes or a bend between structured and unstructured, where execution is driven by events, questions, curiosity and outcomes is particular difficult to extract information to carry on our daily activities supported by predefined control mechanisms. People cannot way anymore one week to get hands on the data or an app than needs to be developed for a special purpose.
One last thought. Google Wave the trigger of this articles series is on read only mode. Is no longer supported by Google. Funny how concepts evolve.
 Web Service Modeling Language – J. de Bruijn, H. Lausen, R. Krummenacher, A. Polleres, L. Predoiu, M. Kifer, D. Fensel http://www.wsmo.org .
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Q: i don't know why this api url 404 (Coinranking API) https://coinranking1.p.rapidapi.com/coin/Qwsogvtv82FCd/history/24h
i use this url GET type with redux-query why is not working??
this is my code
import { createApi, fetchBaseQuery } from "@reduxjs/toolkit/query/react";

const cryptoApiHeaders = {
  "X-RapidAPI-Host": "coinranking1.p.rapidapi.com",
  "X-RapidAPI-Key": "6b9109d854mshae17bc83f3a405ap166111jsna0c3fc584445"
};

const baseUrl = "https://coinranking1.p.rapidapi.com";

const createRequest = (url) => ({ url, headers: cryptoApiHeaders });
export const cryptoApi = createApi({
  reducerPath: "cryptoApi",
  baseQuery: fetchBaseQuery({ baseUrl }),
  endpoints: (builder) => ({
    getCryptos: builder.query({
      query: (count) => createRequest(`/coins?limit=${count}`)
    }),
    getCryptoDetail: builder.query({
      query: (coinId) => createRequest(`/coin/${coinId}`)
    }),
    getCryptoHistory: builder.query({
      query: ({ coinId, timePeriod }) =>
        createRequest(`/coin/${coinId}/history/${timePeriod}`)
    })
  })
});

export const {
  useGetCryptosQuery,
  useGetCryptoDetailQuery,
  useGetCryptoHistoryQuery
} = cryptoApi;

this is my chart.jsx code

import { Chart as ChartJS, registerables } from "chart.js";
import { Line } from "react-chartjs-2";
import { Col, Row, Typography } from "antd";
const { Title } = Typography;

ChartJS.register(...registerables);

const CoinChart = ({ coinHistory, currentPrice, coinName }) => {
  const coinPrice = [];
  const coinTimestamp = [];

  for (let i = 0; i < coinHistory?.data?.history?.length; i += 1) {
    coinPrice.push(coinHistory.data.history[i].price);
    coinTimestamp.push(
      new Date(coinHistory.data.history[i].timestamp).toLocaleDateString()
    );
  }
  const data = {
    labels: coinTimestamp,
    datasets: [
      {
        label: "Price USD",
        data: coinPrice,
        fill: false,
        backgroundColor: "#0071bd",
        borderColor: "#0071bd"
      }
    ]
  };
  var options = {
    scales: {
      y: {
        min: 0
      }
    }
  };
  return (
    <>
      <Row className="chart-header">
        <Title level={2} className="chart-title">
          {coinName} Chart
        </Title>
        <Col className="price">
          <Title level={4} className="price-change">
            {coinHistory?.data?.change}%
          </Title>
          <Title level={4} className="current-price">
            Current {coinName} Price: {currentPrice} $
          </Title>
        </Col>
      </Row>
      <Line data={data} options={options} />
    </>
  );
};

export default CoinChart;

i want to print coin chart in my page but it doesn't work
so i search the error develop tool says this url 404
i don't know why this url not working
i'm testing this url in rapidapi.com it's working!!
but my website not working
plz help me!!


Truncus arteriosus is a rare type of heart disease that is present at birth (congenital) in which there is a single main blood vessel, rather than the normal two, carrying blood away from the heart. Instead of having a separate pulmonary artery, to carry blood to the lungs, and aorta, to carry blood to the rest of the body, a baby with truncus arteriosus has just one blood vessel leaving the heart which then branches into other blood vessels. Blood from both ventricles of the heart is mixed, resulting in a situation in which some oxygen-rich blood travels needlessly back to the lungs and some oxygen-poor blood travels to the rest of the body. Babies with this condition may have a bluish tint (cyanosis) to their skin, lips, and fingernails. In most cases, truncus arteriosus occurs in conjunction with a missing upper portion of the wall between the ventricles of the heart (ventricular septal defect).
Symptoms of truncus arteriosus include rapid breathing (tachypnea), lethargy, a bluish tint to the skin (cyanosis), poor feeding, difficulty breathing (dyspnea), and broadening of the fingertips (clubbing).
Other symptoms may include abnormal accumulations of fluid in the face, arms, and/or legs (edema), an abnormally rapid heartbeat, slow weight gain, failure to thrive, recurrent respiratory infections, poor physical development, and/or growth delays.
Congestive heart failure usually develops during the first few weeks of life because of the excessive amount of blood flow to the lungs. There may be abnormal enlargement of the heart (cardiomegaly), and/or the gradual development of obstructive lung disease.
When the blood pressure in the lungs is raised (pulmonary hypertension), the amount of work that the heart must perform is increased and blood vessels leading to and from the lungs become vulnerable to permanent damage.
The symptoms of truncus arteriosus are similar to those of a severe ventricular septal defect (VSD), a relatively common form of congenital heart disease. In VSD, the wall (septum) separating the two ventricles is incompletely formed before birth. This can result in inefficient distribution of oxygen to the various tissues of the body (hypoxia) and various degrees of congestive heart failure. Some infants with truncus arteriosus may also have narrowing or constriction (stenosis) of the valve that connects the heart and the major arteries. This may result in the backward flow of blood into the heart (regurgitation).
Truncus arteriosus is a rare, congenital heart defect that affects males and females in equal numbers. This disorder occurs in approximately 1 in 33,000 births in the United States. It is estimated that truncus arteriosus accounts for about 1 in 200 congenital heart defects.
A mother who has had rubella (German measles) or other viral illnesses during early pregnancy.
Cor Triloculare Biatriatum is an extremely rare congenital heart defect characterized by the absence of one ventricle. Infants with this defect have two atria and one large ventricle. The symptoms are similar to those of Atrioventricular Septal Defect and include breathing difficulties (dyspnea), excessive accumulation of fluid in the lungs and around the heart (pulmonary edema), and/or a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes (cyanosis). Other symptoms may include poor feeding habits, abnormally rapid breathing (tachypnea), and/or an abnormally rapid heartbeat (tachycardia).
Mitral Valve Stenosis is a rare heart defect that may be present at birth (congenital) or acquired. In the congenital form, the symptoms vary greatly and may include coughing, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, and/or frequent respiratory infections. In acquired Mitral Valve Stenosis, the symptoms may also include weakness, abdominal discomfort, chest pain (angina), and/or periodic loss of consciousness.
The diagnosis of truncus arteriosus is confirmed by clinical evaluation, electrocardiogram (EKG), and specialized imaging techniques that allow the physician to view the structure of the heart. These may include an echocardiogram, angiocardiogram, and/or cardiac catheterization.
Babies with truncus arteriosus require corrective surgery if they are to thrive. In some cases, a preliminary surgical procedure may be performed (pulmonary artery banding) that is designed to ease the condition by reducing the pulmonary hypertension, but not to cure it.
Corrective surgery (open-heart surgery) will separate the pulmonary and aortic arteries, close the hole in the ventricle wall, and attach the pulmonary artery to the reinforced right ventricle wall.
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I had the pleasure of sampling the upcoming brunch menu at Maggiano's Little Italy at Northpark this past weekend and from what they presented it should be a hit. I'm not much for the big chain restaurants but I have always enjoyed Maggiano's. The food is always on point and there is always an energetic atmosphere. And it is always a good place to end up after hiking Northpark all day.
Upon arrival we were directed to one of the private bar rooms where there were a few brunch cocktail selectes to try. Mimosas, belinis and an Italian Bloody Mary which had a nice flavor from the blend of herbs and basil. Chef Jeff Hanak presented us with an orange streusel cake to start off. It was light, slightly sweet and a nice beginning.
Benedicts will be a big part of the new menu. Crab cake, meatball with roasted tomato, smoked salmon, traditional and another that is a play on chicken and waffles. We sampled the meatball and crab cake versions. My favorite was the crab cake. The lump crab went very well with the hollandaise sauce and it seemed surprisingly light. They are very proud of the hollandaise they are serving, and should be. It was incredibly delicious. The chef that is preparing these honed his skills at Commanders Palace under Paul Prudhomme so he should know a thing or two about hollandaise.
We were treated to a demonstration of how they make Lemon Ricotta Pancakes. Just a few simple ingredients turned out a light, fluffy and wonderfully lemony pancake. These did not need syrup, and to be honest syrup just masked the lemon flavor. A little fruit and freshly whipped cream on top was perfect.
There will be several other traditional brunch items, which will be given an Italian twist. We sampled a vegetable frittata and crème brulee' French toast which is served with Nueske bacon.
And who doesn't like brunch?


"If ever a group deserved the title of "free jazz power trio," it would be this one. Legendary reedist Brötzmann, American trombonist Steve Swell, and the mighty Nilssen-Love have been playing together since early 2015, and have two masterful live sets under their belt, Krakow Nights and Live in Copenhagen. Both of those recordings boast a dense, muscular, yet occasionally free-wheeling sound that, in many ways, perfectly encapsulates just what these three players are all about - namely, raw power and fierce creativity. Live in Tel Aviv, which documents an October '16 performance by the trio, is the perfect entry-point for those who might be intimidated by the relatively long lengths of those prior albums - at only three-quarters of an hour, it is a thrilling condensation of the group's strengths (Derek Stone, The Free Jazz Collective) "
"The trio goes nuclear on the opening piece, the 30-minute "Copenhagen Maneuvers". Brötzmann, in top fiery form, outlines the urgent, angry theme, sets the trio dynamics on a volcanic course that gains more volume and more momentum... The other, shorter pieces highlight further the rich and profound vocabulary of this trio. "Actionable Rhetoric" surprises with its reserved lyricism... "Expressionable Ephemera" resumes the trio's explosive, muscular mode, balanced as a tight, organic unit... The last, shortest "Last Night Was, For Sure" is the most poetic one, introduced by Swell otherworldly breaths, followed by Brötzmann moving melodic theme, immediately echoed by Swell and resonated by Nilssen-Love cymbals work, slowly building its tension, but releasing it in subtle, compassionate manner (Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective) "


The only thing they ask for is the car's registration. I got a quote to have it installed in my garage. It was pretty outrageous (<$2400). I'll just purchase the unit and hire a less expensive electrician (which shouldn't be hard to do).
I'm at 834 miles now with 108 MPGe and averaging 4.5 miles / kwh. I'm about 50/50 between highway and city lately. Radio is always on and A/C is on 50% of the time.
Topic: What's the range like?
Re: What's the range like?
I'm at 475 miles now and am now at 100 MPGe and averaging 4.4 miles / kwh.


The Temple of Portunus and the Maison Carrée.
Roman temples were built in many places. You could find them in the city, the countryside, and commercial centers. Roman temples were relatively simple buildings. They were typically upon platforms that raised them up and had a set of stairs that lead up to the entrance. Typical Roman temples had many columns, and had a porch like space at the from of the building. Many temples gave the illusion of being surrounded by columns but they were not. They had what was called engaged columns which are columns that were set into the walls of the temples. Early imperial temples were much more lavishly decadent than those that were built during the Roman Republic. An example of this can be seen above with the comparision of the Temple of Portunus and the Maison Carrée. It has been said that the Maison Carrée can be related to symbolize the Roman architecture as a whole. It is elegantly detailed in sculpture, proportionate, advanced, and yet also conservative at the same.


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Since April 1st, Birmingham City Council has made changes to their large and bulky collection scheme, which imposes restrictions on what they will and won't carry away from your home. With cheap skip hire in Birmingham available from Skip Hire UK, you can avoid these by hiring one of our brilliant and versatile skips.
Any type of garden waste including shrubberies, tree branches and bushes.
Their teams will not be collecting large items alongside normal household waste.
Broken glass or glass panels.
Many items on this list are usually the results of gardening projects and house renovations, plus general household waste, which means they can be easily disposed of or recycled without specialist processes.
Furthermore, there is a restriction on the number of items that the city council will take away. Six items is the maximum items allowed to be collected from your home. As you can see, the new service is quite restrictive. This is where skip hire in Birmingham from Skip Hire UK can help you out!
At Skip Hire UK, we are committed to helping our customers remove, recycle or dispose as much of their waste as possible. From garden waste, to household items, bulkier objects like sheds and much more, we can help you go green while disposing of your waste. Not only will we collect your rubbish, we aim to recycle as much of it as possible. The rest will be disposed of in an ethical and responsible way.
While Birmingham City Council has imposed restrictions on the amount you can have collected, with a skip from Skip Hire UK you take away almost anything from your property. Hazardous items such as televisions, fridges and biological waste can't be placed in our skips, but we're happy to take away anything else!
We have a huge range of skips for you to choose from that are suitable for any project. However, for large, bulky objects, we recommend using one of our builder's skips. Builder's skips are the most commonly used skips for projects that generate a lot of waste. This is due to their high capacity. For example, Birmingham City Council will refuse to carry away your garden shed when it comes time to replace it, but with one of our builder's skips we will happily take any sheds or timber waste with room to spare! So if you need large items disposing of in Birmingham, give us a call here at Skip Hire UK.
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Then the Habitat for Humanity ReStore is the home improvement outlet for you! We offer a variety of house wares, furniture, appliances, building materials, home decor, and much more, at a fraction of the retail cost! When you shop the ReStore, you not only get good deals - you're supporting a great cause.
Your purchase helps local families build strength, stability and self-reliance by building or improving places to call home through Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis' new homeownership, beautification and Aging In Place programs.
Your purchase doesn't just improve your home or business -- it improves our community! So, shop the ReStore and shop often. It's for a great cause!
Each week, we share photos on our Facebook page of items we currently have in the store. Check it out!


10 years of anything is a long time. And 2018 was my tenth year writing this blog.
It's time to say goodbye. I have enjoyed writing here and reading your comments and I want to thank my readers for all of their kind words.
I am considering creating a separate FB page for showing and selling my handwovens, but haven't sorted that all out yet.
I will leave the blog up and check in to make sure I answer any questions that may come up on the posts.
Terri, Thanks for all the time you have put into your blog. I have enjoyed it! Good luck with your next digital ventures!
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful posts over the years Teri. I'll miss them. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
on December 20, 2018 at 2:48p12 Kathy T.
Thank you so much for the beautiful blog for so many years. Your quilting is stunning – your photography is fabulous – and it has been delightful to join you on your quilting adventures. Best wishes for your continued success.
Threadtales was always something I checked when getting online. Thank you for writing the column. I'll miss it, but ten years is a long time! It's always interesting to see other longarmers creative talents. The Business of Longarm Quilting was very informative. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching your weaving evolve, too. Good luck in your next chapter of life. Will continue following on FB.
I know I don't comment that often but I hate to see you stop blogging!!!
I'm sorry to see you go but I can see why! I've had a very hard time with blogging on a regular basis when it's so easy to write a quick Instagram post! Keep posting your pictures, they are an inspiration!
I will truly miss you! Your posts inspired me and gave me a wonderful resource for designs. I wish you the best in the future.


This will work great as I have a lot of Bachman track to adapt with the Power loc track to make my railroad system work.
Power-Loc is available in HO and N Scales, with steel rails or nickel-silver, with gray or black roadbed. Import charges previously quoted are subject to change if you increase you maximum bid amount. Any price and availability information displayed on the original websites, as applicable at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of related products.)Offer and use of product information are provided and authorized by Amazon. Its patented design eliminates pesky rail joiners, and its side-locking mechanism snaps together easily and quickly. If you reside in an EU member state besides UK, import VAT on this purchase is not recoverable.
Power-Loc features a solid roadbed base so you can set up the track on many surfaces, including carpeting, eliminating the need for layout boards, nails, screws and other tools. The adapter track works with other roadbed systems as well as conventional track that uses rail joiners.
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Following my review of David Gillham's Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank, in which it is imagined that Anne survived her time in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and returned to Amsterdam, I wanted to make a list of alternate history books. The first book on the list, Stephen Fry's Making History, is one of my absolute favourite novels, and the others are ones which I would like to get to sooner rather than later. I have not purposely chosen alternate histories set around the Second World War, but these seem to be amongst the most prevalent, and all really appeal to me as a reader.
1. Making History by Stephen Fry
'In Making History, Stephen Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason–and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours–but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.'
2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
'It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.'
3. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
'Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe. But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return. Aesthetically recalling A Trip to the Moon and House of Leaves, and told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.'
4. Dominion by C.J. Sansom
'1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organisation is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle forever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given by them the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog; as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men…'
5. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
'In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America – and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.'
6. The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
'It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer – and occult disciple – Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever. It's 1950. A lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts – and by the forces of hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties – to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.'
7. Blackout by Connie Willis
'Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone's schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas–to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.'
8. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
'The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity, crime, and a liberal press. Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.'
Have you read any of these? Which are your favourite alternate history books?
Uncategorized	2021Alternate HistoryBook ListsC. J. SansomCatherynne M. ValenteChina MievilleConnie WillisKirstyPhilip K. DickPhilip RothSinclair LewisStephen Fry
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This is a great inspiration list! Making History and Radiance sound very thought-provoking!
I haven't read any alternate history book, it is a literary area I definitely want to explore! I watched the TV series of "The Man in the High Castle" and I enjoyed it a lot 😀
I'm so glad you liked it, Georgiana! I must admit that I recently read 'The Man in the High Castle', and didn't find it a patch on the series.
I commented earlier, but it seems to have disappeared.
Anyway, I said I'm not sure you can count It Can't Happen Here as an alternate history given that it begins a year after its publication. It doesn't look back to a point in history, tweak the timeline and imagine the new future; it just happens in the future.
Your response didn't show up on the blog, as new commenters have to be approved by a moderator. Regarding the list, I haven't read a lot of the books, and just worked with what I could find on Goodreads. Thanks for your fastidious comment.
I've read both the Dick and the Roth and although I remember enjoying them, I can't recall many details! I have the Lewis pending – not sure I'm strong enough for it at the moment!!
I am starting to feel braver about returning to the Lewis—I abandoned it in 2017 as Trump upped his outrageous behaviour because the novel felt too much like a blueprint.
I've read the P K Dick but now want to return to the Lewis, also I have the Miéville waiting. The Valente sounds interesting, however. 🙂 Can I recommend Owen Sheers' Resistance? It's excellent, bringing to a Nazi invasion of Britain a tale of personal lives on the Welsh Marches.
In children's fiction the Joan Aiken series beginning with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a sequence of alternate (or, alternatively, 'alternative') history novels which I've been obsessed with for some years now, with at least a dozen instalments set in the 1830s and 1840s.


In the next backyard party from the Krasinskis and the Zombies, be on the lookout for the Butler-Harts.
With The Isle, Tori and Matthew are the latest couple to cut into the horror genre with matrimonial slices like the creators of A Quiet Place (read Matthew Goudreau's review here) or The Devil's Rejects; she as a principal cast member and he the person directing her. The duo may have more bragging rights, though, since they are also credited as the mythological-inspired chiller's writers, producers, casting directors and foley artists.
On Two Down's full IMDb page there is a lighting technician named Louis Devereux. Do a two-and-two with Tori's story and — gasp — this person is one of Vanessa Branson's children and — another gasp — this tract is the Kate Winslet-approved Eilean Shona.
Then there was the weather, which the duo said can be breezy one moment and gale-force winds the next. Believe in the supernatural, folks.
That said, in crafting the story, Tori and Matthew looked at the real and would use it to conceive scenes. The dangers of monthslong seafaring — maybe Mother Nature, maybe the fantastical yarns that Neptune authored (Tom Kane's yearning soundtrack has a Celtic song, performed by Faroese singer Eivør, about a wife waiting for her sailor husband's return). The film is set in 1846, one year after the Great Famine began (Eilean Shona's residents had to leave the island due to a potato blight). Around this time, women would be regarded as lunatics, and admitted to asylums, for deviating from (men-made) norms.
But she said there was amazing strength to be found in the character as well. Matthew echoed the thought.
The Isle is about three shipwreck survivors (Graham Butler, Alex Hassell and Fisayo Akinade) discovering the truths about the island they manage to row toward, one of them being a force that wouldn't let anyone leave.
It is currently in limited release and on VOD. The trailer is viewable below.


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Challenges of Growing Research at New and Emerging HEIs
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in Enterprise in Universities: Evidence and Evaluation, edited by Gareth Williams, London, SRHE/Open University.
Newer institutions are accused of adopting the accoutrements of traditional universities, actively copying their research profile and teaching programmes, and engaging in 'academic' or 'mission' drift. For others, however, these changes are part of the natural or inevitable process of institutional development and historical change, or a further step in the democratisation of the 'Humboltian ethic' (Neave, 2000, p265). If massification and expansion in 1960s differentiated the second stage in higher educational development from its elite origins, then the late 1990s marked the beginning of the third stage. By then, it was clear that a broadly educated population could no longer be formed by and within universities alone. In societies where knowledge and knowledge creation are highly privileged and integral to both national and institutional prestige, advanced learning and research capacity are allied and critical. Paradoxically, by seeking to conform to their mission, new and emerging HEIs soon outgrew the straitjacket of their birth. This chapter looks at these tensions and challenges.
Hazelkorn, E. (2002). Challenges of Growing Research at New and Emerging HEIs In G. Williams (ed) Enterprise in Universities: Evidence and Evaluation. London, SRHE/Open University.
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This volume offers a new translation of the Pseudo-Clementine family narrative here known as The Sorrows of Mattidia. It contains a full introduction which explores the obscured origins of the text, the plot, and main characters, and engages in a comparison of the portrayal of pagan, Jewish, and Christian women in this text with what we encounter in other literature. It also discusses a general strategy for how historians can utilize fictional narratives like this when examining the lives of women in the ancient world. This translation makes this fascinating source for late antique women available in this form for the first time.
"The Sorrows of Mattidia is a fictional story in the Ps-Clementine writings that narrates the adventures and conversion of a noble woman to Christianity. The authors' approach to these texts with their complex conceptual and methodological problems is well argued, and a new translation based on a text-critical reconstruction of the Greek Homilies is a welcome addition. These texts from the Ps-Clementines are generally interesting and will hopefully generate worthwhile discussions among scholars and students."
Chapter 1: What is The Sorrows of Mattidia?
Curtis Hutt is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and the Founding Executive Director of the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights.
Jenni Irving is an epigrapher and lecturer of Ancient Languages and Classical Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. She also is an instructional designer for a Fortune 500 company.


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In this election year, the economy is going to be one of the hottest topics debated by every candidate.
Fortunately for Rockhurst University students, one of its high-profile alumni was here to make sense of some of the evolving subject and put it in perspective.
Monday night, LaVaughn Henry, Ph.D., '83, vice president and senior regional officer of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, came to speak to a full house in Mabee Theater. His lecture, titled "The Role of Leadership and Ethics in an Evolving Economy", focused on leadership and success in our current economic environment.
"The financial crisis was everyone's fault," Henry said. "It was the banks' fault. It was the regulators' fault. It was our policy-making institution's fault, and it was the individual borrowers' fault. There should be no reason why we should be taking out huge home equity loans to go out for dinner or buy that third or fourth flat-screen TV."
John Meyer, director of the Helzberg School of Management's Center for Leadership and Ethics and Sullivan Chair in Ethics, said the success of Monday night's lecture was easily seen by the number of people from the school and the community who filled Mabee Theater.
He added that the center is always looking for an opportunity to bring successful alumni back to campus to share their life stories and experiences with students.
"It's a great learning opportunity for our students to hear from Rockhurst," he said. "Dr. Henry is an outstanding example of the value of a Rockhurst education and what it can mean for your future."
Henry's lecture was part of HSOM's leadership and ethics guest speaker series, and was presented by the school's Center for Leadership and Ethics and the Sullivan Chair in Ethics.
On April 17, the center will bring in Jim Keady, founding director of Educating for Justice, Inc., which fights for better pay and working conditions for Nike factory workers.


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History and Criticism of Operation Choke Point
This initiative has negatively affected honest business owners and even some individuals and there is evidence of personal motivations for 'choking out' certain businesses and industries. Without any reasonable cause, individual American citizens, perfectly legitimate businesses, and people's livelihoods are being destroyed. This sample essay highlights how because of this, many feel that Operation Choke Point is a major violation of boundaries and the law set by the government in the first place.
Operation Choke Point was a project started by the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The initiative was created allegedly just to monitor and investigate banking institutions in the United States; specifically, the business they do with industries deemed 'high-risk' for fraud, such as firearms, tobacco, and online gambling.
Despite seemingly honorable intentions, many feel that Operation Choke Point is being used to force banks to deny banking services to companies and individuals in these industries. Because it bypasses due process and allows the government to investigate and cut off businesses from banking industries without any evidence of law-breaking, Operation Choke Point has been widely criticized.
Basics of Operation Choke Point
It is believed that the United States Justice Department created Operation Choke Point in an attempt to cut off businesses in specific industries from banking services; without these services, the businesses would be unable to operate and be forced to close. This intimidation is carried out even when there is no proof of any illegal activity, without any special approval or permission needed.
In 2013, Michael Bresnick, a United States federal prosecutor stated that the plan was simply an attempt to crack down on banks that continue to do business with companies that are showing signs of committing fraud. However, once Operation Choke Point was underway, over fifty subpoenas were sent from the Justice Department to banks across the United States, ranging from local banks to nationwide institutions ("Timeline: Operation Choke Point").
These subpoenas were issued under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, Section 951. Section 951, executed in 1989, was originally written to allow government bodies to pursue legal action against businesses that were proven to have committed fraud against American banking institutions. Section 951 allows the Attorney General to subpoena documents and dispositions of witnesses to corroborate claims of fraud. Now, however, it is being used to justify a gross overstepping of boundaries on the part of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Department of Justice "DOJ's Operation Choke Point" 2014).
They have taken the original intent of the bill and twisted it to fit their own agenda. Interpreting Section 951 in this way is being justified because the law says that the Attorney General can subpoena any documents they decide are "relevant or material to the inquiry". Without any legitimate explanation, the government has chosen to move forward with it, much to the horror and dismay of American business owners all across the country.
This affected countless businesses and companies in these so-called 'high-risk' industries, as they were suddenly cut off from all financial services. In order to avoid further negative attention from the government, many banks and payment processing firms were forced to end all business relations with companies within certain industries. Many businesses to suffer were completely legitimate and legal operations with no suspicious activity, financial or otherwise, and gave no reason to be suspected of fraud (Isaac 2014).
Several financial institutions, including the nation's four largest banks, saw what was happening and feared that they would be next. In response, they began denying access to their systems to similar businesses. Some businesses, like travel clubs, rare coin dealers, and home-based charities, are also taking a hit, as they, too, are on the list of industries with 'high-risk' for fraud. More and more of these companies are reporting being denied banking services, as they would be considered a 'reputational risk' (Zywicki 2014).
The government is forcing people out of business simply because of the type of industry their business happens to fall into, whether the business is 100% law-abiding or not. As time goes on, and this initiative and the people who execute it go unchecked, the numbers of affected businesses are growing.
Operation Choke Point negatively effects innocent people
Operation Choke Point has proven to have negative effects on a wide range of the kinds of businesses on the government's 'high-risk' list. In order to discourage banking institutions from doing business with these 'high-risk' industries, it has been communicated that providing them with regular banking services is sufficient enough to trigger an investigation by the federal government.
Simply doing business with these companies creates what is called a 'reputational risk', giving the government cause to monitor and examine the relationship between the bank and the business itself. President and CEO of the American Bankers Association and former United States Attorney General Frank Keating has called Operation Choke Point "legally dubious" and goes on to explain,
"[The Department of Justice] is pressuring banks to shut down accounts without pressing charges against a merchant or even establishing that the merchant broke the law… [The Department of Justice] is now blurring these boundaries and punishing the banks that help them fight crime. If a bank doesn't shut down a questionable account when directed to do so, Justice slaps the institution with a penalty for wrongdoing that may or may not have happened" ("DOJ's Operation Choke Point" 2014).
American banks are being bullied and strong-armed into terminating accounts for no valid reason just to satisfy the whims of the FDIC and Department of Justice.
The FDIC and the Department of Justice are using intimidation and fear to bully banks into refusing business to perfectly legal businesses. When businesses are cut off from banking services, they are unable to operate, meaning that they are forced to shut down. One business owner owned a hookah company that is now failings because the business was cut off from all of their banking services all of a sudden.
The business owner said that the payment processor at his bank had asked him, "Have you heard of a little thing called Choke Point? …They're taking aim at industries like you and others to eliminate you from business by choking off your payment processing." (Limits 2015).
Operation Choke Point has the ability to completely shut down totally legitimate businesses. As time goes on, more businesses are coming forward claiming that their businesses were wrongly targeted by Operation Choke Point, specifically firearms and ammunition dealers (Harkness 2014). In addition, the negative impact is reaching individuals instead of just businesses as a whole. Several porn stars have made reports of their bank accounts being unexpectedly terminated.
When asked for the reason, each one was told that it was determined that they were a 'reputational risk' and that to continue business with these individuals would damage the bank's reputation (Zywicki 2014). Individual American citizens are now at risk for being cut off from banking services, even if they have never violated any laws in their lives. Innocent businesses and citizens should not be targeted or singled out when they have done nothing to deserve the suspicion in the first place.
As stated previously, neither the Department of Justice nor the FDIC has the approval or authority to carryout Operation Choke Point. The FDIC in particular has described the situation in a round-bout way without ever really explaining themselves; the 'high-risk' list was created as a list of potentially illegal activities from a list of categories that was previously, "noted by the FDIC" (FDIC's Involvement 2014).
There has yet to be found a legitimate law, bill, or other documentation in the U.S. Constitution that justifies Operation Choke Point and the things that are being done in the name of it. It seems as though there may not be anything in place that allows the Department of Justice and FDIC to carry out this initiative.
It has come to light that some of the motivations behind Operation Choke Point may not have been as admiration and honorable as it was originally perpetuated to be. It has been reported that some of the policymakers for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have personal issues with payday lenders. Documents and notes from previous mention of Operation Choke Point in Congress show that there was a lot more focus on short-term lending and online lending in particular as opposed to other businesses on the 'high-risk' list.
Officials at the Department of Justice purportedly have gone on record to state that it should be considered a huge accomplishment for the United States economy to entirely eliminate this kind of money-lending ("DOJ's Operation Choke Point" 2014). Furthermore, according to personal emails that were presented before Congress, one FDIC senior bank examiner was quoted as saying that they "literally cannot stand" payday lenders, another industry on the 'high-risk' list.
Also, these senior members have expressed interest in finding a way to force banks to end their business relationships with companies in these industries. In another case, an official from the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection instructed Martin Gruienberg, Chairman of the FDIC, to fit the word 'pornography' into every speech he made regarding payday lenders (FDIC Involvement 2014).
The goal was to manipulate Congress into feeling negatively about payday lending. There is clearly an overwhelming disdain for these kinds of businesses among senior officials at both the Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and obvious attempts to cut off these companies from their banking services.
Operation Choke Point seemingly began with positive intentions that we could all agree with; to monitor suspicious banking activity done by businesses in industries with a high risk for fraudulent activity. However, as time passes, it appears that this initiative is little more than some petty, personal vendettas being carried out by a couple of people who happen to have a lot of power.
Though the operation was supposed to apply to a wide number of businesses across many industries, it seems that the focus is on a few select industries that the Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have deemed objectionable. Operation Choke Point has been used to intimidate banks into terminating the accounts of various businesses. While doing so, there has been absolutely no requirement for evidence or reasonable doubt that illegal activity may be occurring before the government decides to 'choke out' these companies.
In addition to affecting businesses across the country, no matter how legal or legitimate they may be, Operation Choke Point's tall shadow has also been cast upon individual Americans who just happen to work in these industries, whether they own and run the business in question or merely work in it. Not only does this behavior violate the laws of due process, but it creates a dangerous and terrifying example that certain officials and organizations are above the laws that the rest of us are held to. Operation Choke Point is an abuse of power with overwhelmingly negative consequences for, not just business owners or individuals, but the very precedent that the United States was built on.
"Timeline: Operation Choke Point". The American Banker. SourceMedia. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.
113th Cong., HR Rept. "The Department of Justice's "Operation Choke Point": Illegally Choking Off Legitimate Businesses?" Government Printing Office. Washington, DC., 29 May 2014. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.
113th Cong., HR Rept. "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Involvement in "Operation Choke Point"". Government Printing Office. Washington, DC., 8 Dec. 2014. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.
Harkness, Kelsey. "Meet Four Business Owners Squeezed by Operation Choke Point". The Daily Signal. The Heritage Foundation, 12 Aug. 2014. Web. 4 Mar. 2015.
Isaac, William M. "Operation Choke Point: Way Out of Control". American Banker. SourceMedia, 22 Aug. 2014. Web. 4 Mar. 2015.
Limits, Cultural. "Operation Choke Point: Owner of Another Victimized Business Speaks". DC Gazette. USA Liberty Media LLC, 2014. Web. 4. Mar. 2015.
Zywicki, Todd. "Operation Choke Point". The Washington Post. The Washington Post, 24 May 2014. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.
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Government agencies today are not much changed in structure or culture from their predecessors of past decades. In stark contrast, citizens' expectations for speed and service accessibility - driven by the information age - exceed most governments' current capacities. While we continue to go through the same old strategic planning processes, the divide only seems to get wider and we become less and less prepared for the future.
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Abstract This research was undertaken to understand how information about a new agricultural technology is transmitted through social networks, and what effect information gained through social networks has on technology demand at the household level. The technology in question is laser land leveling (LLL)-a resource-conserving technology-which we introduced in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India as part of the study. Using an experimental auction, we obtain farmers' willingness-to-pay for the technology and identify potential adopters. We then randomly select half of these farmers to actually receive LLL services on their land, creating random variation in the number of adopters in each farmer's social network. We conduct a second auction one year later with the same sample of farmers and estimate network effects on farmers' updated willingness-to-pay. Four main results emerge: First, exposure to LLL through networks occurs primarily through visits to adopting farmers' fields. Second, having a first-generation adopter in a farmer's network increases the farmer's valuation of LLL by nearly 30 percent on average. Third, the network effects on demand are importantly conditioned on benefits associated with LLL, which implies that learning-rather than mimicry-is driving increases in demand. Fourth, network effects are strongest between poor farmers.